Very brief descriptions, with appropriate links, of current or recent news items.
The day of reckoning beckons: Global bankruptcy months away? Key quote:
“Based upon world liquidity, the amount of money available to fund sovereign debt in 2011 is between $6-9 trillion,” Marc Nuttle told Townhall Finance. Nuttle runs the site DebtWall.org. “The world’s government projections for deficit financing in 2011 is $8-10 trillion. We are bumping into the ceiling of the world’s ability to fund ongoing sovereign deficits and debt on an annual basis.”
Freedom of speech alert: A New Mexico judge has ordered an Alamogordo man to take down his anti-abortion billboard.
Doesn’t this make you feel safer? Another TSA worker has been arrested on suspicion of stealing.
A Vietnam veteran has been threatened with legal action for the American flag outside his home.
The space war continues: Several senators are threatening to subpoena NASA over what they perceive as the agency’s foot-dragging in building a heavy-lift rocket.
Idiots. They give NASA less money and less time to build the program-formerly-called-Constellation, and then are surprised when things don’t go well. Of course, it doesn’t help that the Obama administration is trying to sabotage the project anyway.
Other science money troubles: NASA’s climate and astronomy programs face delays due to cost overruns and rocket failures.
A new report released today says a new underground physics lab will cost the Energy Department from $1.2 to $2.2 billion.
Though I know the science is worthwhile and we should be doing it, I also can’t help ask this question: Where the hell are we going to get the money?
Archaeologists have begun uncovering an ancient Egyptian ritual ship at Giza, buried with the pharaoh Khufu as a ship to carry him to the afterlife.
From a modern Muslim cleric: “There Is A Beating Etiquette.”
Want to send a probe to another planet? Do it cheaply, as these scientists did.
