A bright future for commercial space: A market research firm predicts the launching of more than 1,600 satellites, worth $250 billion, in the next fifteen years.
Arizona wildfire grows to cover 389,000 acres.
A Newark TSA supervisor has been sentenced to prison for bribery and aiding the theft of passengers.
So how is his action any different than what Congress does?
A new crew, launched by Russia, is heading to the International Space Station.
There was a small fire in Endeavour’s landing gear when it landed last week.
An evening pause: a beautiful simulation of galaxy collision. Hat tip: Sky and Telescope.
Even in its relatively quiet state: The Sun has a blast.
The Chile volcano eruption and ash cloud is disrupting air traffic throughout South America.
Time again for the monthly updated graph of the Sun’s solar cycle sunspot activity. Posted today by NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, you can see the May results in the graph below.
After a three month steady rise in sunspot activity in January, February, and March, the numbers plummeted during April and May. Though the Sun remains active, with only one blank day since January 16, the pattern of activity as it ramps up to solar maximum continues to suggest that we are looking for the weakest solar maximum in two hundred years, as now predicted by solar scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center.
Whether this weak maximum foreshadows another Maunder-like minimum, with no sunspots occurring for decades, remains unknown. Only time will tell. However, if such a thing should happen, it will be a marvelous opportunity for scientists to finally pin down precisely the actual influence of the Sun on the Earth’s climate. Up until now they can only guess at how much the Sun varies in brightness. Another Maunder Minimum will tell them.
Jim Hoft has a nice historical summary: Corrupt Democrats never resign, no matter the scandal.
My question is this: why do the voters keep voting for these scum?
NASA has finally released the photos of Endeavour docked to ISS, taken from a departing Soyuz.
Fiddling while Rome burns: An Iranian atomic bomb may be only eight weeks away.
Repeal it! The right to issue waivers to Obamacare by the Health and Human Services administration (HHS) appears to be illegal.
Language granting HHS that power was never in the original law. Instead, through new rules and regulations, HHS gave itself the power last summer using a broad interpretation of certain parts of the law.
The abuse of power: Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security “revenge” nightmare, forced on them by U.S. immigration officials.
But when a handful of them questioned whether the lengthy security checks at the port were strictly necessary for a group of largely elderly travellers officials were not amused. Although they had already been given advance clearance for multiple entries to the country during their trip, all 2,000 passengers were made to go through full security checks in a process which took seven hours to complete.
Leftwing civility: Comic Chris Titus hints at assassinating Palin “if she gets elected president.”
New poll: Romney 49, Obama 46.
Romney is no joy, but for any poll to show an incumbent president losing at this early stage of the campaign is a strong indication of that incumbent’s weakness.
The day of reckoning beckons: The federal government’s total unfunded financial obligations now exceed $60 trillion.
Scientists cheer the election of a socialist president in Peru. Meanwhile, investors flee the country.
Repeal it! A new survey shows that thirty percent of all companies plan to drop health coverage when Obamacare goes fully into effect.
A new supernova has erupted in the nearby galaxy M51, 23 million light years away.
And still no one has died from this particular failure: Japan confirms that all three nuclear reactors melted down after the quake and tsunami.
The benefits of CO2 increase: The density of the world’s forests has been increasing as they act as a carbon sink.
The authors say most regions and almost all temperate nations have stopped losing forest and the study’s findings constitute a new signal of what co-author Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller calls “The Great Reversal” under way in global forests after centuries of loss and decline. “Opportunities to absorb carbon and restore the world’s forests can come through increasing density or area or both.”
Gotta keep that propaganda machine running: The Congressional Budget Office has hired an Obamacare advocate, Democrat Party operative, and Obama administration official to provide it “objective” health care budget numbers.
Check out the spectacular images of the eruption of this Chilean volcano, its first in 50 years.
In new research at CERN physicists now have captured atoms of antimatter for more than 15 minutes.
An evening pause: Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs, from a 1972 television performance.
Police yesterday shut the Jefferson Memorial to clear out a crowd protesting the arrest of five people last week for dancing inside the monument.
One man took to the microphone to demand that all intrusive government policies be overturned, specifically mentioning the need to repeal “Obamacare.” Medea Benjamin [of Code Pink] clarified that some participants also wanted a single-payer system, but that all agreed on the right to dance at the memorial.
On some issues we all agree.
