Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Makes its Longest Test Flight Yet
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo makes its longest test flight yet.
Category: Behind The Black
Earth Day predictions from 1970
The predictions of disaster from the first Earth Day, 1970. I especially like this one:
“Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions. . . . By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.” Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University [emphasis mine]
A consensus was reached and the science was settled!
Remember this the next time some blowhard global-warming pundit tries to claim “the science is settled” today.
Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter
An evening pause:
Russians say “Nyet” to Dragon docking on its next flight
The competition plays hardball: The Russians say “Nyet” to letting SpaceX’s Dragon capsule dock with ISS on its next flight.
Harvard Researcher Banned From Teaching Next Year
A Harvard researcher, under investigation for research misconduct, has been banned from teaching next year.
SDO’S best Images from its first year
The best images from Solar Dynamics Observatory’s first year in space.
Pachelbel’s Canon in D played at 3 am
An evening pause What good musicians do in their spare time, play Pachelbel’s Canon in D at 3 am in the morning, without rehearsal. Or as they themselves describe it, “The Most Juicy Canon On YouTube!!!”
The violin players (l to r): Marie Samuelsen, Andrey Rozendent, and Alexander Gilman.
Scientists find previously unknown deposits of CO2 on Mars
Scientists find a gigantic and previously unknown deposit of CO2 at Mars’ south pole.
“We already knew there is a small perennial cap of carbon-dioxide ice on top of the water ice there, but this buried deposit has about 30 times more dry ice than previously estimated,” said Roger Phillips of Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Phillips is deputy team leader for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Shallow Radar instrument and lead author of the report. . . . “When you include this buried deposit, Martian carbon dioxide right now is roughly half frozen and half in the atmosphere, but at other times it can be nearly all frozen or nearly all in the atmosphere,” Phillips said.
What this discovery means is that, depending on Mars’ orbital circumstances, its atmosphere can sometimes be dense enough for liquid water to flow on its surface.
Des Moines paper publishes over 5,000 names of gun permit holders
The Des Moines CityView newspaper has published the names of over 5,000 legal gun permit holders.
A newspaper which goes after law-abiding citizens like this should simply go out of business.
More Democrats Join Threat to Hold Up Debt Ceiling Vote Without Spending Cuts
This is hopeful news: More Democrats are threatening to hold up the debt ceiling vote unless there are more spending cuts.
Funding for final shuttle flight assured
Funding for the final shuttle flight this summer is now assured.
Some details behind Blue Origin’s manned spacecraft
Some details behind Blue Origin’s manned spacecraft.