Category: Points of Information
Very brief descriptions, with appropriate links, of current or recent news items.
Ohio Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union, Police Investigating
Union civility: An Ohio business owner, harassed for years for running a non-union business, was shot last week when he surprised a vandal scrawling “scab” on his car.
What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn’s moon Titan?
What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn’s moon Titan?
American manned space: dependent on the Russians in more ways than you think
American manned space: dependent on the Russians in more ways than you think.
As commentators from around the country gnash their teeth at U.S. dependence upon Russia to move cargo and astronauts to the mostly U.S. built/funded International Space Station (ISS), they’ve missed the bigger boat: With one exception, all the commercial spaceflight offerings currently in the works have Soviet or Russian engines as a key part of the rockets involved.
The search for alien life saved by private donations
The Allen Telescope Array and the Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence (SETI) saved by private donations.
Obama’s clash with a Tea party activist during bus tour
About Obama’s clash with a Tea party activist during his bus tour this week: How long do you think it will take for the press to go after that activist to try to destroy him for daring to challenge this Democratic President?
I give it one week.
“You may first beat them repeatedly with a tire iron.”
Union civility: “You may first beat them repeatedly with a tire iron.”
Guns permitted, crimes drop
All systems go on Juno
Things are so good on Juno ten days after launch that mission controllers have canceled a rocket burn to adjust the spacecraft’s course.
Russians to display new rocket and manned spacecraft at international air show today
Russians to display a new rocket and manned spacecraft design at an international air show in Russia today.
A map of the core region of the Milky Way
According to Russian space officials, the next Soyuz tourist flight will be in 2014
According to Russian space officials today, the next Soyuz tourist flight to ISS will be in 2014.
The article above contradicts yesterday’s story where the head of the Russian space agency suggested that Russia is going to shift its focus from manned space. I suspect both stories reflect an underlying political battle going on within the Russian government.