Want to invest in a spacesuit company? Now you can!
Want to invest in a spacesuit company? Now you can! (Hat tip Clark Lindsey.)
Year: 2012
The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
An evening pause: From a 1967 live television performance, one of the first ever broadcast by satellite around the world. Though this version has been colorized, the synch is off in the original. Also, in doing the colorization they cleaned up the recording, making it much clearer.
It is especially fascinating to watch Lennon and McCartney work together, chewing gum as they sing. And keep your eye out for Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and other rock performers in the audience.
Global warming: Second thoughts by an environmentalist.
Global warming: Second thoughts by an environmentalist.
For many years, I was an active supporter of the IPCC and its CO2 theory. Recent experience with the UN’s climate panel, however, forced me to reassess my position. In February 2010, I was invited as a reviewer for the IPCC report on renewable energy. I realised that the drafting of the report was done in anything but a scientific manner. The report was littered with errors and a member of Greenpeace edited the final version. These developments shocked me. I thought, if such things can happen in this report, then they might happen in other IPCC reports too.
He then very clearly outlines what we do and do not know about the Earth’s climate, and pinpoints the important uncertainties that presently exist.
A Wyoming think tank is suing the Federal Election Commission in behalf of three Wyoming residents who were denied the right to run a political ad hostile to Barack Obama.
A Wyoming think tank is suing the Federal Election Commission in behalf of three Wyoming residents who were denied the right to run a political ad hostile to Barack Obama.
What was that language again? I think the words are “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The FAA and NASA have worked out their differences concerning their regulation of private commercial space.
The FAA and NASA have worked out their differences concerning their regulation of private commercial space.
Essentially, NASA has finally conceded with this agreement that it has no control over a private space launch that is not flying to a NASA facility. That the FAA continues to have as much regulatory control is bad enough, but getting NASA out of the loop will at least ease the bureaucratic burden for private companies.
“[W]ith few exceptions, climate models not only fail to do better than random numbers, in some cases they are actually worse.”
A school bus used by a church to drive anti-abortion protesters to a local abortion clinic was firebombed Friday night.
Leftwing civility: A school bus used by a church to drive anti-abortion protesters to a local abortion clinic was firebombed Friday night.
The Moon: a desert after all?
The uncertainty of science: A new science paper, published Saturday in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets,, has found that there is much less water ice trapped in the permanently shadowed craters of the lunar poles than previously thought. From the abstract:
This means that all [permanently shadowed regions], except those in Shoemaker, Cabeus and Rozhdestvensky U craters, do not contain any significant amount of hydrogen in comparison with sunlit areas around them at the same latitude.
And from the paper’s conclusion:
[E]ven now the data is enough for definite conclusion that [permanently shadowed regions] at both poles are not reservoirs of large deposits of water ice.
The terrorist training that Gaza gives to kindergarten children. With pictures.
The terrorist training that Gaza gives to kindergarten children. With pictures.
I ask again: Why do we give these people millions?
The TSA has tentatively approved a plan to allow private companies to screen passengers in Orlando.
How nice of them: The TSA has tentatively approved a plan to allow private companies to screen passengers in Orlando.
It’s all crap. In a free society there is no such agency as the TSA, and according to the Constitution, no one is screened by anyone without due cause.
An IBM supercomputer today became the fastest in the world.
The answer is 43: An IBM supercomputer today became the fastest in the world.
China’s Shenzhou-9 capsule successfully docked with Tiengong-1 and the crew has entered the space module.
The competition heats up: China’s Shenzhou-9 capsule successfully docked with Tiengong-1 today and the crew has entered the space module.