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- Discovery and Mapping of Here Today Cave, Part 1, Met Grotto News
- Discovery and Mapping of Here Today Cave, Part 2 Met Grotto News
- Kingston Delaware Mine, Survey and Map, Met Grotto News
- Beyond The End, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver
- A Course in Caving Single Rope Techniques, Met Grotto News
- Dark Passage
- A Short Stroll to Asia Dome, Exploration/Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver
- A Journey into Dreamland, Mapping in McFails Cave, The Northeastern Caver
- The Geology of Brown’s Depression: Predicting a Cave Discovery, Met Grotto News
- Czechoslovakia on the Hudson
- New York’s War Against the Vans
- Street Performers and the Social Contract
- Saying Yes
- Three’s a Crowd
- Finding a Job
- The Lightweight Simple Knots System, Nylon Highway
- Shelf Lives and Videotape
- Shelf Lives and Videotape
- A Level Playing Field
- Computer Ear
- Our Own Mad Clockwork
- Stellar Vision
- No Place Like Home
- By Any Means Necessary?
- The Sun Factor
- Circle Games
- Five Million Years of Solitude
- Polaris, the Code-Blue Star
- The Hubble Inconstant
- Harvest Moon
- The Shadow Boxer
- Telescopic Vision
- First Light
- Beautiful Streamers
- The World in a Jar
- Flood in McFails Cave, New York, The Northeastern Caver
- The Rainbow’s Not Enough
- Stormy Weather
- When Neutron Stars Collide
- An Accomodating Comet
- Moon Rivers
- Galactic Garbos
- Lost in Space
- Cover Story: The Search for the Heliosphere
- Just Say Nyet!
- Twinkle, Twinkle
- Next Stop: Saturn and the Moon
- Sahel of a Trip
- Explorers of the Unknown
- Silent Springs
- How to Fly Without a Plane
- On a Clear Day you Can See Forever
- Hard Rain
- Are the Russians out to Launch or out to Lunch?
- Log Flume
- Cover story: Into the Malstrom: a Visit to the Crab Nebula
- Martian Invasion
- More Delays Likely for International Space Station
- Photo Finish
- Bathtub in the Sky
- Mashed Potatoes and Ice Cream Sundaes
- Cover Story: Sun Up, the Coming Solar Maximum
- This is the Way the World Ended
- When Disaster Strikes
- There She Blows, co-winner of the David N. Schramm Award for High Energy Astrophysics Science Journalism
- A Historic Review of the First Cassell Cave Survey,, The Potomac Caver
- Scoping out a Monster Star: Eta Carinae
- Speed Matters
- NEAR Arrives Right on Target
- Part I: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies
- Part II: Brave New World? American Colonial History as a Guide to Building Space Societies
- Lost City, the archaeology on Jamestown Island
- Telstar and the Birth of the Communications Satellite
- Escape from the Iroquois
- Cover story: Seeing with X-Ray Eyes: Chandra’s First Discoveries
- NEAR-Shoemaker Scores a Touchdown
- Cover story: Inside-Out Cosmology: the Astronomy of Physics
- A Square Dance in Space: the center of a globular cluster
- Cover story: Heart of Darkness: the Center of the Milky Way
- Cover Story: Docking in Space: How the Gemini Astronauts Made It Happen
- Cover story: Launching a Caravan to Mars: America’s aggressive Mars exploration program
- (Update Magazine) Cover Story: Final Descent, NEAR’s Mission to Eros
- Weightlessness!
- To the Moon and Back: the Flight of Apollo 11
- More Light, the Story Behind Today’s Monster Telescopes
- Growing Pains: Agriculture in Space
- Op-Ed: Say no to NASA, yes to private companies
- Deep Impressions: The Core of the Earth
- No-Fly Zone: Birds in Space
- Web Interview: May 19, 2004 posting of Sciscoop Interview
- Seeking Other Earths: the Search for Extrasolar Terrestrial Planets
- 2005 Annual Issue, The High Energy Zoo: A Tour of Killer Objects in Space
- More Bad Culture at NASA? Op-ed at Astronomy.com.
- Cover story: The Looming Death of the Hubble Space Telescope?
- Shuttle’s Safe Return Illusory
- Big or Small NASA Space Vision?
- NASA Does New Thing the Old Way
- Congress Impedes NASA Prizes
- The Discovery of Pearl Harbor Passage in Memorial Day Cave, The Potomac Speleology Club website
- Congress Restricts Private Space
- O’Keefe’s Exit May Save Hubble
- Space and the Willingness to Die
- Scientists and Engineers at War
- Brave New World?
- Bush 43 vs. Bush 41 in Space
- The Outlook for 2005
- Cooperation’s Failure at ISS
- The Russians are Coming
- Turf War Heating Up
- A Promising NASA Budget?
- Saving Hubble, Defeating Fear
- Private Space, More Rules
- An Oasis on the Moon?
- Backing a Bad Hubble Decision
- Going to Mars in Earth Orbit
- Spacefaring by Bureaucrats
- NASA Impeded by Science Lobby
- Part 1: A Cultural Change at NASA?
- Part 2: How Politics Drives NASA
- The Right Man for the Job?
- Is There Life After Hubble?
- New Openness at NASA?
- The Engineering Crisis Redux
- The New Colonial Movement
- A Shrinking, Timid Industry
- Signs of a Renaissance
- History’s Moment of Truth
- Gamma-Ray Burst Mystery Unraveled
- The Man Who Doubled the Sky: John Herschel’s Survey of the Heavens
- Witness to Cosmic Collisions The Swift Telescope Helps Unlock the Mystery of Short Gamma Ray Bursts
- What Makes Mira Tick?
- Web essay, May 25, 2008 posting
- Cover story: The Life and Death of Super Suns: the secrets of Wolf-Rayet stars
- Taking Venus by Storm: The results from Venus Express
- Understanding Beta Lyrae: A Very Messy Star Seen for the First Time
- Cosmic Cataclysms: The Merger of Supermassive Black Holes
- Light from the Unknown
- Sun’s Behavior Flummoxes Solar Scientists
- Biologists Struggle to Solve Bat Deaths
- The Cassell Cave Project, Monograph #3 of the West Virginia Speleological Survey
- cover story, What is Wrong With the Sun?
- Epsilon Aurigae: Astronomy’s longest-running mystery show
- Become a Super Amateur: Amateurs astronomers do original research
- Looking Way Out There From Way Out There: The Future of Space Astronomy
- How astronomers probe weather on exoplanets
- Mr. Fix-it: the Story of Frank Cepollina and Servicing in Space
- Hayabusa, Deep Impact, India/TMT
- Climate Change and the Black List
- Obama administration’s new space policy
- Space War between Congress and the President
- Ikaros is activated
- Dragon and Falcon 9 fall to Earth
- First image of extrasolar planet confirmed
- The view from Opportunity in the deserts of Mars
- Flood in McFails Cave, New York
- Thaad Missile Defense test
- Behind the Black
- Dawn spacecraft reaction wheel problem
- Detailed followup on Opportunity progress
- Space War between Congress and Obama: Apparently Not So Hot
- A quick analysis of the new Obama Space Policy
- Ocean Conveyor Belt theory questioned
- The Final Tanks
- Klaven and Gore
- streaks in shuttle engine plume
- dates for last two shuttle flights extends program into 2011
- More images of Ikaros
- New Horizons course correction to Pluto
- why I never use Wikipedia
- why I remain skeptical about global warming
- Julie Andrews singing Burlington Bertie from Star!
- Another Climategate Whitewash
- astronaut photography
- Press Release Journalism
- Kepler detects extrasolar earthquakes
- Docking at ISS of Progress freighter fails
- Space war continues
- Redundancy is all
- Want to know how big the Sun is?
- Co-hosting the John Batchelor Show tonight
- Finding underground water on Mars
- July 4, 1776, Hatching an Egg
- Progress successfully docks, July 4, 2010
- A July 4th Weekend
- A complete survey of nearby sunlike stars
- Avalanches on Mars
- the press finally notices the absurdities of Obama’s new space policy
- Minute particles found in Hayabusa capsule
- Big Peace
- Bolden interview with al-Jazeera
- Bob Hope singing “Buttons and Bows”
- Government and the impending shortage of helium
- Bolden’s al-Jazeera interview, part 2
- Another climategate whitewash?
- The law and Obama at Yucca Mountain
- Tim Conway and the Elephant
- First photos from inside Hayabusa capsule
- NASA layoffs
- Lockheed buyouts
- Orion capsule passes first review
- Cernan calls for Bolden resignation
- The sun remains quiet
- upcoming Ares I solid rocket test
- Another climategate whitewash
- Lonesome Polecat from 7 Brides for 7 Brothers
- East Anglia violated FOI rules
- Anniversary of the discovery of chocolate
- More Layoffs at NASA
- Rocketplane goes bust
- More particles discovered in Hayabusa capsule
- Solar powered plane flies for over 24 hours
- Orbital’s COTS capsule taking shape
- Both for and against the Obama plan
- Vitter slams Obama plan
- Largest hoard of Roman coins found in England
- Senate deal on NASA budget
- Water found around carbon star; Bok globule
- Problems on ISS
- More info on Senate compromise
- More questions about climategate inquiry
- Rosetta approaches asteroid
- Benny and Blanc on Carson
- Webcast of Rosetta flyby of 21 Lutetia
- Climategate whitewash
- A dark and stormy night
- Rosetta flyby results
- Caving July 10, 2010
- overruns at JWST
- Fired for his beliefs
- Space War continues
- Julie and Dick at Covent Garden
- Ikaros successfully accelerated by the Sun
- Jeff Foust analysis of the New Space business
- The space war continues
- The state of the polar ice caps, June 2010
- Death sentence for suggesting a cartoon
- Scientists complain about Obama government
- Space War continues
- Boulder tracks on Mars
- Wyatt Earp goes dancing
- Administration denies Bolden’s claim of Muslim outreach
- India launches five satellites in one heave
- WhiteKnightTwo trip logs
- Astronomy near the North Pole
- There simply is no money for NASA
- Caves on the Moon
- Arrested for handing out Bibles
- Greenland icecap is not melting
- Draft version of Senate NASA budget released
- Toyota cars did not have a sudden acceleration problem
- White Heat- I gotta get out
- Bolden pushback against White House
- Obama’s poll problems
- Lunar conference at Ames
- Clive Cook’s take on climategate whitewashes
- You’ve got to play the game
- Judy Garland singing Trolley Song
- The space war continues. Now some astronauts chime in.
- White House deal?
- The failure of the political class
- Why I don’t watch television news
- The loss of freedom
- compromise approved by Senate panel
- More cave images from the Moon
- The solar minimum and the Earth’s upper atmosphere
- Military technology to spot mines and caves
- Senate deal for NASA
- Galaxy Song from Monty Python
- New plan from the Senate
- Genetically modified mosquito developed that can’t carry malaria
- Gender politics at NASA
- More on firing of Cathelic teacher
- AP reports 25,000 new asteroids found by Wise
- Scientists measure the rise and fall of lakes on Titan
- The invention of the CD player
- Knowledge or Certainty
- Some weekend cave exploration
- Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli
- Vera-Ellen dancing to the Ocarina
- SpaceShipTwo carries its first crew
- WISE telescope first survey almost complete
- Loss of floating ice?
- 73,000 blogs shut down on orders of the Federal government
- Goons in action
- Metals in the inner galaxy
- Plugging the oil leak
- A quick note on the past weekend caving
- John Glenn meets with Obama
- Images of Boeing’s crew capsule
- Modern media journalism at its worst
- Russians laugh at Obama goals
- Life as it should be
- House releases their text of NASA budget
- Elite bigotry in college admissions
- Goons in action part 2
- U.S. government suspends funding to East Anglia University
- More climategate whitewash
- The space war heats up
- Journolist evidence, part 1
- RICO lawsuits against BP
- NAACP leader arrested trying to attend school board meeting
- Footage of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon
- SpaceShipTwo’s first glide flight by the fall
- Russia to build new spaceport
- very big stars
- Supercheap satellites
- Mars Odyssey in safe mode
- Journolist, part 2
- Bigelow’s plans
- An update on the Dept of Energy’s hold on monies to East Anglia
- Julie Andrews and Cass Eliot medley
- Senate moves towards House NASA plan
- The British sign space deal with Russians
- Runaway star from the galaxy’s center
- More Journolist material: Palin
- Robbery at Russian space center
- White House investigates those making FOIA requests
- Wes Skiles dies during dive
- Exploring Mars from Earth
- Update on teacher fired for Catholic beliefs
- Russians reveal new spacecraft
- House committee adds extra shuttle flight
- Tell me on a Sunday
- Journolist scandal-Tucker Carlson editorial
- Swallowing a planet
- Space war update
- Impact crater in Egypt
- New currency symbol for India
- Worries about JWST
- Sunset on the Moon
- Spudis on caves
- An ice-free Arctic in 10 years?
- Solar powered plane flies for two weeks
- Jackie Gleason and Frank Fontaine
- Comet hit Neptune 200 years ago
- ISS and Chinese satellite debris
- NASA’s ISS Twitter feed hacked
- Whisper of the heart
- Exploring virgin cave passage
- Mann and the press
- Chamberlain’s speech from movie Gettysburg
- Deniers of science
- Kepler finds more than 100 Earthlike planets
- Single Rope Techinque — on the Moon
- Scientist uncover fossil of biggest rat ever
- Poker face, by geeks
- GAO rules layoffs legal
- Russian astronauts lose tools during spacewalk
- Asteroid impact threat
- Lichens in space
- Solar sail conference
- Pipe Dream by Animusic
- Wolf says NASA budget passage bleak
- Layoff notices in Florida
- Images show water ice?
- Themis satellites transferred to Moon
- Your Show of Shows: the clock skit
- Poor leadership by Obama on NASA
- Opportunity sees its first dust devil
- Foust reports on space war
- Eddi Reader singing Willie Stewart
- The non-face on Mars
- Hayabusa on display
- House bill stalled?
- Steny Hoyer and taxes
- Paperwork nightmare of healthcare
- Who are the racists?
- Rube Goldberg machine, part 1
- Muppets: Playing the Sax
- Spirit appears dead
- The winds of Titan
- Burt Rutan on future of space
- Undersea adventure by robots
- Cooling system failure on ISS
- China launches 5th satellite in its own GPS system
- Elites vs everyone else
- A New Colonial Age
- Farewell song from Davy Crockett
- CME heading to Earth
- ISS cooling system failure
- Closing out debate on climate
- Largest known Roman canal discovered
- Met office report
- NASA shuts down website
- ABBA performing Dancing Queen
- The failure of the past and a hint of the future
- Frog counts flawed?
- Repair spacewalk scheduled
- Newsweek sale summary
- Muslim outreach by NASA
- Two predictions of the next solar maximum
- Picture of the day from Mars
- Lost British ship found in Arctic after almost 150 years
- Open water at the North Pole
- Duck Amuck
- Northern light show
- WhiteKnightTwo test flight on Twitter
- Newest ice core in Greenland hits bedrock
- The August monthly sunspot graph
- Tunnel and tombs in Mexico
- A ground-based telescope matches the Hubble Space Telescope-NOT
- Obama Healthcare mandate rejected
- The great disconnect
- Delays in Orbital Sciences COTS rocket
- The disconnect between Israelis and elites
- The Moon and I
- Saturn’s ring shadow widens
- AO goes positive
- Animal mummies
- NOAA hurricane prediction update
- First spacewalk to replace pump module delayed
- Second test of Ares solid rocket scheduled
- Moon is dry
- SpaceX outlines its plans for beyond Earth orbit
- Seven year old’s lemonade shut down by inspector
- Melting Ice on Mars?
- Superman – The Underground World
- Texas responds to EPA’s effort to regulate CO2
- Senate passes NASA budget
- Japan importing missile system
- For the First Time Ever, Scientists Watch an Atom’s Electrons Moving in Real Time
- Camden, NJ, threatens to close libraries
- Social Security in red
- Boeing cutting metal on its new capsule
- The unemployment situation, August 2010
- Bat extinctions
- Ohio officials try to silence blogger
- Russian accuses U.S. of causing heat wave
- Scientists have plans to go to killer asteroid
- Funnel cloud over Kennedy Space Center
- Kate Rusby – Polly
- PG police kill another dog
- Boeing’s private space plans
- First spacewalk to replace pump module
- Mapping daylight at the Moon’s South Pole
- Moody Blues – For My Lady
- 3rd spacewalk planned to finish repairs
- August 8 WhiteKnightTwo test flight
- Aqua tracks carbon monoxide over Russia from wildfires
- ISS tour, part 1
- Robot to explore Egyptian pyramid
- Details on the spacewalk yesterday
- The Sun’s oxygen content does match the galaxy’s
- Spacewalk repair delaying robot repair
- African Space Agency being proposed
- Griffin’s take on the Obama space plan
- Why no one trusts the press
- Kevin Branagh – Henry V
- Repair strategy for Wednesday spacewalk
- Iridium profits up
- Historians identify early English scribes
- Plane crash in Alaska, Stevens, O’Keefe on board
- Democratic official attacks videographer
- Interview with Elon Musk
- We don’t have a deficit problem
- State Department: The Taliban is not a terrorist organization
- Update on plane crash: O’Keefe and son survive
- Protesters arrested on Texas campus during Obama visit
- ISS tour, part 2
- SpaceX readies Dragon for first flight
- More details about tomorrow’s planned spacewalk
- Hubble image of face-on galaxy
- Diversifying your research portfolio
- California budget a billion over in first month
- National anthem forbidden at Lincoln Memorial
- Rebuilding the American space program — the right way
- NASA narrows asteroids to visit to three
- Spacewalk a complete success, old pump removed
- Camino del Rey
- Japanese approval for Hayabusa 2
- Obamas’ vacation in DC
- Fourth spacewalk anticipated for coolant repairs
- Reporter arrested for discussing politics
- Perseid meteor shower tonight and tomorrow
- Volunteers discover pulsar
- Doubts about GISS data in the Himalayas
- Is it a planet or not?
- A possible cause of extended solar minimum proposed
- ISS tour continues, part 3
- Webb costs threaten space science
- Astronomers announce their recommendations for the next decade
- Sloppy journalism from the BBC
- A Man for All Seasons
- Tour of ISS, part 4
- Falling Hare (1943)
- Japanese planning upgrades to HTV
- The plans for the next spacewalks on ISS are announced
- More on Boeing’s cargo/crew capsule
- More questions raised about Mann’s hockey stick graph
- Old Media, Old News
- First solar radiation storm of solar cycle 24
- Spacewalk update
- A great space station, a terrible spaceship
- Why SpaceX is winning the race
- Tax breaks for space proposed
- Forbidden Planet
- Spacewalk report
- Ray Bradbury tells it like it is
- Beck told he can’t pray at Kennedy Center
- China’s first unmanned space module assembled
- Johnny Carson and Doc talk about Thanksgiving
- Zimmerman on vacation
- NASA ex-worker pleads guilty to stealing Sally Ride’s spacesuit
- Chocolate lowers heart risk
- Becoming a highly successful dog owner
- Strange coins of the world
- Not a black hole?
- Jeff Dunham and Achmed the dead Terrorist
- A day spent in Paradise
- Astronauts lose about half their muscle power on long space flights
- Dragon capsule drop test
- Obama’s traffic jam
- Mud volcanoes on Mars
- Obama bans gun sales
- Plastic pollution down
- Stan Rogers — Northwest Passage
- Station cooling system up and running
- Eclipsing a neutron star
- Shrinking moon
- Landing gear collapses on WhiteKnightTwo during test flight
- Earth and Moon, the double planet
- A cloudy day in Paradise
- TSA humilates passenger
- Commando Daffy
- Space war breakthrough?
- More details about SpaceX Dragon drop test
- Paradise Valley and Lakes
- Harvard researcher admits to research misconduct
- No sunspots, for the first time in months
- Cinema Paradiso
- Fort Hood massacre was “Workplace Violence”?
- Mount St. Helens
- FAA starts planning the regulation of private space travel
- Modern science
- The Muppets again: Mahna Mahna
- Trapped Chilean miners face weeks long rescue effort
- The desert below Mt. St. Helens
- Testing of Orion capsule proceeds
- Another Jupiter fireball
- The Time Machine
- More on the new Jupiter impact
- X-37B spotted by amateurs
- Danes set to launch private suborbital rocket
- The high country above Mt. St. Helens
- How can I keep from singing?
- New exoplanets
- X-37B changes orbit
- Analysis of Hayabusa material extended
- Middle school football coach fired for criticizing Obama
- EPA considering ban on lead in bullets
- Mount Huashan
- Chile asks NASA for advice on keeping trapped miners alive
- Russia to begin construction of new spaceport
- New sunspots end short blank period on Sun
- 3 million seniors will be forced to change health plans next year
- how to repeal the first amendment
- Kepler discovers possible Earth-sized planet
- The influence of the Sun’s solar cycle on the atmosphere
- Bill Staines – Sweet Wyoming Home
- Laser tag replaces air pistol in 2012 Olympic games
- Last refuge of a liberal
- Laura Petrie and Alan Brady – the toupee
- EPA backs down on ammo ban
- Living underground for months
- Japan and Europe consider cargo/crew return capabilities
- Angel Falls
- The Columbia River Gorge
- Stars Wars as told with lego
- “Going Home” from The Snake Pit
- SpaceX sets Oct 23 as next Falcon 9 launch date
- India announces instruments for its second Moon probe
- Active volcanoes on Venus?
- NASA team heads for Chile
- Chilean miners get Play Stations
- Republicans lead by 10 in Gallup generic poll
- Paper extolling the benefits from interstellar spaceflight
- Engineering in the Columbia River Gorge
- Bugs Bunny — Water Water Every Hare
- Chinese rendezvous test?
- Second test of Ares I
- IPCC needs reform
- Nobel Laureates chime in on NASA
- Leash law for cats?
- Man threatens to shoot pro-life demonstrators
- Lawrence of Arabia
- NASA and Islam
- “It’s a free country. I wish it weren’t.”
- South Korea in conflict with Russia over rocket
- Congressman sues veterans group for opposing him
- No cigarettes or wine for Chilean miners
- Totoro
- IPCC fail
- Scientist fired at UCLA because research politically incorrect
- Chilean miner, wife, and mistress
- Marriage break up scene in Best Years of Our Lives
- The limbo of the extra shuttle flight
- Spacewalk on ISS deferred
- Life on Mars?
- Danish test flight set for tomorrow
- Notre Dame fires employee
- The best Johnny Carson show ever
- Kittens on vacuum
- Danish launch scrubbed
- Bart Gordon responds to Nobel laureates
- Cannibalism survivors talk to Chilean miners
- Singing in the Rain
- More evidence that the solar cycle is changing
- Sweep for Republicans in 2010?
- Two asteroids to fly past Earth
- The melt rate of the icecaps is half what was previously predicted
- Shooter to the Olympics
- Award denied cosmonaut
- Natural Bridge, on the Moon
- Ares I first stage test firing
- Hair dryer scrubs Danish launch
- Worldwide military spending
- Water main break at KSC
- Shuttle launchpad to close
- Scientists develop tractor beam
- Senate to hold hearings on gun regulation
- The September monthly sunspot graph
- Opportunity’s journey continues
- Deep Impact gets its first look at next comet target
- Campus administrator shuts down conservative group
- Robinson Crusoe on Mars
- Danish cartoonist honored
- The magnetic field flips
- Pakistan floods ease Atlantic hurricanes?
- A question for the baby boomers
- Mike Griffin speaks out again
- As imagined by SF authors: the Celestial Spiral
- Someone in a tree
- Philadelphia police steal citizens’ guns
- China’s next lunar probe
- Mapping extrasolar planets
- The last journey of Discovery begins
- Boeing and Space Adventures team up
- John Wilcox dies
- Amateur detection of Jupiter impact
- The variability of stars according to Kepler
- Our Debt Is More Than All the Money in the World
- The Sun is blank again
- Corny Concerto
- September 11, 2001
- More on the natural bridge on the Moon
- The Westerner
- shuttle variation alive?
- ISS’s life expectancy
- WhiteKnightTwo back in the air
- Dawn’s status as it heads to Vesta
- Saturn from above
- The Argument Clinic
- 14 objects discovered beyond Neptune
- The pain of spacesuit gloves
- More data suggests ocean conveyor belt more complex than expected
- Scientists predict when the first Earthlike planet will be discovered
- UCLA backs off firing politically incorrect professor
- Space Makes Polymers Hard
- Water that smells bad might be toxic
- Government high speed railroad and elections
- Knife’s Edge trail on Mount Katahdin
- Say goodbye to sunspots?
- NASA extends Boeing’s station operations contract
- NJ Transit worker fired for burning pages of Koran
- Impact possibility of Apophis increased
- Building a lunar vegetable garden on Earth
- How blind cave fish find food
- Chile’s Trapped Miners Get 1,000 Job Offers
- The Space War, in a nutshell
- Ohio Town forbids Tea Party to Celebrate U.S. Constitution in Town Square
- Mirror, Mirror
- Judge overrules local town over Constitution Day rally
- China continues satellite maneuvers
- First spacecraft to use Earth-Moon L2 point
- Artist goes into hiding
- Europe to the Moon
- Arctic icecap reaches 2010 minimum
- Another summary of the space war
- Global topography of the Moon
- Second Falcon 9 rocket passes fuel test
- Earliest Kodak color tests
- White House tries rebranding global warming
- Microbes survive 553 days attached to ISS
- You do not have to answer any questions at the airport
- The day the Constitution was ratified
- An update on SpaceX’s Falcon 9, with pictures
- For the fifth time in two years Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has had computer problems.
- Lawmakers Curb Spending on Defense Weather Satellites
- Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
- A look at the Washington Post’s take on the space war
- My Friday night travels
- Orion testing goes on
- Rube Goldberg music video
- NASA outreach to the Arab world
- Bolden cleared by IG of ethical violations
- Something is recycling the methane on Mars
- A real cat burgler
- Photo gallery of Discovery’s last rollout
- The United States, as seen from the Moon
- Something’s coming, something good
- More caves on the Moon
- The English language is dead
- Lady of Shalott sung by Loreena McKennitt
- NASA budget stalled until lame duck session
- Opossums overrun Brooklyn
- Government and journalists cower at threats to cartoonist
- Spring on Titan brings sunshine and patchy clouds
- Kibo prices too high for business
- Too Much Water on the Moon?
- Arianespace Heading Toward an Unprofitable 2010
- Internal combustion engine wins fuel efficiency contest!
- Holst’s Jupiter movement from The Planets
- Federal spending is out of control and NASA’s gonna get what it wants?
- SpaceX delays next Falcon 9 launch until November
- Houston-area schools brace for impact of NASA layoffs
- The $500 satellite
- First tests of beer in zero gravity
- Pressure mounting for Rajendra Pachauri to resign as IPCC head
- Muslims defend free speech
- The moons of Saturn
- The sun influences the climate, admit the powers-that-be
- House compromise NASA budget
- The double vortex at Venus’s south pole is gone
- Field of gold played by Sungha Jung
- Soyuz undocking at ISS delayed
- Birthplace of the Sun?
- Medical insurance plans shut down
- Bolden’s trip to Saudia Arabia
- House breaks without dealing with NASA bill
- Slot Canyon
- Soyuz lands safely after 24 hour delay
- Neo-Nazi couple discover they are Jewish
- Yankee Doodle Daffy
- new details about Chilean miner rescue
- UN to appoint astrophysicist to negotiate with aliens
- The sad state of the economy
- Now it’s “global cooling”!
- Stairway to heaven Hawaii
- A scientist’s ten commandments
- Virgin Galactic begins offering flights in 18 months
- Venezuela Election
- Islam nations looking to squelch criticism
- The crumbling cliffs of Mars
- Bolden to China
- Glacier ice loss less than thought
- Modern journalism
- Dangerous asteroid discovered by new telescope
- Fort Apache (1948)
- A November wipe-out
- House will vote on Senate NASA plan
- Handing out the Bible is legal in Deerborn
- Volcanic activity in Saudia Arabia
- Lost footage of Armstrong’s first step found
- Launch of China’s next lunar probe as soon as Friday
- Lying Congressman
- Charges dismissed against Maryland man who taped traffic stop
- James Hansen arrested protesting against mining
- UN denies plan to name ‘ambassador’ to aliens
- New speed record for lawnmower
- Hand Dance – Up & Over It
- Violence by Democrat Party activists
- One third of so-called extinct species have turned up alive
- Russia to launch commercial space station by 2016
- Only one step short of tyranny
- Hoyer says Americans are “conflicted”
- 11 Predictions About 2010 That the Simpsons Got Right
- Results from Hayabusa delayed till next year
- European plans to develop advance return vehicle
- More info on next Falcon 9 launch
- Iranian blogger sentenced to 20 years
- The Snowbird Human-Powered Ornithopter
- Saudia Arabia celebrates anniversary of their first astronaut’s flight
- First planet discovered that might harbor life!
- NASA authorization passes House
- This NASA bill is nothing more than pork
- Michoud declares end of external tank production
- ATK to lay off 426 employees today
- New York forced to replace 250,000 street signs by the federal government
- Dancing robots
- The state of the Sun, September 30, 2010
- China launches 2nd Moon mission
- More layoffs in Florida
- Images of asteroid by Rosetta
- Layoffs in Houston
- New standards on car mpg
- The view from Opportunity, September 16, 2010
- Playing catch with a cat
- Astronaut sues over use of his image in NASA photo
- EPA fines SpaceX
- Listen to the sound of Babylonia
- Watch out for those toxic paper clips!
- Signals from Gliese 581?
- Modern climate models can’t predict sudden climate change
- Antarctic increase in sea ice since 1970 cannot be explained by ozone hole
- Fred Astaire dancing on the ceiling
- Zenyatta wins again
- The layoffs at NASA
- Virgin Galactic’s launching system in doubt
- The single most powerful political force in the nation
- Life in the Chilean mine
- To duck or not to duck
- Remembering Willie Ley
- NASA privacy suit to go to Supreme Court
- Saudia Arabia and NASA sign two deals
- Rocket pieces fall in China
- The wind-blown dunes of Mars
- Liquid on Titan
- Lutetia covered with deep regolith
- NASA Confusion Reverberates Throughout Globe
- Lunar X Prize award set at $30 million
- It’s okay to kill suffering children says UK journalist
- Sputnik
- Archeologists discover a sealed stone age home
- Russian meteorologists predict very cold winter
- The ruins above Machu Picchu
- NASA technology chief: We’ll decide what rocket we want to build
- Space tourism from the island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles
- Solar panels return to the White House
- Wilders facing prison for speech
- Bolden in Saudia Arabia
- Soyuz capsule shipping container damaged
- WISE telescope moves into final phase of mission
- Murder for the sake of climate idealogy
- Gallup’s astonishing numbers
- 13 Stunning Photos From 10-Year Sea Census
- Muppets: “I don’t want to live on the Moon”
- Hayabusa brought back extraterrestrial matter
- Four Chinese lunar landers?
- Treasury Inspector General to Investigate White House Disclosure of Confidential Taxpayer Data of Political Opponent
- EPA’s Own Estimates Say Greenhouse Gas Regs Could ‘Slow Construction Nationwide for Years’ — and Take a Century to Reduce Temperature 0.0015 Degrees
- If you do this in an email, I hate you
- The October 2010 sunspot graph
- Geert Wilder’s words make Muslims uncomfortable
- No active volcanoes on Mars
- The atmosphere of Venus is 60% less dense at its poles
- Pluto’s ice: 97% nitrogen, 3% methane
- Engineer spice
- It’s only a seltzer moon
Plumes from Saturn’s Enceladus may be carbonated
- Apollo 11 original television footage unveiled
- Chang’e 2 arrives in lunar orbit
- Layoffs Continue as NASA Slows Constellation Spending
- Scientists and Soldiers Solve a Bee Mystery
- The Sun was brighter when it was dimmer?
- Bolden’s trip his idea, not the White House’s
- Bigelow about to announce big news
- ESA struggles to fund returnable module
- White House arbitrarily gives healthcare law waivers to some companies
- The basic ingredients of life might exist in Titan’s atmosphere
- Kate and Anna McGarrigle: Heart like a wheel
- Soyuz launches with three astronauts, headed to ISS
- Federal government spending rose 9% in 2010
- JPL scientists demand correction of White House statements before Supreme Court
- Global hurricane activity at 33-year low
- Dingel trails in Detroit
- A Tea Party in Maryland
- Saudis arrest Filipino Catholics for practicing their Catholic religion
- Preliminary rescue date for Chilean miners set
- Asteroids of note
- Chile miners should be reached ‘within hours’
- The Sci-Fi Airshow
- A Night to Remember
- An engineer’s guide to cats
- Physicist resigns for American Physical Society over climategate
- SpaceShipTwo makes its first solo flight and landing
- December Soyuz flight to ISS delayed due to damage
- Hayabusa particles mostly rocky
- Bolden ignores Congress with trip to China
- Sunspots return to the Sun
- Chilean miners are arguing about who should be the last to exit
- Kitten massage therapy
- Rescue shaft breaks through to Chilean miners
- Mars’ geology suggests it once had rich carbon dioxide atmosphere
- Footage of SpaceShipTwo’s first solo flight
- Shutting Up Business
- X-37B goes missing.
- Archeologists find 400,000 year old spears in coal mine
- Using ISS as a launching platform to get to the Moon
- The central organization of the religion of peace declares war on the US
- Why ObamaCare killed child-only health plans
- Classic tribute to Genesis: Afterglow
- Obama signs the NASA authorization bill
- Asteroid to zip past Earth on Tuesday
- Five Chilean miners ‘originally formed breakway group’
- The state of NASA’s commercial crew program
- A lost Michelangelo painting found in Buffalo, NY home
- The 500th extrasolar planet about to be discovered
- The possibilities for China’s Chang’e 2 lunar probe
- The first trapped miner about to hauled free
- The World’s First Everything-Proof Underground Luxury Community
- Habitable exoplanet might not exist
- The first powered flight of SpaceShipTwo could come before year’s end
- Hayseed Dixie: she was skinny When I met her
- More details of the Chilean mine rescue
- APS responds to Harold Lewis’s resignation letter
- EPA Funnels Taxpayer Money to Dozens of Liberal Community Activist Groups
- Media mayhem mars family’s joy at Chile mine rescue
- Democrats face 60 to 70 seat loss, according to leftwing press
- More details of SpaceShipTwo’s test flight from pilot
- ObamaCare will result in increased out-of-pocket costs for seniors
- MTV Denies That Obama Telecast Is Political
- We won’t release our contributors because the adminstration will then harass them
- Most Incredible Volcano Footage Ever
- Last Chilean miner reaches the surface safely
- Hubble tracks the aftermath of a possible asteroid collision
- Competing interests could spell a troubled future for NASA
- South Carolina man ordered by the government to remove religious signs from his property
- Upsets in northern California?
- Soaring Hoover Dam bypass bridge finally complete
- Climate Talks in China Limp Toward Deadlock
- X-37b spotted again
- A wish list of spectacular future planetary missions
- World record 3200 model rockets launched simultaneously
- Two Democratic candidates try to silence their opposition
- Prosecutors recommend acquital on all charges for Wilders
- The color of a wind turbine can attract bugs
- Recent landslide on Mars
- Charles Lollar vs Steny Hoyer
- The Streets of New York
- The New York Mets 1969
- Bolden in trouble?
- Chicago mainstream reporters threaten reporter asking tough questions of Emanuel
- Eyjafjallajökull volcano, Iceland
- US may outsource lightweight satellite launches to India
- Dried up lake beds on Mars?
- DRAGON SPACE
International Crews for Shenzhou?
- Two German radar mapping satellites to produce three-dimensional imagery of Earth
- More criticism of Bolden emerges as he heads to China
- Miller security guards handcuff journalist
- IPCC meeting ends with few changes or reforms
- Was T. Rex a cannibal?
- Have global warming scientists admitted that carbon dioxide is not the main greenhouse gas?
- Dems find careers threatened by Obamacare votes
- Beating the European ban on 75 watt bulbs
- Swiss engineers break through the last stretch of rock to create the world’s longest tunnel
- Zenyatta
- Fuel leak on Discovery
- One way trips to Mars?
- Halfway to Pluto
- Bankrupty for TerreStar?
- Republicans weaseling out already?
- Bigelow Aerospace Begins Testing Life Support Systems with Crew
- Dead Sea scrolls going digital on Internet
- It’s the out of control spending, stupid!
- Fuel leak on Discovery plugged
- Hubble marches on: Pinwheel of star formation
- Loch Lomond
- Chinese embargo of rare earth minerals expands
- Damaged Soyuz descent module being replaced
- Bigelow has made deals with six nations to provide orbital station modules
- Engineers to replace seals on shuttle
- Father of fractals dies
- Closing caves for the convenience and power of the government
- Most distant galaxy ever seen
- Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain 2007
- Arianespace in trouble
- TerreStar files for bankruptcy
- The Continuing Controversy of the Mars Meteorite
- Canadian company that makes robot arm might be for sale again
- Orbital posts good third quarter results
- the Moon Stinks of Gunpowder
- New Zealand might lose $700 million in movie business due to union
- Clinton misplaced the nuclear codes twice
- Steny Hoyer Knuckle-Punched GOP Opponent in the Back
- It’s Cold and Wet at the Moon’s South Pole
- Machu Picchu from above
- The tenth anniversary of full time human existence in space
- Last shuttle mission could be delayed until fall of 2011
- Juan Williams firing by NPR
- A Bronze Age burial site has been uncovered at the planned location of the Highlands’ first Asda supermarket
- Bulgarian Archaeologist Comes Across Ancient Rock Stove
- League of Woman Voters moderator at Congressional debate offended by Pledge of Allegiance
- New Study Says Cost of Health Reform Subsidies Could Far Exceed Previous Estimates
- The Virgin Galactic flight test program for SpaceShipTwo
- Space law blocks lunar and space exploration
- Atmospheric scientists say space tourism will cause global warming
- The Juan Williams firing, in his own words
- Judges in Geert Wilders’ Free Speech Case Removed from Trial
- Mark Steyn lecture squelched by Islamists and wimpy bureaucrats
- New technology might allow airline passengers to keep their shoes on
- Union Fires Stage Hand for Wearing Bush Hat and Shirt
- We’re a couple of swells…
- Bugs Bunny – Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
- Virgin Galactic plans to compete in the upcoming race to develop orbital space vehicles
- Evidence of active volcanoes on Venus
- SpaceX now targeting Nov. 18 for first COTS demo flight
- Wikipedia bans global warming propagandist
- The once and future Moon
- The calla lillies are in bloom again
- Last flight for Discovery set for Monday
- Google Lunar X Prize
- Nowhere Man
- NASA’s commercial crew program moves forward
- Space tourism ticket prices could drop
- Another European on trial for reporting the facts about Islam
- Why this election is important
- ISS to dodge space junk
- The 123,000 MPH Plasma Engine That Could Finally Take Astronauts To Mars
- Bloomberg supports term limits for everyone else but himself
- Obama takes the money and runs
- Tsunami and volcano hit Indonesia
- Spaceport dedication in New Mexico
- Hubble Data Used to Look 10,000 Years into the Future
- New Kepler results!
- Date set for zero gravity beer drinking test
- Toronto elects conservative mayor by a surprising margin
- Tax Official Threatens to Shut Down Kids‘ Pumpkin Stand For Lacking ’Proper Permit’
- To fly
- UN treaty language threatens to ban all “climate-related geoengineering”
- Virus jumps from monkey to scientist
- Digging into the pockets of billionaires for interstellar travel
- Bigelow factory expansion
- China plans space station by 2020
- First ticket issued for deadly butter
- Will the Republicans actually cut spending?
- John Denver: Annie’s song
- Buckyballs discovered in another galaxy
- The most massive neutron star ever discovered
- Advertise during the zero gravity beer test
- Demonstration on October 30 to protest the trial of Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff
- Another moderator from the League of Women Voters resists saying the pledge of allegiance
- Sea Launch Exits Bankruptcy Under Russian Ownership
- SpaceX’s Dragon capsule cleared for launch but not landing by FAA
- Evidence of subsurface water found by Mars rover Spirit
- Charlie the Unicorn
- ISS has now passed Mir’s record for the longest continuous occupancy
- NASA’s budget remains under threat
- The first complete early sauropod dinosaur skeleton found
- University of Virginia elminates all speech codes
- New leaks discovered on Discovery, on launchpad
- SpaceShipTwo completes second free flight test
- Gore leaves engine idling for entire speech
- Squeal like a pig
- A “man-caused disaster” averted
- Brother, can you spare a dime?
- Spirited Away
- The telescope that ate astronomy
- The suborbital commercial industry responds to smog accusations
- Shuttle launch now set for Wednesday
- The Haunting
- UN conference passes broad ban on “geoengineering”
- Poll numbers suggest largest Republican victory in generations
- Poll warden denies a policeman in uniform the right to vote because he is wearing a gun
- Opportunity’s journey continues
- Massacre by Islamic terrorists at Iraqi Christian church
- Fifty-eight percent of population favors repeal of Obamacare
- Anti-American propaganda from the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Another Iceland volcano eruption pending?
- Democrat supporters rip up signs on private property, curse Tea party protestors
- Saving NASA From The Obama Science Fair
- Just Jesse
- New regulations by EPA threatens to reduce the electrical grid capacity by 7.2%
- Gliese 581g does exist, according to another scientist
- Overhaul of NASA’s Deep Space communication system completed
- Dollar could lose 20% of its value in next few years
- Astronauts on ISS vote from space
- Electrical problem on Discovery could delay launch
- We ain’t goin’ away
- The updated monthly sunspot graph, as of November 2, 2010
- Space and the election results
- Destroy Earth from home
- The Making of a Mind-Blowing DIY Sun Photo
- Pro Cap & Trade Democrats slaughtered in elections
- California Dreamin’
- Weather causes shuttle launch to be scrubbed
- Baikonur allows its first feature film
- Florida Today calls for more NASA spending from new Congress
- Watching the Deep Impact flyby of Hartley 2
- Statement from new chairman of House Science and Technology Committee
- More info on Deep Impact flyby of Comet Hartley 2
- NASA could be in budget limbo for months after Tuesday’s election
- An Early Warning System for Asteroid Impact
- Discovery launch scrubbed due to hydrogen leak
- Burt Rutan retiring
- AARP raises employee premiums because of Obamacare
- The first images of Deep Impact’s flyby of Comet Hartley 2
- Showing how the country is polarized . . . with a t-shirt
- A NASA surprise security drill causes one employee to call the police
- EPA policy chief steps down
- Bankruptcy of U.S. government “mathematical certainty” says banker
- California – the Coming Collapse
- Thor’s well
- Discovery’s launch is postponed until no sooner than November 30
- Volcano eruption in Indonesia
- Cassini goes into safe mode
- Election Result Could Increase Pressure on NASA Budget
- The Great Dictator
- Update on Mount Merapi eruption
- ACLU suing NJ Transit for firing worker who burned Koran at protest
- A high school production of To Kill a Mockingbird cancelled due to political correctness
- 1776: He plays the violin
- Undefeated youth football team banned from playoffs for being too good
- Indonesian eruption volcano continues
- Cable subscribers flee to internet
- Global warming scientists to start campaign against skeptics
- Schelmish performing Chaos
- Gore’s climate exchange flops
- China releases first photos from Chang’e 2
- European plans to boost biofuels will hurt environment, say environmentalists
- AGU denies its climate science campaign is an attack on skeptics
- Warrentless raids and arrests at Florida barbershops
- SpaceX Falcon 9 launch delayed until December 7
- Driscoll Middle School trick play
- Federal Budget Rollback Could Slash NIH Grant Success Rates
- Crack in fuel tank foam
- NPR chief fears defunding
- UN panel calls for more taxes in the name of climate change
- Mystery rocket launch off of California coast
- The space program is dead, long live the space industry!
- Leftist cartoonist calls for armed revolution against the right
- Pluto might be larger than Eris after all
- Flash flood
- Triceratops never existed?
- Mystery missile an optical illusion?
- The state of the Iranian space program
- Cassini to be back in operation by November 24
- Eat a Bagel, Lose Your Baby
- Highest point on the Moon
- New airport security checks causing protests
- EPA sued over ethanol increases in gasoline
- Pat Condell on the death of free speech in Europe
- Deficit panel is recommending eliminating NASA funds to private space
- I’m a denier!
- James Webb Space Telescope in trouble, again
- More cracks found on Discovery’s external tank
- Orbital Sciences tests the first stage engine of its Taurus II rocket
- Senate to hold hearings on NASA’s budget
- China releases Chang’e 2 images of its proposed lunar landing sites
- Outrage over TSA “naked scans” grows
- The Bashing of American Exceptionalism
- Less Than Half of American Muslims Support the Ground Zero Mosque
- Commercial space advocates fight proposed spending cut
- Leaking vent line attachment disassembled, apparent seal problem found
- NPR says it’s ‘imperative’ that its federal funding not be cut
- NOW Calls On President Obama To Reject
NOW Calls On President Obama To Reject Fiscal Commission’s Assault On Social Security
- In Flanders Fields
- Vase earns record auction price
- Facts and ideology, science and politics
- Sinkholes on Mars
- British bureaucrats offended by “gingerbread man”, rename him “gingerbread person”
- The private race to build space stations
- Big Sis Forced To Respond To Nationwide Revolt Against TSA
- Is the Mars rover Spirit dead?
- School Reverses Course After Ordering Student to Remove American Flag From Bike
- F Troop
- Workout at the gym
- The comet is carbonated
- People are awesome
- Third crack found on Discovery’s external tank shell
- More TSA abuse
- The coming train wreck for Commercial Human Spaceflight
- Breaking the Ice in Antarctica
- Video from Chang’e 2
- Tycho Brahe’s body exhumed
- Abolish the TSA
- New Castle councilman calls cops on boys’ cupcake sale
- Continuing resolution likely into 2011
- National Opt-Out day suggests wearing kilts as well
- Oklahoma-Many a new day
- Russians complete spacewalk
- Shades of foam and failed o-rings?
- Chinese female astronaut identified
- Hayabusa captured asteroid dust
- Go to sleep for science and space exploration
- TSA to investigate man who refused body scan
- Allan Sandage, 1926-2010
- TSA Now Putting Hands Down Fliers’ Pants
- Paul Zerdin ventriloquist
- A ten foot wide asteroid will zip by the Earth tonight
- Why a hypersonic test vehicle disappeared last April
- Is the TSA backing down?
- Stars merging
- Penn at airport threatens to press charges against TSA for assault
- Kazakhstan security summit forces astronauts to return early from ISS
- the problems of human waste management in space
- Lawsuits filed against TSA
- Climategate’s one year anniversary
- Don’t be terrorized
- Man shoots TV over Bristol Palin appearance
- Senate hearing on NASA’s future postponed
- European Budget Snafu Could Delay Progress on Fusion Reactor
- Sea Life Flourishes in the Gulf
- Hailstorm in Oklahoma, May 16, 2010
- Scientists succeed in trapping atoms of anti-matter for the first time
- The dying stars that look like jellyfish
- Reviewing the flight rationale for Discovery’s launch
- TSA allowed to unionize despite law forbidding such action
- Orlando airport dumps TSA
- Sharpton wants FCC to threaten stations that carry Limbaugh
- How to properly fight terrorism
- California prosecutors say they’ll charge TSA agents if pat-downs are inappropriate
- Cops bust seven men playing chess in upper Manhattan park
- A snowstorm in space
- The climategate email anniversary
- Brian Marsden dies
- Johnny Carson Lie Detector Politician
- Shuttle launch no earlier than December 3
- SpaceShipTwo completes its third glide flight
- How the U.S. Snoops on Russian Nukes From Space
- What Obama Fails to Understand
- NPR funds approved by Democrats, rejected by Republicans
- “She put her full hand on my breast and said, ‘What is this?’.
- The Climate Coincidence
- A gas explosion in New Zealand coal mine, trapping 27
- It came from another galaxy
- Sightseeing on Mars
- Wind and solar energy bankrupt
- Former Shuttle Manager Decries NASA’s Commercial Crew Safety Regs
- A glimpse at the universe before the Big Bang?
- Future tests of SpaceShipTwo will be even more challenging
- Pluto a planet?
- TSA stupidity of the day
- Another TSA stupidity of the day
- Virgin and KLM – the new space race?
- Simon’s cat, lunch break
- X-34s moved from storage
- TSA agents hate pat downs
- TSA management loves the pat downs
- Winter overnight hike
- Update on trapped New Zealand mine rescue
- TSA pat-down leaves traveler covered in urine
- TSA Confiscates Camera of Woman filming man stripped to underwear
- Gettysburg Address recited by Jeff Daniels
- Office shooting range
- On the road
- FAA issues license to SpaceX to allow it to land its Dragon capsule
- 500th exoplanet found
- NASA solar sail reaches orbit
- TSA apologizes to man whose pat down caused him to be drenched in urine
- Gore admits that ethanol was bad policy
- Saving NASA’s astrophysics budget and Webb
- Nuclear engines for Russia’s space program
- Judy Garland on television – Somewhere over the rainbow
- X-37B mission almost complete?
- ISS next expedition main, backup crews to begin exam
- Brian Marsden, 1937-2010
- Update of Discovery’s launch status
- The administrator of TSA speaks
- George Winston – Thanksgiving
- Discovery’s launch delayed until December 17 at the earliest
- Cassini back in operation
- Jupiter’s stripe is coming back.
- Lockheed plans test flight of Orion capsule
- Climate change will destroy Thanksgiving
- Obama administration plans to establish 187,000 square mile polar bear reserve
- Airport scanners barely used on day before Thanksgiving
- Woman wears bikini to go through security at airport
- Johnny Cash sings a Thanksgiving Prayer
- ISS crew land safely in Kazakhstan
- Saturn moon has thin oxygen and carbon dioxide atmosphere
- Motes, beams and the University of East Anglia
- Second test flight of hypersonic vehicle pending
- The Montana Supreme Court Friday sided with a Butte High valedictorian who was barred from speaking
- Why NASA recently pulled the X-34 out of storage
- What pilots think of the TSA
- Woman arrested for threatening shoppers with gun
- Met Office admits global warming has slowed down over the past 10 years
- Six arrested after melee at anti-violence rally in northern NJ
- Animal rights terrorists make death threats against scientist
- Black Friday madness
- Driving vs flying
- Palin and NASA
- Mumford & sons
- Laid off NASA workers can’t find comparable paying jobs in Florida
- A billion people will lose their homes due to climate change
- Killing bats to save them!
- 12 Ridiculous Regulations That Are Almost Too Bizarre To Believe
- Spanish woman claims ownership of the Sun
- ELISABETH SABADITSCH-WOLFF’s November 23 court hearing
- Speech from Scent of a Woman
- Leslie Nielsen Dead at 84
- Two TSA Agents Steal Pizza & Assault A Store Clerk
- Travelers shifting to charter jets and rental cars to avoid airport security
- Why Hayabusa failed to fire its projectile at asteroid
- The radiation risks from the TSA scanners
- Deficit commission rewrites its recommendation, but keeps it
- Cuts in military budget would hit North Texas programs
- No hurricane landfalls in US for second year in a row
- Martian stream gullies
- Wheelchair-bound nun searched by TSA
- Obamacare forces union to drop insurance for children
- Superman – The Mad Scientist
- The unimaginative Union of Concerned Scientists does it again
- How One Astronomer Became the Unofficial Exoplanet Record Keeper
- TSA security harasses a mother over her breast milk
- New Jersey man serving 7 years for guns he owned legally
- A hint that the Republicans might be wimping out again
- Dark Jupiter May Haunt Edge of Solar System
- Deficit panel divided
- National Space Society demands Congress give NASA the money
- NASA engineers struggle to analyze cause of cracks in tank
- First Orion Space Capsule Could Ride Delta 4 Heavy In 2013
- University of Colorado and NASA Research Center to Study Sun’s Effects on Earth’s Climate
- The IPCC and the UN is planning to re-engineer the Earth to save it
- Karan Casey – Ballad of accounting
- X-37B returning to Earth as early as Friday
- Second Falcon 9 test launch set for December 7
- Branson says Virgin Galactic could be flying tourists within a year
- Cassini Finds Warm Cracks on Enceladus
- NASA’s human spaceflight program is ‘adrift’
- Google Earth reveals Star of David on roof of Iran Air HQ
- Links fixed!
- Scientists pinpoint where Venus’s sulphuric acid clouds come from
- House May Block Food Safety Bill Over Senate Error
- Debt Commission Agrees to postpone report
- Amtrak lifts ban on guns
- Citizen Journalists Forcibly Removed From Van Jones “Open To The Public” Event
- Deficit commission’s draft report released
- Church Groups Harass Clyde’s Sport Shop – Plan Protest Demonstration
- Shooting scene from To Kill a Mockingbird
- Congress, Obama, and NASA fiddle while manned space burns
- A Steamy Super-Earth?
- Three times more stars exist than previously thought
- Airplane telescope flies its first observation mission
- Sierra Nevada Studying X-34 As Rocket Testbed
- When journalism runs wild…
- The EPA’s And Enron’s End-Runs Of Congress
- Tea Party Caucus Takes $1 Billion In Earmarks
- Woman Strips Down to Her Lingerie, Gets TSA Pat Down Anyway—Twice
- The next to go — astronauts!
- Hang gliding in upstate New York
- More caves on Mars
- X-37B has returned successful to earth
- Root cause of shuttle external tank cracks still not clear
- A Croatian space mission to the Moon?
- More info on man in prison in NJ for owning legal guns
- SpaceX to offer NASA its own plans for a heavy-lift rocket
- CNN Reporter Put On Watch List After Criticizing TSA
- Discovery launch delayed until February
- Power from poop?
- Build a warning system for asteroids
- Deficit commission fails to pass its recommendations
- Congress passes bill to lower volume of television commercials
- White House wants transfer authority on appropriations?
- Snowbound England
- Islamic cleric offers reward to kill Christian woman
- Photos of X-37B After Landing at Vandenberg Air Force Base
- Animator vs Animation
- Falcon 9 first stage test firing aborted
- NASA Plans to Put Nonprofit In Charge Of ISS Experiments
- New Biggest Volcano in the Solar System?
- Orlando Sentinel calls for more NASA funding
- ‘A million climate change deaths each year’
- Yellowstone caldara rise has slowed
- SpaceX static test a success
- Activists force Spanish cardinal to cancel lecture
- Tinkering with the atmosphere to prevent climate change gains ground in Cancun
- SpaceShipTwo flies again
- Paul Simon – American Tune
- Cancún climate talks in danger of collapse over Kyoto continuation
- Wikileaks and the IPCC
- Proton launch failure dooms Glonass navigation satellites
- Meteor compilation
- For the past 15 years, global warming has stopped
- Britain, Brazil to seek end to Kyoto climate impasse
- ‘Akatsuki’ probe set to try and enter Venus’s orbit
- Northern blaze delights many in the Arab world
- Largest ever tuna caught
- Programming caused Russian rocket failure
- Al Gore’s climate group shrinking
- What We Can Learn from 120 Years of Climate Catastrophe Reporting
- Hunting as Jeff Foxworthy sees it
- An update of the Chinese manned space program
- Falcon 9/Dragon launch likely delayed to at least Thursday
- NASA’s arsenic biology discovery slammed
- Orbital status of Akatsuki at Venus uncertain
- The sad fate of the first 747
- Waivers to Obamacare continue to pile up
- FCC push to regulate news draws fire
- Muslim Brotherhood Front Group Trains Airport Screeners
- Falcon 9 set for Wednesday launch
- Millions of research money stolen in Mali
- The military’s perspective on X-37B
- NASA sold computers with sensitive data, report says
- The list of companies receiving healthcare waivers
- TSA regulations end shipment of any package to US weighing more than a pound
- The attack on Pearl Harbor, as seen at the time
- ‘No climate talks in future if Cancun fails’
- Climate models used by IPCC fail to predict past climate patterns
- The November sunspot graph – still low and below expectations
- NASA budget details
- Deorbiting the International Space Station
- The Crab Nebula burps!
- Japan’s Venus probe fails to enter orbit
- Falcon 9 launch a success. Dragon capsule returns successfully
- Firestorm over arsenic microbe continues to grow
- “Gore effect” strikes Cancun Climate Conference 3 days in a row
- Deep Space 9 – The Quickening
- Eight Hebrew books stolen from Indiana University Library and thrown in toilets and urinated on
- Wind Group Warns of Job Losses Without Grants
- First carbon-rich exoplanet discovered
- More Than 1000 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims – Challenge UN IPCC & Gore
- Cancun COP16 attendees fall for the old “dihydrogen monoxide” petition as well as signing up to cripple the U.S. Economy
- Orlando airport Considers Dumping TSA Screeners
- Corn ethanol tax credits on the way out?
- WikiLeaks Cables Confirm Worst Fears of Climate Skeptics
- Dragon’s secret payload
- top NASA scientist says that all global warming models are too gloomy
- Waltzing Matilda scene from On the Beach
- Rosie O’Donnell thinks John Edwards has suffered more than his wife
- Almost half of all doctors plan to retire due to Obamacare
- Clouding the climate picture
- NASA Satellite Sees An Early Meteorological Winter In US Midwest
- Riots of tuition fees in Great Britain
- Cancun blog
- South Africa launches its own space agency
- Venus Has a Moon?
- Obama climate cash pledge in doubt
- ABBA – I have a dream
- Man arrested after bringing boat flying foreign flag with Arabic lettering into restricted area of Cape Canaveral
- Caterpillars Can Whistle
- India “outraged” over TSA patdown of ambassador
- the illegal imprisonment of Joel Rosenberg
- Will there be earmarks in the next Congress?
- Court to rule on ObamaCare constitutionality Monday
- Kyoto Protocol is dead, long live the climate fund
- George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra
- Christmas Jihad in Stockholm
- EPA Delays Job-Killing Emissions Regulations
- A car that runs on air
- Recent volcanism on Venus
- The rise and fall of rocketplane
- NASA solar sail lost
- Will GOP take the P out of NPR?
- American flag banned from condo complex
- Social Security advocates fear payroll tax cut
- Tommy Makem – Will you go Lassie go
- the violent origin of Saturn’s rings
- First data back from X-37B flight
- Railgun sets record
- Brazil successfully launches and recovers rocket to test micro-gravity experiments
- New poll says more people want repeal of Obamacare than ever before
- 8 Observations From The Cancun Climate Conference
- Judge rules Obamacare mandate unconstitutional
- Christians fleeing Iraq
- An astronomer is suing the University of Kentucky, claiming he was denied a job running its observatory because of his Christian faith
- Highlights from today’s ruling against Obamacare
- EPA regulations to go into effect says court
- NASA Picks New Chief Scientist
- Archaeologists find 2,400 year-old bowl of soup in China
- Facing the facts
- The leaning tower leans less
- Orbital Sciences and Virgin Galactic team up to propose orbital craft
- Lockheed wins NASA contract to pack cargo for ISS
- Voyager 1 sees evidence it is about to enter interstellar space
- The last remant of a supernova
- Global Eruption Rocks the Sun
- Boeing Submits Proposal for 2nd Round of NASA Commercial Crew Development Program
- “He said there was something suspicious hanging from between my legs,”
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- The squealing of Wall Street regulators
- GOP bill zeroes out programs, puts curbs on Obama initiatives
- 2 Repubican Utah state lawmakers get threat letter
- Liberal journalist trashes raped CBS reporter because he doesn’t like her politics
- Democrats join GOP criticism of Obama’s budget proposal
- Study predicts one meter sea level rise by 2010
- Computer Crushes the Competition on ‘Jeopardy!’
- Debunking gun myths
- Australian space beer ready for micro-gravity test
- “All of you are white. Go to hell!”
- BBC – Walk on the Wild Side
- White House Ignores Interest Payments in Claiming to Control Debt
- Florida Governor Joins Two More in Rejecting Federal High-Speed Rail Spending
- New Jersey Governor Christie slams Democrats and Republicans over spending
- The great wind scam
- Democratic Congressman says Republicans want kids to get asthma
- The delay in the launch of the European cargo ship could delay the next Shuttle launch
- The next flight of the Chinese manned spacecraft could last three weeks
- Why more railroad subsidies make no sense
- The federal government shuts down 83,990 websites by mistake
- Europe’s ISS freighter launches successfully
- Russian spacewalk finishes early
- House votes to move money from NASA to local law enforcement
- Thousands of previously unknown tombs in Saudi Desert spotted from space
- Democrats campaign to save funding for public television
- Two TSA agents busted at JFK for stealing $160,000 from checked bags
- He should get rid of as many of them as possible.
- ‘Watson’ the computer creams human ‘Jeopardy!’ champs
- Google Lunar X Prize has announced the final roster of teams competing for its $30 Million prize
- Obama’s energy secretary squeals.
- Arsenic, silicon, and alien life
- Dick Durbin Is Stealing Your Free Checking!
- Showdown in Wisconsin
- more voters view cutting spending rather than investing as the best way to do so
- Democrat congresswoman seeking to defund Army sponsorship of NASCAR
- Democrats flee to avoid participating in Wisconsin budget vote
- A Private Space Shuttle Replacement
- The historical illiteracy of the Wisconsin union protesters
- Tennessee bill targets teacher collective bargaining rights
- A potential landing site for next Mars rover
- Union protesters fill Ohio Statehouse
- Squeals from the media
- Ventana Canyon
- The future ups and downs of government spending in space
- The Great Moonbuggy Race
- How hibernating bears could help man get to Mars
- To be a Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin means facing threats of violence
- Boehner says spending must be cut, but Senate Dems won’t budge
- U.S. military turns to private sector for its satellite communications needs
- More Webb budget troubles
- Federal judge lowers the boom on the Obama administration on drilling permits
- How to follow the events in Wisconsin
- “Couldn’t he pretend he’s president?”
- Robot arm on ISS shifts Japanese freighter to different port to clear path for shuttle
- Holdren of the Obama administration:
Deniers no, Ignorant yes! - Gliese 581g: Alive or Dead?
- According to ACLU, you can be Christian as long as you don’t follow your beliefs
- House pulls plug on health law funds
- Hey Apple
- House rejects extra $22 billion in additional cuts
- Repealing ObamaCare to Reduce Gross Spending By $1.4 Trillion Over Next Decade
- Judge gives states deadline to respond to White House over Obamacare lawsuit
- More quakes in Arkansas, including a 4.3
- Update in Wisconsin
- Final liftoff for Discovery set for Thursday, Feb 24
- Proposed $18.7 Billion NASA Budget Draws Early Fire from Capitol Hill
- Science budget map
- The uncertainty of climate science
- U.S. House Votes to Cut $61 Billion in Government Spending
- The memoir of a substitute teacher during a teachers strike
- Who will buy?
- House cuts off funds to IPCC
- Tea Party protesters vs Union protesters in Wisconsin today
- Wheelchair bound wounded vet jeered, heckled, and laughed at by university students
- Twitter death threats against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker
- Annual U.S. government waste estimated at $125 billion
- Jansen’s Strandbeests
- The Wisconsin protests as seen by a self-described “independent”
- From both the Washington Times and Washington Post: No pet projects are safe!
- The second X-37B has arrived in Florida
- China’s first probe to Mars is set for a November launch
- Want to go to space? Come to the Isle of Man
- Gaddafi flees Tripoli as protesters set the Libyan parliament building alight
- The Earth’s shifting magnetic pole
- The consequences of issuing fake doctors’ notes
- Thousands flee as Philippine volcano erupts
- The Worst Generation’s war in Wisconsin
- The blunder in Wisconsin
- How leftwing journalists lie
- The Massive February 15, 2011 X Flare on the Sun
- The high priests of science and how they bar the door to skeptics
- Armed TSA agent gets through TSA airport body scanner
- Death Toll From Quake In New Zealand May Top 200
- Police arrest 11-year-old over ‘inappropriate’ stick figure drawing
- Miracle on ice, February 22, 1980
- Christians sue Dearborn officials and police who arrested them for preaching to Muslims
- ‘The Heretic’: A Play About Global Warming Skepticism
- Glory in the sky
- Does dark energy and dark matter exist, or is it our theories of gravity?
- Clinton-appointed judge says Commerce Clause covers ‘mental activity’
- Dem Congressman tells unions that they “need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody”
- State reviewing complaints over doctors’ excuse notes to protesters
- Why the Democrats might be making the wrong assumptions about a government shutdown
- “Thunder-thighs” dinosaur discovered
- Gingrich questioned about his extramartial affairs
- Scientists Steer Car With the Power of Thought
- Indiana attorney general fires deputy over ‘live ammunition’ tweets aimed at Wisconsin protestors
- SNL A very British movie
- Glory launch postponed until early Friday
- The European Kepler freighter is set to dock with the space station tonight
- “Hell yeah, shut down the government if you have to.”
- E.P.A. Scales Back Emission Rules
- More on New Zealand quake
- Watch Discovery’s launch today from your virtual yacht on your Playstation 3 game machine
- Europe’s Kepler cargo vehicle has docked with ISS
- The shuttle Discovery has lifted off
- Launch of Glory postponed again
- Makem and Clancy – Get Drunk
- Pan-Starrs Telescope discovers 19 near-earth asteroids in one night
- To be called a violent teabagger while you’re being assaulted
- Obamacare “has already yielded profound, destructive changes that will not be undone by repeal or defunding alone.”
- U.S. Conference of Mayors attack House spending cuts
- The squealing of a former Bush science administrator
- Researchers have uncovered the oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in northern North America at a site in central Alaska
- Space tourism poised to blast off in the next two years
- Man who advocated jury nullification indicted for doing so
- Another climategate whitewash
- Bugs Bunny – Haredevil Hare (1948)
- Senate Democrats express support for the most recent House Republican proposal
- A round-up of state efforts to balance their overdrawn budgets
- Detector Array Deterioration Poses New Problem for JWST
- Two High-priority Climate Missions Dropped from NASA’s Budget Plans
- A Half-Gigabyte View of the Moon
- The caves of Copernicus
and the Ocean of Storms - Northern Lights
- Shuttle Discovery docks with space station for 13th and final time
- NASA’s chief technologist admits it will be a decade before Orion flies
- A private space station by 2016
- Some enchanted evening
- The Beer has Landed: Astronauts4Hire Completes Space Beer Microgravity Test
- Amateur images of ISS and the shuttle
- Fleet Foxes – White Winter Hymnal
- Leif J. Robinson, Editor in Chief of Sky & Telescope magazine for 20 years, passed away Sunday
- The sponge-like Saturn moon
- India’s space agency gets a 35% hike for 2011
- Scientists buy tickets on Virgin Galactic
- Robotic arm breakdown adds spacewalk drama
- Democratic lawmaker threatens female Republican lawmaker: “You Are F***king Dead!”
- For 50 Straight Weeks, the Majority Has Supported Repeal
- As the 14 Wisconsin Democrats run, meet the numerous Illinois Tea Party activists giving chase
- Interior Secretary Salazar issues first Gulf of Mexico drilling permit since oil spill
- Cover story: Astronomy’s Crystal Ball
- The Survey of Cass Cave, Monograph #4 of the West Virginia Speleological Survey
- John Denver – Back Home Again
- Station photo op cancelled
- Some thoughts on a government shutdown and NASA
- 29 Teams, One Purchased Ride, and One Mystery for The Google Lunar X Prize
- X-37B launch set for March 4
- Traffic and more roads
- Leonardo cargo module installed on ISS
- Russia lacks enough rockets to fulfill 2011 launch plans
- Some unusual commercial caves
- Cutting the federal budget two weeks at a time
- Matterhorn Glacier Express
- Images of an exoplanet
- More press release journalism,
this time about sunspots - Judge gives Obama administration seven days to appeal or Obamacare is dead
- Sheriff deputies find live ammunition outside Wisconsin capitol building
- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Home (live @ kcrw)
- The secrets of Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space project
- Water and ice at the bottom of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
- The elongated craters of Mars
- Glory satellite falls to Earth after launch failure
- Five hundred customers into space in the first year of operation
- TSA wants to expand its jurisdiction to searching people on sidewalks
- FAA Seeks Funding for New Space Prize
- Britain slashes spending to UN
- Senate Republicans introduce bill to defund public radio and television
- House Republicans attempt to impose a national ID card
- Fraud in drug studies investigated
- Biden leaving in middle of budget talks
- Democrat state lawmakers want to ban photography at accident sites
- Weather scrubs X-37B launch
- Allan Sherman – Hail to thee, Fat Persons!
- NASA to announce future museum homes of shuttles on April 12
- Former MIT Researcher Convicted of Fraud
- The future of NASA’s planetary program does not look good
- Walker notifies unions of layoffs, but gives Democrats 15 days to reverse move
- Texas Legislation Proposes Felony Charges for TSA Agents
- Has a NASA scientist discovered alien fossils in several meteorites?
- Los Angeles suburb fires almost half its government workforce
- Drillers will stop injections for fear of earthquakes in Arkansas
- Ohio GOP State Senator faces nasty threats from union officials and members on both Facebook and in restaurant
- Obama administration appeals oil drilling ruling
- The second X-37b is in orbit
- More questions about today’s alien fossil story
- Flying car
- TSA planned secret body scans of pedestrians
- Alfred E. Obama: What, Me Worry?
- Shackleton’s Antarctica in colour, 1915
- How Los Angeles’s community colleges wasted millions on green energy construction
- Tommy Emmanuel – Guitar boogie
- Some interesting comments about NASA’s future from Clark Lindsey
- America must protect funding of Huntsville NASA facilities according to lawmakers
- Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000
- Orrin Hatch, Mark Udall back anti-appropriations committee in Senate
- Democrats attack Republican candidate’s children
- Senate science budget proposals
- Palin’s parents fear death threats
- Government posts biggest monthly deficit ever
- Amtrak police chief bars TSA from some security operations
- NASA Statement on Astrobiology Paper by Richard Hoover
- Jewish student sues UC Berkeley for not protecting her
- Anna Russell – The Ring Cycle explained
- Planetary scientists reject meteorite fossil paper — without reading it
- China Details Ambitious Space Station Goals
- Senate budget for NASA cuts the program, though less than the House
- A lean future for U.S. planetary missions
- Discovery has undocked from ISS, for the last time.
- Obama administration: No new drilling permits, but we’ll tap into our oil reserve
- NASA scientists in row over ‘alien microbes’
- A hint of what is inside X-37b
- Enceladus’s hotspot is far hotter than predicted
- Islamic killer motivated by US antiwar film
- The future of Obamacare: bureaucracy and pulling strings
- Stealth unionization
- “We would be better off in the long-run without federal funding.”
- More evidence Penn State’s investigation of Mann was a whitewash
- Some detailed analysis by scientists of meteorite fossil paper
- Chaos in aerospace
- Save the cowboy poets
- Hoyer Says Federal Budget May Not Be Balanced for 20 Years
- How to make Hot Ice
- Climate science hearing changes nothing
- “They Prostitute Themselves for Money”
- Obama administration appeals judge’s ruling on Obamacare
- 148,221,665 Things to Know About Space Shuttle Discovery
- The icecaps of Greenland and Antarctica: are they melting?
- The entire state of Maine is given a waiver from Obamacare
- NPR fires its CEO Vivian Schiller
- GOP Senator Lugar reverses course to support House Republican spending cuts
- Discovery has landed, for the last time
- Tiny Cuts, Big Complaints
- Surprise: New NPR interim CEO a Democratic political contributor
- Mature galaxy cluster found in young universe
- The journal Science joins the cover-up
- The secret world of doomsday shelters
- O’Keefe says he has more videos of NPR
- Maiden flight of the space shuttle Discovery
- An image of Apophis
- An update on Wisconsin
- The Sun shows some signs of life
- Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano erupts with greater fury
- The left’s war on democracy in Wisconsin
- Half of Capitol Controlled by Protesters, “No One Is Safe.”
- Wisconsin Republican receives detailed death threat for union vote
- Violence in Wisconsin
- More death threats
- Russian Satellite Nearly Collided with Korean Weather Satellite
- What the academic community must do to bring tolerance back to colleges
- What’s Next in Wisconsin
- Why public sector unions are losing – and can’t stop it if they tried
- Senators defend NPR funding
- Bill would set aside $60 million to develop in-vehicle alcohol detectors
- New NPR video
- L.A. Community College District fires building program chief
- David Lanz & Paul Speer – Ode to a Dark Star
- Putting ISS to use
- Panic buying as Hawaii and Pacific islands braced for killer waves to strike across thousands of miles of ocean
- 235 Years Later, the Invisible Hand Still Matters
- Homeland Security claims it has the authority to routinely strip-search air travelers
- No, the “supermoon” didn’t cause the Japanese earthquake
- Space Duct Tape Could Confuse Mars Rover
- Virgin Galactic surpasses $10 million in ticket sales
- The table saw that cannot cut fingers
- Two NASA climate missions face one year schedule slip
- Fixing the Webb telescope
- Japanese quake disrupts space station operations
- Japan’s Third Disaster
- Earthquake update
- Japan to fill leaking nuke reactor with sea water
- Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth’s axis
- Random variations are still too large for climate models
- Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese Plant
- David Horowitz Takes on Muslim Students at Brooklyn College
- 3 year old Jonathan conducting to the 4th movement of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
- TSA to retest airport body scanners for radiation
- Second nuclear meltdown likely under way in Japan, official says
- Protest to reinstate Pluto as a planet
- Is water flowing on Mars?
- Sergei Korolev: the rocket genius behind Yuri Gagarin
- ABC, CBS, MSNBC, NBC and NPR Ignore Death Threats to Wisconsin Republicans
- Richard Feynman: “Take the world from another point of view”
- A detailed explanation of what has happened at the Fukushima nuclear power plant
- The newest budget continuing resolution and the funding of Obamacare
- Soyuz TMA-M ballistic return possible
- SpaceX inks deal to launch SES satellite
- Russia Delays Launch of Soyuz Capsule to Space Station
- Space Shuttle Worker Dies in Fall at Launch Pad
- First results from the Hayabusa asteroid samples
- How the White House Bullies the Press
- “Our worst crisis since World War Two”
- Russians raise the ticket price on a Soyuz again, from $56 to $63 million per ride
- Skeeter Davis — The End Of The World, recorded 1965
- Union-Controlled National Labor Relations Board approves union violence in union election
- Please save Sticky the kitten
- Intelsat signs MDA to perform in-space refueling of its communications satellites
- Fear the Media Meltdown, Not the Nuclear One
- Two Dogs Defy the Wave
- A college student who was arrested for stripping down at airport security to reveal the Fourth Amendment written across his chest is now suing the U.S. government for violating his rights.
- Time to stop nuke hysteria
- The nation was left reeling yesterday by the revelation that the presidential election of 2008 was a hoax.
- Violence and unions: It’s in their blood
- Julius Caesar (1953) – Mark Antony speech
- The X-37B – what its first two flights have been about
- Winning the future 3 weeks at a time: Obama endorses House spending bill with $6 billion in cuts
- The strange link between samurai swords and Japan’s nuclear reactors
- A boxing gym fighting state’s eminent domain proceedings gets its day in court
- The strange tale of the Lebanese space race
- Three astronauts return safely to Earth in Soyuz capsule
- In special vote voters oust Miami-Dade mayor for raising taxes
- Mandatory Spending to Exceed all Federal Revenues — 50 Years Ahead of Schedule
- Hiking the Manitou Incline in Colorado Springs, CO
- D.C. GOP HQ Windows Shattered By Small Caliber Pellets
- Satellite Builders express contempt for MDA’s refueling plans for Intelsat
- A real scientist shows why the “hide the decline” crowd are frauds
- It’s okay to murder Jews
- Two Democrat leaders Charged in Tea Party Election Fraud
- Messenger probe set to orbit Mercury
- The Wisconsin Assembly’s Bold Leap
- The spring rains (of methane) have arrived on Titan
- EPA vote postponed in Senate as Reid struggles to get Democrat votes
- Clancy Brothers & Robbie O’Connell- Finnegan’s Wake
- Messenger has successfully entered orbit around Mercury
- Wisconsin Republican Lawmaker cancels meetings due to vandalism, death threats
- Iran claims it has build a flying saucer
- Funding for new unmanned planetary missions under threat
- Treasures of the Soviet Union’s space industry
- The shame of ignoring Death Threats to Wisconsin Politicians
- The recall vote in Miami
- Japan raises nuclear alert level
- A profile of the man who threatened the Altmans
- Judge blocks Wisconsin union law
- Man Paid $15K After Police Challenged Gun In Park
- The situation at the Fukushima nuclear power plant continues to stabilize
- 20 Days of Left-Wing Thuggery in Wisconsin: When Will Obama, Democrats, and MSM Call for Civility?
- European Space Missions to Go It Alone After NASA Yanks Support
- Mine Fire Threatens Physics Laboratory
- The first spacewalk
- Two stars caught fusing into one
- The first death in space
- New Horizons passes the orbit of Uranus on its way to Pluto
- Subsidies to Ariane to keep it afloat
- “Are you wearing a bulletproof vest?”
- Fifty mortars fired into Israel from Gaza, injuring two; Israeli military responses
- Power reconnected to Japanese reactor site
- Jasmine Flower
- The real disaster in Japan
- IRS specifically targeted the political enemies of Clinton
- Madrigals – Shenandoah
- The savage barbaric murders of Jewish children by Islamic killers
- Dawn Opens its Eyes, Checks its Instruments
- Power has been restored at all six Fukushima reactors
- The Hanson Sisters – Shenandoah
- Russians set date for next Soyuz launch to ISS
- Democrats Split on Social Security
- Lockstep Liberalism
- Boeing’s biggest-ever plane makes maiden flight
- Lockheed Martin unveils Orion spacecraft and test center
- The leftwing roots of that judge in Wisconsin
- The death panels of Obamacare
- The meltdown that wasn’t
- Mining and jobs versus radio astronomy
- Hamas protests UN plans to teach Gazans about the Holocaust
- Chavez says capitalism may have ended life on Mars
- Hoyer Calls $100 Billion in Cuts to $3.7 Trillion Budget ‘A Meat-Axe Approach’
- Roman cities and aqueducts
- Sony Shuts More Plants, Toyota Extends Production Halts as Recession Looms
- Texas Cites EPA Error in Testing of Wells
- Messenger confirmed in orbit
- House Prices Will Drop Another 20%
- Industry report reveals that consumers may be paying billions of dollars more in out-of-pocket health care expenses due to Obamacare
- Kepler out of commission for six days
- Top 10 Failures of ObamaCare After One Year
- Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie
- Hideaki Akaiwa: Badass of the week
- Orbital Science facility at Wallops opens
- No Vision = No Innovation
- A new Russian rocket
- A modern journalist, disconnected from reality
- Just when you think they finally get it
- Egypt Air removes Israel from map
- X-ray stripes in the expanding remnant of a supernova explosion
- McIntyre finds more fraud by Mann and Jones
- Kate & Anna McGarrigle – Talk to me of Mendocino
- Thousands of Christians Displaced in Ethiopia After Muslims torch churches and homes
- Stardust to end its mission after twelve years
- Human-caused climate change – then and now
- Send the space-bureaucrats to Mars
- Quarter-mile diameter asteroid to pass only 200,000 miles from the Earth on November 8, 2011
- Snow
- Move on from Sunday in the Park with George
- The NASA space war mess
- Japan Reopens Space Station Control Room After Quake
- Johannesburg University Ends Research With Israeli School
- Russia and Israel agree on cooperation in outer space
- Five anti-hunger organization leaders plan open-ended fasts to protest proposed cuts
- Budget negotiations — and the possibility of a shutdown — are coming to a head
- A statistical study says big quakes don’t trigger others far away
- For the birds
- Frenzy in Washington grows over nation’s debt
- The MSM Kills the ‘Kill Team’ Story
- The incremental approach is working
- More on the NASA space war
- Senate Democrats and the White House offer $20B more in cuts
- “Worldwide-temperature increase has not produced acceleration of global sea level over the past 100 years”
- The brightest supernovae yet found
- Tiny church discovers it owns an original King James Bible
- Loreena McKennitt – The Dark Night Of The Soul
- Operator of dam in Australia ‘invented’ rain data to justify release of water
- Wisconsin Republican legislators threatened at their homes
- Secret X-37B Space Plane Spotted Again by Amateurs
- Japan’s unmanned freighter undocks from ISS
- DOD, DOT slam FCC over GPS interference concerns
- Decommissioning of Discovery has started
- How the IRS harasses and oppresses
- 114 Pictures Of The Past Meeting The Present
- University Protects Student Who Issued Jihadist Death Threats Against Conservatives and Jews
- Seven topics Americans can’t have an adult conversations about
- Congress to NASA: follow the authorization act
- Senator Schumer: “I always use the word extreme. . . That is what the caucus instructed me to use this week.”
- NASA To Make Last Effort To Communicate With Mars Rover ‘Spirit’
- Death threat video attacking black conservative
- German electric airplane completes first flight
- Congressmen rack up unpaid parking tickets
- Louisiana is the ninth state to seek a waiver from Obamacare
- Cheap flights
- The first image from Mercury orbit
- Bill Maher: Using offensive insults against Palin and Bachmann was not wrong
- When is an Asteroid Not an Asteroid?
- Reid suggests that the Democrats might compromise in budget talks
- Which near-Earth asteroids are ripe for a visit?
- Geert Wilders: Time to Unmask Muhammad
- University in Argentina to give Hugo Chavez a journalism award
- A quick summary of the situation in Wisconsin
- Messenger in orbit around Mercury
- Mister Sandman – cover by Pomplamoose
- Going Broke: Treasury Down to $58.6B in Cash, $130.5B Borrowing Authority
- Ancient Books Uncovered in Jordan May Date to Start of Christianity
- A new private commercial jet flew at 489 mph on a test flight March 11
- Now CNN reports a deal in Congress for $73 billion in cuts for this year
- Dreamliner: a nightmare for Boeing
- AARP’s Billion Dollar ObamaCare Windfall
- Looking inside red giant stars
- Homeland Security: Witness tampering, political manipulation of FOIA requests, attempted theft of Congressional committee documents
- A telescope a square kilometer in size
- Adventures in Federal Budget Cutting
- Hail storm hits Endeavour on launchpad
- Delays in NASA heavy-lift rocket plan stir skeptics
- a giant potato in space
- Comparing the Earth, as seen by Russian and American satellites
- The ripples in the rings of Saturn and Jupiter were caused by comets that hit them decades ago
- Shipwreck of 60-foot, single-masted sloop, c1830, found in Lake Michigan
- “These Aren’t Serious People.”
- GOP budget would kill 70,000 children
- New Species of Freshwater Stingray Found
- Woman charged for sending email death threats in Wisconsin
- Muppets – Java
- More on the storms hitting Endeavour launchpad
- Nearly $2 billion already paid to unions, state public employee systems, and big corporations under Obamacare
- Soyuz launch site in French Guiana finally ready
- Ohio and New Hampshire follow Wisconsin, passing laws limiting union power
- Neighbouring volcanoes on Mars
- China’s second lunar orbiter, Chang’e 2: still in operation after 180 days
- Two beheaded and eight others murdered in protest against Koran burning
- April Fools’ Roundup
- The first permanent building at the South Pole, built in the mid-1950s, has been destroyed
- The annual spaghetti crop
- Southwest cancels 300 flights to inspect planes after fuselage cracks open on Sacramento-bound flight
- EPA Whistleblower Criticizes Global Warming Science and Policy in New Peer-Reviewed Study
- “The tyrannies are doomed.”
- Investigators look into additional threats allegedly emailed by Cross Plains woman
- FDA issues new Obamacare regulations requiring calorie counts on menus
- A Pakistani actress smacks down a mullah
- Playing with mercury
- More waivers to Obamacare
- Defiant Japanese boat captain rode out tsunami
- 321 people in 26 terror attacks in just 7 days
- Winners of 18th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race
- GOP 2012 budget to make $4 trillion-plus in cuts
- The London Rioters and Their Targets
- More leftwing death threats, this time to New York state lawmakers
- Ultralights!
- ATK pushes to build private Ares I
- NASA Endeavour Shuttle Launch Delayed
- Exploring the floor of Copernicus
- Russia’s western spaceport to be ready for first launch by 2015
- Record loss of ozone over Arctic
- Toyota says it will shut North American plants
- Beach Boys – Sloop John B
- Astronauts head to ISS on spaceship Gagarin
- Will EPA Lose Control of Greenhouse Gas Rules?
- Boehner digs in on spending cuts, saying $33B is ‘not enough’
- Supreme court decision today on school choice reveals much about their position on Obamacare
- The “Pioneer Anomaly”: Case Closed
- Federal workers in shutdown limbo
- For Some Entrepreneurs, Moon Is Money
- House GOP introduces one-week stopgap with $12B in spending cuts
- Russia Speeds Up Moon, Mars Plans as U.S. May Cut Spending
- Tallest Known Cliff in the Solar System
- Ryan proposes $6.2 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years
- SpaceX Unveils Plan for World’s Most Powerful Private Rocket
- Ann Barnhardt vs Lindsey Graham
- NASA human space-flight programme lost in transition
- Astronauts take cover as debris drifts toward International Space Station
- Obama Rejects Latest Republican budget
- A Koran, and Free Speech, In Flames
- Martian Mud Volcanoes
- Evidence that liquid water once existed on a comet
- Bill Staines – River
- GOP Budget Proposal: ‘Not a Penny’ for Obamacare
- Hot time on the ol’ Sun tonight!
- Caving in Druid Cave, Cheat Canyon, West Virginia
- Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World
- A galaxy eats a star
- Newly discovered asteroid orbits in union with Earth
- Russian Spaceship ‘Gagarin’ Arrives at Space Station
- Kepler tracks the tiny light variations and oscillations of 500 stars
- Bach’s Sheep May Safely Graze
- Lettuce alone
- The strange fluctuating polar vortex over Venus’s pole
- Picking the landing spot for the next Mars rover is down to four finalists
- Spaceship Lands at San Francisco Airport
- Conservative judge wins in Wisconsin
- Two Americas: Public vs. Private Employees
- NASA backs out of space gravitational wave mission
- NASA braces for possible government shutdown
- Let’s dump trash at Boehner’s pad
- 6 Pages of Obamacare Equals 429 Pages of Regulations
- Celtic Woman – Danny Boy
- ISS Plans Week-Long Simulated Mars Mission
- Government Shutdown Would Idle All but 500 NASA Workers
- Government shutdown averted as congressional leaders reach agreement on budget deal
- Virgin Galactic Hiring SpaceShip Pilots
- Escher´s waterfall
- Stagnation fears haunt Russian space program
- Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush -Don’t Give Up
- Fine print of spending deal ’still under negotiation’
- 12 Girls Band
- TSA agent gropes 6-year old, preventing nothing
- Details on the $38 billion budget deal
- Town Bans political signs in Public Park to silence Tea Party protest
- ‘Hope Sarah Palin Dies’ Page Is Still Up and Running on Facebook
- The 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s spaceflight
- Fifty years ago today
- Catching up with the future of the U.S. space program
- “Afterwards she broke down with crying because she really didn’t understand what she’d done wrong.”
- Soviet space capsule sold for $2.9M at NYC auction
- Obama to call for tax increases in tonight’s speech
- Support for health care law drops again
- Three Little Kittens
- Budget deal cuts this year’s deficit by just $352 million, not $38 billion
- Boeing moves forward on its commercial manned capsule
- Experiment fails to find dark matter
- Budget problems might delay JWST until 2018
- The squeals at NOAA
- The Obama adminstration in 8 charts
- Marvel ends publication of Fantastic Four comic
- Taxing the rich will not solve the problem
- A revolt on the right over budget deal?
- House approves 2011 budget deal in 260-167 bipartisan vote
- NASA Faces Awkward, Unfortunate Spaceflight Gap
- The WISE space telescope results go online
- Liquefaction
- Battery powered Chevy Volt produces more CO2 than an ordinary gasoline engine
- An asteroid that winks
- Why Houston Did Not Get A Shuttle
- The Ford Model T
- No Future For X-37B?
- Congress removes wolf from endangered list
- Air Force and NRO ink deal with SpaceX
- Useful idiot hanged by Palestinians
- No deal
- Federal funding for IPCC back in budget
- “Our current unfunded entitlement liabilities run about $100 trillion.”
- SWAT Team Sent In to Confiscate 13-Year-Old Over Unneeded Medication
- TSA security looks at people who complain about … TSA security
- China finds SpaceX’s launch prices challenging
- Bolden says Orion to be scaled back
- Every Picture of Abraham Lincoln Known to Exist
- Always Forgetting Passwords? I’m With the Government, and I’m Here to Help
- David Bowie — Space Oddity (1969)
- Grey Eye Glances — Angel
- The UN loses the 50 million climate refugees that they predicted in 2005 would exist by 2010
- “Wear a headscarf or we will kill you.”
- The real disaster in Japan
- Christian protesters in France destroy “Piss Christ” and other anti-christian art
- Eddi Reader – Leezie Lindsay
- NASA Awards Next Set Of Commercial Crew Development Agreements
- India’s problems in space
- Could black trees blossom in a world with two suns?
- Medicine in space does not have the right stuff
- “You have the right not to pray.”
- State agency spends $73,000 giving out “6,000 red superhero capes” to the unemployed
- Orion Program Shrinking To Save Money, Time
- Exploring London’s abandoned Mail Rail subway system
- Met Office chief says he has received death threats from climate change skeptics
- Pluto’s atmosphere is expanding, and scientists don’t know why
- Stop action video of the painting of photo realistic cat
- Sift through Kepler data and find exoplanets
- Global warming advocate discovers that anti-nuclear activists lie!
- Barack Obama at the Pearly Gates
- University of Iowa Professor Tells College Republicans to “F” Off
- India launches three satellites on single rocket
- Saturn and Enceladus linked by electricity
- Flute duet on Earth and in Space
- Budget chaos at NASA causes ESA to halt work on its own Mars orbiter and rover
- Government Cash Handouts Now Top Tax Revenues
- Obama will attend last Endeavour launch; Rep. Giffords also expected
- “Space beer,” one giant leap for mankind
- “We need to protect our authority.”
- Dearborn denies permit, says Quran-burning minister could face arrest
- NLRB dictates Boeing operational plans
- Investigation of doctors who issued fake sick notes in Wisconsin goes forward
- Federal Borrowing on Pace to Hit Debt Limit in Less Than Week
- “Our conclusion was there is no benefit to the environment of oxo-degradable plastics.”
- Some details behind Blue Origin’s manned spacecraft
- Funding for final shuttle flight assured
- More Democrats Join Threat to Hold Up Debt Ceiling Vote Without Spending Cuts
- Des Moines paper publishes over 5,000 names of gun permit holders
- Scientists find previously unknown deposits of CO2 on Mars
- Pachelbel’s Canon in D played at 3 am
- SDO’S best Images from its first year
- Harvard Researcher Banned From Teaching Next Year
- Russians say “Nyet” to Dragon docking on its next flight
- Loretta Lynn – Coal Miner’s Daughter
- Earth Day predictions from 1970
- Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Makes its Longest Test Flight Yet
- JK Wedding Entrance Dance
- Pastor Terry Jones imprisoned to prevent Detroit Koran protest
- NJ Transit worker fired for burning Koran gets his job back, plus $25,000 award
- “We’re going all the way to Mars, I think… best case 10 years, worst case 15 to 20 years.”
- Will fewer humans in space lead to more robot explorers?
- U.S. border guards seize Easter eggs
- Muslim policemen shouting “Allahu akbar” open fire on Jews praying at Joseph’s Tomb
- George Carlin Baseball vs Football
- Observations of Comet Hale-Bopp at 30 AU
- NASA puts spacecraft above rockets in its commercial funding
- U.S. Forest Service closes more caves
- Shell abandons oil drilling plans in Alaska after EPA ruling
- Past House GOP Tactic Proves Useless to Democrats
- World’s smelliest flower opens for the first time in 75 years
- Good grammar equals white oppression
- Japan’s tsunami waves top historic heights
- The Hudson River School
- SETI suspends operations
- One of the largest statues of an Egyptian pharaoh unearthed in Luxor
- A hotel carved out of a mountain
- China looking to public to name space station
- Last Typewriter Factory in the World Shuts Its Doors
- John Browning
- Confirmed: one of two tickets for lunar flyby has been sold
- The countdown for Endeavour’s last launch has begun
- More details, including images, of China’s proposed space station.
- The $23-Million Textbook
- The little solar sail that could!
- Muslim actress poses for Playboy and is threatened with death
- Nazi bomb found near North Sea oil pipeline
- Are astronomers finally going to push for a replacement for Hubble?
- John Browning, part 2
- Fed chairman Bernanke goes on record: US deficit “not sustainable”
- Budget Crisis Forces Detroit to Cancel Half Its Murders
- Hubble and Swift show that asteroid debris came from collision
- John Browning, part 3
- Putin sacks the head of the Russian space agency
- The world’s ten creepiest abandoned cities
- Technical problem delays US shuttle launch 48 hours
- Climate change is a serious problem, but the solutions are a joke
- John Browning, part 4
- Sondheim – Finishing the hat
- Endeavour launch delayed by NASA until May 8 at the earliest
- Scaled Composites Ramps Up SS2 Test Rate
- Introducing the book
- bin Laden killed by U.S. military
- More info on the asteroid “flyby” of Earth this coming November 8
- Jeff Zwart in a Porsche GT3 Cup runs Pikes Peak
- Did Apollo 12 bring back a microbe from Surveyor 3?
- Shuttle launch slips to at least May 10, possibly later
- Dream Chaser drop tests planned for 2012 using WhiteKnightTwo
- Canada’s Conservatives score massive election win
- Using lasers instead of spark plugs in your car
- US a net exporter of fuel for the first time for nearly 20 years
- White House modifies Osama bin Laden account
- Indian scientists about to start drilling five mile deep borehole
- ObamaCare Subsidies Won’t Keep Up With Premiums
- Dawn has begun its final if slow approach to the asteroid Vesta
- Last shuttle launch date may shift due to Endeavour launch delay
- Mock Soyuz countdown under way at Kourou, French Guiana
- The Oh of Pleasure – Ray Lynch
- Why is the Meathook Galaxy lopsided?
- Amateur grabs images of solar sail Nanosail-D
- The story behind China’s planned space station begins to emerge
- A Dragon to Mars
- The Sun in April – Steady as she goes!
- According to Rasmussen poll, the Ryan Plan is losing support nationally
- SpaceShipTwo’s First “Feathered” Flight
- Inside the heart of the volcano
- El Condor Pasa – Chinese E-Wu and Flute w/ Peruvian flute
- Endeavour launch could be as late as May 13
- Elon Musk defends his vision and success
- How space technology helped kill Osama bin Laden
- Finding anti-matter from ISS
- FAA wants your opinion about commercial space rules
- Dark matter: light or heavy?
- How shall Europe’s ATV freighter to ISS be upgraded?
- A subsurface ocean of water on Titan
- Space Adventures and tourists to the Moon
- Fifty years ago: Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight
- Air Forces moves to open up rocket purchases to competition
- U.N. Forces from Nepal introduced cholera to Haiti
- Dark matter mysteries
- Mars Express sees deep fractures on Mars
- Duo Minasov – Quick Change
- Julia Sweeney – “Sex Ed” monologue
- Shuttle launch slips to at least May 16
- Soviet Spacesuit sold for $242,000 in NY auction
- The Soyuz launchsite in French Guiana has been declared ready for its first flight
- Gentaro Takada – Concierto De Aranjuez
- Muslim rampage against Christians in Egypt continues, now 12 dead, 232 wounded
- Were Neandertals and Modern Humans Just Ships in the Night?
- New craters on Mars.
- Endeavour’s launch now set for 8:56 am May 16
- The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger
- NASA, Stanford websites hit by search engine scammers
- NASA management moves to combine SpaceX’s next two test flights of Dragon
- FAA slow to ramp up its role in regulating human space travel
- “Without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt-limit increase.”
- Quake shifted Japan; towns now flood at high tide
- Since 2003, the sea level ceased rising
- Final shuttle mission unlikely to fly until mid-July
- Path of destruction
- Pakistan cuts off nine foreign satellite news channels
- Data leaks from particle hunters raise questions about controlling scientific secrecy
- First Soyuz launch from French Guiana set for October
- White House Takes Dim View of Boehner Debt Plan
- Stardust’s images show that Deep Impact burst underground bubbles on Comet Tempel 1
- Placido Domingo & John Denver – Perhaps Love
- Judge orders Obama administration to act on offshore drilling permits
- State Department report on religious freedom in Afghanistan: Deteriorating
- After 100 orbits, an overview of Messenger’s survey of Mercury
- Earn $100K to $200K as a California lifeguard!
- We don’t know.
- Did a fungal infection kill forty percent of the world’s amphibians?
- Nine Androids You Can Actually Own
- Dawn Captures First Image of Asteroid Vesta
- Vesuvius: Europe’s ticking volcano time bomb
- An 8th grade project to build a Rube Goldberg device to turn on a light
- The Crab Nebula erupts with flares six days
- India designing reusable spacecraft
- The first tourist in space, a woman from Britain
- NASA wants to turn Congress’s heavy-lift rocket into a shuttle-derived rocket
- The regulations are “overly prescriptive, operationally burdensome, and the incentives are too difficult to achieve to make this voluntary program attractive.”
- The science remains uncertain
- Climate scientist banned from Saudi Arabia for showing picture of dog with Saudi dress
- House GOP abandons pledge to force agency-by-agency budgeting
- The finale from 42nd Street
- The strange egg-shaped dwarf planet Haumea is apparently also covered with ice
- One of Fukushima’s nuclear reactors did suffer a nuclear meltdown
- Another successful test flight of SpaceShipTwo
- Americans Oppose Raising Debt Ceiling, 47% to 19%
- GOP senators focus on entitlement cuts
- GOP denies TSA money to buy more body scanners
- Countdown begins for Monday shuttle launch
- Another sign of tight NASA budgets ahead
- Social Security and Medicare running out of funds sooner than expected
- Lisa Minnelli – “Losing my mind”
- Refueling the empty tanks of communication satellites
- IPCC announces reforms for next report
- White House Issues Another 200 ObamaCare Waivers
- world’s first mobility scooter display team to attempt to set a new world 24-hour distance record this weekend.
- On the way to the Cape
- Bill Clinton calls for government agency to discredit political arguments and quash Internet rumors
- Boeing’s Takeoff Torture Test for 747
- The solar-powered plane Solar Impulse made its maiden international flight on Friday
- A review of India’s GSLV rocket puts a hold on its next moon probe
- Google closes blog, cuts off people who criticize Google
- Taliban recruiting nine-year-old suicide bombers
- Former “alarmist” scientist says human-caused global warming is based on false science
- Senate Democrats: Where is your budget?
- Apollo 11 launch, July 16, 1969
- At Space View Park
- The launch
- If you schedule a launch they will come
- The first space shuttle launch, April 12, 1981
- Twenty percent of the new waivers to ObamaCare are in Pelosi’s district
- AIDS cured?
- Government reaches debt limit, borrows against federal pension funds
- Philly Police Harass, Threaten to Shoot Man Legally Carrying Gun
- How The Year 2000 Was Envisioned in 1910
- Replacements for 100 watt incandescent bulbs cost $50 each
- Private citizen commits $25 million for Giant Magellan Telescope
- Osama’s killing was not only legal, it was morally right
- Is Gliese 581d habitable? Maybe
- Napolitano: “Very, very, very few” people get TSA patdowns
- Astronomers, Kepler, and SETI@home team up to find exoplanets
- Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
- White House shuts out Herald scribe
- Netflix now uses 29.7 percent of the peak internet traffic in North America
- Social Security deficits now “permanent”
- Testing beer in zero gravity
- Endeavour has docked with ISS
- First feathered test flight of SpaceShipTwo
- Gouges and dings found on the tiles on Endeavour’s belly
- Using a black hole as your starship engine
- Test drive a Peugeot, win a trip to space
- A 135-year-old scab launches a smallpox scare at a Virginia museum
- “The mood was less than cordial.”
- Archaeologists uncover oldest mine in the Americas
- Senate Democrats reject Republican bill to expand and speed up offshore drilling
- NOAA predicts an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season
- Diagram of Titanic used during 1912 official inquiry to be sold at auction
- Obama and ignoring the War Powers Act
- TSA does a security drill, and forget to tell the police
- New data provides further confirmation of dark energy
- EPA has given millions to environmentalist activist groups
- Three Reasons That Obama’s Speech Will Worry the Jewish Community
- Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
- A storm ten times bigger than Earth
- Seeing the Planets for the Trees
- The next Moon probe
- Love and hate in Florida
- Reid rejects Boehner proposal for $2 trillion in spending cuts
- Recent college grads sour on Obama, surveys say
- AARP the latest to receive Obamacare break
- Shell gas plant to be biggest floating object ever
- Climate cleansing: Google to censor skeptics?
- Dear Congress: Your credit application has been turned down
- Family Facing $4 Million in Fines for Selling Bunnies
- Harry Reid says it would be “Foolish” for the Democrats to offer budget plan
- Last shuttle launch scheduled for July 8
- Spacesuit Glitch shortens spacewalk at ISS
- Hamas TV praises jihadi suicide bombers and encourages young men to seek jihad martyrdom by killing Jews
- The real Obama and gun control
- Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
- Chinese Journalists Barred From Shuttle Launch
- Damaged shuttle tile to get closer look
- Departing Soyuz crew to snap space station portrait
- NASA sting nets woman offering moon rock for $1.7M
- Local authorities warn gun owners that they will be “inconvenienced” if they carry unconcealed handguns legally in Philadelphia
- Images of Robert Bigelow’s ambitious private space station plans
- Iceland’s most active volcano erupts
- “I cannot imagine someone hanging out their underwear and having it immortalized.”
- Analysis shows damaged tile no threat to re-entry
- No restrooms at 9/11 Memorial and Museum
- An excellent analysis of Obama’s Middle East speech
- “It seems like politics, and the federal government is picking winners and losers out of all of this.”
- Repent! The End of Keynesian Economics Is At Hand!
- No decline in polar bear population
- Want to go to an asteroid?
- New results from Kepler
- Pawlenty calls for phasing out ethanol subsidies — in Iowa
- Peter, Paul, and Mary — I have a song to sing o
- More on the new Kepler results: Lots of multiple planet systems
- Satellite monitoring of new Iceland volcano eruption
- A hint at what the Soyuz images of the station and shuttle
- UK Skylon spaceplane passes key review
- Soyuz TMA-20 lands safely in Kazakhstan
- Another Soyuz upgrade in the works
- Gasoline Prices by County
- Is it a blimp? Is it a plane? It’s both!
- “[Until] you see the whole thing, you don’t realize how cumbersome it is.”
- Republicans propose cutting 12 percent of FDA’s budget
- Obama signed the guestbook at Westminister Abbey with the wrong year.
- Mars Science Lab Hardware Damaged
- Evidence mounts for liquid water on Enceladus
- NASA announces Orion program will continue
- Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
- Kennedy’s Moon speech, May 25, 1961
- NASA to abandon trapped rover Spirit
- Mars Science Lab Seems OK After Mishap
- Pawlenty calls for Medicare and Social Security reform — in Florida
- “We stand for freedom.”
- Rep. Ryan agrees that his plan played a role in Democrats’ special-election win
- Orion must wait for heavy-lift rocket
- Asteroid sample return mission on slate for 2016
- The Spitzer photo atlas of galactic “train wrecks”
- The most distant explosion ever seen
- MSNBC suspends Schultz for calling Ingraham a ‘slut’
- Italy to put earthquake scientists on trial for failing to predict an earthquake
- Provincial official in Algeria orders churches to close
- Obama budget receives zero votes in Senate
- Did Quiet Sun Cause Little Ice Age After All?
- False Fire Alarm Blares Out At Space Station
- Astronomical Deficit Forces Downsizing of U.S. Telescope Projects
- GOP Senators to WH: Better start planning for a $2.6 trillion budget
- The secret lives of cats
- New data suggests the water content of lunar magma is 100 times higher than previously thought
- Go for launch time lapse movie of shuttle assembly and launch
- The world’s worst PowerPoint slides
- Court throws out Dearborn leaflet ban
- Hi-Fidelity as a Star Trek Barbershop Quartet
- Riding a Soyuz back to Earth
- Fincke Sets New U.S. Space Endurance Record
- Opportunity spots an outcrop
- Pharmacist fired by Walgreens for using his gun to defend himself and customers from robbers
- Robot exploration in the Great Pyramid at Giza
- Axis of Awesome — Every pop song ever written
- Five People Arrested in D.C. for Dancing At U.S. Monument
- Cats in a row
- Republicans still firmly against raising debt ceiling without big cuts
- Battleground (1949)
- The underground city beneath Jerusalem
- Four spectacular waterspouts off the coast of Australia today
- USDA ‘Rabbit Police’ Stalking Magicians
- China’s largest inland lake has disappeared in the worst drought in more than half a century.
- New York Metropolitan Opera stars, fearing radiation, skip Japan tour
- Vote on “clean” debt ceiling increase set for tonight
- A Southern California high school has banned frog dissections in biology classrooms, using software instead
- Planetary scientists push for Enceladus mission to search for alien life
- The scientific battle over arsenic life goes on
- Dancing Telescopes
- House torpedoes unconditional hike to $14.3 trillion debt ceiling
- Fossil fuels to the rescue
- Endeavour lands safely
- Bigelow expands its space station factory
- Atlantis is rolled out to the launchpad
- Russian greenhouse on ISS ungoes upgrade
- You could have heard a pin drop
- Reverend Jim’s driving test from Taxi
- Subterranean worms from hell
- Progress in the study of the algae Didymo
- NASA lunar lander test sparked a grass fire
- First sale for quantum computing
- Endeavour not expected to arrive in L.A. until late 2012
- Alaskans push for changes in TSA screening
- California’s gold-mining environmental rules cost five times what they earn in fees
- Student prohibited from graduation for Facebook comments
- A bureaucratic fight stalls oil drilling in Alaska
- The costs of space cargo
- Former astronaut calls for the dismantling of NASA
- Why the Endangered Species act doesn’t work
- EPA gave $1.29 Million to China
- TSA testing non-contact system to detect terrorists before they act
- Moody threatens to lower the US credit rating if there is no progress on debt ceiling negotiations soon
- Cinderella – Julie Andrews singing “Impossible”
- Obama solicitor general says if you don’t like the Obamacare mandate, you can earn less money
- Federal Judge Prohibits Prayer at Texas Graduation Ceremony
- Opportunity Passes Small Crater and Big Milestone
- Texas TSA pat down ban may be back
- Oil money in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Venezuela fueling modest space dreams
- Mars 500 mission passes one year
- Facebook tells Tea Party no more organizing
- Copenhagen Suborbitals’ first test launch
- Social Sciences Face Uphill Battle Proving Their Worth to Congress
- House Trims Homeland Security Science Spending
- A federal appeals court has lifted a ban on public prayer at a Texas high school graduation
- All new cars starting in June will have a mandatory black box
- Monty Python: Defending yourself against a banana
- Endeavour — Crime-fighter!
- Melanoma Drug Combo Shows Promise in Early Trial
- The photography of the first clown in space
- Homeowner forecloses on bank
- What an astronaut’s camera sees
- Webb telescope disaster destroys NASA astrophysics budget
- Police yesterday shut the Jefferson Memorial to clear out a crowd challenging a ban on dancing inside the monument.
- Sammy Davis and Anthony Newley perform a medley of Newley songs
- Physicists have captured atoms of antimatter now for more than 15 minutes
- Spectacular images of Chilean volcano eruption
- CBO hires Obamacare advocate to provide ‘objective’ health care budget numbers
- Density of forests increasing
- 3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms
- Supernova flares in M51
- Thirty percent of all companies plan to drop health coverage when Obamacare goes into effect fully
- D-Day
- Scientists cheer election of socialist president in Peru
- Students in space!
- The federal government’s total unfunded financial obligations now exceed $60 trillion.
- New poll: Romney 49, Obama 46
- Comic Chris Titus hints at assassinating Palin ‘if she gets elected president’
- Cruise passengers tell of seven-hour security ‘revenge’ nightmare
- Obamacare waivers weren’t in original law
- Iranian Atomic Bomb May Be 8 Weeks Away
- NASA Finally Releases Photos of Endeavour Docked at ISS
- Democrats never resign, no matter what the scandal
- After a burst the Sun quiets down again
- Chile volcano ash cloud disrupts airline flights
- The Sun has a blast
- The Most Extreme Migration on Earth
- When galaxies collide
- Endeavour Caught Fire During Landing
- Crew heading to station on Soyuz
- Newark TSA Supervisor Sentenced for Bribery and aiding thefts from passengers
- Arizona wildfire grows to cover 389,000 acres
- Market research firm predicts over 1,600 satellites worth $250 billion will be launched in the next fifteen years
- Whistle-blower claims his accusations cost him his job
- Dept. of Education SWAT team breaks down man’s door
- NASA Inspector General notes continuing worries about the Mars Science Lab
- Delta charged returning GIs $2,800 in bags fees
- The remnant of supernova 1987a Lights Up
- A press conference of my very own
- Pink Floyd tribute in classical style
- Human bones taken to ISS for long space flight experiments.
- Opportunity Heads Toward ‘Spirit Point’
- Space weather expert downplays threat to Earth from solar flare
- Camera being added to the last shuttle external tank
- Ohio restaurant referenced by Obama is closing
- How a Teachers’ Rally Made Me Anti-Education
- Magnetic bubbles at the edge of the solar system
- Looking for life with the god of death
- Second X-51 hypersonic flight scheduled for week of June 13
- China’s lunar probe leaves lunar orbit
- Special Needs Son Harassed by TSA at Detroit Metropolitan Airport
- House Panel Slams Obama’s Decision to Shut Yucca Mountain
- Scientists may have licked the allergy to cats
- Israeli rocket victims sue Gaza flotilla organizers
- is preparing for large crowds next week as the Legislature begins the process of approving the governor’s budget
- Flight Of The Conchords – The Humans Are Dead
- Apollo spacesuits head to the museum
- Utility decides to close five coal plants to comply with EPA regulations
- SpaceShipTwo’s test program ramps up
- Climate satellite launched to survey the saltiness of the Earth’s oceans
- “The moment of truth is about to arrive.”
- A new study finds that more than 80 percent of the mosques in the United States feature Islamic literature advocating violence.
- Legislation to stop huge legal fee payments to environmental litigation factories
- Fires in Arizona: more than one
- UK eliminates all but two climate-change projects to balance books.
- A galaxy with two central supermassive black holes
- Back from the dead: Astonishing pictures show Japan before and after tsunami
- Balancing act
- Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Ted Baxter School of Broadcasting
- Israeli group threatens legal action against Inmarsat for aiding Gaza flotilla
- ESA lifting body entry vehicle about to get final approval
- Sifting through garbage from the end of the Ice Age
- Atmosphere Above Japan Heated Rapidly Before M9 Earthquake
- Windows XP error music
- Inspector General report condemns NRC chief over his attempts to shut Yucca Mountain
- In North Carolina, government jobs untouched by the great recession
- Obama to announce plans to cut government waste
- Twelve of the most beautiful lakes in the world
- Where’s the warming?
- Tea Party blogger roughed up by Republican official at Indiana rally
- Vesta begins to come into focus as Dawn approaches
- Cartels using Arizona mountaintops and caves to spy on border
- SpaceX gets another contract for its Falcon 9
- Luckiest people alive
- Two lawyers explain why Obamacare is losing in the courts
- Robot refueling test of satellites to be launched on last shuttle flight
- The recent history of botched SWAT raids
- Republican presidential candidates debate space program’s future at New Hampshire debate
- Obamacare doesn’t stop Medigap providers, AARP partners from discriminating against seniors
- Solar scientists predict a major decline in sunspot activity
- Fire at Carlsbad Caverns National Park causes its closure
- Memo Marks Official End of Constellation
- Europe Downscales Monster Telescope to Save Money
- Loretta Lynn and the Muppets – One’s on the way
- Wisconsin courts rule union law legal
- Probe clears five SWAT-raid officers in Arizona
- Hezbollah takes over Lebanon’s government
- Shuttle’s end leaves NASA with a half billion dollar pension bill
- Negotiations over debt limit and budget still appear deadlocked
- The world’s oldest functioning light bulb: 110 years old
- The progenitor of the May supernova in M51 identified
- An X-ray deep field over six weeks by Chandra finds massive black holes common in early universe
- SpaceShipTwo completes two glide test flights within twenty-four hours
- Ten congressmen and a law professor sue to stop the war in Libya
- TSA blocks private airport screeners
- SDO – March 30, 2010 Solar Eruption
- Second X-51 hypersonic flight crashes prematurely
- A tanking test for the last shuttle flight encounters problems
- Iran launched a satellite into orbit today
- ESA controllers buy time to solve problems on comet probe Rosetta
- How pasta became the world’s favourite food
- San Francisco’s Animal Control and Welfare Commission is recommending that the City ban the sale of goldfish, tropical fish and guppies in its borders
- Vandals who spray-painted an historic cave in Oregon in April have been caught
- National Speleological Society responds to the demand that all caves be closed to protect bats
- Republicans refuse to cut farm and ethanol subsidies, cut international food aid instead
- IPCC in trouble again over using Greenpeace employee for energy report
- Why Are Taxpayers Paying for Wine Tasting?
- Sheila Jackson Lee Likens Islamic Radicals to ‘Christian Militants’ in U.S.
- Milk changing color – cool science experiment
- Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall
- Ray Stevens – Obama budget plan
- An update from Messenger
- The Pan-STARRS Telescope has found comet that might provide a show in 2013
- SpaceX Sues Expert Who Questioned Safety of Falcon 9 Rocket
- The debate over arsenic-based life continues
- Poland joins the European Space Agency
- NASA about to decide on its shuttle heavy-lift replacement
- Some bats seem to be surviving white nose fungus
- Research Center Under Fire for ‘Adjusted’ Sea-Level Data
- Daley can’t defend Obama’s ‘indefensible’ economic policies
- Deep well inspection
- Unmanned sail prototype prepares for launch
- The cost of rare earth metals has soared as China limits supplies
- Hadrian built his country estate with the buildings aligned with the sun
- How the recently dissolved California Space Authority wasted millions of dollars in federal earmarks and grants
- House panel tells Dept of Energy to cull underperforming research grants
- Cool images from Mars and Mercury
- Companies Leaving California in Record Numbers
- The legal store of stolen objects
- The battle between global warming and the sun
- A gladiator’s tombstone tells tale of death
- NJ Senate passes public employee benefits bill
- Theft by TSA employees of passenger valuables a nationwide problem
- The failed predictions of global warming activists
- Flying over Mars
- Mann and company write more science fiction
- Energia not to produce Soyuz spaceship for space tourists
- ATHEISTS WANT SIGN HONORING 9-11 FIREFIGHTERS REMOVED
- King County, Washington, requires life vests for swimmers
- President Barack Obama’s Complete List of Historic Firsts
- Conservative lawmakers push for pledge cutting spending across the board, capping government spending, and requires a balanced budget amendment.
- Joe Hisaishi Live – Summer ( from Kikujiro )
- Astronaut Mark Kelly retires
- The first Soyuz launch from French Guiana is set for October 20, 2011
- ATV burns up, Progress launched
- Cryosat releases its first map of the thickness of the Arctic icecap
- Help pick the Kuiper Belt targets of New Horizons after it flies past Pluto
- Shaved bat wings show sensory hairs help manage flight
- Tear-drop shaped islands on Mars suggest ancient oceans
- Online prices soar for space shuttle Atlantis launch tickets
- James Hansen sued for failing failed to comply with ethics rules and financial disclosures regarding substantial compensation he earned outside his $180,000 taxpayer-paid position
- California legislators: No budget, no pay
- Branson says Virgin Galactic will fly a suborbital flight within a year
- Cassini directly samples the plumes from Enceladus and finds an ocean-like Spray
- Democrats call for new spending in US debt deal
- Cockpit view of 747 takeoff
- Orbital Science rocket engine sustains damage in test
- Gale Crater now leads the list for Curiosity’s landing site on Mars
- Arizona sheriff confirms that Coronado wildfire was probably started by illegal trade
- CBO: The national debt will exceed the size of the entire U.S. economy by 2021
- Texas anti-groping bill moving ahead despite TSA changes
- the cost of solar energy is crashing down
- Rochester woman arrested for filming police from her own property
- Another error in Obamacare will allow middle class retirees to get Medicaid
- Dutch populist Geert Wilders acquitted of hate speech
- Senate Republicans pull out of Biden debt limit negotiations
- TSA Airport Screeners Vote to Join Union
- Want to send a probe to another planet? Cut costs!
- From a modern Muslim Cleric: “There Is A Beating Etiquette”
- Archaeologists begin unburying ancient Egyptian ritual ship
- New Texas Giant roller-coaster
- Underground Physics Lab to Cost U.S. Energy Department at Least $1.2 Billion
- More money troubles in NASA’s climate and astronomy programs
- The faces of Vesta
- NASA faces subpoena on heavy-lift rocket work
- Vietnam veteran threatened with legal action for the American flag outside his home
- Another TSA worker arrested on suspicion of stealing
- New Mexico judge orders man to take down abortion billboard
- We hated Reagan
- Global Bankruptcy Months Away?
- NASA planes to fly low over the Baltimore/Washington region to monitor air quality
- How to watch a shuttle launch
- Obama to directly intervene in the debt limit negotiations
- Reporters arrested by Park Police for taking photos at public Taxicab Commission meeting
- Supreme skeptics
- Fermilab confirms Japanese particle physics results that could explain lack of antimatter in the universe
- “Unable to pass its immigration agenda through legislation, the Administration is now implementing it through agency policy.”
- DNA from Madagascar coconuts has revealed two separate waves of settlement, several ancient trade routes, and the source of the coconuts in the New World.
- An engineer’s guide to cat yodeling
- Dolores Keane singing Caledonia
- At House hearing head of NOAA challenged on ignoring Congressional law
- Another private space plane moves forward
- Asteroid to Pass Extremely Close By Earth On Monday
- Mary Black – A song for Ireland
- Infrasonic detection of a near-Earth object impact over Indonesia on 8 October 2009
- Plans to adjust frequency variations on electric grid could break appliances
- Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search
- Micro-camera takes first images of sealed Mayan tomb
- The shocking true size of our nation’s debt
- Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism
- A New Mexico wildfire has prompted the closure of Los Alamos
- The EPA has given $100M to foreign governments and groups in last decade
- Idaho could follow Texas in pushing anti-TSA groping bill
- Ray Lynch – Celestial Soda Pop
- First photos of the asteroid that buzzed the Earth today
- TSA ‘ignored warnings’ on radiation dangers
- Sunspots and the danger of crying wolf
- Rocket launch on Tuesday at Wallops will be visible for most of Mid-Atlantic
- Astronauts retreated to Soyuz lifeboats early today as debris zipped 1000 feet past the station
- Biologist spared jail for grant fraud
- Texas lawmakers pass watered-down airport groping bill
- Glenn Beck and his family harassed during outdoor movie night in New York park.
- Charges against woman videotaping police from her front yard have been dropped
- VA cemetery director accused of censoring religious speech
- The Obama administration versus the lumber industry
- Desert View at the Grand Canyon
- Tim Pawlenty goes from advocate of global warming to skeptic
- Wallops launch delayed until Wednesday
- China buys three Earth observations satellites from UK firm
- EPA approves 15% ethanol gasoline despite the risk of engine damage
- AAAS campaigns to stop attacks on global warming advocates
- Appeals Court in Ohio Upholds Health Law
- Biosphere 2 gets a new owner and a boost in funding
- Richard Feynman talks about light
- Using the law against Hamas and their flotilla allies
- Stop the Lying
- Obama and Republicans in agreement: Senate should cancel next week’s vacation
- NASA Funding Mired In Budget Politics
- The most distant quasar ever found
- Obama’s proposal to end the tax break for corporate jet owners would reduce the deficit by less than one-tenth of 1 percent.
- A massive Windows botnet “almost indestructible,” say researchers
- Judge orders Obama administration to meet legal timeline for oil and gas leases
- Man boards flight without a valid passport or ID
- Congressman Poe calls for the firing of VA cemetery director for denying mourners their 1st amendment rights
- Discovering the original colors of fossils
- Another billion in free money for homeowners who can’t pay their mortgage
- An new Harvard study finds a political congruence between patriotism promoted on Fourth of July and the values associated with the Republican party.
- Obama administration gave an almost $80,000 grant to the largest branch of a renamed ACORN, despite a Congressional prohibition.
- Obama’s blast at corporate tax breaks for private jets was created in his stimulus package
- The Japanese solar sail Ikaros continues to function, more than 100 million miles from Earth
- Cassini looks past one Saturn moon to another
- Quebe Sisters – It’s a sin to tell a lie
- NASA sues Apollo 14 astronaut over camera ownership
- ‘Dirty hack’ restores Cluster mission from near loss
- Mysterious Light Burst Captured by Hawaii Telescope
- Breathtaking view of the central peak of Tycho Crater
- NJ legislature passes ban on fracking, while NY considers lifting its ban
- LightSquared report shows widespread GPS interference
- In a poll Jamaicans overwhelming long for the return of British colonial rule
- An independent panel of scientists has found that a $1.4 billion plan put forth by environmentalists to save the salmon of the northwest by destroying four hydroelectric dams and restricting water use was based on junk science.
- Computer chess program stripped of its four titles and its programmer banned
- Starting in 2014, Obamacare will punish those who work and those who are married
- Rockfall and avalanche at Mt. Rainier caught on video
- Everything Bad is Good For You
- The families of the Challenger astronauts come out in favor of commercial private manned spaceflight
- World’s longest sea bridge opens in China
- NASA Foresees 2-Year Final Shuttle Retirement Phase
- U.S. National Parks’ Cultural and Natural Resources Threatened
- Internet Explorer continues to lose market share to Chrome, Firefox, others
- Tim Minchin – Some people have it worse than I
- More delays for the James Webb Space Telescope?
- Astronaut Mark Kelly says he won’t run for political office
- A look inside NASA’s “Skunk Works”
- The history of the space shuttle in photos
- Minnesota government shuts down over budget and taxes
- Schumer confirms White House considering ignoring debt limit
- Man Who Refused To Hand Over Arrest Video Acquitted
- A Fourth of July seder
- July 2, 1776 – The vote for independency
- Are we finally seeing a sea change in the war between the right and left?
- Wisconsin union law saves school district
- Secret Treasure Found in Temple in India Could Be Worth $10 Billion
- Dawn’s approach to Vesta continues
- First ARTEMIS Spacecraft Successfully Enters Lunar Orbit
- New Mayor takes office, immediately asks for concessions from the unions
- the Plight of Muslim Women and the left’s indifference
- New York City business owners sick over ObamaCare
- It’s too late to apologize
- Getting rare-earth elements from ocean floor mud
- Mining the moon for water and nuclear fuel
- Launch Complex 37B: Level by Level
- “The level of enrollment shows they’ve analyzed the problem incorrectly, they don’t have a clue about health care, and they don’t have good solutions.”
- Republicans May Take ‘Mini’ Debt-Ceiling Deal
- Texas Court tells Clerk to remove Pledge and Prayer from records; Clerk says Hell No!
- Hunting meteorites in the medieval Middle East and getting imprisoned because of it
- Statue honoring Ronald Reagan unveiled in London
- Messages in a bottle
- U.S. Space Walk of Fame in Titusville needs volunteers
- John Adams – the vote
- Florida divers find new treasure, including emerald ring worth $500,000, from Spanish wreck
- Global warming scientists blame coal use increase in China for recent cooling
- More info on that Indian temple treasure trove, now estimated at $22 billion
- Former NASA administrator frets about future lack of leaders to run small planetary missions
- Woman thrown off US Airways plane for taking photo of rude employee
- Questions raised about the safety of China’s new bridge
- “It sounds as if the package is going to be all spending cuts with a few symbolic revenue increases.”
- New NOAA commercial fishing regulations favor large businesses, destroy small family-owned operations
- Prime real estate
- Hubble Makes its One Millionth Science Observation
- The launch of China’s first space station module is set for September
- The wimpy maximum continues
- The Dam Busters – first dam
- The wreckage from the March 11 Japanese earthquake and tsunami is expected to reach the U.S. by 2013
- Serious coolant leak puts the Subaru Telescope out of commission
- LightSquared raises new capital as it awaits FCC approval despite evidence it interferes with GPS equipment
- Auto companies condemn 15% ethanol, say using it will void warranties
- Cassini captures a truly huge storm on Saturn.
- House proposes to drop NASA’s budget to 2008 levels, eliminate Webb Telescope
- House Spending Panel Flatlines NSF
- Ron Paul calls for the abolition of the TSA
- Another Iceland volcano appears about to erupt
- House proposes cutting NOAA by $103 million
- Why some space junk is impossible to track
- Pomplamoose – Another day
- More stupidity from the Center for Biological Diversity
- Private company hires former NASA engineers and astronauts
- The billion pixel camera of Gaia
- The painful transition to private space
- David Byne – “Don’t Fence Me In”
- A new image of Vesta from Dawn
- TSA agent accused of pilfering from passengers
- Highest Water in a Decade Expected at Lake Powell
- More evidence the debt crisis is about to go critical
- Watching the last shuttle launch on your computer
- Where to find life in the Milky Way galaxy
- The Senate canceled its July 4th Break to deal with the debt and literally did nothing
- The last space shuttle has reached orbit
- Obama’s Stimulus Waste: $7 million per House on Internet Access
- More evidence dinosaurs were warm-blooded
- Washington’s Never-Ending Scam of Fake Spending Cuts
- The government’s war on cameras and free speech
- Thomas Dolby’s “She blinded me with science” as performed by the Muppets
- NASA continues to stall on heavy-lift rocket
- Carp Attack
- Mount Etna eruption closes airports and causes clocks to run 15 minutes fast
- A senator’s flying violation causes him to introduce legislation to change FAA
- The space shuttle docks with ISS, for the last time
- Confessions of a moon rock thief
- Bill would let federal health researchers ban certain chemicals
- Kate Bush – Running up that hill
- TSA agents pat down 6-year-old twice
- Standing up for your rights with the police when they ask for id
- Ethane lakes in a red haze: Titan’s uncanny moonscape
- “We’re building spacecraft, not bizjets.”
- Global warming — or not
- Underwater Antarctic volcanoes discovered in the Southern Ocean
- 3D printing
- First International Planetary Caves Workshop
- Shuttle mission extended one day
- House Budget Bill Would Leave it to NASA To Apportion Bulks of Cuts
- “Some of them seem to believe that the government can simply keep spending beyond its means forever with no negative consequences.”
- Obama administration imposes new gun regulations, NRA will sue
- The First Rule of Liberalism: Government failure always justifies more government.
- Public debt and the peril of Obamacare
- wings in space
- Gore Announces New Campaign and Worldwide Event to Re-energize Global Warming Hysteria
- Neptune Completes Its First Circuit Around The Sun Since Its Discovery
- House spending panel cuts John Holdren’s science office budget by 55%
- Skeleton May Help Solve Mystery of Doomed Franklin Expedition
- Arab journalists demand the blacklisting of a Israeli journalist
- The TS&A
- The competing extinction theories battle it out
- China launched second data relay satellite, expanding space communications network before first docking attempt
- SpaceX about to break ground on launchpad and hanger for Falcon Heavy
- Dawn nears Vesta
- Jailbreak
- White dwarf stars in a dance of death
- Second ARTEMIS space probe about to enter lunar orbit
- NASA awards a key piece of ISS management to Florida
- NASA stalls, Texas lawmakers fume
- Astronomers have found two new brown dwarf stars only 15 and 18 light years away
- Being tone deaf is not a good way to fund a government space program
- Long, cramped road trips ahead for US astronauts
- Another fuzzy Dawn image?
- Base jumping with a wingsuit
- Bad news for climate modelers
- Cats cause global warming
- US might lose its top credit rating even if debt limit agreement is reached
- Police close girls’ lemonade stand
- SpaceX has broken ground on its Falcon Heavy launch site
- Environmental terrorists destroy genetically modified test plots of wheat and potatoes
- Lost for 87 years, the Bornean rainbow toad has been rediscovered
- New Jersey Township threatens to fine diner owner if he doesn’t remove American flag banners
- Bill Nye the Science Guy explains caves
- “Dominate. Intimidate. Control.”
- Obama Administration granted 39 new waivers last month from Obamacare, bringing the total to just shy of 1,500
- Eric Idle – Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
- Wither the Arctic Icecap?
- “Re-election is the farthest thing from my mind.”
- Colorado woman who refused TSA groping accused of groping TSA agent
- Dawn enters orbit around Vesta
- Nearly one-fourth of the people polled asserted that they would give up sex if it meant that they could avoid a PowerPoint presentation.
- Connie Dover – No come again
- The U.S. and the rising Russian space program
- Obama’s National Relations Labor Board prosecutes a dead person for not responding
- Why Hasn’t The Earth Warmed In Nearly 15 Years?
- NASA to announce on Friday the landing site of Curiousity, the next Mars rover
- Ten signs that Americans have begun freaking out about the state of the economy
- Vesta, sharp and clear
- More than 400 companies in the medical industry are demanding repeal of excise tax imposed by Obamacare
- Russia vows not to exploit manned space flight monopoly
- Fry and Laurie – Tricky Linguistics
- Japanese tsunami set record at 132.5 feet high
- The space shuttle has undocked from the space station for the last time
- The dying NASA astrophysics program
- Opportunity’s journey on Mars tops 20 miles
- Grand Canyon Flash Flood
- All charges dropped on woman who groped a TSA agent
- The Republican-controlled House today passed legislation raising the debt ceiling and cutting federal spending by $6 trillion
- Hubble has discovered a fourth moon orbiting Pluto
- Triumph and tragedy: 30 years of the Space Shuttle
- A flag in the dust
- Obama plans birthday bash costing almost $40k per ticket on default day
- Ten Ways Progressive Policies Harm Society’s Moral Character
- NYU Professor Catches 20% Of His Students Cheating, and the school punishes him for it
- Hoyer says Balanced Budget Amendment would “Make it virtually impossible to raise” taxes
- Planning dates set for first Dragon cargo mission to ISS
- Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
- A new study finds that just looking at the American flag makes one more prone to support the Republican Party
- The sun, climate change, and censorship
- Private sector job creation stopped almost instantly after Obamacare passed
- The shuttle Atlantis has landed, ending the shuttle program
- Christopher Walken reads “The Three Little Pigs”
- Perry and other lawmakers blast Obama over shuttle retirement
- A new image from Dawn
- The journal Science finally admits things have not gotten warmer in the past decade
- The budget battle over resuming production of nuclear fuel for unmanned space missions heats up
- New Taurus II/Cygnus launch schedule announced
- The next Mars rover will land at Gale Crater
- The Democrats in the Senate reject the House Republican debt ceiling plan
- The universe’s oldest water
- In color from Mercury
- The fourth video showing Medicare fraud released
- A good summary of the present American manned space situation
- More on the Taurus 2/Cygnus schedule
- A massive meteorite found in China
- Boehner ends negotiations with Obama
- NASA changes its contract arranged for commercial space
- Hiking the Subway in Zion National Park
- Four Democrat Votes Away From Ending Debt Crisis
- Public test of privately built moon lander delayed by gyro
- An Obamacare provision appears to force middle-class families to either buy unaffordable healthcare or pay a penalty
- “This is Obama at his most sanctimonious, demagogic, self-righteous and arrogant.”
- FAA goes into a partial shutdown and nobody notices. Or they do, because they pay less in taxes!
- Quadriga Consort — Cliffs of Dooneen
- The Russian orbiting radio telescope has unfurled its 10 meter dish
- The emptiness of the Democratic debt ceiling “plans”
- Junk journalism
- Candid Camera demonstrates the power of conformity
- “With the Obama administration, it just seems to be relentless.”
- Opportunity closes in on Endeavour Crater
- Over-optimism in Forecasts by Official Budget Agencies and Its Implications
- Did Obama refuse a bipartisan deal on the debt ceiling?
- CERN collider sees tantalizing hint of Higgs particle
- Thank the Gods for Climategate
- China readies its first space station
- Driving cross country in four minutes
- Volcanoes on the far side of the moon
- The periodic table of irrational nonsense
- Enceladus rains water onto Saturn
- A conservative sensitivity class for liberals.
- Mom faces prison for jaywalking during drunk hit-and-run that killed son while the drunk driver only served 6 months
- Conservatives bridle at trillions in ‘phony’ cuts
- Baby Talk
- Downgrade could come as soon as Friday
- Some background on Rick Perry
- Better constants in science
- Conservative revolt in the House over GOP plan
- The Muppets – Movin’ right along
- The next Jupiter probe heads to the launchpad
- White House Wants To Close NASA Data Centers
- ISS partners discuss how to use the space station as a test bed for missions beyond low Earth orbit.
- What Democrats did wrong on the debt ceiling in 2010
- Texas Lawmaker Calls for Probe Into Ban of Prayers at Military Funerals
- ISS to be deorbited in 2020
- A look at the Chinese space program
- Why the Republicans revolted against their own leader’s proposed debt ceiling plan
- we have no option but to have the Zionist regime wiped off the map.
- the single most expensive environmental regulation in U.S. history
- One in eight small businesses have stopped providing health insurance since Obamacare was passed
- Jaywalking mom gets probation but opts for new trial
- Connie Dover – Where shall I go?
- Astronomers identify Earth’s first Trojan asteroid
- Two NASA managers take jobs at RPI
- New NASA Data Blow Gaping Hole In Global Warming Alarmism
- What should spaceships look like?
- Senate Issues Subpoena to NASA for SLS Materials
- U.S. will pay for half of all health care costs by 2020
- Those Dancing Days – Home Sweet Home
- A dark and stormy night, 2011
- Opportunity is now about 1500 feet from the rim of Endeavour Crater
- The Painted Desert of Mars
- Tiangong-1 is not a space station hub
- A problem like Pelosi
- 3-D Printer Passes Zero Gravity Test to Make Space Tools
- Summer break for testing of SpaceShipTwo
- Tea Party Members ‘Bloody and Beaten,’ But Still in ‘No’ Column
- Busting Posse Comitatus
- The GOP is putting “a gun to the head of 310 million people”
- How High Would Taxes Have to Be to Close the Budget Gap This Year?
- Moving Graffiti
- Senate kills Boehner debt ceiling plan
- Could weird lunar crater be the crash site for Lunar Orbiter 2?
- Senate Republicans reject Reid debt limit plan
- John Marburger: The passing of a scientific gentleman
- Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer live in Central Park
- Has DB Cooper been nabbed at last?
- Outlines of debt ceiling deal leaked to press
- 10 years after concealed weapons law, the fearful claims of opponents turn out false
- The story of Hayabusa inspires three major movie releases
- Catherine Destivelle – solo climb in Mali
- How the end of NASA affects national security
- A day in the life of a gun owner
- Why Obama should be re-elected
- Reactions to the debt deal: almost all unhappy
- Six of the most ridiculous scientific studies ever commissioned
- Guess what happened to that Obama recovery?
- Cancer-stricken WTC worker gets $0 settlement check from lawyers
- Dawn begins science operations in orbit around Vesta
- Oxygen molecules detected in star-forming region
- Tea Partiers like “terrorists.”
- Judy Garland – Pretty girl milking her cow
- The state of the new commercial manned space efforts
- The drought has uncovered a possible part of shuttle Columbia in Texas lake
- A look at the more than 450 tourists who have paid a deposit to Virgin Galactic to fly in space
- Dow dives below 12,000
- “To Hell with You People”
- Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
- Lack of U.S. government interest in commercial refueling mission causes problems
- Getting to know the Atlas 5
- Israeli doctors protest their working conditions
- Did the Earth once have two moons? And did they collide?
- Downhill mountain biking in southern Utah
- Cost issues might force Europe to downsize its 2016 Mars mission
- Two Russians complete spacewalk at ISS
- Gun groups to sue over new Obama gun regulations in the southwest border states
- The importance of a large moon to a habitable planet
- Five insurers cancel their healthcare coverage in Indiana due to Obamacare regulations
- The Government War On Kid-Run Concession Stands
- It’s the coverup, not the crime
- Boeing confirms that it has chosen the Atlas 5 rocket to launch is manned capsule
- More evidence that there are active flows of water on Mars
- “Total fear.”
- Getting closer to Vesta
- A Bell for Adano
- A truck 400 feet long with 192 wheels crosses California to Utah
- Stand by for space weather
- TSA Confiscates Pregnant Woman’s Insulin, Ice Packs
- The north pole of Mars in summer
- The Jupiter probe Juno has lifted off
- Opportunity now less than 400 feet from the rim of Endeavour Crater
- John Cleese – How to irritate people by being considerate
- Cosmonaut Titov becomes the first man to fly in space more than 24 hours
- New NASA moon rocket could cost $38 billion
- Virgin Galactic’s suborbital shuttle: Sydney to London in 4 hours
- A thin belt of antimatter particles enveloping the Earth has been spotted for the first time.
- Half of Earth’s Heat from Radioactive Decay
- Nebraska rare earth mineral discovery to challenge China’s monopoly
- Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills – Opera parody
- Harvesting icebergs for water and profit
- Boeing rolls out 787 Dreamliner after years of delay
- Hypocrisy, irony, and the New Civility
- The hockey stick graphs of Obama
- Life after the downgrade
- A Department of Innovation logo that can’t work
- TSA apologizes for confiscating diabetic pregnant woman’s insulin
- Battle over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver
- Japan Tsunami Broke Huge Icebergs Off Antarctica
- Waivermania hits Dept of Education
- John Sebastian – Darling be home soon
- Treasury Adds Another $20 Billion In Debt Overnight, Just $160 Billion Below Revised Ceiling
- Federal payments required by Obamacare understate the cost by as much as $50 billion
- Endeavour Crater at last!
- Why the media always gets it wrong about guns
- Trying to grow arsenic-based life
- Lying for Politicians
- Restaurants Brace for Job-Killing Obamacare Regulations
- Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery
- Sun unleashes its largest solar flare in years
- Wisconsin Republicans hold off Democrats in recall elections
- Kansas becomes the second state to return a large federal grant awarded to them by Obamacare.
- 2012 is gonna be nasty
- Bat stowaway forces airplane to return to airport
- The very slow ramp up to maximum
- Making hard choices
- Danielle “ate the sandwich” Anderson – Things we have in common
- The state of the Himalayan glaciers
- Astonishing underwater pictures from a maze carved inside a glacier
- TSA lawyers argued yesterday they did nothing wrong in arresting a protester who removed his shirt and pants at a security checkpoint
- 500 billion new reasons to repeal Obamacare
- A government that kills
- 83% of Obamacare Grants Awarded to States That Supported Obama in 2008
- Japan revises its tsunami warning system following March earthquake/tsunami
- Hubble captures a necklace in space
- Contact quickly lost during third test flight of hypersonic plane
- “The left is going to have to compromise and cut some domestic welfare spending, and the right is going to have to compromise and cut some military spending.”
- Joe Wilson was right when he accused Obama of lying
- Legal rabbit farm raided and destroyed
- Ray Lynch – The True Spirit of Mom and Dad
- Some questions about today’s hypersonic test flight
- How Iron Age people decorated their homes
- Who’s the real reporter?
- The mystery of Vesta’s south pole depression
- Appeals court rules against Obama healthcare law
- Fifty years ago tomorrow the Berlin Wall went up
- Thirty years ago IBM introduced its first pc
- A living room electon microscope
- America’s first jet
- A blank sun during solar maximum
- St. Olaf Chapel Choir – John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music
- Russian space chief suggests a shift away from manned space for Russia
- Saving a failed orbiting satellite with engineering
- Questions raised about an endangered species listing by EPA
- According to Russian space officials, the next Soyuz tourist flight will be in 2014
- A map of the core region of the Milky Way
- Linda Ronstadt – Long long time
- Russians to display new rocket and manned spacecraft at international air show today
- All systems go on Juno
- Guns permitted, crimes drop
- “You may first beat them repeatedly with a tire iron.”
- Obama’s clash with a Tea party activist during bus tour
- Strange craters on Vesta
- Quadriga Consort – Pulling the sea-dulse
- The search for alien life saved by private donations
- American manned space: dependent on the Russians in more ways than you think
- What caused a giant arrow-shaped cloud on Saturn’s moon Titan?
- Ohio Business Owner Shot For Being Non-Union, Police Investigating
- Two stories about a possible tourist flight around the moon
- Using a solar sail to deflect an earth-destroying asteroid
- “He takes more vacations than any human being I’ve ever seen.”
- Tennessee Woman Told to Remove American Flag Outside Her Optometry Office
- Another cave found on Mars
- Hope and Crosby – The Road to Morocco
- Space Boat: A Nautical Mission to an Alien Sea
- Justice Department has begun an investigation of Standard & Poor
- Russia has lost contact with a major new telecommunications satellite hours after its launch into orbit
- Russian company has unveiled its own space hotel
- The American Eclipse of 2017
- Rats didn’t spread the Black Death
- Citizen Journalism Stops a Liberal media lie In Its Tracks
- Family of Marine Killed in Arizona SWAT Raid has sued Pima County for $20 Million
- Town shuts down yard sale of woman trying to raise money for medical expenses
- A Chinese launch failure today
- The job boom for government regulators under Obama
- Government makes a Smartphone app tell outdoor workers it is hot
- Angst
- Archeologists reap treasures from a newly-discovered POW camp from the Civil War
- EPA arbitrarily declares a couple’s property a wetland
- A reporter finds out the uselessness of Obama’s advice to call the USDA for help
- Why Americans hate modern economics
- The Pioneer anomaly is fading
- Some results from the HTV-2 hypersonic flight
- Two planes to Martha’s Vineyard
- The Obama administration has issued more waivers to Obamacare
- “Freedom Dies With Each Paper Cut”
- New images from Opportunity
- Hugh Jackman – O what a beautiful morning
- 66 Percent of CEOs Plan to Freeze or Downsize Workforce Size
- A reindeer herder in Russia’s Arctic has stumbled on the pre-historic remains of a baby woolly mammoth
- Chicago police must pay 330k for killing dog in home raid
- Did Obamacare cause the economic collapse
- The real inventor of the telegraph
- Europe and Russia talk of joint manned mission to Mars
- Researchers have found what could be the oldest microbial fossils yet, discovered in 3.4-billion-year-old Australian rocks
- The new commercial space companies question NASA contracting policies
- Frank Sinatra – High Hopes
- One man’s response to Obama’s demand that taxes on the rich be raised
- Social Security disability on verge of insolvency
- Bringing the Delta 2 back to launch unmanned science probes
- Early hints of the Higgs boson fade with fresh data.
- “He’s a moron.”
- NASA announces awards for three technology demonstration space missions
- NASA pushes for funds to save the James Webb Space Telescope
- University shutters manned sub research program after forty years
- Craters, craters, everywhere
- FCC finally kills off fairness doctrine
- Super-Earth spotted on the edge of habitable zone
- Compliation of news fails 2011
- Federal debt increased $4 trillion under Obama, the most under any president
- Another Al Gore doomsday prediction bites the dust
- Egyptians Protest Outside Israeli Embassy With Swastika Sign Saying “The Gas Chambers Are Ready”
- The first earthrise
- “How dare this lawfare organization use lawfare against our boat.”
- Crime rate drops in Virginia bars after concealed carry is allowed
- Bigelow in negotiations to supply privately-built modules to ISS
- Earthquake in Virginia
- Blue Origin to do a test flight tomorrow
- 2010 Hostile Winds
- Buses vs high speed trains: the buses win
- NASA’s costs estimates too low for Congress’s heavy-lift rocket
- Another IPCC prediction fails
- Budget Office: this year’s deficit to hit $1.28 Trillion
- Top 10 Most Wonderful Canyons in the World
- The geology behind the Virginia earthquake of August 23
- Progress freighter launch fails
- Watching a black hole devour a star, 3.9 billion light years away
- Cops confiscate cameras at Ohio Republican congressman’s town hall
- Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin
- The Alarming Significance of Culture
- Stars as cold as the human body
- Capturing an asteroid into Earth orbit
- Many businesses are considering dropping healthcare when Obamacare goes into effect in 2014
- The immediate consequences of the Progress freighter failure
- Divers have recovered the telegraph and some of the steering equipment from the Lusitania, a liner sunk off Ireland by a German submarine in 1915.
- Astronomers discover planet made of diamond
- Starbucks CEO calls for business boycott of campaign contributions until debt is solved
- When dust, pebbles, rocks, and boulders act like liquid
- Asteroid dust from Hayabusa prove origin of the most common meteorites
- Preparing for Hurricane Irene
- The closest supernovae in almost 25 years
- William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
- Police beat and arrest a man for handing out pro-life flyers at a church event
- The rebellion by the states against Obamacare
- The government’s war on guitars and musicians
- Russia plans two unmanned test launches of Soyuz rockets before using them to deliver crews to the ISS
- NSF hires Russian Icebreaker for Antarctic station
- Comets Elenin & Garradd Now Showing in Night Sky
- Sponge in space
- Both the FAA and European regulators have certified Boeing’s 787 for its first commercial flight
- Archeologists may have found King Arthur’s round table in Scotland
- The Mean Kitty Song
- Massachusetts State Police Shutdown Twelve-Year-Old’s Green Tea Stand
- The sun, cosmic rays, and the politics of climate change
- Residents Overturn Township’s Plan for New $1.5 Million Office
- Gibson guitar Republican donar while its competitor – never raided – donates to Democrats
- Jetman flight at the Grand Canyon West may 2011
- Hunkering down during the hurricane
- Space station could be abandoned in November
- Al Gore calls for treating climate skeptics like racists
- Big Sky Country – A Montana night sky time lapse
- Power still out
- An overview of the space war situation by Clark Lindsey
- New EPA regulations will shut down 8 percent of U.S. power generation capability
- Russians delay next manned launch to ISS
- Al Gore and the silencing of debate
- Alison Krauss and Yo Yo Ma – Slumber my darling
- A preliminary cause for the Russian launch failure has been found
- Indiana school vouchers prompt thousands to flee public schools
- National Labor Relations Board tells a church university it’s not religious
- If ISS becomes unmanned, the first test of Dragon will also be delayed
- New San Francisco Bay Bridge nears completion
- Police confiscate a woman’s legal guns, refuse to return them
- Ground controllers replace a failed circuit box on ISS, using the robot Dextre
- More information on why the Soyuz-U rocket failed
- NASA Names Astrophysics Fellowship For Nancy Roman, one of the key people behind the Hubble Space Telescope
- Star goes boom, telescopes zoom
- G-Male by Google
- Juno looks back and sees the Earth and the Moon
- 25 Signs That The Financial World Is About To Hit The Big Red Panic Button
- Federal government prosecutes a man for shooting a bear to protect his family
- The Hubble Space Telescope: Movie camera!
- Russians are considering reducing their participation in ISS
- Orbital Sciences gets its launch license for first test of Taurus 2 rocket
- Phil and John Cunningham plus others
- The space shuttle program officially ended on Wednesday
- Adjusting the flight manifest to ISS
- a Special Space and Aviation Artifacts Auction
- A new Florida state law will fine local governments for enforcing any local gun restrictions
- After tax hike Illinois loses more jobs than any other state
- Wisconsin teachers retire in droves
- New California law will require workers’ compensation benefits, rest and meal breaks and paid vacation time for…babysitters
- Don’t you dare touch my space junk!
- Judy Collins – Danny Boy
- British company tests engine of for commercial space plane
- China delays launch of its first space station
- Chang’e 2 has reached L2 almost a million miles from Earth
- NASA to ask future lunar explorers to avoid Apollo landing sites
- Bo Jackson running
- Amazon Chief’s Spaceship Misfires
- The Riddle of Ancient Roman Concrete
- Stan Rogers – Northwest Passage
- John Denver – Wild Montana Skies
- Connie Dover – I am going to the west
- Japan to ignite engine of failed Venus probe in anticipation of another try at Venus orbit
- China’s space station will launch in late September
- Awakening a science satellite dead for decades
- Some suggestions for keeping ISS occupied
- New images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon
- Kepler team pushes for mission extension
- The uninsured Have Increased Under Obama and Since Obamacare Was Enacted
- Republican in the lead in special congressional election in New York
- Baby Star Found on Earth’s Doorstep
- Annie Lennox – Into the West
- “everything went completely crazy. . . . It turned out it was very, very sensitive to say these things already at that time.”
- Archeologists have located lost tunnel from the Great Escape POW camp
- A laser so powerful that astronauts could see it, all for under $300
- Sticker shock over Congressionally designed rocket
- World’s first commercial spaceport almost complete
- Station astronauts optimistic station will not be evacuated in November
- Obscure editor resigns from minor journal: why you should care
- The dangerous environment of space
- The sun’s weak maximum continues
- Israel security forces foil multiple terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, arrest dozens of Hamas militants
- A film about religious tolerance in Indonesia has been pulled from a major TV network after an Islamist group warned the film could trigger nationwide violence.
- The Moral High Ground
- The Westerner
- Nearest supernova in a quarter century now visible with binoculars
- A Dutch university fires social psychologist over faked data
- Virgin Galactic hosts an industry day at New Mexico spaceport
- Gold from space
- The seven ton climate satellite, UARS, is set to fall to earth sometime in the next month
- Japan has successfully test fired the engine on Akatsuki
- Today’s launch of GRAIL has been scrubbed, rescheduled for tomorrow
- ATK test fires the five segment solid rocket for Ares 1
- More Progress freighter crash investigation results
- The via ferrata in the Italian Dolomites
- GRAIL launch delayed again until Saturday
- Senators lambast Administration for SLS budget numbers
- Newly released data links Saudi family, now living in Saudi Arabia, with 9/11 hijackers
- The EPA is using taxpayer money to encourage environmentalist groups to sue … the EPA
- Unknown objects in space
- New poll shows Republican leading in New York special congressional election
- TSA using personal medical records to deny Canadians entrance to US
- Senate approves a flat budget for the Department of Energy
- Holistic ER
- ATK and NASA to announce a new commercial space agreement
- SpaceX Acknowledges Falcon 9 Engine Anomaly
- Symphony of Science
- A day to express the value of justice
- Twin GRAIL gravity probes on the way to the moon
- $18 billion for one test launch
- House proposes trimming budget of FAA’s commercial space office
- Andrews Sisters – Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B
- Does Mars’ atmosphere contain methane, and does this suggest life on Mars?
- A giant storm on a distant star
- A slew of exoplanets
- Manfred Mann – Blinded by the Light
- Speculation on what the ATK/NASA announcement later today will be about
- How the Palestinian Authority trains children to hate
- Russia announces October and November dates for next Progress and Soyuz launches
- NASA and ATK sign new launch development agreement
- One man’s 9/11 idea to rescue people from high-rise buildings
- Arrests in union violence in Washington
- Demi Lovato – Skyscraper
- Brooklyn goes Republican
- Astronomers take one last close look at 1999 RQ36 before sending mission there
- September 11 memorial says nothing about what happened on September 11
- NASA to unveil its heavy-lift rocket design
- The increasing possibility that the Higgs Boson does not exist
- Washington staffers fear pay cuts, layoffs, loss of perks
- Jack Benny meets Twilight Zone
- Senate reinserts money for the James Webb Space Telescope
- More bad budget reporting
- Nobel prize winner resigns from the American Physical Society over its support of global warming
- Private Japanese weather company to launch satellite to track Arctic Ice
- Virgin Galactic aims for its first launch of SpaceShipTwo within a year
- Has Dark Matter been detected?
- The story behind the Italian prosecution of six scientists and one government official over an earthquake prediction
- Another look at the cost of building NASA’s heavy lift rocket
- Questions about White House pressure for campaign donor in GPS controversy
- A planet with two suns
- “If you love me, you’ve got to help me pass this bill!”
- Ponzi! Ponzi! Ponzi!
- Walking on water
- Soyuz crew returns safely to Earth, despite radio problems
- Akatsuki’s engine too damaged to put the probe into Venus orbit in 2015
- An ocean inside Pluto?
- Video from Dawn
- Koch threatens to campaign against Obama in Florida
- Poll suggests Feinstein in trouble in California
- Washington union held in contempt for terminal violence
- A Smartphone ap to weigh galaxies
- Bigelow and Boeing do airbag drop tests on Boeing manned capsule
- Update on the repairs to the Subaru Telescope
- A Yellow Supergiant Progenitor of a Massive Star Supernova in M51
- The reconnaissance satellite Big Bird on display
- Spelling negus
- Gordon Lightfoot – Canadian Railroad Trilogy
- Webb Telescope budget continues to grow
- UARS to hit Earth in a week
- Bjork – It’s oh so quiet
- China launches communications satellite
- Surviving the end of the shuttle problem: how some companies are doing it
- Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new taxes
- Largest dam removal in U.S. history begins in Washington
- White House Emails Reveal Major Obamacare Accounting Fraud
- One of the judges who ruled in the Kelo property case has apologized to the owner
- Another ObamaCare glitch could result in some businesses being exempt from fines for not providing their workers with health insurance.
- Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
- New exoplanets make astronomers long for a telescope to see them
- WISE telescope raises questions about asteroid that is thought to have killed dinosaurs
- Times Atlas shows ice free areas of Greenland that are not ice free
- The Spaceship Company has opened its final assembly factor in Mohave
- John McDermott – Voyage
- Senate appropriations committee has capped Webb Telescope budget
- Muslim students on trial for shouting during Israeli diplomat’s speech
- Blurred vision a risk for astronauts who spend months in space
- China to launch unmanned space module Sept. 27-30
- NASA astronauts to spend three days underwater
- XCOR Aerospace and Space Expedition Curacao Sign Contract
- Europe’s first Mars lander mission threatened by budget woes
- Bigotry and hate in a Massachusetts University
- Final preparations begin on the first Soyuz rocket launch from French Guiana
- A labor strike today has canceled an Ariane 5 rocket launch
- Farmers flee as Indonesia’s Mount Tambora volcano rumbles
- Indiana Supreme Court has reaffirmed its earlier ruling saying that citizens have no right to resist a police officer making an illegal entry to their home
- Senate panel trims NIH budget
- Clark Jaman – a song from Shakespeare
- China’s second moon orbiter Chang’e-2 sends data from a million miles away
- Air Force official suggests they would be willing to sacrifice the X-37 in budget negotiations
- UARS crash prediction
- Police give ticket to citizen for directing traffic
- Starting in December all GM cars with OnStar will record all data unless owners opt out
- WikiLeaks chief memoir published, against his will
- New survey shows employers will drop coverage under Obamacare
- Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers – Follow the Fleet
- Proposed changes in hardware specifications may make it impossible to run free operating systems such as Linux on computers.
- With the Kyoto treaty expiring in 2012, Australia and Norway propose extending it until 2015
- House unexpectedly defeats spending bill
- Philadelphia City Council looks to regulate satellite dish placement
- A new poll shows black support for Obama slipping
- The rover Opportunity as seen from Mars orbit
- Archaeologists uncover evidence of large ancient shipyard near Rome
- UARS re-entry update
- I could hear Andrey saying it was like an American amusement park
- High school student suspended for saying “I’m a Christian. I think being a homosexual is wrong.”
- Lost Arkansas moon rock found among Governor Bill Clinton archives
- a new study shows that 790,000 Ohioans will lose their private health insurance and premiums will rise 55%-85% when Obamacare takes full effect in 2014
- An international team of scientists said on Thursday they had recorded sub-atomic particles traveling faster than light
- Times Atlas has backed down on its Greenland map and issued an apology
- Moody Blues – Forever Autumn
- Astronomers argue about the legitimacy of the first exoplanet to be directly imaged
- The first global map of the ocean’s saltiness
- Couple hit with fines for holding a Bible study in their home
- A second large satellite will rain debris down in October
- Update on UARS reentry
- Senate rejects House funding bill; shutdown looms
- Monty Python – The Cheese Shop sketch
- UARS crash updated
- Obama Administration Set to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
- Obamacare rule demands all medical records be made available to the federal government
- Muslim students found guilty of conspiring to disrupt Israeli ambassador meeting
- Another UARS update
- FCC: Your Internet belongs to us
- UARS falls in ocean
- Obama’s EPA To Shut Down 20% of Coal Plants in 2012
- New York Mets – September 24, 1969
- Sea Launch returns to flight
- Cats – Gus the theater cat
- Faster than light?
- EPA admits regulating CO2 is impossible; will go ahead anyway
- Obama: “You’ve got a governor whose state is on fire denying climate change.”
- Petition to repeal Obamacare on White House website
- Senate agrees to short term budget deal
- Pu’u Kalena on Oahu
- Video from inside the Washington Monument during the August 23, 2011 5.8 magnitude earthquake
- Iran just months from completing its first nuclear bomb
- Doctors rejecting the AMA over its support of Obamacare
- Veterans Administration Settles with Veteran’s Groups at Houston National Cemetery
- Anthropologists have uncovered what appears to be the first and only evidence of preserved flesh from an early pre-human ancestor nearly 2 million years old
- No House Democrat will sponsor Obama’s job bill, preventing it from being introduced
- A visual tour of Boeing’s new 787
- Russians still oppose allowing Dragon to berth with ISS on its January test flight
- Virtual monkeys typing Shakespeare
- Sunspot 1302 Continues to Turn Toward Earth
- Democratic governor suggests the next Congressional election should be suspended
- Obamacare sent health premiums up 9%
- Loreena McKennitt – The Stolen Child
- Facing possible inquiry, OnStar drops ‘Big Brother’ plans
- Christian pastor in Iran has been ordered to recant his faith in court or face execution
- The Accelerating Universe and Dark Energy Might Be Illusions
- NASA science administrator Ed Weiler is retiring after 33 years
- Orbital Sciences has launch success
- NASA proposes major reconstruction of its launch facility at the Kennedy Space Center
- The coming blindness of astronomy
- A new report from the EPA Office of the Inspector General has said that EPA violated its own peer review process in determining that greenhouse gases endanger “the public health and welfare.”
- Energy Department approves $737 million solar loan guarantee
- Exploring an abandoned mine in Nevada
- Fueling has begun for today’s launch of China’s first space station module
- SpaceX suspends production of its Falcon 1 rocket
- New York’s plans for shuttle display very unsettled
- Rather than follow through on $200 billion of cuts proposed by GAO, the Senate cuts GAO
- China’s first space lab module Tiangong-1 blasts off
- “A Soviet-style power grab.”
- “You’re not coming in this house without a warrant.”
- Mercury is weirder than scientists thought.
- Tiangong 1 reaches orbit
- NASA has identified ninety percent of the largest near-Earth asteroids
- House proposes a budget increase for NIH
- Yanni – Nostalgia
- China uses “America the Beautiful” as background music for animation of Tiangong 1 launch
- Bigelow lays off half its workforce
- Reality always wins
- Orbital Sciences restarts engine testing for its Taurus 2 rocket
- Scientists push for monitoring network to collect environmental and socioeconomic data from around the world
- Bigelow lays off half its workforce
- Mars atmosphere has more water vapor than predicted
- Autumn Story – chalkboard animation
- NASA now claims it can launch a manned mission to lunar orbit by 2019
- Obama administration considering eliminating the ATF
- An engineer’s take on Elon Musk’s proposal to make Falcon 9 reusable
- Hope and Crosby – The Road to Zanzibar
- Verizon sues to overturn FCC’s attempt to regulate the internet
- American scientist trapped in China
- Texas Congressmen try again to grab shuttle from New York
- Five myths about China’s space effort
- Science, Lies, and Videotape
- A Rational Fear of Islamism
- Russia launches its first Soyuz rocket since the failure in August
- Santa Catalina Mountains – hike to Romero Pools
- Arctic ozone loss at record level
- Scientist proposes that the superluminal neutrinos are merely measuring the true speed of light
- Test flights of SpaceShipTwo resume
- The world’s largest radio telescope has opened its eyes
- The red cliffs of Mars
- Dawn begins close-up orbit observations
- The strange hollows on the mountain tops of Mercury
- The Obama administration by the numbers
- An update on the ongoing X-37B mission
- For an extraterrestrial skiing experience, Enceladus is the place to go.
- Shawn Colvin – I don’t know why
- The 2011 Nobel Prize for Physics has been awarded
- A Virgin Galactic customer gets a refund
- NASA awards $1.35M to creators after their electric plane flies 200 miles
- Crime rates plummet in Chicago and Washington after gun laws were ruled unconstitutional
- A global map of Titan, in color
- The Ten Tenors – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Researcher Fired Amidst New Controversy
- A new Arianespace rocket
- Judge rules that NASA has the right to sue for camera given to former astronaut
- CBS News Reporter Says White House Screamed, Swore at Her Over allowing thousands of guns to illegally go to Mexico
- The Taj Mahal in danger of collapse
- A summary of Messenger’s first six months in orbit around Mercury
- The sun’s activity goes boom
- Aden Meinel, astronomer and innovator, has passed away
- Want to become an astronaut? NASA insists you speak Russian
- Beethoven — second movement, Fifth Symphony, performed by NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Arturo Toscanini
- Astronomers have found a dozen supernovae taking place closer to the Big Bang than ever detected.
- Water from comets
- Steve Jobs has passed away
- “A good scientist is a humble and listening scientist and not one that is sure 100 percent in what he read in the textbooks.”
- 1.6 million hand-signed petitions handed to Congress demanding Obamacare be repealed before it can be fully implemented
- Tracing the Canals of Mars
- Venus has an ozone layer too
- More on making the X-37B an ISS supply and crew ferry
- Neil Diamond – Coming to America
- Astronauts on ISS conduct eye exams in connection with recent eye problems caused by long term weightlessness
- A shutdown of a satellite today cut communications in Canada for thousands
- The first “basic essential health package,” as determined by the federal government under Obamacare, were released today.
- Pat Condell: The great Palestinian lie
- The moon contains a vast resource of titanium
- Russia drops plans to build a replacement for Soyuz rocket
- If all goes well, 2012 will be a busy year at ISS for both Dragon and Cygnus
- Fighting forest fires, with water balloons
- Five truths about climate change
- Anik F2 communications satellite back in operation
- Russia puts off building space lab
- Internal NASA documents portray a dysfunctional, political agency
- Obama Supporters Crash St. Louis Tea Party – Call Black Candidate “Ni**er”, “Uncle Tom”, Cuss In Front of Children
- For the third year in a row the federal government runs a deficit exceeding $1.3 billion
- Chain reaction
- The new hockey stick
- The Wave in the Paria Vanyon Vermillion Cliffs Wilderness Area, Arizona
- Eco-friendly festival closes down due to lack of attendence
- Richard Kiley – The Impossible Dream
- How to build a Soyuz
- A new report has found that Big Ben in London is leaning just under a half a meter off the perpendicular
- Getting to the right orbit, the hard way
- Britain faces a mini-ice age.
- Louisiana Man Wins $1.7 Million From EPA For Malicious Prosecution
- New cave discoveries in the western Caucasus of Russia
- I am going to the west
- The story of Columbus’s voyage, in Lego animation
- Rough Terrain
- The remaining assets of Rocketplane Kistler are to be auctioned off November 11
- The strange rubbing boulders of Chile
- Climategaters running a science session at geology conference
- The space police of Baikonur
- London to Tokyo in 90 minutes, via space
- No Jews allowed at Jewish holy site in Egypt
- An update on the launchpad work for the first test flight of Taurus 2
- Finding out if neutrinos actually can move faster than light.
- Gillian Welch & David Rawlings – Red Clay Halo
- Gilad Shalit freed: Israel agrees to swap a thousand Palestinian prisoners for him
- The Democratic Senate rejects Obama’s jobs plan
- A UN report says that nearly one billion people are hungry because of biofuels such as ethanol from corn
- Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser to get its first test flight in the summer of 2012
- A giant lava basin on Mars appears to have instead once been a lake of water
- ROSAT predicted to re-enter the atmosphere October 20 to October 25
- India puts four satellites in orbit with one rocket
- Space News suggests Congress use the billions for NASA’s heavy-lift rocket to fund JWST
- Placido Domingo – Furusato (My Country Home)
- Hugh Laurie – All you gotta do is . . .
- Amateur astronomers discover near Earth asteroid
- An archeology discovery in Africa suggests that Stone Age humans had an understanding of basic chemistry
- Robot Gas Attendants Could Keep Old Satellites Chugging
- Twenty-three Indian Ocean nations test their own tsumani warning system
- The man who created Unix, Dennis Richie, has died
- Europe has invited Russia to join the US/ESA ExoMars mission as full partner
- The scattered remains of Comet Elenin will pass the Earth on Sunday, 22 million miles away
- Ancient Greek ships shipped more than just wine
- Obama administration has pulled the plug on one part of Obamacare after admiting it cannot work
- The Look of Love
- NASA contracts two research flights using Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo
- Andrea Bocelli & Sarah Brightman – Time To Say Goodbye
- The designer of spy satellite finally reveals his life’s work
- Three Redneck Tenors – Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony
- North Cliffs collapse in Cornwall
- More details about SpaceShipTwo’s last test flight
- Gilad Shalit released for 1000 Palestinians
- Russians look at lunar caves for their lunar bases
- Russians plan to stick with ISS through 2028.
- Gerry & The Pacemakers – Ferry Cross The Mersey
- “After completing this study, we know less about dark matter than we did before.”
- GAO and SpaceX blast military’s plans to spend $15 billion for all its launches through 2018 in one purchase
- How NASA’s bureaucracy intends to maintain control over space exploration
- Boeing’s private space capsule passes its wind tunnel tests
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Home
- Astronomers snap a picture of a exoplanet as cool as the Earth
- First Soyuz rocket launch from South America scrubbed
- Elon Musk and the forgotten word
- NASA has given its okay to SpaceX’s Dragon abort system design
- Delays in prepping the launchpad force Orbital to delay the first test flight of its Taurus 2 rocket
- A baby star surrounded by “oceans of water”
- Beauty and the Beast – Tale as Old as Time
- An independent study of climate suggests the climate has warmed 0.9 degrees Celsius since 1950
- A successful first launch of a Russian rocket outside of the old Soviet Union
- Orbital Sciences had its profits rise in the third quarter of 2011
- World on fire
- Orbital announces revised schedule for its initial Taurus 2 and Cygnus flights
- House Panel Lays Out Spending Preferences for science programs
- Having topped 21 miles on its odometer, Opportunity is beginning its preparation for another winter on Mars
- NASA satellite falls on car
- The Republican presidential candidate we’ve all been waiting for
- Six northeast senators introduce legislation making it a felony to sell fake maple syrup
- ROSAT expected to fall to Earth this weekend
- More money troubles for Webb telescope
- Plagiarism at Politico
- Kate Rusby – Let me be
- ROSAT has crashed to Earth, but no one knows where as yet
- NASA negotiating an extension of its deal with the Russians to fly astronauts to ISS
- NASA Is Considering Fuel Depots in the Skies
- Round house in Brazil
- The highest balloon airship in the world
- Tea Party in Space argues for more money for commercial space
- NASA steals moon rock given to widow of NASA engineer
- Living in the Heavenly Palace
- VAB to be opened to tourists for the first time in years
- Ultimate caption fail
- Eradicating polio: not this year
- The Hastings College Choir – Home on the Range
- Russia’s next attempt to return to Mars is set for a November 9 launch
- Comet Elenin is no more
- Has dark matter been identified?
- NASA has ended its underwater mission early due to an approaching hurricane
- The battle in Congress of the EPA’s effort to regulate dust
- The cause of white nose, the killer of bats
- Eris, twin of Pluto
- Britain’s Royal Society has made its archive freely accessible online
- Virgin Galactic has hired its first astronaut pilot
- Catching an avalanche on Mars, as it happens
- Doubts on Display from Congress during hearing on Private Space
- A really big Tesla coil
- An international research team has diagnosed the oldest known case of prostate cancer in ancient Egypt and the second oldest case in the world.
- According to Zubrin, Obama about to terminate all NASA science
- A Random Collection Of Awesome Things
- We are Now Enemies of the State
- Dismantling the last U.S. hydrogen bomb
- House votes to restrict healthcare law, with White House support
- “It’s not a rubble pile, it’s a solid block of rock.”
- Two hacker attacks of American climate satellites in the past four years
- The Grateful Dead – Mountains of the Moon
- Obama Administration Pushing for Solar Projects on Public Lands
- The race to mine the Moon
- Astronomers have proposed that the cloud of dust that surrounds about 50% of the supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies comes from destroyed planets
- NASA Inspector General Paul Martin Is Not Going to Comment About An Abused Elderly Woman in Botched Moon Rock Sting
- LHC’s first year’s hunt for the Higgs is ending
- Chile’s powerful Cerro Hudson volcano is threatening to erupt
- Automakers are developing technology to let cars drive themselves
- US debt to surpass GDP on Halloween
- Arcade Fire – Sprawl II (mountains beyond mountains)
- Progress freighter undocks from ISS
- Mars500 crew prepare to open the hatch
- Apollo astronaut has been forced to return camera to NASA
- A giant sequoia has fallen in Giant Sequoia National Monument in California
- Humans do it quickly
- Explorers appear to have found the wrecks from Sir Francis Drake’s last voyage
- The Beatles performing Shakespeare
- Russians successfully put Progress freighter into orbit
- Another global warming scientist is accused of hiding the decline
- Herman Cain speaks out about NASA and space
- They should Occupy Prison
- Shirley Bassey – Two songs
- The long minimum continues
- Boeing leases shuttle hanger from NASA for its CST-100 manned ferry operations
- The Haunting
- China launches unmanned spacecraft to do a rendezvous and docking test with its first space station
- Kepler scientists propose extending the space telescope’s mission
- An investigation has concluded that a fired Dutch researcher falsified data on dozens of papers
- Appropriations bill promising $1 billion cut will increase spending by more than $9 billion according to one senator
- The Piano
- Wildlife Biologist Found Guilty of Attempting to Poison Feral Cats
- A series of technical problems have forced engineers to temporarily halt science operations on Mars Express
- Senate approves NASA budget
- The Viking Sunstone Revealed?
- Excalibur Almaz joins commercial crew program
- Three giant ground telescopes fight for funding
- Astronomers prepare for an asteroid fly-by on November 8, using the Earth as the spacecraft
- Progress freighter has docked at ISS
- The offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo have been destroyed by a petrol bomb, a day after it named the Prophet Mohammed as its “editor-in-chief” for this week’s issue.
- China has successfully done its first docking in space
- A National Research Council panel today proposed creating a massive data network using the private health records of patients.
- TSA and federal government ignored cancer concerns associated with airport X-ray scanners
- Gene Pitney – Looking Through The Eyes Of Love
- “Unfortunately, it’s worse than it looks.”
- White House officials held talks with China over technology, despite a law banning such talks
- Sailing to Mars
- General Electric, whose CEO is a strong Obama backer, gets no flack from the NLRB for building an aircraft factory in a right-to-work state.
- A new study has been released detailing the vision problems experienced by astronauts on space flights longer than six months
- Finding ET by looking for their city lights
- The global output of atmospheric carbon dioxide jumped in 2010 by the biggest amount on record, according to the U.S. Department of Energy
- For the first time in a half-century, Cubans will be allowed to buy and sell real estate openly
- The Obama administration has failed to meet more than half the deadlines in its own healthcare law
- The largest sunspot in years appears on the sun
- Robot obstacle course
- A NASA senior review of all planetary missions?
- The Mars rover Opportunity has spotted a geological formation not previously seen anywhere on Mars.
- Vintage leather football helmets are often as protective as modern hard football helmets
- The 520-day simulated mission to Mars has been completed
- Get ready for another government shutdown battle
- Russia heads for Mars
- The first in orbit tests of Robonaut halted because the robot did not carry out its commands as expected.
- Occupying vs. Tea Partying
- Brian Malow – Nobel, Edison & the Speed of Light
- The largest sunspot in years released the largest flare in years on Thursday
- An inside look at NASA bureaucratic madness
- Iranian officials have been pressuring a jailed pastor to return to Islam as he waits for the nation’s supreme leader to decide whether he should be executed for converting to Christianity
- Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova – Falling Slowly
- Rather than gliding, the first flying bats used their wings to flutter down on their prey
- Finally some substance in the Presidential campaign
- An international team of astronauts recently completed a six day underground cave mission
- A fragment of human jaw unearthed in a prehistoric cave in Torquay is the earliest evidence of modern humans in north-west Europe
- Sports images of the 20th century
- Federal agency has ruled that thousands of lakefront homes in Missouri must be removed, despite being built legally and having been in place for decades
- Watch asteroid 2005 YU buzz the Earth tomorrow with your backyard telescope
- Before and after pictures in Japan, six months after the March 11 tsunami
- New conservative website: Not Mitt Romney
- A breathtaking view of the Apollo 15 landing site
- NASA’s Deep Space Network has captured a radar image of asteroid 2005 YU55
- Judi Dench – Send in the Clowns
- DARPA has launched a program to use airplanes as the launchpad for putting satellites in orbit
- We’re still not cutting
- A gallery of Occupy Wall Street hatred
- NASA moves first flight test of Orion capsule up three years to 2014
- Mars Express takes a close look at the Mars volcano Tharsis Tholus
- Scientists are considering breaking free from the solar year in how they synchronous their atomic clocks
- Jibjab – Time for some campaigning
- Phobos-Grunt appears to be in trouble in Earth orbit
- A fired up Sun
- More info on the failure of Phobos-Grunt
- Russia has two weeks to save Phobos-Grunt
- Escape from Berlin
- NASA successfully test-fired today the upper stage engine of its heavy-lift rocket
- Lightning!
- No, TSA, I will not lift my skirt for you.
- Taming lightning
- Disgraced Dutch Pyschologist Returns Doctoral Degree
- The New Madrid fault might be turning off
- Violence and hatred in the Occupy “Whatever” movement
- How much does the internet weigh?
- NASA picks the Delta 4 Heavy to launch Orion into orbit on its first test flight
- Man shot and killed “near” Occupy Oakland camp
- It looks bad for Phobos-Grunt
- New data suggests that the asteroid Lutetia is a Rare Survivor from the Birth of the Earth
- Astronomers find clouds of primordial gas from the early universe
- The fastest spinning normal star
- Supercommittee to the rescue
- Are cows magnetic?
- Fired Penn State president had a habit of squelching embarassing investigations
- The manufacturer of artificial hips and knees will cut its workforce by five percent next year to reduce costs in the face of new fees required by Obamacare
- New data says scientists must look underground for life on Mars
- Supernova may have kicked off solar system
- Toxic Russian Mars probe aims for Earth
- From Here to Eternity – Reverly
- Scientists have released a new 28 frame movie of asteroid 2005 YU55
- A millionaire has purchased two tickets on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo and is looking for a woman to join him
- Gallup reports that since Obamacare became law 4.5 million Americans have lost their employer sponsored health insurance.
- Mary Black – The Moon And St.Christopher
- The environmental regulations or actions of the Obama administration has destroyed more than 2.6 million jobs
- First manned Soyuz launch set for Sunday night
- NASA halting work on its J-2X rocket engine
- Occupy Portland protesters prepare to confront police
- Deborah Harry – The Tide is High
- Police clear out Occupy protesters in Portland, arresting fifty
- Soyuz rocket successfully launches three astronauts into orbit
- A first glimpse inside Fukushima since the March 11 earthquake
- Scheduling the next Dragon flight, the first to dock with ISS
- Russian space agency head says there is still a chance to save Phobos-Grunt
- A Singaporean businessman, his wife and two children have paid $1 million to become the first Asian family to fly together on SpaceShipTwo
- The Chinese have completed a second docking at their space station
- The Supreme Court has agreed to hear the challenge to Obamacare during this term
- NASA, the federal budget, and common sense
- Shifou Mountain Footpath Construction
- Voyager 2 has switched to backup thrusters in an effort to extend the spacecraft’s life
- Gold plated interstellar clouds, sprayed by supernovae
- NASA budget compromise
- The Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere
- Bronze artifact found in Alaska
- NASA extends Messenger mission at Mercury one year
- Firing Incompetent Employees ‘Would Harm The Agency’s Work,’ SEC Chief Says
- The Wisconsin doctors who issued fake sick notes during the protests earlier this year will face the Wisconsin Medical Examining Board on Wednesday
- Government inspector forces private citizens in a private house to pour bleach on home-grown food
- Congress has slashed the budget of John Holdren’s White House Science Office
- Ray Lynch – The Vanished Gardens of Cordoba
- The Winds of Mars
- Is Newt Gingrich America’s Churchill?
- Another ObamaCare Glitch
- Soyuz capsule had docked with ISS
- Curing cancer using DNA and drugs
- Is shooting down Phobos-Grunt an option?
- Obama administration pushes to limit gun use on pubic lands
- Scientists have found evidence of a great lake below the surface of Europa
- Testimony at a House hearing yesterday suggests OMB plans to end NASA’s planetary program are true
- The Arrogant Worms – Rocks and Trees
- Obamacare threatens to cripple the American medical device industry
- Shenzhou 8 has returned successfully to Earth after completing its docking and rendezvous mission with China’s first space station
- Daffy Duck – The Great Piggy Bank Robbery
- The giant storm on Saturn
- An analysis of the sun’s past solar cycles suggests that the sun might not be going into a prolonged minimum
- The CERN experiment that appeared to see faster-than-light neutrinos has repeated its results, except that not everyone on the team agrees
- Shenzhou for Dummies
- Ninja Cat
- light posting
- European Union bureaucrats forbid bottled water companies from advertising that their product prevents dehydration
- Charles Laughton – The Gettysburg Address from Ruggles of Red Gap
- Canada is about to repeal its oppressive hate law
- An engineering prize to rival the Nobel
- Some historical context in discussing the federal debt
- Occupy Wall Street protesters stay at $700-a-night hotel
- BLM backs off its attempt to ban shooting on public lands
- FBI statistics show an increase in anti-semitism, not islamophobia
- Uncertainty rules the day
- The Moody Blues – I´m Just a Singer (in a Rock and Roll Band)
- The hunt for the “God Particle” enters the final stretch
- A 70-million-year-old nest of fifteen baby dinosaurs has been found
- James Hansen and the corruption of science
- The case against SpaceX
- NASA’s next chief scientist: an former astronaut
- The man behind the cameras on Mars
- The Pilgrims arrive in New England
- Soyuz with three astronauts undocks from ISS
- Japanese engineers aim Akatsuki for a second attempt at orbiting Venus in 2015
- Figuring out the diet of an extinct lion subspecies
- Supercommittee gives up
- Russian Soyuz capsule lands safely with three astronauts
- Russia is considering shifting its planetary research from Mars to the Moon, following the failure of Phobos-Grunt
- You see, they aren’t really cuts; they are a slowdown in the budget increases.
- A new batch of hacked climategate emails have been released
- Climategate 2
- ‘Perfect black’ coating can render a 3D object flat, raises intriguing dark veil possibility in astronomy
- An especially dark and pessimistic interpretation of Obama
- Space Show 2011 fundraising campaign
- The Kennedy assassination
- Debris from destroyed satellite may force ISS astronauts to take shelter
- A team of Italian scientists have reviewed the earlier faster-than-light neutrino results and have rejected them.
- Illegal immigrants from Mexico are believed responsible for more than one-third of human-ignited wildfires in Arizona since 2006
- Rest in Peace: Anne McCaffrey, 85
- An ESA tracking station in Australia has made contact with Phobos-Grunt
- Training space tourists for their suborbital flight
- India pushes for a sharing of intellectual property rights at Durban climate talks
- Violence and oppression from the left
- ESA antenna contacts Phobos-Grunt again, this time downloading telemetry data
- Four times a year 80 Chinese children walk to school by scaling 1000 ft cliffs and fording swollen rivers
- This time the turkey wins
- An update on the efforts to save Phobos-Grunt
- Evidence from a cave in Australia suggests that humans were doing deep sea fishing more than 40,000 years ago
- Gingrich’s presidential campaign has gotten him no endorsements from Republican lawmakers
- George Winston – Thanksgiving
- ESA tracking station loses contact with Phobos-Grunt
- A preview of the new Mars unmanned rover Curiousity, set for launch on Saturday
- The best research paper abstract, evar!
- One scientist’s perspective on the new Climategate emails
- A very compelling case for life
- Another carbon trading scheme is failing, this time in Alberta Canada
- New data suggests the global climate is not as sensitive to changes in carbon dioxide as predicted by past climate models
- Einstein explains E=mc²
- Building Boeing’s CST-100 manned capsule, the smart way
- SpaceX is expanding its Florida operations
- “Perpetuating rubbish”: a detailed analysis of one part of the new climategate emails
- The ozone hole, in context
- Now the European carbon market is crashing
- Curiousity has launched
- Memo to the Occupy protesters: Ten things we evil capitalists really think
- Before Thanksgiving, the big holiday this week was Evacuation Day
- David Lanz and Paul Speer – Behind the waterfall/Desert rain medley
- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev raised the prospect of criminal prosecution for recent space failures
- Obama nixes UN $100 billion climate fund
- ‘Jet Man’ Flies In Formation Over Swiss Alps
- Occupy Wall Street protester arrested for threatening to kill the Republican governor of South Carolina
- A searchable database of the climategate emails
- Newt Gingrich snags top New Hampshire newspaper endorsement
- Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton – Can’t Find My Way Home
- How Richard Branson started Virgin Atlantic
- Shilling for climate cash
- Scientists have figured out how to make the perfect foam
- Why Climategate 2 is important: a close look at a full email thread, and how it tried to squelch knowledge
- Airport worker fired for standing up to abuse by Muslim employees
- Further analysis of the climategate 2 emails: Hiding the decline by Michael Mann
- Senate bill would allow the military to arrest and hold US citizens at home or abroad indefinitely
- Two weeks after the Richmond Tea Party complained about the city government’s double standard about protests and demanded a refund for its costs, they received a letter that they are being audited.
- The New York Times and the BBC: Global warming activists
- Michael Crawford – The Music of the Night
- “What the hell are we paying you for?”
- American Airlines files for bankruptcy
- The astronomical logbooks of David H. Levy, now online
- Lame-duck Barney Frank joins effort to repeal Obamacare “death panels”
- The landing date of the X-37B remains a mystery, even as it nears a record mission length
- The 1960s space race: The US orbits its first living animal, Enos the chimpanzee
- Outcry over possible cuts to the European Union’s science budget
- Senate passes bill allowing military to hold US citizens indefinitely, even within the US borders
- New discoveries at Stonehenge are suggesting the site is far older than previously believed
- Nanosail-D has sailed home, burning up in the atmosphere on September 17
- An ISS status report confirms that NASA has combined the next two Dragon test missions into one flight
- Video: The competing worldviews of the Tea Party and OWS
- Pictures of London’s Tower Bridge, taken during construction in the 1890s, discovered
- Despite earmark ban, some lawmakers continue to try to give money to hundreds of pet projects
- Canada has joined the United States in raising objections to a planned $100-billion a year climate fund
- Signals transmitted to Phobos-Grunt this week have failed to raise its orbit
- Some further information on the flight of the X-37B
- What Do Democrats Really Stand For Today?
- The collapse of the solar power industry
- How a Chinese cave got listed on the U.S. stock market
- Weather, not climate
- A new Rasmussen national poll: Gingrich 45% Obama 43%
- The first observations of a star, just prior to going supernova
- New evidence suggests the Earth’s early atmosphere was not what scientists have up-to-now expected
- Uncovering China’s vast network of nuclear weapon tunnels
- Boeing and union settle NLRB suit over South Carolina plant
- NASA confiscates stolen rocket engine that had been put up for sale on ebay
- “Can we go again?”
- German authorities ask 45,000 people to evacuate their town this weekend while bomb experts defuse a just discovered World War II bomb
- The meltdown at Fukushima in Japan came within a foot of breaching the reactor
- Over-the-counter osteoporosis drug appears to keep astronauts from losing bone density on long space flights
- Diederik Stapel, the Dutch social psychologist who admitted to faking data in numerous published papers, has retracted his first paper
- Strange red galaxies
- What Tim Tebow Can’t Do
- NORAD is ready to track Santa’s flight
- More budget battles in Europe over $16 billion fusion reactor project
- Dawn soars over Vesta in 3D
- Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
- Mitt vs. Newt
- Mountains and buried ice on Mars
- A crab that grows its own food
- The Eiffel Tower could be transformed into a giant green “jungle” covered in 600,000 plants as part of an environmental scheme.
- Europe has ceased its effort to contact Phobos-Grunt
- Mysterious Metal Object Crashes Through Roof of Warehouse
- How to build a washing machine for interplanetary travel
- Teenager forced to miss flight because the TSA was terrified of the gun design on her purse
- Eighteen new exoplanets found by the Keck ground-based telescope
- Huntsman accepts invitation from Gingrich to a one-on-one long form debate
- Uganda’s suborbital spaceplane, under construction in the backyard of the designer’s mother
- Martha Raye – No Time At All
- Nature: Political science in Durbin
- Electric car company shuts down
- “I was bleeding like a pig.”
- Two climate papers of interest
- The X-37B: what is it for?
- The March 11 earthquake off the coast of Japan shifted the seabed 165 feet and raised it 33 feet, the largest shift ever recorded
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Perpetuum Mobile
- Multiple dark matter experiments produce multiple results
- Occupy Richmond stands up for the Richmond Tea Party
- Boston Bans E-Cigarettes, Just Because
- Business shuts down because of Obamacare and other federal regulation
- German bomb experts successfully defuse WW II bomb after evacuating 45,000
- Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere reach new high
- Teddy Bear the porcupine
- India’s satellite television channels face blackouts due to the unreliability of an aging satellite.
- New data throws doubt on last year’s discovery of a bacteria that used arsenic as one of the basic elements of life
- A collection of pertinent emails from Climategate 2
- Astronomers have found a star that is spinning a million times per hour
- World War II: After the war, in photos
- U.S. military has rescinded its policy that banned bibles at Walter Reed hospital
- From Kepler: Dozens of Earths in the habitable zone
- Voyager 1 at the edge
- Planets of diamond
- Two newly discovered supermassive black holes weigh in as the heaviest known
- The DB Cooper hijacking case might finally be solved.
- The National Health Service of the UK is making its patient database available to researchers
- Family reluctantly gives up its hold on Santa Rosa Island
- Harve Presnell – They Call The Wind Maria
- Colorful Vesta
- “It’s degrading. It’s like someone raped you.”
- Strange streets
- The next test flight of Falcon 9/Dragon has slipped again
- The Hubble Space Telescope has now been used as a reference in more than 10,000 science papers
- The explosive Kilauea volcano
- Paypal shuts down charity
- The Pathetic State Of Science Journalism
- From the AGU: All softballs for James Hansen
- Will it blend? – cyalume sticks
- Cannonball fired in Mythbusters stunt goes through nearby home
- Phobos-Grunt now appears to be breaking up
- Rumors of Higgs
- An experiment designed to mimic the dynamo at the Earth’s core is about to be turned on.
- Ramping way up!
- Names of China’s second class of astronauts revealed by stamp collectible
- “That’s not my signature.”
- On the way to its winter haven, Opportunity found more evidence of water on Mars
- Casablanca – “I bet they are asleep in New York. I bet they’re asleep all over America.”
- The year long mega storms of Saturn
- The first female astronaut from Russia in decades might fly to ISS in 2013
- NASA looks to 3D printing to create spare parts and tools in ISS
- City lights seen from space show the evolution and development of countries over time
- Recent results from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have found no evidence of dark matter, a result in some conflict with data obtained from several underground research detectors.
- Final results show the number of Atlantic hurricanes in 2011 was average, far less than predicted
- The trial of seven Italian earthquake experts facing manslaughter charges for not correctly predicting an earthquake continued this week.
- An update on the climate treaty talks in Durban
- An audit by NASA’s inspector general finds that NASA can’t keep track of its moon rocks
- Sons of the Pioneers – Tumbling Tumble Weeds
- Hole for rent
- LightSquared touts new tests prove its internet service will not interfere with GPS
- “Also we have applied a completely artificial adjustment to the data after 1960, so they look closer to observed temperatures than the tree-ring data actually were.”
- Higgs announcement from CERN on December 13
- 6 Insane Early Drafts of Iconic Buildings
- A new poll shows a record high anti-incumbent sentiment toward Congress
- Corzine: I didn’t tell my company to use customer dollars, and if I did, I didn’t mean it.
- Why Washington is shocked, shocked by Newt Gingrich’s rise over Mitt Romney
- Phobos-Grunt now predicted to fall back to Earth in early January
- NASA has announced a February 7 launch date for SpaceX’s next test flight of Falcon 9 and Dragon
- Panning for gold on the streets of New York
- The draft treaty being proposed in Durban
- A college mate of Obama describes the President’s political beliefs
- Your orbital trip on a Boeing spaceship
- The Air Forces has awarded contracts to Andrews Space, Boeing and Lockheed Martin to develop a reusable first stage booster
- LightSquared actually disrupted 75% of the GPS receivers used during government testing
- Mining the Moon for fun and profit
- Durban climate negotiations in overtime
- Lily at trailside
- Deal struck at Durban
- The enormous bones of what is believed to be the biggest dinosaur in the U.S. have been unveiled by university researchers.
- The CEO of LightSquared might face SEC fraud charges
- Paul McCartney and Wings – Band on the Run
- A thoughtful analysis as to why tea party supporters are breaking to Gingrich
- Doug Ross notes the fawning lack of any real questions to President Obama during an interview by a CBS journalist.
- Orbital Sciences has renamed its Taurus II rocket the Antares rocket
- Long faces in Durban
- Canada is expected to pull out of Kyoto on Monday
- New poll shows the same thing as 83 previous polls: a solid majority wants Obamacare repealed
- Dawn has now lowered its orbit to 130 miles above the asteroid Vesta
- Quadriga Consort – Carolan’s Cup / The Two William Davises
- “For a moment, Newt Gingrich succeeded in making me feel sorry for President Obama.”
- Deal reached on Defense authorization bill that had included language allowing the military to hold U.S. citizen indefinitely
- CERN announces an update on the search for the Higgs Boson
- Rifts in the Congressional Black Caucus over the investigation of Fast and Furious and the calls for Holder to resign
- Sir David Attenborough admits to shooting fake polar bear footage for a BBC documentary
- Hurricane predictors admit they can’t predict hurricanes
- A Maryland post office bans Christmas carolers
- Southwest orders 208 Boeing 737s valued at $19 billion
- An open letter to Eric Holder from an ATF agent in Mexico
- The European Space Agency will make two more attempts to contact Phobos-Grunt
- Environmental scientist caught agreeing to ignore her own data and to make up new claims
- State Department meeting with Islamists to discuss free speech restrictions
- Chained and in tears: Children found in basement as police raid Islamic school thought to be a “Taliban training centre”
- Obamacare to kill 100,000 jobs in January
- President Obama is trailing against both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in 12 swing states that Obama won in 2008, according to a poll released today.
- Rutan, Allen, Musk, Griffin team up to develop an air-launch rocket system to fire hardware and humans into orbit.
- Walking through a doorway does make you forget what you were doing
- Mark “Indy” Kochte – West Virginia Nights 2011
- Scientists have built the world’s smallest steam engine, only a few thousandths of a millimeter wide.
- Testimony at a Senate hearing about the theft of customer funds at MF Global revealed today the Jon Corzine did know of the theft, contrary to his own testimony before Congress.
- Russian space designer Boris Chertok dies at 99
- Explaining Newt
- The Gingrich gamble
- A University of Denver professor plans to teach the same course next spring that, because of two anonymous complaints, caused him to be suspended for more than 100 days.
- The $600,000 toad statue your tax dollars paid for and you will never see in person
- The supernova of a generation
- LightSquared outraged at leaked GPS test report
- Germany’s space chief sees big battles in Europe over funding for ISS and Ariane
- Astronomers have discovered a gas cloud on a collision course with the galaxy’s central black hole
- Scientists have discovered how hummingbirds manage to fly like insects despite the limitations of their bird skeletons.
- One congressman’s take on climate change and climategate
- A big sideways slip on Mars
- Climategate: the failure of scientific integrity in climate science
- Archaeologists announced yesterday that they have dug to the very core of Mexico’s tallest pyramid and found what may be the original ceremonial offering placed on the site prior to construction
- Climate theatre of the absurd
- Walking through the new American Amundsen Scott South Pole station
- The IPCC scientist working group has decided that Freedom of Information Act laws do not apply to its work
- Johnson Space Center goes to backup power after a truck crashes into utility tower
- The lost decade
- UK police seize computers of skeptic blogger in England
- Phobos-Grunt: what’s in a name?
- Tiangong-1 orbiter starts planned cabin checks against toxic gas
- The stimulus was not a one time expense, it was built into the baseline
- Wisconsin teachers union are harassing a teacher who did a commercial in support of Governor Scott Walker
- FAA tests find that LightSquared’s broadband system interferes “with a flight safety system designed to warn pilots of approaching terrain.”
- NASA has decided to stick with the same contracting arrangement it used for the COTS contracts
- Alan Boyle describes the details behind NASA’s decision to go with simpler contracting for future commercial rocket contracts
- Another ObamaCare program goes bankrupt
- The Obama Justice Department is going after climategate whistleblowers
- The first debris from the March 11 Japanese earthquake/tsunami has reached the shores of the northwest U.S.
- A Russian scientist has found large amounts of methane being released in the atmosphere in the Arctic
- The Cowsills – Hair
- Jon Corzine Was Served Papers from one of MF Global’s customers During His Hearing Recess
- “He can’t run on his record. What’s he going to say – ’Vote for me because of the failed stimulus, all those deficits I piled up and a health care bill you hate?’”
- Rider on the Storm
- Joe Simon, the creator of Captain America, has died at 98
- Scientists have found microbes inside a lava tube that can thrive in the freezing cold and low oxygen environment of Mars.
- NIH and DOE in the proposed budget deal
- Christopher Hitchens, 1949–2011
- The Fukushima nuclear reactor has reached the state of cold shutdown
- Budget deal cuts EPA by three percent
- Russia’s space agency has banned its employees from any foreign travel
- Climategate: Did the Department of Energy help Phil Jones hide climate data?
- An elementary school program which includes the singing of “Silent Night” will go on after Alabama school officials decided to ignore a complaint filed by a group that called the song “unconstitutional.”
- A voter’s guide to Republicans
- Obama’s Watergate
- Tea Party Patriots leader arrested at airport for checking in lawful pistol.
- GetOut
- NASA Faces Further Cuts in Last-minute Spending Package
- Russia announces it supports Canada’s decision to pull out of the Kyoto accords
- Hey, they still let us drive
- Solar scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center up their prediction for the next solar maximum
- Comet Lovejoy lost its tail in skimming through the Sun’s atmosphere
- Russian rocket completes its second launch from French Guiana
- Richard Branson talks to the Wall Street Journal
- A slap on the wrist for the Wisconsin doctors who handed out fake sick notes.
- “We Didn’t Know What The Hell Was Going On”
- Boy disciplined after waving gun-shaped pizza slice
- Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
- Europe to test fly a suborbital space plane in 2014
- The Battle of the Bulge in photos
- The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog, now online
- Using the spacecraft’s last drops of fuel, engineers are attempting to aim Deep Impact toward a rendezvous with near Earth asteroid 2002 GT.
- A Spanish company has announced it will build a space hotel by 2012
- Virginia residents oppose preparations for climate-related sea-level rise
- Vaclav Havel has passed away at 75.
- A Christmas Miracle.
- The Great Spending Betrayal
- Deficit may be biggest threat to ObamaCare
- Egyptian Islamists have been accused of kidnaping Christian girls and forcing them to convert to Islam under threat of rape.
- Festive Mechanized Holiday Cat Accessories
- The astonishing collapse of MF Global
- North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, 69, has died
- The states have shed thousands of public employees since the beginning of the recession
- Seven predictions for the year 2011 from 1931
- The bar at the center of the Milky Way
- Former astronaut John Grunsfeld is to take over NASA’s science post from Ed Weiler
- EPA ponders expanding its regulatory power in the name of “sustainable development”
- A new kind of metal in the deep Earth
- Five ridiculous gun myths promoted by movies
- The Supreme Court sets the dates for hearing arguments for and against Obamacare
- Russia’s GPS system, Glonass, has reached full operational capability for the first time since the fall of the Soviet Union
- A telescope to go where no telescope has gone before
- “It’s the Obama, stupid”
- Swallowed pen still works 25 years later
- Scientists have located one of the quarries used by the builders of Stonehenge
- Harvard Faculty Fires Economics Professor over Political Article Published in India
- Bugs Bunny – Racketeer Rabbit
- LightSquared is running out of cash
- Why Are Indian Reservations So Poor?
- FBI sees drop in violent and property crimes in every region of the U.S.
- Another Obamacare surprise: As of January 1, 2012, the government will begin sharing your Medicare data with others, unless you opt out.
- Using Hubble astronomers have found evidence that complex molecules lie on the surface of Pluto.
- The spread of anti-semitism and censorship at European universities.
- First Earth-sized planets found
- For as yet unexplained reasons, scientists have been finding isolated colonies of little brown bats — once the most common bat species in the region and the hardest hit by white nose syndrome — surviving and healthy.
- Government spending at its stupidest.
- Miniatur Wunderland – largest model railway in the world
- Obamacare: 2011 in review
- Global warming is good for you!
- Russia launches three astronauts to ISS
- A Sun-like Star with Three Sub-Neptune Exoplanets and Two Earth-size Candidates
- Obamacare abominations
- Giant tsunami-shaped clouds in Alabama
- Focusing in on the theft of customer funds at MF Global
- At last, a close look at Vesta
- Putting the chill on global warming skeptics
- Volcano boarding in Nicaragua
- Bigotry on campus
- The NASA shuttle simulator for training astronauts is going to at Texas A&M
- Bringing an asteroid home in a bag.
- “No big plane will ever be taken that way again, because the passengers will fight back.”
- The end of LightSquared
- Mystery space ball drops on Namibia
- More bad news for the anti-energy, green greed brigade
- A career employee in the Voting Section of Justice’s Civil Rights Division has confessed to committing perjury.
- The view of Comet Lovejoy from ISS
- Andrea McArdle sings “Tomorrow” at an Annie Workshop
- Four New York Democrats plead guilty to voter fraud
- Underground exploring today
- Mall Santa Musical
- Another Russian launch failure today
- Fragments from the failed Russian launch crash onto “Cosmonaut Street” in Siberia
- One of its lead authors has quit the IPCC.
- A man dressed up as a Christmas tree to protest the Christmas decoration ban at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal
- TSA agent confiscated a cupcake.
- Why Did I Have To Go To Pravda To Get My Op-Ed About TSA Rape Published?
- The Rainmaker
- Obama campaign: “$40 a month adds up to roughly $1000 a year
- The man who invented the Erector set
- Scottish couple unearth mysterious stone head in their garden, a spitting image of Homer Simpson
- As the Pope calls for peace, Nigerian Islamists murder Catholics
- Military Wives – Wherever you are
- The story of the men and women who built Hexagon
- Sleeves’ Christmas song
- Israel to send medical aid after Nigeria attacks
- Scientists last week published a paper claiming that the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdown caused 14,000 U.S. deaths.
- Engineers say the mysterious sphere that crashed in Africa is a hydrazine tank from a rocket
- A country in denial about its fiscal future
- Montanans have launched a recall campaign against their senators for voting for unlimited military detention
- Santa Claus Arrested Following Joint Investigation by IRS, INS, and FWS
- Lugar may be in jeopardy in primary from Tea Party challenger
- The Leaning Towers from around the world
- Why the establishment fears Newt Gingrich
- Russia scrubs launch of Proton rocket due to “technical problems.”
- Ron Paul as seen by a former staffer
- Several of China’s biggest borrowers have been given permission to delay loan payments
- A day made of glass
- A family struggles to complete a Knoxville to Nashville trip using an electric car
- Newfound treasures at an archeological dig in Panama have provided scientists with the best clues yet about an unnamed tribal culture that had trived in the centuries just prior to the arrival of the Spaniards.
- A paralympic athlete, paralyzed from the waist down since she was thirteen, has regained her ability to walk after a collision with a bicycle, and now wants to compete in the 2016 Olympics.
- Slow news
- The Music Man – Till there was you
- Tarzan’s chimp co-star Cheetah has died at his Palm Harbor sanctuary.
- The chief operating officer of MF Global, the man who lost $1.2 billion, happens to also be the chairman of the EPA’s financial advisory board
- Doh! Top Science Journal Retractions of 2011
- The Arizona Court of Appeals has ruled that refusing to open your door does not allow the police to enter without a warrant
- China has activated its own GPS satellite system
- The strange deep-sea creatures at a volcanic vent
- Arizona’s ethnic studies program have been ruled illegal
- The Obama Nation: Even More Debt And Even More Store Closings
- Holder laments the murders caused by the use of illegal guns
- Lurie and Atkinson – writing Shakespeare
- Soyuz rocket successfully launched six satellites into orbit today
- “The USA is officially the most charitable nation in the world.”
- Samoa will skip Friday to flip across the international dateline to be in synch with its major trading partners in Asia
- A Russian minister has threatened dire consequences after a group of Russian bloggers were able to wander freely through a rocket plant for literally days.
- China issues a white paper on space, outlining its future goals
- Top 10 Worst Federal Rules of 2011
- New Rasmussen poll shows Romney beating Obama 45%-39%
- Unfit to Print
- The terraced slopes of Aristarchus
- Egypt raids the offices of seventeen human rights organizations
- Fired employee goes on rampage
- The South Pole had its warmest day on record on Christmas Day this year
- Volcanic activity in the Red Sea is producing a new island
- An eruption today of the very remote Cleveland volcano in the Aleutian Islands has caused an air traffic alert.
- The trends in worldwide energy use
- Six tired arguments the energy sector needs to stop using
- Want to see an asteroid eclipse a star?
- How to self-destruct your company with just a few measly emails
- Democratic Party and Obama fundraiser has been convicted of a $21 million bank fraud scheme
- Congress has ended the corn ethanol tax subsidy
- Jib Jab – 2011, Buh-Bye!
- The spenders won 2011
- Why are so many offended by Tim Tebow’s faith?
- The first of two Grail space probes has entered lunar orbit
- Eddi Reader – Auld Lang Syne
- Occupy Albany protesters threaten a police officer and his family
- At the end of 2011, America, like much of the rest of the Western world, has dug deeper into a cocoon of denial.
- Iran claimed today that it has produced first nuclear fuel rod
- The second Grail space probe has entered lunar orbit
- Trinity University’s winning lateral play vs Millsaps
- Olympic VIPs will get 4000 BMWs and their own private traffic lanes in what the Olympics bill as the “green Games.”
- The top 10 tech ‘fails’ of 2011
- A Saudi woman has been beheaded for “witchcraft and sorcery.”
- The new Arctic ozone hole
- Fun with dry ice
- Top 10 Ways Hollywood Can Win Its Audience Back
- How to deal with the leftwing press
- Why Irish soldiers who fought Hitler hide their medals
- Presenting 2011’s Top 10 Most Corrupt American Politicians
- The quasicrystal from outer space
- The tiny thrusters that could.
- Space exploration and the unexpected consequences of government decisions
- Robert Goulet – If ever I would leave you
- Iowa caucus results
- The United States closed 2011 with a record $15.22 trillion Debt that was officially 100.3% of GDP and only $14 billion from breaching the debt ceiling
- The Quadrantids meteor shower on tonight
- The National Science Foundation has declined until 2020 to commit to funding a giant American-built ground-based telescope
- Ecliptic, the company that puts cameras on rockets
- What is this stuff?
- Democrats regulating the dead
- EPA Terrorizes Couple Over Their Dream Home
- The sounds of the stars
- The Sun calms down in December
- A NASA inquiry into the ownership of a variety of space artifacts, including Jim Lovell’s Apollo 13 checklist, has halted their sale at auction.
- Obama to make a recess appointment, even though Congress is not in recess
- Is the Senate in recess? The Constitution says no.
- Clark Jaman – I’ll Meet You There
- Cassini’s top ten images for 2011
- They laughed at him.
- Is the Air Force using the X-37B to spy on China’s first space station?
- Why Best Buy is Going out of Business…Gradually
- ArianeSpace will make a profit in 2011, the first time in three years
- New research suggests that a body-snatching parasitic fly might be the culbrit in the decline of the honeybee population in the U.S.
- Contempt for Congress
- A fitting memorial
- Nine of the top ten worst nations for religious persecution are Islamic, with North Korea being the only exception.
- Perry, Perry, Quite Contrary
- Dancing on Strings – Song of India
- Playing Politics with the Constitution and the Law
- India moves ahead with the construction of its own reusable space plane
- Underground again today
- Four Strings – Let it Rain
- An Antiques Roadshow memento has provided new evidence behind the loss of the plane during World War II that carried band leader Glenn Miller.
- New eruptions from Mount Etna in Italy
- Labor unions get the bulk of Obamacare waivers
- Why the Doctor Won’t See You
- Studying the Moon by starlight
- Tucson school system loses $5 million in funding because it has refused to dump ethnic studies
- A U.S.-Canadian partnership to re-establish migrating cranes has been halted by the FAA because it doesn’t meet its regulations.
- Shawn Colvin – Hold On
- A different perspective of last year’s shootings in Tucson, by one of its victims
- Riding a zip line in Alaska
- Is there profit in outer space?
- The new rules on naming and describing plants now allow scientists to do so in English instead of Latin.
- Australian aircraft engineers have called for the grounding of the Airbus A380 – the world’s biggest passenger aircraft – after Singapore Airlines and Qantas found cracks in the wings of several planes.
- The national debt now equals the entire U.S. economy
- “I like being able to fire people who provide services to me.”
- The Obama administration announced a federal ban Monday on new mining claims affecting a million acres near the Grand Canyon.
- In a new poll Americans fear Obama’s reelection by a ratio of 2:1
- Fred and Ned, the cats with an astonishing 54 toes between them.
- NASA administrator Bolden met with former Apollo astronauts today to smooth over his agency’s attempt to prevent their ability to sell artifacts from their missions.
- Researchers in California have produced a cheap plastic capable of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide from the air.
- Not All Who Wander Are Lost
- FAA grants exemption, allowing ultra-light plane to resume whooping crane escort flight
- After 16 years in space, NASA’s Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has been shut down
- Philip Sparke – Hymn of the Highlands, Dundonnell – Brass Band München
- The U.S. Agriculture Department announced Monday it will close nearly 260 offices nationwide.
- Homeland Security is monitoring journalists
- A Hubble Space Telescope study of massive galaxies two to three billion years after the Big Bang has challenged the widely accepted theory that major mergers are how galaxies grow
- Phobos-Grunt is now expected to fall to Earth sometime around January 16
- The New Authoritarianism
- The six weirdest cities people actually live in
- An iPad survives a fall from 100,000 feet and still works
- NASA in negotiations with ESA to have them provide the service module for Orion
- Tebow riots begin
- Cesar Espinoza – Unchained Melody
- The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) has renamed the thirty-one year old Very Large Array (VLA) after Karl Jansky, the man who invented radio astronomy.
- Two TSA workers who pleaded guilty to stealing $40,000 from a drug mule’s luggage were each sentenced to six months in prison today.
- The Supreme Court looks hard at the EPA and doesn’t like what it sees
- Obama Gets Only 82% of Democrat Vote in New Hampshire – Running Unopposed
- Hubble takes a close up of the double nucleus of the Andromedea galaxy
- The most distant supernova discovered so far.
- New data suggests that the crash of two white dwarf stars caused the nearest supernovae in 25 years
- Astronomers have concluded that the stars in the Milky Way must average at least one planet per star.
- Kepler finds more planets orbiting double star systems
- Democratic dead people receive ballots to vote in New Hampshire primary
- “the EPA touches on the lives of every single American every single day.”
- “Who wouldn’t firing these people?”
- The EPA is fining companies millions because they didn’t use a fuel that doesn’t exist
- Another space tourism company moves forward with flight plans this year
- A solar system in miniature
- How it’s made – Bubble gum
- Man charged after baby was found abandoned in an Occupy DC tent
- “I’d hoped for something different.”
- SpaceX outlines its new design goals for Falcon 9
- Looking for Beagle 2
- Phobos-Grunt’s reentry this weekend
- The University of Connecticut has found the chief of its biology lab — an expert on the health benefits of drinking wine — guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications.
- 25 Cats Who Sleep Funny
- The EPA punishes refineries for not using a non-existent fuel
- New Hampshire’s attorney general has opened an investigation of voter fraud, prompted by the O’Keefe videos showing how easy it is there for dead people to vote
- X-Prize offers $10 million prize for anyone who can build McCoy’s tricorder
- The Obama State Department has rejected the European code of conduct for space
- LightSquared seeks an investigation into one of the GPS advisory board members that said their system interferes with GPS
- So how peripheral was Dipak Das’ work on the health benefits of wine?
- Fishing under ice
- I Know Him So Well – Judy Kuhn & Sissel
- Engineers have gone to a back up radio system on Cassini after a primary unit did not respond as expected in late December.
- The computer system of the Japanese space agency has been attacked by hackers.
- A totally drug-resistant tuberculosis strain has emerged in India.
- Obama asks for more power to consolidate government agencies
- The child suicide bombers of Islam
- Panda escape
- NASA awards $42m for new Langley cafeteria and conference center
- A private organization is now taking the White House to court over the president’s decision to install three new members on the National Board Relations board without Senate approval.
- NASA is soliciting private aerospace companies to bid on building their designs for rocket upper stage that will send the Orion capsule beyond Earth orbit.
- Moody Blues – Nights in White Satin
- NASA to mothball two wind tunnels at Langley
- Six Small Math Errors That Caused Huge Disasters
- Phobos-Grunt due to crash to Earth anytime in the next ten hours
- Phobos-Grunt has crashed into the Pacific Ocean
- Fauré – Pie Jesu
- Volunteers wanted to search for exoplanets
- Scientists have found that the structure of Titan’s atmosphere appears to change daily and seasonally, much like the Earth’s.
- Congress ended its least-productive year in modern history after passing 80 bills — fewer than during any other session since year-end records began being kept in 1947.
- Seattle salts its streets
- Occupy Wall Street Thugs Confiscate Man’s Home
- Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into a dormant volcano in Oregon this summer to demonstrate a new way to generate electricity.
- SpaceX has delayed its February 7 launch of Dragon to ISS
- George Harrison – Here comes the Sun
- Private-sector experience? Oh, no!
- Russia is now claiming that a U.S. military radar might have disabled Phobos-Grunt.
- House Republicans try to rescind a $100 billion European bailout fund created by the Democrats and Obama in 2009
- The ten Most Hated Companies in America
- The satellite communications company Intelsat has backed out of a deal to have a robot refuel some of itsr orbiting satellites.
- Some of Darwin’s fossil samples have been rediscovered, hidden in plain sight at the British Geological Survey.
- Piano Guys – Without you
- The Obama administration formally announced today that it is joining Europe in writing an international code of conduct for space.
- A class of fourth-grade students have renamed NASA’s two Grail lunar probes “Ebb” and “Flow”.
- It looks like there will be no manned Soyuz missions launched from South America.
- In a visit to Pope Benedict last month, Britain’s chief rabbi spoke out against the persecution of Christians in Islamic countries, and defended the free market values of Judeo-Christian culture.
- Listening online to the sounds at the ocean floor
- On Tuesday the Treasury Department began using pension funds to keep the federal debt below the debt limit.
- Skyscrapers As Spaceships
- The Supreme Court has refused to block a court suit against the San Francisco cops who entered a home and killed a resident without a warrant
- Orbital Sciences has once again delayed its first launch of Antares, the rocket that will lift its Cygnus cargo capsule to ISS.
- Rapping flight attendant
- In a break from standard practice, U.S. military has removed the links to its tracking data of Phobos-Grunt.
- A stat to embolden skeptics of NASA and the government
- Drilling in Antarctica
- The Japanese release more details about the hacking of their computers
- The hi-tech home of a British soccer star has become a threat to radio astronomy.
- The Russian commission investigating the failure of Phobos-Grunt has concluded that the spacecraft failed because of Russian engineering errors, not U.S. sabotage.
- Obamacare’s 34 pilot programs designed to save money will have no effect or will increase costs, according to a Congressional Budget Office report yesterday.
- One hundred tea party leaders to announce support for Newt tomorrow
- The TSA has admitted that its agents made a mistake when they strip-searched two elderly women last fall.
- A meteorite that fell to Earth last July in Morocco has proven to be a rare chunk of Mars.
- More cracks found in the wings of the Airbus A380
- A science journal for failed experiments
- Catching the death of a comet
- The modern liberal press, described in one paragraph
- After the annual visit to Edgar Allen Poe’s grave in Baltimore by a mysterious figure called the “Poe Toaster” failed to occur this year for the third straight time, it appears the tradition has ended forever.
- Percy Sledge – When a Man Loves A Woman
- “I will blast Britain’s Got Talent winner into space.”
- Scientists have postponed until 2015 the decision on whether clocks should be linked to the Earth’s rotation around the Sun.
- Several Republicans in Congress expressed concern yesterday about the Obama administration’s decision earlier this week to negotiate a space code of conduct with Europe and others.
- Useless college degrees
- The defense strategy of Democratic party officials under arrest for voter fraud: “Voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections.”
- The chief of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Arizona has refused to testify to Congress about the Obama administration’s policy of allowing guns to be illegally smuggled to Mexican drug lords.
- Scientists have agreed to a sixty day voluntary pause in their research into the transmissibility of avian influenza, commonly called bird flu.
- The Dragon/Falcon 9 test flight is now set for no earlier than late March
- European safety officials are about to order safety checks on the Airbus A380 jumbo jet after two different inspections found cracks in the plane’s wings.
- A group of researchers have failed to reproduce the earlier NASA result that suggested arsenic-based life was possible.
- Some details on the cause of the Dragon/Falcon 9 launch delay
- Reaching the summit of K2
- Stratolaunch announced yesterday the groundbreaking of its facility at Mohave
- Bankrupt and owing the taxpayers half a billion dollars, Solyndra has been caught destroying brand new parts
- John Cleese on The Muppets Show
- Hear the Roar and Pay Attention
- Former Obama staffer arrested in false ID scheme
- Want to know who leads in the Republican candidate delegate count? Go here.
- Egyptian Islamists Torch Homes and Businesses in Coptic Village
- Lou Reed – Perfect Day
- Rasmussen: Gingrich polls nine points ahead of Romney in Florida
- U.S. Senator Rand Paul has been detained by the TSA for refusing a patdown
- Woman skier becomes the first person to ski solo across Antarctica under her own power.
- The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously that police must have a warrant before they can attach a GPS tracker to anyone’s vehicle.
- The dunes of Titan
- The deadline to apply for NASA’s next astronaut class is Friday.
- This year’s hunt for meteorites in Antarctica bagged more than 300.
- Gingrich plans ‘visionary’ speech on space this week in Florida
- The biggest solar storm to be aimed at the Earth in seven years is expected to reach us by Tuesday.
- Cavers in West Virginia return a stalagmite to its original cave home after nearly fifty years
- The Producers
- A 33,000-year-old dog skull found in a Siberian cave, when compared with other ancient dog remains found in a Belgium cave, suggest to scientists that the domestication of dogs took place separately in many different places.
- The Panama Canal is expanding
- Romney and Gingrich offer contrasting space policy views in Florida debate
- Members of the Democratic Congressional Black Caucus on Monday charged that voter ID laws are aimed at preventing black voters and specifically aimed at defeating Barack Obama.
- 15 Questions The Mainstream Media Would Ask Barack Obama If He Were A Republican
- It doesn’t exist
- Possible aurora tonight
- A new superconducting detector might supersede CCDs for astronomy
- 1,000 days without a budget
- Melissa Venema – Il Silenzio
- Newtzilla conquers all?
- What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case?
- A Japanese whistleblower is using the web and YouTube to document scientific fraud by a prominent Japanese researcher.
- Scouring the Aegean Sea for the world’s oldest shipwrecks.
- “My message is simple.” Rating the reading grade level of all State of the Union speeches.
- Google announces privacy changes across products; users can’t opt out
- Roughly half of Vesta is cold enough for water ice to survive below the surface
- A wiretap could exonerate the six seismologists on trial for manslaughter in Italy for not properly warning the public of an earthquake.
- Romney advisor: Come on, ObamaCare won’t ever be repealed in its entirety
- Going in circles
- Gingrich pledges a moon base by his second term
- Energy.gov: Where information goes to die
- Gingrich’s speech on space
- The Kepler team today announced the discovery of eleven new solar systems holding twenty-six planets.
- Another green company, backed with federal grants from both the Bush and Obama administrations, has gone bankrupt.
- “The implication that Mr. Cunningham may have engaged in criminal conduct with respect to Fast and Furious is a major escalation of the Department’s culpability.”
- Pigeon: Impossible
- Getting to know Dream Chaser
- The full Gingrich speech on space
- Because of technical problems with the Soyuz spacecraft it appears the Russians are going to postpone the next two manned launches to ISS.
- The Soviet Union’s gigantic nuclear equipped Ekranoplane
- DNA research suggests that “Native Americans” actually came from a tiny mountain region in Siberia.
- The Vintage Computer Festival
- Persecution for the sake of global warming
- The North Star may be wasting away
- A cargo ship with rocket parts crashed into a bridge in Kentucky yesterday
- “This re-entry capsule now cannot be used for manned spaceflight.”
- Robert Goulet and Julie Andrews – My cup runneth over
- Romney puts forth his space plans at a rally in Florida
- Why is the answer always a new law?
- Guns N Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
- Data issued last week without fanfare by both the UK’s Met Office and the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit has confirmed that the rising trend in world temperatures ended in 1997.
- National Park officials are considering plans to limit the number of hikers per day on the Half Dome hike in Yosemite.
- How crayons are made
- Investigators now think that MF Global, the company run by Jon Corzine, Obama adviser and fundraiser, lost its customers’ money in “a labyrinth of shady trading and raids.”
- Global warming activists seek to purge ‘deniers’ among local weathermen.
- The government will have no rivals
- It’s not about Newt
- “We cannot—we will not—comply with this unjust law.”
- Identifying our galaxy’s next supernova
- Newt and Scientists: A Long, Complicated Love Affair
- Six former and current employees have sued the FDA agency under the Obama administration over its secret surveillance of their private emails.
- New York to get new … typewriters!
- A Republican has announced he is running for the Congressional seat in Arizona being vacated by Gabrielle Gifford.
- The highway is the tenant … and actually pays rent.
- The Dearborn, Michigan Christians who were arrested for handing out Christian literature at a Muslim event have won a $100,000 settlement from the city.
- Mean Mary James – I’ve Been Down
- West Virginia sheriff falsified ballots in close election
- The Russians now say the next manned flight to ISS will be delayed a month, until the end of April, due to defects found in the Soyuz capsule.
- The crash of the Rosat last fall might have landed on Beijing instead, had the spacecraft remained aloft a mere seven minutes longer.
- The CBO has projected another trillion plus deficit for 2012, the fourth year in a row the U.S. government has produced such a deficit.
- White nose syndrome has been found in bats in Europe
- Could this be the actual violin that played the last song on the Titantic?
- The Russians have announced that the loss of Phobos-Grunt was due to the failure of an onboard computer to be properly hardened against cosmic rays.
- The Great Moonbuggy Race
- Five of the biggest unsolved mysteries of physics
- California’s controller announced today that the state will run out of cash in March, three months before the end of its fiscal year.
- Laser-guided bullets
- Tennessee Ernie Ford – Sixteen Tons
- A NASA spacecraft has directly detected atoms from outside Solar System and found that the region is depleted in oxygen.
- The Japanese government has given the final go-ahead for a new Hayabusa asteroid sample return mission, set for launch in 2014.
- A U.S. government panel today unanimously recommended that scientists limit publication of results relating to bird flu.
- The NY Times reported today that the investigation into MF Global’s bankrucpty has located most of the missing $1.2 billion of customer money
- A boycott against Elsevier, the world’s largest publisher of scientific journals, has quickly gathered the support of more than 2,400 scientists.
- Will we go back to the Moon?
- The face in space
- Russia announces plans to launch Phobos-Grunt 2 in 2018
- Ebb returns its first video of the far side of the moon
- Bastard Keith – Pincus the Peddler
- SpaceX successfully test fired today an upgraded engine to be used in the Dragon capsule in case of a launch abort.
- Space Adventures has set the date, before February 2017, for its circumlunar tourist flight.
- The Orion test capsule arrived in Alabama for tests, covered in fan signatures.
- The House has voted to freeze all congressional and federal pay for another year, through 2013.
- By a significant majority the House has voted to repeal part of Obamacare.
- A report tonight at the Daily Caller says that at least two Justice Department prosecutors accepted cash bribes from allegedly corrupt finance executives who were indicted but never arrested or prosecuted.
- The Palestinians in Gaza fired seven rockets into Israel on Wednesday.
- The head of Russia’s space agency makes news again
- The scale of the universe
- Six charts from the Congressional Budget Office that will scare the bejeebers out of you
- Lobbying to save commercial space
- Another superEarth has been found orbiting a star in the habitable zone.
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Music For A Found Harmonium
- “This issue isn’t going away for the president; it too clearly reveals his indifference to those he thinks he doesn’t need.”
- New dates, March 20 and May 15 respectively, have been set for the ISS launches of SpaceX’s Dragon capsule and the next manned Soyuz capsule.
- Union membership dropped by 16,000 last year in Wisconsin.
- More than 40 non-Catholic religious organizations, including both Jews and Protestants, have declared their “solidarity” with the Catholics against the Obama administrations new health regulations.
- Dog vs leaves
- Virgin Galactic hopes to begin the first powered flight tests of SpaceShipTwo this coming summer.
- Iran’s state media today announced that the country had used its own rocket to put into orbit a small weather/Earth observation microsat,
- On Sunday the Army acted to silence its chaplains from reading the Catholic letter condemning the Obama administration’s requirement that churches pay for abortions and contraception in violation of their religious principles.
- Arizona State University (ASU) blocks access to a petition-hosting site right after university officials discover the site includes a petition calling for lower ASU tuitions.
- R.I.P: Roger Boisjoly, 73, has died.
- For the last five days there has been no contact with the Russian scientists drilling down more than two miles to Lake Vostok in Antarctica.
- President Obama versus religious liberty
- Doobie Brothers – Listen To The Music
- Attack of the blobs
- More and more the Atlas V appears to be “the vehicle of choice for manned missions.”
- More than 6,000 people submitted their applications to NASA last week to become astronauts, the most since 1978.
- Birthday bleg
- Space technology at the Super Bowl
- Dilbert – The Knack
- Obamacare vs. the Catholics
- Studying fire in space
- Using images taken by its lunar probe Chang’e 2, China today published a high resolution global map of the Moon.
- Nine unique and unusual travel spots
- Mars Express has found more evidence that Mars once had oceans.
- Why is the NASA Astronaut Office Censoring Astronaut Don Pettit’s Blog?
- Unconfirmed reports in the Russian press today claim that the drilling team in Antarctica has successfully reached Lake Vostok more than two miles under the icecap.
- All the arguments used against Israel for taking a preemptive strike against a nuclear Iran are wrong.
- Danny Macaskill – Industrial Revolutions
- All NASA funding for the European ExoMars mission appears to have been cut by the Obama administration.
- The Russians have left Lake Vostok
- The final report admits that it was a programming error that doomed Phobos-Grunt, not cosmic radiation or U.S. radar.
- A fire has damaged Russia’s most productive heavy ion accelerator in Moscow.
- A rehash of the available data has narrowed the search for the Higgs particle.
- Scientists have identified the oldest living thing on Earth, a patch of seagrass growing underwater in the Mediterranean.
- A rabbi speaks out in defense of the Catholic Church and against the Obama administration.
- Twenty pictures to help you appreciate the beauty and awesomeness of nature
- The worldwide Islamic war on Christians
- Using heat to speed up computer hard drives.
- A 3D printer-created lower jaw has been fitted into an 83-year-old woman’s face.
- Two more global warming scientists turn skeptics
- The DeHavilland DHC-2 Beaver song
- Another Airbus jumbo jet found with cracks in its wings
- There is simply no time in American history we can recall where nearly the entire body of American Catholic bishops and priests have united to speak against a sitting president by name, and promised civil disobedience.
- The Russians have confirmed that their scientists have successfully drilled into Lake Vostok in Antartica.
- “It is unacceptable that HHS fails to maintain accurate financial records and fails to adhere to federal law designed to protect taxpayer dollars from mismanagement and waste.”
- Is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way eating asteroids?
- Based on computer models a team of scientists have concluded that the world’s continents are slowly forming the next supercontinent, which will coalesce over the North Pole in 50 to 200 million years
- “Speakers will be physically assaulted, not just verbally confronted.”
- The Himalayas and nearby peaks have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows
- An Islamic mob destroyed Buddhist statues yesterday in the national museum of the Maldives.
- The Sun goes bust
- Bryson Andres busking – Soul Sister
- The Martian meteorite that was recovered in Morocco in July is now thought to contain pockets of trapped Martian atmosphere.
- “I feel duped.”
- Two Christian leaders said today that they’d go to jail rather than comply with the new Obamacare regulations.
- According to scientists, Obama’s proposed budget — to be announced on Monday — will cut the planetary program severely.
- The boycott of science journal publisher Elsevier has grown now to almost 5,000 scientists.
- The eviction and theft by Muslims of Christian homes in Egypt.
- “We only have two or three years before we get into a very ugly debt-crisis austerity mode.”
- Ed Weiler quit NASA over Mars planetary program cuts to be announced Monday
- Several Catholic lay organizations have now filed suit against the new Obamacare regulations requiring them to provide contraception services in violation of their religious beliefs.
- FAA regulations have forced a volunteer pilot program in Alaska to cancel its support of the Yukon Quest International Dog Race.
- John Fogerty – Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
- Is Venus’s day getting longer?
- The Dragon/Falcon 9 test flight to ISS has been delayed again, until late April, in order to complete additional software tests.
- Japan’s space agency is lobbying its government for the funds to develop its own manned space capsule capability.
- The link between sunspots and climate
- A woman was denied access to her flight because there was no female TSA agent to pat her down.
- Clark Lindsey has posted a quick summary of the proposed NASA budget to be released by the Obama Administration on Monday.
- The White House has confirmed that the Obama budget to be announced on Monday will predict a $1.3 trillion deficit for 2012.
- The reaction from religious organizations to Obama’s proposed heathcare rule compromise:
- Monty Python – Lumberjack Song
- The chief architect of Obamacare now admits — in complete contradiction to what he claimed before the law was passed — that Obamacare will cause medical insurance premiums to rise.
- “The villain of the piece.”
- For its second attempt to launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory, NASA has finally decided to dump Orbital Sciences’ Taurus XL rocket, the same rocket that failed on two previous launch attempts.
- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Saturday that the nation will reveal “several major achievements in the nuclear domain” within days, state media reported.
- Boney M – Belfast
- Eleven months after the earthquake/tsunami in Japan, a collection of amazing and inspiring before and after pictures.
- “The longer we go in this presidency, the less relation MSM headlines have to reality.”
- Want to buy a former NASA radio dish? All you need is $4.2 million.
- Abraham Lincoln – A tribute to the song Ashokan Farewell
- Europe’s new Vega rocket successfully put nine satellites into orbit this morning on its first flight.
- Finding the Higgs: what’s next
- A transitional budget
- Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
- The Russians celebrate drilling into Lake Vostok.
- A thought experiment: Imagining the Republican majority in the House ran things in Washington.
- “This is about freedom, full stop.”
- California: Running out of other people’s money
- Oklahoma – All ‘er nothing
- The FCC moved Tuesday to finally reject LightSquared’s broadband service license request.
- Great Scott
- A new study released Tuesday has found that snowfall in the Sierra Nevada has remained consistent for 130 years, despite increased global temperatures.
- Cats as fonts
- The volume of U.S. air traffic hit a ten year low last year.
- Detroit: the triumph of progressive public policy.
- Dusty Springfield – Son of a Preacher Man
- The decision by China to launch their next Shenzhou manned capsule unnamed has made at least one China space expert worried.
- Obama administration has decided that volunteering will work to forgive a student loan, as long as that volunteer work is not for a religious organization
- Famous Paintings Improved By Cats
- Has a British archeologist discovered the lost treasure mine of the Queen of Sheba?
- The manslaughter trial of six scientists and one government official continued yesterday in Italy over their reassurances to the public prior to a deadly earthquake in 2009.
- Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish leaders all testified at a Congressional hearing today that they would go to prison rather than obey the Obamacare mandates being imposed by the Obama administration.
- A new study in China has found that electric cars are more harmful to public health per kilometer traveled than conventional vehicles.
- “Even if Congress were to enact this budget we would still be left with–in the outer decades as millions of Americans retire–what are still unsustainable commitments in Medicare and Medicaid.”
- Making buildings invisible to earthquakes
- 3D printing in concrete
- A weak maximum now expected
- A burst of aurora for reasons that are “unclear.”
- government by presidential fiat
- China’s next launch of its Shenzhou capsule will be manned
- The White House chart that illustrates the irresponsible nature of Obama’s proposed budget.
- Perspective
- Why things break in space
- Cathy Rigby – Never Never Land
- Facebook and the CIA
- Preston Reed – Ladies Night
- ISS to finally get an experimental centrifuge
- India’s second lunar probe, Chandrayaan-2, faces possible launch delays
- “Occupy Wall Street protesters have been occupying federal property for months, but when we kneel in prayer, the police are called in and we are arrested.”
- New evidence for recent earthquakes on Mars
- Mapping the surface of an extrasolar planet light years away.
- A look at the universe’s dark side
- Obama’s war on religious liberty
- Ancient computers still in use today, including punch cards, mainframes, and the first PCs.
- A transistor made from a single atom
- Afghan government this past weekend rescued 41 children, aged 6 to 11, who were being smuggled into Pakistan to be trained as suicide bombers.
- John Glenn – the first American in orbit
- A world made of water
- Uncovering the underwater remains of HMS Investigator and the sailors who survived its loss in the Arctic ice to discover the Northwest Passage
- Orbital Sciences has delayed until late June the first test launch of its Antares rocket, which in turn will delay until late August the first flight of its Cygnus cargo freighter to ISS.
- More than 2500 religious leaders released a letter yesterday condemning the Obama administration’s healthcare mandate as ““a severe blow” to religious liberty.
- The streets of Rome — in Jerusalem
- Russian scientists have resurrected a plant from 30,000 years ago, using fruit tissues that had been frozen in the Arctic.
- Parahawking
- A New Hampshire man was arrested for firing his gun into the ground in order to catch a suspected burglar.
- An inherited comic book collection is expected to fetch $2M at auction tomorrow.
- On the way to Albuquerque
- Documents show Obama’s FCC used regulatory muscle to destroy LightSquared’s competition
- One private religious company explains why it can’t go along with the Obama administration’s mandate on contraceptives.
- A Jewish congregation’s letter to George Washington welcoming him to Rhode Island in 1790.
- GOP front-runner Mitt Romney said Tuesday that cutting government spending would hurt the economy.
- Buckyballs in space
- Peter Gleick’s “truly flabbergasting” lapse of judgement.
- Scientists have found an iron-based crystal that can superconduct electricity at a new record high temperature of 48 degrees Kelvin above absolute zero.
- A motorized skateboard you operate with your feet
- Islamic protesters throw eggs at a speaker in an attempt to silence him during a lecture on freedom of speech.
- A fourteen year old girl has been swamped with death threats after testifying before the Maryland state legislature in opposition to gay marriage.
- In its final decision an Iranian court has sentenced a Christian pastor to death for leaving Islam.
- A comic book collection sold for $3.5 million at an auction today in New York.
- The fundamental design flaw of all of Tesla Motors’ electric cars.
- What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space?
- David McCullough – on George Washington
- Two possible errors have been identified that might explain the faster than light neutrino results from last fall.
- A federal judge has struck down a Washington state law that required pharmacists to sell contraceptives
- Tracking the debris washed out to sea by last year’s tsunami in Japan.
- A Baptist college has joined a growing list of schools and other organizations to sue the federal government over Obama’s healthcare mandates.
- The many moods of Titan
- Fifteen questions the press would ask Barack Obama if he were a Republican
- The Great Gibson Guitar Raid … Months later, still no charges
- How to delete your Google browsing history in three simple steps
- Scientists have found a way to produce an anti-corresion coating made of graphene only one atom thick.
- Germany’s $130B Solar Experiment Delays Global Warming by 23 hours!
- Golf Brooks – Senior Moments
- Seven states filed a lawsuit today seeking to overturn Obama’s contraceptive mandate.
- Orbital Sciences hopes to put its Antares rocket on the launchpad in five weeks.
- Recent Democrat Party legislative and legal actions opposing Obamacare or significant portions thereof.
- Fakegate: Global warmists try to hide their decline
- “Science in the service of politics.”
- A supernova twenty-five years later.
- Lessons from the floating coffin
- Muslim Admits to Attacking Atheist; Muslim Judge Dismisses Case
- The sky is falling.
- Hubble takes its best image yet of Eta Carina
- The 3D printer that can build a house
- How environmentalists are losing the climate change war
- Elbow – One Day Like This
- After spending $2.6 million to find and recover gold from a 1804 shipwreck, a U.S. salvage company has now been forced to return the money to Spain by the U.S. courts..
- Charges have been dropped against New Hampshire man who fired into the ground to stop a burglar.
- Democratic Congresswoman booed at a townhall meeting by her New York constituents over the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate.
- Massachusett has proposed a 500-plus percent increase in vending machine license fees in order to meet new regulations imposed by Obamacare.
- A Swarm of Nano Quadrotors
- “Well, basically, we’re not looking to the Constitution on that aspect of it.”
- The perversion of rights
- Aladdin – A Whole New World
- The state of Orion’s construction, including a scheduled parachute drop test this Wednesday
- The Pennsylvania atheist — assaulted by a Muslim man because he was ridiculing Mohammad — has received almost 500 death threats since the judge dismissed the assault charges against the Muslim.
- A new poll show that Obamacare continues to be a major political problem for Obama.
- Investigators have decided that it was sloppy bookkeeping rather than criminal activity that caused MF Global to illegally misuse and then lose more than a $1 billion of customer funds.
- The Astros remove a picture of a Colt revolver from their original baseball jerseys.
- The problems of making both wind and solar power practical sources of electrical power on the grid.
- New evidence suggests that Stone Age hunters from Europe reached the New World ten thousand years before their Asian counterparts.
- New technology for astronomy
- Charlie Puth & Emily Luther – Break Again
- Government officials threatened a church with fines and forced them to cease giving away free water during the Mardi Gras parade.
- Astronomers have discovered a five hundred foot wide asteroid that has a 1 in 600 chance of hitting the Earth in 2040.
- Iran is developing techniques and technologies needed to turn weapons-grade uranium into an atomic bomb.
- “We hope to have the rocket motor in the spaceship later this year and start powered flight testing.”
- According to Orbital Sciences’ CEO, problems in launchpad construction have been the primary reason the first launch of Antares rocket/Cygnus capsule has been delayed.
- Coming soon to your neighborhood: A surveillance camera that can fly to heights of almost 200 feet.
- Durable goods orders fall 4% in January, the worst drop in three years and four times what was expected.
- Another thousand exoplanets from Kepler
- Why I am so rude to Warmists
- “This judge needs to be out of office.”
- The Zombie Mohammad judge defends his actions.
- Pentatonix – Somebody that I used to know
- A DNA autopsy of the Stone Age Iceman found in the Alps in 1991 has now told us something of his health and where his ancestors came from.
- Great Heights Reached with Gaffer Tape
- The first industrial railgun has begun firing tests at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Virginia.
- ATK prepares for another test firing of its five-segment solid rocket motor.
- JPL has issued a press release “reality check” on the impact possibilities of asteroid 2011 AG5 in 2040.
- Santorum talked himself out of the nomination
- An update on Stratolaunch
- New results from the Large Hadron Collider suggest that matter and anti-matter really are different.
- Davy Jones of The Monkees has died
- Dissecting the bad arguments on both sides of the climate debate.
- The Page Turner
- A $35 computer
- What is the International Space Station’s weakest link?
- Falcon 9 is on the launchpad in Florida, being prepared for a countdown and fuel test tomorrow.
- Using its Space Launch System and Orion capsule, NASA is aiming for an unmanned test flight around the Moon in December 2017.
- Comparing all the global warming climate models for the past twenty years with the actual data.
- “My only purpose today is that this event is shut down.”
- At a Congressional hearing on Wednesday, NASA’s inspector general outlined more than five thousand security lapses at the agency in 2010 and 2011, including the theft of a laptop with the control codes for ISS.
- Seven Republicans demand increased NASA supervision of the new commercial launch companies.
- Andrew Breitbart, 43, has died
- What if Catholic bishops aren’t bluffing?
- Saving one of the world’s largest insects, thought extinct for 80 years.
- Twitter Hate: The Left’s Breitbart Memorial
- Cover story: Finding the Sun’s lost nursery
- Senate Democrats reject religious exemption in Obamacare.
- For the fourth year in a row, President Obama has defied a law that demands he take action on Medicare.
- A commercial project to refuel and repair communication satellites with an unmanned robot, recently killed due to lack of interest from the U.S. government, might get the needed additional funding from DARPA.
- SpaceX’s dress rehearsal countdown and fuel test of the Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral today was a complete success.
- Solar scientists at the Marshall Space Flight Center have once again adjusted their prediction for the upcoming solar maximum.
- Stanley Brothers – It Takes A Worried Man
- A liberal describes the tolerant liberal world.
- A Canadian man filed suit in January claiming ownership of the entire solar system.
- Construction of the Tokyo Sky Tree, the world’s tallest structure, was completed on Wednesday.
- NASA successfully completed parachute drop tests of its Orion capsule on Wednesday.
- Not only did NASA lose a laptop with the control codes of ISS, the agency’s inspector general also reported that hackers had seized control of the computers at JPL in November.
- A new roller coaster, dubbed “the Swarm,” is so intense it ripped the arms and legs off of its crash dummies during testing.
- Lying for power
- After spending $130 billion on solar power subsidizes, Germany has found the effort to be a monumental waste of money.
- Under Pressure – David Bowie and Annie Lennox rehearsal
- The March 9 launch of Europe’s cargo freighter to ISS has been delayed two weeks so that engineers can climb inside and tighted two straps holding two cargo containers in place.
- The cracks that have been found on the wings of the new Airbus A380 jumbo jet have now been traced to a company in the United Kingdom.
- A federal judge has ruled that an elderly couple can sue police and federal agents over an illegal house raid in which $200,000 disappeared.
- Because of Obamacare, child-only health plans have been discontinued nationwide.
- The Coming Persecution
- The U.S. Conference of Catholic bishops is issuing a flyer to be distributed at Masses over the March 3-4 weekend that asks their congregation to voice their opposition to the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate.
- Under Pressure – David Bowie and Annie Lennox live performance
- Why do cats run the internet?
- We should all cheer SpaceX’s success
- The Iranian government today executed a Christian pastor because he refused to renounce his religion and convert to Islam.
- A massive fireball was seen by countless observers yesterday as it streaked across the United Kingdom.
- How did Jon Corzine’s MF Global company lose $1.2 billion in customer money? This tale of how another investment company misused investor funds might give a clue.
- Mirusia Louwerse and André Rieu – Ave Maria
- One of the many reasons I am no longer in the movie business.
- Leftwing protesters try to shut down Santorum rally while ripping up the signs of his supporters.
- What next for the X-37B?
- Clouds inside a room.
- Gagarin was first. Here’s why.
- 2011 was the first year since 1984 in which no new banks were chartered in the U.S.
- Boycotting the boycotters.
- The last transit of Venus across the face of the Sun for the next century is only three months away.
- Play offense
- Pendulum waves
- The X-37B marks one year in orbit
- Scientists: Know your budget process!
- In Honor Of Andrew Breitbart, 20 Examples Of Liberal Hatred On Display
- Ronald Jenkees – The Fast Song
- “Six minutes of terror.”
- Explaining the limits of the Congressionally mandated Space Launch System
- The delayed launch of Europe’s cargo freighter to ISS is now targeted for March 23.
- The Utah legislature is about to pass a law demanding the federal government release to the state almost fifty percent of the state’s federal land.
- The rail gun: a cheap solution for getting payloads into orbit quickly.
- The Left’s assault on free speech
- “Everybody from Texas is ignorant rednecks.”
- A call to Impeach Pennsylvania’s Sharia Judge
- The USS Monitor gives up the faces of its dead
- the slow revival of US nuclear power
- Robotic refueling demo begins today on ISS
- The sun yesterday emitted the second biggest flare since 2006, with two coronal mass ejections heading for the Earth
- Numerous death threats posted against Rush Limbaugh
- Dicken with Milah and Korben – Everything Counts
- An analysis of the most recent Kepler data suggests that Earthlike planets in orbits like our own are extremely rare
- Chinese physicists have discovered a key measurement that helps explain why and how can neutrinos magically oscillate between three different states.
- When a solar storm slammed into both the Earth and Mars in January 2008, scientists were able to directly measure the importance of the Earth’s magnetic field in protecting our atmosphere from oxygen loss.
- An incumbent eight year Republican Congresswoman lost to a tea party favorite in Tuesday’s Ohio primary.
- Consistently hostile and opposed to Judeo-Christian religious beliefs.
- The U.S. debt, graphed to show how it rose or fell since 1981, based on who controlled Congress and the White House.
- The solar storm hit the Earth today, and has so far caused no damage.
- The federal government recorded its worst monthly deficit in history in February.
- pA man was arrested and now faces 60 days in jail and a $500 fine for holding up a protest sign on the public plaza outside the Supreme Court in Washington.
- Can You Judge A President by His Jew-Hating Friends?
- Chicken Chicken Chicken
- Santorum and Freedom
- In a letter to NASA, House appropriators have challenged the Obama administration’s decision to shut down the agency’s Mars planetary program.
- Two engineers propose using a thousand mile long magnetic track to accelerate passengers into space.
- smaller planets are preferentially found in low-eccentricity orbits.
- Researchers have completed the first comprehensive map of the entire ocean floor debris field of the Titanic.
- “Our Fisker Karma cost us $107,850. It is super sleek, high-tech—and now it’s broken.”
- The detailed look at the robotic satellite refueling demo that is taking place on ISS this week.
- Rather than bow to political correctness, the Houston Astros have decided to use their original Colt uniform — with revolver — on the uniforms the team will wear in celebrating its fifieth anniversary this April.
- The Senate’s tea party caucus has introduced a budget plan aimed at balancing the federal budget by 2017.
- Ave Maria University has now sued the Obama administration over its mandate that the university provide contraceptives at no charge to its employees.
- Two Democratic senators have introduced legislation that would repeal the indefinite detention of Americans authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012 that was passed in November.
- In the Oklahoma primary last week Barack Obama only garnered 57% of the vote, and actually lost in 15 counties, 12 to a pro-life activist and 3 to a state’s Democratic senate candidate from 2010.
- The blacklisting of Meatloaf, merely because he is a Republican.
- “Western nations appear to have fallen out of love with free speech.”
- A look at China’s rocket engine development program
- Dominic Boudreault – The City Limits (music by Hans Zimmers)
- A new bill in Congress would clarify the rights of 1960s astronauts to the space-flown artifacts they took home after their flight.
- The spaceship companies in Mohave are hiring
- Miss Fluke goes to Washington
- Cat walking upside down under the bed
- A Thank You From Japan
- The head of the Russian space agency has been hospitalized.
- Playing hardball
- “Hey, remember when NBC thought calling someone a ‘slut’ was hilarious?” With video.
- Les Paul and Mary Ford – How high the Moon
- On March 6, film director and deep water diver James Cameron grabbed the record for the deepest solo dive ever, 26791 feet or more than five miles.
- An up and down Sun
- Dextre has successfully completed its first round of operations in its satellite refueling demonstration.
- Was a evangelical Christian fired from his job at JPL because of his religious beliefs? A court case beginning Monday might tell us.
- Lord Monckton tries to educate a college professor and his students.
- The Hush Rush syndrome
- Venus Express was blinded for four days after being hit by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun.
- The blistering hot exoplanet where it snows
- Rockwell Retro Encabulator
- Research on ISS has found that prolonged spaceflight causes vision problems and might even damage the human eye.
- SpaceX gets another launch contract, this time to put up four satellites for an Asian/Central American communications partnership.
- JPL lawyers want media limits during ‘intelligent design’ trial
- Russia’s space agency has proposed a space exploration plan through 2030, including missions to the Moon and Mars.
- The IRS decided last year that it can require licenses from tax preparers, even though no law gives the tax agency that power.
- More video showing how easy it is to vote illegally, this time in Vermont.
- New numbers released today from the Congressional Budget Office estimate that the cost of Obamacare over the next decade will be $1.76 trillion, not $940 billion as predicted by the Democrats who passed it.
- Kevin Olusola on cello
- A man in Georgia was ticketed and threatened with jail after he refused to remove an American flag that’s been flying outside his business for more than thirty years.
- NBC’s Al Sharpton trashing “homos,” “Chinamen,” “crackers,” and “niggers.”
- Opening arguments in the JPL Intelligent Design court suit.
- An artist’s conception of Martian weather.
- Comedian Chris Rock physically attacked a camerawoman when he was asked about his own comments calling the tea party was “insane” and “crazy”.
- A major airport in Florida has decided to evict the TSA and go with a private company to screen passengers
- The report by the Congressional Budget Office, released earlier this week, states that by 2016 Obamacare will cause 4 million people to lose their employer health insurance coverage.
- Rather than investigate the potential voter fraud exposed by James O’Keefe, the Vermont Secretary of State wants to investigate James O’Keefe for exposing the fraud.
- Gordon Lightfoot – If You Could Read My Mind
- The New York Times has refused to publish a full page anti-Islam ad, despite publishing a similar anti-Catholic ad less than a week earlier.
- A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit from various environmental groups that was trying to overturn Congressional legislation that removed the wolf from the endangered species list.
- ObamaCare: If Possible, The News Is Getting Worse
- A prototype of the new space junk radar system has successfully demonstrated it can track objects smaller than an inch across.
- The judge in the JPL intelligent design lawsuit has ruled against JPL and that the press will be allowed to observe and report on the testimony.
- SpaceX has now set April 30 as the target launch date for its Falcon 9/Dragon capsule test flight to ISS.
- It appears that the reason the head of Russia’s space agency was hospitalized last week was because he got into a fight at a party over a woman.
- The three big network nightly news shows all failed to mention the Congressional Budget Office report that says the cost of Obamacare will be twice what was predicted, and that millions will lose their healthplans because of it.
- A Filmmaker’s Second Thoughts On Hating Israel
- Have researchers found Leonardo da Vinci’s lost “The Battle of Anghiari” fresco, hidden for the past six centuries behind a wall?
- Cleopatra enters Rome
- Europe, dumped by NASA, has teamed up with Russia to build its ExoMars orbiter and lander.
- The orbit of a 150 foot wide asteroid that zipped past the Earth in February, has an orbit so much like the Earth’s that astronomer’s expect it back next year.
- Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, aiming to complete a record-setting 120,000 foot dive from edge of space, successfully completed a 71,581 foot practice dive today.
- Breitbart is here
- Two Sandia National Laboratories researchers are seeking a partnership with a private company to make and sell the self-guided bullet they developed.
- Nine incredible places on Earth. With pictures.
- Environmentalist organizations have once again petitioned the EPA to ban ammunition using lead.
- New budget estimates by the Congressional Budget Office say that the proposed 2013 Obama budget will increase the federal debt by $3.5 trillion.
- A different experiment at CERN has found that, in contradiction to the OPERA results last year, neutrinos travel at the speed of light, and no faster.
- Russia has been forced to extend the application period for those who wish to become cosmonauts due to of a lack of response.
- Aviation Week looks at the launch challenges facing SpaceX over the next two years.
- Dakuwaqa’s Garden – Underwater footage from Fiji
- Mary Black – Thorn Upon The Rose
- The FAA has issued a draft environmental impact statement required before the agency will allow SpaceShipTwo to be launched from the Mohave Air and Space Port.
- A private company has proposed salvaging a stranded communications satellite and use it to provide communications to Antarctica.
- Mitch & Mickey – A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow
- The TSA at work
- A business in Missouri has become the first secular and private company to bring a lawsuit challenging the Obama administration’s contraception mandate.
- Bristol Palin: “Mr. President, When Should I Expect Your Call?”
- Is Obama’s fundraising this campaign a flop?
- “I couldn’t believe someone could have been such a monster to leave this doggy inside this cage to die.”
- If there is water ice on the Moon, scientists have found that the bombardment from interstellar cosmic rays has likely caused chemical reactions that “can create complex carbon chains similar to those that help form the foundations of biological structures.”
- The boycott by scientists of Elsevier, the publisher of science journals, has paid off.
- Scientists have published the first complete global geological map of the Jupiter moon Io.
- “The Grasshopper and the Ants” – Disney’s Silly Symphony (1934)
- The Met Office in the UK has issued an updated temperature record for the past 150 years, suggesting that the climate has warmed 0.75 degrees Celsius since 1900.
- The federal debt has increased more during Obama’s three years in office than it did during Bush’s eight year presidency.
- Scientists have found more evidence that the streaks on Martian hillsides that darken in warm weather are caused by melting groundwater flowing downhill.
- The testimony of the fired JPL employee who is claiming religious discrimination continued on Monday.
- “If you’re looking for free stuff you don’t have to pay for, vote for the other guy.”
- New measurements suggest that Venice continues to sink, and is even listing as it goes down.
- The five most spectacular spots on Earth that want to murder you.
- In testimony before Congress today, the Eisenhower family expressed strong opposition to the design of the Dwight Eisenhower monument.
- Will Israel hit Iran’s nuclear facilities with a preemptive strike? This expert outlines why he thinks the possibility is getting more likely.
- The official in charge of the FAA’s commercial space office told Congress today that he expects the first space tourism flights to occur within two years.
- Private space station builder Bigelow is hiring again.
- Kitaro – Cosmic Love
- With the help of Google Earth, a lost section of the Great Wall of China has been discovered in the Gobi Desert outside of present-day China.
- NASA is considering doing a simulated 500 day Mars mission on ISS.
- “Like them or not, they’re not going away, no matter who wins in November.”
- Cat purrs prevent heart attacks
- Want to go hiking? You can now hike some of the country’s best trail, from the comfort of your home!
- A former NASA scientist was sentenced today to thirteen years in prison for trying to sell classified military satellite information to Israel.
- After one year in orbit around Mercury, Messenger’s scientists have concluded that Mercury is not only dense but odd.
- A 2010 expedition has now released some spectacular new images of the wreck of the Titanic.
- Anne Postic – Celtic Harp at Lorient in 2008
- The Supreme Court today ruled unanimously in favor of the landowners whose property was essentially stolen by the EPA because the agency had declared it contained a wetland.
- New close-up photos of the asteroid Vesta from Dawn have discovered numerous bright spots scattered across the face of the asteroid Vesta.
- Twenty-four First World problems solved.
- Russia’s deputy prime minister today blasted the Russian space agency and one space contractor for the scandals and public backbiting involving both.
- An astronaut answers hundreds of questions about his flight to ISS on Reddit.
- What was then is now again.
- The friends of Barack Obama.
- A new device that replaces the wheelchair.
- Only after a Democrat crook wins an election do Democrats want him gone.
- Chicago freedom: “Your first amendment rights can be terminated.”
- Celtic Harp Orchestra – Morrison’s Jig
- Astronomers think they have identified the star that went supernova last week in the galaxy M95 33 million light years away.
- X-37B: The Air Force admits it has a fleet of two, does not plan on increasing the size of that fleet, and has plans for many more missions for both spacecraft.
- The Department of Energy has scrapped plans to build a neutrino experiment, costing $1.5 billion, in the now-closed Homestake gold mine in South Dakota.
- Stupidity on display
- The reckoning
- Europe successfully launched its third unmanned freighter to ISS early this morning.
- “The only thing the Democrats misjudged about Obamacare was everything.”
- In discussions the last two days managers for the space programs of Europe and China began laying the groundwork for a Chinese docking at ISS.
- Blasting away a mountaintop to look at the stars.
- Now we know: Jon Corzine gave “direct instructions” to illegally transfer customer funds to pay off MF Global’s debt.
- The story of the only man to escape from a North Korean prison camp.
- Mysterious cloud spotted on Mars by amateur astronomers.
- Chet Atkins – Mr. Sandman
- The six astronauts on ISS will take shelter in their Soyuz capsules tonight because a piece of space junk will to pass close to the station at around 2:30 am (Eastern).
- “We have to be prepared to go to jail.”
- A Japanese fishing boat, washed away in March by the tsunami, has been found floating about 150 nautical miles off the coast of British Columbia.
- Last night a piece of space junk missed ISS, but not by much.
- “This is a stunning power for an agency to arrogate to itself when there is absolutely no mention of it in the statute.”
- The four best legal arguments against Obamacare.
- Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe and theme from Cinema Paradiso
- New research shows that the Medieval Warm Period was a global event, reaching all the way to Antarctica.
- “‘Suddenly’ is about to show up.”
- The effort of a private company to salvage a communications satellite stranded in the wrong orbit has been rejected by the company that owns it. Instead, the satellite will be de-orbted today, buring up over the Pacific.
- A new chemical analysis of lunar rocks from the Apollo missions has cast doubt on the theory that the Moon was formed when the Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object about 4.5 billion years ago.
- Wrecking Crew Orchestra
- James Cameron has set a new record for the deepest solo dive, a depth of 35,756 feet.1James Cameron has set a new record for the deepest solo dive, a depth of 35,756 feet.
- Boeing vs Boeing.
- Cameron has safely returned to the surface
- Liveblogging the Supreme Court’s Obamacare hearings.
- “This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.”
- Want a job designing and building spaceships? Scaled Composites is holding a jobs fair and open house at the Mohave Air and Space Port.
- The first Russian weather satellite, launched in 1969, is about to burn up in the atmosphere.
- Crossing the Wabash Cannonball Bridge
- A toy company has designed building blocks that make it possible to combine multiple brands, from Legos to Tinkertoys.
- Pick a destination already!
- “a train wreck for the Obama administration.”
- Global warming models wrong again
- Win an Ipad by delving into the Hubble archive to discover a “hidden treasure.”
- Two new skyscrapers being built in Milan are designed to allow trees to grow on the outside of every floor.
- The first look at the ocean’s deepest bottom.
- A computer simulation suggests that the Earth normally has several asteroid-sized smaller moons in temporary orbit around it.
- The Obama administration today announced strict new limits on carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
- The EPA loses another court case, badly.
- “I’m very disappointed in the growing trend of students and others unwilling to engage in meaningful discussion,”
- How to make a potato gun
- A strange lunar crater
- Ringed clouds at the edge of space.
- Based on discoveries already made, astronomers now estimate there are probably more than a hundred habitable superEarths within 30 light years of the Sun.
- An incandescent light bulb, stored in a time capsule for one hundred years, still worked
- “It may also be a plane wreck.”
- An expedition financed by Jeff Bezos, the founder of amazon.com, has found the rocket engines of the Apollo 11 Saturn 5 rocket.
- Europe’s ATV freighter has successfully docked with ISS.
- The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall
- The Russians are building nuclear powered engines for long range space travel, and announced today that they expect to have the first engine ready by 2017.
- A solar tornado five times the size of the Earth.
- The House today rejected Obama’s proposed budget 414 to 0.
- “Mr Kouzaris has written to President Obama on three separate occasions and is yet to even receive the courtesy of a reply.”
- What’s the Earth really made of?
- The House today passed the Republican 2013 budget, 228-191.
- The French trial of a CERN physicist for associating with terrorists began today.
- Enceladus’s gushing geysers, as seen by Cassini.
- Richard Feynman – The beauty of a flower from a scientist’s perspective
- Not-So-Smooth Operator
- “They evidently spent two years putting their fingers in their ears and singing, ‘La la la, I’m not listening’ whenever the conservative argument was being advanced.”
- Is it snowing microbes on Enceladus?
- Geologists have uncovered a variable in the amount of uranium in rocks that will as increase the margin of error for dating events hundreds of millions of years ago.
- Blowing in the wind
- More details unveiled describing the charges against the CERN scientist on trial in France.
- The report of an 80-year-old former U.S. Marine has provided the Chinese a clue to the whereabouts of the missing bones of Peking Man.
- The Buzz Lightyear toy that flew on space shuttle has been donated to the Smithsonian.
- The Black Stallion
- The science leaders on the team that announced faster-than-light neutrinos at CERN last year have stepped down.
- The NASA administrator, Charles Bolden, has balked at the Europe-China negotiations for docking a Chinese manned craft at ISS.
- The Muppets – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Muslim Teens Recount Thrilling Spring Break Trip to End of Driveway
- April Fools – Math Class Shadow
- French engineers have designed a tiny ion motor that nano-satellites could use as a thruster to adjust their orbits.
- Ten amazing treetop walkways from around the world.
- Europe has shut down the production line producing their ATV cargo craft for ISS.
- The universe as seen by astronauts on ISS.
- The chief of the General Services Administration has resigned and two of her top deputies have been fired for organizing an excessively expensive training conference at a luxury hotel.
- Edwin McCain – I’ll Be
- “I am a simple Muslim.”
- The world’s largest solar power project, recipient of the second largest ever Department of Energy loan guarantee, has filed for bankruptcy.
- According to Indian officials, Russia and India are near agreement on a preliminary design for the joint development of a hypersonic cruise missile.
- “In opposing Obamacare, we were serious the whole time.”
- Want to study the more than 2000 exoplanets so far discovered by Kepler? There’s now an app to do it!
- A radio telescope 5,000 miles wide.
- Chinese workers put finishing touches on the world’s highest and longest suspension bridge.
- Candide: Make Our Garden Grow: Bernstein at 70
- Boeing today successfully completed an 11,000 foot parachute drop test of its CST-100 reusable manned capsule.
- A new study calls for the U.S. to create a framework for recognizing private property claims in space.
- NASA management yesterday extended funding for almost all of its on-going astrophysics missions, including Hubble, Kepler, Chandra, and Fermi.
- Decision day for the SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon test flight will be April 16.
- Four Indiana Democratic officials were charged with election fraud in 2008 presidential race.
- Paleontologists in China have unearthed fossils of the largest feathered creature ever found, a 1.4 ton dinosaur that was an early cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.
- Japanese Dragon Painter
- The Giant Magellan Telescope project has decided it will not participate in a funding competition offered by the National Science Foundation.
- The poster child of the Democratic Party: Marion Barry.
- The world’s quietest room.
- Despite lacking a magnetic field of its own, scientists have discovered magnetic storms surrounding Venus.1
- The U.S. Coast Guard announced plans today to sink the tsunami-drifting derelict Japanese ship recently spotted off the coast of Alaska.
- “The bear population is not in crisis as people believed.”
- The Obama administrations Treasury Secretary admitted Wednesday that the federal government’s debt is “unsustainable,” but then added that solving the problem shouldn’t be a top priority, because the government still needs to “do things.”
- How to make water float on oil.
- Henry Dagg – Somewhere over the rainbow
- Is that an elephant on Mars?
- U.S. credit rating downgraded again
- The actual cost to launch
- Twenty doctors disciplined for giving out fake sick notes at Wisconsin demonstrations last year
- Passover
- Boney M – Rivers of Babylon
- Issy Emeney – Appalachian Flatfooting
- What happens when you put a koosh ball in liquid nitrogen?
- Passover 2
- The virtual aircraft museum
- The collapse of traditional journalism and why that is good news
- Something new found on the Sun
- SpaceX is planning its own spaceport about three miles north of Mexico at the southern tip of Texas.
- Mathilda’s solo
- Clues to North Korea’s rocket program
- Another volcano in Iceland shows signs of coming to life.
- Despite protests from the U.S. and South Korea, North Korea is continuing preparations for the launch an Earth observation satellite.
- Lava tubes on Mars.
- “Moon will be in the focus of our activity this decade.”
- Fifty top NASA experts, including astronauts, scientists, and engineers, have issued a letter demanding that NASA stop making global warming claims in press releases and websites.
- Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
- The world’s largest stone forest
- Mars: dry with only periodic short bursts of wetness.
- The world’s eight most unique paths.
- Editors representing almost two dozen journals have publicly asked for an investigation into almost two hundred papers authored by anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii.
- Astronomers have identified two of the oldest known stars, about 12 billion years old, both only a hundred light years away.
- The Little Mermaid – Part of That World
- Virgin Galactic has been cleared by the State Department to fly foreign tourists without obtaining an export license.
- Orbital Sciences has rolled the first stage of its commercial Antares rocket to the launchpad for tests.
- The ring and planets of Formalhaut
- Assuming it gets the necessary funds, Boeing anticipates flight tests of its CST-100 reusable manned capsule in 2016.
- A monolith on Mars?
- Russia commits to a twenty year space program, including building a new spaceport to replace Baikonur.
- Gagarin’s almost fatal landing.
- “Because it sucked there.”
- The 100-year march of technology in one graph.
- Why the mainstream media hates new media, Alabama edition.
- Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s graveyard of wrecked race cars.
- European subsidies have put Arianespace in the black.
- New data suggests that a microscopic creature called a tardigrade, along with its eggs, could survive an interplanetary trip.
- An up and down Sun, for real this time
- A new study suggests that building wind turbines is a far greater problem to birds than actually operating them.
- Russian flash mob – Putting on the Ritz
- North Korea’s attempt to put its first satellite into orbit today was a failure, breaking up less than two minutes after liftoff.
- Europe’s primary Earth-observation satellite has gone silent.
- The world’s biggest atlas: Yours for only $100K.
- ISS’s robot arm has now been moved into position in preparation for the Dragon berthing flight, scheduled for April 30.
- Piff the Magic Dragon
- Want to own a cave? Now you can buy one, and even move it and install it wherever you want!
- Satellite photos have revealed that there are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than scientists had predicted.
- Some wisdom from Pravda: “Humans explore space only for profit.”
- ULA, NASA’s prime contractor for operating the space shuttle, on Friday laid off nine percent of its work force.
- The bodies in Ben Franklin’s basement
- Researchers have found that they cannot reproduce the results of 89 percent of 53 “landmark” cancer research papers.
- A new record for the longest Rube Goldberg machine
- George Washington has been declared the greatest military foe Great Britain ever faced.
- Rod McKuen – Jean
- The uncertainty of science: Scientists have found a large region in Tibet where glaciers are growing.
- Indian scientists, using data from their lunar probe Chandrayaan-1, have found evidence for past volcanic activity on the central peak of the crater Tycho.
- More video proof from Project Veritas that voter fraud in Washington DC is easy to do.
- Last week’s 7.4 magnitude earthquake in Mexico apparently caused a miniature tsunami in a spring pool near Las Vegas, 1,700 miles away.
- Strange Charm: A Song about Quarks
- The trial of an ex-JPL computer specialist who claims he was fired for his Christian beliefs ended today.
- Coming and going
- New simulations suggest that the magnitude of tsunamis predicted to hit Japan have previously been underestimated.
- New government regulations will likely end the ability of teenagers to get summer jobs on farms.
- Mexico has raised their volcano alert level in response to increased activity of Popocatepetl volcano, southeast of Mexico City.
- A mathematical journal has retracted a paper because “the article contains no scientific content.”
- Puffer fish chases laser
- Senate panel proposes major NASA/NOAA budget changes
- Eleven ancient buildings built on a cliff’s edge.
- Dark matter disappears
- A bacteria, naturally resistant to all antibiotics, has been found in Lechuguilla Cave in New Mexico.
- “Our spaceships to fly from here to Abu Dhabi to New Mexico in no more than an hour.”
- “Two scandals could hurt Obama’s reelection lead.”
- Two seniors “lose” $300 in cash going through TSA security checkpoint.
- Harp music of Paraguay, played by the Japanese
- Dawn’s mission at Vesta has been extended for forty days, while still allowing the spacecraft to reach Ceres as scheduled.
- Senate Democrats don’t even bother to show up for a budget meeting called by their own leader.
- The first stage of the Antares rocket is now vertical on the launchpad at Wallops Island in preparations for launch tests.
- “It is just utterly stupid.”
- That Mexican volcano near Mexico City is now spewing ash a half mile into the sky.
- House panel proposes giving commercial space $500 million.
- The shot heard round the world
- Is asteroid mining about to begin?
- New data from a neutrino telescope in Antarctica had found that cosmic rays don’t come from gamma ray bursts, as had been believed by astronomers.
- The death of the double click
- A new launch schedule for Cygnus
- It’s not just a good idea, it’s the law!
- Brilliant or dumb?
- Data now suggests that the bats are showing signs of recovery in the first caves hit by white nose syndrome in New York.
- Jon Corzine, whose company MF Global illegally used and lost more than a billion in customer funds, is still listed as a fund-raiser for the Obama campaign.
- DARPA has released some details about last summer’s HTV-2 hypersonic test flight.
- Henri
- The battle of the bulges, 1940s style
- The Piano Guys – Cello Wars
- The world’s worst investor
- Want to get a jumpstart on tomorrow’s asteroid-mining announcement by Planetary Resources? Read this NASA report, released April 2.
- The Space Launch System is a threat to JSC, Texas jobs
- Bob Newhart – air traffic control
- SpaceX has delayed the launch of its Dragon test mission to ISS, with the launch now scheduled sometime between May 3 and May 7.
- Scientists studying Cassini images have spotted the trails of objects as they punch through one of Saturn’s rings.
- No announcement yet, but of the many stories available this Wired article and this Yahoo article appear to provide the best overview of the asteroid mining plans of Planetary Resources.
- The global warming advocate who invented the concept of “Gaia” now admits he was wrong about global warming.
- Two weeks of protests are being planned for this summer over the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandates.
- The Great Lakes are not drying up, as predicted by global warming advocates.
- A new official analysis announced yesterday predicts that Social Security will run out of money three years earlier than previously predicted.
- “The suspect is not cooperating.”
- The Air Force moves forward with the plans to develop a reusable first stage rocket.
- Cryosat has released its first seasonal variation map, tracking the growth of the Arctic icecap for the winter of 2010-2011.
- SpaceX and NASA have now set May 7 as the planned launch date for the Dragon test flight to ISS.
- The amazing Skidboot
- To mine the asteroids, first build small cheap space telescopes.
- More problems for Dark Matter
- A very merry unbirthday to you!
- New data suggests that the giant ancient asteroid barrage during the early solar system may have lasted much longer than previously thought.
- Four TSA screeners have been charged with accepting cash in exchange for allowing drug smugglers pass through security.
- Five things you didn’t know about Silly Putty.
- Three new Earthlike exoplanets, orbiting M dwarf stars in the habitable zone, have been identified by astronomers using Kepler data.
- Want to give your property away? Post on Facebook, Google or a number of other social media websites.
- India yesterday successfully launched its own all-weather imaging satellite.
- Killing private space
- Watch a video of a single glacier’s terminus, covering eight years of retreat.
- Celtic Thunder – Atmos, Druids, Deus Meus & Dulaman from Voyage
- A condo association threatened a woman with fines for following her religion and placing a Jewish mezuzah on her doorpost.
- An underground military bunker, all your own!
- Coiling lava on Mars
- Three astronauts have returned safely to Earth in their Soyuz capsule after spending 165 days on ISS.
- Engineers in Great Britain have begun testing a new hybrid engine for lifting a spaceplane into orbit.
- The Labor Department has abandoned its effort to ban kids from working on farms.
- Another breathtaking Hubble image of the Egg Nebula.
- Liam Clancy – A Place in the Choir
- The Monkees reunion – Daydream Believer
- Want to watch the launch of Falcon 9/Dragon? Here’s the low down.
- In closing down its ATV cargo freighter assembly line, Europe considers its next manned space project.
- Blue Origin and Sierra Nevada have successfully completed wind tunnel tests of their commercial manned spaceships.
- A political squabble between Russia and Kazakhstan has delayed the launch of a European weather satellite.
- On Wednesday Obama announced he would overide Congress and release of millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority, with no strings attached.
- Andrea Glass – North Wind
- MIT students last week turned a whole building into huge game of Tetris.
- A microscopic algae-eater that lives in a Norway lake has now been identified as one of the Earth’s oldest living organisms.
- The construction of Freedom Tower will today finally exceed the Empire State Building, making it the tallest building in New York.
- Brooklyn memories
- SpaceX’s static fire test of the Falcon 9 still set for 3 pm today.
- SEC documents have revealed that the total development costs for Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket have increased to $472 million, $184 million more than what NASA is paying them.
- Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
- Private companies have the right to mine the asteroids, established by precedent.
- An Australian billionaire is building a full scale replica of the Titanic.
- “Amid shouts of ‘What about free speech?’ from the audience, the Allegan Police Department ordered the event shut-down.”
- Some reasonable and unreasonable theories for what the X-37B is doing in orbit
- A Lego replicate of the Antikythera Mechanism
- Republic of fear
- The test flight of Falcon 9/Dragon to ISS will almost certainly not launch on May 7.
- Europe considers building its own reusable suborbital space plane.
- A new study has found that the trends of stream temperatures have no correlation with climate trends.
- The world’s oldest blood cells
- A search engine that intentionally skips the top million results.
- The battle to simplify and ease the United State”s international trade laws heats up.
- The destruction of a star by a black hole, seen by astronomers for the first time.
- Europe has decided to build a probe, dubbed JUICE, to study Ganymede, Callisto and Europa, Jupiter’s big icy moons.
- The Department of Energy has approved the start of detailed engineering for the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope.
- A special issue from Nature: Peopling the planet.
- Starland Vocal Band – Afternoon Delight
- Scientists have discovered that the half life of one of their key isotopes for dating the solar system is 30% shorter than previously believed.
- Last week the federal government abandoned more than a century of precedent to declare it holds senior water rights across much of Arizona’s San Pedro River riparian watershed.
- Boeing’s CST-100 commercial manned capsule successfully completed its second parachute drop test from 14,000 feet on Wednesday.
- A new study has found that the glaciers of Greenland are not behaving as predicted.
- The five men arrested for planning to blow up a bridge in Ohio turn out to all be active Occupy Wall Street activists.
- The art of flight – extreme snowboarding
- The CERN physicist who plotted with Islamic terrorists has been sentenced to five years in prison.
- The left’s Founding Fathers
- Using the Moon as a mirror
- Aerojet successfully completed a hot-fire test yesterday of its AJ26 engine to be used in Orbital Sciences Antares rocket.
- Carol Burnett and Robin Williams – The Funeral
- Shanthi the elephant plays the harmonica.
- SpaceX launch to ISS has now been rescheduled for May 19.
- Antonin Dvorak – From the New World, Symphony #9, 2nd movement
- Scientists have found that a solar Grand Minimum 2800 years ago might have caused a period of cooling in Europe
- Massachusetts state officials are restricting the kinds of foods that can be sold at bake sales.
- Astronomers now believe that Type 1a supernovae — used to discover dark energy — can be produced in two different ways.
- The Sun fizzles in April
- Richard Rogers – Edelweiss
- A space tug to bring secondary commercial payloads to different orbits.
- A trio of twisters captured on Mars in a single image.
- Dogs feel your pain
- One astronomer has found that the habitable zone around some smaller stars is smaller than first calculated because of tidal heating.
- The twenty-five coolest garages in the world.
- -Air Force officials declare the on-going X-37B mission, now over 400 days long, “a spectacular success.”
- The White House today threatened to veto the House budget because of NOAA and NASA trims.
- Curiosity takes a picture of itself on its way to Mars.
- Tony Banks – The waters of Lethe
- A trend, not a fluke: Indiana Republicans dump Senator Richard Lugar for a tea party favorite.
- Photos of East Berlin, taken in 1990 and today.
- A Japanese astronomy professor has been found murdered in Chile.
- An Indian tribe has sued and three researchers have countersued over possession of two 10,000-year-old skeletons unearthed during construction in San Diego.
- A bad day for Obama and the Democrats.
- The Chronicle of Higher Education has fired a blogger merely for criticizing black studies programs.
- Israel’s new coalition government: Why this new political deal happened and how it will change Israel.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has found that some dunes on Mars move and change as much as those on Earth.
- Chopin’s Etude in Gb Major
- ATK today announced that it is building its own manned capsule for its Liberty solid rocket.
- Winter on Mars has finally ended, and Opportunity is on the move again.
- A University of Arizona law student has won a trip into space in the Seattle Space Needle’s “Space Race,” beating out 50,000 other contestants.
- The first solar eclipse to cross the continental United States in two decades will occur on May 20.
- The ten scariest DMV horror stories.
- A star not even as hot as Venus.
- Sierra Nevada outlines its test flight plans for Dream Chaser, its reusable manned mini-shuttle.
- Republican space socialism update.
- Bigelow and SpaceX announced today that they are teaming up to offer manned flights to space.
- Massachusetts’ House yesterday overturned the ban on bake sales imposed by its Department of Public Health.
- Twenty-two awesome pictures from history.
- “How I learned not to deny climate change.”
- From the Dawn science team: The battered failed planet Vesta.
- Virgil Thomson – Finale, The River
- Muslims are exempt from Obamacare’s insurance mandate.
- The Democrats and the President publicly target a private citizen, merely for supporting Romney.
- Obama’s Justice Department last week requested the right to access the location information in all cellphones, without a warrant.
- Almost sixty years after it was reported missing, a World War II RAF fighter, which crash-landed in a remote part of the Egyptian desert in 1942, has been discovered almost intact.
- SpaceShipTwo to resume flight tests in June after a nine month hiatus.
- “The closest thing on Earth to interplanetary exploration.”
- Why Lugar lost
- The federal government is liable for approximately $850 billion in student loans, and the number of borrowers defaulting on these loans is on the rise.
- My Music Cube
- The government does a study of a study about studies.
- The McCarthyism of the left
- Engineers destroying stuff.
- In a paper published today in Geophysical Research Letters, researchers studying an icecore drilled in the West Antarctic Ice Sheet have found strong evidence of the 16th century Little Ice Age in the southern hemisphere.
- Dueling Banjos
- The assembly of the first test vehicle of XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx suborbital craft has begun.
- California officials have confisicated two stuffed animals from a local bar, after being on display for about a half century.
- Twenty-five everyday things and the words for them that no one ever uses.
- Art Of Noise – Robinson Crusoe
- An engineer has proposed in great detail building the USS Enterprise for the purpose of exploring the solar system.
- How the predictions for the year 2000 changed throughout the 20th century.
- Faced with high prices and a near monopoly by China, the mining of rare Earth metals is once again rising worldwide.
- Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) on Monday attacked the House version of NASA’s budget that required the agency to make a quick decision on its commercial manned launch company.
- LightSquared has filed for bankruptcy
- Canadian Brass performing live in China
- The Russians last night launched a new crew to ISS.
- A Tennessee policeman takes $22,000 cash from a driver, because he wants to.
- “Hate in the name of love, bullying in the name of tolerance.”
- A Catholic University has dropped its health coverage for students due to Obamacare and the contraceptive mandate.
- Building a spaceship engine fueled by antimatter.
- More voter fraud documented in North Carolina, including a professor who applauds it.
- Go west, young Russian
- In a poll of one congressional district in Arkansas, Obama receives support from just 45% of Democratic Party voters, and is only seven points ahead of his unknown primary challenger.
- An overview of what will happen on Dragon’s first flight to ISS next week.
- Antonio Breschi – Jig in the Castle
- “The Eagle has crashed.”
- Shut it down
- “This is legalized theft.”
- The new top dog
- Don’t throw away your broken electronics! There’s money to be made from them on ebay.
- The Senate today rejected President Obama’s proposed budget 99-0.
- North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has begun an investigation into the voter fraud exposed in the most recent Project Veritas videotapes.
- Based on further analysis of the data from WISE, the infrared space telescope, astronomers have now made a better estimate of the population of potentially hazardous asteroids
- A judge has temporarily blocked enforcement of the part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that allows for indefinite military detention of American citizens.
- Phil Collins -In the air tonight
- The Soyuz spacecraft has docked successfully with ISS.
- More information on the annular solar eclipse coming to the southwest U.S. this Sunday.
- New research suggests that the “good” cholesterol isn’t as good as previously believed.
- “I have never felt more like a nerd in my life.”
- Only 65% of the political class and only 61% of Democrats are aware that federal spending has gone up in the past ten years.
- A second Catholic University is now considering eliminating their student health plans because of Obamacare and the contraceptive mandate.
- Japan today launched its first commercial satellite.
- Toaster purse
- Falcon 9 is now upright on launchpad
- WhiteKnightTwo made its 80th flight yesterday.
- Duct tape suspension bridge built by the students of Dublin High School Engineering and Design Academy in California
- Is there a drone in your neighborhood?
- Falcon 9 aborted its launch tonight at 4:55 am (Eastern) at T minus zero seconds.
- Some thoughts on the scrub
- “The system itself is corrupt, but worse, it’s utterly corrupting.”
- A planet turning to dust
- SpaceX has reported that they have found the cause of the Falcon 9 launch abort this morning.
- The world’s most dangerous bridge?
- Bridge Day rappel
- “The Iranian nation is standing for its cause and that is the full annihilation of Israel.”
- SpaceX is set to begin the countdown tonight for a May 22nd launch of Falcon 9/Dragon.
- Boeing has unveiled a design to put small satellites into orbit for as little as $300,000 per launch.
- The federal judges in the Ninth Circuit plan to hold a conference in Hawaii this August that could cost $1 million or more, and will include a golf tournament, a tennis tournament, an ice cream social, a garden tour, sport fishing, yoga, surfing lessons, and Zumba dancing lessons.
- Forty-three Catholic institutions today filed suit over the Obamacare mandate requiring them to pay for contraceptives.
- Wisconsin police demand that a family bring cash to bail their son out of jail, and then confiscate the cash.
- The Falcon 9 launch tonight is a go, with weather 80 percent favorable
- The town of Tewksbury, Massachusetts has teamed up with the federal government in an attempt to seize a private hotel, sell it, and give 80 percent of the proceeds to the local police department.
- An eco-terrorist was arrested in Great Britain on Sunday for breaking into an agricultural research facility and trying to destroy a test crop of genetically modified wheat.
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has published another spectacular oblique image of Tycho crater.
- Bee Gees – I Started a Joke
- The countdown has begun
- Falcon 9 has cleared the tower
- One step closer to a robust competitive space industry
- Russia is considering ending its joint commercial program with the Ukraine and Kazakhstan to launch satellites using its Dnepr rocket.
- “If the quality of the Administration’s economic analysis hadn’t already proven to be nearly worthless the discrepancy here would be stunning.”
- The world’s tallest tower opened to tourists today in Tokyo.
- The Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee have approved raising the airline security fees to fund the TSA.
- A rocket launch pushes Congress towards free enterprise
- R.I.P. Eugene Polley, inventor of the television remote control..
- A conservative blogger and his family have been forced into hiding for revealing the criminal past of a leftwing activist.
- Killer microbes from the edge of space?
- Iran is expected to launch its first maneuverable satellite tomorrow.
- Based on new calculations, an astronomer has proposed the existence of an unseen planet four times the size of Earth lurking in the outer reaches of the solar system.
- Olivia Newton John – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
- “I think it was a missed opportunity of tremendous proportions that the Republicans didn’t embrace what they said they believed in during those times.”
- Obama only gets 58 percent of the vote in the Kentucky primary today, with “uncommitted” getting 42 percent.
- “the Obama camp looks ominously like a cult of personality that tolerates no dissent.”
- At a conference in Washington DC yesterday both Russia and Japan announced the Moon as their next primary space exploration goal.
- How a leftist activist/convicted bomber is working to destroy the lives of several bloggers.
- The National Academy holds a panel of past and present presidential science advisers, and invites only Democrats.
- Scientists who published a study last month that said they could find no evidence of dark matter in nearby interstellar space, have re-analyzed their data and found that the dark matter is apparently there.
- Four Princeton physicists received over $1.5 million in lodging subsidies from the Department of Energy while on “temporary” assignment to other labs, even after living at that assigment for as much as 14 years.
- Dragon has been approved to approach within one mile of ISS tonight in its first rendezvous test.
- Cousin Jake, Uncle Josh, Earl Scruggs – Nobody’s business
- “[Christians and Jews] are inferior and smaller, more cowardly and despised.”
- The University of Arkansas has been forced by the Obama Justice Department to allow a male student permanent access to female bathrooms.
- More information on the leftwing activist, Brett Kimberlin, who is trying to destroy bloggers who criticize him.
- Engineers at MIT have developed a coating for the inside of food bottles that will allow all the food to flow out.
- Dragon’s test rendezvous with ISS tonight has begun.
- Dragon’s dress rehearsal rendezvou last night was a success, and the spacecraft has been cleared to proceed with berthing tomorrow morning.
- The conflict between exploration and history
- Using the budget balancing rules Congress imposed on private companies, the federal deficit turns out to be five times greater than the official but fake numbers Congress normally publishes.
- Why Obama’s poor primary performances matter.
- Check out the National Speed Trap Exchange.
- Spectacular video of a volcano eruption in Japan yesterday.
- The Lunar Orbiter image of Copernicus Crater, taken forty-six years ago, has been re-released after significant refurbishing..
- Destroying polio: only three nations left to go.
- Forecasting hurricanes
- Climategate continues
- Antonio Breschi – from Bach to Ireland on the piano
- The television as envisioned by dreamers — before it existed.
- The scientists building a space probe to go to asteroid 1999 RQ36 have better pinpointed its orbit.
- Cronies ‘R’ us
- The number of searches on Google for the phrase “bank run” has just hit an all-time high.
- Dragon has been captured and now is being docked with ISS
- “A Dragon by the tail.”
- The campaign of political terrorism by the left.
- Six fires that changed the world
- The Democrat mayor of a New Jersey town and his son have been arrested for hacking into the website run by an organization trying to get him recalled from office.
- Two Democrats joined Republicans yesterday on a Senate committee to block the U.S. military from increasing its use of alternatives fossil fuels.
- Europe ponders choosing the design of the next generation Ariane rocket.
- The entrepreneur man who squatted at AOL headquarters for two months while he created his startup.
- The Shirelles – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- The TSA has decided to no longer require the elderly to remove their jackets, belts, and shoes when going through airport security.
- Renovations at a Los Angeles restaurant in February uncovered a neon light, hidden inside a wall, that had been was switched on in 1935 and left burning for 77 years.
- “We’re going to put a bullet in your head. We know where you and your family live.”
- It appears that the floating debris from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan last year is reaching North America sooner than expected.
- So how’s that old Arab Spring going?
- Joe Hisaishi – theme from My Neighbor Totoro
- Modern intellectualism: “Lie to the public.”
- A summary of all the lives lost climbing Mount Everest.
- A graveyard of ships in the desert
- “This is the most despicable violation of religious liberty that this nation has ever seen.”
- Patti LuPone – Sleepy Man
- A side-by-side comparison of the mission controls of NASA and SpaceX
- Another right wing blogger has had the police called to his house because of a fake report of a shooting at his house.
- Excalibur Almaz announced plans on Sunday to use its refurbished Soviet-era space station modules and capsules for commercial flights to the lunar orbit.
- The head of the National Weather Service stepped down on Friday in response to an inspector general’s report that accused the National Weather Service of misappropriating $43 million.
- Twelve amazing confluences from around the world.
- The first notes in the longest and slowest piece of music in history, designed to go on for 639 years, will be played on a German church organ this Wednesday.
- Rediscovered photos of Greenland reveal that the ice retreat in the 1930s was as drastic as today.
- The Stratolaunch system has entered system design review.
- “If nothing happens, this means people can misuse customer funds and have no criminal liability.”
- China, Russia, Brazil, India and other UN members have proposed giving the UN more control over the governance and operation of the internet.
- The rise of leftist eco-terrorism.
- Volvo road tests a system on Spanish highways where one driver in a lead truck controls a train of cars following behind him.
- Banned from using heavy equipment by the Forest Service to repair their water supply, Tombstone residents are planning a “Shovel Brigade” in June.
- A failed public works project — from the year 1350 AD
- An angry mob set fire to the headquarters of one of the Egyptian presidential candidates today.
- A Japanese dentist has invented a self-stirring cookpot that also saves energy.
- The world’s smallest V-12 engine
- This ain’t good: The most common college grade is an “A”.
- Computer researchers have found that the microprocessor used by the U.S. military but made in China contains secret remote access capability.
- Here’s a bit more information on the Excalibur Almaz proposal to launch commercial tourist flights to the Moon using refurbished Soviet-era space stations and capsules.
- Kazakhstan is blocking three upcoming Russian satellite launches from its spaceport in Baikonur because of a dispute over where rocket debris will fall.
- The BBC used a fictional UN logo from a video game instead of the real UN logo during a news broadcast.
- SpaceX has gotten its first contract, with Intelsat, for its not-yet-built Falcon Heavy rocket.
- The radiation released from the Fukushima nuclear power meltdown in Japan last year will cause almost no cases of cancer according to two separate reports.
- The Dead Sea is getting a bounce.
- According to one professor, the government should require people to exercise in order to control their weight.
- Carole King – Tapestry
- Dream Chaser underwent its first flight test today
- Blogger arrested today in Maryland — for blogging
- How scientists can author as many as 700 papers without even reading what they have written.
- The top GSA official involved in the extravagant Las Vegas conference has returned to work.
- From a past SpaceX critic: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy could wipe its launch competition.
- The FAA has granted Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic a launch permit to begin rocket-powered test flights of SpaceShipTwo.
- A U.S. senator has demanded the NIH explain how it could give a $2 million grant to a researcher previously punished for not reporting financial conflicts of interest who is also under investigation by the Department of Justice.
- A college has been forced to double the healthcare fees charged to its students, and lays the blame solely on Obamacare.
- A black former Democrat Congressman who also gave the seconding speech for Obama’s nomination in 2008 has decided to switch parties and become a Republican.
- A truck transporting a NASA balloon telescope worth millions has disappeared in Dallas in route from Minnesota to Texas.
- Antonio Breschi – Language of the Land
- The Whitewater-Baldy wildfire in New Mexico is now the largest in that state’s history, covering 266 square miles.
- The high school football star who was imprisoned for six years on a false rape charge now has four auditions with NFL teams.
- Ten science fiction episodes that changed television.
- The hatch is closed and Dragon is ready for its return to Earth tomorrow morning.
- The Muslim Brotherhood candidate in Egypt: “[Christians] need to know that conquest is coming, and Egypt will be Islamic, and that they must pay jizya [tribute] or emigrate.”
- “They are essentially accountable to no one. That is a very dangerous combination for anything.”
- Dragon has undocked from ISS.
- The missing truck carrying a NASA balloon space telescope has been located.
- Dragon has successfully fired its engines.
- A government study has found that the more educated in science and math an American is the more likely they will be skeptical of the dangers of global warming.
- Dragon has successfully splashed down.
- A county government in California, rather than buy private property through eminent domain, is using zoning regulations to force owners out so the county doesn’t have to pay any compensation.
- The FDA has rejected changing the name of high fructose corn syrup to corn sugar.
- Using the Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have determined that the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are on a collision course, and will meet head on in 4 billion years.
- How a trucking company employee solved the mystery of the missing NASA telescope.
- Kate Wolf – Eyes of a Painter
- The trial of seven earthquake scientists in Italy on charges of manslaughter for not correctly predicting the earthquake in L’Aquila continued yesterday with each of the defendants testifying.
- Images from Messenger now appear to support past radio telescope observations that suggested there was water-ice in the permanently shadowed craters of Mercury.
- What is the current state of the six American flags planted on the Moon by Apollo astronauts? One NASA engineer takes a look.
- Sea Launch successfully put an Intelsat communications satellite into orbit today from its floating launch platform in the Pacific.
- One entrepreneur and investor asks: Why isn’t Jon Corzine being prosecuted?
- Not good: The Labor Department announced today that the U.S. economy only added 69 thousand jobs in May, the fewest in a year.
- Environmental activists have launched a petition drive to stop SpaceX from building a commercial spaceport in Brownsville, Texas.
- Longplayer
- Intelsat has reported a delay in deploying one of the solar panels of its new communications satellite launched earlier today.
- The New York Mets get their first no-hitter after fifty years.
- The scientist suing JPL because he thinks he was fired due to his religious beliefs wants $1.36 million, according to court papers filed early last month.
- SpaceX has tentatively scheduled its first operational cargo flight to ISS for September 24.
- Florida has decided to continue to purge its election rolls of illegal and ineligible voters, in defiance of the Obama administration’s demand that it stop.
- Iran is finishing construction on a new space launch facility.
- The head of the World Bank warned that Europe is heading for an economic “danger zone” as bad as 2008.
- Amelia Earhart found?
- Roman Architecture
- Ninety-five federal workers have racked up $750,000 in travel expenses, while working at home.
- An economy built to stall
- How to bake bread in space.
- A targeted SETI observation of Gliese 581, the nearest star with exoplanets in the habitable zone, has found no evidence of alien communications.
- An Israeli company has discovered a giant off-shore oil and gas field within Israeli territorial waters.
- A new gun range in Texas plans to offer itself for kids’ birthday parties.
- The day of reckoning looms:
- A bank run by an Obama bundler has gotten an Republican-led House committee to exempt that bank from provisions of the Frank-Dodd act, saving the bank $300 million.
- The Muppets – The Martians discover a telephone
- Something caused the Earth to bombarded with cosmic rays in 775 AD but scientists have no idea what.
- Using video game software, Surrey Satellite has devised a way for nanosatellites to seek each other out and then dock to form a larger satellite.
- Blackballing Nat Hentoff
- The man tapped to head Romney’s transition team should he win the election favors implementing Obamacare on the state level.
- A fascinating look at the space race and what the future held, written in 1959.
- The transit of Venus tomorrow.
- Some details and photos of Sierra Nevada’s captive carry test flight last week of Dream Chaser.
- Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister paid a call at that country’s under-construction Vostochny spaceport today, enthusing about its possibilities.
- Landlady rejects renting an apartment to a man because he was a veteran who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
- More colleges have announced plans to drop their student healthplans due costs imposed by Obamacare.
- The military has given NASA two Cold War era spy space telescopes with mirrors comparable to Hubble’s.
- Fifteen picturesque shipwrecks from around the world.
- Astronomers think they have discovered a distant supermassive black hole that is being ejected from its galaxy at a speed of several million miles per hour.
- Shuttle prototype Enterprise was damaged on Sunday while being transported by barge to its New York City museum home.
- Due to cost overruns, NASA has cancelled the GEM X-ray telescope.
- Doc Watson – Windy and Warm
- The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency has asked the Utah state legislature for permission to scan the license plates of all cars driving on Interstate 15.
- Taking a look at the test flight planning for Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo capsule.
- The surest sign that the Democrats will lose the recall vote there today: “Mainstream media escapes from Wisconsin.”
- According to a new poll, the number of voters who consider themselves independents is now the highest in seventy-five years.
- The debt of the federal government is projected to be nearly twice the size of the U.S. economy by 2037, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced Tuesday.
- The trustee of the customers whose money was stolen by MF Global has indicated in a report that he might sue Jon Corzine for negligence and breach of fiduciary duty.
- In order to do a fifteen minute campaign photo-op on Memorial Day, Obama shut down the Vietnam Memorial down to everyone, including veterans, for seven hours.
- Tone deaf: The union representing maintenance crews at Belmont is threatening to go on strike on Friday, just prior to the Belmont Stakes where the horse “I’ll Have Another” has a chance to win the Triple Crown.
- Watching the transit of Venus – from Saturn
- Want to own your own island? Now you can have it built, and put it wherever you want!
- Congressional investigators now have documents that prove senior officials in Eric Holder’s Department of Justice approved Operation Fast and Furious, whereby the DOJ allowed guns to be purchased illegally and then smuggled back to Mexico.
- “So come and get me if you must, Mr. President. I will not bow to your wicked regulation.”
- Watch the Venus transit live
- Congressman Frank Wolf (R-Virginia) has backed down and modified the language he had inserted in the NASA budget bill that would have limited the number of commercial space companies NASA could subsidize.
- Bryn Terfel – Turtle Dove
- Scott Walker wins big in Wisconsin
- “I will kill Walker myself.”
- Off to Nevada
- Solar Dynamic Observatory successfully imaged Venus’s atmosphere during yesterday’s transit
- Ray Bradbury has died.
- Sammy Davis, Jr. – Mr. Bojangles
- On the road
- Making diamonds with only an acetylene torch.
- First day caving in Nevada
- Don McLean – American pie
- Loudon Wainwright – One-man Guy
- Caving in Nevada
- 20,000 bottle rockets
- Blondie – Dreaming & Heart Of Glass
- On the way home
- Construction of the world’s largest ground-based telescope has been approved by the European Southern Observatory.
- Penn & Teller – Blast Off
- One of the window’s of the observation cupola on ISS has been hit by a micrometeorite and is now shuttered until engineers can evaluate the damage.
- Orbital Sciences successfully launched NASA’s NuSTAR X-ray telescope this morning.
- Unless they can find a buyer the United Kingdom will close down its 3.8 meter infrared UKIRT telescope on Mauna Kea in 2013.
- NASA has released more information about the two space telescopes the National Reconnaissance Office has donated to them.
- The X-37b in orbit for the past fifteen months is set to land this week, possibly even today.
- Have two physicists created solid metallic hydrogen in the lab? Scientists fight it out.
- The North Carolina legislature has passed a bill that requires its coastal planning commission to ignore the accelerated sea level rise predictions of global warming scientists and instead use more conservative numbers.
- Cave exploration in the western mountains
- Mars Odyssey put itself into safe mode on Friday when it detected problems with one of the three reaction wheels used to orient the spacecraft.
- A global view of Vesta
- Vaughan Williams – Sea Songs
- More lakes on Titan
- Scientists have developed a genetically altered mosquito that does not transmit malaria to humans.
- China is in its final preparations for the launch of its next manned mission.
- Watch an asteroid a third of a mile across zip past the Earth tonight.
- A new poll in Nevada repeats what was found in North Carolina: Obama appears to be losing a significant percentage of the black vote.
- Has Voyager 1 finally left the solar system?
- The real estate crash: We’ve only just begun
- A painted red disk of cave art has now been dated at 40,800 years old, making it the oldest known art that might even have been painted by the Neanderthals.
- Billy Joel – Piano Man
- Copenhagen Suborbitals: The crazy DIY spaceflight project that just might work.
- Engineers have successfully tested a spare reaction wheel on Mars Odyssey in their effort to bring the spacecraft back into full operation.
- “The latest data indicate that we are clearly in a new region where things are changing more quickly. It is very exciting. We are approaching the solar system’s frontier.”
- A UCLA professor who exposed corruption while also challenging the legitimacy of certain California fuel regulations, has sued the university for firing him.
- China’s next manned mission, with one female astronaut aboard, will launch Saturday.
- The IRS’s budget has grown by almost a billion dollars due to Obamacare.
- The nightmare of being a conservative on a modern college campus.
- The EPA will propose today stricter standards for the release of soot by factories and power plants.
- The Sun’s fizzle continues
- The federal government is on a pace to exceed its $16.394 trillion debt limit sooner than expected, by October, just before the election.
- Scientists have concluded that a 460 foot diameter asteroid only has a 1 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2040.
- Orbital Sciences has delayed the first testing firing of its Antares rocket until late July or early August.
- On exhibit in New York: A mock mission to Mars, built by an artist using, among other things, duct tape.
- Geologists think they have finally identified the volcano that in 1258 AD produced the largest eruption in 7,000 years — an event that was completely unnoticed by humanity at the time.
- Vertical Video Syndrome – a PSA
- Despite the continuing lack of an agreement, Kazakhstan today gave Russia permission to resume launches from the Baikonur spaceport.
- SONNY & CHER – I Got You Babe
- China has successfully put into orbit its first three person crew, including its first female astronaut, on its first manned space docking mission.
- The X-37b that has been in orbit for the past 15 months successfully returned to Earth in a runway landing today.
- Dancing Birds
- China’s Shenzhou-9 capsule successfully docked with Tiengong-1 and the crew has entered the space module.
- An IBM supercomputer today became the fastest in the world.
- The TSA has tentatively approved a plan to allow private companies to screen passengers in Orlando.
- The terrorist training that Gaza gives to kindergarten children. With pictures.
- The Moon: a desert after all?
- A school bus used by a church to drive anti-abortion protesters to a local abortion clinic was firebombed Friday night.
- “[W]ith few exceptions, climate models not only fail to do better than random numbers, in some cases they are actually worse.”
- The FAA and NASA have worked out their differences concerning their regulation of private commercial space.
- 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.
- Global warming: Second thoughts by an environmentalist.
- The Beatles – All You Need Is Love
- Want to invest in a spacesuit company? Now you can!
- Spending money on silliness at the NSF and NIH
- A Virginia dog receives a voter registration form in the mail, asking him to register to vote.
- Adults heckle and shout down kindergarten students singing “God Bless the USA” at a graduation ceremony in Brooklyn.
- NBC has been caught again, for the third time this year, of selectively editing news footage to create a false scenario.
- The pork of Obamacare
- According to FBI statistics released last week, violent crime has declined for the fifth year in a row, the 18th time in the last 20 years.
- Bugs Bunny – Hare Tonic
- Mars Odyssey is out of safe mode and should be back in full operation by next week.
- A new company has announced plans to use the Gemini capsule design from the 1960s to provide crew and cargo capability to orbit.
- The first manually flown docking by Chinese astronauts is now scheduled for June 24.
- Memo to NBC: What the hell is wrong with you?
- Congress has pulled all funding for the Eisenhower memorial, the design of which is strongly opposed by the Eisenhower family.
- How to make potato chips that look like translucent shards of glass.
- Excalibur Almaz has announced plans for a privately funded trip to the Moon.
- SpaceShipTwo was in the air on Friday, as WhiteKnightTwo did a 1.5 hour test flight with the ship attached to its belly.
- The high school teacher who thought it is a crime to criticize the president and threatened students for doing so will keep her job.
- President Obama today invoked executive privilege in order to withhold documents demanded by a House committee investigating the “Fast and Furious” gun scandal.
- The number of available job openings in April showed biggest drop in nearly 4 years.
- Eric Holder has retracted his false claim that the Bush administration had started the program allowing guns to be smuggled illegally to Mexico.
- New data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton Crater, located on the moon’s south pole. The uncertainty of science: New data from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in Shackleton Crater, located on the moon’s south pole.
- The House panel investigating the scandal has now voted to place Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.Fast and Furious again: The House panel investigating the scandal has now voted to place Eric Holder in contempt of Congress.
- Excalibur Almaz has signed a deal to use Xcor’s Lynx suborbital craft to train its astronauts.
- The House yesterday proposed a spending bill that would cut the EPA’s budget to $7 billion, 17% less than what it received in 2012.
- The empty bench of the Democratic Party.
- Joe Hisaishi – The Path of the Wind from My Neighbor Totoro
- Astronomers have videotaped the fly-by of a 23-foot-wide asteroid as it zipped past the Earth on May 29 at a distance of only about 12,000 miles.
- The TSA’s security checkpoint of the future.
- “And ask yourself this, if they’re that egregious at lying on that issue, what else are they lying about?”
- According to this article, the water-ice discovered at Shackleton Crater is insufficient for human settlement.
- Test firing of SpaceShipTwo’s rocket motor has begun.
- “Every word out of their mouth was, ‘we don’t care,'”
- The Obama administration spent $10 billion dollars to create 355 renewable energy jobs, according to testimony to Congress on Tuesday.
- New data from Martian meteorites suggests that the interior of Mars has about the same amount of water as the Earth.
- The second phase in the robotic satellite refueling demo on ISS has gotten underway.
- Two exoplanets in a tight orbital dance.
- New data from Antarctica suggests that the south pole icecap is not warming, as predicted by climate models.
- The Senate has passed that pork-filled farm bill, with 16 Republicans and 46 Democrats voting for it.
- A walk across the Brooklyn Bridge
- An asteroid that was discovered only four days before it flew by the Earth on June 14 has turned out to be much bigger than first thought.
- The first complete view of Earth as a globe — looking down from above the north pole.
- The Social Security Trust Fund will start losing value in 2013.
- The IPCC has decided that it is too difficult to purge non-peer-reviewed envionmental activist press releases from its next report.
- Glass jewellery believed to have been made by Roman craftsmen has been found in an ancient tomb in Japan.
- Passacaglia – Chedeville
- Forbidden by the Forest Service from using powered equipment, a shovel brigade of 60 people last weekend made temporary repairs to Tombstone’s water line.
- NASA has delayed the first test flight of Orion’s launch abort system by two years to 2017.
- Figuring out how to launch a mini-shuttle, Dream Chaser, on an Atlas rocket.
- The Obama campaign demanded photo IDs from anyone who wanted to attend a recent rally in Ohio.
- The Dodd-Frank downgrade.
- A Dad’s secret high school graduation present to his daughter — that took thirteen years to make.
- NBC News struggles with significant ratings decline.
- Charting the relative economic strength of the world’s most powerful countries over the past 2000 years.
- THE BANGLES- MANIC MONDAY
- What if Walmart sold 2,500 guns illegally, walked them into Mexico, and hid the documentation from Congress?
- A three man crew took a Chinese submersible to a depth of 22,800 feet in the Mariana Trench earlier this week, the record for that nation.
- What the hell is Matt 2012?
- China’s astronauts successfully undocked, backed away from their space station, and then completed a manual docking early today.
- The second phase of NASA’s robotic refueling demo on ISS has successfully proven that a robot can remove a satellite fuel cap not designed for refueling.
- A human-powered helicopter was successfully flown for 50 seconds on June 21, setting a new world record.
- A Dallas cop arrests a motorcyclist on a false made-up charge in order to confiscate his helmet camera.
- Not only will the North Carolina high school teacher who thought it is a crime to criticize the president and threatened students for doing so keep her job, the student who exposed her ignorance is being harassed by the school.
- Because a TSA agent failed to notice his metal detector was unplugged, hundreds of passengers at JFK Airport in New York had to go back and be rescreened, including those already on two planes on the runway, causing hours of delays.
- NBC has once again been caught deceptively editing videtape material, and this time it might be used by Jerry Sandusky’s lawyers to get him a mistrial.
- Obamacare: 0-98
- More fraud in the social psychology field: A psychologist at Erasmus University in Rotterdam has resigned, with two of his papers now retracted.
- SpaceX has successfully tested an upgraded version of its Merlin rocket engine.
- Shortly after the peace order against him was partially stayed — restoring his right to criticize leftwing activist and convicted bomber Brett Kimberlin — blogger Aaron Walker and his family were SWAT-ted, whereby a crank call triggered a SWAT team attack on his home.
- Drive recklessly.
- It appears the Easter Island statues did walk the eleven miles from the quarry where they were carved.
- More details on both SpaceX’s Merlin engine test yesterday as well as Orbital Sciences’ test firing of its Antares AJ-26 rocket engine on Monday.
- Using WhiteKnightTwo to launch cargo and an update on revisions to SpaceShipTwo’s design.
- The Stoning of Christians — in Michigan
- The full story about last night’s swatting of a blogger critical of leftwing activist and convicted terrorist Brett Kimberlin.
- A TSA agent in Florida spilled the cremated remains of a man’s grandfather on the floor after illegally opening the jar to finger the ashes.
- Astronomers watch as the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way begins to eat a giant gas cloud.
- Boeing has successfully tested the thruster it plans to use on its CST-100 crew/cargo capsule.
- Enya – Only Time
- A German court has declared the practice of Judaism a crime.
- China has spent $6 billion since 1992 on its manned space program.
- Stockton, California, has filed for bankruptcy, making it the largest bankruptcy of any U.S. city in history.
- More than thirty thousand people have been ordered to flee the growing wildfire in Colorado.
- The scientific stupidity of the TSA’s security rules.
- Brookhaven Labs has achieved the hottest man-made temperature ever, 4 trillion degrees Celsius.
- The bloody and corrupt scandal of Obama’s Fast-and-Furious gun-smuggling operation: a summary.
- Both Russia and the United States have developed a “pain ray” weapon for dispersing protestors.
- Scientists have found a previously unknown mineral embedded in a meteorite that crashed to Earth in 1969.
- Marilyn Monroe – Heat Wave
- SpaceShipTwo resumed flight tests yesterday.
- Solar scientists think they have found out what heats the Sun’s atmosphere: Giant solar tornadoes thousands of miles high.
- A private organization focused on preventing asteroids from impacting the Earth today announced its plans to build and launch an infrared space telescope by 2017.
- Data of the tidal fluxes on Titan by the Cassini spacecraft now suggest that there is a liquid ocean below Titan’s icy crust.
- The new X-ray telescope NuSTAR has opened its eye and taken its first images.
- Astronomers think they have found the fastest moving pulsar yet found, flying through space at between 5 to 6 million miles per hour.
- Extreme Sports Doggy
- China’s Shenzhou 9 spacecraft has landed safely, and all three astronauts have exited the capsule in good health.
- A skeptic takes an educated look at alternative energy.
- While thousands protest the restarting of any nuclear power plants in Japan following last year’s earthquake, some scientists have questions about one particular plant.
- A Modest Proposal
- The IRS has announced that it will increase its investigations of tax-exempt political groups.
- “It’s all up to the voters now.”
- Scientists have identified the oldest known impact crater on Earth, three billion years old.
- The most powerful rocket presently in service, the Delta-4 Heavy, successfully launched a U.S. surveillance satellite this morning.
- Clark Lindsey posted today this interesting cost comparison between the Falcon 9 and the Russian-built Proton rocket.
- Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister said today that his country needs to expand its commercial space services and grab market share from the United States and Europe.
- The journal Science once again excuses scientific fraud
- The sex life of a living rock.
- Henri part 3 – The Vet
- Wiretap applications by Eric Holder’s Justice Department are now providing evidence that top officials, including Holder, knew about the Fast-and-Furious program and its smuggling of guns illegally into Mexico long before the murder of border agent Brian Terry by one of those guns.
- “All these whistleblowers have axes to grind. ATF needs to f—k these guys.”
- A SWAT team in Indiana broke down the unlocked front door, tossed in stun grenade, and then stormed into … (wait for it) … the wrong house.
- The stuck solar panel on Intelsat 19, launched June 1, has finally deployed.
- Kate Wolf – Looking Back At You
- Three astronauts have safely returned from ISS in a Soyuz capsule after 193 days in orbit.
- Second Anniversary Bleg
- Feist – 1234 & Mushaboom
- Take a gander at these cool images from SpaceShipTwo’s most recent test flights.
- Retired astronaut Alan Poindexter has been killed in a jet ski accident.
- Iran plans to attack U.S. commercial planes should an attack occur on its nuclear program.
- The stink bug, first seen in the east, has now invaded 38 states including the Pacific coast.
- Obamacare: the final battle.
- The Secret Service shut down a “Fire Holder” rally this morning in front of the White House.
- The U.S.-based physicists announced today that their data suggests that the Higgs boson exists.
- A investigation has found that Japanese anesthesiologist, Yoshitaka Fujii, fabricated a 172 scientific papers over the past 19 years.
- A newly discovered fossil of a very early dinosaur strongly suggests that all dinosaurs had some form of plumage.
- Rufus Wainwright – Albatross
- NASA today unveiled for the press the Orion capsule scheduled for the program’s first test flight in 2014.
- A Tea Party event today in Tucson
- Boeing and Lockheed Martin are both considering hiring the Russia aerospace company Energia to build components for the CST-100 and Orion manned capsules.
- A nice summary of the scientific results so far returned by Messenger.
- Hope and dispair for American bats: New results on the fungus that is killing them.
- A report released on Monday states that U.S. state and local governments have more than $2 trillion in unfunded pension liabilities.
- “If you want to give a vegetarian diet to a pet, get a rabbit, not a dog or a cat.”
- Though an engineering success, the world’s tallest building in Dubai has also turned out to be a financial flop.
- A Dearborn Muslim has been charged with nine counts of attempted murder for trying to run down a crowd of Christian protesters with his car.
- Since 2006 carbon dioxide emissions in the U.S. has plunged, almost reaching 1991 levels.
- New research has found that from 20,000 to 7,000 years ago Great Britain was surrounded by a vast area of dry land that reached as far as Denmark.
- A brief history of rock n’ roll in 100 riffs
- On the Space Show tonight
- The map that named the New World
- From CERN: The experiments have observed a “particle consistent with long-sought Higgs boson.”
- Happy Independence Day!
- The link to last night’s Space Show interview
- Whitney Houston – National Anthem – Super Bowl XXV
- Inexplicably, a dust disk detected around a star about 460 light years away has vanished in the last two years.
- The United States of winners
- Astronomers have found four different binary star systems with the stars orbiting so close to each other that they complete their orbits in less than four hours, orbits that astronomers had previously believed “impossible.”
- ATK’s push to build its Liberty launch system.
- How the Higgs boson explains the universe.
- A new set of Democrats backed out this week from attending the Democratic Convention or endorsing Obama for President.
- How well does your Congressman uphold his oath to uphold the Constitution? The new Freedom Index will tell you!
- “There’s already 13,000 pages of regulations, and they’re not even done yet.”
- How fireworks work
- It ain’t easy creating your own nation, and here’s the history to prove it.
- Opportunity’s view from Mars, a panorama taken during the rover’s most recent winter stopover.
- Just for Laughs Jesus pranks
- Six patients are suing one of the world’s largest stem cell companies, accusing it of fraud.
- A European Space Agency (ESA) working group has recommended the agency focus its next manned space project on redesigning its now abandoned ATV cargo ship as a service module for the U.S.’s Orion capsule.
- The only program surveying the southern sky for dangerous asteroids has lost its funding and will end this month.
- An Israeli company has developed a medical marijuana strain that doesn’t make you high.
- Another dismal jobs report.
- Scientists can now use neutron detectors at the south pole to warn astronauts on ISS of incoming dangerous radiation.
- A study has found that Americans and Europeans give directions differently.
- Is the U.S. government reading your emails? The answer appear to be “Maybe.”
- Vice President Paul Ryan?
- A Phoenix man has been jailed for hold Bible study sessions in his own home.
- AARON LEWIS – Country Boy
- For a second year in a row the U.S. has negotiated a deal with a Russian company to provide icebreaker service to Antarctica during the winter.
- The House Appropriations Committee has approved a $1.4 billion cut in the budget of EPA, also including 31 additional riders limited the agency’s regulatory powers.
- Tomoyasu Hotei – Battle without Honor or Humanity
- Cool images of the opening of the floodgates of a Chinese dam.
- National Park Service is proposing the removal of several historic bridges in Yosemite because they interfere with water flow, according to environmentalists.
- Daffy Duck – What makes Daffy Duck?
- Human ingenuity at its best.
- New research has apparently disproven the Mono Lake research that suggested that arsenic might replace phosphorus as one of the basic building blocks of life.
- New research suggests that — despite its known bad effects — weightlessness might actually slow the aging process.
- “Christianity should be destroyed and wiped from the face of the earth.”
- Life before air conditioning.
- The fizzle continues
- A hotel for stargazers
- Cassini has shifted its orbit so that it can look down on Saturn and its rings.
- A survey of doctors nationwide has found that 83% have considered abandoning the practice of medicine due to Obamacare.
- I’m farming and I grow it
- A student experiment that was successfully flown up and down to ISS by Dragon is apparently a failure because no one on ISS ever turned it on.
- The Russian company building that country’s Glonass GPS system is under investigation by the police for the embezzlement of more than a half billion rubles.
- A campaign in England to reform that country’s libel laws.
- The rise and fall of Germany’s solar power industry.
- The glaciers of the Karakoram Range in the Himalayas are not shrinking as predicted, according to satellite data.
- The number of Democrats in the House willing to join the Republicans to vote for repeal of Obamacare appears to be growing.
- An indoor climbing wall that never ends.
- The Democratic candidate for Secretary of State of Missouri claims that no Jews were killed on 9/11, while also suggesting that Jews were involved in the attack itself.
- Cassini has now seen the beginnings of a vortex over Titan’s south pole, the first sign that winter is coming to the planet’s southern hemisphere.
- India is in the process of biometrically identifying every one of it 1.2 billion citizens.
- Suzi Quatro – Can The Can
- Another California city, San Bernardino, has decided to declare bankruptcy.
- Five rifles for the end of times.
- Hubble has discovered a fifth moon orbiting Pluto.
- From Virgin Galactic come two announcements today
- Scientists find out what makes a stinky rock stink.
- “It’s the spending, stupid.”
- The Internet Cat Video Film Festival.
- With each new estimate, the cost of Obamacare has risen. See chart below the fold.
- Five Democrats joined 239 Republicans in the House to repeal Obamacare today.
- Sierra Nevada has successfully completed testing of the nose landing gear for its Dream Chaser manned reusable spacecraft.
- The Virginia spaceport at Wallops Island is on schedule to hand control of its launchpad sometime this month so that Orbital Sciences can begin ground tests of its Antares rocket.
- It seems that more than one experiment was not turned on during their stay on ISS this past month, and an investigation has begun as to why.
- Lulu – To Sir With Love
- At least 80 House Republicans have signed a letter demanding that Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) block any further funding of Obamacare.
- Researchers have concluded that the dust on the Moon’s surface there pose serious health risks for lunar colonists.
- “Systematically and in all sorts of ways, old people are doing everything possible to rob you [today’s youth] of your money, your future, your dignity, and your freedom.”
- The Sun has emitted a big flare, and a coronal mass ejection from this is expected to hit the Earth on Saturday.
- Another psychologist has resigned amid questions over the validity of his research.
- An new material has claimed the record as the world’s lightest solid.
- The Obama administration has decided to waive the work requirements under the 1996 welfare reform law, even though the law does not give the executive branch that right.
- Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry – “Your name, sir?”
- “The worst attack on Jewish life since the Holocaust.”
- “There’s this reign of terror going on in the Republican Party”
- The worst logo fails ever.
- Poland has been accepted as a member of the European Space Agency.
- Against the advice of almost every farm organization the USDA is proceeding with regulations that will require farmers to individually tag every chicken and cow.
- Laurie Anderson – O Superman
- Bad training of the astronauts led to the failure of the student experiments recently on ISS.
- ESA is revamping how it builds rockets in order to compete with SpaceX.
- Why the Presidential race looks so close: Too many pollsters are oversampling Democrats.
- Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz
- Mars Odyssey went into safe mode on Wednesday for about 21 hours.
- Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have achieved a record-setting laser shot with a peak power of 500 trillion-watts to a target of just two millimeters in diameter.
- The weird and tone deaf political analysis of the left.
- The EPA is attempting to enforce a regulation requiring ships to use low-sulfur fuel, despite the fact that the regulation has not yet been voted on by Congress.
- The Obama administration has backed off and is giving Florida access to a database of noncitizens so the state can check for illegal voters.
- Things in slow motion: a compilation
- Three astronauts successfully lifted off on a Soyuz rocket earlier today, headed to ISS.
- A new study suggests that the glaciers in the Himalayas are shrinking, with different regions shrinking much faster than others.
- Obama’s left wing civility
- Glenn Miller – In the Mood
- Has Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser been picked as one of two finalists in NASA’s competition to ferry crew and cargo to ISS?
- Democrats in Congress proposed on Friday creating a federal program to develop and implement “forensic science standards.”
- The Obama administration has been caught tracking the emails of a group of scientists critical of certain FDA actions.
- The field of clinical psychology is in an uproar over the resignation of two members of the group revising the field’s basic manual for diagnosing mental disorders.
- A review by the IPCC of its earlier reports has admitted to serious problems and fundamental biases.
- Florida police shoot and kill the wrong man after knocking on the wrong door.
- Cat photos taken at just the right moment.
- The cost of launch
- Julie Andrews – Feed the Birds
- Building the first laptops.
- Video of a 71-year-old man using his concealed carry pistol to shoot two armed robbers.
- Because of a single complaint a retirement home has forbidden its residents from praying.in common areas.
- The preliminary plans for rebuilding the Titanic were released today.
- Scientists think they have found the cause of the inexplicable slow down in the speed of the two Pioneer spacecraft, and it isn’t due to some previously unknown force of nature.
- Gilbert & Sullivan – I am the Monarch of the Sea
- In Columbia County, Georgia that means a law enforcement official can enter your home without permission, bang on your bedroom door, wake you up, and yell at you about it.
- A Virginia police officer shot a family’s pet dog as he arrived to tell a family that their son had been murdered.
- Outlining the optimal military tactics for taking the Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle.
- Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanet smaller than Earth.
- Scientists have failed to detect one of the leading theoretical candidates for dark matter.
- sNASA’s Space Launch System is costing 320 times more than NASA’s commercial space program.
- British police have closed their investigation trying to find out who leaked the climategate emails.
- “He stands there at the front of the mob, in his shirt sleeves, swinging that government hammer, exhorting the crowd to use its votes and take what it wants.”
- Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers have found the most distant spiral galaxy ever seen.
- Cassini has photographed daytime lightning on Saturn.
- The ten tallest skyscrapers now under construction
- A proposal by three Republican senators to avoid a “lame-duck looting session” after the November election.
- How Americans sound to British people
- NASA successfully completed today a parachute drop test of its Orion capsule.
- Despite a court order one year ago requiring them to “promptly” hold public hearings on the use of x-ray scanners, the TSA still refuses to comply.
- The TSA allowed 25 illegal aliens to attend a flight school owned by an illegal alien.
- Orbital Sciences has announced an updated schedule for testing and flying its Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule to ISS.
- Russia is considering shortening the time it takes for its Progress and Soyuz capsules to reach ISS after launch, from 50 hours to 6.
- Russia has announced it has begun construction on a lunar lander, set for its first unmanned test flight in 2015.
- Much has been made in the past few days of this NYT/CBS poll that found the Presidential race to be a dead heat.
- The lawsuits fighting the Obama administration mandate that religious organizations fund contraceptives against their religious beliefs has now risen to more than 20 separate cases and nearly 60 individual plaintiffs,
- What would happen if a fastball pitcher could throw a baseball at 90% speed of light?
- The TSA protester who stripped naked when TSA agents demanded he submit to a more detailed body search has won his case in court.
- A Texas woman did not want a smart meter installed in her home, and when the power company employee would not take no for an answer she stopped him — by showing him her legal gun.
- Check out this incredible image of a storm last week that took place over New York City, taken by an amateur photographer.
- Beauty and the Beast – Little Town
- This year there will be more cases of whooping cough in fifty years.
- The next Russian manned capsule and rocket?
- The IRS and Labor Department have started investigations into the finances of a Romney campaign contributor who was also named number one on Obama’s enemies list.
- Water on the Moon? The battle continues
- Some spectacular pictures inside the caves of eastern Austria.
- Mitchell and Webb – Moon Landing sketch
- Archimedes – Marble Roller Coaster
- “You didn’t build that.”
- Commemorating the victims in Colorado.
- Some spectacular images of galaxies from the new Discovery Channel Telescope.
- The oldest known color videotape recording: President Eisenhower in 1958
- If you own that art, it’s not yours. The IRS owns it instead.
- David Lanz – Water from the Moon
- “The suspicions that the system is rigged in favor of the largest banks and their elites, so they play by their own set of rules to the disfavor of the taxpayers who funded their bailout, are true.”
- A new study has found strong evidence that compact fluorescent bulbs can harm the skin.
- Ten hotels made of weird things.
- Watching a big asteroid zip past the earth, live
- The Obama administration has approved a deal between Space Systems/Loral and a Chinese satellite company, even though this is the same company that leaked crucial satellite technology to China in the past.
- Because of a new federal regulation, passengers who use US Airways for only part of their flight will have to check their bags and go through security again when they switch airlines.
- House Democrats are not paying their dues to the party’s central committee.
- NASA successfully tested a new inflatable heat shield today.
- Mumford & Sons – The Cave
- Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, has died.
- A test redocking of a new automatic docking system on a Russian Progress freighter was aborted last night when the system did not work as planned.
- According to a new survey of businesses, 1 in 10 will drop health coverage for their employees when Obamacare goes into full effect.
- The world’s fastest everything
- Mars Odyssey has successfully adjusted its orbit so as to provide up-to-the-minute communications when Curiosity lands on August 5.
- One of Kepler’s reaction wheels — used to orient the space telescope — has failed.
- Skydiver Felix Baumgartner has successfully completed an 18 mile dive in preparation for a record 23 mile dive next month.
- Solar Impulse has successfully completed the first intercontinental roundtrip powered only by solar power.
- The Democrats in the Senate have passed their tax plan.
- Twelve Girls Band
- On the road
- Bermuda Cliff Jumping
- The U.S. military is developing plans to recycle orbiting space junk into workable satellites.
- A New Hampshire businessman who appeared in a Romney ad has gone to the police to report the phone threats he has since received.
- An Oregon man faces 30 days in jail for collecting rainwater on his property.
- Local government officials shut down a kid’s hot dog stand — before it even opens.
- Researchers think they’ve found a German U-boat buried in the sand in a Canadian river almost 100 miles inland.
- July 28 has now been set for the next docking attempt by a Progress freighter to ISS using Russia’s new docking system.
- A Colorado judge has issued an injunction preventing the Obama administration from enforcing its contraceptive drug mandate against a private company because the mandate might violate that company’s religious rights.
- A Democrat election judge has said he will not enforce the Pennsylvania law that requires identification in order to vote.
- Tesla Turret Opera (Cara Mia Addio)
- New analysis of Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images suggests that most of the American flags planted at the Apollo landing sites are still standing.
- A new comparison by scientists of polygon-shaped formations on both the Earth and Mars suggests that both were formed underwater, providing further evidence that Mars once had oceans.
- The Marines have put in an order for 12,000 M1911 pistols, the iconic 45 caliber pistol designed by John Browning more than a 100 years ago and used by the American military for most of the first half of the 20th century.
- Super Mario as surreal art
- The Russians today successfully redocked their unmanned Progress freighter to ISS, using a new docking system.
- Doing everything but the job of President.
- After using his truck without his permission in a botched sting operation, the U.S. government is now refusing to compensate the owner for the truck’s destruction.
- The Roman Colosseum has been found to be leaning about sixteen inches to the south.
- Kitaro – Mercury performed live
- most of the weather stations in the US are so poorly sited that their temperature data is unreliable.
- The landslides of Iapetus: longer and more frequent than anywhere else in the solar system.
- Water Ice in Shackleton Crater?
- Election fraud, at the NAACP and elsewhere.
- An Obamacare tax on medical devices has caused one company to cancel plans to build five new factories.
- Trying to buy tickets to the London Olympics: A soul-destroying experience.
- “This extended 180-month period of non-warming was not predicted by a single global climate model – nada, zilch, zero.”
- Two Democrats have introduced legislation to restrict the sale of ammunition to ordinary Americans.
- Enya – My! My! Time Flies!
- China has announced plans to land an unmanned probe on the Moon next year, the first such planned landing since the 1970s.
- A journalist takes objective look at global warming
- A new budget report released by the Obama Administration on Friday projects the federal debt to rise to $16.2 trillion by the end of the year and $25.4 trillion by 2022.
- “Is the City Council going to set up a ‘Council Committee on Un-Chicagoan Activities’ and call those of us who are suspect to appear before it?”
- Happy birthday Milton Friedman
- A Connecticut man is arrested and has his guns confiscated because he fired his doctor and demanded that doctor provide him copies of all his lab tests.
- The connection between a child rapist and climategate.
- John Williams — The Cowboys Overture
- The Republican establishment choice for Texas senator was resoundingly defeated today by the tea party candidate.
- The perspective of one man
- A tranquil spiral galaxy, home to supernovae.
- The decision on NASA’s manned commercial crew contract will be made this week, according to new rumors.
- A scientific analysis of a database of over a million songs produced since 1955 has found that modern popular music is louder and has less variety or range than the popular music of the past.
- “Get the [expletive] Jews out of my pool!”
- Another set of pro-Obama polls that oversample Democrats.
- The disappearance of the old-fashioned chemistry set.
- on the air tonight
- How the federal government has persecuted a scientist for whistling at a whale.
- Why are liberals so intolerant?
- a Progress freighter, launched today, will test a new rendezvous route that takes only 6 hours to reach the station instead of the normal 48.
- The house of the future, as predicted in 1957
- NASA will announce the winners of the commercial crew contracts on Friday.
- The Russians have successfully docked their Progress freighter to ISS, using a fast route that took only 6 hours.
- On the air revised
- Fooling the media
- A new report predicts that the demand for suborbital spaceflight, both manned and unmanned, will rise by one third in the next ten years.
- A federal appeals court has now ordered the TSA to explain by August 30 why it has defied an earlier court ruling on the use of the backscatter x-ray scanners.
- A pro-life Catholic group announced today it will openly defy the new pro-abortion mandate imposed by the Obama administration.
- The TSA has agreed to allow its workers to unionize.
- The just released Pew poll which shows Obama with a 10 point lead oversampled Democrats by 19 points.
- Liz Callaway – It might as well be spring
- Alan Boyle at NBC tonight reports that Boeing, SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada are the winning companies in the competition to provide human ferrying services to ISS.
- What one supernovae looks like after the boom.
- Boeing, SpaceX and Sierra Nevada the winners of NASA’s commercial crew contracts.
- Curiosity’s journey and upcoming landing, a summary.
- New computer models suggest that the Moon was created when a Mars-sized asteroid hit the Earth in a head-on collision at high speed, not a glancing blow at relatively slow speeds, as previously thought.
- A Chick-Fil-A was covered with graffiti last night reading “Tastes like Hate” in anticipation of the gay community’s “National Same-Sex Kiss Day.”
- When asked in a survey if they would discriminate against conservatives, the academic community freely admitted that it would gladly do so.
- Liberals are calling for the murder of a 6-year-old, star of youtube video entitled “6-Year-Old Gives 10 Reasons NOT to Vote for Obama!”
- Launching a beer can into space.
- Archeologists are disputing the age of a jawbone found in a cave in England.
- Have astronomers found a future supernova?
- More signs that the Voyager 1 spacecraft is about to enter interstellar space.
- Attack of the Cookie Monsters.
- Making fire using only Ikea products
- A visual tour of the leftist paradise of Berkeley.
- India’s government has okayed the launch of an unmanned probe to Mars.
- Ry Cooder – He’ll Have To Go – Live 1977
- The new Mars rover…
- Arizona — in corporation with the federal government — has now joined Utah, California and Texas in scanning and recording the license plates of cars near the Mexican border
- Jackson Browne – Fountain of sorrow – Live
- Curiosity has landed safely on Mars.
- First high resolution image from Curiosity
- Gibson Guitars has struck a deal with the federal government to avoid prosecution for the use of banned wood.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter last night captured a spectacular image of Curiosity descending by parachute to the surface of Mars.
- “I hope that someone someday shoot your whole familly”
- Eagles – Hotel California – New Zealand (Live 1995)
- The Muslim leader who was heading an “Tolerance in Islam” conference in Turkey was attacked by one of the attendees.
- A Russian Proton rocket has failed to put two satellites into their proper orbit.
- R.I.P. Astronomer Bernard Lowell.
- SpaceShipTwo has resumed glide tests.
- The first science images from Curiosity, including nearby Mt. Sharp.
- An Obama-backed Muslim Group is now blaming Congresswoman Michell Bachmann for Sikh shooting this past weekend.
- “Washington may have the healthiest economy of any major metropolitan area in the country.”
- New evidence suggests that Al Frankel (D-Minnesota) won his senate seat almost certainly due to voter fraud.
- A Nigerian Muslim terrorist group is demanding that nation’s Christian President convert to Islam in order to stop the terrorist attacks.
- The Sun continues to fizzle
- On the air
- R.I.P. composer Marvin Hamlisch.
- The first color image from Curiosity.
- Emails by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and others in the Obama administration now show that, under the GM bailout, they purposely terminated the pensions of 20,000 retirees solely because they were not union members, and then lied to Congress about this.
- “The ABC News product increasingly ceases to be journalism. It is sensationalism. It is reprehensible. It’s time to let ABC News feel the sting of public disapproval.”
- Alvino Rey – St. Louis Blues
- The price of pizza is set to rise because of Obamacare.
- In celebration of the European Southern Observatory’s fiftieth anniversary, they are holding two competitions
- One of the teams competing for the $30 million Google Lunar X-Prize has signed a launch contract with China.
- The scramble in Congress to head the House committee on Space, Science, and Technology after November’s election has begun.
- Using today’s most advanced climate models Indian meteorologists were still unable to correctly predict this year’s monsoon rainfall.
- Democratic Congressman Peter Stark (D-California) reportedly threatened the family of another California politician after learning that politician was endorsing Stark’s primary opponent.
- Documents obtained from the Obama administration have revealed that the administration ordered law enforcement officers to “stand down” and not enforce the law against the Occupy movement.
- Curiosity views its surroundings.
- A Virginia county zoning board has fined a farmer five thousand dollars for hosting child’s birthday party on her property.
- Band of Horses – The Funeral
- Neil Armstrong was recovering today from heart bypass surgery.
- A failed fuel line in the upper stage has been pinpointed as the probably cause of the Russian Proton rocket failure on Tuesday.
- The leading team in the Google Lunar X-Price contest last week successfully tested by remote control the astronomical telescope they intend to include with their lunar lander.
- The myth that rice tossed out at weddings might harm the birds who eat it has now been debunked by science students at the University of Kentucky.
- The actual debt of the U.S. federal government has now grown to $222 trillion.
- Landslide on the horizon.
- An absolutely breathtaking view of the Milky Way as seen from Mars
- Despite a 3x increase in the use of gasoline and diesel fuel since the 1960s, the amount of vehicle-related pollution in the Los Angeles area has declined by 98 percent during that same time.
- Divers have discovered a Roman shipwreck off the Italian coast so well preserved that they think the food cargo in 200 amphoras might still be intact.
- A new report proves the candidate fed a 20-month-old baby to crocodiles!
- A privately built NASA unmanned lunar lander crashed during a test flight today in Florida.
- Where was Mitt the night JonBenét Ramsey was murdered?
- After mandating the sale of 15% ethanol gasoline — that can damage engines and lower fuel efficiency — the EPA is now going to require that you buy at least 4 gallons in order to reduce the damage.
- Borrow $164 million, pay back $1.25 billion.
- The Sonic Boom
- A UCLA scientist is proposing that the largest canyon on Mars was formed by plate tectonics
- The Earth destroyed repeatedly, in the name of science.
- Iran now has enough enriched uranium to build six nuclear bombs.
- The tread of Curiosity’s tires will leave behind the imprint of JPL, written in Morse code.
- Quasicrystals from space.
- How Curiosity’s nuclear power plant works.
- “Ignore the political prophets of doom – this is a golden age for the world.”
- The police raid the wrong house, kill the family’s dog, handcuff the children and make them sit next to the carcass, ransack the house, and then arrest the father for possession of a handgun found in the illegal search.
- The boy whose hot dog stand was shut down by a local government ten minutes after it opened is now homeless.
- Tomorrow will mark 1200 days since the Senate, led by the Democrats, passed a budget.
- Dawn has begun its slow departure from Vesta in anticipation of its journey to the solar system’s largest asteroid, Ceres.
- Using Google Earth, an archeologist in North Carolina thinks she has discovered two lost pyramid sites in Egypt.
- The CIA has now declassified the story behind their effort in 1971 and 1972 to recover a satellite film canister from 16,400 feet below sea level in the Pacific.
- Watch the first test flight live this weekend of Copenhagen Suborbitals manned capsule.
- Adele – Rolling In The Deep
- It appears that tomorrow Mitt Romney will name is vice presidential pick, and the rumors are saying its Paul Ryan.
- It’s Ryan
- Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds live
- Politicians who don’t want to do their job
- “Are they prepared to listen to reasoned arguments articulated by Ryan about the need for entitlement reform, or will they succumb to simplistic liberal cant about pushing grandma over the cliff?”
- Genki Sudo [World Order] – Aquarius
- Mitt Romney once ran a Nazi torture cult!
- With its most recent glide test on Saturday it appears SpaceShipTwo has successfully fulfilled its glide engineering goals.
- Headphones for cats.
- The reason an environmental polar bear scientist has been suspended and under investigation is because while tasked to review and approve research proposals he played favorites, helping to write and revise the government proposal while working against a proposal from private oil companies.
- The outfitting of the first Orion capsule, scheduled to take seventeen months, has begun.
- A third Chick-fil-A has now been vandalized.
- A federal court has ruled that the EPA violated the law when it rejected a Texas permitting program for refineries and other industrial sites.
- The very predictable Democratic playbook against Paul Ryan:
- July’s violence against pro-live protesters.
- The Wall
- “Obama lauds NASA for Mars landing, pledges continued investment.”
- One of Dawn’s reaction wheels, used to orient the spacecraft, shut down last week.
- Stereo has spotted the fastest coronal mass ejection on record.
- Archeologists line up to condemn the false assumptions behind the Paleo Diet
- An Obama campaign stop costs a vender $25,000 in lost sales.
- The Obamacare Quagmire
- First video from Curiosity – Life on Mars?
- An update on Dawn’s reaction wheel failure.
- The test of Coperhagen Suborbital’s capsule launch abort system failed spectacularly on Sunday.
- The science of cute
- The European Southern Observatory today released a spectacular image of the Pipe Nebula.
- “I’ll just tell you the truth.”
- Obamacare increases demand, but locks the price, resulting in a shortage in supply. The result: long waits.Another reason to repeal: Obamacare increases demand, but locks the price, resulting in a shortage in supply. The result: long waits.
- “inadequate oversight, lax bookkeeping, sloppy paperwork, haphazard performance agreements and missing financial documentation.”
- The mysterious dark streaks on Vesta
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has detected helium in the Moon’s tenuous atmosphere.
- Contrasting Paul Ryan with Barack Obama.
- A test flight of an Air Force hypersonic aircraft failed yesterday when it went out of control before its experimental scramjet engine could be started
- It now appears confirmed that the man arrested for shooting a guard at the Family Research Council in DC apparently did so because he disagreed with the Council’s conservative positions.
- A routine engine firing to raise the orbit of the International Space Station failed to come off today.
- Bob Dylan – Just like a woman
- The Russians have pinpointed the cause
- On the Road
- It appears the Obama Justice Department is not going to prosecute Obama fundraiser and former Democratic Governor Jon Corzine for the embezzlement of customer funds at MF Global.
- Scientists using Solar Dynamics Observatory have found that the Sun is possibly the roundest object every measured, far rounder than predicted by theory.
- Obama press chief said today that they have no plans to take John McCain’s advice and replace Joe Biden as vice president.
- Hummingbird Aerodynamics
- Carbon emissions have reached a twenty year low in the United States
- More on the the premature engine cut off during the attempt to boost ISS’s orbit earlier this week.
- The Russian Prime Minister has given the Russian launch industry until September to figure out how to improve its quality control.
- A Texas policeman has been accused of shooting a woman’s pet dog, while the dog was still on its leash.
- New data now suggests that in swing states there has been a significant decline in Democratic registration
- NASA has granted $45 million to Ball Aerospace to develop a “green” propellent to hydrazine, the toxic fuel used in by rockets, satellites, and even manned spacecraft.
- A Philadelphia woman faces a $600 per day fine for feeding hungry children
- The gap between mainstream America and official Washington
- The promised land: where Curiosity is headed.
- Facing tight budgets, a National Science Foundation panel has recommended the shuttering of five major ground-based telescopes.
- Flight Of The Conchords – Jenny
- An elderly leftwing protester spit in the face of at Romney supporter at a campaign event today.
- A dinosaur footprint has been found on the Goddard Space Flight Center grounds in Maryland.
- Curiosity’s travel plans tentatively outlined.
- 400 economic experts have signed a petition supporting Romney’s economic plans.
- A modern intellectual looks at the Syrian revolt and immediately concludes it was global warming that caused it
- The Washington, D.C. bubble.
- Cyndi Lauper – Girls just wanna have fun
- One businessman’s comment on Barack Obama
- A federal court has thrown out a lawsuit by an automobile industry consortium that wanted to prevent the EPA from approving the use of 15% ethanol in gasoline.
- The modern leftwing disconnect from reality.
- The failed predictions of the last half century of scientific doomsayers.
- This Ohio newspaper editorial about the Presidential race and the choices it offers us might be the most forcefully blunt I have ever read.
- The Russian owned Sea Launch successfully launched an Intelsat communications satellite today.
- Earth spacecraft on Mars fires its laser for the first time.
- A detailed, fact-based look at the successes and failures of the Obama administration.
- Faced with small crowds at their campaign events, the Obama campaign is now claiming that they are intentionally limiting crowd size at rallies to save money on security.
- The door to hell.
- More cool slow motion
- The 1006 AD supernova, thought to be the brightest in recorded history, apparently left no star behind.
- Todd Akin, the Republican running for the senate in Missouri, tried to explain his opposition to all abortion, even in instances of rape, by saying that “legitimate rape” rarely leads to pregnancy.
- The man who invented the first programmable computer.
- A new poll of registered voters in Cook County, Illinois has Obama leading by only 7 percent, 49 to 36.
- Engineers at Sandia National Laboratories have developed a robot hand that costs less than $10,000.
- A sofa that doubles as a cat tower.
- A man was arrested in Toronto on Saturday for walking his dog in a public park, because the dog offended some Islamic demonstrators.
- On August 13, 2012, Voyager 2 became the longest-operating spacecraft in history, finally topping Pioneer 6, which was launched on Dec. 16, 1965, and sent its last signal back on Dec. 8, 2000.
- Scaled Composites has posted the results of its latest test firing of the rocket motor for SpaceShipTwo.
- NASA has announced its next planetary mission, a lander to Mars that will drill down thirty feet into the planet’s surface
- Astronomers have now confirmed 41 new exoplanets, first pinpointed by the Kepler space telescope
- Curiosity flexed its robot arm today for the first time.
- Astronomers have found what they believe is the first evidence of a planet consumed by its star as the star expanded and aged.
- Flying over America
- Massachusetts has passed a law that places the state in control of every doctor and everything they do.
- An $8,000 personal satellite.
- Monday’s successful spacewalk by two Russian astronauts preps ISS for the arrival of a new Russian module.
- A masked man attempting to rob a Las Vegas Dairy Queen with a 3-foot-long samurai sword was shot and killed by the restaurant clerk.
- Criminal charges have been filed against a German rabbi for performing circumcisions.
- Shao Rong – A song of lilies
- The atheist Freedom from Religion Foundation has threatened to sue 151 Mississippi schools if they allow students to pray using public address systems during athletic events.
- One of Curiosity’s two wind sensors has been found to be damaged and is inoperable.
- New research has now proven that cats don’t cause cancer.
- Getting ready for the first Antares launch in October at Wallops Island.
- What do you do with a giant space station when its lifespan is over?
- NASA can put a man on the Moon and a rover on Mars, but somehow it can’t comply with a Freedom of Information document request.
- NASA scientists in a battle with astronomers over who gets to name things on Vesta and Mars.
- The Congressional Budget Office yesterday projected this year’s deficit will be $1.1 trillion dollars, making it the fourth year in a row that the deficit has broken the trillion dollar ceiling
- A thank you letter to President Obama.
- Of thee I sigh: Baby boomers bust.
- Are the glaciers in the Himalayas shrinking? A third paper published today falls between one study that said no and another that said yes.
- Michael Mann threatens to sue a conservative magazine. Their answer: “Get lost.”
- A Florida university has broken ground on a new hurricane simulation machine capable of recreating category 5 hurricanes in three dimensions.
- A 5-year-old Oklahoma kindergarten student was banned from wearing a University of Michigan t-shirt because it violated a state law banning any apparel that didn’t support the state’s college teams.
- Curiosity has made its first test drive, moving about fifteen feet.
- Police are preparing for significant violence at next week’s Republican convention in Tampa, based on threats by a number of leftwing groups.
- Lisa Gerrard – Sanvean
- The European cargo ship docked at ISS today successfully fired its engines to raise the station’s orbit.
- A new AIDS-like disease has appeared, attacking about 100 Asians since 2004.
- Sunspots and climate
- Phosphorus and the origins of life on Earth.
- Why “chemical-free” organic food is impossible, and why journalists should know better.
- Hundreds of Homeland Security employees arrested last year.
- The first Earthrise picture taken from the Moon, 46 years ago today.
- A Connecticut gay man has pleaded guilty to sending hundreds of threatening letters, including death threats, to the director of a conservative organization opposed to same-sex marriage.
- A Virginia veteran who was arrested because of writings on Facebook has been ordered released by a judge.
- In a paper published today in Science, astronomers show that Type 1a supernovae, the kind used to measure the expansion rate of the universe, can be caused in more than one way, something not previously expected.
- More than 2,200 hospitals face penalties under Obamacare for how they decide to treat patients.
- New ice core data from Antarctica suggests in the past 10,000 years temperatures have often been higher than today, and that the rise in temperatures during the past 100 years is also not unprecedented.
- Progress on the commercial space front
- Romney’s energy policy proposal announced today would redirect science funding towards basic research.
- Coeur de Pirate – Wood & Wires Session
- The Friday launch of two NASA satellites designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts was scrubbed at least 24 hours because of the failure of ground tracking equipment needed during launch.
- Seven ways Star Trek changed the world.
- “Where people are encouraged to think that solving society’s ills is primarily a job for government, charity tends to evaporate.”
- Todd Akin, whose stupid comments about rape have practically destroyed his campaign, is receiving death threats to himself, his family, and his staff.
- NASA today announced that recent research on ISS into bone loss due to weightlessness has found that proper exercise and diet can stabilize bone loss.
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary
- The artist who sculpted a secret message in code — in plain view in the courtyard of CIA headquarters and unsolved now for twenty years — has now provided codebreakers a tiny clue to its solution.
- The Russians are once again pushing for a one year long mission on ISS, while NASA once again appears unenthusiastic.
- The launch of two satellites to study the Van Allen radiation belts has been delayed again, this time due to weather.
- The war on children
- One of the longest bridges in northern China collapsed on Friday, just nine months after it opened.
- R.I.P. Neil Armstrong
- “My healthcare plan I put in place in my state has everyone insured.”
- Neil Armstrong
- The world’s most complex borders.
- Science Bob’s Crazy Foam Experiment
- On the air
- Armstrong and the world
- Bob is a Racist
- Orbital Sciences gets ready for its first cargo mission to ISS.
- An aide to Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren threatened and pushed a reporter this weekend, knocking his video camera to the ground.
- Why a New York Times’ science columnist is bad for science.
- Two more evangelical colleges have joined the lawsuit against the Obama administrations’ contraceptive drug mandate under Obamacare.
- One reason why Neil Armstrong got the job
- Robot cavers in space.
- Images from Curiosity have spotted some unexpected geology in Gale Crater.
- Russian authorities struggle to contain the spread of African swine fever, a deadly virus that attacks pigs.
- The photo legacy of Neil Armstrong.
- A special Iowahawk guest commentary by Barack Obama, stargazer-in-chief.
- Cave exploration the astronaut way
- Bigelow Aerospace has expanded its workforce as well doubled its factory space in response to the commercial contracts NASA recently awarded.
- Russian officials today announced that they will hold additional open cosmonaut recruitment drives, similar to the first held earlier this year, but with revisions.
- Peter, Paul and Mary – Puff The Magic Dragon
- A solar system with two suns.
- More rumors about a year-long mission on ISS
- The ex-Marine, arrested and placed in a psychiatric ward because government officials didn’t like his Facebook postings, has announced he is suing the officials involved.
- What every home needs: A home-built fire-breathing flying dragon.
- Nine substances that only exist in science fiction.
- A scale that can measure the weight of a single molecule.
- Romney, the Republicans, and Space
- The first five minutes in Marine boot camp.
- Curiosity heads east 52 feet on the first leg of its exploration of Gale Crater.The journey begins: Curiosity heads east 52 feet on the first leg of its exploration of Gale Crater.
- An analysis of the survey data produced by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has uncovered literally millions of black hole candidates as well as a thousand of the brightest galaxies yet found.
- The first open source plane you build at home.
- NASA successfully completed another test of the parachute system for the Orion capsule on Tuesday.
- Astronomers have detected molecules of sugar in the gas cloud surrounding a young binary star about 400 light years away.
- It’s the ideology, stupid.
- “Ann Romney needs to die.”
- At 4:05 am last night the two Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP), designed to study the Van Allen radiation belts, were successfully placed in orbit by an Atlas 5 rocket.
- Ryan’s speech
- The long term credit rating of the United States was lowered today by Standard and Poors.
- A bright super bubble in space
- A previously unknown tick-borne virus has been identified from samples taken from two infected farmers in Missouri.
- Two astronauts completed an eight hour spacewalk today, extended because of problems with several stuck bolts.
- The makers of a documentary critical of the Occupy Wall Street movement have received threats of violence against themselves and their families
- Let’s dance
- Scientists have determined that the shape of a beer glass can influence how much beer you drink.
- Police once again raid the wrong house and kill a pet dog.
- “While partisan activists tune in when their team’s big show is on the air, most unaffiliated voters view the conventions as a waste of time and money.”
- Have three little photons broken theoretical physics?
- Congress wonders why NASA is sending “50 or more” employees to a conference in Italy.
- New Horizons — on its way to Pluto — will take a look at a different Kuiper Belt object in January 2015.
- Dawn’s farewell tour of the giant asteroid Vesta
- On Friday SpaceX successfully completed a launch pad dress rehearsal for the next Falcon 9 launch to ISS.
- Henri the cat and the videos about him has won the Golden Kitty, first place at the Internet Cat Film Festival in Minnesota.
- Speed Flying down from Mont Blanc
- Have scientists found an oral drug that can cure all strains of malaria?
- Eleven incredible navigable aqueducts.
- “Healthy Ridicule.”
- Bugs Bunny – Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
- A California engineer and World War II veteran has developed a bat and bird safe wind turbine.
- The head of the Russian space center that built the upper stage that failed on two recent Proton launches has been fired.
- The Solar Dynamics Observatory captured an incredible video of an August 31 eruption on the Sun.
- A family car for space.
- The Forest Products Laboratory of the U.S. Forest Service has opened a $1.7 million pilot plant for the production of cellulose nanocrystals, which have the potential to be stronger, stiffer, and lighter than Kevlar or carbon fibers.
- And they call this a maximum?
- “Often wrong but never in doubt.”
- The Democratic and Republican conventions received $136 million in taxpayer subsidies.
- A new study of the Earth’s past climates has revealed that during warming periods the number of species multiplied.
- Dizzi – River Flow
- How alcohol gets you drunk.
- Another planet has been found in the habitable zone
- Surgery in weightlessness?
- To get the space shuttle Endeavour to its new home in Los Angeles city officials have decided to cut down about 400 trees along the route.
- Russia has decided to delay the rest of its military launches this year, pending a full review of the upper stage problems of the Proton rocket.
- “[Medical] services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.”
- Do you want to name an asteroid that might hit the Earth? NASA has a contest for students to do just that.
- Two Russian companies have announced a joint plan to build a suborbital spacecraft for tourism.
- The debt of the federal government officially exceeded $16 trillion on Tuesday.
- In another attempt to win the $250,000 AHS Sikorsky Prize, the Gamera II human-powered helicopter successfully flew for more than sixty seconds
- Because of the failure to replace a power unit during last week’s spacewalk, the U.S. portion of ISS is now in a brown-out, with a 25% reduction in power.
- The Democratic Party platform’s position on space and NASA is one sentence long.
- Gorillaz – Melancholy Hill
- A public memorial service for Neil Armstrong has been scheduled for September 13 in Washington, D.C.
- NASA engineers had postponed a planned midcourse maneuver of its Jupiter-bound Juno spacecraft
- We have a choice
- Science vs organic food. Science wins.
- In a spacewalk today astronaut successfully overcame a stuck bolt to install a replacement power unit.
- Engineers have now confirmed that Dawn has left the gravitational sphere of Vesta and is officially on its way to Ceres.
- SpaceShipTwo is being readied for its first powered flights before the end of the year.
- A psychological guide to your dog
- Andre Rieu – Annie’s Song
- Delegates today booed the reinsertion of language into the Democratic platform supporting Jerusalem as Israel’s capital as well as the words “God-given.”
- FAA officials in Seattle have been accused of pressuring employees to vote for Democratic candidates in the November election
- Climate changes on Mars are driven by the Sun.
- SpaceX’s first official cargo flight to ISS could occur as early as October 5.
- According to a family spokesman, Neil Armstrong is to be buried at sea.
- A reporter asks delegates if we should ban profits.
- A delayed but higher prediction for the solar maximum?
- A judge has ruled that ten gold coins possibly worth as much as $80 million and in the possession of a family for more than seventy years can be seized by the federal government without compensation.
- The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter team today released a set of images showing Curiosity’s recent travel on Mars, as well as some fascinating closeups of the spacecraft’s heat shield, parachute, and descent stage.
- Buddy Rich – Impossible Drum Solo
- A Democratic Hawaii state lawmaker threatened to file criminal charges against a newspaper for publishing a letter critical of the lawmaker.
- There is a shortage of launch-pads available for the number of rocket launches planned.
- ATK and ULA yesterday successfully tested the solid rocket strap-on motor that is used by their Delta 4 rocket.
- The history of Dream Chaser and its lifting body shape.
- For the 31st time in the past three years the Obama administration warned the public “not to read too much” into this month’s poor job numbers.
- Clint Eastwood explains the background behind his Republican convention speech.
- Canada today severed all diplomatic ties with Iran, shutting down its embassy in Iran while ordering all Iranian diplomats out of Canada.
- Sign the LunarCOTS petition.
- Children are refusing to eat the Obama administration’s lower calorie school lunches.
- The Obama administration has extended the power of the ATF to “seize and administratively forfeit property involved in controlled-substance abuses.”
- Fun with 9 volt batteries
- The Obama administration will miss the legal deadline — from a law he signed only less than a month ago — to provide details on implementing the required budget cuts under sequestration.
- Joe Hisaishi – Asia Dream Song
- Iran has finally released a Christian pastor who had been threatened with execution for not renouncing his religion.
- God To Democrats: ‘‘That’s okay, you’re not on my ‘platform,’ either’’
- India’s space agency celebrated its 100th launch today.
- Five words and two numbers
- Hand shadow performance
- Mars’ clay minerals might have been formed by volcanic processes, not standing liquid water as generally believed.
- Three super weird homes
- “That’s a direct attack and a smear on my reputation as a reporter.”
- “What the ‘blank’ could possibly go wrong?”
- New computer models now suggest that the the habitable zone for life is far larger than previously estimated.
- Journalism’s summer of sin: marked by plagiarism, fabrication, obfuscation.
- There’s a Light – We Choose to go to the Moon
- Under just released language, the federal government required 18 pages of regulations to define the term “full time employee.”
- The view of Vesta in Dawn’s rear view mirror.
- Astronomers have measured the most powerful magnetic field ever found around a star.
- Amateurs astronomers have once again captured images of an impact of something on Jupiter.
- The Japanese solar sail experiment IKAROS is apparently still alive, years after launch.
- The Russian space agency has ordered the recall and inspection of every Briz-M upper stage used in their Proton rocket.
- T-shirts being sold at a union event celebrate the future death of Margaret Thatcher.
- The media’s one-sided coverage.
- Under the Obama administration regulations have increased by 7.4%, totaling 11,327 pages of new rules.
- Obama, too busy to attend half his daily intelligence briefings — has made up for it by missing all of his daily economic briefings.
- The federal budget deficit has exceeded one trillion dollars for the fourth year in a row.
- Cairo protesters today scaled the U.S. Embassy wall in Egypt and pulled down the American flag to protest a film they say is insulting to the prophet Mohammad.
- The view of New York City from ISS on September 11, 2001.
- Dry ice snow falls on Mars.
- The U.S. Embassy in Egypt, response to the attack by Islamic protestors today, has apologized to them.
- A U.S. consulate in Libya was attacked and set on fire today.
- Boatlift
- The White House has disavowed the apology to the Muslim protesters issued by its embassy in Egypt.
- “Progressive thinking and the rise of the anti-science left.”
- Scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells.
- Whiskey in space?
- An experimental vertical take-off and landing rocket crashed during its most recent test on Tuesday.
- “We choose to go to the Moon.”
- A dispute over launch pricing between ArianeSpace, the launch company, and Globalstar, the satellite company.
- Kseniya Simonova – sand art
- At the AIAA meeting this week in Pasadena, NASA officials admitted that the Space Launch System (SLS) will likely cost half a billion dollars per launch
- The private company Hobby Lobby has sued the Obama administration over the Obamacare mandate requiring them to pay for their employee’s contraceptives
- SpaceX today signed a contract to launch three satellites for the European company SES.
- Not only has Barack Obama not attended an intelligence briefing since Sept 5, he canceled the briefing yesterday, the day after the attacks on our embassies in Egypt and Libya.
- A new and very large study now suggests that — even though no one really knows why — acupuncture might actually be effective.
- A short but cogent summary of Obama’s response to the embassy attacks.
- An American professor of religious studies has called for the arrest of a filmmaker because his film insults Islam.
- Using space junk and 3D printers to build spaceships in space.
- Watch 127,141 Dominoes fall
- The murder of four Americans in Libya, including the ambassador, appears to have been the result of failed security.
- Scaled Composites has successfully performed another test of the rocket motor that will be used on SpaceShipTwo.
- “These are not acts of senseless violence. These are acts of war.”
- A federal judge has permanently blocked use of the indefinite detention authority given to the President in the NDAA law passed by Congress last year.
- Scaled Composites, having finished glide tests of SpaceShipTwo, is now installing the rocket motor for powered flight tests.
- 149,597,870,700 meters.
- Americans say goodbye to Neil Armstrong.
- “Those who produced the movie should be tried and killed.”
- For seventeen days Facebook approved and allowed a “Kill Mitt Romney” webpage to exist.
- Friday in the Muslim world
- Germany announced yesterday that it has approved funding for the design of an in-orbit test of a robot satellite servicing mission.
- It appears that Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and Georgia are all competing to be the location of SpaceX’s proposed private commercial spaceport.
- The science cuts from sequestration
- The eight dumbest things said about free speech this week.
- The U.S. government’s credit rating has been downgraded again.
- Jeb Corliss – Grinding The Crack
- The first results from the two GRAIL space probes have revealed the Moon has a much thinner crust than previously believed.
- Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanets to be found inside an open star cluster.
- The scientists who took the first image of single molecule in 2009 have improved the resolution of their images.
- Disgrace in Benghazi.
- Neil Armstrong’s ashes were buried at sea today.
- Prices, Demand, and SpaceX
- Blame the movie
- The Obama administration has delayed deployment of 50 Marines to protect its embassy in Khartoum because of objections of the Sudanese government.
- Patty Cake
- Obama cracks down on free speech.
- “I demand to be arrested.”
- Weird Planet fractals
- “Sequestration would come at ‘great cost’ to NASA.”
- National Media Museum in Great Britain has restored the first color movie images, shot in 1901-1902.
- Three astronauts have safely returned to Earth from ISS.
- Pluto has another moon!
- The absurd oversampling of Democrats in most recent polls, as illustrated in one graph.
- Congress is on a pace this year to pass the fewest laws in a single year since World War II.
- A mother was arrested and jailed because a neighbor complained that she was allowing her kids to play outside.
- A Justice department official today refused to rule out the possibility of passing a law that would criminalize speech against any religion.
- “I go in the Oval Office, pretend I’m going to work, and then I switch on ‘Homeland.’ ”
- Another college has filed suit against Obamacare and the Obama administration’s mandate forcing them to buy contraceptives in violation of their religious beliefs.
- The Beatles – A Day In The Life
- On the air
- Astronaut Sunita Williams completed first simulated triathlon in space this past weekend on ISS.
- A Florida family now faces fines for hosting weekly Bible study sessions in their home.
- “A manufactured political narrative that bears little resemblance to reality.”
- The French magazine whose offices were firebombed last year after publishing an issue ridiculing Mohammad is about to do it again.
- Curiosity snaps a Martian lunar eclipse.
- A four pound meteorite originally from the Moon is up for auction and is expected to sell for more than that $340K.
- The automatic budget cuts triggered by sequestration appear increasingly likely according to two defense analysts.
- Yasuto Tanaka – The Swan
- After postponing Juno’s second midcourse correction burn, engineers have now successfully completed that burn.
- A mural in Oregon.
- The rocket that will launch the next flight of the X-37B, and the first to return to space, has been assembled.
- Eight strange rock islets from around the world.
- The French prepare for a vibrant debate on free speech from the members of its Islamic community.
- The White House press secretary today “question[ed] the judgment” of someone publishing cartoons critical of Mohammad and Islam.
- Hundreds of peer-reviewed papers in the field of anaesthesiology are about to be retracted because their data was fabricated.
- Obamacare: a program in disarray.
- Rowan Atkinson – A Warm Welcome
- “Obama observes ‘International Talk Like a Pirate Day.'”
- The cost of regulations is 80 times higher than OMB’s estimate, according to the estimates of each individual government agency.
- A Texas school district has banned the use of religious signs at football games, even if created entirely and freely by the students.
- Newly released results from Dawn have found evidence of hydrogen on the surface of Vesta
- October 7 is now set as the launch date for the first operational cargo flight of Dragon to ISS.
- David Garrett – November Rain
- The Non-Leadership Act
- Eleven construction workers sit on a girder eating lunch, 800 feet above the ground: The story behind the 1932 picture.
- Butch Cassidy’s Colt 45 revolver will be auctioned off later this month.
- France and Germany in the European Space Agency are at loggerheads about the best way to compete in the launch market.
- This year’s Ig Noble Awards have been announced.
- Luciano Pavarotti and Queen – Too much love will kill you
- An avionics unit in the Soyuz capsule to be used to fly three astronauts to ISS later this month had problems in testing which required its replacement.
- “Bias” is no longer a suitable description of the character of the media establishment. “Partisan toadies” may be a better one.
- Boeing and the fear of competition
- Rod Stewart & Amy Belle – I Dont Want To Talk About It
- Insane Clown Posse – Miracles
- More than a thousand pastors have resolved to defy the IRS and preach politics from the pulpit before the election.
- Astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have found that the Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of hot gas.The uncertainty of science: Astronomers using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory have found that the Milky Way is surrounded by a halo of hot gas.
- “A pompous, self-absorbed, often-in-error-but-never-in-doubt blowhard impervious to facts and logic.”
- Curiosity has zapped its first rock and moved on.
- The fastest snooker break ever
- The next great comet?
- Seething midwest explodes over Lombardi cartoons
- “It’s my in-kind contribution to the Mondale campaign.”
- The Hubble Space Telescope has taken its deepest image yet.
- Scaled Composites successfully completed a 45 second burn of the engine for SpaceShipTwo last Thursday.
- The prosecutor in the Italian trial of seven earthquake experts has requested four year jail sentences for their failure to properly warn the public about the possibility of an earthquake
- According to a poll of small business owners, more than 60% will either drop their employee healthcare plans or make their employees pay far higher fees when Obamacare goes into effect in 2014
- A toy train in space
- A voter watchdog group has uncovered voter fraud in New York and Florida.
- A computer glitch prevented the undocking of the European ATV-3 cargo vehicle from ISS today.
- The Martian weather, as recorded by the Curiosity weather station.
- Singer Sarah Brightman appears slated to be the next tourist to fly to ISS.
- The troughs of Vesta: evidence of a failed planet.
- A Texas court has ruled that the owners of a wrongfully killed pet can recover “sentimental” or “intrinsic” damages.
- The sharpest ever ground-based image of Pluto and its moon Charon.
- More films about Mohammad in the works.
- Kate Wolf – Two Way Waltz
- The federal government spent $1.4 billion on the Obama family last year.
- The solar maximum has already occurred in the Sun’s northern hemisphere, according to new observations.
- A new federal law has now confirmed the ownership by astronauts of their souvenirs.
- The failed undocking of Europe’s ATV cargo craft from ISS earlier this week occurred because the astronauts used the wrong computer code.
- R.I.P. Actor Herbert Lom.
- It now appears that Democratic Senator candidate Elizabeth Warren practiced law in Massachusetts without a Massachusetts license.
- Scientists are proposing that Europe send a probe to Titan and sail it on that planet’s methane lakes.
- It appears that Curiosity is traveling across an ancient streambed on Mars.
- James Hansen’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies has once again been caught changing its past climate temperature data without explanation.
- Annie Haslam – Wildest Dreams
- Why I spent $50 at a political fundraiser today
- The head of Russia’s space agency said today that they need to reorganize their industry in order to compete.
- The undocking of Europe’s ATV cargo freighter from ISS has been delayed again.
- The rollout to the launchpad of the first stage of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket has been delayed until Saturday.
- A convicted former TSA agent admits that theft is “commonplace” in the TSA.
- Schiller – Sleepy Storm
- Lawson – You didn’t tell me
- The Fixx – Red Skies
- On the road
- Europe’s ATV cargo freighter finally undocked successfully from ISS on Friday.
- The Great Galactic Travelers
- The first stage of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket was rolled to the launchpad today.
- The weather in Gale Crater on Mars: warmer than expected.
- Loreena McKennitt – The Bonny Swans
- A college professor, offended by comments on a free speech wall, forces the students to take it down.
- Light posting
- Polar bear fraud
- Diederik Stapel, the psychologist who had fabricated his results in numerous published papers and has since resigned, is now under investigation by Dutch prosecutors.
- Felix Baumgartner has set October 8 as the day he will attempt his record-setting sky-dive from almost 23 miles high.
- John Williams & Richard Harvey – Jig
- True the Vote has found more examples of voters voting in more than one state, this time in New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Florida.Vote early and often! True the Vote has found more examples of voters voting in more than one state, this time in New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Florida.
- The head of Russia’s manned program said today that the first yearlong mission on ISS will begin in March 2015.
- The new Milky Way
- A vehicle powered by cheese has set a speed record for its class.
- An elderly couple in California have received death threats and their property vandalized because they put a Romney sign on their front lawn.
- Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope astronomers have narrowed the universe’s rate of expansion to about 74.3 kilometers per second per megaparsec.
- New research has now documented the widespread bigotry of liberals in the academic community against conservatives.
- The Obama administration’s promise to reimburse any fines issued to employers who violate the law is the equivalent to a “mini-coup” according to one senator.
- Astronomers have identified the same kind of minerals found in comets in the dusty disk surrounding the nearby star Beta Pictoris.
- First Kids – Ghosts
- In order to get a seat on a Soyuz capsule Sarah Brightman outbid NASA, bumping its astronaut out and thus forcing the U.S. agency to finally agree to a year long mission.
- The Dragon capsule has been attached to the Falcon 9 rocket in preparation for Sunday’s launch.
- George Zimmerman is suing NBC over its false edit of an audiotape that made him appear racist.
- A high school teacher threatened a student last Friday for wearing a Romney t-shirt on dress-down day.
- A new study has found that scientific misconduct and fraud is on the rise.
- The Mexican government has confirmed that three of the guns used to massacre 15 teenagers were obtained by the killers under the Obama administrations’ Fast-and-Furious operation.
- Why it costs so much to buy WiFi on an airplane.
- Astronomers have discovered a star that circles the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way in only 11.5 years.
- Deep Impact fired its engines today to adjust its orbit, giving it the option of visiting a near Earth asteroid in the future.
- Graham Chapman’s funeral
- An update on Sierra Nevada’s effort to build its reusable shuttle Dream Chaser.
- How private funding has and will drive exploration.
- Answerable to no one.
- Painting in the Skies
- NASA and the Russians have agreed to fly a two-person year long mission on ISS beginning in the spring of 2015.
- A star has gone supernova and astronomers get to see it from the very beginning, and even earlier!
- A Reddit user posts a picture of woman, trying to humiliate her for having facial hair, and she responds so effectively that the poster apologizes.
- Bernadette Peters – No one is alone
- How ABC News destroyed a company with false allegations, and is now being sued for $1.2 billion because of it.
- 25 Amazing Images With An Electron Microscope
- Dragon is in orbit
- One engine of the Falcon 9 failed during launch.
- A GAO investigation into fraudulent and foreign campaign donations has discovered that the Obama.com website is owned and managed by a man in China with ties to the Chinese government.
- The Obama administration had declared that a company whose sole business is to publish Bibles is not religious enough for an exemption to the HHS contraceptive mandate.
- An update on the Falcon 9 engine problems.
- The world’s second largest infrared telescope on Mauna Kea is for sale.
- The solar maximum continues to fizzle
- Crushing a 55 gallon steel drum with icecubes
- Resurrecting the chestnut tree.
- A competitor has debuted its full-size prototype rover designed to hunt for water in the craters of the Moon.
- Islamic medical students are refusing to learn how to treat female patients because “they believe it is wrong to touch women to whom they are not married or related.”
- Attacking the church of the Left
- To avoid the cost of Obamacare, companies are reducing their full time stuff and switching as many employees to part-time as possible.
- Curiosity takes its first scoop
- Has Voyager 1 already left the solar system?
- A dying woman, refused a private screening at a TSA checkpoint, was patted down in public and forced to remove her bandages.
- Two Baptist-affiliated colleges today sued the Obama administration over its contraceptive mandate.
- Heavenly Appeals
- At 9:04 am (Eastern) the Dragon capsule completed a hard docking with ISS.
- “There is no statistical case to be made for a global temperature increase in the past 15 years.”
- An Obama campaign staffer has been caught on video helping a voter vote twice.
- Science vs religion
- Conspiratorial Media Incest
- Ten incredible rock pillar landscapes.
- A gallery of planetary nebula.
- The astronauts on ISS have opened the hatch to Dragon one day early.
- “The end of the media’s infatuation with Obama may be the greatest casualty of the debate.”
- Mayumana – four man hand dance
- A new survey of 13,575 physicians had found that doctors are fleeing the field.
- Singer Sarah Brightman has purchased a ticket to fly to ISS in a Soyuz capsule.It’s official: Singer Sarah Brightman has purchased a ticket to fly to ISS in a Soyuz capsule.
- A super Earth, made of diamonds
- Felix Baumgartner’s record-setting skydive of 23 miles has been postponed until Sunday due to weather concerns.
- “A profound disdain for the Constitution.”
- Wheels on Mars
- Bouncing on Titan
- Neville Dickie – Boogie Woogie by Pinetop Smith
- The Orbcomm communications satellite put in a wrong orbit in the Falcon 9 launch has fallen to Earth.
- Scientists studying a meteorite thought to come from the asteroid Vesta have concluded that it contains evidence that the asteroid once had a magnetic field.
- Telescopes of the future
- The new ebook edition of Genesis
- The flight of Christians from persecution in Egypt.
- Blood, Trucks, and Beer – Christopher Columbus
- “This is not a fact.”
- This year’s Walter Duranty Prize for dishonest and corrupt journalism.
- Christopher Cross – Sailing
- Felix Baumgartner’s record-breaking skydive has begun. You can watch it live here.
- Toto – I’ll be Over You
- The new blacklist
- It now appears to be illegal to drive around in Dearborn, Michigan displaying Israeli flags on your vehicle.
- Baumgartner broke the sound barrier in his skydive
- The models are wrong
- Scientists have found the source of the water on the Moon and Mercury: the solar wind.
- Just two months after the failure of its second stage during launch, Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put a communications satellite into orbit yesterday.
- Government pension plans have about $1.2 trillion of unfunded liabilities.
- A planet with four suns, found by amateurs.
- Enya – Wild Child
- The Cuban government announced today that it will allow its citizens to freely visit other countries for the first time in over a half century.
- A review of the extraterrestrial solar systems found by Kepler shows that most are like our own, “flatter than pancakes.”
- Faced with stiff competition in the launch market, Europe struggles to come up with a competitive replacement for Ariane 5
- Astronomers have discovered that the nearest star to the Earth, Alpha Centauri, has an exoplanet only slightly heavier than the Earth.
- Kepler reveals our Sun might be more variable than we imagine
- Laura Branigan – Forever Young
- Astronomers now have the technology to observe Io’s volcanoes erupt, from Earth.
- Threats to assassinate Mitt Romney exploded after last night’s debate
- Fleetwood Mac – Little Lies
- The science team for New Horizons is considering shifting the spacecraft’s Pluto flyby away from the planet to avoid orbital debris.
- Blue Origin has successfully tested its new hydrogen/oxygen rocket engine.
- The modern pathology of liberalism.
- A Texas judge is expected to rule today on whether cheerleaders have the right to quote the bible at high school football games.
- The federal government has spent $27 million teaching Moroccans how to make pottery.
- Ahmadinejad: “How long can a government with a $16 trillion foreign debt remain a world power?”
- The mysterious shiny particles uncovered by Curiosity’s scoop are from Mars, not the rover.
- “This is the election where black folk sit down and say ‘NO MORE!’ and we stay home.”
- Animusic – Resonant Chamber
- Orbital Sciences has delayed the first demo launch of its Cygnus cargo capsule until March 2013 at the earliest.
- The first analysis of the water from Lake Vostok, buried deep under the Antarctic icecap, has shown no evidence of life.
- Engine problems on a Delta 4 rocket launch two weeks ago could delay the launch of the Atlas 5 rocket scheduled to lift the X-37B on its next mission.
- Running on empty
- Pumpkin carving with a 1911
- The Four Quarters – Pachelbel’s Canon in D
- Hexaflexagons
- Virgin Galactic has begun the installation of SpaceShipTwo’s engine in preparation for its first powered test flights.
- The first piece of a meteor that fell over San Francisco on Wednesday has been found.
- The unreality of the past four years.
- The filmmaker who made the anti-Islamic movie falsely blamed by the Obama administration for the Libya attack has now been in jail for a month.
- An Italian court has convicted seven earthquake scientists of manslaughter for their failure to properly warn the public prior to the L’Aquila earthquake.
- A Christian group has been banned at Tufts University for demanding its members believe in Christianity.
- Florence and the Machine – Cosmic Love
- On Friday Blue Origin successfully tested the launch abort system for its New Shepard manned capsule.
- The supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way is about to get a snack.
- Using modern technology scientists think they have a chance of decoding the oldest known undeciphered writing.
- Early today a Soyuz rocket successfully lifted ISS’s next crew into orbit.
- The death threats against Mitt Romney continue to pour out from Twitter.
- An ode to the beauty of nature in 23 images.
- The first mirror for the Giant Magellan Telescope has been completed.
- This is the first time since 1988 that climate hasn’t been mentioned in the presidential debate cycle
- The TSA is pulling its invasive X-ray scanners from the country’s busiest airports.
- The comet that vanished
- Kat Edmonson – Lucky
- The rock found on Sunday is not part of the meteor that fell over San Francisco last week.
- Reactions to the Italian conviction of seven earthquake scientists
- Singing sand dunes
- The son of a Democratic Congressman in Virginia has been caught on video helping to facilitate voter fraud.
- Judy Garland – But not for me
- On Wednesday Richard Branson told an audience of students in Poland that the first paid tourist flight of SpaceShipTwo is at least 12 to 18 months away.
- Stratolaunch has officially opened its production facility in Mojave.
- The Air Force has released its investigation into the failure of the August test flight of the X-51a hypersonic scramjet.
- The after effects of the giant storm on Saturn.
- on the road
- The Idea Of North – Fields of Gold
- “We will make sure that the person who made that film is arrested and prosecuted.”
- With a successful Soyuz docking today, ISS is back to a full six person crew.
- The FAA has issued an experimental permit to SpaceX to test fly its Grasshopper reusable rocket booster.
- the stage exploded in mid-October and the debris is now a threat to ISS and other satellites.
- A new study suggests that the exoplanet orbiting the star Formalhaut that was supposedly imaged and then later theorized to be nothing more than a dust cloud might be a planet after all.
- Firing paintballs at an asteroid to prevent it from hitting the Earth.
- Meteorite experts now think the rock that hit a pastor’s house could be a piece from last week’s San Francisco fireball.
- Michael Mann’s claim that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize has now been denied by the Nobel committee.
- Sugru: the story of the invention of this ultimate repair tool.
- Hurricane Sandy has forced Orbital Sciences to suspend the engine tests of the Antares rocket.
- A spacewalk November 1 will attempt to find and repair a coolant leak that could force a power reduction at the station.
- Celine Dion – My heart will go on
- Why did the chicken cross the road?
- “He is incompetent, dishonest and not interested in the actual work of governing.”
- Dragon has undocked from ISS and is on its way back to Earth
- Poison in Halloween candy? It has never happened.
- Liam O’Maonlai & Eddi Reader – Across The Universe
- The marshes of Mexico and their similarities to Gale Crater.
- An openly gay volunteer for a Republican running for Congress in Wisconsin was severely beaten in his home after receiving threatening and obscene messages from the husband of the Democratic candidate.
- Serena Ryder – Sing Sing
- A new rocket enters the field
- It appears that NASA is at the moment unconcerned should the investigation into the Falcon 9 engine failure on October 7 cause a delay in the next Dragon supply mission to ISS.
- More strange patterns have been discovered in the Gobi desert of China using Google Earth.
- The protective housing for the shuttle prototype Enterprise collapsed yesterday due to Hurricane Sandy.
- A house-sized asteroid will zip past the Earth in February at a distance less than 14,000 miles.
- Religious liberty explained in sixteen seconds.
- The first results from Curiosity’s soil samples have come back.
- Dragon and its cargo have arrived in California for processing.
- It appears that Facebook has censored a post by the Navy Seals merely because it was critical of President Obama.
- The President’s insulting campaign.
- The Swell Season – When your mind’s made up
- A Russian ship carrying 700 tons of gold is missing off Russia’s eastern coast.
- Weirdness at the edge of the solar system.
- For the second time, a Progress freighter has launched and, after only four orbits, docked with ISS.
- One of the major backers has pulled out of a solar energy power plant plan for Africa and the Middle East.
- The B612 foundation has signed its first contract for building Sentinel, its private infrared space telescope designed to find asteroids that might impact the Earth.
- The twenty most bizarre scientific experiments of all time.
- Facebook has apologized and reinstated the anti-Obama posts it had previously censored.
- The proposed IRS tax form every American will have to fill out when Obamacare goes into effect.
- Nightmare before Christmas – This is Halloween
- Realtime coverage of today’s spacewalk on ISS.
- More evidence of past glaciers on Mars.
- A federal judge in Detroit has ruled that a Catholic-owned private business does not have to comply with the Obama administrations contraceptive mandate.
- Rolling in the Deep on a traditional Chinese zither
- “The U.S. is currently in an extended and intense hurricane ‘drought.'”
- A New Jersey town tells a volunteer utility crew from Alabama to go home — because they are non-union.
- Meteorite hunters in Poland have found Eastern Europe’s larges meteorite weighing almost 700 pounds.
- The most distant supernova ever found.
- Curiosity has found evidence showing how Mars lost its atmosphere.
- Schiller – Miles and miles
- The next launch of the X-37B has been delayed again.
- Paul Brady – The Lakes of Pontchartrain
- “Comet Hergenrother is splitting apart.”
- “We don’t want you unless you’re part of the union.”
- How our bitter election will end
- Why the polls will be wrong.
- Genesis now available on Kindle
- The Sun takes a plunge
- We ain’t going away
- “We don’t hire for table manners.”
- Sierra Nevada is moving its mini-shuttle, Dream Chaser, into its own facility.
- Is GM headed for bankruptcy again?
- The tragedy of Eritrea
- A federal judge has approved the installation of surveillance cameras by the police — on private property without a warrant.
- The federal government is expected to hit its debt ceiling before the end of the year.
- Schoolhouse Rock – No more Kings
- Bankruptcy
- Five big stories the media will ‘discover’ after the election
- Boeing to cut 30 percent of its management ranks.
- Sea Launch is considering moving its base of operations out of the United States.
- Jupiter’s Great Red Spot continues to shrink.
- The maker of “Innocence of Muslims” has been sentenced to a year in prison for parole violation.
- Nataly Dawn – Leslie
- Astronomers have found a super-earth exoplanet inside its star’s habitable zone.
- Wall Street stocks plummeted today for the second day in a row.
- Betty Boop – Poor Cinderella
- Harry Reid said Thursday that the Democrats intend to raise the debt limit another $2.4 trillion.
- “It’s gotta be shut down.”
- The coming shrinkage in the healthcare industry because of Obamacare.
- An older rover releases a picture
- James Taylor – Fire and Rain
- Obamacare is still vulnerable.
- A space plane from China?
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – God Help the Outcasts
- China’s 2013 missions: another manned flight and a lunar landing.
- Katherine Jenkins – Hymn to the Fallen
- on the road
- The orbital debris from the exploded upper stage of the failed Proton launch in August now totals over 100 pieces.
- SpaceOps is looking for funding to build its private spacecraft modeled after the American Gemini capsule.
- Celtic Thunder – Caledonia
- Engineers have switched Mars Odyssey to its backup navigation equipment in order to save the failing primary system.
- The discovery of volcanoes on Io
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Orange Blossom
- The accidental cutting of a communications cable has cut off Russia’s mission control from ISS and many of its satellites.
- A planet without a star, only 100 light years away.
- Vanishing water
- Scientists have found that the method used by the IPCC to measure droughts has significantly overestimated their number during the the past 60 years.
- The Russians have repaired the severed cable that had cut off their communications with ISS and space.
- The Higgs boson has once again been confirmed with new data, and the scientists are disappointed!
- The Subaru telescope in Hawaii has taken an image of an exoplanet.
- SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket has made its highest leap yet, almost 20 feet.
- An exhumation of the body of Danish astronomy Tycho Brahe has proven he was not murdered.
- The Democratic senator seeking the chairmanship of the Senate Budget Committee has refused to promise to write a budget next year.
- ENYA – Book of Days
- The pie crusts of Mercury.
- More on why that communications cable was cut at Russian mission control.
- Dust devils and radiation in Gale Crater.
- Five ways to protect yourself from Obamacare.
- Hostess Brands — already in bankruptcy — has decided to shut down because one of its unions refused to end a strike.
- Governor Bobby Jindal’s letter rejecting Obamacare implementation
- California now has the highest poverty rate in the nation.
- A new audit has found that the Federal Housing Administration has a deficit of $13.5 billion for the fiscal year ending in September.
- TorQ Percussion Quartet – Stinkin’ Garbage by E. Argenziano
- Lorrie Morgan – Something In Red
- Fry & Laurie – Chicken
- Three astronauts safely returned to Earth today after a 125-day stay on ISS.
- SpaceX’s launch manifest for 2013 included three commercial launches in addition to its cargo flights to ISS.
- The head of the company building Russia’s version of GPS has been fired.
- “The majority of state governors are Republicans, and they have the power to disarm the health-care law.”
- Even the cows are fleeing California’s regulatory climate.
- “Long-term budget pressures on NASA mount.”
- Korean folk song – Arirang
- The Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate suffered its third loss in court on Friday.
- A tour of the escape bunker under the Apollo launchpad.
- The levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a new high in 2011.
- Our country’s road to bankruptcy, in one chart.
- Cracking the 250 year old code of a secret society.
- Rod Stewart – Maggie May
- The next flight of the X-37b has been delayed again, with the new launch set for December 11.
- In meetings today the European Space Agency has decided to upgrade Ariane 5 rather than immediately build a new Ariane 6 rocket.
- Has Curiosity made a big discovery?
- Mundy & Shannon – Galway Girl
- Cracks have been found in the first Orion capsule intended to fly in space.
- Sources in Russia indicated that the contract for Sarah Brightman’s space tourist flight has not yet been signed.
- NASA is downplaying the hype about a big discovery by Curiosity.
- Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
- A Pennsylvania college has cut the work hours of all instructors to avoid the costs of Obamacare.
- A service module to nowhere
- The sun has a split personality.
- 2000 pingpong balls and 30 teachers in zero gravity
- A new world speed record for a sailing vessel was set today at more than 75 miles per hour.
- The arrival of the legal dictator.
- Penn & Teller on Fool Us – Young & Strange
- Don’t you dare call it default!
- Boeing indicated today that it is considering increasing its investment in its CST-100 manned capsule in order to accelerate its development.
- Olivia Newton and Andy Gibb – Rest Your Love On Me
- When you go for your annual physical — free under Obamace — the doctor cannot treat you for, or even answer questions about, any new ailments.
- A Russian Proton rocket, scheduled for launch in late December, is being replaced because of damage sustained during transport from its factory.
- The willingness of a small union to bankrupt Hostess will help do the same for many other companies.
- The requirement in Obamacare that restaurants list calories on their menus will cost billions.
- Pac Man in orbit around Saturn.
- Russia and the U.S. have named the two astronauts who will spend a year in space beginning in 2015.
- “Please stop watching it … Please stop filling your head with filth.”
- Neil Diamond & Barbara Streisand – You Don’t Bring Me Flowers
- Impressive radar images of near-Earth asteroid 2007 PA8 were taken during its recent fly-by of Earth.
- Echostar signs a multi-satellite deal using the Ariane 5 rocket.
- Los Alamos engineers have successfully tested a simple fission nuclear reactor for generating electricity in space.
- The Russians today announced a reorganization of their space industry.
- Why state regulation is better than federal regulation
- NASA is soliciting ideas on how to use the two Cold War era telescopes given to the space agency by the military.
- SpaceX and Stratolaunch have parted ways.
- The waterfalls of Iceland
- Photo Op meets red tape. Red tape wins.
- Twenty places that you should try to visit before you die.
- Space tourism — in a balloon.
- The federal government’s debt ceiling will be reached no later than the end of February, and possibly sooner.
- 52 Nobel Peace Prize winners have called for the boycott of Israel for its recent attacks in Gaza.
- The biggest black hole yet found, 17 billion times the mass of our sun.
- On the road
- Ralph Stanley and Patty Loveless – Pretty Polly
- Cassini has taken some spectacular new images of the gigantic hexagonal vortex on Saturn’s north pole.
- South Korea scrubbed the launch of its own homemade rocket last night.
- The sad state of modern science
- Messenger has found new and “compelling” evidence that there is water ice locked in the permanently shadowed craters of Mercury.
- Two more states have decided not to set up health exchanges, a key component of Obamacare.
- “1,200 days and $5 trillion in new debt since Senate Democrats passed a budget.”
- A federal court has issued a temporary injunction halting enforcement by the federal government of the contraceptive mandate under Obamacare.
- Gordon Lightfoot – Song for a winter’s night
- A North Carolina elementary school removed the word “God” from a poem written by one its students because one student’s parents complained.
- The overall debt from student loans now exceeds $1 trillion, with defaults skyrocking. The solution from one Democratic Congressman: a $1 trillion bailout.
- Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound
- The ATF has taken action against the agents involved in running the illegal gun-running operation dubbed “Fast-and-Furious.”
- William Butler Yeats – The Second Coming
- Microwaving Ivory Soap
- North Korea has placed the first stage of its own rocket on the launchpad in preparation for a test flight later this month.
- Changes in the levels of sulphur dioxide since Venus Express arrived in orbit around Venus in 2006 now suggest strongly that the spacecraft has detected volcanic activity on the planet.
- Rachel Carson was wrong.
- Walmart, the nation’s largest private employer, will be eliminating healthcare coverage to its parttime employees due to Obamacare.
- The head of the Interior Department has ordered the shutdown of a century-old California oyster company.
- The Sun’s weak sunspot maximum continues
- Loreena McKennitt – Snow
- New data suggests that the icy crust of Titan is twice as thick as previously estimated.
- The press lets Curiosity get the better of them
- “It will be very costly.”
- Urban shooting techniques
- Andromeda wants you!
- NASA announced yesterday plans to launch by 2020 a twin rover of Curiosity to Mars.
- The Pentagon has decided to buy its launch services from more than just Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
- The real fiscal cliff
- A federal appeals court today expressed strong reservations about Obama’s non-recess recess appointments in January.
- The toughest bridge in the world
- The GAO is concerned about the future budget and schedule of the James Webb Space Telescope.
- Looking at the Earth from space at night.
- Lacking focus
- If you and a friend happen to have $1.4 billion, the new private company Golden Spike wants to take you to the Moon.
- Celtic Harp Orchestra – Miranda and the Tempest
- A tour of the impact craters that Curiosity created when it landed on Mars.
- It now appears that the next launch of the X-37B is set for Tuesday, December 11.
- Katherine Jenkins – Requiem for a Soldier
- Gullies on Vesta?
- A fuel leak has now been pinpointed as the cause of the Delta 4 rocket launch problem in October.
- During a launch yesterday the upper stage of Russia’s Proton rocket failed to put the satellite into its proper orbit.
- North Korea has halted preparations for its planned rocket launch.
- R.I.P. Patrick Moore (1932-2012).
- A look at some modern animals, drawn with the same limited fossil record we have for the dinosaurs.
- Yann Frisch
- Kazakhstan is considering cancelling the lease that allows Russia to use the launch facilities in Baikonur.
- Glide tests of Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser shuttle are now scheduled to begin in the first quarter of 2013.
- On the air
- Vi Hart – What was up with Pythagoras?
- A design problem in Curiosity’s drill makes it a threat for shorting out the electronics of the entire rover at some point in the future.
- North Korea, having postponed the launch for technical reasons, has apparently begun removing the rocket from the launchpad.
- The awesomeness of camping and hiking, in pictures.
- Democratic senators (who voted for it) have joined Republicans to call for the delay or cancellation of an Obamacare tax on medical equipment.
- A Democratic state representative threatened violence on the Michigan House floor today over the passage of a right-to-work law in their state.
- Climate models still fail to predict mid- and long-term trends in the climate.The uncertainty of science: Climate models still fail to predict mid- and long-term trends in the climate.
- The solar scientists change their prediction again
- Watch a three mile wide asteroid fly past the Earth – live tonight from 5 to 11 pm (Eastern)!
- The first X-37B to fly in space was successfully placed in orbit today for the second time.
- Kseniya Simonova – To Norway
- The teamster boss today predicted a “civil war” in Michigan if the union doesn’t get what it wants.
- North Korea launched its rocket today, despite indications earlier in the week that they were delaying the launch due to technical problems.
- Photos of the union thug who punched Steven Crowder today in Michigan: Do you know who he is?
- A new New York skyscraper — the largest residential building in the world — has won the top award for 2011 for its unusual undulating facade.
- The nine most important archeological and paleontological discoveries in 2012.
- A river on Titan.
- The first galaxies?
- SpaceX has pinpointed the cause of the Falcon 9 engine shutdown during its October 7 Dragon launch.
- Union thugs yesterday also destroyed the hot dog cart of an innocent vendor, calling him “N*gger” and “Uncle Tom” while they did it.
- Of Monsters And Men – Mountain Sound
- The satellite that North Korea launched early Wednesday appears to be tumbling out of control, according to unnamed U.S. officials.
- “Work like a Third World dictator and just put all these guys in jail.”
- Mountain Man – Play It Right
- Sequestration and NASA
- Climate experts are now calling for an end to the regularly scheduled mega-climate summits.
- Lianne La Havas – No Room for Doubt
- Mt Nimbus Via Ferrata
- China’s Chang’e 2 lunar probe, now out of lunar orbit, did a fly-by of the 3 mile wide asteroid Toutatis as it zipped past the Earth last week, resulting in some spectacular images.
- Will it blend: World’s Largest Gummy Bear
- NASA used Orbital Sciences’ Taurus 2 rocket for the failed launch of its Glory climate satellite in 2011, even though the agency knew the company had not fixed the problem that caused the loss of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory in 2009.
- An attempt to drill down into another buried lake in Antarctica, this time by Great Britain, has encountered serious technical problems because of a failed boiler.
- A preliminary copy of the next IPCC report has been leaked.
- Orbital Sciences has begun testing the loading and unloading of fuel for the first stage of its Antares rocket at Wallops Island, Maryland.
- NASA has named the impact site where the two GRAIL spacecraft hit the Moon today after American astronaut Sally Ride.
- Sharon Shannon & Natali McMasters – Celtic electric
- Facebook’s Instagram has updated its terms and conditions so that it now claims “perpetual” ownership to all photographs posted by users.
- “I want Wayne LaPierre’s head on a stick.”
- The science team for Cassini has released a spectacular mosiac of Saturn and its rings, backlit by the Sun.
- One small dish for man
- Another Earth just twelve light years away?
- Instagram has said it will withdraw language from its terms and conditions that would have given it ownership rights to users’ photography.
- The bar at the center of the Milky Way.
- Russia today successfully launched a new three man crew toward ISS.
- In coordinated attacks, Taliban terrorists in Pakistan murdered one man and five women, whose only job was to administer polio vaccines.
- Robert Bork, 1927-2012
- A laser defense system capable of destroying missiles from a distance.
- Hurricane Sandy relief funding turns into Porkfest 2012
- An American pastor — a convert from Islam — has been imprisoned without notice of charges while visiting his family in Iran.
- SpaceShipTwo has successfully completed its first glide test flight with its rocket motor attached.
- A petition to have the U.S. withdraw from the United Nations Outer Space Treaty has been submitted to the White House.
- Eddi Reader – Charlie is my darlin
- Another three polio workers were killed in Pakistan today.
- The recent youtube video showing an eagle swooping down to grab a toddler was faked.
- The state where this past weekend’s mass murder occurred is considered to have the fifth strongest gun laws in the nation.
- An meteorite that crashed in the Sierra Nevadas in April was traveling at the fastest speed on record, almost 18 miles per second.
- More details on Virgin Galactic’s first glide test of SpaceShipTwo with its rocket motor attached.
- “We are not going to do anything.”
- Not only have the models failed to predict temperature, they also have failed to predict the amount of methane in the atmosphere.
- A new dataset of global hurricanes since 1970 shows absolutely no trend, up or down.
- Sinéad O’Connor – Danny Boy
- Two teams competing for the Google Lunar X-Prize have now merged.
- A zoning board and the LAPD have shut down a thirty-year-old successful burger stand, apparently because they think it attracts crime.
- NASA successfully completed a set of tests of the parachutes for the Orion capsule on Thursday.
- The Soyuz capsule with ISS’s new crew of three astronauts has successfully docked with the station.
- Seven charts that outline the true and terrible state of the economy.
- New data has confirmed that asteroid 2011 AG5 will not hit the Earth in 2040.
- The twelve best solar events in 2012
- The Philadelphia high school student who was ridiculed by a teacher for wearing a Romney t-shirt is suing the teacher and the school district.
- The most interesting comment threads of December
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
- Judy Garland – Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- What the future was supposed to be like
- SpaceX’s Grasshopper rocket successfully did a vertical take off and landing to a height of 130 feet last week.
- Obama’s proposal to avoid sequestration would increase spending 55 percent over the next decade.
- Bing Crosby & David Bowie – The Little Drummer Boy / Peace
- An atheist billboard opposing religion was ripped to shreds on Sunday in New Jersey.
- The investigation into the failure of the Proton rocket’s Briz-M upper stage on December 8 has pinpointed the failure to a turbopump.
- Complaints about compliance with Freedom of Information requests jumped 28 percent during the Obama adminstration’s first term.
- Half the facts you know are wrong.
- Mean Mary James – Ding Dong Day
- The federal government will hit the debt ceiling on December 31.
- The CEO of Aetna says that Obamacare will double health care premiums
- Mnozil Brass – At the Movies
- A United Kingdom effort to drill down almost two miles to reach buired Lake Ellsworth in Antarctica has been abandoned.
- Russia has announced a commitment to spend $70 billion over the next seven years on their aerospace industry.
- Such Great Heights
- Why history professor Erik Loomis should be fired.
- It appears that SpaceX and Orbcomm have finalized their launch agreement.
- Hobby Lobby appears willing to face fines rather than bow to the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.
- An ion test engine has set a new record for continuous operation.
- The most intolerant religion, persecuting all others.
- Orbital Sciences will do a hot fire launchpad test of its Antares rocket in January, followed by a test launch to orbit in February, and a first flight of the Cygnus capsule in April.
- Thank You, David Gregory
- A very impressive bike ride
- “2012 was the worst year for fabrication and plagiarism since I began collecting data in 2005.”
- The twelve most useless research papers of 2012.
- Is the recently discovered Imperial tomb in China too dangerous to enter?
- The Seven Samurai – Kyûzô the Swordsman
- Skeeter Davis – the End of the World
- Another federal judge has ruled that a private company does not have to follow the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.
- Julie Andrews – Auld Lang Syne
- The federal government has reached its debt limit today.
- New research suggests that the high radiation experienced by astronauts on interplanetary journeys could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer’s.
- Six of the most isolated places on Earth.
- Neil Diamond – I Am, I Said
- The House passed legislation Monday proposing to rename the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong.
- Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros – Man on Fire
- Using data from a solar system detected by the Kepler space telescope, astronomers now extrapolate that there are at least as many planets as stars in our galaxy.
- The deindustrialization of America.
- The good, bad, and (mostly) ugly of the fiscal deal.
- Astronomers have discovered that a large number of dwarf galaxies are orbiting Andromedea in a flat plane, like our solar system, contrary to all predictions.
- The origin of the dark material on Vesta.
- Swift demonstrates what a small 11-inch telescope can do in space with an spectacular gallery of images.
- To avoid Obamacare, companies are turning more employees into part-timers while also cutting back on hires.
- The Byrds – Turn. Turn. Turn.
- “I am not your peasant.”
- Curiosity spots a Martian “flower.”
- 10 Most Common New Year’s Resolutions as Illustrated by Cats
- Alan Grayson returns to Congress and immediately calls Republicans terrorists.
- What happens when you set fire to 2,500 ping pong balls?
- A survey of 9 million students over the past 47 years has found that modern students consider themselves above average in education, self-confidence, and determination, despite test scores showing an actual drop in these skills.
- On Wednesday Apophis will pass the Earth at a distance of 9 million miles, allowing astronomers to gather more data about this asteroid’s orbit and composition.
- A close and realistic look at SpaceX’s schedule for 2013.
- The future of the social security program is worse than you think.
- Health premiums to double under Obamacare.
- How to make an indestructible snow fort.
- The Sun crashes
- Police say union workers “almost certainly” torched an under-construction Quaker meetinghouse in northwest Philadelphia four days before Christmas.
- Fifteen more exoplanets found orbiting their stars in the habitable zone.
- The Kepler science team today revealed an additional 461 candidate exoplanets, with four being less than twice Earth’s size and in the habitable zone.
- Bank of America arbitrarily froze the account of a firearms manufacturer because, in their words “We believe you should not be selling guns and parts on the Internet.”
- Henri 4
- The coming of private space stations
- Democratic Party civility in New York
- A hoax article about a war that never happened stayed up on Wikipedia for five years.
- “The toll collectors on the road to serfdom.”
- Under Obamacare health insurance rates for young adults will skyrocket 40 percent next year, according to a new study.
- Crowd laughs and applauds the Chicago Teachers Union president after she joked about killing the rich.
- An Omaha-based chain of fast food restauants has decided to cut the hours of all non-management employees workers’ hours to part time in order to avoid the costs of Obamacare.
- Scientists now think it is possible for there to be floating methane ice on the lakes of Titan.
- Want to learn something of the geology of the Grand Canyon?
- Tracking the orbit of the exoplanet in Fomalhaut’s debris disk
- The Dillards – The Whole World Round
- A new National Research Council report honestly admits the possibility that the Sun might be an important factor in climate change.
- How to watch the asteroid Apophis as it makes its not-so-close approach to Earth today.
- New data from the Herschel Space Telescope suggests that the asteroid Apophis is bigger and less reflective than previous believed.
- An official of SpaceX announced today that the company plans on its first manned launch by 2015, and that the astronauts will be its employees, not NASA’s.
- Idea of North – But not for me
- New radar data of Apophis now indicates that its chances of the asteroid hitting the Earth in 2036 is zero.
- The reason why NASA’s planetary probes still use black and white photography.
- Our government’s modern scientific method:
Proving others are wrong is not allowed! - The largest known spiral galaxy.
- Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling In Love
- State lawmakers in Wyoming have proposed a law that would make it a felony to enforce a gun ban on semi-automatics or large capacity magazines.
- The demo mission of robotic refueling of satellites on ISS goes forward this month.
- Spectacular footage from the two GRAIL spacecraft just prior to their lunar impact.
- The Russians have recovered their first sample from Lake Vostok, buried 2.5 miles below the Antarctic icecap.
- David Gregory will not be prosecuted.
- Cirque Du Soleil
- Researcher have found that the best way to protect the gothic cathedrals of Europe from air pollution might be to coat them with olive oil.
- A zip line in Haiti
- How the Bigelow module added to ISS will change the space equation.
- Pretend gun control!
- King’s Island – The Beast Roller Coaster
- A wildfire has damaged an astronomical observatory in Australia.
- A gun owner’s home listed on a map published by a New York paper has been targeted for robbery.
- An American ice-drilling team has reached Lake Whillans in Antarctica after a 600 mile journey.
- Why Are You Opposed To Ending Violence?
- For the first time a giant squid has been filmed in its natural habitat.
- The last 36 pictures ever taken using Kodachrome.
- Sissel – Shenandoah
- New Year’s resolutions for believers in freedom.
- The mass murder that didn’t happen.
- A (new) Mexican standoff at the old spaceport.
- Volunteers are needed to analyze images from Mars.
- Scientists are going to use Hubble to take six more deep field images.
- Sinéad O’Connor – She moved through the Fair
- Some beautiful color images from World War II America.
- A Japanese airline has grounded all of its 787 Dreamliners due following an emergency landing.
- According the the inspector general, the Post Office will go out of business this year unless Congress bails it out.
- A new study has found that five Gulf Coast states have so many vague environmental laws that anyone who does anything outdoors can be found guilty of something.The rise of facism: A new study has found that five Gulf Coast states have so many vague environmental laws that anyone who does anything outdoors can be found guilty of something.
- A man who expressed strong agreement with many leftwing causes has been arrested at the Wisconsin state capitol with a Molotov cocktail in his backpack.
- Some more details have been revealed about Bigelow’s deal with NASA to send one of its modules to ISS.
- Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Joan Baez – Turtle Dove
- James Hansen, activist global warming scientist, teams up with leftwing Occupy Wall Street.
- A software issue has forced a delay in the robot refueling experiment on ISS.
- An expensive Frankenstein in space
- A new video game allows players to murder the NRA president.
- A Pennsylvania hospital has decided to stop delivering babies because of Obamacare.
- New images of a dry river on Mars.
- A close-minded reporter opens her mind to guns.
- A gold nugget wearing more than 11 pounds has been found in Australia.
- Another local sheriff, this time in Alabama, says he will not enforce any gun regulations that he thinks violate the second amendment.
- Another house, listed by the Journal News in upstate New York as a gun owner, has been targeted by burglars.
- Handel – Harp Concerto in B flat
- Some incredible frozen waterfalls worldwide.
- The TSA is going to remove all of the airport backscatter body scanners made by one company.
- In rushing through a new gun law in New York making illegal high capacity magazines, the legislature failed to exempt the police.
- Jim Croce – I Got a Name
- What happens when you play tennis with a flaming tennis ball?
- John Denver – Rocky Mountain High
- The comet of the century?
- Kepler shut down for ten days to save the mission.
- Not all is golden in commercial space: The failure of the Oklahoma spaceport deal.
- Data from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter now suggests that a lake in a Martian crater had filled from groundwater coming up from below.
- New and better quality images of the asteroid Toutatis from the Chang’e 2 fly-by have been released.
- College adjunct professors crushed by Obamacare.
- The judge who sentenced seven earthquake scientists/officials in Italy to prison has released a detailed explanation for his verdict.
- Electronic medical records — required by Obamacare — are costing doctors time while taking them away from their patients.
- Another asteroid mining company will announce its plans tomorrow, Tuesday.
- Even as the Kepler mission struggles to survive, the science team has released its entire database of exoplanets candidates to the public.
- Michael Kamen – Quintet
- Orbital Sciences has published an updated schedule for its Antares rocket and Cygnus cargo capsule.
- A new infrared image of Betelgeuse suggests the star and its winds will smash into the interstellar medium in only a few thousand years.
- A NASA engineering team is restarting the agency’s 1960s research into nuclear powered engines for deep space missions.
- The plans and proposed launch schedule of the new asteroid mining company, Deep Space Industries.
- After a short delay due to software issues, the satellite servicing demo on ISS has begun.
- A nine-year-old in Scotland who forced changes in her school lunches with her blog has been silenced.
- Another sheriff, this time in Missouri, has told the Obama administration that he will not enforce any regulations that violate the second amendment.
- Archeologists have now found the earliest evidence of chocolate in Utah, suggesting that trade with the tropics was going on as early as 800 AD.
- Major exhibitors are pulling out of a outdoor trade show because the organizer decided to ban some weapons.
- A balloon sent above Antarctica to study cosmic rays has set a new record for the longest flight.
- A Jet Ski Jet Pack
- A Colorado county government, joining twelve other state governments and numerous local sheriffs, has passed a resolution supporting the second amendment and pledging not to enforce any federal laws that violate it.
- The Democratic Party leaders in New Mexico have announced that an agreement over spaceport liability has been reached with Virgin Galactic.
- Planetary Resources has released a video showing off the prototype of their Arkyd-100 space telescope.
- An update on the Chinese manned program.
- February 23, 2013: A day of resistance.
- Ed Thompson – Solo Trumpet duet
- Russia is now threatening to abandon its Baikonur launch site due to restrictions demanded by the Kazakhstan government.
- NASA has now agreed to contribute equipment and researchers to a European dark energy mission.
- The entire NRA has converted to Islam to stymie the Obama administration’s effort to take their guns.
- Now a Mississippi sheriff has vowed not to enforce any federal gun control laws that violate the second amendment.
- The boycott against the organizer of an outdoor trade show that tried to ban rifles has forced them to postpone the show.
- Happy 10th anniversary to the Opportunity rover on Mars!
- Engineers at Lockheed Martin are adding structural braces to fix the cracks found in the first Orion capsule.
- A research plane has crashed in a remote area of Antarctica, stranding three.
- Polio virus from Pakistan has been found in Egypt.
- “We’re now in a society of violating one another.”
- The seasons change on Mars.
- Horrible Histories – William Shakespeare Song
- NASA engineers today test fired a major component of a refurbished Saturn 5 engine.
- The Russian foreign minister today denied that there is any friction between Kazakhstan and Russia over the use of the Baikonur spaceport.
- An appeals court has unanimously decided that Barack Obama violated the Constitution when he tried to make appointments to the NLRB when the Senate was not in recess.
- A Texas Congressman has introduced a law to repeal “Gun-Free School Zones Act” of 1990.
- DARPA’s project to harvest parts from abandoned geosynchronous satellites.
- Blondie – Shayla (1979)
- Shakespeare – The Wind and the Rain, music Ben Toth
- The first nighttime photos from Mars.
- The robotic refueling demo on ISS successfully did a simulated refueling on Friday.
- Sarah McLachlan – Song for a Winter’s Night
- No survivors in Antarctica airplane crash
- An American team has successfully obtained samples from Lake Whillans, buried half a mile under the Antarctic icecap.
- Norwegian scientists admit that the climate has shown no warming since 2000.
- Iran today claimed it has successfully flown a monkey on a suborbital rocket flight.
- Enya – Amarantine
- Virgin Galactic has begun paying rent — under protest — for its use of a New Mexico spaceport.
- Resistance to a new gun control law in New York appears to be rising.
- A NASA experiment should produce a light show for those on the east coast tonight.
- Cailyn Lloyd – Nocturne
- Kepler is back in operation after a ten day rest to safe the mission.
- Off to Israel
- Sheena Easton – For Your Eyes Only
- Stuck in Atlanta
- South Korea successfully launched its first satellite, using its own rocket, on Wednesday.
- SpaceX has signed a contract to launch an Israeli satellite.
- Sierra Nevada hires Lockheed Martin
- Mathieu Bich fools Penn & Teller
- In Israel
- The Swingle Singers – Lady Madonna
- An engine shutdown shortly after the lift off of a Sea Launch rocket destroyed an Intelsat satellite on Friday.
- Staying in the West Bank
- Idan Raichel Project – Mimaamakim (Out of the depth)
- ABBA – The Winner Takes It All (1980)
- An image mismatch raises questions about Iran’s monkey in space
- An asteroid will miss the Earth by 15,000 miles on Friday
- Elton John and Billy Joel – Piano Man live
- Boeing has sued Sea Launch for $350 million
- Curiosity has drilled its first hole.
- the first detailed look at the criteria the Obama administration uses to judge if it can legally kill American citizens traveling abroad without the benefit of due process.
- Iran could have the bomb within six months
- New York gun owners have now sued the state over its new gun law.
- Seven million to lose their health insurance under Obamacare
- Judy Garland – Somewhere Over The Rainbow
- Obama walks away from a room of journalists, refusing to answer questions about his new kill policy
- 270 sheriffs and 8 state sheriff associations have said they will not enforce any unconstitutional gun bans.
- Shannon Hurley – Sunrise
- Mary Duff – Going Home
- Back from Israel
- An American team who grabbed a sample from buried Lake Whillans in Antarctica last month now claim their work obtained the first evidence of microbial life in subglacial Antarctic waters.
- Hitchhiking and supermarkets in the occupied territory
- The weak solar maximum continues
- Life as it should be
- The leaders of Russia and Kazakhstan have announced that an agreement has been reached regarding Russia’s lease for the Baikonur spaceport.
- The founder of the green movement sees the light.
- Curiosity has obtained its first drill sample.
- Bonnie Raitt – Love has no pride
- The hotfire engine test of the first stage of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket has now been scheduled for February 12.
- Kodak’s test footage of some of its earliest full color Kodachrome film, shot in 1922.
- Alison Krauss – When You Say Nothing At All
- Help name two of Pluto’s five moons!
- The HOAs of Israel
- Comparing the price of Falcon 9 with the Atlas 4.
- Osborne Brothers – Rocky Top
- A Russian Progress freighter successfully docked with ISS yesterday only six hours after launch.
- North Korea successfully set off an underground nuclear explosion today.
- “The bishops have made it very clear that the institutions for which we’re responsible will simply not cooperate.”We’ve only just begun: “The bishops have made it very clear that the institutions for which we’re responsible will simply not cooperate.”
- The newly released “ObamaCare Survival Guide” has rocketed to the No. 2 spot on The New York Times’ bestseller list for advice-giving paperbacks.
- Bigotry in Israel
- Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday
- On a Tuesday drop test engineers successfully demonstrated that the Orion capsule could land safely if one of its three parachutes failed.
- Russian investigators, having pinpointed the cause of a December 2012 launch failure, have cleared the Proton rocket to resume commercial launches in March.
- A boycott by firearms companies against states that pass gun control laws appears to be growing.
- Some details have been released about that deal between Russia and Kazakhstan over the Baikonur spaceport.
- Under the weather
- The hot fire test of the first stage of the Antares rocket has been rescheduled to tonight.
- If it’s the government it’s okay to steal your property.
- Liz Callaway – Nothing To Lose (But Your Heart)
- The hot fire test of the Antares first stage tonight was aborted at the last second.
- A 150 foot wide asteroid will buzz the Earth tomorrow at a distance of only 17,000 miles.
- Building a real Peace Forest in Israel
- William Shatner proposes naming Pluto’s two unnamed moons Romulus and Vulcan.
- Asteroid 2012 DA14 might experience seismic activity when it zips pass the Earth tomorrow.
- The next flight of Dragon to ISS has been set for March 1.
- Scientists now believe they have found evidence proving that the unknown origin of cosmic rays are supernova explosions.
- A Bit of Fry and Laurie – Celebrities
- A group of California scientists have proposed a system to vaporize asteroids that threaten Earth.
- An unexpected meteorite shower yesterday across three regions of Russia has reportedly caused more than 400 people to seek medical help.
- How to watch asteroid 2012 DA14 zip past the Earth today.
- An outline of the cuts NASA would do if sequestration occurs on March 1 includes shutting down commercial crew while leaving the Space Launch System untouched.
- Largest in a century.
- Notorious Folk – Romanian Train Song
- Lena Leclaire – Call Me Maybe
- A planet evaporates.
- Suzanne Vega – Small Blue Thing
- Russian scientists have identified the first fragments from Friday’s meteorite in Chelyabinsk.
- Mercury, in full color.
- “Doomsday never arrived, apparently.”
- The abandoned calibration targets used by surveillance satellites of the 1960s.
- Emmylou Harris – Wayfaring Stranger
- A gun control bill introduced in Washington includes a provision that allows the police to conduct yearly house searches, without a warrant, of any gun owner’s home.
- Some thoughts by Alan Stern on a better way to name exoplanets.
- The hotfire test of Antares’ first stage has been rescheduled for Thursday, February 21.
- Another day, another crack in Obamacare.
- NASA mission control in Houston has lost all communications with ISS.
- Two days ago the Congressional Budget Office increased its projection for the cost of Obamacare by 29 percent, while also saying that seven million workers will lose their health insurance due to the law, almost twice as many as previously estimated.
- After a three hour outage NASA has regained communications with ISS.
- A new poll of Earth scientists has found that a majority are skeptical of human-caused global warming.
- Outtakes from pet interviews
- Scientists have released some results from their look at asteroid 2012 DA14 during its fly-by last week.
- The microfilmed miniature bibles that flew to the moon during Apollo have become the center of a custody dispute between the state of Texas and the author who wrote their history.
- There will be hot fire tests on Friday of both the Antares and Falcon 9 rockets.
- The anti-choice left’s disarming of the American woman.
- In an effort to save money and protect the environment, the U.S. Navy has decided to move away from fossil fuels and back to non-toxic and environmentally friendly wind power.
- The TSA detained a wheelchair-bound three-year-old girl, took away her stuffed doll, and refused to allow the parents to videotape the child’s pat down.
- Using Kepler scientists have discovered a three planet solar system with one planet slightly larger than our Moon.
- How to see Comet PANSTARRS, expected to be visible to the naked eye in the evening sky in March.
- Sarah Brightman – Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
- “Whose side are you on?”
- In an interview in Australia, the head of the IPCC has admitted that the climate has stopped warming now for the past seventeen years.
- New data has allowed scientists to lower the chance that the asteroid Apophis will hit the Earth in a future orbit.
- R.I.P. Dr. David S. McKay: 1936-2013
- A new U.N. report states that Iran has moved one step closer to building its own nuclear weapon.
- An update on Boeing’s CST-100 capsule.
- The head of the Transportation Department threatens long delays if the sequestration cuts take place March 1.
- Because of the cost of Obamacare, employers are dropping healthcare coverage for spouses.
- Falcon 9 static fire test is now set for Monday.
- A new poll finds that the public opposes cuts to virtually all types of spending.
- George Washington’s Farewell Address
- The Antares hot fire test of the rocket’s first stage was successfully completed tonight.
- A jetpack that takes off like a plane.
- The number of gun companies who have decided to stop selling to anti-second amendment state governments has grown to 44.
- Don Henley – Talking to the Moon
- William Travis’ letter of defiance returns to the Alamo.
- “All you need to know to get on a plane these days is the color of your house.”
- Mammoth Cave is now officially longer than 400 miles.
- The world’s smallest optical space telescopes to launch on Monday.
- Twenty-three terrifying airport runways.
- The man who taught the air forces of the world how to fly.
- Public pressure is now being applied to gun manufacturers who are trying to wheezle out of the boycott against gun-banning states.
- Meatloaf and Patti Russo – I’d do anything for love
- “It is big media institutions who are identifiably more liberal to left-leaning who will shut you down, stab you and kill you, fire you, if they perceive that you are not telling the story in the way that they want it told.”
- Beretta has threatened to leave Maryland over the state’s proposed new gun bans.
- Jihad or Criminality?
- India successfully launched seven satellites into orbit today on a single launch.
- “Vulcan” and “Cerberus” win the poll to name Pluto’s two unnamed moons.
- “the worst test” – an engineering flash mob
- SpaceX has reported that its static fire test today of the Falcon 9 rocket was a success.
- Homeland Security seizes a man’s boat because they made an error on his custom’s paperwork.
- The House yesterday voted to rename the Dryden Flight Research Center after Neil Armstrong.
- Hamas breaks truce and fires rocket from Gaza into Israel.
- A newly discovered comet has an orbit that might collide with Mars in October 2014.
- Even as Democratic lawmakers scream for more gun control laws, the enforcement of the current laws by the Obama administration has declined by 40 percent.
- The world’s largest panoramic image.
- A new GAO report says that Obamacare will increase the federal government’s long term debt by $6.2 trillion.
- Scientists are considering revising the guidelines for heart risk as determined by your cholesterol levels.
- Richard Feynman explains the scientific method.
- An investigation of the Sea Launch launch failure on February 2 has pinpointed the failure to faulty parts made in the Ukraine.
- The meteorite that landed in Russia on February 15 has now been traced to the Apollo family of near Earth asteroids.
- Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) in Vietnam
- Dennis Tito, the world’s first space tourist, announced a private effort today to fly the first-ever manned flight around Mars and do it by 2018.
- Bob Woodward said today that a senior White House official threatened him for his critical reporting of Obama concerning sequestration.
- A wonderful montage of people refusing to answer questions at Border Patrol checkpoints.
- A bill in Congress would strip the Constitutional rights from any Americans being prosecuted by an American Indian tribe under Indian law.
- Proof that cats have been walking on important stuff for basically forever.
- Another liberal reporter describes getting obscene and threatening emails from the White House.
- China’s next manned mission is now set for this summer.
- Two probes named after James Van Allen and designed to study the two Van Allen radiation belts have discovered there is a third intermittent belt.
- “This is the biggest meteorite found in East Antarctica for 25 years.”
- Yo-Yo Ma – The Swan by Saint-Saens
- After successfully reaching orbit, there appears to be a problem with the Dragon capsule.
- Hail Armageddon
- Corrupt memory in Curiosity’s A computer system has forced engineers to switch to the rover’s back-up computer.
- Dragon’s docking with ISS will not happen on Saturday as originally scheduled due to the problems with the capsule’s thrusters.
- SpaceX has announced that they now have all of Dragon’s thrusters operating and are go for docking with ISS.
- Bryan Berg – builder of the largest house of cards on record
- The boycott by gun and ammo manufacturers of anti-gun states has now grown to over 100.
- The Democratically controlled Senate is about to mark up its first budget in four years!
- The Obama administration today released more than 700 pages of new regulations to implement parts of Obamacare.
- An environmental report by the Obama administration has admitted that the Keystone oil pipeline would do little environmental damage.
- The Band with Eric Clapton – The Weight
- SpaceX has been given the go-ahead to have the Dragon capsule rendezvous with ISS on Sunday.
- After reviwing the results from the Antares hot fire on February 22, Orbital Sciences is now planning the first launch of the Antares rocket in April.
- Dragon has been successfully berthed with ISS.
- The censoring of Google maps, by Google and governments.
- A major manufacturer of gun magazines says it will leave Colorado if the state legislature passes a law banning high capacity magazines.
- The sequester in one chart.
- Manfred Mann – Blinded by the Light
- More reporters admit to being threatened by the White House.
- Another chance at killing Obamacare in the Supreme Court?
- A newly discovered asteroid will pass within the Moon’s orbit on Wednesday.
- New research concludes that it was a static electric spark that set fire to the Hindenberg in 1937.
- Homeland Security has purchased almost 3000 armored vehicles and has had them retrofitted for use on the American streets.
- Republican John Boehner, Speaker of the House, agrees to consider any gun control bill passed by the Senate.
- The true national debt.
- A new poll finds that support for Obamacare continues to drop.
- We don’t need no solar maximum
- “Investigate them.”
- Eddi Reader with Boo Hewerdine – Footsteps Fall
- Curiosity is easing out of safe mode as engineers switch computers.
- One week before the sequester cuts took effect, the TSA issued a $50 million contract for new uniforms.
- The CEO of a major health insurance company warned that rates will likely go up 20% to 100% next year because of Obamacare
- The search to find and understand the Chelyabinsk meteorite.
- Touching the underground ocean of Europa, from Earth.
- Scaled Composites has done its first test firing of SpaceShipTwo’s engine.
- An email from the Obama administration confirms their effort to make the sequester cuts as painful as possible, even if it isn’t necessary.
- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
- For the past two years NASA and JPL have been under heavy hacker attack from China, according to NASA’s inspector general.
- A sunstone, used by mariners to judge the position of the Sun when it is cloudy, has been found at a 16th century shipwreck.
- The great ammunition myth.
- Rand Paul has begun athe filibuster today in response to the suggestion by both Attorney General Eric Holder and CIA nominee John Brennan that the White House has the right to kill Americans on American soil,
- Mr. Smith goes to Washington filibuster
- Rand Paul’s proposed non-binding resolution on the use of drones that the Senate Democrats refuse to bring to a vote.
- As a precaution engineers have shut Curiosity down to protect it from an oncoming solar flare.
- Rand Paul’s moment of glory.
- An anti-semite who also wants to see 9/11 repeated yearly has been chosen by the Obama administration to receive an “International Women of Courage Award.”
- The Russians have announced that their samples from Lake Vostok, buried deep under the Antarctic icecap contains life, one of which is new.
- Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas – The Boxer
- The Crab Nebula has flared again.
- A Michigan elementary school confiscated a third-grader’s batch of homemade cupcakes because they were decorated with plastic green Army soldiers.
- The TSA screeners at Newark Airport allowed a federal agent with a fake bomb to pass through security.
- Eight of the world’s most incredible swimming pools.
- South Dakota has passed a law to train teachers to wear guns and provide security.
- A federal appeals court has ruled that the Obama administration does not have the right to search or seize a person’s electronic devices when they cross the border.
- Sand that is always dry
- Comet Pan-STARRS will likely be its brightest for northern hemisphere viewers this weekend.
- A small Russian satellite has been struck and damaged by space junk created from a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test.
- The TSA issued security badges to at least eleven airport employees with criminal backgrounds.
- Some US communities are trying to make gun ownership mandatory.
- The Federal Reserve reports that Obamacare is causing layoffs and a slowdown in hiring.
- Grasshopper flies again, but even higher.
- Frank Vignola – Tico Tico
- The Russians now say that they have not found any previously unknown life forms in the sample from Lake Vostok.
- “A lot of what we do is make believe.”
- What Obama won’t cut: Calligraphers, 77,000 empty buildings, junkets, and robot squirrels.
- Islamic militants threaten and beat parents in Pakistan for having their children vaccinated against polio.
- A Philadelphia girl was searched and ridiculed for having a gun made of paper at school.
- New computer models find that the tropical rain forests will not be harmed by increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
- Seven sound recordings made before Thomas Edison.
- Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Satellite of Love
- The dirty little secret of electric cars.
- How to see Comet Pan-STARRS.
- Four asteroids buzzed the Earth this past week.
- The Democrats in the Senate are about to introduce their legally required annual budget — for the first time in four years.
- According to conservatives sources in the House, the Republican leadership killed a measure to defund Obamacare.
- North Korea has pulled out of its U.N. armistice agreement.
- WISE has uncovered a binary brown dwarf star system only 6.5 light years away
- The radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant failure in Japan has turned out to be less of a problem than predicted.
- Alon Goldstein – Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring
- Astronomers discover a trinary — of quasars.
- The budget battle at NASA
- New Obamacare regulations produce a stack of regulations seven feet high.
- Curiosity’s first drilling sample has found that the ancient watery conditions in Gale Crater were especially suitable for life.
- Teller fools us
- Hoyer told employees at the Goddard Space Flight Center yesterday that sequester might force some layoffs there.
- Boeing is considering building a civilian version of the X-37B mini-shuttle.
- America – A horse with no name
- Computer simulations suggest that Pluto might have as many as ten undiscovered additional moons.
- NASA has clamped down on travel expenses, reducing it by 30 percent in the past year.
- Physicians fight back against Obamacare.
- China says it will by 2015 do a re-entry test of the spacecraft it will use to return a lunar sample from the Moon by 2020..
- Astronomers today celebrate the official turning-on of ALMA, the world’s largest telescope.
- Europe today inked a partnership deal with Russia for its two spacecraft ExoMars mission, planned to launch in 2016 and 2018.
- The top ten organizations slashing jobs and hours in order to deal with Obamacare.
- For the first time in 25 years the U.S. has begun producing plutonium, to be used in future planetary space missions.
- Sierra Hull – Tell Me Tomorrow
- Water and carbon monoxide detected in the atmosphere of a super-sized exoplanet 129 light years away.
- The first Democratic Party budget from the Senate in four years calls for a 62% increase in federal spending over the next ten years.
- The return today of three astronauts from ISS has been delayed due to an ice storm in Russia.
- “[We] don’t think there’s a problem.”
- A federal judge has ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate imposed by the Obama administration on private businesses.
- Visiting a nuclear missile silo
- Paul Speer – Gobi
- Cinque Terre
- Judy Garland – It’s a Great Day for the Irish
- Building a lunar base by baking lunar dust and shaping it with a 3D printer.
- Sarah Brightman’s visit to ISS in doubt.
- Orbital Sciences has now set April 16-18 as the launch window for its first test launch of its new Antares rocket
- Sooner or later progressives will get around to you
- The 6 most ridiculous science experiments ever funded
- The space junk collision in January never happened.
- Curiosity takes a panorama of Mount Sharp.
- Google Street View now includes views from four of the world’s seven largest mountain peaks.
- More fraud in climate science
- Sinead O’Connor – Thank You For Hearing Me
- According to a federal report, businesses nationwide remain reluctant to hire because of Obamacare.
- Another computer glitch has put Curiosity back in safe mode.
- A Chinese scientist who worked as a contractor for NASA was arrested yesterday on a plane about to leave for China.
- Out of Ideas, Governments Try a Bank Heist
- Having lost its earmarked government funding in 2011, the Pan-STARRS telescope has now replaced those funds with a private donation.
- The Democrat mayor of Philadelphia has demanded an investigation against a local magazine because he doesn’t like what they wrote.
- A new model of the origin of asteroids suggests that in the beginning they weren’t rubble piles but “churning balls of mud.”
- Without a warrant New Jersey police raided the home of a firearms instructor, demanding the right to inventory his guns, after he posted a Facebook photo of his son holding a rifle.
- The Tuttles and AJ Lee – Endless Ocean
- After 35 years of travel, Voyager 1 has finally left the solar system.
- ILS, the company that launches the Russian Proton rocket, has lowered its prices.
- An expedition financed by Jeff Bezos has recovered two Saturn 5 F-1 engines from the ocean bottom.
- New results show that the effectiveness of a new malaria vaccine fades after a period of years.
- Für Elise – Beethoven for Piano & Orchestra
- Curiosity is out of safe mode and will be resuming full science operations by next week.
- A congressional report, issued by Republicans in the House and Senate, says that Obamacare will increase healthcare costs by 200 percent.
- Homeland Security has proposed a plan to scan the private emails of anyone connected with defense work.
- Implosion of the Marble Falls Bridge in Texas
- Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has reversed course and will allow a tough gun bill to be introduced in the Senate.
- How big will the Stratolaunch first stage aircraft be? Big. Very big.
- Obamacare may cost small business as much as 65% of their profits.
- NASA has suspended all spending for education and public outreach.
- Meatloaf and Patti Russo – Couldn’t have said better
- The top ten horror stories caused by Obamacare.
- In two different court decisions yesterday the courts ruled in favor of professors who had been punished by their university because of their opinions.
- NASA has issued a clarification specifically excluding its press announcements from the suspension of all public outreach efforts.
- The Democrats in the Senate passed their first budget in four years yesterday.
- British scientists have located the underwater remains of one of the man-made Mulberry harbours built by the British to support the D-Day Normandy invasion.
- Hiking to the Window in Ventana Canyon
- Virgin Galactic reports that the recent tests of the engine for SpaceShipTwo have been a complete success.
- Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry – Librarian Sketch
- We made it.
- Curiosity marks the return to full science operations by producing a new panorama.
- “I do think there are certain times we should infringe on your freedom.”
- The strange polar vortexes of Venus.
- Cyprus has agreed to confiscate a percentage of the savings of large depositors in order to satisfy demands from the European Union creditors..
- Comet ISON is not brightening as much as expected, suggesting it will not be as spectacular as some had hoped.
- After a day delay due to bad weather, Dragon’s return from space has been scheduled for Tuesday.
- A Democratic voter discovers he’s actually a tea party racist.
- Eric Clapton – Danny Boy
- A new type of supernova.
- Dragon has unberthed from ISS and is on its way back to Earth.
- The illegal view from the top of the Great Pyramid in Egypt.
- To show support for the New Jersey family that had been threatened by the government for posting a picture of their son holding a rifle, hundreds of parents post pictures of their own gun-toting kids.
- The Obamas have taken more than a vacation per month in 2013.
- Dragon has splashed down.
- The Highwaymen – Willie Nelson – City of New Orleans
- On the air
- A Proton rocket has successfully launched a Mexican communications satellite today.
- Steve Goodman – The Dutchman
- Science and sequestration in context
- Elon Musk confirms that on future Falcon 9 launches they will do tests of a powered return of the first stage.
- There astronauts were successfully launched today from Russia and are expected to dock with ISS later tonight.
- Rachel Barton Pine – Molly on the Shore by Percy Grainger
- After a fast four orbit/six hour flight a Soyuz capsule carrying there astronauts has successfully docked with ISS.
- India has successfully tested a homebuilt engine to be used in its more powerful geosynchronous launch rocket, set for launch in July.
- “The fact that global surface temperatures have not followed the expected global warming pattern is now widely accepted.”
- One very good sign that North Korea’s recent warlike threats are merely posturing.
- “We’re just not interested in continuing to support bureaucracies and talkfests.”
- The collapse of household income since 2009.
- Riverdance – violins
- What it feels like to have your life savings stolen by the global elite.
- A boycott of Colorado because of its new gun restrictions appears to building among hunters.
- Connie Dover – I am going to the west
- At a cave rescue course
- Debbie Reynolds – Tammy
- Astronomers searching the WISE infrared data archive think they might find a Jupiter-sized planet lurking near the Oort Cloud.
- Are your indoor tomato plants probable cause for an armed raid?
- Homeland Security has been claiming that it has the authority to inspect private safety deposit boxes without warrants.
- James Hansen is retiring from NASA and will dedicate his time to global warming activism.
- Bernadette Peters & Stephen Sondheim – Send In the Clowns
- Cover story: Exploring Caves in Space
- Astronomers watch the central supermassive black hole of a galaxy eat something, either a planet or a brown dwarf.
- An audit of California’s fiscal state has found it to be $127 billion in the red.
- New computer simulations suggest that the spiral arms of galaxies are not only a natural phenomenon but that they are a persistent one.
- 10 More Amazing Science Stunts
- North Korea on Wednesday closed access to the Kaesong Industrial Park, a joint factory zone with South Korea.
- The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on ISS has detected a surplus of positrons, anti-matter electrons, that physicists believe are caused by the existence of dark matter.
- “The SLS program should be canceled now to free up approximately $10 billion programmed for this decade.”
- Want to own and drive a car faster than 265 miles per hour? You can!
- States dominated by conservatives are more likely to have lower unemployment, while in liberally dominated states are more likely to have higher unemployment.
- “You’d probably be dead anyway.”
- The roll out of Orbital Sciences’ Antares rocket to the launchpad will occur on Saturday, with the test first launch scheduled between April 17-19.
- Legislatures in New Mexico and Texas move forward with bills clarifying future spaceport legalities.
- North Korea says it has authorized plans for nuclear strikes against the United States.
- Dido – White Flag
- More successful glide tests today for SpaceShipTwo, now with its engine attached.
- Austria goes to Mars.
- Hubble sees the most distant supernova ever.
- The Cranberries – Dreams
- The scientists who attempted to re-invent Michael Mann’s hockey stick global warming graph and were caught fudging their data have admitted their data is worthless
- Using Hubble astronomers have confirmed that it was a yellow supergiant star that was the progenitor for the nearest supernovae in decades that occurred in 2011.
- Was a meteorite found in Africa in 2012 originally from Mercury?
- India has delayed the first test flight of its human-rated GSLV Mark 3 rocket until the spring of 2014.
- The location of the volcanoes on Titan are not where scientists had expected them to be.
- Nude crashing stars spark radiation bursts.
- Hiring lifeguards who can’t swim in the name of diversity.
- Antares is on the launchpad, being readied for its first launch in about 10 days.
- World’s Roundest Object!
- The coming Obamacare chaos
- The first launch of Antares has now been scheduled for April 17.
- NASA has indicated that the first manned launch using a commercial space carrier has slipped by a year.
- Is this meteorite from Mercury? Some scientists now say no.
- New data from Curiosity has further confirmed that the atmosphere of Mars was once much thicker, and that the remaining atmosphere is still dynamic.
- R.I.P. Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013).
- The weak solar maximum continues
- Doctors driven to bankruptcy
- The words of NASA’s chief: “NASA is not going to the Moon with a human as a primary project probably in my lifetime.”
- Global warming: time to rein back on doom and gloom?
- On the air
- Boeing is about to begin wind tunnel tests of its CST-100 manned capsule.
- India is looking to privatize its commercial launch vehicles.
- Margaret Thatcher’s nineteen most badass moments.
- A Catholic university has banned a Catholic group because it is Catholic.
- North Korea has completed preparations for a mid-range rocket launch tomorrow.
- Riots and “Thatcher death parties” celebrating her passing.
- Canada’s first earth observation radar satellite, Radarsat-1, went into safe mode more than a week ago and is not expected to recover.
- Lockheed Martin will begin intensive stress tests on its Orion capsule on April 22.
- Bonnie Raitt – I can’t make you love me
- Speaking of the cracks on the first Orion capsule, here’s a story on the capsule’s state of construction.
- Boeing this week revealed a new line of small satellites, the smallest weighing less than 9 pounds, for both military and commercial operations.
- The Fantasy of Extreme Weather
- Has Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the remains of a Soviet Mars lander from 1971?
- Since 2010 total government spending per household has exceeded what each household earns per year.
- The seasons change on Titan as winter clouds begin for form over its south pole.
- Vladimir Putin noted today, the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s spaceflight, that the new Russian spaceport being built in Vostochny will be open for use by other countries.
- Despite a rest, Kepler’s problematic gyroscope is still having problems.
- The International Astronomical Union has issued a press release condemning the commercial efforts of private companies to issue names for exoplanets.
- New rumors suggest that the first powered flight of SpaceShipTwo will occur April 22.
- New calculations have significantly reduced the chance that a comet will smash into Mars in 2014.
- A private company tells the IAU to bug off!
- A countdown dress rehearsal of the Antares rocket on Saturday was halted when a problem with a valve was discovered.
- Alan Boyle has some more information on SpaceShipTwo’s most recent test flight, and the rumors concerning the ship’s first powered flight.
- Dennis Tito’s project already has hundreds of volunteers.
- Russia under Vladimir Putin has announced a big financial boost from its government to its semi-private space industry.
- A decorated war veteran on a Boy Scout hike with his 15-year-old son was arrested by police in Texas because he was “rudely displaying” a firearm.
- Eleven incredible places.
- The nation’s largest movie chain is turning its employees into part-time workers to avoid the cost of Obamacare.
- Data proving the existence of the Higgs boson appears to raise questions with some physicists about the most popular Big Bang theory of cosmology.
- Russia’s Proton rocket successfully launched a Canadian communications satellite today.
- The last 800 years of ice cores from Antarctica shows that the icecap has apparently been increasing over the last century.
- Because its FAA test flight permit will expire on May 23, SpaceShipTwo’s first powered flight has to occur by then and be supersonic.
- The climate models used to predict global warming all fail to predict droughts correctly.
- A union is calling for the repeal of Obamacare.
- The Antares rocket has been cleared for its first test launch tomorrow at 5 pm (Eastern).
- The American Communist Party has sued the Democratic Party for stealing their platform.
- The countdown has begun for the first Antares launch. Go here for regular updates.
- Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said Wednesday he fears a “train wreck” as the Obama administration implements Obamacare
- A breathtaking X-ray view of the supernova remnant from 1006 A.D.
- The Antares launch was scrubbed at T-12 minutes because one of the the umbilical lines separated prematurely.
- What happens when you wring out a washcloth in zero gravity?
- “I’m not trying to get birth control out of Rite Aid or Walmart, but don’t tell me I gotta pay for it.”
- Using Kepler astronomers have found a solar system with five terrestrial-type planets, with two in the habitable zone.
- The next Antares launch attempt has now been scheduled for Saturday, April 20, 5 pm (Eastern).
- Hubble has taken a spectacular close-up image of the Horsehead Nebula.
- A Russian spacewalk on ISS today.
- An detailed analysis of the tumbling of the asteroid Apophis, detected by radar observations in January, suggests it will be easier to predict the asteroid’s orbit in the future.
- Twelve of the world’s most spectacular gorges.
- Polar Spirits
- The countdown for the first launch of Antares today at 5 pm (Eastern) has begun.
- All systems are now go for the first launch of Antares at 5 pm (Eastern).
- “This nation of sheep is indeed begetting a government of wolves, and as a result we are all witnessing the death of liberty.”
- A rocket reveals a fundamental truth about America
- The dismal predictions of the future from the first Earth Day in 1970.
- The Lover’s Waltz
- SpaceX’s test vertical-landing rocket Grasshopper successfully climbed to 250 meters in its most recent test flight.
- This year’s Great Moonbuggy Race, the 20th, has attracted 600 international competitors.
- Three years of Solar Dynamics Observatory images of the Sun — in three minutes.
- In a web interview today, Richard Branson said that the first supersonic powered flight of SpaceShipTwo is now set for this coming Monday.
- Shayla cover celebrating Shakespeare
- Insults by Shakespeare you can use in everyday life.
- An antenna used to orient a Progress freighter during docking, launched today to ISS, has failed to deploy.
- America the fallen: Twenty-four signs that our once proud cities are turning into poverty-stricken hellholes.
- A new report from Russia suggests that the undeployed antenna on the Progess freighter will interfere with ISS’s docking port and prevent a docking.
- An image of the hot spots of the supergiant red star Betelgeuse.
- Congress is considering exempting itself and its staffers from Obamacare.
- Cassini has imaged meteorites as they crash into Saturn’s rings.
- It appears the Progress freighter has successfully docked with ISS.
- More Democratic senators discover that Obamacare is a train wreck about to happen.
- Jacqueline Abbott and Iris Dement – You’ve done nothing wrong
- The excitement builds in Mojave for SpaceShipTwo’s first powered flight, expected on Monday..
- SpaceShipTwo has successfully completed its first powered flight.
- Cassini snaps an amazing image of Saturn’s north pole vortex.
- SpaceShipTwo broke the sound barrier on its first powered flight.
- “The truth is that the Koran directly compels Muslims to commit violent acts against disbelievers.”
- The Herschel Space Telescope has closed its eye on the universe.
- On the air, twice!
- A dozen Democrats are calling for action on global warming because it might cause women to become hookers.
- Opportunity went into safe mode during the communications pause in April when the Sun was between Mars and the Earth.
- Smithsonian researchers have recovered a short recording of Alexander Graham Bell’s voice, made in 1885.
- The meteoric rise in Texas oil production since 2010.
- Better buy your tickets now because in a week the price for a flight on SpaceShipTwo is going up 25%.
- Schools from Puerto Rico dominated the competition at this past weekend’s Great Moonbuggy Race.
- In NASA’s new contract with Russia to launch astronauts to ISS Russia has raised the ticket price from $63 million to $70.6 million per seat.
- Large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries
- From Palestine’s moderate leader: Palestinians who murder Israeli Jews cannot be punished.
- Eight abandoned and truly gigantic construction projects.
- In a NASA contest, a nine-year-old has named asteroid 1999 RQ36 after the Egyptian god Bennu.
- Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown neighbor to the Milky Way.
- The total benefits paid by private companies declined outright in the first quarter of 2013 as employers prepare for the onset of Obamacare.
- Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) says the federal government isn’t spending enough to implement Obamacare.
- Modern Mongolian Music – “Sandy Desert”
- Opportunity is out of standby mode and has resumed normal operations.
- NASA revealed Tuesday that last April the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope barely avoided a collision with an abandoned Russian satellite.
- A new high resolution image from Mars Express illustrates the violent landslides and lava flows off the eastern flank of Olympus Mons, the solar system’s largest volcano.
- The European Space Agency is investigating the possibility that the Progress docking to ISS on April 26 might have damaged equipment needed by their ATV cargo ship.
- A close study of human bones recently uncovered from Jamestown’s early “Starving Time” have revealed evidence of cannibalism.
- After four tries the Air Force X-51A Waverider test craft finally succeeded in achieving sustained, scramjet-powered, air-breathing hypersonic flight above Mach 5 in its final test flight on May 1.
- The robotic demonstration of remote satellite repair on ISS resumed this week.
- The Chinese national who had been arrested at Dulles airport as he left for China with a NASA laptop has been released after pleading guilty to one charge, having porn on the laptop.
- The story of the youngest survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp to be liberated by the Americans.
- A 3D-printed handgun has now been made.
- A former gun control believer explains why he is now against gun control.
- Paul Speer – Krakatoa
- The lingering echo of Comet Shoemaker-Levy in the atmosphere of Jupiter.
- Last Saturday the space telescope Swift detected the most powerful gamma ray bursts ever detected.
- On the road, in California
- Two university professors who believe in global warming celebrate book burning at San Jose State University
- The high peak in tornado in 2011, the most in fifty years, was quickly attributed to global warming. Eric Berger asks: How does this explain this year’s low number, the fewest in fifty years?
- Beginning in June Staples will be the first major retailer to sell a 3D printer.
- Because of Obamacare Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Tennesee will raise premiums to its customers 3 to 30 percent in 2014.
- Private space is winning
- A solar-powered airplane landed safely in Phoenix today on its first leg of an attempt to fly across the United States.
- The Fourth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals has ruled that carrying a firearm in an open-carry state does not create reasonable suspicion of a crime.
- The three phonesats launched piggyback on Antares several weeks ago beamed down images of Earth that have now been released.
- Pink – Try
- Why gun owners do not trust any anti-gun advocate.
- NASA Announces Plans To Put Man On Bus To Cleveland
- The Sun shows a bit of life
- Video of a successful test firing of Liberator, the first working 3D printed gun.
- The Obama administration has given up trying to force a bible publisher to pay for contraceptives under Obamacare.
- The first Cygnus/Antares demo flight to ISS has been delayed at least one month, to no earlier than August.
- Head Start teachers expect Obamacare to severely impact their work and income.
- Russia has confirmed Sarah Brightman’s tourist flight to ISS, now scheduled for October 2015.
- Europe’s new Vega rocket made its second successful commercial launch today, placing three satellites in orbit.
- R.I.P. Ray Harryhausen (1920-2013).
- North Korea has withdrawn two missiles from their launch site.
- A second grader in Virginia has been suspended for pointing a pencil like a gun.
- The European Union’s program to reduce carbon emissions is in disarray.
- The 2000th show
- Two reports released today show that gun homicides have dropped steeply in the United States since their peak in 1993.
- A new research study finds that every time someone imagines the economic system of Socialism working, it does so as much as 98 percent of the time!
- Jonathan Edwards – Sunshine (Go Away Today)
- Japan’s entire space program faces a major overhaul.
- SpaceX is moving its Grasshopper test program to New Mexico’s spaceport.
- Predicting snowfall on Mars.
- The sad, strange, and ineffective story of the Canadian Firearms Registry.
- Real vs imagined human spaceflight.
- What are “progracists”?
- House Republicans have refused to recommend anyone to the Obamacare Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), labeled “the death panel” by some.
- The words of those government officials who falsely blamed the Benghazi terrorist attack on an obscure YouTube trailer, and were then willing to abandon the First amendment to defend their lies.
- The International Space Station has switched all its computers from Windows to Linux.
- Astronauts today spotted an ammonia coolant leak in ISS’s left-side power truss.
- A high energy laser beam destroys a rocket from a distance of a little less than a mile.
- Is Tim Tebow being blackballed because of his religious beliefs?
- The IRS admitted today that it targeted conservative political organizations during the 2012 election campaign.
- In a science fair project that came in third, a fourteen year old has discovered that the magnets inside IPADs can interfere with heart devices like implanted defibrillators.
- Astronauts will replace a pump tomorrow on their spacewalk in the hope this will fix the leak in ISS’s solar panel cooling system.
- The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S.
- Ten crazy and unconstitutional demands made by the IRS to conservative organizations in its effort to harass opponents of the Democratic Party.
- A report to be released this week says that senior IRS officials knew that agents were targeting tea party groups in 2011, even as they were denying that this was happening.
- In replacing a pump during today’s spacewalk it appears the astronauts have fixed the coolant leak.
- Remember Romney supporter and businessman Frank VanderSloot?
- Checking the cracks on the first Orion capsule to fly.
- The engineering test prototype of Dream Chaser has been shipped to California for drop tests this summer.
- There is also evidence that the IRS illegally leaked the tax records of conservative groups to its opponents.
- SpaceX is about to finalize a deal with the Air Force to launch satellites on both its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
- “We’re not going to have any health care.”
- Documents now show that IRS officials in Washington DC and California were also involved in targeting conservative organizations.
- Seventeen of the nation’s largest healthcare insurance companies now say premiums will rise from 100 to 400 percent under Obamacare.
- Three astronauts safely returned from ISS today.
- A judge has ruled that JPL had no right to displine five scientists for sending emails at work protesting the security measures taken by the Bush administration after 9/11.
- Economic crisis forces Detroit to cancel half its murders
- The myth of the scientific liberal
- When the IRS harassed this tea party group in Toledo in 2011, demanding what books they read or discussed, they responded by sending the IRS a copy of the Constitution.
- According to two Congressman, almost 500 conservative organizations were targeted for harassment by the IRS, significantly more than the IRS has admitted to.
- The IRS scandal and the fact that Obamacare uses the IRS for enforcement now has people increasingly frightened.
- Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put a commercial communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit on Wednesday
- Richard Branson recently told an audience in Dubai that the first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo will occur before the end of 2013, and that commercial flights from Dubai will occur two years later.
- Did the White House use the IRS to pressure this critic of Obamacare?
- The IRS now faces a class action lawsuit over the illegal seizing of the medical records of 10 million patients.
- New estimates of the 2013 federal deficit show it will be the lowest deficit since 2008.
- Did the writings of a prominent Catholic professor, critical of Obama and Democratic Party policies, cause the IRS to audit her?
- A small business owner explains the hard facts of Obamacare to his employees.
- It appears that a number of Senate Democrats have been demanding, in writing, that the IRS harass conservative organizations since 2010.
- The Kepler mission has lost its second gyroscope, ending the ability of the telescope to aim precisely.
- After waiting fifteen months for IRS approval of its tax-exempt status and getting to response, a conservative group reapplied using a liberal-sounding name and got its approval in three weeks.
- Did the IRS audit two long-established well-known Christian ministries because of their opposition to Democratic policies?
- Eden MacAdam-Somer & Larry Unger – River Falls Waltz
- The IRS is deeply political — and very Democratic
- “They simply did what their bosses ordered.”
- The U.S. Departments of Justice and Education today demanded that every college and university in the United States establish strict speech codes that would violate the First Amendment and decades of legal precedent.
- Two pro-life groups were told by the IRS that they had to change their position on abortion in order to get their tax exemption request approved.
- In order to enforce Obamacare, the IRS and HHS are creating the largest federal database ever of the personal tax, income, and health records of American citizens.
- The nine lies of Lois Lerner.
- Earth under fire from the Sun!
- A second appeals court has ruled that Obama’s appointments to the National Labor Relations Board were unconstitutional.
- Venezuela has run out of toilet paper.
- Did the IRS audit the conservative Leadership Institute in 2011 as part of its effort to target conservatives for harassment?
- On the air
- The liberal union that controls the IRS.
- The woman who had been in charge of the IRS office when targeted conservatives beginning in 2010 now heads the IRS office that will enforce Obamacare.
- The Mars rover Opportunity has now traveled farther than any other American rover, including the Apollo 17 rover on the Moon.
- The impact of a 100 pound meteorite on the Moon in March produced the brightest flash ever recorded.
- Barnes Wallis: the man behind World War II’s Dambusters.
- Sarah Hall Ingram, the woman who ran the IRS office which harassed conservative organizations and now runs the IRS Obamacare office, received more than $100K in bonuses for her work, three of which were large enough that they requred Presidential approval.
- Did Treasury inappropriately target conservatively-owned car dealerships in the GM bailout?
- Did multiple federal agencies target True the Vote, an organization that has successfully identified numerous examples of voter fraud?
- Becket
- A group of tea party organizations is preparing to sue the IRS for its abuse of power.
- The IRS refused to grant tax exemption to a Christian conservative organization because they “criticized President Obama … and she said we did it when he was a candidate.”
- The IRS targeted the conservative Catholic League for investigation because its leader had dared to criticize a rival liberal religious organization.
- Scientists have released the first topo map of Titan.
- “Simply a brute-force bullying effort in order to sideline grassroots opposition to the current administration.”
- Judge dismisses case against cop who broke into home with no warrant & killed unarmed man
- Great Britain’s first official astronaut has been picked for a five month mission on ISS in 2015.
- In his weekly radio address, President Barack Obama reassured the American people that he has “played no role whatsoever” in the U.S. government over the past four years.
- Fifty-four Colorado sheriffs as well as a host of other organizations have filed suit against their state’s new very restrictive gun laws.
- Two separate IRS offices last year targeted the GOP’s Hawaii leader.
- AP’s CEO calls the Obama administrations seizure of their phone records “unconstitutional” and says they are considering legal action.
- Did the IRS audit the Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute in its effort to harass conservatives from 2009 to 2011?
- The White House defends the woman who was in charge of the IRS office when it harassed conservatives organizations and now runs the IRS Obamacare office.
- Dark matter, WIMPS, and NASA’s Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer
- In new and apparently successfully ground tests of the SpaceShipTwo engine, Scaled Composites even destroyed one this week to test the operation of different components.
- Why the IRS scandal is the ugliest in U.S. history.
- Lois Lerner of the IRS scandal apparently has a history of harassing religious organizations when she was with the Federal Elections Commission.
- Seven liberal fascists who are fine with using the IRS to target their political enemies.
- A Russian Bion-M spacecraft, filled with mice, lizards and other animals, returned to Earth after 30 days in space with about half its mice and all its gerbils dead.
- A California tea party group sued the IRS on Monday.
- Climate scientists have been forced to revise their climate models due to the unexpected refusal of the climate to warm since the late 1990s.
- More labor unions balk at the consequences of Obamacare.
- IRS official Lois Lerner will invoke the Fifth Amendment when she testifies to Congress.
- A first look at the Saturn 5’s F1 engines that were recovered from the ocean floor.
- Another conservative organization that was harassed by the IRS has filed suit against the tax agency.
- How “Hope and Change” became “spying on the press.”
- Photos from various tea party protests across the nation today.
- The Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle has been unwrapped at Dryden.
- The journal Science struggles to find the harm done from NIH’s 5% cuts from sequestration.
- A detailed analysis of the IRS’s chain of command in Cincinnati, proving the harassment of conservatives came from high up the chain.
- A new Defense Department report says that China is aggressively ramping up its space program.
- In a speech in Dubai last week Richard Branson revealed that his company is aiming for a 2013 Christmas day inaugural space tourism flight of SpaceShipTwo.
- The IRS today failed to comply with a Congressional deadline to provide documents relating to the IRS scandal.
- An early sign of Obamacare’s impending collapse?
- IRS official Lois Lerner invoked the Fifth amendment to Congress today, defiantly refusing to answer any questions.
- Some of the Earth’s creepiest places.
- A lawsuit was filed today in federal court in Connecticut against the new gun control laws that were passed recently after the Newtown shooting.
- When IRS official Lois Lerner was head of the Federal Election Commission’s enforcement office in 1998, she was accused of stopping an investigation because Al Gore was involved.
- “With all due respect, I will not consent to a search without a proper warrant.”
- Gun rights advocates counter a Michigan county gun buyback program with their own “Guns 4 Cash” operation.
- A former IRS worker points out that the law allows the immediate termination of any IRS worker who violates certain clear rules.
- The Russians announced that they plan nine more Proton rocket launches in 2013, for a total of twelve.
- Japan has announced an August 22 launch date for its new Epsilon rocket.
- The accumulating dents and dings on Curiosity’s wheels.
- “Silence will be interpreted as disapproval.”
- Did contributing to Mitt Romney’s campaign last year cause the IRS to target you for an audit?
- The real voter suppression of 2012.
- Don’t criminalize the investigations. immunize the witnesses!
- The top ten new species discovered in 2012.
- Lois Lerner has been put on administrative leave by the IRS, according to one report today.
- Ecuador’s first satellite, launched last month, has been hit with debris from an old Russian rocket.
- A series of letters signed by IRS official Lois Lerner show that she was directly involved in the agency’s targeting of conservative groups.
- Check out this official IRS organizational chart of the Tax Exempt Government Entities division
- A Russian paid 1.2 million euros to fly on SpaceShipTwo with actor Leonardo DiCaprio at a charity auction at the Cannes film festival on Thursday.
- Sea Launch announced it plans four launches in 2014.
- The Russian deputy prime minister told students at the Moscow Aviation Institute on Thursday that they expect their first launch from their new spaceport in Vostochny to occur in November 2015.
- NOAA today was forced to activate a back-up weather satellite when its GOES-13 weather satellite suddenly shut down.
- Did the IRS also target the Conservative Hispanic Society for harassment?
- Despite a demand by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to shut up, the sheriffs of New York have joined a lawsuit against the state’s new gun control law.
- The IRS has created eight different offices, as well as an undetermined number of enforcement teams, to enforce the Obamacare regulations.
- New details about Stratolaunch, its gigantic carrier airplane, the largest ever built, and the rocket that it will carry.
- Solar Impulse has completed the second leg of its journey to fly across the United States powered only by the sun.
- The House Ways and Means committee request for information from anyone targeted by the IRS because of their political beliefs is apparently bearing fruit.
- Heart – These Dreams
- Coming: A two-tiered health care system.
- The Wow! signal: An intercepted alien transmission?
- Sunjammer, NASA’s next solar sail experiment.
- Seven horrifying aircraft landings in which no one died.
- How a high school band triumphed over a bureaucracy and union that tried to kill it.
- The Virginia veteran who was arrested simply because of his political posts on Facebook has sued the police and other government workers over his arrest.
- Who are the real climate deniers?
- The state of Illinois illegally enters a beekeepers’ property, confiscates his bees, and destroys them.
- The stupidity of gun free zones.
- Meteorologist Joe Bastardi: Blaming turbulent weather on global warming Is extreme nonsense.
- “Are these people [bloggers and tweeters] journalists and entitled to constitutional protection?”
- Two attorneys representing eleven organizations claim that the IRS’s targeting of conservatives is still ongoing and plan to file suit.
- A new report on state economies shows that the states governed by Republicans generally outperform states governed by Democrats.
- The bankruptcy of modern journalism.
- A high school teacher faces punishment because he properly reminded his students of their Constitutional rights.
- Why are liberals so rude to the right?
- To the horror of global warming alarmists, the climate refuses to warm.
- Twenty vials of Apollo 11 moon dust have been found in storage after forty years.
- A Maine doctor has stopped accepting any insurance, posts his prices online, and is doing fine.
- Video from inside a tornado.
- When government is bankrupt and freedom takes over — in Detroit.
- The IRS has been directed to lock down all its data in connection with the four ongoing investigations of its harassment of conservatives.
- The first X-37b to fly in space has now completed five months of its second mission.
- IRS letters show that the decisions relating to the harassment of conservatives by the IRS came from upper management.
- The next crew of astronauts to ISS blasted off today on a Soyuz rocket.
- The five year conviction of a former police officer for gun possession because he was moving with his guns from Maine to Texas thru New Jersey and was subjected to a warrantless search of his vehicle has been upheld by the court.
- Japan has decided to develop its first new rocket in two decades and use the private-sector to reduce costs.
- Planetary Resources today announced a Kickstarter fund-raising campaign for its space telescope Arkyd.
- The world’s highest traffic jam — at Mt. Everest.
- Not only can the very fast rotation of neutron stars sometimes speed up suddenly, scientists have now discovered that their rotation can suddenly slow as well.
- Like your health insurance? You may be losing it.
- Cassini has found hints of activity coming from the Saturn moon Dione.
- The asteroid is coming! The asteroid is coming!
- After warning repeatedly last year that the sequester would damage the economy, NBC now says “Nevermind.”
- College students gladly sign a big thank you card to the IRS for specifically targeting conservatives for harassment.
- Today 25 tea party organizations filed suit against the IRS and the Obama administration for its harassment of conservatives.
- Tests have now shown that at least one bead from an Egyptian tomb was made from a meteorite.
- Sixty years ago today Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the peak of Mt. Everest.
- Did the IRS target five pro-Israeli organizations for harassment because they opposed Obama’s policies towards Israel?
- Data collected by a radiation sensor inside Curiosity during its journey to Mars suggest that it will be possible to build ships with sufficient shielding to protect humans on such a voyage.
- New images of Comet ISON.
- One of the IRS agents who signed letters harassing conservatives was recently promoted.
- A museum holding the recovered remains of Henry the Eighth’s flagship the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545, has now opened.
- A detailed analysis of the pebbly rocks that Curiosity traveled past last year have confirmed that this area was once a streambed.
- Based both on computer models and satellite data a team of scientists has concluded that the increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is making arid regions greener.
- Engineers now suspect that the shutdown of the GOES-13 weather satellite last week was caused by a micrometeorite hit.
- The Tortoise and the Hare
- Radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2, flying past the Earth today, show that it has its own moon.
- An attorney for the Obama Justice Department is warning Americans they could be prosecuted if they use social media to criticize Muslims.
- A new study suggests a link between CFCs, the ozone hole, and climate change.
- In California, Obamacare will increase individual health insurance premiums from 64% to 146%.
- “Their collective experiences at a minimum could spread skepticism about the fairness of a powerful agency that should be above reproach and at worst could point to a secret political vendetta within the government against conservatives.”
- The IRS has refused to meet the deadline for answering questions put to it by the Senate Finance Committee concerning its harassment of conservatives.
- Scientists think they have developed a chestnut tree resistant to the blight that can be re-introduced into American forests.
- The IRS has told a House investigation that almost 90 IRS agents were involved in harassment scandal.
- The 100 words used on the web that Homeland Security considers dangerous and thus justification for spying.
- .45 acp Guns and The People Who Carry Them
- When Lois Lerner worked for the FEC she offered to drop a case against a conservative if he promised never to run for office again.
- Transcript excerpts of House testimony by two IRS employees show that the policy to harass conservatives was ordered by supervisors in Washington.
- In celebration of its tenth year in orbit, scientists running the Mars Express mission have released global mineral maps of Mars.
- Russia’s Proton rocket successfully launched a commercial satellite today.
- A U.S. company is planning on building a commercial jet capable of traveling routinely just under the speed of sound.
- “I can say with a very strong sense of certainty that there are people very close to this president that not only knew what the IRS were doing but authorized it.”
- Stratolaunch officially announced today that Orbital Sciences will build the system’s second stage rocket.
- The Sun makes the scientists look good — for now!
- A new report from Social Security has raised its predicted unfunded liabilities over the next 75 years by one trillion dollars.
- The left’s unmistakable trend toward weaponizing the tax code.
- Astronomers take an image of an exoplanet only 300 light years away.
- The communications satellite launched by Russia’s Proton rocket has successfully reached its target orbit.
- Wednesday is National Hug Your Cat Day!
- Did an IRS employee illegally leak the donor list of a conservative organization to one of its left wing opponents?
- The House testimony today of one tea party person
- Researchers have developed a technology which permits a toy helicopter to be steered through an obstacle course — by thought alone.
- A liberal campaign finance reform activist, who had called for the targeting of conservative organizations, had meetings with Obama about the time the IRS harassment began.
- A message to moderate Muslims.
- An eleven-year-old was suspended from school for merely talking about guns.
- A look at Dream Chaser’s upcoming glide tests.
- German scientists have outlined a technique for using pulsars as an interplanetary and interstellar GPS system.
- The EPA has acknowledged that it illegally released personal information of farmers to several leftwing environmental organizations.
- The first annual College Stupidity Awards.
- Two more IRS agents have been put on leave.
- The predictions of seventy-three climate models are compared to real data and not one comes even close to reality.
- Rex Harrison – Why Can’t the English Learn to Speak?
- Europe successfully launched its heaviest unmanned cargo freighter to ISS today.
- The scientists operating Curiosity have decided it is time to begin the trek up Mt. Sharp
- Richard Branson has revealed that Justin Bieber has signed on to fly on SpaceShipTwo.
- The repairs to the cracks in the first Orion capsule have withstood static stress tests.
- What “Happily Ever After” really looks like.
- Two IRS employees in Cincinnati have told congressional investigators that officials in Washington directed and established the policy of harassing conservative groups that began in 2010.
- Despite the failure of any climate model to predict the climate, the Obama administration is increasing the cost and strictness of regulation because of what it sees as the “social cost of carbon dioxide.”
- A senator asks Attorney General Holder if the Obama administration has spied on Congress with its access to Verizon phone records and Holder refuses to answer.
- Sierra Nevada has begun the testing program of Dream Chaser’s engines.
- John Wayne in The Longest Day
- NASA has decided that the best use for two space mirrors donated to the space agency by the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) would be to study either dark energy and extrasolar planets.
- Fifteen famous living trees.
- Opportunity, now moving to another target 1.5 miles away, has found evidence of drinkable water on Mars.
- Astronauts on ISS this week initiated a four year study of the vision problems that scientists have discovered occur to some individuals after long exposure to weightlessness.
- “The IRS scandal is much worse than anyone realizes.”
- A Texas high school cut off the mike of a valedictorian during his speech when he deviated from his approved speech and began to talk about the Constitution.
- The National Security Agency can secretly access user data provided by as many as fifty American companies, ranging from credit rating agencies to internet service providers.
- The whistleblower who leaked the NSA surveillance program to the press has gone public.
- Fleetwood Mac – Rhiannon
- China’s next manned mission is now scheduled for launch tomorrow, Tuesday, June 11.
- Another IRS official has been removed as a result of the agency’s harassment of conservatives.
- According to Ohio’s Insurance Department, Obamacare will cause healthcare rates to rise next year by 88 percent.
- The red tape of the space bureaucracy
- The metallic snow-capped mountains of Venus.
- China has launched its fifth manned mission, planned to be longest to date.
- Engineers have successfully restored the weather satellite GOES-13 to full operations after it was hit by a micrometeorite in May.
- Despite the decline in Arctic sea ice during the past decade the population of polar bears in the Davis Strait has skyrocketed.
- Data from an experiment on Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has confirmed that light plastics can provide sufficient protection for humans against radiation.
- “Now I dream of snowboarding down a Martian sand dune on a block of dry ice.”
- Republican Lindsey Graham said today that he’d be willing to censor our mail if he thought it would help catch terrorists.
- Close-minded politicians everywhere!
- The Secret Service raided a man’s home expressly and solely because he was a frequent critic of President Obama.
- The Russian Progress freighter got a surprise today when it undocked from ISS: the rendezvous antenna that refused to deploy when needed after launch finally deployed.
- Richard Harvey – Concerto Antico, movement 3
- A researcher of fuel cells, manhandled and arrested because he used the wrong mailing labels in selling and shipping sodium to fund his research, was then targeted by the EPA because he wasn’t home to maintain his sodium supplies.
- China’s manned Shenzhou-10 capsule successfully completed an automated docking with its Tiengong-1 space station today.
- Space Show podcast for June 11, 2013
- The Obama administration demands the right to snoop on American private communications, but it specifically forbids any spying in mosques.
- Under Obamacare it looks like health insurance will be unaffordable for most low wage workers.
- Some hints about SpaceShipTwo’s next powered test flight, as well as details about the first.
- An audit has revealed that in 2010 and 2011 more than 1,000 IRS employees misused government charge cards
- No apologizes for arming America.
- Not one tea party group has yet been contacted by the FBI, one month after the IRS scandal began.
- Why doctors are bailing out of health insurance
- Detroit announces that it will default on its debt today.
- “Self-confessed liar publishes more dubious stem-cell work.”
- Engineers in the Czech Republic have built a bicycle that can fly.
- It appears that Homeland Security and Customs teach their officers that pilots have “no right to refuse a search” of their planes.
- The draft budget of the House science committee gives commercial space a boost while nixing Obama’s asteroid mission.
- A Democratic Congressman thinks it “is simply not fair” to make his staffers subject to Obamacare like everyone else.
- The delays in SpaceX’s commercial launch schedule appear caused by a series of problems testing the first stage’s upgraded engines.
- The count of candidate exoplanets found by Kepler has now risen another 503 to 3,216, of which only 132 have been confirmed.
- A man claims he has found a piece of debris from the Russian space station Mir in his backyard in northern Massachusetts.
- Europe’s ATV freighter has docked successfully with ISS.
- Engineers have decided to keep the New Horizons spacecraft on its original fly-by path past Pluto, scheduled for July 2015.
- An eight grade high school student, suspended from school for wearing an NRA t-shirt, now faces the possibility of a year in jail.
- Matthew Curtis – Loch Lomond
- Even as the IRS was harassing any nonprofit using the word “patriot” in its name, it was rubberstamping exemptions for “Islamic” groups, even those that have violated laws and are thought to have links to terrorist organizations.
- In interviews to Congress, a Washington IRS supervisor admitted to scrutinizing tea party applications.
- Arianespace is considering accelerating upgrades to its Ariane 5 rocket so that it can carry larger satellites.
- What caused that Falcon 9 engine failure on the second Dragon flight to ISS? Here’s an outline.
- A liberal state bar spends three years destroying a lawyer’s career merely because she is conservative.
- NASA picks 8 new public relations figureheads, calls them astronauts.
- Virgin Galactic has sold its 600 ticket to fly on SpaceShipTwo.
- Union bosses threatened businesses and their families because they had legally hired non-union workers to do Hurricane Sandy cleanup work.
- The preliminary design for Europe’s service module, to be used with the Orion spacecraft, has come in about a half ton too heavy.
- A Virginia school board has voted unanimously to revise their zero tolerance policy in connection to guns after two boys were suspended for “using pencils like guns”.
- After six years of study, Venus Express has found that during that time the super-rotating winds of Venus have actually increased in speed.
- Russian concerns about a build-up of mold inside the European ATV, now docked to ISS, has caused a delay in the opening of its hatch.
- If you are hoping to buy stock in Elon Musk’s SpaceX company, Musk now says you will have to wait until they have begun regular missions to Mars.
- A recap of the broken promises of Obamacare.
- A black politician explains why he switched parties.
- A professor at a Tennessee college ordered her students to publicly express support for gay rights or fail the course.
- After working out the decontamination procedures against mold, ISS astronauts today finally opened the hatch on the European ATV cargo freighter, one day late.
- Manaical 4 Trombone Quartet – Carry on wayward son
- Flames in space.
- A billion pixel view from Curiosity.
- It appears that the IRS targeted a Homeland Security whistleblower.
- The real cause behind the plane crash that killed Yuri Gagarin in 1968.
- A 3D printer intended for installation on ISS in 2014 has successfully proven it can work in weightlessness.
- Europe admits that its planned accelerated upgrades to Ariane 5 are intended to counteract the competition from both Russia’s Proton and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets.
- Planetary Resources’ Kickstarter campaign to raise money to build its Arkyd Space Telescope has reached its million dollar goal.
- Two reports issued today have concluded that implementation of Obamacare by the federal government is behind schedule.
- 6 places we like to go to right now
- Germany’s next three radar reconnaissance satellites will be launched by SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
- Scientists have finally discovered the forgotten formula for the concrete the Romans used.
- Want to complain about your water quality? You’re a terrorist, according to a Tennessee government official.
- Europe has successfully drop tested its experimental re-entry vehicle.
- Orbital Sciences is scrambling to find a reliable long term first stage engine for its Antares rocket.
- As a scientist, I find sloppiness at this level not only stupid, not only time-wasting, but downright offensive.
- As planned, the Chinese astronauts successfully completed a manual docking today to their station Tiengong 1.
- SpaceX’s commercial launch from Vandenberg in California of the Cassiope satellite has now been set for September 5.
- Islamic gunmen kill ten mountain-climbers in Pakistan.
- Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
- Two Russian astronauts completed a six-hour-plus spacewalk today, preparing the station for Russia’s science module.
- Orbital Sciences, in its scramble to obtain engines for its Antares rocket, has sued the United Launch Alliance (ULA) for blocking their purchase of the Russian-made RD-180 engine.
- A NASA ion engine has successfully completed more than five and a half years of continuous operation.
- Astronomers have found a solar system with six exoplanets, three in the habitable zone.
- The Chinese astronauts have undocked from the Tiengong-1 space station and will return to Earth tomorrow.
- Six images that ruined the lives of the individuals they made famous.
- Liberal groups were not targeted by the IRS.
- A Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launched four commercial broadband satellites today for French Guiana.
- The toxic combination of Obamacare and the proposed Senate immigration bill would create a big financial incentive for employers to hire non-citizens.
- One of the lawsuits against the IRS has added 16 more conservative organizations for a total of 41.
- The prosecutors trying to put a high school teenager in jail for a year because he refused to take off his NRA t-shirt have tried to put a gag order on the teenager and his parents.
- Shenzhou 10 has landed safely, completing it 15 day mission.
- Arianespace will not be able to set its launch manifest for the remainder of this year until late July.
- The remarkable remains of a most recent supernova.
- Two researchers have concluded that sterilizing spacecraft heading to Mars is largely a waste of money.
- Kepler’s planet-hunting predecessor, COROT, has been shut down.
- Treasury’s inspector general has revealed that while only six progressive groups were targeted for investigation by the IRS, 292 conservative groups, 100% who applied, were investigated.
- The Commodity Futures Trading Commission today announced that it has filed charges against former Democratic Governor/Senator Jon Corzine for his part in the embezzlement of customer funds at MF Global.
- It is now reported that the charges against the high school who refused to remove his NRA t-shirt have been dismissed.
- Orbital Sciences’ Pegasus rocket this evening successfully launched NASA’s newest solar research satellite, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS).
- Voyager 1 has found the edge of the solar system to be far more complex than predicted by scientists.
- A teenager, in jail since March, faces 8 years in prison for making a sarcastic remark on Facebook.
- The House committee has ruled that Lois Lerner waived her fifth amendment rights when she claimed she did “nothing wrong” before invoking the fifth in testimony last month.
- The Obama administration issued finalized rules Friday allowing religious-affiliated organizations opposing the use of contraception to opt out of the Obamacare mandate
- After ten years of operation, NASA has turned off its Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) space telescope.
- The Dutch social psychologist Diederik Stapel — who made up fake data for at least 30 published papers — has reached an out-of-court settlement with prosecutors.
- “This is the reason the U.S. has the right to bear arms.”
- A science poster released at an American Geophysical Union conference this week finds again that the global warming climate models used by policy makers have all failed to predict what has actually happened.
- Want some patient privacy? Don’t call the Obamacare healthcare help line.
- Better not buy bottled water in Virginia: It will put you in jail.
- Third Anniversary
- NASA’s Space Launch System, costing billions per year, will only make its second manned flight in 2025.
- The Washington Post admits that most of the Democratic claims that sequestration would cause disaster were either outright lies or a gross exaggeration.
- A Russian Proton rocket went out of control and crashed mere seconds after launch today at Baikonur.
- India today successfully launched the first satellite in its own homegrown GPS constellation.
- The Kickstarter campaign by the private company Planetary Resources has made its $1.5 million goal.
- Both SpaceX and Boeing say that they are on schedule to make their first test flights of their manned capsules before 2016.
- The International Astronomical Union has rejected the first choice of voters for naming Pluto’s fourth and fifth moons.
- A university supervisor orders a student at Sonoma State University in California to remove her cross necklace because “it might offend others.”
- The White House today announced that it is delaying until 2015 the requirement in Obamacare that companies with more than 50 employees offer health insurance.
- The Proton rocket is now grounded pending an investigation into today’s launch failure.
- NASA has revised their plans for the 2017 and 2021 flights of its Orion capsule, making both flights more ambitious.
- A fifteen year old has invented a flashlight that runs on body heat alone.
- The lawyer for IRS official Lois Lerner is pushing to get her full immunity in exchange for her full testimony to Congress.
- The FBI has still not contacted any conservative group that was harassed by the IRS.
- Mercury, world of fire.
- A doctor with 5,000 patients is closing his practice because of Obamacare.
- “I hope you’re raped.”
- A white dwarf star that has morphed into a massive pulsing crystal.
- This week’s launch failure of the Proton rocket leaves two satellite communications firms in a quandary.
- After more than eleven years, the sea-level tracking satellite Jason-1 has finally shut down.
- Hugh Laurie’s song for America
- Among many other valid points, the Wall Street Journal notes the “lawless” nature of the Obama administration’s announcement yesterday that it will not enforce one legal requirement of Obamacare in 2013.
- Want to land on an asteroid? Watch out, a gentle touchdown might cause avalanches everywhere!
- Legitimacy.
- The Russian investigation into the crash of their Proton rocket on Tuesday now includes a criminal prosecutor.
- Nevada police arrested a family for refusing to let officers use their homes as lookouts for a domestic violence investigation of their neighbors.
- Off to the Grand Canyon
- Emma Lazarus – The New Colossus
- At the rim
- Engineers will attempt one more try this month to revive one of Kepler’s reaction wheels so that the telescope can resume observations.
- At the rim 2
- A Russian news story reports that the spectacular Proton rocket failure several weeks ago occurred because a sensor was installed “upside down.”
- It appears that SpaceX has completed another test firing of its new Merlin engine.
- Got $125? You can do an experiment in space.
- A blue exoplanet the size of Jupiter where glass rains sideways.
- Sierra Nevada has completed its first tow tests of its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle, now officially named “Eagle.”
- Astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered another moon orbiting Neptune.
- Scientists have developed a technique for using GPS signals to precisely measure the wind speeds inside hurricanes.
- Orbital Sciences has issued an update on its Antares launch schedule, with the launch window now set for September 14-19.
- Doing the Grand Canyon Right
- After thirty years, someone has finally won the Sikorsky Prize for creating a human-powered helicopter that can fly for at least a minute.
- Iris Dement – Our Town
- Treasury admitted today that the IRS tax records of several political candidates and campaign donors were illegally disclosed to unnamed government officials.
- SpaceX has successfully completed a full duration test firing of 9 upgraded Merlin engines.
- “We have had an enormous amount of death threats.”
- The Sun has a maximum and no one notices
- A spacewalk on ISS was cut short today because of an unexplained dangerous build up of water inside one astronaut’s spacesuit.
- A survey shows that three quarters of all small businesses still plan to fire workers and cut hours in 2014 to avoid Obamacare, even though the Obama administration says it will not enforce the law unitl 2015.
- World’s largest building has opened in China.
- SpaceX has renegotiated its lease with the city of McGregor, Texas, in order to begin testing the Falcon Heavy rocket.
- The IRS now claims that the government official who willfully accessed confidential tax records illegally was not an IRS employee.
- Part of the gas cloud being ripped apart by the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way have already swung past the black hole.
- The harassment of conservative groups by the IRS was planned and run by officials in Washington, D.C., according to a retiring IRS lawyer who will testify Thursday in the House.
- Astronomers have found evidence which suggests that most of the universe’s gold was created during the collision and merger of two neutron stars.
- One of the world’s longest running experiments, now 69 years old, has finally captured on camera the fall of a drop of tar pitch.
- Congresswoman Mary Edwards (D-Maryland) has proposed merging two NASA centers to save money.
- A third federal court has ruled that Obama’s fake recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Broad violated the Constitution.
- It appears that one of the four individuals whose tax records were illegally accessed for political reasons was tea party candidate Christine O’Donnell.
- Testimony today revealed that the harassment of conservatives was managed by a White House appointee in the IRS chief counsel’s office.
- Engineers have announced that their last ditch efforts to repair the reaction wheels on Kepler will begin today.
- The New Black Panther Party is offering a $10,000 bounty for the capture and kidnapping of George Zimmerman.
- A summary of the IRS scandal testimony today before the House Oversight Committee.
- Own two of a certain object in the home will almost guarantee your kids will do well in school. Can you guess what it is?
- Detroit today filed for bankruptcy, the largest city in U.S. history to do so.
- The Private Plan to Put a Telescope on the Moon
- Russia confirms that a Proton rocket failed at launch two weeks ago because three of six sensors were installed upside down.
- Ten unique cable car rides.
- Under pressure from her fellow legislators, a Maryland congresswoman has withdrawn her proposal to close the Marshall Space Flight Center.
- The Russians admitted today that, due to the Proton launch failure two weeks ago, only five more Proton launches can occur this year.
- In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the launch of Opportunity, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took its photograph.
- “Comet of the Century”? We’ll soon find out.
- The IRS chief counsel, now implicated in the IRS scandal to harass conservatives, is one of only two Obama political appointees in the entire IRS.
- NASA and Jeff Bezos today confirmed that one of the Saturn 5 first stage engines recovered from the ocean floor was from the Apollo 11 launch.
- With Proton rocket’s most recent launch failure, Inmarsat looks for alternatives.
- An illegal police raid no different than a home invasion.
- The continuing technical troubles of the James Webb Space Telescope.
- “Killer salt and other ‘scientific’ disasters.”
- Pro-global warming climate scientists, called to testify to Congress by Barbara Boxer (D-California), admitted yesterday that the global temperature has not risen for the past 10 to 15 years.
- Why has Cassini detected no waves on the lakes of Titan?
- Engineers continue to struggle to find the cause of the spacesuit water leak during a spacewalk last week.
- Robot engineers have successfully built a fleet of small flying robot helicopters that can fly individually or as complex large arrays.
- Two days before IRS White House appointee William Wilkins established the guidelines for reviewing IRS applications of conservatives, he met with Obama.
- George Zimmerman, still in hiding because of death threats, went public long enough on Thursday to help rescue a family trapped in an overturned car.
- The plundering of NASA
- Boeing today unveiled a full scale mock-up of the interior of its CST-100 manned capsule.
- The double planet, rocky and wet with a big moon, as seen from Saturn.
- NASA is trying get some spare spacesuit parts onto a Russian Progress freighter, scheduled to launch Saturday, in its effort to fix its American spacesuits on ISS.
- The routine lowering of past climate data to make today’s temperatures seem hotter.
- “Our goal is not a speedy settlement or a quiet Washington deal. We will sue, depose and expose every person who came near this illegal scheme to suppress voters’ First Amendment rights.”
- A review and analysis of China’s space program.
- Inside the world’s largest tunnel boring machine.
- A close look at the Florida prosecutor who brought charges against George Zimmerman.
- Paleontologists in Mexico have uncovered the complete tail of a dinosaur.
- An Arizona nursing student was suspended from school and called a bigot because she requested one of her classes be taught in English.
- According to a new poll, only 11% of doctors believe that the Obamacare health exchanges will be open for business on October 1, as mandated by the law.
- Bigelow announces prices for visiting or renting their space station modules.
- Scientists have found evidence that at least some of the carved river valleys on Mars were partly the result of snowfall.
- Observations of Comet ISON have detected strong carbon dioxide emissions escaping from the comet.
- The family that George Zimmerman rescued from a car crash this week is terrified they will become targets of hate mobs if they say anything positive about him.
- NASA has initiated a second investigation board looking into last week’s spacesuit incident on ISS.
- The defense industry has found that the cuts from sequestration have been far less painful than their lobbying had claimed.
- Ten things you could do in 1975 that you can’t do now.
- SpaceX has begun assembly of the upgraded Falcon 9 rocket that will launch its first commercial payload in early September.
- India has set August 19 as the launch date for its home-built Geosycnchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
- The developmental engineering successes of the new commercially-built private spaceships, Dragon, CST-100, and Dream Chaser, appears to be winning over Congress.
- Obama’s nominee to manage contracting and budget at the Energy Department had serious problems doing the same job while she was at NASA.
- NASA plans to test the parachutes for the Orion capsule today.
- “Global warming hasn’t stopped, it’s just hiding.”
- The records of the snooping into Republican Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s confidential tax records have mysteriously been destroyed.
- A Norwegian town, sunless for five months of the year, is building a giant array of mirrors to light up its town square.
- Today’s parachute test of the Orion capsule successfully demonstrated that the capsule could safely land with only two of its three parachutes.
- The Detroit City Council unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday calling for the further prosecution of George Zimmerman.
- The effort to bring Kepler back to life does not look good.
- Aerospace defense contractors Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Raytheon all show better than expected profits despite sequestration.
- A government program only wastes $4.4 billion out of a projected waste of $19.1 billion.
- A GAO report has found that heath insurance premiums will skyrocket next year when Obamacare takes effect.
- The new solar space observatory IRIS has taken its first pictures.
- Forty-three peer-reviewed papers by a Japanese researcher are tainted with falsified or fabricated data, according to a Japanese newspaper report today.
- According to two industry sources, the U.S. government has demanded that major internet companies provide it the stored passwords of their customers.
- The box that built the modern world.
- Congress fiercely divided over completely blank bill that says and does nothing.
- The cost of complying with Obamacare is forcing insurance companies to abandon many state markets.
- Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket successfully launched two satellites into orbit today.
- A Russian Progress freighter has arrived at ISS with supplies and a spacesuit repair kit for fixing one American spacesuit.
- Slinging payloads into orbit.
- Scientists have finalized their flyby plans of Pluto when New Horizons arrives there in 2015.
- The sad fate of Democrat women.
- A supernova has exploded in the galaxy M74, only 30 million light years away.
- On Friday an astronaut on ISS controlled and steered a rover on Earth.
- According to the observations of one Italian astronomer, it appears that Comet ISON will not be the “Comet of the Century,” as hoped.
- New evidence now suggests that the IRS harassed conservative organizations routinely, whether or not they already had tax exempt status.
- Many in the astronomy community do not agree with the recent conclusions of one astronomer that Comet ISON is likely a dud.
- SpaceX has signed a contract with MDA to launch all three of Canada’s next generation Radarsat satellites.
- Emails between IRS official Lois Lerner and an attorney in the Federal Election Commission’s general counsel’s office show them twice colluding to illegally influence the FEC to prosecute conservative groups.
- New satellite data covering the period from 2000 to 2011 now shows that the atmosphere traps far less heat than predicted by every global warming climate model.
- More evidence that Obamacare is turning the U.S. workforce into a part-time workforce.
- Amazing Mick
- A new GAO report has found that TSA misconduct has risen by 26% in the past three years.
- Homeland Security has lost track of more than one million foreigners after they have entered the country.
- The state of SLS construction.
- The IRS paints it black.
- Twelve amazing outdoor staircases.
- A careful analysis of IRS behavior shows that the tax agency very clearly favored liberal groups while specifically targeting conservatives for harassment.
- “You don’t jeopardize yourself, you jeopardize your family as well.”
- Curiosity’s first year on Mars, in video in two minutes.
- SpaceX has confirmed that it plans to begin vertical take-off and landing tests of a full scale Falcon 9 first stage.
- Of the almost 1 million jobs created in 2013, 77% are part-time.
- New evidence strongly suggests that the IRS’s harassment of conservative groups is continuing, despite the on-going Congressional investigations.
- The White House has agreed to exempt Congressional staff from the high costs of Obamacare.
- A graveyard of comets.
- Two graphs that show the depressing trends of the work force for the past twenty years.
- “You’ve frustrated this committee. You’ve promised to do things and you’re not.”
- Armadillo Aerospace closes down.
- Japan today successfully launched another unmanned cargo freighter to ISS.
- An update on the effort to bring Kepler back to life.
- My rant Thursday against politicians on the John Batchelor Show
- Russia has announced that they will resume Proton rocket launches in September.
- A few questions that a real journalist would ask Obama, if given the chance.
- New York’s “greenest” skyscraper turns out to be its biggest energy hog.
- Mandatory Suicide
- Astronomers have taken an image of an exoplanet only a few times the mass of Jupiter.
- An update on Dawn in its journey from the asteroids Vesta to Ceres.
- NASA deputy administrator Lori Garver is leaving NASA to take a job “in the private sector outside the space industry.”
- The government is months behind in testing the security arrangements of Obamacare.
- New evidence suggests that elected Democrats have been aggressively lobbying the SEC to target conservative businesses.
- Despite finding evidence for the Higgs boson, the CERN Large Hadron Collider has not yet found any evidence for the theory of supersymmetry.
- The Obama administration has given Congress and its staff a waiver so that they will not have to pay the full cost increase imposed by Obamacare.
- An inspector general report has found that the 24 health co-ops formed under Obamacare are going bankrupt, even before they have opened.
- Modern Journalism: Retyping press releases
- An IRS agent admitted this week in testimony to a House committee that the IRS is still harassing conservatives, three months after the targeting was revealed.
- Virgin Galactic did another glide test of SpaceShipTwo today.
- In its minority small business program, supposedly designed to help minorities, the federal government has instead given millions to firms owned by fictitious people.
- The IRS official who released the confidential tax information of conservative groups to a left-leaning news organization has been promoted.
- In order to protect one species of owl, the Forest Service is going to kill thousands of another species.
- Japan’s fourth unmanned cargo freighter to ISS was successfully berthed to the station today.
- The ‘Filthy Filner’ cover-up.
- A Christian couple that refused to use their business as a venue for a gay marriage are now receiving hate mail and threats.
- How Obamacare discourages people from making more money, discourages businesses from hiring, and discourages everyone from becoming better than they are.
- A detailed look at the questions and rumors that continue to swirl around the engineering status of SpaceShipTwo.
- How to have fun
- The sequester was — and continues to be — a success.
- A judge ruled today that New York’s stop-and-frisk policy was unconstitutional.
- Despite the complete lack of evidence, the Obama administration on Monday blamed floods, wildfires, and power outages on global warming.
- “She is so powerful and I am just a shop girl. I didn’t hurt anyone. I don’t know why someone as great as her must cannibalize me on TV.”
- ATK has joined Stratolaunch, winning a contract to provide solid rocket motors for company’s proposed second stage air-launched rocket.
- “What causes the Sun’s magnetic field flip?”
- The Obama administration has quietly decided to arbitrarily delay implementation of another Obamacare requirement.
- Fifteen really strange beaches.
- A teacher molests an underage student for three years and, when caught, his fellow teachers come forward to support him.
- A climate scientist demands neutrality from climate scientists.
- A federal appeals court has ruled that the Obama administration has been violating the law by delaying a decision on the proposed nuclear waste facility in Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
- A rally today in DC about the threat of global warming, organized by Obama’s Organizing for America, had no attendees.
- Pigs in Space
- An analysis of the climate models used by global warming advocates to illustrate the consequences of climate change finds them to be totally useless.
- Pigs in space
- The federal treasury had a $98 Billion deficit in July, yet the total debt was left unchanged at $16,699,396,000,000
- Rodeo clown forces decimated and on the run!
- Comet ISON has come out from behind the Sun, and it looks like it will not produce a grand show for us later this year.
- Sierra Nevada has completed ground tow tests of its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle.
- Grasshopper flies again, this time both up and sideways.
- Engineers have identified twelve asteroids that could be captured with today’s technology.
- On the air
- New evidence suggests that IRS official Lois Lerner attempted to hide her harassment of conservatives while working at the IRS.
- True the Vote has found 173 cases of voter fraud in Florida.
- No liftoff for these space flights of fancy
- “Liberals have targeted this man for personal destruction to create a climate of fear.”
- The effort by the local government in Rochester, New York, to destroy the fourth amendment rights of renters.
- Russia has concluded its investigation into last month’s Proton launch failure and now says its next launch will be on September 15.
- Assuming the first demo berthing of Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus capsule to ISS goes well in September, NASA has now scheduled the subsequent cargo missions of Cygnus and Dragon for December and January respectively.
- Scientists today published a new model that suggests that Voyager 1 actually entered interstellar space in July of last year.
- Ten examples of protest images mocking George Bush that were far more offensive and violent than that harmless rodeo clown whose life is now being destroyed.
- Why did the builders of One World Trade Center in New York settle on fourth place?
- Crazy Youtube games
- The engineering tests to try to save Kepler have found that the mission is essentially over.
- A GAO audit of NASA’s Orion capsule says the program faces delays and budget overruns.
- The Obama administration is now insisting that the proper term for climate change is “carbon pollution.”
- Scientists have assembled a movie of one Martian moon eclipsing another, taken from Curiosity.
- For the first time since 1975 the Navy and NASA have teamed up to practice the ocean recovery of a manned capsule.
- The Russians have begun a six-hour spacewalk today on ISS to prepare the station for the arrival of a new Russian module.
- Despite a congressional ban against providing ACORN or any of its affiliates money, HUD handed the organization $200k.
- Orbital Sciences has confirmed a September 15 launch date for the first Cygnus capsule mission to ISS.
- A plane you can drive to the airport.
- Thirty-six incredible landscapes from video games.
- It appears there is some “dissatisfaction” among Kazakhstan officials over the cleanup from July’s spectacular Proton rocket crash.
- Formation flying in space, without propellants.
- The Great Organic Blueberry Raid.
- The Obama administration has failed to meet more than half of the deadlines mandated by Obamacare.
- A star that went nova last week is now visible to the naked eye.
- The launch today of India’s homemade Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) was scrubbed when a fuel leak was spotted at T-74 minutes.
- “Impeach Obama” protesters arrested for peaceably assembling.
- The oldest globe to show the New World may have been discovered.
- Observations of the comet that the European probe Rosetta will visit next year suggest it is becoming active earlier than expected.
- More money for Dream Chaser.
- The fuel leak that scrubbed yesterday’s launch of India’s GSLV rocket will likely cause at least a week’s delay before another launch attempt.
- “We plan on doing the same thing this Saturday to let them know that we are not backing down; we have rights here.”
- A Michigan school board has refused to fire the teachers who publicly supported another teacher who had molested a student for three years.
- A draft of the next IPCC climate report has arrived, and it is more of the same: We are all gonna die!
- The Moon’s dirtiest secret: Does its dust levitate?
- The rover Opportunity has settled into its winter haven on Mars.
- Japan’s unveiled its new Epsilon rocket yesterday, scheduled for its first launch next week.
- Space agencies of the world unite!
- UPS announced today that it is dropping the spousal coverage for 15,000 employees because of the cost of Obamacare.
- NASA will reactivate the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) next month to use it to look for more near Earth asteroids.
- Curiosity snaps a spectacular image of Mt Sharp as it begins its journey to the mountain’s base.
- How one man saved $17,000 on the cost of a surgery.
- A Homeland Security employee openly calls for the mass murder of whites on his website.
- The University of Virginia is cutting health insurance coverage for spouses.
- Some historical perspective about what we know about the polarity reversal of the Sun’s magnetic field.
- Sierra Nevada’s engineering test vehicle of its Dream Chaser mini-shuttle completed its first capture carry flight test yesterday.
- “An inconvenient untruth.”
- Islam: A religion of bigots.
- “You will be made to care.”
- Healthcare premiums have climbed almost $3,000 since 2009.
- The Russians have now fired three executives as a result of their investigation into last month’s Proton launch disaster.
- The launch of the first demo mission of Orbital Sciences’s Cygnus capsule to ISS has now been officially scheduled for September 17.
- City governments nationwide are cutting employees’ hours to below 30 hours per week to avoid Obamacare.
- A union strike has shut down the new ALMA telescope array in Chile.
- The Homeland Security employee who runs a website promoting race war has been put on paid leave.
- The first launch of Japan’s new Epsilon rocket was scrubbed today at T-19 seconds.
- Engineers in India have decided to completely replace the leaking second stage engine of the GSLV rocket whose launch was scrubbed last week.
- Scientists using data from India’s Chandrayaan-1 space probe have detected new evidence of water inside one crater.
- In another country.
- A rodeo in Texas is defiantly hyping up the appearance of their own Obama clown.
- A FAA waiver granted to SpaceX for its next launch outlines details on the company’s effort to recover the first stage for reuse.
- The relationship between gun ownership and violent crime — and it’s exactly the opposite of what the left alleges.
- Identifying the real racists.
- Physicists have managed to create and confirm, for a brief moment, the existence of the 115th element of the periodic table.
- The Falcon 9 launch of Canada’s Cassiope space probe has been rescheduled from September 5 to September 10.
- Astronauts on ISS have successfully recreated the water leak in the defective spacesuit that almost drowned an astronaut last month.
- It appears a programming error might have caused the scrub of Japan’s new Epsilon rocket launch yesterday.
- A disabled security guard was fired for asking a Muslim woman to remove her veil.
- Astronomers have identified a star almost identical to the Sun, except that it is 4 billion years older.
- China’s first unmanned lunar lander is now scheduled for launch before the end of the year.
- For the first time since arriving on Mars engineers have allowed Curiosity to drive itself.
- Using the combined power of 200,000 home computers astronomers have discovered 24 new pulsars in the Milky Way.
- More details are released about the launch abort of Japan’s new Epsilon rocket earlier this week.
- The Israeli spring.
- Aetna pulls out of New York because of Obamacare.
- Hubble sees a cosmic caterpillar
- An Iranian news release today says that researchers at a local university have “designed and built” a manned spacecraft.
- “Democrats are just goddamned liars.”
- Curiosity makes a movie of Phobos eclipsing the Sun.
- The launch date for India’s GSLV rocket has been pushed off until December in order to thoroughly investigate what caused the fuel leak during the scrubbed launch last week.
- Five large population groups are losing their healthcare insurance because of Obamacare.
- The IRS harassment of conservatives continues.
- No Atlantic hurricanes in August for the first time in eleven years.
- In an effort to deal with their quality control problems the Russians plan to consolidate their space industries into a single company controlled by the government.
- Seven colossal architectural blunders.
- “The timing couldn’t be worse.”
- A businessman fights a federal regulatory effort that destroyed his business. The government responses by trying to destroy him.
- A NASA veteran slams SLS.
- A London building melts a parked Jaguar.
- Brazil stalls paying its share for the construction of the Extremely Large Telescope.
- A London university has digitized and placed online a collection of historic space images.
- Militant gays force an Oregon bakery out of business.
- Taxing both the rich and the sick to pay for Obamacare.
- A family whose dog was shot by police is now suing for half a million dollars.
- A college professor threatened a student during in a rant in which he insulted Republicans and even Mitt Romney’s wife.
- “The [US Justice Department] just stuffed a rag in Barrett Brown’s mouth, as well as his lawyers.”
- Astronomers submit a slew of proposals for using the partly crippled Kepler space telescope.
- A survey of planetary nebulae near the Milky Way’s central bulge has revealed that they tend to be aligned with each other.
- Despite the astronauts’ success on ISS in recreating the spacesuit water leak, NASA engineers still do not know its cause.
- How to view the east coast launch on Septembert 6 of LADEE.
- Orbital Sciences prepares its Cygnus capsule for its first flight to ISS, set for launch on September 17.
- SpaceShipTwo is expected to make its second powered test flight today.
- Cumulative data from a variety of space probes now shows that the direction of the interstellar wind has shifted during the past forty years.
- The college teacher who went on an anti-Republican tirade in class and even threatened a student who disagreed has been suspended for the rest of the semester.
- NASA has lost contact with its Deep Impact probe and is racing against time to save it.
- A Russian astronaut, scheduled to fly to ISS in 2015, has unexpectedly resigned.
- NASA has put Orbital Sciences on notice that, assuming its demo cargo mission to ISS in two weeks is a success, the company might have to do it again as soon as December.
- Obamacare is forcing a number of artist organizations to cancel health insurance for its members.
- A engineering problem during construction of one of the shuttle-derived solid rocket boosters for SLS is causing delays.
- While the launch industry eagerly awaits SpaceX’s first commercial Falcon 9 launch on September 10, Arianespace has been signing up customers.
- Orbital Sciences has now mated the Cygnus capsule to its Antares rocket for its September 17 launch to ISS.
- The Russians are including a bathroom in their next generation manned vehicle, something they note Orion will not have.
- The project manager said today that all the problems outlined in a December GAO report have been resolved.
- NASA’s lunar probe LADEE was successfully launched tonight from Wallops Island.
- The first and second launch of the Space Launch System are likely to be delayed due to budget issues.
- Having completed its investigation into its scrubbed launch two weeks ago, Japan’s space agency JAXA has announced a September 14 launch date for its new Epsilon rocket.
- NASA engineers have successfully fixed the glitch on the LADEE spacecraft.
- A tea party leader in Oklahoma has been charged with a felony because he sent an email to an state senator demanding he do his job or face the political consequences.
- “The face of the sun is nearly blank.”
- After more than two weeks the labor strike at the ALMA telescope array in Chile has ended.
- The first commercial launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 has been pushed back to September 14.
- Help Kickstart World War III
- After 166 days in orbit, three astronauts safely returned to Earth this evening in a Soyuz capsule.
- Orbital Sciences has finished loading its Cygnus capsule and has closed the hatch for next Tuesday’s launch.
- Why we must remember
- SpaceX has again delayed the launch of its first Falcon 9 commercial launch.
- Despite the significant increase in the Arctic icecap’s size this winter, satellite data of the icecap’s actual volume and thickness suggest that the new ice was quite thin.
- It appears that Deep Impact is lost.
- Another large satellite is about to fall to Earth.
- The world’s thinnest buildings.
- The two Colorado Democrats who were key instigators of that state’s new gun control laws were both decisively voted out of office yesterday in recall elections.
- Today’s static fire test and launch rehearsal of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket was scrubbed.
- Using photos from Dawn astronomers have now assembled an online atlas of the asteroid Vesta that the public can explore.
- The Russians have delayed the next Proton launch, scheduled for September 17, for at least a week.
- Astronomers have compiled the first detailed 3D map of the inner regions of the Milky Way.
- Virgin Galactic held a job fair this weekend and almost 600 applicants showed up.
- Orbital Sciences plans to roll Antares and Cygnus to the launchpad tomorrow for its Tuesday launch.
- NASA has announced a press conference for later today about the Voyager spacecraft.
- New emails show that Lois Lerner and the IRS specifically targeted conservative groups for harassment in 2011.
- Major unions are now calling for the repeal of Obamacare.
- SpaceX’s static fire test of Falcon 9R that was scrubbed yesterday is about to happen today.
- Indiana University is laying off 50 maintenance workers to avoid Obamacare costs.
- SpaceX successfully completed a static test of the 9 first stage engines of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket today.
- After a journey of 10 years, astronomers are accelerating preparations for the arrival of Europe’s Rosetta space probe at Comet 67P/Churymov-Gerasimenko.
- Two Earth-based radio telescopes have detected the radio glow of the Voyager 1 spacecraft, now in interstellar space.
- It is now eight years since a major hurricane made landfall in the United States.
- Fifteen so-called journalists have made their political preferences official by joining the Obama administration.
- Before the Minnesota Obamacare health exchange has even officially opened there has been a security breach of the private health records of more than 2,400 individuals.
- When will SpaceX launch the upgraded Falcon 9? We have competing news stories:
- The increasing harassment of their members by Homeland Security has caused the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) to begin a political campaign against the agency.
- “It certainly appears that the IRS was weaponized for the political purpose of one party.”
- Orbital Sciences has rolled Antares/Cygnus to the launchpad.
- The Obama administration has decided to actually follow the law and not give its Democratic union buddies a waiver on Obamacare.
- The astronauts who returned to Earth from ISS on September 10 were flying blind.
- Japan’s new Epsilon rocket has successfully placed its first payload into orbit.
- A good scientist, who also believes in global warming, explains the irrelevance of “extreme weather” to the climate change debate.
- India space officials have decided to completely replace the second stage of the GSLV rocket that leaked during the rocket’s scrubbed launch last month.
- The first launch of SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 rocket has probably been delayed by several weeks.
- Orbital Sciences has decided to delay the first launch its Cygnus capsule to ISS by one day.
- A newly leaked revised draft of the upcoming IPCC report suggests that the climate uncertainties have significantly grown since the last report in 2007.
- The second static fire test of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, planned for yesterday, has been rescheduled for Wednesday.
- Data from the 2011 Virginia 5.6 magnitude earthquake suggests that the North American continent had drifted above a mantle hotspot millions of years ago.
- An unmanned spacecraft designed to get rid of space junk is set to launch in 2018, and use a new European built reusable launch system.
- After two months of travel, Curiosity on Mars is now taking short break to study the rocks under its wheels.
- Another story on the leaked IPCC report, and how that new report will admit the climate has not warmed as predicted.
- Obamacare’s Useful Idiots
- For those on the East Coast, a viewing guide for tomorrow’s launch of Antares/Cygnus from Wallops Island.
- On the air
- Another look at the leaked IPCC draft report.
- New documents show that more than 80% of the organizations targeted by the IRS in 2011 for harassment were conservative.
- Antares has successfully put Cygnus into orbit.
- IRS officials specifically targeted conservatives for harassment because they thought that was what President Obama wanted.
- Nine mass shootings that did not happen because someone was there to stop it, with a gun.
- Republicans in the House move to fund the government, excluding Obamacare.
- Cygnus is operating well in orbit, with berthing to ISS scheduled for September 22.
- Voyager 1’s future.
- Arianespace has signed a contract to build 18 more Ariane 5 rockets.
- The impending end of China’s first space station.
- The media guide for identifying firearms.
- The House vote to fund the government but not Obamacare will force vulnerable Senate Democrats to either endorse the unpopular law again or shut it down.
- Australia’s new government does the right thing, instantly shutting down its agenda-driven global warming bureaucracy.
- A cop stops a student from handing out copies of the Constitution, on Constitution Day.
- Home Depot joins Walgreens in dumping tens of thousands of employees from their employer heath insurance plan, because of Obamacare.
- All but two Democrats walk out of Benghazi hearing to avoid hearing testimony of victims’ families.
- “Close to 10% of the papers we receive show some sign of academic misconduct”
- An Australia test flight of a scramjet engine ended in failure today when the rocket carrying the engine failed to reach the require elevation for the test to begin.
- Despite data from orbiting probes that say there is methane in Mars’ atmosphere, Curiosity has detected none.
- Another leak from the IPCC shows that politicians in Belgium, Hungary, Germany, and the United States attempted to pressure the scientists writing the report to cover up the lack in global temperature rise since 1998.
- After several tries, SpaceX finally completed the static fire test of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket today.
- NASA has officially ended the Deep Impact mission.
- Orbital Sciences has now posted a detailed outline of Cygnus’s flight schedule for the next few days.
- Check out this detailed overview of the upcoming launch of SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9, including yesterday’s static fire test.
- Boeing has successfully completed a series of thruster tests for its CST-100 manned capsule.
- Engineers have pushed the four orbiting Cluster satellites into their closest configuration yet.
- A lot of famous people have bought tickets to fly on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo but not William Shatner: He’s apparently afraid of flying!
- The Senate has passed a bill to allow the sale of the government’s stockpile of helium.
- The Russians have now rescheduled for September 30 the next Proton rocket launch.
- SpaceX will delay its planned December launch of Dragon to ISS in order to complete upgrades to the capsule.
- The Republican battle plan for defunding Obamacare while keeping the government operating.
- Only two weeks before Obamacare goes into effect, the law’s health exchanges can’t figure out what people will have to pay for coverage.
- The real Navy Yard scandal.
- Linking mass extinctions to the Sun’s journey in the Milky Way
- A software conflict today forced Orbital Sciences to delay the rendezvous of Cygnus with ISS to Tuesday.
- Because of the scheduled arrival of a Soyuz manned capsule to ISS on Wednesday, NASA and Orbital Sciences have decided to delay Cygnus’s rendezvous and berthing until Saturday.
- “In life and as in the game of football, you can never win the victory if you choose to punt every time you touch the ball.”
- A medical school official urges denial of all medical care for all “Obamacare nonbelievers”.
- Obamacare will increase health costs by an average of $7,450 per year for a typical family of four.
- The global warming scientists at the IPCC struggle to explain the lack of warming.
- The strange and alien plant life of Socotra Island.
- Lois Lerner, who is at the center of the IRS scandal, is now retiring from the IRS.
- A group of Serbian academics, disgusted with the poor state of their country’s research output, have scammed a Romanian magazine by publishing a completely fabricated hoax article.
- The head of the IPCC, railroad engineer Rajendra Pachauri, plans to step down in 2015.
- Wind tunnel tests of Dream Chaser’s thermal protection system were recently completed at the Langley Research Center in Virginia.
- Senator Cruz’s speech today in trying to get the Senator to pass the House bill funding the government but defunding Obamacare.
- A seventh grade student faces expulsion from his school because he was playing with an air pistol — in his own yard.
- Obamacare was written and passed solely by Democrats.
- German politicians openly admit they are trying to squelch any mention in the IPCC report of the recent 15 year pause in global temperature rise.
- Five reasons why trying to defunding Obamacare is smart politics.
- One man’s Obamacare nightmare.
- The Antarctica icecap is now grown to be the largest it has been in 35 years.
- China announced today that it plans to hold the launch cost of its Long March rockets at $70 million per launch.
- How the tentacles of the green environmental movement dominate the IPCC.
- China today successfully launched a new quick response rocket.
- A new delay in the launch of a Russian weather satellite illustrates the need that small satellite owners have for their own rocket.
- China today unveiled its first unmanned lunar rover, set for a December launch, and announced a competition for the public to name it.
- The Obamacare wars are just beginning.
- Based on the rates just announced by the Obama administration, health insurance premiums are going to skyrocket in 2014.
- A Soyuz rocket successfully launched three astronauts today for a six month mission to ISS.
- The Treasury Inspector General has found that the IRS cannot account for $67 million of Obamacare funds.
- A test flight of SpaceShipTwo was scrubbed today because of weather.
- SpaceX is now aiming for a Sunday launch of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket.
- On the road
- The Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts successfully docked with ISS late yesterday.
- A store owner’s entire bank account was seized by the IRS, even though he was not charged with any crime and had recently passed an audit.
- “Any party that cannot successfully sell freedom and personal liberty doesn’t deserve power.”
- “The Democrats in 2014 should by all means be asked relentlessly to defend their monster.”
- Comet ISON has now brightened to 11th magnitude as it approaches its flyby of Mars.
- LIberal talk radio host calls for the murder of Senator Ted Cruz.
- Physicists have made Molecules out of light.
- The Obama administration today revealed that ObamaCare enrollment will be delayed for small businesses and Spanish speakers.
- Curiosity has found that water and other interesting things permeate the soil of Mars.
- Orbital Sciences is now aiming for a Sunday berthing of Cygnus to ISS.
- The secret messages on ISS.
- Obamacare will destroy our members’ health insurance, cry the unions.
- Divers have pulled fragments from the February 15 Chelyabinsk meteorite impact out of nearby Chebarkul Lake.
- NASA has released more details about Sunday’s schedule of Cygnus’s rendezvous and berthing with ISS.
- The window for the launch of SpaceX’s upgraded Falcon 9 will open at noon (Eastern) on Sunday.
- Due to problems developing SpaceShipTwo’s engine, it appears that its first flight into space will not occur sooner than February 2014
- India has now rescheduled the launch of its home-built GSLV rocket for December 15.
- Republicans vent frustration over their internal battles over stopping Obamacare.
- A good global warming scientists comments on the IPCC report: “The increase from 90-95% means that they are more certain. How they can justify this is beyond me.”
- A 12-year-old boy was suspended from school for three days because he had a gun-shaped keychain.
- The lies Obama told to sell Obamacare.
- Ten states where Obamacare has wiped out health insurance.
- The Coney Island of the Smokies
- Japan’s H-2A rocket, built by Mitsubishi, has won its first commercial contract.
- Cygnus was successfully berthed with ISS early Sunday morning.
- SpaceX successfully launched its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket today, putting its first commercial payload into orbit.
- Russia’s Proton rocket returned to flight today with a successful launch of a commercial satellite.
- “It is the Democrats who have taken an absolutist position.”
- The weather on an exoplanet: Cloudy and clear.
- Why the House should stand firm.
- In straight party line votes, the Democrats in Congress once again voted for Obamacare, refusing to even consider a one year delay in some of its provisions in order to keep the government running.
- “I respectfully inform you hereby that I am disinclined to join in any more mandatory radicalism.”
- The IPCC fixes the facts.
- With a launch window from November 18 to December7, the government shutdown might delay NASA’s next Mars unmanned probe MAVEN until 2016.
- SpaceX is denying rumors that the upper stage of its Falcon 9 rocket exploded after completing its mission.
- Market Watch decided to see if they could enroll in Obamacare on its first day of availability and found it was impossible to do.
- The House Republicans plan to offer separate funding bills to the Democrats in an effort to get parts of the government back in operation.
- Shut down fascism in the Smoky Mountains
- Cover story: The Great Supernova Race
- Veterans plan to storm more DC monuments today.
- The Democrats today once again rejected Republican efforts to fund the government, rejecting three different new bills.
- The Obama administration is trying to close memorials that in previous shutdowns were never closed.
- Scientists believe they have identified the remains of a supervolcano on Mars.
- The failure of the Falcon 9 upper stage prior to a final engine test on Sunday’s launch may delay the rocket’s next commercial launch.
- Even as the Republicans in the House continue to pass budget bills for funding the government — with some Democratic support — Obama and the Democratic leadership continue to refuse to negotiate.
- Shut down fascism wins in the Smoky Mountains
- The Obama administration has ordered the closure of a park that gets no federal funding.
- The Obama administration has closed the cemeteries at Normandy in France.
- The Obama administration has demanded that hundreds of private venues close, merely because they are on federal land.
- “It’s day two of health care reform, and we have yet to have someone successfully register on the marketplace.”
- Burials in space: Cheaper by far than on Earth!
- House Republicans plan to pass more narrow funding bills in an effort to get some of the government running again.
- Freeing the Smoky Mountains
- After developing the J-2X engine for the upper stage of its SLS heavy-lift rocket, NASA now plans to mothball it.
- NASA has decided to exempt its Mars probe, MAVEN, from the government shutdown, allowing preparations to resume for its November launch.
- Elon Musk lays out SpaceX’s planned program for developing a reusable first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket.
- Orbital Sciences is suing the government agency that operates the Wallops Island spaceport, saying it is refusing to pay a $16.5 million bill.
- Virgin Galactic has signed a television deal for a reality show where the winner would get a flight into space on SpaceShipTwo.
- The Obama administration is now beginning to reinforce the barricades at the World War II memorial to prevent access.
- Even as the military announces it must eliminate TV broadcasts of sporting events for the troops overseas because of the govermnent shutdown, it continues to operate the golf courses and Camp David for President Obama’s entertainment.
- “We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting.”
- Stratolaunch has now released some preliminary details about its commercial rocket, including images.
- “Government shuts down, nation descends into riots, looting and cannibalism.”
- Because India depends on the American Deep Space communications network — mostly unavailable due to the government shutdown — the launch of its first Mars probe, set for October 28, might have to be delayed for two years.
- A bus tour of veterans today pushed barricades clear so that the Iwo Jima Memorial was once again open to the public.
- The Obama administration has ordered 1100 square miles of open ocean off limits to private fisherman and tourists because of the government shutdown.
- NASA and JPL have now stated that the government shutdown will not interfere with their promised support for India’s Mars Orbiter Mission.
- LADEE has now slipped out of Earth orbit and into its first wide lunar orbit.
- A nine-year-old boy was able to board a plane in Minnesota and fly to Nevada with no ticket or boarding pass.
- Speaker John Boehner on Sunday said that the House will pass no bills to re-open the federal government or raise the debt limit until President Obama sits down to negotiate.
- The sadism of Harry Reid.
- The National Park Service is permitting a leftwing rally for illegal immigrants to take place on the National Mall, supposedly closed because of the government shutdown.
- 22 privately run campsites in New Hampshire are being told to close by the Forest Service, even though they get no money from the federal government.
- “I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today.”
- New data suggests that Pluto’s atmosphere is thick enough to not freeze out during the planet’s decades-long winter.
- Making Martian clouds — on Earth.
- The shake-up in the Russian space bureaucracy continues.
- The world that works vs the world that doesn’t.
- A drone that can fly continuously for five years at 65,000 feet.
- In a newspaper interview Richard Branson today claimed that Virgin Galactic is “just three months away from having a fully-functioning rocket that is capable of taking passengers into orbit.”
- Despite a threat of arrest by the Obama administration, veterans from Ohio plan to visit the World War II memorial on Wednesday.
- Say you are conservative at a dinner party and get booed and called a racist.
- “The difference between competence and incompetence.”
- Ramping down from solar maximum
- In press, scheduled for January 2014: Water on the Moon?
- In press, scheduled for February 2014: The Rivers of Titan
- The government shutdown is forcing House lawmakers to reuse their towels in the House gym.
- If you sign up for Obamacare in Maryland you are required to agree to make your personal data available for “law enforcement and audit activities.”
- The public appears to be increasingly defiant about the National Park Service’s closure of parks.
- IRS officials, including Lois Lerner, used their private email accounts to illegally transmit confidential tax information.
- Using archival Hubble images astronomers have rediscovered a moon of Neptune lost for twenty years.
- Turning off Planck.
- The asteroid that might hit the Earth in 2880.
- Obamacare’s biggest problem.
- Scientists in Egypt have found what they think is evidence of a comet impact from 28 million years ago.
- Occupy America! Citizens storm National Park Service barricades throughout the land.
- New evidence suggests the IRS and the White House illegally exchanged confidential taxpayer information.
- The Obama administration is shutting down small private campgrounds in Forest Service lands, but allowing big ski lodges to continue to operate.
- Astronomers have discovered a planet floating freely and not in orbit around a star only six times larger than Jupiter and only 80 light years away.
- After the unmanned probe Juno zipped past the Earth on its way to Jupiter today, it unexpectedly went into safe mode.
- Is a natural rain of diamonds occurring on Jupiter and Saturn? Two scientists say yes!
- Former NASA shuttle head outlines a pessimistic future for NASA expensive Space Launch System.
- Engineers hope Juno’s Earth flyby yesterday will help solve a mystery seen in previous flybys by unmanned probes.
- China complains about the ban of its scientists at a NASA Kepler conference.
- Prohibiting a religious person from following their faith.
- More defiance of the Obama administration’s attempt to lock Americans out of public lands.
- The Obamacare website — that doesn’t work and probably never will — was originally supposed to cost $93.7 million and ended up costing more than six times more, $634 million.
- Jaxa, the Japanese space agency, announced today its management goals for the future.
- “How can we tax people for not buying a product from a website that doesn’t work?”
- “The Obama Administration’s behavior during the first week of the shutdown has been the best argument against Obamacare anyone has ever made.”
- A Iowan Mennonite couple that owns an art gallery has filed suit against the state’s Civil Rights Commission after being threatened with punishment for refusing to host a same-sex wedding on their property.
- “Look at these radicals who are blatantly defying the federal government by having a stroll and eating lunch in a CLOSED PARK.”
- The Russian government today replaced the head of its space agency.
- Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter, 1925-2013.
- Astronomers have found evidence of the remains of an exoplanet that they think was once wet and rocky.
- An eleven year old’s experiment in brewing beer in space will fly to ISS on the next Cygnus cargo flight in December.
- A new survey shows that one out of every three persons wants to travel in space.
- Except for a troublesome fan, the first Cygnus cargo capsule to dock with ISS is performing perfectly.
- Utah has forced an agreement with the federal government to reopen its national parks.
- Sarah Hall Ingram, now in charge of administrating Obamacare for the IRS, not only advised the White House on how to harass conservative organizations, her emails appear to have illegally included confidential tax information.
- One man’s Obamacare nightmare.
- Not only did Sarah Hall Ingram illegally share confidential taxpayer information with White House officials, she met with White House officials 165 times.
- One hundred days to wake-up for Europe’s Rosetta comet probe.
- When surveyed, more than 70 percent of all doctors and practices say they will not participate in the Obamacare health exchange insurance plans.
- Two days after its flyby of Earth, Jupiter probe Juno remains in safe mode.
- Scientist right now think it is a toss-up whether Comet ISON will survive its dive past the sun on November 28.
- Chris Hatfield describes how a bureaucratic tangle with the space doctor bureaucracy almost grounded him before his ISS expedition.
- A remotely operated Russian telescope, located in New Mexico, on Wednesday discovered a kilometer wide Near Earth asteroid.
- Jeff Bezos reveals some details about the goals of his space company, Blue Origin.
- The Republican leadership folds.
- SpaceX has revised the schedule for its next three launches, pushing back two weeks so engineers can review issues with the Falcon 9 upper stage engine.
- Juno has exited safe mode and is now functioning normally.
- A violin that was played as the Titanic sank in 1914 has been found to be authentic and will be auctioned to the public on October 19.
- Obama apparently has rejected the Republican capitulation offer from yesterday.
- “Obamacare has raped my future”
- Privatize the National Park Service.
- University students have successfully test fired a 3D printed rocket engine.
- A collection of new images from Mars by a variety of spacecraft and rovers.
- Among other things, Sarah Brightman talks about her planned trip to space.
- “Obama lied, my health care died.”
- The test pilots who have been flying SpaceShipTwo report on their work at a test pilot symposium.
- Americans storm the barricades at the Lincoln Memorial.
- On October 7 SpaceX successfully flew and landed Grasshopper on its highest flight yet, 2440 feet.
- How to Become a Member of the new Nobility
- Thousands of Americans have stormed the World War II memorial, as well as other barricades monuments in DC.
- Scott Adams presents his 10 favorite Dilbert strips.
- A college that bans any guns on campus has also decided to ban any speech that mentions guns.
- A Catholic priest at a military base has been prohibited from even volunteering to run Mass and was told that if he violated that order he would be arrested.
- A company that employes a large number of temporary workers is now going to have to drop health insurance for all of its employees, because of Obamacare.
- In a negotiated settlement, Arizona police will pay the widow of Jose Guerena, murdered during a SWAT raid, $3.4 million.
- The government shutdown has put flight testing of Dream Chaser on hold.
- Scientists have found a fossil of a mosquito with traces of blood in its engorged abdomen.
- A new woman’s land speed record was set this week.
- The winners of the “What would you send to ISS?” contest have been announced.
- A bogus scientific paper, with numerous errors, was accepted for publication by more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific journals.
- Tennessee and North Carolina have agreed to reopen Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
- No budget deal: The Democrats continue to refuse to give in at all, and the bulk of the Republican caucus has shown some spine and refused to cave.
- “I wanted the Affordable Health Care Act. The problem is, is it’s not affordable,”
- The director of the National Park Service now claims that the barricades around memorials in DC were put there to protect them from terrorists during the shutdown.
- “Let’s don’t confuse nobody with the facts.”
- The true global warming crisis: The lies underlying the theory.
- Chase Bank has told its business customers that there is now a limit on the amount that can be withdrawn from an account, while also banning all international wire transfers.
- The Senate budget deal that the House will vote on today includes some really nice pork.
- Divers working at a Russian lake have recovered a half-ton piece of the asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk on February 15.
- Cygnus will be de-orbited one day early, on October 23.
- The next test flight of a version of SpaceX’s Grasshopper could occur in New Mexico in December.
- Cassini has taken a spectacular full color image of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped storm that surrounds its north pole.
- Obamacare might well be imploding.
- A House hearings yesterday, the partisan tactics of the director of the National Park Service was clearly illustrated by comparing what this government official did during the Occupy Wall Street protests versus his actions during the government shutdown.
- A Moveon.org petition calls for the arrest of the House Republican leadership.
- The major news networks blamed the shutdown on Republicans 41 times, Democrats 0 times.
- Some comments from people trying to use the Obamacare website.
- A recently discovered 1.8 million year old skull suggests that the multiple human species theorized by paleontologists were actually just one.
- Five stupid movie deaths that should have been really easy to avoid.
- More people have applied to live on Mars than have signed up for Obamacare.
- Want to send your child to school with a lunch you prepared yourself? The federal government now forbids it, unless you get a doctor’s note.
- Bankrupt Detroit has dumped the health insurance of all its retirees, forcing them into Obamacare.
- A long and detailed assessment of the present technical problems of the Obamacare exchange website.
- The sting whereby a bogus science paper was accepted by more than 150 journals has produced one result so far: One journal has ceased publication.
- A newly discovered half-mile wide asteroid has 1 in 63,000 chance of hitting the Earth in 2032.
- How to keep an old space telescope in operation and scientifically useful.
- Maryland’s Obamacare exchanges will not be functional until December.
- New York doctors express their strong reluctance to participate in Obamacare.
- Extreme weather events in 2013 are at an all time low.
- What cats see, compared to human vision.
- A person on twitter has threatened both Ted Cruz and his family, posting his home address as well.
- Fresh impacts caused by Curiosity during landing
- Want a rocket to launch your satellite into orbit. Orbital Sciences has one.
- Progressives made their beds; it’s time they lay in it.
- Global warming activists enthuse about the LA Times’ policy of restricting debate
- “Let me be clear, there is no option to keep my current plan.”
- Consumer Reports has advised its readers to avoid the Obamcare website “for at least another month if you can.”
- “This isn’t a case of glitches. This is a case of incompetence.”
- The future?
- The great Martian dust storm of 1971.
- Hayabusa 2 test fires its cannon in preparation for its 2014-2018 asteroid sample return mission.
- The abandoned European gravity research satellite GOCE is going to crash to Earth in about two weeks.
- The first free flying glide test of the Dream Chaser test vehicle is only days away.
- Cygnus has undocked from ISS and will be de-orbited tomorrow.
- A new company is now offering balloon flights to the edge of space for one third the price of a suborbital flight.
- Even when they admit that Obamacare isn’t working, liberals still refuse to recognize that they are now agreeing with Ted Cruz.
- Why the shutdown was a total victory for conservatives, both in the short and long runs.
- The catalogue of exoplanets has now jumped to over 1,000.
- An engineer describes how he and four other engineers debugged a fully fueled Saturn 5 rocket while it was the launchpad.
- The next Dragon flight has now been scheduled for no earlier than February 11.
- A civilian jet has set a new world record for circling the globe.
- In an engineering test, LADEE successfully used a laser to beam information back from the Moon this past weekend.
- An Iowan man began Iowa’s first Obamacare enrollee, after only 100-plus attempts to sign in at the Obamacare website.
- A D.C. businessman faces two years in jail because he happens to own guns and stores them legally in Virginia.
- A federal court has ruled that police must have a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to your car.
- The definitive guide to how Obamacare is destroying American lives
- A new image of Titan’s northern lakes.
- The Obama administration is now considering delaying the Obamacare mandate.
- The number of health insurance cancellations is snowballing into the millions.
- The first Cygnus capsule has been de-orbited, burning up in the atmosphere.
- Astronomers have discovered a galaxy farther away than any previously seen.
- Boeing has finalized its lease for building its manned capsule in one section of the giant Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.
- While Comet ISON continues to disappoint, another comet suddenly gets one hundred times brighter.
- The Mars rover Opportunity is heading up hill.
- Europe turns off Planck
- Private space in control
- Obama: Always the victim.
- The White House has now delayed the deadline for signing up for health insurance by six weeks.
- A new Federal Reserve report links Obamacare to the decline in employment in ten different areas.
- The rise of government-sanctioned home invasions
- Planning the first launch abort test of the Dragon capsule.
- The Seattle city council has seized a privately owned parking lot in order to turn it into … a parking lot.
- Animal lovers discover that Obamacare will cost them money too.
- Confirmed: Not thousands but millions of people are losing their health insurance due to Obamacare.
- India has mounted its first Mars probe on its rocket, readying it for a November 5 launch.
- The investigation into the spacesuit leak in July is now awaiting the return of equipment from ISS.
- Some new details about SpaceX’s new Raptor rocket engine are revealed.
- Thousands of elderly New York patients have been told by their insurance company that, because of Obamacare, they will have to find another doctor.
- The number of Democratic senators calling for a delay in the Obamacare mandate has now grown to nine.
- Data from the Census Bureau reveals that in 2011 the number of people working full time was outnumbered by those getting government aid.
- Using a warrant to search for guns, Homeland security officers and Maryland police confiscated a journalist’s confidential files.
- A look at what scientists think Comet ISON is and is not.
- Russian owned International Launch Services today successfully used its Proton rocket to launch a commercial satellite.
- Israel today issued a strong warning about the possibility that Iran could have enough uranium within a month to produce a nuclear bomb.
- “I have now learned that I was wrong. Very wrong.”
- New quality control problems that have popped in Russia might delay its next module to ISS by more than a year.
- The Washington Times is preparing to take legal action in connection with the raid of a reporter’s home by government officials.
- In its first free flying glide test, the Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle had a perfect flight and approach to landing but flipped over on the runway when its left land gear failed to deploy.
- Half a million Californians to lose their health insurance because of Obamacare.
- The 13 Democratic Senators up for re-election in 2014 who voted for Obamacare, both in 2009 and last month.
- Why governments can’t do it
- My fear.
- The sling shot man
- Lockheed Martin successfully powered up the first Orion capsule last week.
- Sierra Nevada provides an update on the condition of its Dream Chaser test vehicle after this weekend’s glide flight and bad landing.
- Unnamed healthcare officials admit that the Obama administration specifically wrote the Obamacare regulations so that millions would have to lose their healthcare plan.
- “It was reported today by MSNBC that President Obama was unaware that he had ever said to anyone the words ‘If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it.'”
- Sierra Nevada today released a video of the test flight this past weekend of its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle.
- ESA scientists have produced a movie using the data produced by their Mars Express orbiter in the past decade.
- Geologists have determined that the magma reservoir under Yellowstone is much bigger than previously thought.
- Death threats against Republican Governor Scott Walker and his wife and children.
- Steny Hoyer, #2 Democrat in the House, admitted today that Democrats knew that Obamacare would cause the cancellation of millions of health plans.
- Sierra Nevada reveals that its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle survived its bad landing in weekend in reasonably good shape.
- It is worse than a Nigerian hoax email.
- Thirteen Democratic senators who told the same lies as Obama.
- The reasons Obamacare makes health insurance much more expensive.
- The president and the Democrats lied us into a bad law.
- According to insurance executives, the White House is threatening them with “retribution” if they don’t keep silent about the problems Obamacare is causing them.
- “If you like your plan you can keep your plan.”
- 70% of Americans want to delay the Obamacare individual mandate.
- A physicians organization has filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration’s decision to delay Obamacare employer mandate by one year.
- A new dark matter detector has failed to detect any dark matter after its first three months of operation.
- The first Earth-sized exoplanet, just discovered, makes no sense to scientists.
- A fundamental design failure appears to be the cause of the fuel leak that caused the launch postponement of India’s first home-made geosynchronous powered rocket in August.
- Obamacare does not provide patients or doctors or hospitals any way of finding out who is in or out of network.
- IRS official Lois Lerner illegally provided private tax information to other government agencies.
- Obama and the Democrats solve the terrible terrible problem of the terrible name of the Washington Redskins.
- One expert estimates that 129 million people, 68% of those who buy health insurance, will lose their plan by the end of 2014 because of Obamacare.
- Bras in space: How a bra company made the spacesuits the astronauts wore on the Moon.
- Another young Obamacare supporter finds out what’s in it.
- Here’s some evidence that in trying to spin his earlier lies, Obama has only lied again.
- The Justice Department and Homeland Security are threatening to prosecute a novelty store owner for selling mugs and t-shirts that make fun of the two agencies.
- The best (and worst) concealed carry states for 2013.
- They own it.
- In preparation for November 5 launch of India’s first mission to Mars, ISRO successfully performed a full dress rehearsal countdown yesterday
- Protesters shout down New York police commissioner Ray Kelly at Brown University.
- In 2010 the Democrats unanimously voted in support of the regulations that are now forcing the cancellation of millions of health insurance plans.
- A new poll, taken by a liberal poll company, finds that Democratic incumbents took a much bigger hit than Republican incumbents after the government shutdown.
- The man whom the Justice Department and Homeland Security threatened with prosecution because he was selling mugs and T-shirts ridiculing those agencies has now sued them over those threats.
- Another court has ruled against the Obama administrations forced contraceptive mandate under Obamacare.
- The FAA has lifted its ban on the use of cell phones during take-off and landings in airplanes.
- The Obama administration has issued an order forbidding Navy Seals from wearing the “Don’t Tread On Me” flag on their uniforms, something they have been doing for two centuries.
- “This is a program that’s doing the opposite of what it was intended.”
- The only juror in the George Zimmerman trial to go public has lost her job, been shunned by friends, and received death threats to herself and her family.
- In preparation for the arrival of a new crew, the astronauts on ISS took a short ride yesterday, moving their Soyuz capsule to a different docking port.
- Sunrise tomorrow on the East Coast will be interesting, as the sun will rise in the middle of a partial solar eclipse.
- In his weekly radio address today, President Obama called for new taxes and increased spending.
- Kathleen Sebelius was handed a copy of “Websites for Dummies” by a Republican state senator at an Obamacare outreach event Friday.
- Five things the Obama administration had no idea the Obama administration was doing
- TSA agents were trained to save themselves, not passengers, during the Friday’s LA airport shooting.
- 28 solar flares in the past week.
- The Obamacare website routinely uploads your confidential personal information for all to read.
- You also can’t keep your doctor.
- Twenty-two pictures taken at exactly the right angle.
- India has begun the countdown for the November 5 launch of its first Mars orbiter.
- Twitter has repeatedly suspended @mycancellation, an account critical of Obamacare that is gathering images of insurance cancellation letters.
- “This whole experience has converted a lifelong Democrat into a foot soldier for the Republican Party.”
- “The biggest failure of Obamacare: Increasing the number of uninsured.”
- Scientists now estimate that one in five sunlike stars have Earthlike planets in the habitable zone.
- Some minor news on the “If you like your healthcare plan, you get to keep your healthcare plan” front:
- India successfully launched its first probe to Mars today.
- For its next science mission the European Space Agency (ESA) has now decided to give first priority to an X-ray space telescope.
- At the same time announcing that a third powered test flight of SpaceShipTwo will occur in about a month, Virgin Galactic has now admitted that commercial flights will not occur in 2013.
- Students crash rockets into the ground on purpose! With video.
- Obama lies again, claiming that he never really said “If you like your plan you can keep your plan. Period.” dozens of times.
- An analysis across 49 states reveals that Obamacare cause premiums to rise by 41%.
- ‘This thing has legs.’”
- Obama now just learning that he is President!
- The sun goes boom!
- President Obama publicly promised that “If you like your plan you can keep your plan.” at least 36 times.
- A new mission for Kepler?
- A new study suggests that the variation of the cosmic ray flux during the solar cycle has little influence on the climate.
- A man in New Mexico was illegally subjected to a cavity search, including a colonoscopy, without his permission and without a legal warrant as the result of a simple traffic stop.
- A bacteria that causes urinary tract infections has been found to grow better in zero gravity than it does on Earth.
- A very good analysis of yesterday’s election results.
- A new ligament has just been discovered in the human knee.
- The accumulated evidence from the Chelyabinsk meteorite now suggests the risk of large asteroid impacts might be ten times greater than previously estimated.
- A rare new microbe has been found in two different clean rooms, one in Florida and the other in South America.
- The geology of Vesta as seen by Dawn appears to contradict the present models for that asteroid’s origin.
- 250,000 to lose their health plans in Colorado due to Obamacare.
- A Russian Soyuz rocket successfully launched a new crew to ISS today.
- Lady Gaga intends to take a Virgin Galactic suborbital flight in 2015 and beat Sarah Brightman into space.
- Hubble spots an asteroid spout six comet-like tails.
- The number of candidate exoplanets found by Kepler has now risen to 3,500.
- India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe has successfully completed its first orbital engine burn.
- Engineers successfully completed Mangalyaan’s second engine burn yesterday, raising its orbit to just under 25,000 miles.
- Beyonce might beat Lada Gaga into space.
- Successfully growing crops in the desert using salt water and solar power.
- A Texas-based company has printed the first 3D-printed metal pistol, a 45 caliber Model 1911.
- Unlike an earlier test where one fairing did not release, a second test of Orion’s shroud separation system was successful this week.
- The House committee investigating the IRS scandal issued a new subpoena yesterday.
- Ten of the best newspaper corrections.
- Even as President Obama issued a weak-kneed apology for his lie about keeping your health plan, he made a whole bunch of new lies.
- The UC Berkeley student government has banned the term “illegal immigrant.”
- Medical treatment by bureaucrat.
- Virgin Galactic has signed a deal with NBC to televise the first commercial flight of SpaceShipTwo.
- Only 22% of those who are uninsured are interested in signing up for Obamacare.
- Engineers now expect the European GOCE research satellite to crash to Earth either late Sunday or on Monday.
- The Obamacare website is a deadly security hole for anyone that uses it.
- ESA has issued an update on when and where they think GOCE will impact the Earth.
- During a five hour EVA that had lots of difficulties, two Russian cosmonauts took the Olympic torch on a spacewalk
- 32 of the worst architectural decisions ever made.
- State and local governments cut workers’ hours to under thirty to avoid Obamacare.
- The returning crew from ISS has undocked from the station.
- It appears that the police in Deming, New Mexico have done forced medical procedures on more than one person.
- Four things the U.S. government did faster than building the Obamacare website.
- New Mexico is being sued by the ACLU over a third case of an intrusive medical probe, this time without a warrant.
- GOCE has returned to Earth, breaking up somewhere over Antarctica, Siberia, or the Indian or Pacific Oceans.
- India’s Mars Orbiter Mission experienced its first technical problem during an engine burn today.
- A Soyuz capsule safely returned three astronauts to Earth Sunday.
- Two Baptist chaplains are suing the Veterans Administration for demanding they stop naming “Jesus” in their prayers.
- Twenty-seven genius inventions you can buy now.
- Getting rid of health insurance and paying your doctor direct.
- In the states where the Obamacare websites have been mostly functioning, they have only met 3% of their target enrollments.
- 72 absurd items Obamacare requires your health insurance to cover.
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter inaugurates a new website of its images of the landing or impact sites of every human vehicle to arrive or crash on the Moon.
- It is time to start considering the worst case scenario for Obamacare.
- A Proton rocket successfully launched a Russian military satellite today.
- Comet ISON is now visible in binoculars, and has a double tail.
- A fourth engine burn has put India’s Mangalyaan probe back on course.
- A federal appeals court has ruled that the Obamacare contraceptive mandate cannot be imposed on either religious or private organizations.
- Two Russian workers were killed and several injured last week while cleaning out a rocket tank at a Russian spaceport.
- The same software guy who refused to certify the Obamacare website as secure is also the same guy who now says the website’s security problems are “limitless.”
- A detailed update on the status of spacesuit repairs on ISS, following the July water leak during a spacewalk.
- One million Californians have had their health plans cancelled.
- China reveals its space station plans.
- Scientists have discovered a Kuiper Belt asteroid lighter than water.
- A Republican bill to allow insurance companies to continue to offer their old policies is gaining Democratic support.
- ObamaCar
- Sixteen different foreigners describe things they couldn’t believe about America until they moved here.
- President Obama’s new big lie.
- The Obama administration has had to issue 254 corrections to its own Obamacare regulations.
- Obamacare and the unstoppable project.
- SpaceX has delayed the next commercial launch of its Falcon 9 rocket by three days.
- A buggy software upgrade on November 7 caused Curiosity to spend a week rebooting itself.
- The first satellite designed and built by high school students is about to go into space.
- Ten Democrats who repeatedly lied about Obamacare.
- John Boehner in 2010, on the day Obamacare was passed, predicting its every failure and lie since.
- With a wave of his hand, Obama has declared that insurance companies need not cancel policies forbidden under Obamacare.
- A GAO report has found no evidence that TSA personnel can spot terrorists at airport checkpoints.
- Insurance companies are already saying that they cannot go along with Obama’s decision to suspend the cancellation of insurance policies.
- “The lawlessness of Obamacare, root and branch.”
- It appears state insurance regulators are also telling Obama to go to hell with his lawless announcement that the parts of Obamacare causing him political troubles are temporarily suspended.
- Comet ISON brightens to just within naked eye visibility.
- In the past three months Scaled Composites has conducted nine tests of SpaceShipTwo engines.
- Lockheed Martin announced today that it is closing down five facilities and laying off 4,000 employees.
- Obama announces he will veto any bill that changes Obamacare, including the “Keep your plan” offers from both parties in Congress.
- So, when does Ted Cruz get his apology?
- The House, with 39 Democrats voting yes, today passed its “You can keep your plan If you like it” bill.
- The new head of the Russian Space Agency has requested that the government impose a ban on the sale of any foreign made satellites in Russia.
- NASA’s next Mars orbiter, MAVEN, is go for launch today at 1:28 pm from Wallops Island.
- An Obamacare supporter begins to see the light.
- Twelve unusual towers around the world.
- Today in Starbucks…
- The world of English freedoms.
- MAVEN has reached orbit.
- Dukakis and the tank.
- The Census Bureau apparently faked the unemployment numbers prior to the 2012 election to make it appear more people were employed.
- Newly released emails provide more evidence that IRS official Lois Lerner was lying when she said the IRS scandal was confined to the low-level employees in Cincinnati.
- New images of Comet ISON suggest it might have begun breaking up.
- A close look at another government program to try to lower the cost to orbit.
- To save money, NASA management has shut down a troubled program to build a more efficient plutonium power supply for its deep space missions.
- New data suggesting the presence of granite on Mars also suggests that the planet is more geologically complex than previously believed.
- on the air
- The Homeland Security employee who runs a website that calls for the the mass murder of whites has still not been fired.
- The Obamacare website apparently has security flaws so significant that experts are afraid to describe them.
- The Pentagon has for years routinely been doctoring its budget numbers, and has no idea where billions of its money is going.
- Some spectacular oblique images from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have been released.
- Opportunity releases a new panorama from its perch on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
- The top ten race baiters of 2013.
- A father is arrested merely because he wants to pick up his kids from school and walk home with them.
- An Orbital Sciences’ Minotaur rocket tonight launched a record 29 satellites into orbit, 28 of which were cubesats.
- On Tuesday NASA issued a solicitation for bids on providing the agency a manned ferrying capability to and from ISS.
- The federal budget deficit for October was “only” $91 billion.
- An update on the arrest of a father for wanting to pick up his kids and walk them home from school.
- On Sunday Curiosity suffered an electrical problem that has caused a pause in operations while engineers troubleshoot it.
- And it ain’t your doctor!
- Seismic data now suggests that a volcano is beginning to stir far beneath the Antarctica icecap.
- Dennis Tito’s project to launch a manned fly-by of Mars by 2018 has issued its revised plans, and they call for NASA to use SLS to do it.
- In undercover tapes, the communications director of Enroll America, an organization that helps sign people up for Obamacare, is seen agreeing to help get confidential personal data of enrollees for political purposes.
- In a launch today a Russian Dnepr rocket sent 32 satellites into orbit, breaking the record of 29 set less than a week ago by a Minotaur rocket.
- How not to get to Mars
- India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe has returned its first image, a picture of Earth.
- Construction of Russia’s new Vostochny spaceport is essentially back on schedule.
- The longest and most powerful gamma ray burst yet detected apparently does not fit any of the theories that are currently used to explain these events.
- Why Obamacare is different.
- Tito noted today that if the U.S. doesn’t partner with him to send a couple to fly past Mars, he’ll partner with Russia or China instead.
- ISS celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of the launch of its first module today.
- SpaceX successfully completed a countdown dress rehearsal and launchpad hot fire engine test in preparation for the next commercial launch of its Falcon 9 rocket on November 25.
- A Russian rocket this morning launched a trio of European satellites designed to study the Earth’s magnetic field.
- A new Chinese suspension bridge, set to open November 25, has won top honors for being such a long three-tower/two span bridge.
- The Obama administration has delayed next year’s enrollment deadline under Obamacare.
- MSNBC, the cable network of hate.
- The Washington Times and the journalist whose confidential files were taken illegally during a house search on an unrelated matter are suing Homeland Security.
- ESA has announced a six month delay in the development of its service module for the Orion capsule.
- “The entry of SpaceX into the commercial market is a game changer. It’s going to really shake the industry to its roots.”
- In an interview Richard Branson says that Virgin Galactic is working to replace SpaceShipTwo’s hybrid engine.
- A man is arrested in Ohio for the crime of having an empty hidden compartment in his car.
- SpaceX has scrubbed today’s first geosynchronous launch of its Falcon 9 rocket.
- Faced with stiff competition from SpaceX, Arianespace is considering lowering its launch prices.
- China next lunar mission, set to launch next month, will have a rover named “Yutu”.
- Cuirosity has resumed science operations after experiencing a short circuit and voltage drop.
- A Progress freighter, launched yesterday, will not dock with ISS for four days in order to test upgrades to its rendezvou radar system.
- Five disastrous predictions that the Republicans got right about Obamacare.
- Another wave of mortgage loan defaults is about to hit.
- This year’s hurricane season, predicted to be above average, was the weakest in decades.
- The Supreme Court has decided to rule on the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.
- Using home computers, astronomers have discovered four new gamma ray pulsars, all in the plane of the Milky Way.
- It appears firefighters saved a half billion dollar NASA satellite from burning up in a truck fire today.
- The ingenious plan engineers have devised to do good science with the crippled Kepler space telescope.
- The man who saved the world.
- It appears that two nitrogen tanks exploded at the SpaceX facility in Texas last night.
- Russia has now officially delayed the launch of its next module to ISS by at least a year.
- Using Kepler data, astronomers have discovered a solar system with seven planets and configured similar to our own, with rocky planets close to the star and gas giants farther away
- The Obama administration yesterday proposed outlawing political speech by any non-profits.
- Faced with an almost certain recall over her gun control votes, a third Colorado state legislator has resigned.
- Using Cassini data scientists theorize that the lack of craters in the lowlands of Titan is because those lowlands were swamps that quickly erased the evidence.
- Comet ISON makes its close flyby of the sun today.
- Two brothers, also college students, have formed a company to build cubesats for researchers
- Gun confiscation begins in New York.
- A new housecat-sized feline species has been discovered in Brazil.
- A cancer patient who went on Fox to talk about how Obamacare has made him lose his health insurance is now being audited by the IRS.
- Though this conclusion is not final, it appears that Comet ISON was destroyed today in its close fly-by of the Sun.
- Another state tells Obama that they have to follow the law.
- The Falcon 9 rocket had an abort at launch today at 5:39 Eastern.
- A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
- A Progress freighter was manually docked with ISS today when its automatic docking system suffered a malfunction 200 feet from the station.
- Argentina to begin testing its own rocket for satellite launches before the end of 2013.
- Scott Walker’s epic battle to beat the unions in Wisconsin.
- The Federal Trade Commission goes after piano teachers.
- A mother with multiple sclerosis has lost her health insurance because of Obamacare.
- India’s first Martian orbiter, Mangalyaan, successfully fired its engines today to leave Earth orbit and head to Mars.
- Can’t light a Falcon 9 without a spark.
- Chang’e 3 and Yutu – The tale of a beautiful goddess and her rabbit on the Moon.
- Another great moment in local government.
- No more seasonal hurricane predictions from Colorado State University.
- China has successfully launched its first rover mission to the Moon.
- An overview of the known superearths.
- A Canadian disabled woman was denied entry to the United States after a customs agent cited her supposedly private medical details.
- SpaceX now plans its next launch attempt of the first Falcon 9 geosynchronous launch for Tuesday at 5:41 pm (Eastern).
- Russia consolidates its space industry into one giant government-owned corporation.
- Cats can recognize their owner’s voice, but choose to ignore it.
- According to one online hacker/security expert, no security was ever built into the Obamacare website.
- Exciting Times in Space
- India has delayed the first test launch of its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) from mid-December until the first week in 2014.
- A Connecticut museum, having switched its focus from art to science, has chosen to sell its most valuable statue to finance its own cubesat.
- In a 376-5 bi-partisan vote, the House has approved a one year extension to the liability exemption of the 2004 Space Amendments Act.
- Think you have finally enrolled in Obamacare? Think again.
- The FBI has been stonewalling the House investigation into the IRS scandal.
- SpaceX Falcon 9 launch
- Blue Origin today revealed details of its successful tests of its BE-3 hydrogen rocket engine.
- How to opt out of Obamacare, legally and intelligently.
- A new poll suggests that the young are finally abandoning Obama and the Democratic Party.
- Five myths about hacking you probably believe, thanks to the movies.
- Cassini has obtained its highest resolution images yet of Saturn’s hexagon-shaped jet stream.
- The planetary science community is in an uproar over the Obama administration’s proposed restructuring and possible budget cuts to NASA’s planetary research program.
- The Air Force’s X-37B is approaching a year in orbit.
- How India’s cryogenic rocket engine program was hampered and delayed, by the United States.
- Some more details about the impending takeover and overhaul of the Russian space industry by the Russian government.
- Let the space price war begin.
- A new poll shows Democrats as out-of-touch extremists.
- A map of Opportunity’s journey on Mars as it approaches its tenth anniversary since landing on January 25, 2004.
- Google X-Prize competitor Moon Express has unveiled its lunar lander, scheduled to soft land on the Moon in 2015.
- When a man denied the police entry into his house because they didn’t have a warrant, one officer threatened to come back with a warrant and “shoot and kill” the man’s dogs.
- Here’s another report on the planetary sciences/NASA dispute this week over funding and grant scheduling.
- No alcoholic beverages for the Russian astronauts to drink on ISS on New Year’s Eve.
- Obama tells Chris Matthews what he really thinks of the IRS harassment of conservatives.
- The lawsuit by a doctor against Obamacare.
- Obamacare threatens to destroy volunteer fire departments.
- Astronomers discover an exoplanet that their theories say shouldn’t exist.
- One person describes the experience she and her mother had under Obamacare.
- Nelson Mandala: Getting the facts of his life right.
- Seven out of ten doctors in California are refusing to participate in Obamacare.
- China’s lunar probe has entered lunar orbit.
- Rumors suggest that Republicans are moving to accept a budget deal that would end sequestration.
- Without permission California’s Obamacare exchange distributed the contact information of tens of thousands of people who had visited their website.
- The head of India’s research team at its Antarctica base has been recalled after he ordered the shut down of power at the station.
- International Launch Services ((ILS) has successfully launched its Russian Proton rocket to put another commercial communications satellite into orbit.
- Obamacare, where the liberal dream crashes and burns.
- Obamacare insurance plans are routinely excluding the world’s top hospitals.
- The latest IRS power grab.
- A Brazilian earth research satellite was lost today when a Chinese Long March rocket failed to put it into orbit.
- Russia’s deputy prime minister is pushing to accelerate the completion of Russia’s new spaceport in Vostochny.
- Using Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), scientists have finally identified the Sun’s predicted giant jet streams.
- No, you can’t keep your medicines either under Obamacare.
- Another news report suggests that Republicans are preparing to surrender in budget talks.
- A TSA agent confiscates the two-inch fake pistol of a monkey sock puppet.
- Of the 78 times police in Greensboro, North Carolina, fired their pistols in 2012, all but two were to kill someone’s pet.
- Yesterday police in Wisconsin celebrated Pearl Harbor Day by issuing tickets to people waving the American flag.
- Apropos my comment here, Rand Simberg superbly summarizes the serious threat SpaceX poses for the older space launch companies.
- Curiosity has succeeded in dating the age of one of its rock samples, the first time this has ever been done remotely on another planet.
- Scientists have published the first 300 days of radiation data from Curiosity on Mars.
- An upbeat wimpy maximum holds on
- Orbital Sciences, having delayed the launch of its first operational Cygnus cargo mission to ISS by one day, has named the spacecraft after the late astronaut Gordon Fullerton.
- Gale Crater held at least one lake in the past, and that lake existed for longer and more recently than expected.
- MSNBC: “It’s like watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 — just less realistic.”
- An airline stages a magnificent “Christmas miracle” for hundreds of its customers.
- Data from Messenger now shows that as Mercury cooled it shrunk far more than earlier data had indicated.
- One scientist’s modeling of the early universe suggests to him that intelligent life could have evolved as early as 15 million years after the Big Bang.
- The IRS is now harassing the insurance broker who has helped people losing their insurance under Obamacare.
- Why Republicans should reject the surrender budget deal rumors say Paul Ryan is negotiating with Democrats.
- Juno, on its way to Jupiter, flew past the Earth on October 9 and made a movie.
- “It’s hard to see how conservatives support it,” he said. “The question is, how angry will they get?”
- The failure of a Chinese Long March rocket to put a commercial satellite into orbit earlier this week was caused by a malfunction in the rocket’s third stage.
- A private unmanned mission to Mars by 2018?
- India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe successfully completed its first midcourse correction maneuver today.
- Triumph of the Vulgarians: Decency is now the new taboo
- After two months, Obamacare has only enrolled less than 400,000 people, even as it has caused millions to lose their health insurance policies.
- The Republican leadership expresses contempt for any opposition to its budget deal that abandons the cuts imposed by sequestration
- The refusal of 70% of California doctors to participate in Obamacare appears to be spontaneous, without leadership from any professional or political organization.
- This detailed look at the budget deal suggests it isn’t as much of a surrender as first implied.
- Scientists detect evidence of the splash of clay material left by an asteroid or comet after it impacted Europa.
- SpaceShipTwo flew another glide test today.
- One of ISS’s cooling system pumps failed today.
- The Ryan budget deal includes a provision that limits the ability of the Senate minority to block tax increases.
- If a US spacewalk on ISS is necessary to repair its cooling system, the spare parts are there, but the spacesuits are not.
- China’s Chang’e 3 lunar orbiter has lowered its orbit around the Moon.
- Trying to hide the disaster that is Obamacare.
- Yup, this sums it up nicely.
- “Please pray for me… I am losing my insurance.”
- How to beat a photo-enforced traffic ticket.
- Ten cool places you are not allowed to visit.
- Hubble discovers water vapor venting from Europa’s south pole.
- The Washington state Obamacare website is down, but it still has been able to mistakenly take money from people’s bank accounts.
- A Michigan teachers union is trying to win a $10,000 severance payment for a child molester.
- Homeland Security has finally fired the black racist who had called for the mass murder of whites.
- The Connecticut Obamacare website gave the wrong information for every single insurance plan it offered, and it took a month to fix the problem.
- A dead Nelson Mandala crashed an Obama Johannesburg appearance last week.
- A man arrested in Colorado City for legally open carrying his pistol has won $23K in a lawsuit against the city.
- The coolant systems failure on ISS might delay next week’s Cygnus cargo mission.
- Anthill art
- It is time to start applying the Broken Windows Theory to liberal intolerance.
- A survey of 400 chief financial officers finds that nearly half plan to cut back on employment because of Obamacare.
- Chinese scientists have concluded that the asteroid Toutatis is a rubble pile barely held together by gravity, based on data obtained from Chang’e 2’s flyby one year ago.
- It appears that Senate Republicans will filibuster the Ryan budget deal.
- As deadlines loom and the problems with the Obamacare website continue, the Obama administration has issued a number of illegal extensions to the law.
- It appears that NASA is planning to go ahead with at least one spacewalk to replace ISS’s faulty coolant system pump.
- On the road
- After a successful soft landing, China’s lunar rover Yutu has successfully rolled onto the lunar surface.
- Iran claims to have sent a second monkey into space and recovered it safely.
- The Cygnus cargo mission to ISS has been delayed by at least one day as NASA managers struggle to deal with the station’s coolant pump failure.
- NASA has decided that Dream Chaser met all its engineering milestones during its test flight in October, despite the landing gear failure.
- China outlines the plans for its next two unmanned lunar probes, with the second targeted as a 2017 sample return mission.
- Germany has funded a study to look into using Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser for its space operations.
- Leftwing news photographer reveals he is no news photographer, ashamed he broke a big story revealing the ugly side of his hero Obama.
- Paul Ryan says House Republicans are going to demand something in exchange for raising the debt ceiling again in February.
- “If they kill us all, will you do something then?”
- Eleven spectacular cliff paths.
- A campaign ad that says it bluntly: “You lied.”
- Aerojet has successfully completed engine tests for the launch abort system on Boeing’s CST-100 manned capsule.
- Arianespace has ordered the construction of an additional 18 Ariane 5 rockets.
- A cop not only doesn’t shoot a dog, he adopts him.
- A 12-year study of massive stars in the Milky Way has confirmed the galaxy has four spiral arms.
- Obamacare: The worst is yet to come.
- The Obamacare contraceptive mandate is struck down again, and here are six reasons why.
- Thirteen insane projects funded by our federal government.
- NASA engineers have decided to go ahead with a series of spacewalks to repair the ISS cooling system, thereby delaying the Cygnus cargo mission until January.
- “Nothing is written.”
- More than half the U.S. is covered with snow this November, the most in ten years.
- A company fires an employee because he put out a fire.
- The media’s ten worst predictions for 2013.
- 2013: a bad year for liberty.
- A judge has blasted the Obama administration for attempting to keep non-classified materials secret and ordered their release.
- A non-paleontologist documents significant errors in the work of several noted paleontologists.
- Reddit bans any skepticism of global warming.
- Fixing the coolant pump on ISS: A close look at what will happen during the upcoming spacewalks.
- The star of cable television’s highest rated show in history has been sacked because he dared criticize the homosexual lifestyle
- Gaia, a astronomical space probe designed to pinpoint the location of a billion stars to map the Milky Way, was successfully launched today.
- Bad weather scrubbed a SpaceShipTwo test flight yesterday.
- SpaceX has set December 31 as the launch date for its next Falcon 9 commercial launch.
- 77% of the uninsured don’t want Obamacare.
- The real legal issues surrounding the right to openly carry your pistol.
- Cuba is lifting the limit on the number of people allowed to buy a car.
- The Messenger science team has named ten craters on Mercury after some 19th and 20th century artists, musicians, and writers.
- The Obamacare state exchanges are losing their directors.
- An update on the Google Lunar X-Prize competition.
- WISE, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer, sent back its first images in almost three years this week.
- A homeless dog rescued
- Forced to put their existence up to a vote, over 70 of 408 public unions in Wisconsin have been rejected.
- Under Seattle Bertha has stopped drilling because something is in the way.
- The Obama administration has announced another eleventh-hour exemption to Obamacare.
- The eerie, alien, and abstract World War II monuments of Yugoslavia.
- Advice for Phil Robertson of Duck Dynasty.
- A 3D printer comparison guide.
- India has set January 5 as the launch date for its next attempt to launch is home-built GSLV rocket.
- Scientists admit that second-hand smoke causes zero cancer deaths.
- New security issues revealed for the Obamacare website.
- NASA and Orbital Sciences have set January 7 as the launch date for the Cygnus cargo mission to ISS.
- A Muslim woman graduates at the top of her class, in medicine, in Israel.
- It seems Curiosity’s wheels are wearing out faster than expected and engineers want to know why.
- A Christmas prank.
- The top ten states for job growth.
- Another court today ruled against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate.
- Today’s spacewalk on ISS to replace a coolant pump is ahead of schedule.
- Another way for the young to avoid the absurdly expensive Obamacare insurance plans.
- Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery comes to life!
- Yesterday’s spacewalk on ISS, though successful, was cut short because of spacesuit discomfort issues unrelated to the earlier water leak problems.
- “An apparent double standard in President Barack Obama’s unprecedented crackdown on unauthorized leaks.”
- This news report, confirmed by no other source, claims that the spacewalk this week was cut short because of water in the astronauts’ spacesuits.
- Iraqi government declares Christmas a ‘national holiday’
- The sticker shock of Obamacare only begins when you pick your plan.
- Preparing for today’s second spacewalk to replace the coolant pump on ISS.
- China’s rover about to go to sleep for the long lunar night.
- Mars Express will do an extremely close flyby of the martian moon Phobos on December 29.
- The companies building manned spacecraft for the United States all appear to be on track.
- A White Christmas on Mars.
- The first theorem of government: Government is a racket that benefits the political elite by taking money from everyone else.
- Should Republicans again demand that the Obamacare individual mandate be delayed?
- George Washington: a victor in battle, a freeman in heart.
- Every image taken during the Apollo program is now available online.
- “The TSA couldn’t protect you from a 6-year-old with a water balloon.”
- Today’s spacewalk on ISS is complete with the successful installation of a replacement coolant pump.
- Insufficiently servile.
- The Russians have delayed the first launch of a new Soyuz rocket for at least a week.
- Here come the Obamacare tax bills!
- Another successful Proton rocket launch took place today in Russia.
- Under Obamacare more than half the counties in the 34 states that use the federal Obamacare health exchange have no affordable insurance plans.
- Obama’s top ten Constitutional violations for 2013.
- Photos taken 33 years ago by a photographer who died in the Mt. St. Helens eruption have been discovered and developed.
- The Russians on ISS are doing their own spacewalk today, for profit.
- Were the dinosaurs covered by feathers or scales? Scientists disagree.
- The first commercial supersonic business jet?
- State governments are now withholding payments to the contractors who created their failed Obamacare websites.
- Life on the GLAAD blacklist.
- A 9-year-old boy from California has become the youngest person to climb the western and southern hemisphere’s highest peak.
- Today’s spacewalk by two Russian astronauts on ISS set a new Russian duration record though one of the two commercial cameras was unable to transmit its data to the ground.
- India has now scheduled January 5 as the date for the test launch of its homebuilt powerful GSLV rocket.
- The Russians today launched their new upgraded Soyuz 2 rocket, successfully putting three payloads into orbit.
- SpaceX successfully completed a static fire engine test Saturday in preparation for its next commercial satellite launch on January 3.
- The first person to cycle to the South Pole.
- Obamacare includes absurd regulations that will cost the vending machine industry millions.
- Police confiscate a legal firearm and thus cost their city almost $7000 when the owner wins the lawsuit demanding the gun’s return.
- A tea party look at 2013.
- The company for the high resolution cameras that the Russian astronauts were unable to install on ISS during their spacewalk last week has issued an update.
- The Obama administration essentially admits that Obamacare has increased the number of uninsured.
- Dave Barry looks back at 2013.
- Moronic Common Core lessons the federal government is imposing on public schools.
- Global sea ice area is now at its second highest level ever recorded, and closing in on an all time record.
- Mars Express buzzes Phobos.
- Mars One narrows its applicant pool of would-be Martian colonists from 200,000 to just over a 1000.
- “Why is Israel releasing murderers?”
- Elon Musk outlines the upcoming test program for the development of the man-rated Dragon capsule.
- Virgin Galactic has released video of SpaceShipTwo’s second powered flight.
- Scientists think they have found cloudy skies on a nearby super Earth.
- The Chinese rover Yutu, before going into hibernation for the long lunar night, successfully took its first spectrum of the Moon’s surface.
- New York mayor Bill de Blasio: “We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period.”
- The geological history of Venus: What’s known, not known, and unknown.
- AmeriCorps volunteers have discovered that the health plans provided by this federal program are insufficient to meet the requirements of Obamacare.
- NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted China’s Yutu rover on the Moon’s surface.
- How global warming activists ended up getting stuck in the ice fields surrounding Antarctica.
- “Unfortunately, it’s easier for our franchisees to open a restaurant in Siberia than in California.”
- Scientists tell the truth.
- The law gives the government the final say on how your doctor treats you.
- A box of 100-year-old negatives from the Antarctica Shackleton expedition have been discovered, processed, and printed.
- In the final draft of its new report the IPCC has significantly slashed its predictions for how much the climate will warm in the coming decades.
- U.S. Customs destroys a musician’s 11 flutes, declaring them to be agricultural products.
- The bottom of the barrel.
- A survey of New York businesses cannot find any businesses whose healthcare costs have gone down due to Obamacare.
- Eleven global warming stories from 2013 you probably never heard of
- The big solar hotshots of 2013.
- Frontpage picks Ted Cruz as their 2013 man of the year.
- Britain’s citizens want their guns back.
- The 30 counties with the highest medium income just happen to be where most people work for the federal government.
- Obamacare confusion reigns as frustrated patients walk out of hospitals without treatment.
- The second commercial launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket has been delayed three days until January 6 because an unspecified issue with the rocket’s fairing.
- Obamacare does not provide any easy way for a family to add a new baby to their insurance plan.
- Cats are liquid.
- “I have closed all my businesses in Ventura County, California.”
- Scientists so good they can predict things after it happens
- NASA and Orbital Sciences have rescheduled the Cygnus freighter launch to ISS until January 8 because of cold weather.
- Boeing is moving its X-37B operations to the Kennedy Space Center.
- After more than a decade of failed attempts, India has finally successfully launched its Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV).
- Even if you have health insurance, it might be cheaper to pretend to be uninsured and pay cash instead.
- Chutzpah.
- Nearly two thirds of the fraud and waste lost by the federal government in 2013 was paid by HHS, the agency running Obamacare.
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Theme from ‘Shaft’
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- SpaceX on Monday successfully launched its second geosynchronous commercial satellite.
- Astronomers, using Kepler data, have identified dozens of exoplanets between 1 and 4 times the mass of the Earth.
- The agony of the world’s most influential focus group pollster.
- The recently reactivated WISE space telescope has discovered its first new asteroid.
- Arianespace, in an effort to trim costs, is considering slashing the number of companies that will build its next generation rockets from 150 to 50.
- A North Carolina cop shoots a tased and restrained 90-pound high school student after allegedly stating, “We don’t have time for this.”
- Five years of hate and falsified news at NBC.
- Orbital Sciences has scrubbed today’s launch of Cygnus due to the major solar flare that occurred yesterday.
- The European Space Agency announced today that it is studying using Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser spacecraft for manned flights.
- In a story that concerns the upcoming presidential campaign, emails show that top aides to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie purposely closed lanes to the George Washington Bridge in an effort to hurt the mayor of Fort Lee for not endorsing Christie.
- Yippee! Solar scientists finally get it right
- Eight reasons why Chris Christie’s traffic scandal could cause big trouble in 2016.
- New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has now expressed outrage over the revelation today that his aides created traffic jams to hurt a political opponent.
- Global warming devastates America.
- Orbital Sciences now plans to launch Cygnus on Thursday.
- NASA and the Obama administration have announced their support for extending ISS’s operations for more years to at least 2024.
- A direct image of an exoplanet.
- More than eight months after an outraged President Obama said he would get to the bottom of the IRS harassment of conservatives, we finally find out who is heading his investigation.
- A Colorado Democratic Senator has asked his state insurance agency to hide the numbers of people whose insurance was cancelled because of Obamacare.
- Heads roll in New Jersey over traffic scandal.
- Orbital Sciences has successfully launched its Cygnus cargo ferry into orbit.
- Speaking of contrasts, compare the reaction when evidence revealed the Obama administration intentional made life difficult for citizens during the government shutdown.
- Some individuals who thought they had enrolled in a healthcare plan on the Obamacare website are discovering that their insurance company has no record of them.
- Astronomers announced today the discovery of several dozen stars which are traveling so fast they will escape the Milky Way galaxy.
- Congress has now officially renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong.
- One health insurance company has now announced that the mix of old/sick and young/healthy buying insurance under Obamacare is far worse than expected.
- Seven months after the IRS scandal broke, the FBI has finally contacted some of the conservative groups that were harassed by the tax agency.
- SpaceShipTwo successfully completed its third powered test flight today.
- Cygnus was successfully berthed to ISS today.
- China’s rover and lander on the Moon have both been successfully reawakened after hibernating through the two week long lunar night.
- The Spanish language Obamacare website is unreadable to Spanish speakers.
- “Over the weekend, it seems as though the national media finally figured out what most ObamaCare critics have predicted all along.”
- SpaceX has signed a contract with a Japanese commercial satellite company.
- Astronomers have identified a star they expect to go supernova very soon.
- Another innocent patient, having lost his insurance due to Obamacare, is now threatened with death.
- Twenty fascinating photos from history.
- A federal court has thrown out the net neutrality rules imposed by Obama’s FCC appointees, stating that the commission had overstepped its authority.
- The sound of pi
- On the air tonight
- The House is about to vote on a trillion dollar spending bill that no one has really read.
- After drilling four shafts and sending in one man to look, engineers still don’t know what is blocking the giant tunnel drill Bertha in Seattle.
- A House investigation has found that the Obama administration acted to make the sequestration cuts as “painful as possible” for rural schools.
- A detailed look at how the budget deal effects the NASA budget.
- Orbital Sciences outlines the upgrades it plans for Cygnus and Antares.
- Why the sequester had to die.
- Jimmy Kimmel savages Obamacare and ignorant young who support it.
- The Obama administration now harasses the military chaplain who sued them because of their actions during the government shutdown.
- A scuba mask that allows you to breath underwater as if you were a fish.
- Astronomers have discovered the first exoplanets orbiting a star almost identical to the Sun.
- NASA’s first test flight of both the Orion capsule and the heavy-lift SLS rocket in 2017 might be delayed because of design problems with the European-built service module.
- A Democrat wins election in Virginia and a push for more gun control follows.
- Republican leadership begins an effort to back off from repealing Obamacare.
- “Please take me off your list of hate.”
- UN climate chief this week declared that communism is the best way to fight global warming.
- In a House hearing today, cybersecurity experts once again warned that the Obamacare website is not secure, and that the Obama administration is doing nothing to fix it.
- A legal gunowner gets abused by the police because he’s a legal gun owner.
- The operators of campgrounds in the national forests are suing the Obama administration, saying it had no right to force them to close down during last October’s government shutdown.
- Amazing German designed cat climbing furniture.
- When it comes to abusing his power, Chris Christie is an amateur compared to the Democrats.
- “I think it was a sham from the beginning.”
- A cheaper Japanese launch vehicle is scheduled to launch next month.
- An outline of Dream Chaser’s test flight schedule for the next three years, leading to its first crewed flight in 2017.
- Scaled Composites did an engine test today in Mojave of an alternative engine for SpaceShipTwo.
- The man who was forced by police to undergo multiple invasive surgeries after a traffic stop — and billed for the abuse after nothing illegal was found – has won a $1.6 million legal settlement with New Mexico local authorities.
- “If guns cause more violence, where’s the exploding crime rate?”
- Higher premiums, less generous coverage, and more paperwork!
- Obama’s two children were listed as “Senior Staff” for a Michelle Obama trip to Africa that cost at least $424K.
- Finally, an aggressive TSA groping at an airport checkpoint has led to a sexual assault investigation by police.
- An interview with Scott Walker.
- On Friday SpaceShipTwo completed another test flight, this time a glide test to for pilot training.
- SpaceX successfully tested the parachute system on its Dragon capsule on Friday.
- Opportunity begins its second decade roving the Martian surface.
- The European Space Agency has now released its first cost estimates for upgrading and replacing its Ariane 5 rocket.
- A Kentucky state legislator has introduced a bill to have the state pull out of the Common Core federal education standards program.
- A cancer patient discovers at the last minute that she can’t keep her doctor or get treatment, because of Obamacare.
- A comparison between reality and the predictions of global warming scientists from 1988 reveals an epic fail.
- “You can literally just open up your browser, go to this, and extract all this information without actually having to hack the website itself.”
- After three years in hibernation Europe’s Rosetta comet probe has successfully come back to life.
- The Obama administration exempted the members of a Muslim Brotherhood delegation from any TSA inspection when the visited the U.S in 2012.
- Another law, another squelched dream
- If you want to see the inside of NASA’s gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), you better hurry. Tours cease in February.
- Another lunar Earthrise image from the 1960s restored and enhanced.
- Beautiful machinery.
- A donut-sized rock suddenly appears in front of the Mars rover Opportunity.
- A village government in New York is trying to take a private grocery using eminent domain in order to replace it with a municipality-owned market.
- “The potential for abuse is staggering.”
- Because of a computer reboot, Rosetta’s revival from hibernation came 18 minutes late.
- Penn State’s Google Lunar X Prize team has now launched a kickstarter campaign to fund its effort.
- A woman spends six weeks trying to cancel an Obamacare insurance policy.
- Six likely events that will follow an economic crash.
- To environmentalists no warming and more bears means global warming and an endangered species
- A new study outlines the problems British researchers had in their 2012 attempt to drill down into a buried Antarctic lake.
- A look at China’s plans to develop a heavy-lift rocket.
- A new supernova, bright enough to be visible to amateurs, was discovered last night in the nearby galaxy M82.
- The fraud in global warming science
- Virgin Galactic today announced the successful testing of their own new rocket engine.
- Astronomers have detected water vapor spurting from Ceres, the solar system’s largest asteroid.
- For more information about that newly discovered supernova in the nearby galaxy M82 go here and here.
- The credit rating agency Moody’s has downgraded its outlook for health insurancers from stable to negative because of Obamacare.
- Gun manufacturers flee California over its microstamping law.
- The IRS harassment of conservatives continues.
- In celebration of the tenth anniversary of Opportunity’s landing on Mars, the journal Science publishes a special section of the newest findings from Mars.
- Ants on ISS.
- The totalitarians of New York.
- The conservative target of a fake investigation by a Wisconsin Democratic prosecutor — having won in court — is now threatening to sue if the prosecutor doesn’t stop the investigation down immediately.
- Sierra Nevada sets November 2016 as the date for its first orbital flight of Dream Chaser.
- Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s top experts on black holes, has written a paper stating there are no black holes.
- Come October 2014 astronomers will attempt to weigh Proxima Centauri, the nearest star.
- A Kazakhstan political party is demanding the end of all launches from Baikonur.
- Enrollees in Obamacare in California are discovering few doctors or hospitals willing to accept their plans.
- New York Senator Charles Schumer proposes disenfranchising tea party voters in order to weaken their impact at the polls.
- The TSA spent almost a billion dollars hiring behavior detection officers who then detected zero terrorists.
- A newspaper chain plans to assemble a state-by-state database of every person permitted to carry a concealed weapon.
- Something is wrong with China’s lunar rover.
- NASA data has confirmed that the flat global climate temperature that started around 1998 has continued in 2013.
- More information on the problems with China’s lunar rover Yutu.
- Twenty places that are difficult to believe really exist.
- “The most dangerous years of the Obama presidency are upon us.”
- Posting to be light
- Eye update
- After dimming for decades, the North Star is now getting brighter.
- In a spacewalk earlier this week, two Russian astronauts on ISS successfully installed the commercial UrtheCast cameras.
- The National Science Foundation wants to get rid of some of its older big telescopes, and you can buy them!
- The reactivation of Rosetta continues, with no serious issues so far.
- Multiple U.S. science agencies have been accused of fudging data to fake the existence of global warming.
- A Republican congressman threatens a reporter for asking him an unexpected question.
- Illinois officials have ordered an eleven-year-old to close her cupcake business that was earning her $200 a month.
- Better medicine through engineering
- NOAA fudges the numbers to turn a January cooling trend since 1930 into a warming trend.
- A Christian song has been stripped of its Oscar nomination as a result of protests within the Hollywood community.
- New Yorkers react to Obama’s State of the Union speech, before it happens.
- One NASA lunar orbiter snags an image of another NASA lunar orbiter.
- The dislike of Obamacare has risen, among the uninsured.
- The head of Russia’s space agency is in Vostochny to review the construction of Russia’s new spaceport there.
- One in five enrollees in Obamacare are likely to have their policy canceled for not paying their premium.
- To reduce wheel damage engineers are considering sending Curiosity on an smoother route up Mount Sharp.
- What life has been like for one engineer who works at SpaceX.
- Confessions of an ex-TSA agent.
- Sick children in Washington state denied insurance coverage for specialty treatment at a children’s hospital.
- A new harvest of vegetables in space!
- Curiosity snaps a picture of its planned upcoming travel route.
- The Gibson Guitar Company gives the federal government the finger.
- Why good people should be armed.
- After resuming drilling in Seattle — and only going four feet — Bertha has been stopped again.
- Slandering an American icon.
- The legs for Falcon 9’s first stage.
- An Obama supporter discovers she was betrayed by Obama and Obamacare.
- “We prefer to pretend that bad students don’t exist.”
- Every Democratic senator up for re-election in 2014 voted with the president at least 90 percent of the time in 2013.
- Bolden and Mikulski hold a press conference to lobby for continuing funding for the James Webb Space Telescope.
- The public battle between Virgin Galactic and the author of a critical new biography of Richard Branson.
- Jupiter’s shrinking Great Red Spot.
- College students eagerly sign a petition to imprison all registered gun owners.
- A new report from the Congressional Budget Office has found that Obamacare will increase the deficit and slow the economy far more than originally predicted.
- The 2014 Birthday Bleg
- Will Piers Morgan apologize for spreading a racist hoax?
- A close look at the spending bills introduced in Congress shows that of the 70 members who sponsored the largest number of spending bills, 65 were Democrats, four were Republicans and one an independent.
- Archeologists excavate a 4,600 year old pyramid in Egypt.
- Scientists have found that bumblebees have the capability of flying at altitudes higher than the top of Mount Everest.
- An analysis of the rotation of the peanut-shaped asteroid 25143 Itokawa suggests that its smaller end is actually far denser than its bigger end.
- Congress hovers over commercial space like a vulture
- “I can’t imagine this is how President Obama wanted it to happen.”
- Scientists claim that global warming will cause big waves that will exhaust fish!
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots a new crater on Mars.
- The uncertainty of knowledge
- A new survey of the nation’s top companies finds that large numbers plan to cut benefits, hours, and hiring to deal with the costs of Obamacare.
- Chris Christie’s pain is Scott Walker’s gain
- For a variety of reasons, SpaceX and NASA have agreed to delay the next Dragon cargo mission a few weeks to no early than March 16.
- NASA and one of its major IT contractors have both screwed up badly, according to a new Inspector General report.
- Data tampering to create the illusion of global warming by James Hansen and NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies.
- A close review of the sources cited in the four studies that claimed a 97% scientific consensus supporting global warming has found that claim to be false.
- What if there was a terrorist attack but no one told us?
- Boehner suggests linking the debt-limit hike to a restoration of recent cuts to military benefits.
- “I will not retreat. I will not surrender. I will not be intimidated, and I will not ask for permission to exercise my constitutional rights.”
- Curiosity takes its first image of the Earth/Moon system from Mars.
- More red tape in space.
- Russia considers building a heavy-lift rocket, even as it completes the design and construction of its new Angara commercial rocket family.
- Cosmologists, using new data, are now reconsidering their theories on the manner in which the universe began organizing itself after the Big Bang.
- An FBI agent mistakenly fills out the wrong box so that an innocent person is put on the no-fly list, she sues, and the federal government fights her for almost a decade in court proceedings that the government demands must be held in secret.
- The voters in bankrupt San Bernardino this week elected tea party-type individuals as their mayor and city council.
- How the tea party cornered John Boehner on immigration.
- At House hearings this week witness after witness recounted how the IRS harassment of conservatives continues.
- A new study has found that healthcare costs for small businesses have doubled since Obama became President.
- Curiosity has successfully crossed its first sand dune.
- A message in a bottle, tossed into the ocean at Cape Cod by a scientist in 1956, was just found in Nova Scotia.
- Engineers have finally pinpointed the problem, a damaged seal assembly, that has been stalling the giant drilling machine Bertha in Seattle.
- Want to know why Arianespace has never made a profit? Read this story.
- Scientists have found 800,000 year old footprints of a family on Britain’s eastern coast.
- The oldest known star in the Milky Way?
- The Obama administration unilaterally delayed the employer mandate for medium sized businesses today.
- Richard Branson today claimed that Virgin Galactic will fly its first space tourists this year.
- Awaiting contact from China’s rover as lunar day arrives.
- If Obamacare is so great, why does Obama keep delaying it?
- 95% of all climate models agree: The observations must be wrong.
- Arianespace, under severe competitive price pressure from SpaceX, begs for more subsidies from ESA.
- DARPA opens the competition for awarding the first design contracts for a new experimental unmanned space plane, set to launch in 2017.
- The first four cubesats of a fleet of 28 launched from ISS on Tuesday.
- 100% of 501(c)(4) groups audited by IRS were conservative.
- Yutu is dead.
- Environmentalists register opposition to a new commercial spaceport in Florida.
- A defunct Soviet-era military satellite might spew debris onto the ground when it re-enters the atmosphere on Sunday.
- Will SpaceShipTwo take passengers into space this year? Branson says yes, Messier says probably not.
- Republican wins big in a San Diego special election yesterday to replace that city’s corrupt Democratic mayor.
- The Republican leadership joins with Democrats to pass a debt limit extension.
- Scientists produce the first global geologic map of Jupiter’s moon Ganymede.
- Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
- Though Chinese engineers say that Yutu is still having problems, they have gotten a signal from it.
- It appears that a large majority of Connecticut gun-owners are refusing to register their semi-automatic rifles, as required by that state’s new gun control law.
- Senate Democrats to the IRS: You’re our only hope!
- Ben Carson and his family and friends have been targets of IRS harassment since he criticized Obama in 2013.
- The trial of the century.
- Mapping the galaxy’s magnetic field.
- Governments spent $359 billion in 2012, about the same as 2011, on their effort to stop global warming.
- SpaceX gets incentives to build a spaceport in Texas.
- Patrick Henry’s speech to the Virginia House of Burgess, March 23, 1775.
- Torches, masks, and violent threats: The KKK used it (a almost entirely Democratic Party organization), and now environmentalists are running with it.
- For the first time in 20 years, the global total spent on government space programs declined in 2013.
- The FAA has given its permission for Blue Origin to expand its operations in Texas.
- Orbital Sciences’ balance sheets booming as a result of commercial space.
- The structural assembly of India’s manned crew module was delivered to its space agency this week.
- “Indeed we are not purists. We just want people who fundamentally represent our values.”
- The Facebook comment that ruined a life.
- Opportunity heads uphill after engineers finally pinpoint the origin of the rock that appeared out of nowhere.
- India unveils its first test manned capsule.
- Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put a commercial Turkish communications satellite into orbit on Saturday.
- Is Google planning to launch a constellation of 1600 satellites?
- Police shoot and kill an 80-year-old man in his own bed.
- A Boston hospital kidnaps a man’s daughter and then slaps a gag order on him to try to prevent him from talking about it.
- Three relatively large near Earth asteroids have just been discovered.
- NOAA’s official prediction for this winter was worse than monkeys working on typewriters.
- Cygnus has departed ISS after successfully bring its cargo to the station.
- Kate Upton and Sports Illustrated have completed a swimsuit photo shoot on the vomit comet.
- The Russian head of the Baikonur spaceport has resigned.
- Is Yutu alive or dead? Only the Chinese know for sure.
- Communism fails again, and the Western intellectual elite puts blinders on so they don’t have to see it.
- University of South Carolina administrators refuse to teach the Constitution as required by state stature because they find it “inconvenient.”
- A fourth hospital in two years is shutting down in Georgia because of payment cuts imposed by Obamacare.
- Our decadent elites.
- “If I do not receive my medication, I will die.”
- Europe approves its own more advanced version of Kepler to launch in 2024 and hunt for exoplanets across half the sky.
- Off to Israel
- The Google Lunar X-Prize has chosen 5 finalists of the 18 teams remaining in the private competition to land a rover on the Moon by 2015.
- A last look inside NASA gigantic Vehicle Assembly Building before tours end.
- More evidence that Brownsville, Texas, has won the competition to become the location of SpaceX’s private commercial spaceport.
- Orbital images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have confirmed that the mysterious rock that appeared near Opportunity was not ejecta from a nearby meteorite impact.
- Colorado sheriffs push back against enforcing the gun laws passed by Democratic state legislators
- Stand with President Obama on spending!
- Russia on track to test launch its new Angara rocket before June.
- A ruling by “a fatwa committee” in the United Arab Emirates now forbids Muslims from going on a one way mission to Mars.
- Democrats are whining about the Medicare cuts imposed by Obamacare, by the very law they refused to read and then imposed on us.
- The Obama administration is moving ahead with a FCC project to send government agents into newsrooms to make sure journalists cover certain topics the Obama administration considers important.
- The TSA is studying how to prevent solar powered bombs being smuggled onto airplanes.
- The next Falcon 9/Dragon launch to ISS will include the first test of legs on the rocket’s first stage, as well as an attempt to complete a soft touchdown on water of that first stage.
- A blogger with brains and a passion for free speech explains to the brainless and partisan mainstream press why the Obama administration thinks it can get away with monitoring the news gathering operations of the press and not face outraged criticism.
- A renowned astronomer reminds everyone — the public, the astronomy community, and most importantly the press — that the data collected on most exoplanets is far more uncertain than often claimed.
- The purchase of land by SpaceX in the Brownsville, Texas area reveals the name the company is considering giving is spaceport there.
- “I don’t think we should be tolerating conservative views because that dominant culture embeds these deep inequalities in our society.”
- The consolidation of the Russian aerospace industry continues as the government considers taking over privately owned Sea Launch.
- Several massive countersuits have now been filed against global warming scientist Michael Mann after he failed to pursue his own lawsuit againsts Canadian climate scientist Timothy Ball.
- Grovel before the badged ones.
- A close look at the environmental assessment that Blue Origin submitted to the FAA to get approval for an expanded test operations reveals their intention to do numerous launch abort tests of an orbital crew capsule.
- A Democratic Congressmen threatens the loss of the FCC license of television stations which air an ad criticizing his vote in favor of Obamacare.
- Victory in the Ukraine for its protesting citizenry with the ouster of that country’s corrupt and tyrannical government.
- The cop who shot and killed an already restrained 90 lb teen, saying “We don’t have time for this,” as he fired, has now been indicted for voluntary manslaughter.
- The FCC now claims it will not send monitors into newsrooms.
- A September asteroid impact on the Moon captured by Spanish astronomers.
- R.I.P. astronaut Dale Gardner.
- A zircon crystal found in western Australia has been dated as the oldest piece of the Earth’s crust,
- Global warming activists organize a petition to ban a column by Charles Krauthammer that criticized global warming activists of trying to silence opposing points of view.
- NASA is preparing the next round of commercial contracts to supply cargo to ISS.
- It is now confirmed that the next Falcon 9 launch to ISS will have legs on its first stage and will attempt a controlled landing over water.
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- A report released by the Obama administration on Monday estimates that health insurance premiums for small and medium business will rise significantly in 2014 because of Obamacare.
- The student who was stopped from handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day has won a settlement from the college that tried to stop him.
- To save fuel United Airlines is adding additional winglets to the wingtips of their airplanes.
- Eric Holder describes his belief that district attorneys don’t have to enforce any laws they disagree with.
- A California couple finds a hoard of gold coins buried on a nearby trail estimated to be worth $10 million.
- A Florida judge has ruled that it is illegal to live completely off the grid.
- The most dangerous woman in DC.
- A district that the Democrats won by a big margin in 2013 voted as strongly for a Republican in a special local election on Monday.
- A scientific study has found that name-calling and trolling on websites polarizes thought and blocks the ability of reasonable people to focus on the actual facts.
- Former IRS official Lois Lerner has been recalled to testify again before a House committee in regards to the IRS’s harassment of conservatives.
- Contempt for the law
- Harry Reid insists that “all” of the Obamacare horror stories “are untrue.”
- Two publishers of scientific journals have withdrawn 120 papers which they have discovered were nothing more than computer-generated gibberish.
- “So we do live in a jackboot society.”
- Comment problem
- Using archived Kepler data combined with statistical modeling, scientists have proposed the discovery of another 715 exoplanets.
- An investigation into the dangerous leak of water into a spacesuit during a spacesuit last July has found that NASA engineers had missed an earlier failure of the same suit.
- An image of North Korea taken from ISS illustrates starkly the failure of a state-run top-down dictatorial society.
- Despite IAU disapproval, the space company Uwingu has announced another private commercial naming project for the craters of Mars.
- The treasure trove of gold coins found by a California couple on their property might be the gold coins stolen from 1901 heist of the San Francisco mint.
- Just in case Harry Reid might actually be listening, here is another round of Obamacare train wrecks.
- Modern cop to person filming him: “You just lost your free speech rights!”
- The harassment of conservatives by the IRS was instigated by Democratic elected officials in plain sight for all to see.
- The archeological discovery of a gladiator school in Austria has revealed many details about their daily lives.
- The Obama administration’s Interior Department has decided let the people in a remote Aleut community die rather than risk the lives of the birds in a wildlife refuge.
- On Thursday Japan launched the NASA-built Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observatory (GPM), designed to track the climate’s rain and snowfall.
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- Even as the IRS was admitting last year that its harassment of conservatives was a mistake, the agency was working up its new rules to make the harassment official policy, under pressure from Democratic elected officials.
- A federal appeals court has ruled that schools can ban the American flag in order to prevent violence.
- The spoiled rotten kids of DC’s elite.
- Just hours before she was scheduled to testify about IRS harassment of conservatives, the head of a conservative organization was called by an IRS official, telling her that her organization’s tax exempt status had finally been approved, after waiting more than 3 years.
- One of the publishers who had published fake peer-reviewed papers generated by a computer program has responded aggressively to fix the problem.
- After six months of trying and failing to cancel an unwanted Obamacare health insurance plan, a Florida man is now considering shutting his bank account to prevent the plan from automatically withdrawing money from his account.
- The inspirational life of the oldest Holocaust survivor whose genius for the piano enabled her AND her son to survive a Nazi death camp.
- The story of the early history the Russian spaceport at Baikonur.
- Returning the Falcon 9 first stage safely: More details about the next attempt during the next Dragon launch to ISS on March 16.
- A retired NASA manager is suing the Discovery Channel for its false portrayal of his action in connection with the Challenger shuttle accident.
- “What happens if Russia refuses to fly U.S. astronauts?”
- China finally reveals Yutu’s problem: the failure of a control circuit prevents it from storing its solar panels during lunar night.
- Airbus plans to do the first drop test a prototype of its commercial space plane sometime in May.
- The Obama administration released its 2015 proposed federal budget today, including its proposals for NASA.
- The guacamole at the fast food chain of Chipotle is going to be stricken from the menu because of “global warming.”
- Amateur astronomers can help a commercial space start-up by taking pictures of its cubesat SkyCube.
- A 100-foot diameter newly discovered asteroid will zip past the Earth inside the Moon’s orbit today at 4:07 pm Eastern.
- A look at the President’s overall budget for science, which finds spending levels remain flat.
- A 10-year-old is suspended for pointing a “level 2 lookalike firearm,” which happened to be his finger.
- “Obama’s pseudo-scientism”
- According to the IRS, when Obamacare goes into full effect in 2016 the cost for its cheapest plan will average $20,000 per year per family.
- In testimony to Congress Wednesday, Elon Musk described how allowing SpaceX to compete as a military launch provider would significantly lower costs.
- The Chief Financial Officer of the spaceport there suddenly resigned without explanation, just as a financial audit was starting.
- Hubble photographs the break-up of an asteroid.
- Another rock will fly past the Earth today, killing no one.
- Thousands of union workers in Las Vegas might go on strike because of the increased costs of healthcare, imposed on them by Obamacare.
- In reporting on climate change, ABC and CBS have excluded any commentary from any skeptical scientists for literally years.
- According to two surveys a large majority of the previously uninsured are uninterested in signing up for Obamacare.
- How Washington journalists conspire to not report accurately the President’s yearly budget proposal.
- “I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system.”
- WISE’s survey of the sky in infrared has now shown that there is no large planet X orbiting beyond Pluto.
- “They said they have to take that one down. But they didn’t say anything about putting another one up.”
- Most Mars meteorites found on Earth may have been blasted here from a single impact on Mars around 3 million years ago.
- Virgin Galactic is close to getting its FAA launch license.
- A static fire engine test of the Falcon 9 scheduled to lift Dragon to ISS next week has been delayed one day.
- Taking a close look at the engineering and history of SpaceX’s new Raptor engine, presently under development.
- Connecticut seniors are in an uproar because their AARP health insurance plan was forced to sever ties with their hospital and doctors because of Obamacare.
- The Sun goes boom again!
- A major union charges in a new report that Obamacare will reduce wages, cut hours, and limit access to health insurance for the lower middle class.
- Neil deGrasse Tyson poo-poos private space.
- On Saturday SpaceX successfully conducted a dress rehearsal countdown and static fire engine test of the Falcon 9 rocket that will loft a Dragon capsule to ISS next week.
- A scientist describes the skeptics view of global warming.
- The comet that the European probe Rosetta will visit in August has awakened.
- Connecticut police are now threatening to refuse to enforce that state’s new oppressive gun control law.
- Emails now show that the the closure of open access monuments that needed no staff during October’s government shutdown was planned by National Park management
- A glory on Venus.
- The Milky Way’s council of galaxies.
- The IAU has issued a press release condemning the public’s naming of Martian craters as initiated by the private company Uwingu.
- Two Russians and an American landed safely in Kazakhstan on Monday, finishing their 166 mission to ISS.
- The Russian company that owns the Proton rocket is considering a redesign that would allow them to launch two satellites on one rocket.
- “I give my left nut to bang down your door and come for your gun.”
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter entered safe mode on Friday, caused by unexpected switch to a backup computer.
- Lockheed Martin announces they will either give a full refund or refly a payload for free if their Atlas rocket fails at launch.
- A new report by the largest coalition of biomedical research organizations has found that animal rights extremists have shifted their tactics, increasingly targeting individuals rather then universities in their violent attacks.
- “What it is observed right now is utter dishonesty by the IPCC advocates.”
- The senator who aggressively supported the federal government’s illegal spying on innocent Americans is shocked and offended that they also spied on her.
- The evil polices of that evil Republican Scott Walker has now produced a $1 billion budget surplus in Wisconsin.
- Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) thinks the Constitution is 400 years old.
- According to 2013 FBI statistics, all ten of the nation’s most dangerous cities are run by Democrats.
- The faculty at Rutgers have voted to demand the university rescind its speaker invitation to Condoleezza Rice.
- The Obama administration budget proposal for NASA includes shutting down Opportunity in 2015.
- Astronomers have found the largest yellow star yet, 1,300 times bigger than the Sun.
- The House committee investigating the IRS’s political harassment of Obama’s opponents has now unveiled evidence showing that former IRS official Lois Lerner committed perjury in Congressional testimony at least four times.
- A legal settlement in Maryland gives complete victory to a man who camera was confiscated by police because they didn’t want him recording them.
- An asteroid will eclipse the bright naked eye star Regulus for 14 seconds on March 19-20, and everyone in the New York City metropolitan area will be able to watch.
- When a Democrat does it, it’s not illegal.
- Why conservatives should have no regrets dumping Mitch McConnell as the Republican leader in the Senate.
- A dishonest “Cosmos”.
- A Health and Human Services official has resigned in disgust from his job monitoring research misconduct because of his frustration with the federal bureaucracy.
- The next Dragon launch to ISS has been delayed for two weeks because of the detection of contamination that could affect some of its research cargo.
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has now resumed full science operations after it went into safe mode late last week.
- Arianespace and the Russian-owned Sea Launch are seeking to get the restrictions against them removed so that they can sell their services to more customers.
- One liberal pundit proposes that Democrats embrace Obamacare in the coming election campaign.
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- Swiss Space Systems (S3) is planning to offer zero gravity airplane rides at the Kennedy Space Center in direct competition with Zero Gravity Corp.
- Mercury, the incredible shrinking planet.
- The first test flight of NASA’s Orion capsule has been delayed from September to December.
- A U.S. college professor demands that skeptics of global warming be imprisoned.
- Scientists think they have detected active volcanoes on Venus.
- Using images from Cassini scientists think they have made their first detection of waves on a lake on Titan
- Putting a spacecraft back in the orbit it was intended, thirty-one years later.
- “There’s no compassion in the Affordable Care Act.”
- Some of the country’s best cancer hospitals are excluded from every Obamacare policy.
- Want to explore the Moon’s north pole? You now can, from your home, using an interactive mosaic of images taken by Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
- According to the former CEO of Arianespace, now head of the French space agency, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 costs significantly less to launch than the Ariane 5
- The leftwing feminist professor who thought she had the right to use violent force to steal a anti-abortion protestor’s sign and destroy it has now been charged with vandalism, battery, and robbery.
- According to an audit, the former chief financial officer of the Mojave Air and Space Port provided 24 straight months of inaccurate accounting reports.
- The Obama administration unilaterally rewrote parts of the Freedom of Information Act in order to suppress access to documents.
- “There were women and children inside our retail establishment when the (ATF) agents came in with guns drawn.”
- Health insurance premiums are expected to double in some parts of the country because of Obamacare.
- Obamacare worked so well some Senators want to do the same for the real estate industry.
- A Michigan union contract requires a school district to discriminate against Christians and whites.
- Before and after images from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have discovered the formation of a new gully on Mars sometime between November 2010 and May 2013.
- Orbital Sciences has set May 6 as the launch date for its next Cygnus cargo mission to ISS.
- Paleontologists have discovered a dinosaur dubbed “the chicken from hell.”
- China’s Yutu rover is still functioning but cannot move.
- This is how the tea party ends.
- Fifty states of Obamacare victims.
- Using images from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have assembled a 360 degree zoomable portrait of the plane of the Milky Way galaxy.
- The contamination that has delayed SpaceX’s next Dragon cargo mission to ISS was caused by oil from a sewing machine.
- A reporter takes a close look at Virgin Galactic and Spaceport America in New Mexico and comes away very skeptical.
- The Michigan union contract that required a school district to discriminiate against Christians and whites as now been amended so that it won’t discriminate against Christians.
- Will the American Physical Society be the first major scientific institution to reject the global warming “consensus”?
- New geological research suggests that the hydrogen levels that have detected on the moon — which are used to predict the presence of water — might be a false positive and not exist at the levels predicted.
- On Saturday Arianespace’s Ariane 5 rocket has successfully launched two commercial satellites, its 59th straight successful launch.
- Curiosity has reached another area of interesting terrain: rows of layered curvy rocks.
- “The malignancy that is really destroying this country is low-information people with high-profile power and/or influence.”
- Four reasons why the cost of heath insurance will go up again next year.
- DARPA picks Boeing to build a test design of an air-launched satellite launcher.
- Obamacare, a cascade of failures.
- The UK’s nationalized hospital system has routinely been using the fetal remains of dead babies for heating fuel.
- A Russian rocket successfully lifted off today from Kazakhstan with the next crew for ISS.
- Sierra Nevada has subcontracted Lockheed Martin to help build its Dream Chaser spacecraft.
- When challenged about his gun control proposals and how they conflict with the second amendment, a Rhode Island state legislator responded “Go f–k yourself.”
- The Obama administration has once again arbitrarily extended the deadline in Obamacare for obtaining health insurance.
- An expected engine burn on board the Soyuz capsule taking three astronauts to ISS did not take place as scheduled, forcing at minimum a two day delay in the rendezvous and docking.
- The timeline of Obamacare delays arbitrarily imposed by the Obama administration.
- A Massachusetts judge has ruled that the state there owns your children.
- A family’s home is raided by a gun-toting SWAT team because police found tea leaves in their garbage pails.
- Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet about 300 miles wide at the very edge of the solar system.
- The road to hell
- Astronomers have found an asteroid with its own rings.
- Though engineers still don’t know why the Soyuz spacecraft was oriented incorrectly, thereby preventing a scheduled engine firing, they have uploaded new software and have subsequently executed two additional burns successfully.
- A college student who was attacked and then arrested by Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents because she and two friends had purchased a case of sparkling water is now suing Virginia and those seven agents for $40 million.
- A fire at a radar site used by the Air Force to track rockets lifting off at the Kennedy Space Center has delayed all launches there, including SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 flight.
- Rosetta has taken its first picture of its target comet since coming out of hibernation.
- A feminist comedian calls for violence against conservative Christians.
- Government power relies on violence and coercion, regardless of where and when.
- A different look at 25 famous places that gives you a better idea of what it is really like to visit them.
- Hubble takes an image of Comet Siding Spring and finds two jets coming off the nucleus.
- The Republican leadership in the House today held a sham vote to get a spending bill passed.
- After a two day delay because of an aborted engine burn, a Soyuz spacecraft docked last night with ISS, bringing its next crew of three to the station.
- The Air Force’s X-37B mini-shuttle presently in orbit has now set a new record for the spacecraft’s longest flight.
- Orbital Sciences has begun construction of the 81satellites that will make up Iridium’s second generation communications satellite constellation.
- SpaceShipTwo is outside its hanger today, undergoing cockpit pressure tests.
- Bruce Rauner, the Republican running for governor of Illinois, is proudly running as a RINO.
- The U.S Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has forced a Michigan school to rip down a brand-new set of bleachers for its boys’ baseball team because the new seating is nicer than the girls’ softball bleachers.
- A reporter today was detained by DC police for daring to ask a question of the head of the EPA.
- The odious Chuck Schumer and Harry Reid.
- According to a new report from the federal government, only 6 percent of the country’s electricity comes from green energy sources.
- SpaceX has test fired its Grasshopper replacement test vehicle.
- In honor of April Fools Day on Tuesday, fourteen of the greatest hoaxes ever.
- Whose side are you on?
- A complete list of the Obama administration’s Obamacare.delays.
- NASA is looking to extend its commercial cargo contracts with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences until 2017.
- Scientists have developed a bacterium that can brew high energy rocket fuel.
- Obama declares that “The debate about repealing Obamacare is over.”
- China’s new spaceport and the giant rocket it is being built for.
- The year that Elon Musk’s dream almost died.
- The German-built comet lander Philae has been successfully reactivated on Rosetta.
- Scientists from the joint European/Russian ExoMars rover mission have narrowed their candidate landing sites to four.
- Climate scientists think the first major El Niño since 1997-1998 is beginning to brew in the Pacific.
- The Supreme Court today ruled that federal limits on how much individuals can spend yearly on politics are unconstitutional.
- In a vague announcement with unclear ramifications, a NASA memo today suspended “all contact with Russian government officials,” though it exempted all activities in connection with ISS.
- A new analysis of data from Messenger suggests that violent explosive volcanism occurred throughout much of Mercury’s history.
- Massive voter fraud, in the tens of thousands of votes, has been uncovered in North Carolina.
- A Connecticut community college suspended a student because he dared question the Connecticut governor about his support of gun control.
- Six Senators on Wednesday demanded the Air Force open up competition to more companies for launching its military satellites.
- NASA’s short statement, in connection to the Obama administration’s decision to suspend all non-ISS related activities with Russia, is almost entirely a demand for more funding for its commercial space program.
- Brian Binnie, the man who flew SpaceShipOne for Scaled Composites, has left that company for competitor XCOR
- A scientist whistleblower has found that publicly questioning bad science papers vs privately notifying the publisher significantly increases the chances of getting them retracted.
- Watch how Chicago’s middle class has been destroyed by the radical leftwing Democratic Party during the past forty years.
- The terrible close-mindedness of the left.
- In a new study scientists confirm their belief that a sea of water the size of Lake Superior exists inside the Saturn moon Enceladus.
- A skydiver’s helmet cam captures a meteorite zipping past him as it falls.
- A man loses his job merely because he has an opinion the left dislikes.
- UrtheCast has released its first image of Earth, taken from one of its cameras on ISS.
- In hearings today, Pentagon officials said that they are considering ways to build American-built engines to use on our rockets rather than buy Russian-made engines.
- Because of a $10 million shortfall in its astrophysics budget, NASA is weighing the fate of nine operating space telescopes.
- Even as India successfully launched its second homemade GPS satellite today, its space agency ISRO announced that it will launch a test flight of a manned capsule in June using that country’s powerful GSLV rocket.
- The launches at Kennedy, delayed because of a fire at an Air Force radar facility, have now been rescheduled.
- As the NASA lunar probe LADEE nears its planned end — where it will crash onto the Moon — the scientists running it admit that they have as yet been unable to solve its primary scientific question about levitating lunar dust.
- Boeing is about to begin environmental tests on a new composite fuel tank for rockets.
- The Connecticut college that threatened a student with expulsion for daring to ask the governor questions about his gun control position took down its Facebook page rather than answer questions for critics posting there.
- Obamacare rules have killed a New Jersey healthcare plan aimed at providing healthcare for children.
- An incredible collection of photos from the Edwards Air Force Base 2009 open house air show.
- The oldest galaxy known might be a tiny dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way.
- A detailed look at Russia’s new Angara rocket family.
- Triumph of his will: Elon Musk’s effort to build a rocket company.
- How to push back against Mozilla for firing its CEO because it didn’t like his private political beliefs.
- According to the testimony of IRS agents to a House committee investigating the IRS scandal, the harassment was specifically aimed at conservative groups.
- You won’t believe this Border Patrol checkpoint refusal.
- On Sunday the Bureau of Land Management arrested a man, after deploying snipers against him, for taking photographs of agents rounding up his family’s cattle.
- Uninstall Firefox.
- A new study has found that there is zero correlation between increased spending and improvements in education.
- A black activist Chicago preacher has come out endorsing the Republican candidate for Illinois governor.
- The Sun continues to hiccup
- Curiosity catches a mysterious flash of light on the Martian horizon.
- According to the deputy head of Russia’s space agency, they are not planning any retaliatory sanctions against NASA.
- A survey of health insurance brokers suggests that health insurance rates are increasing at the fastest rate ever seen since these surveys began.
- From now until January 1 Obamacare does not allow you to buy health insurance.
- An update on the story of the BLM’s attempt to confiscate a man’s cattle in Nevada while outlawing free speech in vast parts of the land the agency administers.
- Brandeis University withdraws planned honorary degree for Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Congress and NASA administrator Charles Bolden battled over ISS, Russia, crew transport, and commercial space yesterday in a hearing before Congress.
- A government investigation has found evidence of numerous IRS employees of performing illegal political activity in support of President Obama and fellow Democrats.
- An op-ed in Ebony (!) notes that despite getting an Obamacare insurance policy the writer cannot get any doctor to take her as a patient.
- Liberal mob rule.
- Geologists, using computer models, have reconstructed the size and impact velocity of a giant asteroid that hit the Earth approximately 3.26 billion years ago.
- Scientists have found that Saturn’s hexagon-shaped jet stream is deeply rooted and that its rotation might be revealing the planet’s rotation as well.
- Emails now show that IRS officials Lois Lerner and Holly Paz fed private tax information of True the Vote to Democratic Congressmen Elijah Cummings.
- A Russian Progress freighter successfully docked with ISS on Wednesday, rendezvousing with the station using the fast track approach of six hours.
- XCOR today took delivery of the cockpit assembly of its Lynx suborbital space plane.
- On Wednesday Israel launched its tenth satellite, spy satellite Ofek 10.
- India’s Mangalyaan Mars orbiter is now halfway to Mars.
- Richard Branson manipulates the press again
- “A lot of investment in green technology has been a giant scam, if well intentioned.”
- The braided dry stream beds of Mars.
- An award winning science teacher was suspended when an unnamed school employee thought two student science projects looked too much like weapons.
- “The left is entering a new phase of ideological agitation — no longer trying to win the debate but stopping debate altogether, banishing from public discourse any and all opposition.”
- An update on China’s lunar rover Yutu.
- Houston yesterday signed a letter of intent with Sierra Nevada to provide the company a home at that city’s proposed spaceport.
- Scaled Composites has posted the logs for several successful engine test results on its webpage.
- What Ayaan Hirsi Ali would have said if the academics at Brandeis weren’t either cowards or queslings for terrorism.
- Forecasters at Colorado State University are predicting the 2014 hurricane season will be quieter than normal.
- A comprehensive list of Lois Lerner’s partisan effort to use the IRS to attack conservatives.
- Finding out what’s in it: Endless waits on hold.
- The disaster that is in Obamacare in 15 charts.
- The backup computer that helps operate ISS’s robot arms is not responding to commands.
- New research suggests that, in general, Mars has always been too cold to harbor liquid water on its surface.
- Want to watch today’s SpaceX launch and tonight’s lunar eclipse? Here’s how?
- Another look at the BLM’s range war with the last remaining rancher in Nevada.
- Today’s launch of Dragon to ISS has been scrubbed due to “a helium leak in Falcon 9’s first stage.”
- European satellite operators are pressing Arianespace to find ways to immediately reduce the cost of launching satellites on now Ariane 5 and in the future on Ariane 6.
- SpaceX has positioned recovery crews in the Atlantic in an effort to retrieve the Falcon 9 first stage after its upcoming launch, now set for Friday.
- Has Cassini spotted the formation of a new Saturn moon?
- Why we should be sympathetic to the Bundy family in Nevada.
- China’s president calls for the increased military use of that country’s space assets.
- The EPA admits that it does not have the data to justify its environmental regulations.
- NASA has officially handed control of launchpad 39A to SpaceX, where the company intends to launch its Falcon Heavy.
- Crowd-funding the engineering and money to bring a 1970s NASA space probe back to life.
- Scientists have verified that a large gold nugget is actually a gigantic single crystal, the largest known.
- The slow death of free speech.
- Newly released emails show that former IRS Official Lois Lerner discussed prosecution of conservative tax exempt groups with Eric Holder’s Justice Department even as she was publicly admitting that the harassment of conservatives was improper.
- What I learned as a liberal talking head on Fox.
- The IRS scandal spreads.
- A trail of wreckage left behind by the BLM in Nevada.
- Alaska is going to sue the Obama administration for blocking the construction of a 10 mile long road necessary to give people in a remote village access to emergency medical care.
- The Obama administration’s culture of intimidation.
- Sierra Nevada is planning additional glide tests in the fall. using its Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle.
- Russia is accelerating construction of its new spaceport in Vostochny.
- Over two dozen widows in Alabama were dropped from their health care plans due to Obamacare.
- The new more sinister IRS scandal.
- The existence of a Kepler-found earth-sized planet in the habitable zone has been confirmed.
- How the 1964 Alaska Earthquake shook up geology.
- The crashes that changed aviation and plane designs forever.
- What happens to you if you decide you wish to control the education your children get in a public school
- When asked if Arizona’s gun laws need changing, 86% chose the answer “We have too many laws, and most of them should be eliminated.”
- LADEE hits the moon.
- SpaceX has completed the first vertical flight of the Falcon 9R landing test rocket.
- Dragon has successfully reached orbit.
- Orbital Sciences is considering three different bids to provide the company new engines for its Antares rocket.
- Some additional details about SpaceX’s effort Friday to bring the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket back to Earth gently.
- The Forest Service has seized the property and cattle of a New Mexico rancher.
- A SWAT team in Florida decided to test their new military equipment by breaking into someone’s home on Friday.
- A list of some incredibly useful webpages.
- A history of global warming “Tipping Points” where it was declared that doomsday was certain in only a few years if we didn’t act now
- The American Revolution began today at Concord and Lexington.
- Data now suggests that SpaceX successfully achieved a controlled landing of its Falcon 9 first stage on Friday.
- Red tape appears to be preventing the U.S. military from releasing meteorite data obtained by its nuclear test monitoring system.
- A new study claims that biofuels made from corn produce more greenhouse gases than ordinary gasoline.
- To avoid the cost of Obamacare ski resorts are being forced to shorten their seasons.
- A bill introduced in Congress would require numerous government agencies to study the role of telecommunications in the encouragement of hate crimes.
- Having completed more than 3,000 orbits around Mercury, Messenger’s orbit is now being lowered to just under 125 miles from the surface.
- The BLM is considering taking advantage of an obscure legal dispute to confiscate 90,000 acres of privately owned land on the Texas-Oklahoma border
- Arianespace struggles to schedule its customers for launch.
- A balloon spaceport for Arizona?
- The Health & Human Services department spends an average of $146 per month per employee for email services.
- The comptroller of New York City does not like the political opinions of a Texas business and the causes to which it contributes.
- Liberals on twitter call for the murder of the Bundy family in Nevada by the federal government.
- A Democratic prosecutor has waged a fifteen year campaign of harassment against a gun range and its owner because the owner publicly disagreed with that prosecutor.
- What Israel’s new surveillance satellite, Ofek 10, is doing.
- According to a new study, Chelyabinsk-scale meteorite impacts happen more often than we have been aware.
- Budget issues continue to threaten a number of successfully functioning science spacecraft, including Opportunity on Mars and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter circling the Moon.
- Russia has noticed literally no change in cooperation with NASA since the U.S. government announced two weeks ago that all such cooperation, excluding ISS, was being cut off.
- Astronauts successfully completed a spacewalk Wednesday to repair the backup computer that operates ISS’s robot arms.
- SpaceX has signed a deal to have its new Raptor engine tested at NASA’s Stennis Space Center.
- Orbital Sciences intends to use an upgraded Antares rocket as its contribution to Stratolaunch.
- A new study confirms that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide lengthens the plant growing season.
- Want to find out which American company is winning the race to ferry astronauts to the ISS? Go here.
- Protecting interplanetary travelers from radiation will not be easy according to a recent study.
- “It would have to be an extraordinary circumstance to convince me killing the bears in order to protect them makes a whole lot of logical sense.”
- SpaceX sues to block ULA’s monopoly on Air Force military launches.
- A brown dwarf star has been discovered only 7.2 light years away.
- At the end of a press conference Elon Musk lets slip the news that SpaceX has chosen Brownsville, Texas as the location of its commercial spaceport.
- A man quotes Winston Churchill in England and is immediately arrested.
- Another conflict between local Utah residents and the BLM appears to be brewing in Utah.
- Russia’s Proton rocket successfully put two satellites into orbit on Monday.
- ULA has accelerated delivery of its required Russian rocket engines in anticipation of worsening relations with Russia and with members of Congress.
- A proposed House bill would forbid use of Russian rocket engines in launching any American military payloads.
- Arianespace today scrubbed the third launch of its new Vega rocket at T-minus 10 minutes due to a technical problem.
- ATK is splitting off its aerospace division to merge that division with Orbital Sciences.
- A man doing a 16-mile charity swim was surrounded and protected from a shark by dolphins.
- Russia responds to new U.S. sanctions by threatening U.S. astronauts on ISS.
- A doctor’s declaration of independence.
- SpaceX has released video of its Falcon 9 first stage splashing down vertically in the ocean.
- Arianespace has successfully launched a commercial satellite with its new Vega rocket.
- More delays seen in the completion of a new and critical module to the Russian portion of ISS.
- This year saw the biggest increase in healthcare spending in thirty years.
- “If the government says you can’t use your property for anything, they’ve essentially taken your property from you.”
- Senate Democrats plan a vote to amend the First Amendment to curtail criticism.
- Orbital Sciences is considering using ATK’s solid rocket motors to replace the refurbished Russian engines in the first stage of its Antares rocket.
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- Thaicom has chosen Orbital Sciences to build its next major communications satellite and SpaceX to launch it.
- SpaceX has won an injunction from a federal judge, preventing ULA from buying any further Russian engines.
- A gigantic forest fire threatens Russia’s new spaceport under construction in Vostochny.
- Engineers commanded Curiosity to drill its third drill hole on Tuesday on what looks like an outcrop of sandstone in Gale Crater.
- For the first time astronomers think they have measured the rotation rate of an exoplanet, thus determining the length of its day.
- Boeing and Bigelow show off their respective manned capsule and space station modules.
- Iowa City police seized $48K in cash from a Minnesota couple during a traffic stop in March and now refuse to return it.
- “Obama’s 3-Part Benghazi strategy: Lie, lie, and lie again.”
- On the radio
- Guns or rockets: Which part of the ATK split is the stronger?
- The porksters arrive!
- It turns out that the object dubbed G2 that is zipping past the Milky Way’s central black hole is behaving not like a cloud but more like a star.
- The Russians have ten launches scheduled in the next three months, using their Proton, Soyuz, Zenit, Rokot, and new Angara rockets.
- SpaceX releases spectacular footage of another vertical take-off and landing test of their Falcon 9R rocket.
- SpaceX continues to acquire land in Texas for its planned spaceport in Brownsville.
- The sanctions against Russia imposed by the Obama administration could delay the launch of Iridium’s second generation communications constellation of satellites.
- Obama administration officials from three departments have asked a federal judge to lift her injunction against Lockheed Martin’s use of Russian engines in its Atlas 5 rocket.
- According to a GAO report, the sequester cuts that were going to destroy civilization as we know it resulted in exactly one layoff across the entire federal government.
- The IRS audited 10 percent of all Tea Party donors, a rate much higher than for average Americans.
- The House today voted to hold former IRS official Lois Lerner in contempt.
- SpaceX’s next Falcon 9 commercial launch, set for Saturday, will once again attempt a soft splashdown of its first stage.
- The creation in the lab of an as yet unnamed superheavy element adds weight to the theory that there might exist even heavier elements that are stable in nature.
- How to turn an American spacecraft ferrying astronauts to ISS serve as a lifeboat as well.
- Ten modern conveniences we take for granted that didn’t exist before 1970.
- What happens next for Lois Lerner?
- Less than 24 hours after the House held Lois Lerner in contempt, the IRS has finally agreed to turn over all her emails to House investigators.
- Bertha is stuck under Seattle and the taxpayers are going to have to pay millions, if not billions, to get the giant drilling machine moving again.
- In response to the Obama administration’s request a judge has lifted her injunction against the purchase of Russian rocket engines for the Atlas 5 rocket.
- Because of issues preventing a dress rehearsal countdown and launchpad static fire of the Falcon 9 rocket SpaceX has delayed Saturday’s launch.
- Fact checking Elon Musk’s statements about his company’s efforts to reuse the Falcon 9 first stage reminds us of some space history and one of Musk’s chief competitors.
- Building a scale model of the International Space Station — using matchsticks!
- Google tells a major conservative website to take a hike.
- The 2013 Walter Duranty Prize for mendacious journalism was announced on Monday.
- The Yellowstone of Mars.
- The trip of what is essentially a circuit breaker on ISS has reduced the station’s power by about 12.5%.
- Ground tests of SpaceShipTwo’s engines continue.
- Does the auction sale of an Excalibur Almaz capsule signal the end of this manned space commercial company?
- Colorado’s new gun control law has forced police to steal a woman’s pistol.
- A news story today reports that cracks have been discovered in the wings of WhiteKnightTwo.
- The new American fascism.
- The U.S.’s most capable deep-sea unmanned research sub has been lost more than six miles deep in the Pacific.
- Archeologists think they have located the wreck of Christopher Columbus flagship, the Santa Maria, from his 1492 voyage.
- The mysterious spokes in Saturn’s rings, discovered by the Voyager craft back in the 1980s, still persist today in Cassini images.
- Russia fights back
- Some scientists are now calling into question the BICEP2 results that confirmed the existence of inflation just after the Big Bang.
- Using computer models and data collected in the past decade, some climate scientists now believe that a major Antarctica ice sheet is in the process of collapsing.
- NASA has chosen the four shuttle engines that will be used to launch SLS on its first mission in 2021.
- Though they really don’t need it, a private effort to reactivate a 1970s spacecraft has now gotten NASA’s okay.
- India has successfully tested a submarine-launched ballistic missile with a range of more than 1,800 miles.
- “We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has.”
- Three astronauts safely returned from ISS on Tuesday evening.
- On Tuesday Virgin Galactic rolled WhiteKnightTwo out of its hanger “as part of a gearing up process.”.
- Read the full transcript of Tuesday’s briefing in Russia on the subject of the U.S./Russian cooperation in space.
- A climate scientist who joined the board of a skeptical think tank was forced to resign from that think tank after only three weeks due to intense outside pressure and harassment from the global warming community.
- 29 fascinating images.
- Newly released IRS emails show that the harassment of conservatives was directed by higher management in Washington and elsewhere, not confined to low level employees in Cincinnati.
- How the Peoria mayor used the power of his position to try to destroy someone who was making fun of him.
- ULA today stated that they have enough Russian engines in stock to complete the 36 launch U.S. military bulk buy.
- My cat goes rock climbing.
- Rosetta photographs its target comet as it comes to life.
- The shrinking Giant Red Spot of Jupiter.
- How ten high-profile Democrat Senators pressured the IRS to harass conservatives.
- The woman whose pistol was seized by the local government in Colorado will finally have it returned next week.
- In an effort to reassure its ticketholders, Virgin Galactic sent them email on May 10 disputing the story that they have discovered cracks in WhiteKnightTwo.
- Amid its political kerfuffle with the U.S., Russia has significantly increased the government budget of its space industry.
- New reports suggest that Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo will be incapable of flying to an altitude of 100 kilometers.
- A Russian Proton rocket crashed today nine minutes after launch.
- Two California residents have filed a class action suit against their health insurance company for misrepresenting the doctors and hospitals that their plan would include.
- The best image yet of an exoplanet orbiting another star.
- Debris from the Proton launch failure yesterday has been found in China.
- In a sweeping election victory on Friday India voted a new pro-business party and prime minister into power.
- The IRS appears to be stonewalling a Freedom of Information request for all documents relating to communications between that agency and thirteen Democratic elected officials from 2009 to 2013.
- According to a prominent climate scientist, a research paper he co-authored suggesting the threat of global warming from carbon dioxide is exaggerated was rejected for publication for political reasons.
- After losing an HBO television show because of their conservative views, Benham Brothers has now had its bank partner suddenly cut all ties from their business.
- Students shout down a speaker at Portland State University.
- Want to watch some astronomers blow up the top of a mountain? You can!
- After concluding eight years of science observations in orbit around Venus, Venus Express is about to begin a series of atmospheric plunges to test the engineering of aerobraking at the extreme.
- Bill Whittle — The Deal
- After it was revealed today that SunTrust Bank was cutting ties with the Benham brothers because it did not like their conservative opinions and thus threatening their business, it now appears that the bank has backed down and has re-established those ties.
- Want to fly into space? All you have to do is “build the future” and win the Hackaday Prize.
- NASA has approved a new mission for the crippled Kepler space telescope, allowing observations to continue for another two years.
- The Air Force has hired the Aerospace Corporation to evaluate how long it will take to replace the Russian engine used by the Atlas 5 rocket.
- The assembly of Boeing’s CST-100 manned spacecraft is expected to begin soon.
- Virgin Galactic pretty much admits that SpaceShipTwo will fly to only fifty miles altitude, not 62 (100 kilometers).
- A modern John Deere tractor with 850 horsepower plays tug of war with an 1800s era steam tractor that has about 18 horsepower.
- Benghazi: Some pertinent questions.
- “How many dead veterans do you need before somebody asks the question within the White House, ‘Maybe this isn’t the best steward of these veterans?’”
- A replacement commencement speaker for someone forced out by student protests today strongly criticized the students in his speech today.
- Dragon has returned safely to Earth after a month docked to ISS.
- The Democrats in the Senate moved this week to introduce a constitutional amendment for limiting the first amendment and the freedom of speech.
- The launch failure Thursday of a Russian Proton rocket is putting the squeeze on the commercial satellite industry.
- The first preliminary list of candidate landing sites for NASA’s next Mars rover have been proposed.
- Two VA patients committed suicide after their treatments were delayed against the wishes of their psychiatrist.
- Sierra Nevada has successfully completed wind tunnel tests a several scale models of their winged spacecraft Dream Chaser.
- The next Falcon 9 commercial launch, scrubbed from early May, has now been rescheduled to June 11.
- Sources in Russia say that it was human error in the rocket assembly that caused last week’s Proton launch failure.
- The private effort to reactivate ISEE-3, a 1970s NASA spacecraft in orbit around the sun, has successfully detected the spacecraft.
- Russia signs a preliminary space exploration agreement with China.
- Aerojet Rocketdyne has signed a contract to provide rocket engine’s for the upper stage of Stratolaunch’s air-launched rocket.
- A GAO report says that NASA has been hiding the true and very expensive cost of the SLS/Orion projects by specifically excluding the cost of any actual missions that go anywhere.
- Construction has now begun on NASA’s next Mars lander.
- The University of South Carolina is closing its Women & Gender Studies department and replacing it with a program to teach the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Federalist Papers.
- It is now confirmed that a helium leak caused the scrub of the Falcon 9 May 10 launch.
- Replacing the Russian-made rocket engines used by the Atlas 5 and Antares rockets would take about four years, according to a industry analysis.
- The battle between France and Germany on how to replace the Ariane 5 rocket continues.
- Designed and funded on the premise that it would fly past a Kuiper belt asteroid after it flew past Pluto, the New Horizons team has so far failed to find such an asteroid and is running out of time.
- In order to lower costs, Lockheed Martin wants to get more American parts into the European-built service module for the Orion capsule.
- The consequences if Russia carries out its threat to shut down the U.S. science GPS stations in Russia will be relatively minimal according to scientists.
- Prison for D’Souza, beach time for Corzine
- “Epically incompetent.”
- The Sun settling down?
- A citizen’s group is offering a one million dollar bounty to “anyone who can provide ‘smoking gun’ evidence” that implicates either the IRS leadership or members of the Obama administration as ordering the harassment of conservatives.
- On the road
- SpaceX discovered a lot of water inside their Dragon capsule after splashdown.
- NASA reveals that the second flight of SLS in 20210 might not be manned.
- The European partnership building the new Ariane 6 rocket struggles to keep its costs down to compete with SpaceX.
- While SpaceShipTwo continues to sit on the ground, European space tourism competitor Swiss Space Systems (S3) has initiated zero g flights for its customers.
- On Wednesday Rosetta successfully completed an almost eight hour engine burn to adjust its course to its comet rendezvous in August.
- Will there be a meteor shower tonight?
- The largest new impact crater ever found on Mars.
- A refurbished Russian rocket engine, to be used by the Antares rocket, failed during tests
- A new report suggests that Virgin Galactic’s first flight has now been officially delayed until 2015.
- Short of money for astrophysics because of the overruns on the James Webb Space Telescope as well as federal budget woes, NASA has decided to shut down the Spitzer Space Telescope.
- The predicted new meteor shower last night was less than hoped but intriguing nonetheless.
- Virgin Galactic finally admitted to its engine troubles on Friday.
- Elon Musk and another watchdog group suggested on Friday that there was a quid pro quo in the awarding ULA its bulk buy military launch contract.
- “The mob must be sated.”
- Opportunity takes another spectacular image peering into Endeavour Crater.
- How a private effort run by space geeks hopes to bring ISEE-3 back to life.
- An summary of the past week’s private effort at Aceibo to reactivate ISEE-3.
- In its first launch since a failure early in 2013, Sea Launch successfully put a European communications satellite into orbit on Monday.
- The FAA is inching closer to approving a license to allow SpaceX to conduct tests in Texas of its rocket-powered prototype of its Dragon capsule.
- A place on Mars that was possibly habitable only 200 million years ago.
- A gamma ray burst possibly occurred in Andromeda only 2.5 million light years away today.
- Orbital Sciences has delayed its next Cygnus flight to ISS by at least one week in order to complete its investigation of the failure of a Russian-built rocket engine used by the Antares rocket.
- Google introduces its first prototype of a completely driverless vehicle.
- SpaceX has completed qualification tests of the SuperDraco engines that will be used by Dragon for launch aborts as well as soft landings on land.
- “For lack of a better term, you’ve got an organized crime syndicate.”
- A new crew of three successfully launched and docked with ISS today.
- China claimed today that its lunar rover Yutu is still alive on the Moon.
- The suspected gamma ray burst yesterday thought to occur in the galaxy Andromeda — which would have been the closest ever seen — has turned out to be a false alarm.
- The suborbital tourist company XCOR has raised $14.2 million of private investment capital.
- Website software expert needed
- The Russian investigation into the most recent Proton launch failure has not yet ruled out sabotage as the cause.
- A frame-by-frame repair of the video taken during the April soft splashdown of the Falcon 9 first stage now shows the deployment of the landing legs.
- The blackballing of conservative commencement speakers.
- The private effort to reactivate the 1970s ISEE-3 space probe has successfully re-established two way communications with the spacecraft.
- Want to be an editor at Sky & Telescope? They have two positions open.
- The proposed SpaceX spaceport in Brownsville, Texas, has passed its final federal environmental review.
- On Friday SpaceX unveiled its manned version of its Dragon capsule.
- Virgin Galactic and the FAA on Friday reached agreement allowing the company to fly its suborbital flights from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
- A photographic tour of the new Dragon capsule.
- Scientists have developed a working tractor beam that has actually moved objects as large as 1 cm in size.
- Russia has moved today to exclude access by the U.S. military to any GPS stations in its territory.
- A new Google project proposes to put 180 satellites in orbit to provide worldwide internet access.
- The Democratic Party’s proposed constitutional amendment to limit free speech.
- Price increase on Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8
- “Can anyone on board fly an airplane?”
- India and Narendra Modi: Freedom’s New Trumpet?
- Astronomers on Monday announced the discovery of a rocky exoplanet that is seventeen times the mass of Earth.
- The U.S. military has awarded Lockheed Martin the contract to build the next generation radar system that will be used to track objects in orbit.
- A test flight of a new NASA parachute system for landing on Mars has been delayed until at least Thursday due to weather.
- Stratolaunch announced this week that it is on schedule for a first launch in 2018.
- Further details on Google’s proposed 180 satellite constellation for providing internet access worldwide.
- The solar-powered experimental airplane Solar Impulse 2 made its maiden flight on Monday.
- A transcript of the phone conversation between Barack Obama and Dwight Eisenhower on the eve of the invasion of Normandy.
- Airbus has begun drop tests of its own suborbital spaceplane.
- Solar scientists admit they at this point have no idea what the Sun will do after it completes is present solar maximum.
- House and Senate budgets for NASA give almost full funding to manned commercial space while boosting SLS.
- On Monday the Russians announced that they plan to fly two tourists around the Moon by 2017.
- Almost three million Americans who signed up for Medicaid under Obamacare have not yet had their applications processed.
- “Homofascism should be crushed.”
- The x-ray instrument on the orbiting Swift gamma-ray telescope has shut down.
- Aerojet Rocketdyne says it can replace the Russian rocket engines used by American rockets for $20 to $25 million per engine.
- The investigation into the failure of the Russian Proton rocket on May 16 says it will make its report by June 8.
- SpaceX plans to boost production of its rockets to 2 per month by year’s end.
- Weather has once again delayed the test flight of a new Mars-landing parachute system on a saucer shaped launch vehicle.
- Want to own your own Apollo capsule from the 1960s?
- Richard Shelby’s poison pill in the Senate NASA budget bill that will double the cost of manned commercial space.
- India will do a planned midcourse engine burn of its Mangalyaan Mars orbiter on June 11.
- The rupture of a drum at a nuclear waste site in New Mexico has shut down a neutrino experiment.
- Why the crickets on the Hawaiian islands stopped singing twenty years ago.
- Americans the Obama Administration has left behind.
- Disgusted with getting petty citations from their Florida city for the look of their home, a Bradenton couple has had it painted with a giant American flag.
- Believe it or not, it appears that organic or “green” kitty litter is the cause of the leak that has shut down a nuclear waste facility in New Mexico.
- Mojave Spaceport temporarily evacuated due to a small scrap metal fire.
- Some additional details about Airbus’s spaceplane, its recent successful drop tests, and the company’s future plans.
- A new analysis of Apollo lunar rocks provides strong new evidence for the theory that the Moon was formed when the Earth was hit by a Mars’ sized planet.
- Oklahoma today joined Indiana and South Carolina in rejecting the Common Core education standards that have been imposed by the federal government.
- Dozens of Veterans Administration whistle-blowers have been punished by their management for reporting management problems.
- Mississippi’s new voter ID law went into effect and there were no problems.
- Why Japan (and Germany) really lost World War II.
- Animal rights activists want to blacklist the metal band Metallica from a music festival because one of its members is a hunter.
- Orbital Sciences has announced a further delay to July 1 for the next Antares/Cygnus cargo mission to ISS in order to complete its investigation into the failure of a Russian engine during testing.
- Fifty-one fascinating historical pictures.
- Obamacare has caused a significant spike in emergency room use.
- There is an ongoing rescue of a caver in one of Europe’s deepest cave.
- For the past four years the glaciers in Glacier National Park have stopped shrinking.
- Engineers have returned to full operation the x-ray instrument on the Swift gamma-ray burst space telescope.
- On Monday Boeing unveiled a full mockup of its CST-100 manned capsule.
- A faulty heater filled the Russian module of ISS with smoke on Tuesday.
- The investigation into the failure of a Proton launch several weeks ago has been completed.
- For half a billion dollars Google has purchased satellite company Skybox Imaging.
- Why we fired Eric Cantor.
- The race between Lady Gaga and Sarah Brightman to be first professional singer to perform in space.
- India’s Mars probe Mangalyaan successfully completed a mid-course correction on Wednesday.
- A petition signed by 87,000 people wants George Will fired by the Washington Post because he wrote a column saying things they don’t like.
- What Cantor’s loss and Graham’s win mean.
- The test of a new parachute system for Mars landing has been delayed until the end of June due to high winds.
- Sierra Nevada has announced that it plans to do additional test flights in 2014 of its prototype Dream Chaser engineering test vehicle
- Is Google negotiating to become an investor in Virgin Galactic?
- A tour of the full scale mockup Boeing’s CST-100 manned capsule.
- After successfully completing its standard prelaunch static fire, SpaceX has delayed the Sunday Falcon 9 commercial launch at the request of its customer which wishes to do further tests of the six satellites on board.
- The IRS claim that two years of Lois Lerner’s emails were lost when her computer crashed is simply not believeable.
- “The Peace President is starting to leave a legacy of war.”
- The competition heats up: European aerospace companies Airbus and Safran have signed an agreement to merge their rocket divisions.
- Italian coffee machine maker Lavazza has developed a coffee machine that will make expresso in weightlessnesss.
- Getting the Russian Soyuz capsule prepped to take two tourists around the Moon.
- The ticking IRS IT department time bomb.
- Images of the Soviet Union’s one flight space shuttle, damaged and destroyed by the collapse of the building roof in 2002 where it had been stored.
- The astronomers who allocate time on the Hubble Space Telescope have decided to devote a large block for finding a Kuiper Belt object that the probe New Horizons might fly past.
- The lawyer for True The Vote — one of the groups targeted by the IRS and other federal agencies for harassment — has just issued a very blunt letter to the Department of Justice that puts them and the IRS very much in the hot seat.
- An update on the ongoing cave rescue of an injured explorer in Riesending Cave in Germany.
- On Monday ULA signed contracts with several American companies to begin development of an engine to replace the Russian built first stage engine used by the Atlas 5.
- SpaceX and ORBCOMM have now set Friday, June 20, as the date for next commercial launch of the Falcon 9.
- In an editorial today the Washington Times labels SLS “the rocket to nowhere” and condemns Senator Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) for trying to sabotage the new commercial manned space companies in order to fund it.
- The long range medical study of 100,000 children from birth to adulthood that Congress mandated fourteen years ago and has already spent a billion dollars without even getting started has just been delayed again after an outside review has raised new questions.
- The IRS now claims it has lost emails from six other key employees involved in the agency’s effort to harass conservatives.
- Is the Sun’s strange double-peaked solar maximum finally ending?
- A Massachusetts judge has released a 16-year-old Connecticut girl back to her family after Massachusetts child welfare authorities seized her 16 months ago.
- The tree that hitched a ride for 11,000 miles.
- China is investigating ways to recover the first stages of its rockets.
- A Connecticut high school student discovers that his school firewall has been set up to specifically block access to all conservative sites while allowing access to liberal ones.
- In 2010 the IRS illegally provided the FBI with confidential tax information totaling 1.1 million pages.
- In an interview today, a Russian official stated that they expect the Proton rocket to resume operations by September.
- Senator Bill Nelson (D-Florida) today expressed concern on the Senate floor over the budget language inserted by Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) that many think will cripple the new commercial manned space companies with high costs and extensive paperwork.
- The new Russian rocket Angara is now scheduled for its first test launch on June 27.
- SpaceX today released a new video of the most recent Falcon 9R vertical take-off and landing test flight.
- After an almost two week rescue effort, the injured German caver safely reached the surface Thursday.
- Rosetta’s comet has unexpectedly gone to sleep.
- Two low-cost, car battery-sized Canadian space telescopes were launched successfully in Russia today
- At hearings in the Senate Ted Cruz sharply criticized the proposed Democratic proposal to amend and restrict the first amendment of the Bill of Rights.
- Why the Redskins trademark ruling should terrify you.
- Groundbreaking — the literally blasting off of a mountaintop — took place today in Chile at the eventual site of the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT).
- A Russian Dnepr rocket today successfully placed in orbit the largest number of satellites, 37, ever launched on a single rocket.
- A detailed look at tomorrow’s Falcon 9 commercial launch of six Orbcomm satellites.
- The late arrival of Russia’s first private satellite
- In a speech in Singapore, the head of Arianespace said that the company urgently needs to overhaul its Ariane 5 rocket in order to meet tough competition from SpaceX and Russia’s Proton rocket.
- As China’s Yutu lunar rover barely continues to survive, unable to move, its scientists prepare to publish their results.
- “They just got rid of it. … It really looks bad and I’ve got to say it looks like a cover-up to me.”
- The truth versus the leftwing media.
- The head of the Clinton library in Arkansas has banned researchers from a conservative media outlet.
- More video from IRS commissioner John Koskinen testimony today during House hearings.
- More revelations from today’s IRS hearings, this time indicating evidence of White House involvement.
- Images from the successful cave rescue in Germany.
- The IRS Commissioner John Koskinen smirked as he insisted that “no apology is owed” by the agency for its actions.
- Lois Lerner’s hard drive crashed ten days after the chairman of the House Ways & Means committee sent a letter to the IRS asking the agency was engaged in targeting.
- SpaceX scrubbed its Falcon 9 commercial launch of six Orbcomm satellites tonight because of an issue with the rocket’s second stage.
- The superintendent at a Connecticut school that blocked access to conservative websites while allowing access to comparable liberal sites has finally issued a response to the charge.
- To be fair, let’s watch a montage of the Democratic representatives and their statements during today’s House hearing of IRS commissioner John Koskinen.
- On the road
- SpaceX now says that Tuesday will be the earliest it will try again to launch six Orbcomm satellites on its Falcon 9 rocket.
- Radar images of Titan taken in 2013 by Cassini show a twelve-mile patch appear in one of the moon’s methane lakes, then disappear.
- Engineers have now developed techniques to a produce materials as light as aerogel but many times stronger.
- The history of Russia’s new Angara rocket.
- Left wing activists demand but fail to prevent someone from videotaping an open public event they had scheduled at a college.
- The IRS cancelled its emailing archive service only weeks after Lois Lerner’s computer crashed.
- In searching for three kidnapped teenagers, Israel has uncovered dozens of tunnels, weapons caches, and explosive labs hidden throughout the Palestinian-controlled Hebron region of the West Bank.
- The scandal of fiddled global warming data.
- The Curiosity science team celebrates the completion of a full Martian year since the rover’s landing.
- Tonight’s testimony and questioning of IRS commissioner John Koskinen concerning the destruction of Lois Lerner’s emails in connection with the IRS’s harassment of opponents of Barack Obama and the Democratic Party..
- SpaceX delays its Falcon 9 Orbcomm launch until July.
- Orbital Sciences has delayed its next Cygnus cargo launch to ISS until July 10 at the earliest.
- Russian government: Nyet to tourists.
- First test flight for balloon company
- India’s new prime minister to watch rocket launch.
- Embezzlement at British rocket company.
- Tracking animals from space.
- Russia begins its withdrawal from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.
- A new water supplier for SpaceX’s Texas spaceport.
- Sudanese Christian woman rearrested trying to leave country.
- “They did not follow the law.”
- The sixteen most expensive substances in the world.
- What are the odds of seven hard drives failing at the IRS?
- IRS admits it leaked confidential tax information
- On the radio
- The VA scandal expands with new report
- Orbital to inspect Antares’ Russian engines.
- Another update on the reactivation of ISEE-3
- A Russian military satellite fails.
- Supreme Court forbids warrantless police searches of cell phones.
- Glaciers on Mars!
- EPA “loses” emails like the IRS.
- Lois Lerner: Democratic attack dog at the IRS.
- Report finds 6.9 million people registered to vote in multiple states.
- Arianespace lowers its prices.
- My Space Show appearance June 14, 2014.
- China heads for the Moon and Mars.
- Another Orion parachute test
- Comparing the rocket vs balloon space tourism ride.
- A trio of supermassive black holes
- Using bath salts to make solar cells
- Supreme Court rejects Obama’s recess appointments
- Supreme Court rejects abortion clinic free speech buffer zone.
- Hillary Clinton reveals what it’s like to be poor in America
- Another global warming computer model bites the dust.
- Blacklisting “disruptive” vets from medical care.
- 37 amazing places you must visit before you die.
- A look at the seven IRS officials whose computers crashed.
- Sudanese woman freed again
- More evidence of data tampering at NOAA
- $4.4 billion for 2,000 IRS hard drive crashes.
- An Angara home page
- A laptop/tablet case designed to let you use either while standing and walking.
- Angara launch scrubbed.
- Sarah Brightman’s space training to begin
- Sudanese woman flees to U.S. embassy.
- Let citizens sue government workers directly for misconduct.
- Communications to be lost with the Stereo spacecraft
- An contract extension from NASA for SpaceX and Sierra Nevada
- IRS also failed to tell court about lost emails
- Things could get very interesting for the IRS on July 10.
- A flawed first flight for NASA’s saucer for testing Mars landing techniques.
- First test flight of Angara is officially postponed
- Another legal case that could blow the IRS open
- South Pole ice cap sets new record
- Update on the LDSD partly successful test flight
- Global warming scientists find another cute species to use for political purposes.
- Democrats rewrite their attempt to repeal the first amendment
- The LDSD vehicle for testing Mars’ landing techniques has been recovered intact.
- Another launch success for India
- Angara launch July 1 or 2?
- Hobby Lobby wins
- Rosetta measures its comet
- Hippos in South America?
- The sad and dishonest state of economic research
- Valve failure caused Angara scrub
- A streamlined Arianespace to build Ariane 6?
- Construction of Vostochny spaceport on schedule
- Free paid vacations for House lawmakers
- A WhiteKnightTwo test flight today
- Hubble to search for Kuiper Belt targets for New Horizons
- True the Vote sues Mississippi over voter fraud in Republican primary
- Another lawsuit presses the IRS
- OCO-2 in orbit
- More fraud in peer-reviewed science
- Millions of Obamacare applications can’t be processed
- FIRE sues to end university speech codes
- SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket gets a customer
- Russia abandons Sea Launch
- NASA and Boeing finalize contract to build the SLS rocket
- Cygnus/Antares launch date scheduled
- A profile of the designer of China’s Yutu lunar rover.
- Gigantic underground trampoline about to open
- Newly discovered dinosaur tracks
- More cost increases due to Obamacare
- Telescope teamwork produces spectacular galaxy image
- Shaking up a space plane
- Two exoplanets disappear
- ISEE-3 fires its thrusters for the first time since 1987.
- Corvette Museum preserves sinkhole
- Space junk damages ISS coolant radiator?
- How beautiful we were.
- Plastic bags do not kill birds and fill the oceans
- ISIS demands a Jewish genocide
- Seven unjustified school suspensions
- Angara to fly July 9?
- Problems with the European Gaia space telescope
- Buran moved to new exhibition location
- Obamacare causes wait time in California emergency rooms to skyrocket
- ISEE-3 engine burn tomorrow
- A source for the most powerful cosmic rays?
- Russia to phase out use of Ukrainian-built Soyuz rockets
- Obamacare forces health insurance brokers to flee
- ISEE-3 engine burn
- Voyager 1 phones home
- Angara launches
- Mapping the inside of Mt St. Helens
- An update on ISEE-3’s resurrection
- Name an exoplanet!
- Lois Lerner intentionally sought to hide her emails from Congress
- ISEE-3 effort aborted?
- SpaceX’s spaceport in Texas approved by FAA
- Cygnus launch delayed due to weather
- Bigelow Aerospace hiring
- Rosetta snaps more comet pictures
- Fast radio pulses exist, come from outside the galaxy, and no one knows what they are
- The effort to resurrect ISEE-3’s is over
- LightSail to launch on a Falcon Heavy
- A pro-choice supporter illustrates her hatred for freedom
- The sun continues its ramp down
- Prison for collecting rain water in Oregon
- Dry ice evaporation creates the fresh gullies on Mars
- ISEE-3 might still be saved
- The next Falcon 9 commercial launch is on schedule
- Federal judge gives the IRS 30 days to come clean
- ISEE-3 reboot team has a solution
- Cygnus launch delayed again
- Russian Soyuz launches commercial satellites for Arianespace
- India’s space program gets a huge budget boost
- TSA joins Obama adminstration in opening the borders
- Second judge demands explanation from IRS
- Website upgrade
- Air Force certifies Falcon 9
- Venus Express is coming up for less air
- Ten myths about Isaac Newton
- TSA backs down
- Curiosity’s journey continues
- “Imagine 80 percent of your citizens in bomb Shelters.”
- A conservative town rallies to support their gay police chief.
- Cygnus launch
- Global warming: Is there anything it can’t do?
- “We were incredibly stupid.”
- The New Nazis have arrived.
- Surprising support for Israel against Hamas
- A spaceport for Great Britain?
- CDC suspends shipments of dangerous pathogens
- Falcon 9 launch
- The darkest material ever made
- A request in connection with Genesis
- John Prine and Iris DeMent – In Spite of Ourselves
- An illegally destroyed hard drive blocks an investigation into a collegue of Lois Lerner
- The next Proton and Angara launches
- Great Britain’s proposed suborbital spaceport locations
- Sixty science papers retracted
- DARPA awards contracts for XS-1 spaceplane
- Is the TSA the most monstrously incompetent agency in history?
- The House slashes IRS budget
- Plumbing repair scheduled for ISEE-3
- A new map of Mars
- More images from Rosetta
- TSA don’t know nothing about geography
- Mark Knopfler – Wild Theme
- Israel repairs Gaza power line
- What others really think of America
- Another update on ISEE-3
- Cygnus berthes with ISS
- The elusive effort to detect gravitational waves.
- The UAE wants to go to Mars
- Lawyer threatened with disbarment because of his political views
- White House defies House subpoena
- House slashes budget of National Security Council
- University of hate
- Another ISEE-3 update
- Art Garfunkel – All I know
- House imposes more cuts to the IRS budget
- More forgotten vials of deadly diseases discovered
- UrthaCast progress
- Europe readies its own space plane for test flight
- Rick Wakeman – keyboard solo
- Voyager 1 might not have left the solar system
- The first blank Sun since 2011
- Caves on the Moon!
- More harrassment of opponents by the Obama administration
- Half a billion dollars spent by Bezos in space
- Monty Python – Mafia
- The 707 turns 60
- Looking Forward
- Lerner’s pension defunded
- Was Yutu stopped by rough ground?
- A question for Israel’s critics?
- More destroyed evidence at the IRS
- Going back to the Canyon
- Mike Oldfield – The Bell
- An exoplanet with an orbit like Mars
- Islamic terrorism and bigotry for all to see.
- Puddles Pity Party – “Royals”
- Spyro Gyra at Montreux Jazz 89
- Eddi Reader – Galileo
- Out of the Canyon
- Soviet spacecraft kidnapped by CIA
- New Rosetta comet images
- Exoplanets with no water
- Falcon 9 soft lands on water
- SLS needs more money!
- Russia loses contact with Photon-M
- Sierra Nevada signs deal with Japan
- The loss of skepticism in science
- Protecting the Mars orbiters from comet flyby
- Maria and the Captain dance the Laendler
- SpaceX scores first in its suit against the Air Force
- Russia regains control of biology satellite
- Commercial communications satellites for Mars?
- “This was lawless behavior, and reckless as well.”
- SpaceX launch schedule heats up
- Today’s Rosetta comet picture
- Will Russia’s most powerful rocket engine be reborn?
- Another DC gun ban ruled unconstitutional
- Planet of geysers
- Opportunity breaks Soviet record
- The Happy Cats – Doesn’t come any better
- Trees
- Comet 67P on July 28
- Venus Express is alive
- Messenger descends to Mercury
- Amazon’s 3D printshop opens
- World War I underground
- Congress restores most VA bonuses
- Gaia commissioning complete
- Black bigots in California
- ISEE-3 engine restart fails but the private effort continues
- Jews attacked in Germany
- The More the Merrier
- SpaceShipTwo flies again
- The Milky Way shrinks
- Last ATV launched to ISS
- A new cheap rocket company
- Creeping closer
- ExoMars will likely miss 2018 launch date
- New emails reveal Lois Lerner’s hatred of conservatives
- Burn the witch!
- Chinese anti-satellite test?
- Clarence White & Roland White – I Am A Pilgram/Soldiers Joy
- Today’s 67P image + the comet’s coma!
- The early bombardment of the Earth
- SpaceX’s Texas spaceport advances
- The first lunar close-up
- How the Earth gave the Moon a lemon shape
- Mangement failures in Obamacare
- A Democrat speaks, and lies spew out
- CIA admits it hacked the Senate’s computers
- Fermi proves that novae produce gamma rays
- A Hubble Space Telescope status report
- The Clintons demand that unauthorized bios should not “be allowed”
- Mary Hopkin – Those were the days
- Mom arrested for teaching her son independence and self-reliance
- Getting closer
- Vostochny Soyuz 2 launchpad nears completion
- Another new launch company completes flight test
- Flying a glider to the edge of space
- Sudanese Christian woman arrives in U.S.
- The Feds steal cars
- Obamacare continues force premiums to skyrocket.
- EPA funnels cash to Democrats
- Hamas breaks ceasefire in only 90 minutes
- Obamacare increases Florida insurance premiums
- Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa
- “Tolerance, freedom, and the hypocrisy in an age of confusion”
- Russia to conduct its very first cosmonaut rescue drills at sea
- Democratic Party law professor made a fool of at House IRS hearings today
- How ctrl-alt-delete came to be
- The real solution to the Gaza war
- Dream Chaser air frame unveiled
- NASA confirms “impossible” drive
- Don’t buy stock yet in that “impossible” space drive
- Netanyahu tells off the Obama administration
- Comet 67P from 1000 k
- The Putin government moves to take control of Energia
- Ebola patient arrives in U.S.
- Today’s Comet 67P image
- Russia outlines its space exploration plans for the next two decades
- Bake sales without the sweets
- 67P from less than 200 miles
- Russian umanned space program pushed back three years
- SpaceX’s next commercial launch set for tomorrow
- Ukraine tensions disrupt more U.S.-Russian science
- The next U.S. Mars rover will try to make and store oxygen
- Scientists struggle with earthquake data in the Pacific northwest
- News crew threatened with arrest if they didn’t turn over their footage
- The library that tried to ban conservative news researchers backs down.
- The oldest known common-place items.
- A volcano eruption on Io
- If you own a gun stay out of New Jersey
- Market Street, San Francisco, April 14, 1906
- Hamas propaganda becomes Israeli comedy
- An Amtrak train abandons all of its passengers
- SpaceX strikes deal with Texas to build spaceport
- U.S./Russian owned launch company ILS cuts workforce by 25%
- Another successful SpaceX commercial launch
- An exoplanet that was once like a star
- Comet 67P/C-G at 126 miles
- Video of the Falcon 9 first stage doing a soft splashdown
- How does Comet 67P compare with other comets?
- Eta Carinae’s next big show
- Religion banned in shopping mall
- British medical journal bans Israelis
- Obamacare poll numbers crash
- Ten very unusual libraries.
- The lingering weak solar maximum
- Hayley Westenra – Pie Jesu
- An Hamas officer, captured by Israel, admits he led the kidnapping and murder operation of three Israeli teenagers
- The VA pattern of lies
- Rosetta arrives
- Genocide from ISIS
- Postmodern Jukebox – Burn
- China to build a new canal in Central America
- Comet 67P on the day of rendezvous
- Congress applies pressure to ULA and the Air Force
- Free gym memberships for Homeland Security desk jockeys
- Ten amazing coincidences.
- Christians flee Islamic jihadists in northern Iraq
- Giant storm on Uranus
- An Obamacare official deleted her emails in violation of federal law
- Reba McEntire – I’m gonna wash that man right outa my hair
- The count now more than 20
- 67P from 52 miles
- Dragon launch abort tests scheduled
- Orion first test flight scheduled
- The Dream Chaser test vehicle to fly again
- New Horizons shoots a movie
- An Obamacare typo costs family $1.2 million
- The coverup involves large swathes of the federal and state bureaucracy
- Bambi meets Godzilla
- Test results from NASA saucer Mars landing test
- More U.S. spacesuit problems
- Another Rosetta closeup of 67P/C-G
- “If you try to mandate my smart-gun technology, I’ll burn it down.”
- “These two businesses did not get looted in Ferguson”
- Vocal Spectrum – The Music of the Night
- NASA admits that it is struggling to meet the 2017 launch date for SLS
- The Milky Way’s most distant stars
- Europe’s ATV cargo freighter has docked with ISS
- A blue flask of viruses
- The weather is finally changing on Titan
- Giant Greek tomb discovered
- ULA CEO steps down
- Pink “Perfect”
- Rosetta detects its first dust grains
- Another former SpaceX employee sues
- Iraqi Muslims celebrate persecution of Christians
- Cop kills baby-HOAX
- The militarization of the police in Ferguson
- It ain’t gravity holding this asteroid together
- NASA headquarters staff votes to unionize.
- The flight of gifted engineers from NASA
- David Foster and Kenny G – Love Theme From St. Elmo’s Fire
- Maps showing the territories of the Kurds and the Islamic State
- 67P/C-G in 3D
- Worldview-3 in orbit
- Private lunar lander completes test landing
- Another look at why ULA’s CEO stepped down
- Russia to build new satellite communications cluster
- Michael Mann’s court suit under attack
- The IRS stonewalls a judge
- “You had one job.”
- The occupation of Cyprus underscores the hypocrisy of any anti-Israel outrage over Gaza
- “It was the grossest incompetence.”
- On the radio
- IRS lets contractors rummage through taxpayer data
- New footage of the Falcon 9 soft spashdown
- Did Stardust capture stardust?
- Maliki steps down in Iraq
- “A real Nobel Laureate takes pity on a fake Nobel Laureate.”
- The Cat Came Back
- Only some in the Muslim world condemn ISIS
- Judge orders independent investigation into lost IRS emails
- Six common sounds of the past that we no longer hear
- Cygnus leaves ISS
- Visiting the memorial to a forgotten astronaut
- IRS tech claims Lerner’s hard drive wasn’t damaged.
- The life story of a meteorite
- “Delete this email.”
- Puddles Pity Party – Dancing Queen
- The background to the Rick Perry indictment
- What’s next in Gaza if Hamas rejects peace
- Cygnus completes mission to ISS
- What private manned spaceship will NASA pick?
- Branson insists he will fly this year
- Competition with SpaceX forced ULA CEO out
- A brief history of USB
- Rosetta spirals in
- Curiosity retreats from Hidden Valley
- Steve’n’Seagulls – Thunderstruck
- “For the Israelis, this time is different.”
- Sea plankton on the outside of ISS
- Above LA 4K
- Orbital plans upgrade to Antares
- Sierra Nevada abandons its own hybrid engine for Dream Chaser
- German journalists arrested by police in Ferguson
- Scientists baffled by unknown source of CFCs
- Beautiful woodworking
- India delays next GSLV test launch
- NASA’s Space Launch System searches for a mission
- Two additional Russian rocket engines arrive in the U.S.
- Arianespace and ESA sign contract for three launches
- The weight of Comet 67P/C-G
- A new map of the Middle East
- GAO report: Bergdahl hostage swap broke law
- A movie of Triton made from Voyager 2’s fly-by 25 years ago
- High school student arrested for writing he killed his neighbor’s dinosaur with a gun
- Judge orders release of documents withheld by DOJ in Fast-and-Furious
- Pause in global temperature rise to continue for another decade?
- Roy Orbison – In Dreams
- Feds confiscate bagpipes because
- Air Force requests info for new engine
- A problem with drilling on Mars
- Surprise! TSA lied!
- Use a smart phone? Google knows where you’ve been
- Linda Ronstadt – Love has no pride
- Falcon 9R destroyed during failed test flight
- Sea Launch has suspended all operations until 2015
- Soyuz puts two satellites in wrong orbit
- Curiosity cancels drilling and moves on
- Confirmed: Life in buried Antarctic lake
- Europe’s continuing problems with Galileo GPS
- Picking a comet landing site
- “Finally, finally, finally! They had come!”
- First comic book appearance of Superman for sale
- Cooking the climate numbers in Australia
- Crime rate plunges in Chicago as concealed carry applications surge
- Rosetta’s comet landing sites
- SpaceX delays commercial launch 24 hours
- Russia to continue on ISS past 2020?
- Natural methane plumes found on the sea floor
- Happy birthday Linux!
- Obamacare continues to squelch economy
- DOJ admits Lerner’s IRS emails do exist
- Identification of unknown airstrikes in Libya revealed
- 2Cellos – With or without you
- DOJ attorney once worked under Lois Lerner at IRS
- Lois Lerner’s Blackberry destroyed by IRS
- A new Falcon 1 to compete against SpaceX
- Clouds of water found on brown dwarf
- Air Force hypersonic test ends in failure
- Voter fraud found in Virginia and Maryland
- No children playing in America!
- The world’s two most dangerous dams.
- SpaceX scrubs Wednesday commercial launch
- Antares to launch polar orbiting satellites?
- “International press coverage has become a morality play starring a familiar villain.”
- On the radio
- Bugs Bunny – 8 Ball Bunny
- Rosetta’s camera zooms in
- A tugboat for satellites
- Russian military abandons Rokot
- The DOT wants to know where you are
- The federal government wants to know what you are saying
- The most amazing lie in history.
- SLS first launch officially delayed one year
- Andreas Vollenweider – May Green Be The Grass
- Court rules in favor of rock throwers and thugs
- Software error caused Soyuz/Galileo failure
- Spitzer spots asteroid collision
- The real story behind “The Sound of Music”
- “We don’t have a strategy yet.”
- Morning Has Broken for Harp & Violin
- A new SpaceShipTwo glide test flight
- Single sensor caused Falcon 9R failure
- British government raises terror threat
- Fewer people to have health insurance under Obamacare
- The X-37B just keeps going.
- Hang Playing Hedge Monkeys
- Forty badass quotes.
- The decision on manned spaceflight
- Opportunity to get a reboot
- Battle of the heavy lift rockets
- Professor with leftwing ties to build hate speech database.
- Woman scares off attackers with gun
- All geckos lost from Foton-M4
- Nothing for New Horizons after Pluto
- Hayabusa ready for launch
- Current Congress sets record for fewest laws passed
- Israel’s land grab – not!
- New York clamps down on free speech
- The return of vinyl records
- The bubble we live in
- The deadly Israeli house strikes again
- Police arrest a man for picking up his kids.
- One minute changes a life forever
- ISIS in retreat?
- Lerner ignored questionable union political activities
- Musk vs Bezos
- Immigration has lost track of thousands of foreigners here on student visas.
- 11-year-old threatened with expulsion for virtual gun
- ISIS beheads another American
- Islamists gain control of a dozen commercial jets
- Animusic – Acoustic Curves
- Space geckos froze to death
- Vladimir Putin, space cadet
- People abandon obscure languages to gain prosperity
- Binary stars can form solar systems
- An ISIS fighter’s previous job was working at American airport
- SpaceX sets the next Falcon 9 commercial launch date
- Review panel approves extensions for seven planetary missions.
- Mark Knopfler – Going Home
- Mysterious hacking cell towers
- Rosetta to announce landing site
- Sarah Brightman, astronaut
- Giant dinosaur skeleton discovered
- Messier gets a scoop!
- Rosetta spots no surface ice on comet
- New emails provide more details of the IRS harassment of conservatives
- Glenn Miller – In the mood
- New York dumps NASA contract because of cost overruns.
- SpaceX commercial launch moved to Sunday
- New York gun shop raided by SWAT team, without a warrant
- Army can’t track spending on $4 billion system to track spending
- More IRS emails lost
- New Rosetta mosaic reveals jet
- Prepping Europe’s experimental space plane
- Indecision in Europe about their future commercial rocket
- Excavator mulches trees in seconds
- Europa’s geysers disappear
- Saudi authorities arrest 27 Christians for holding services in a home
- The American professors who think Israel is the only evil in the Middle East
- Jack the Ripper identified
- Another Falcon 9 launch success
- Why did the IRS wipe clean Lois Lerner’s Blackberry?
- Five ways movies get everything wrong about gun battles in war
- The first suspension bridge connecting mountain peaks
- Plate tectonics on Europa?
- The first geology map of Comet 67P/C-G
- Crashing moonlets orbiting Saturn
- Meteorite strike in Nicaragua
- Government takes over healthcare spending
- Icehouse – Great Southern Land
- Questions raised about Nicaragua meteorite impact
- Construction completed on first Orion capsule
- Arianespace signs four new contracts
- Democrats vote to squelch free speech
- Another launch contract for SpaceX
- Greenhouse gases up; Temperature stable
- Government to ban cheese
- How to embarass Democrats
- A program works so of course the Obama administration must stop it!
- Polish and Egyptian teams win first European rover competition
- Obama official calls Republicans by mistake in trying to leak info to Democrats
- Eleven facts that prove we live in a nation run by idiots
- One of John Franklin’s lost ships found?
- Ana Yang – Blowing bubbles
- The greatest electronic music of the fifties and sixties
- The IRS goes after Breitbart
- Lawsuit grounds Zero G
- The Russian takeover of Crimea once again threatens American access to space
- Who is buried in the largest tomb ever found in northern Greece?
- More fraud in academia
- Universal Big Bang lithium deficit confirmed
- Rosetta gets closer
- A new schedule for China’s space station program
- “Whenever we can, we follow the law.”
- Another delay at Virgin Galactic
- Judy Collins with Shawn Colvin – Since You’ve Asked
- Europe’s satellite makers want Ariane 6
- ISS astronauts return home safely
- Your neighbor the fascist
- The first chemical analysis of Comet 67P/C-G’s coma
- Putin threatens management at Vostochny with criminal prosecution
- Obamacare forces cancellation of Virginian healthplans
- Curiosity to begin climbing
- The solar maximum lingers on
- The fascist Senate Democrats who voted to repeal the first amendment
- Russia to match SpaceX launch prices
- Keep Calm and Carry On
- Senate Republicans block Democrat attempt to repeal First Amendment
- The first of two coronal mass ejectors from a solar flare has arrived.
- Playing with today’s Rosetta image of Comet 67P/C-G
- Moderate Islam, the myth.
- The things your kids will never understand
- The second CME has arrived.
- Is your firearms training realistic?
- An update on the status of NASA manned commercial competition
- New Horizons spots Pluto’s moon Hydra
- Saving a tree
- The competition in space continues to heat up
- Philae’s mission at Comet 67P/C-G
- Refusing TSA sex abuse
- Philae’s landing site chosen
- No first stage landing attempt on next Falcon 9/Dragon launch
- Philadelphia’s District Attorney likes to steal homes
- Steven Wilson – The Raven That Refused To Sing
- Management problems at NASA’s asteroid hunting program
- NASA to announce its commercial crew decision today.
- Russia reiterates that it has no intention to stop selling the U.S. its rocket engines
- Obamacare continues to cut employement
- On the radio
- Air Force to decide SpaceX certification on December 1
- NASA has chosen Boeing and SpaceX to build manned spacecraft to ferry crews to ISS
- Death Valley’s moving rocks
- A new impact crater on the Moon
- Another contest where you can win a ticket to space
- Neil deGrasse Tyson under attack for fabricating quotes
- Blue Origin to build rocket engine for Atlas 5
- The FAA approves spaceport license for Midland Texas.
- Dawn’s arrival at Ceres delayed one month
- More computer crashes and lost emails at the IRS.
- The Muppets & Rita Moreno – Fever
- Another ACLU lawsuit against Philadelphia for harassing photographers
- Judicial Watch demands right to cross-examine IRS officials
- Falcon 9 still go for launch on Saturday
- Extending ISS to 2024
- A giant black hole in a tiny galaxy
- Using government funding to finance antisemitism at UCLA
- Why is Wikipedia deleting all references to Neil Tyson’s quote fabrications?
- Obamacare could leave 2 million families without insurance
- Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Hoedown
- The disaster and ensuing coverup of the Obamacare website
- The next week in space
- Tennessee cheerleaders defy a ban on pregame public prayers
- Ohio teachers threaten strike because they are being switched to Obamacare
- Maintaining a high voltage line
- Ocean surface wind speeds declining
- Falcon 9 launch scrubbed due to weather.
- Global warming advocates finally admit their focus is politics, not science
- Antarctic sea ice extent largest on record
- Falcon 9 launch puts Dragon in orbit
- India inks space deal with China
- Trouble in Branson-land
- Obamacare to cut tax refunds in April
- MAVEN enters Mars orbit
- Obamacare forces Alaskan doctors to close their practices.
- “They want to start taking — now.”
- The planet debate continues
- Mangalyaan’s engine test a success
- SpaceX breaks ground on new spaceport
- Ann Miller – Too Darn Hot
- The People’s Climate March leaves New York a mess
- Dragon has been berthed successfully to ISS
- Obamacare enrollment plunges
- The Great Space Race
- The IRS versus the Constitution
- Linsey Pollak – Carrot clarinet
- “The debate is indeed over. The side that lies loses.”
- Forest Service clamps down on free speech
- Success for India’s Mars Orbiter Mission
- Russia announces plans to fund its share of ISS through 2025
- Rosetta moves in
- Taking a close look at the political leanings of a global warming rally
- Taking a close look at the peaceful nature of Islam in Great Britain
- Why India’s Mars probe was so cheap
- Ennio Morricone – Gabriel´s Oboe (clarinet version)
- Space weather downs U.S. military helicopter?
- Sierra Nevada lays off employees
- Europe struggles to contain costs on its next generation rocket
- Mangalyaan sends its first Mars pictures
- Russia to launch its first woman in 20 years
- AG Eric Holder to resign
- Hamas cedes some Gaza control to Fatah
- New Jersey prosecutor drops prison threat against Pennsylvania gun-carrying mom
- A pipeline for beer!
- New study devalues carbon dioxide again
- Russian launches new crew, including first Russian woman, to ISS
- Dream Chaser is not dead according to Sierra Nevada
- A solar panel on manned Soyuz fails to deploy
- Kate Rusby – Who will sing me lullabies?
- Soyuz docks successfully with ISS
- India: Space success vs red tape?
- TSA favors government employees and politicians at security checkpoints
- How a woman gets undressed on television in Italy
- Sierra Nevada protests NASA manned spacecraft contact award
- Philae landing date chosen
- Russian investigation begins on failed Soyuz solar array
- Proton rocket returns to flight
- Something keeps coming and going in a sea on Titan
- Soprillo & Tubax Contrabass Saxophone Duet
- Mangalyaan’s first global images of Mars
- Washcloth delays SLS engine tests
- Congress demands American rocket engines for military launches
- Dream Chaser still alive!
- More evidence of past glaciers on Mars
- Australia’s climate agency admits to fudging climate data
- We don’t need no intelligence briefings
- Another court rules against Obamacare subsidies
- More health insurance cancellations due to Obamacare
- Béla Fleck – Big Country
- Stratolaunch and Sierra Nevada team up
- More quality control problems in Russia
- A decision in November on Orbital’s reliance on Russian engines in Antares
- Fixing the space junk problem of the new Japanese Epsilon rocket.
- India and NASA sign cooperative agreement
- Another moon for Earth
- Candidate Mars landing sites for Europe’s ExoMars mission
- The upcoming cold and toxic winter on Titan’s southern hemisphere
- Harpo Marx – I Love Lucy (May 9, 1955)
- Delta 4 Heavy moved to launchpad for Orion flight
- More IRS hard drives wiped to conceal evidence
- Itzhak Perlman – Theme from Schindler’s List
- Homeland Security settles lawsuit of reporter whose home they illegally searched
- Comet 67P/C-G fires its jets
- The day fascism rushed through the door in Wisconsin
- Naturally 7 – Ready or Not
- Some reasons to panic
- Some reasons to panic, part 2
- The stall in global warming is now more than half the satellite record
- India gets Canadian launch contract
- Reality bites liberal Texas judge
- Privately built module heading to ISS next year
- SpaceX wins safety design award
- The deep ocean is not where global warming has gone
- Planxty – The Blacksmith
- Richard Branson’s balloon rival
- The next wave of Obamacare insurance cancellations begin arriving
- Groucho Marx – You Bet Your Life, May 12, 1955
- Nobel Prize goes to blue LED light inventors
- Orbital Sciences schedules next Cygnus cargo launch
- Successful American spacewalk today on ISS
- XCOR sells its Lynx suborbital spaceplane
- Independent Arianespace investigation cites design error as cause of Russian launch failure
- Rosetta gets the go to descend to six miles
- Mangalyaan releases its second global image of Mars
- Ground-breaking ceremony for Thirty Meter Telescope cancelled because of protesters
- SWAT teams kill another innocent citizen in raid
- IRS begins an audit of an anti-Obamacare filmmaker
- Cara Dillon – P Stands For Paddy
- Obamacare forces 13 states to cancel insurance plans
- A pulsar that’s eating a galaxy
- Air Force to take over two former shuttle hangers in Florida for its X-37B program
- World’s first space detective agency launched
- Launch abort system installed on Orion for December test flight
- Construction of Angara launchpad at Vostochny delayed
- EPA tells court it has lost text messages
- Kristin Chenoweth – Glitter and Be Gay
- New measurements cut dark matter in Milky Way by half
- SpaceShipTwo poised for powered test flights
- Yutu is slowly dying
- Eleven astonishing science fair projects
- Shania Twain & Alison Krauss – Forever And For Always
- Giant boulders on Comet 67P/C-G
- The remains of Alexander the Great’s father believed found
- Twenty percent increases in the cost of Obamacare in 2015
- Orbiting X-37B to land on Tuesday
- Recent volcanism on the Moon
- Why NASA picked Boeing over Sierra Nevada
- The Obamacare trifecta
- Democratic spokesman for Democratic governor threatens reporter with arrest
- Exploding Pianos
- Finding a meteorite 20 years after it hit the ground
- Update on Bigelow’s ISS module
- 1 in 4 Americans can no longer afford to see their doctor
- Houston demands that pastors hand in their sermons on homosexuality or be held in contempt of court.
- Five terrifying consequences should Baghdad fall to ISIS
- On the radio
- Kraftwerk – The Robots
- First results back from the U.S. MAVEN Mars probe
- Comet landing site confirmed
- A detailed look at today’s spacewalk on ISS
- The silent Obamacare protest of doctors
- “We’re not gonna move.”
- Ice photographed in Mercury’s permanently shadowed craters?
- A reviving solar maximum
- 40 to 63% increases in heath insurance premiums in Minnesota
- Johnny Carson, Frank Sinatra, and Don Rickles
- Houston mayor says she will reduce scoop of pastor subpoenas
- Democrats oppose an ebola travel ban
- Three potential post-Pluto targets for New Horizons
- Another succesful rocket launch for India
- Obama quarantines American soldiers in Africa but not Africans
- Bing Crosby & the Andrews Sisters – You Don’t Have to Know the Language
- Things are going to get worse
- G2 survives fly-by of Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
- Sierra Nevada fights back
- China gives outsiders a look into its manned space program
- The mysterious interior of Saturn’s moon Mimas
- Comet 67P/C-G at 2 feet per pixel
- Virgin Galactic outlines near term test flight schedule
- Argentina joins space club
- A look ahead to Sunday’s comet fly-by of Mars
- The X-37B goes to Mars
- George Harrison and Eric Clapton – While my guitar gently weeps
- Mars orbiters survive comet fly-by
- The X-37B landing in pictures and video
- Ebola’s rate of growth
- Send your sermons to Houston
- Jack the Ripper identification questioned
- Snowcaps of metal on Venus?
- Animals standing up for the first time
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter photographs Comet Siding Spring
- Proton launches commercial satellite
- China to launch two payloads to the Moon
- Solar minimum to limit interplanetary manned flights?
- Comet 67P/C-G’s surface at less than 1 meter resolution
- A citizen pulls over a cop and issues him a warning
- Court allows work on commercial crew to go forward
- A Mandelbrot set zoom animation out-take
- California orders churches to fund abortions
- India begins tests of larger rocket engine
- Voter fraud in Colorado
- Another failure for Russia’s Proton rocket?
- Titan’s atmosphere is unexpectedly unbalanced
- Composing Mozart’s “Requiem,” from Amadeus
- Increasing activity at Comet 67P/C-G
- Orion ready for launchpad!
- Next Angara test flight in December
- Problems at the National Weather Service?
- Comet Siding Spring flies past Mars, as seen by Hubble
- 55,000 Connecticut citizens to lose their health plans
- Next Cygnus/Antares launch to ISS set for October 27
- Comet 67P/C-G smells!
- Chinese lunar mission launches
- Jon Lord – Gigue
- India’s manned space program
- Sierra Nevada announces an X-37B version of Dream Chaser
- More brainlessness from Ebola experts and government operatives
- Heath insurance premiums skyrocketed because of Obamacare
- New sky-diving record by Google executive
- Democrats demand the right to regulate internet speech
- Ginger Rogers – We’re in the money
- Falcon 9 first stage to land on floating platform
- Lawsuit could delay Cygnus cargo flight in April
- ISS data lowers radiation risk for humans in space
- Dragon departs ISS
- The IRS steals property and cash
- Kid makes interception and scores and is punished
- Viewing Monday’s Antares launch along the East Coast
- Obamacare causes AIDS drug prices to skyrocket
- Vulnerable Senate Democrats are all Obama rubber-stamps
- Cygnus launch scrubbed
- Clean Bandit – Rather Be
- Largest sunspot in a quarter century spews flares
- Hubble gives Jupiter a giant eye
- Third launch for China in a week
- NASA treats Congress like a doormat, again
- Obamacare website easy to hack
- Engine failure forces emergency landing of Russian cargo plane with European satellite
- The Grand Tetons used as the Obama adminstration’s private playground
- Obamacare forces actors’ union to drop older members from healthplan
- Rosetta begins maneuvers for November 11 Philae landing
- Antares launch failure
- Yael Ahn – Chopsticks
- Doctors flee Obamacare
- LADEE impact site located
- Russian Progress freighter launched
- Updates on Antares launch failure
- Avalanches on an asteroid
- First chemical results from Rosetta
- Test flight of European space plane delayed
- Houston mayor withdrews sermon subpoenas
- How the biggest sunspot in a quarter century fits into history
- Video of election machine voter fraud?
- Cheap alternatives to Obamacare on the rise
- Initial assessement of Wallops launchpad completed
- Bond – Viva
- TSA confiscates a toy ray-gun belt buckle
- Atlas 5 successfully launches GPS satellite
- Massive voter fraud in Maryland
- Rage
- Two Republican senators propose limiting ability of government to confiscate property
- Sun reflection off of Titan’s lakes
- 44 places everyone should see before they die
- A further update on Antares failure
- Kitaro with 12 Girls Band – Matsuri
- Controversy surrounding IXV flight cancellation
- Ex-construction boss at Vostochny arrested
- A mysterious piece of Russian space junk does maneuvers!
- The Earth/Moon double planet, as seen by China’s Chang’e 5 probe
- CDC deletes ebola info from website
- SpaceShipTwo crashes during test flight
- Martin Brest – Hot Tomorrows
- EPA threatens $75K per day fines to man who built pond on his own property.
- China’s test Moon mission returns to Earth
- “Medical science doesn’t support official rhetoric on ebola.”
- “The sky is crying.”
- Rosetta gets in position to release Phalae
- New rocket coming from ULA?
- SpaceShipTwo accident pilots identified
- SpaceShipTwo’s engine did not cause failure
- G2 survives Milky Way center fly by
- How a big impact gave Vesta its grooves
- Some Virgin Galactic customers demand money back
- Tina Dico & Helgi Jonsson – River
- Moon Express lunar rover tests about to begin
- Update on SpaceShipTwo investigation
- Mathematical models badly overstate ebola numbers
- Sha-Na – I’m Gonna Knock On Your Door
- A geological score for Curiosity!
- Turbopump failure in first stage engine eyed for the Antares launch failure
- Signs of a sunspot ramp down
- Victor Borge and Marilyn Mulvey – Hands Off!
- Taking a broad look at Tuesday’s Republican sweep
- 20 delusions that shape how liberals vote
- Second SpaceShipTwo almost ready for flight
- The best image yet of the birth of a solar system
- Former SpaceX employee arrested
- A simple but powerful strategy for Congress against Obama
- Buddy Greene – Classical Harmonica Medley
- A pause in investment commitment to Virgin Galactic
- Solid rocket motors for American rockets?
- Orion heat shield redesigned before its launch?
- The November 12 timeline of events for Philae’s landing on a comet
- Why the polls underestimate Tuesday’s Republican sweep
- White student supports/attends Mike Brown event and is attacked
- Amazing rooftop structures
- Andreas Scholl performs Handel’s Ombra mai fu
- Focusing on strategy instead of substance
- Bringing Dream Chaser home
- Virgin Galactic vows to fly again by April
- Alternative rockets and 2015 launch dates for Cygnus
- Police officer suspended for slapping citizen for refusing a warrantless search
- Soyuz brings home crew from ISS
- China’s struggle to compete with SpaceX
- Comet Siding Spring’s fly-by of Mars changed the planet’s atmosphere
- Close-up image of Philae’s landing site
- Obamacare enrollments far below government predictions
- O boy! Obama wants to regulate the internet!
- Nicole Atkins – Bird on a Wire
- Italian appeals court overturns convictions of earthquake scientists
- Google takes over Moffett Field
- Musk hints at a team-up with space-based internet provider
- Russia rolls Angara 5 to the launchpad
- Police seize $100K without a warrant
- One of NASA’s two STEREO solar probes has gone dead
- Philae still go for landing
- Orion rollout to launchpad delayed 24 hours because of weather.
- Hayley Westenra – For The Fallen
- Philae is go for separation, despite problem
- Rosetta snaps Philae’s picture
- A third video of Obamacare’s creator found, insulting Americans
- More crushing Obama regulation to come
- Philae has landed successfully!
- More penalties from Obamacare
- A comet picture taken by Philae on the way down
- More than 200 colleges slash work hours to avoid Obamacare
- Philae might have bounced
- Tim Conway – Dentist sketch
- Philae’s status on the surface
- Japanese investor sues Excalibur Almaz
- New Horizons to wake up on December 6 for its July Pluto flyby
- Engineers have until Saturday to reposition Philae before its batteries go dead
- Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust
- Obamacare is forcing the closure of small rural hospitals nationwide
- Drill baby drill!
- What Mechanical Engineers Do When They Retire
- Been underground
- Philae has gone to sleep
- Philae spotted before and after first bounce
- Russias pulling out of ISS in 2020
- Falcon Heavy launchpad work begun
- Geological maps of Vesta published
- The long working relationship between Obama and Gruber
- Los Angeles Guitar Quartet – Lotus Eaters
- Philae’s landing site dust-covered ice
- Update on Russia’s proposed new space station project
- SpaceX vs Arianespace, according to the TV industry
- The Revolutionary Non Sequitar Turbo Encabulator Transmission
- Heading to Israel
- Five space companies whose future hangs in the balance.
- Kickstarter campaign to fund lunar probe
- Sandy and Richard Riccardi – Holiday Dinner Party
- Comments down
- Air Force admits SpaceX certification likely
- Comments fixed
- The Association – Along Comes Mary
- MAVEN in safe mode
- Obama’s attempt to impose amnesty: a bluff?
- Accidental freon release inside ISS
- Another business forced to close by gays
- Lion hug
- A new master image of Europa
- IRS finds lost Lerner emails
- Even if you liked your plan, Obamacare will pick a plan for you
- Galaxies formed faster than predicted
- What the Middle East conflict looks like from inside Israel
- The search for Philae narrows
- Images of Falcon 9 first stage fins and landing platform
- Sheriff tases and arrests homeschooling family because their house is messy
- Eighteen pictures of history lost or forgotten
- Emails reveal press willingness to be manipulated by the Obama administration
- Obama proclaims he will fail to do what every President has failed to do since Carter and the right goes crazy.
- New crew arrives at ISS
- Antarctic ice sheet thicker than expected
- Jennifer Nettles – Hello Again
- Cygnus on Falcon 9?
- Carnegie Mellon unveils its Google X-Prize lunar rover
- Italy’s legislature rejects additional funding for space
- “Our better angels”
- Looking down a comet’s neck
- Spaghetti Western Orchestra
- First 3D part manufactured in space
- Billion-dollar-plus NASA medical research contract under dispute
- Obamacare and amnesty: working together to screw Americans
- Court demands documents linked to IRS scandal
- FAA moves to regulate and thus destroy drone use
- Ennio Morricone – The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
- Ralph Vaughan Williams:- A Song of Thanksgiving
- Back from Israel
- Proton launch postponed
- Safely landing the Falcon 9 first stage on the next launch
- Philae’s bouncing, tumbling landing sequence
- Surprise babies in the 115,000 volt substation!
- A scrambled SLS/Orion flight schedule
- Hayabusa-2 scheduled for launch
- Chinese spacecraft reaches L2
- Europe agrees to build Ariane 6
- The failure of single payer government health plans
- Turkey Drone 2014
- A mysterious Russian spacecraft makes more maneuvers
- Postgraduate plug-n-play cubesat manufacturers ship their first product
- Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) / Kathrin Troester – Griminelli’s Lament
- Organic material from Mars?
- Japanese asteroid probe Hayabusa-2 successfully launched
- Orion launch on Thursday given go-ahead
- Human etchings half a million years old?
- Obama administration defies IRS court order
- Empire of the Sun – P51: Cadillac of the Skies
- Increasing hostility to religion in America
- Europe approves construction of giant telescope
- Orion test flight scrubbed
- Busy year for Russian Proton rocket?
- New joint venture to build Ariane 6
- NSF accused of misuse of funds in giant ecological project
- Wallops launchpad repairs to take a year
- Willie Nile & Bruce Springsteen – One Guitar
- Orion test flight a complete success
- Dawn takes its first good picture of Ceres
- Luciano Pavarotti & Lionel Richie – The Magic of Love
- New Horizons awakes
- Venus Express gone?
- World population rejects climate change
- Arizona county to ban employees who smoke
- A Chinese SLS super rocket?
- Curiosity confirms that Gale Crater was once a water filled lake.
- Want to become a rocket scientist?
- Martin Frost – Ava Maria
- The federal government mines confidential private health data
- Antares hot fire test set for late in 2015
- What exactly is that Russian satellite?
- New documents link Justice Department with IRS scandal
- Book news!
- NOAA admits that California drought is not man-made
- Orbital Sciences to use Atlas rocket to launch next Cygnus freighter
- Jonathan Gruber grilled by Congress over Obamacare
- Lame duck Congress agrees to $1.1 trillion budget
- A planetary cubesat mission by Japan
- Simon & Garfunkel – Homeward Bound
- Science spending steady in proposed Congressional budget
- Solar maximum ramp down continues
- A bird’s eye view of London
- Comet 67P/C-G unveils a scientific surprise
- A Russian commercial reusable space shuttle?
- The geography of scientific plagiarism
- “Why the media’s fact problems are much bigger than Rolling Stone.”
- The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the sky
- Dragon launch delayed three days
- Global views of six Saturnian moons
- Comet 67P/C-G in color
- Seven surgeries made possible by 3D printing
- NIH panel recommends cancelling multi-billion dollar study
- When did humans begin using fire?
- Private company offers to fly packages to Moon
- No more Russian engines for ULA
- A more positive conservative take on the budget deal
- The Marx Brothers – Tootsi Frootsi Ice Cream
- Airbus attacked by French lawmaker for talking to SpaceX
- Last three years the quietest for tornadoes ever
- University defunds Christian student organization because it wants to be Christian
- Another reasonable look at this week’s Congressional budget deal.
- 2014: The year of the liberal lie
- A new Russian heavy lift rocket amid Russian budget woes
- The arrival of two new childhood diseases to America
- “I will not comply.”
- What Gazans really think about Hamas
- More problems for Webb Telescope
- Simon & Garfunkel – American Tune
- Voyager 1 on the edge of the solar system
- NASA builds a $349 million test stand it knows it will never need
- The approved 2015 NASA budget
- Want to name a crater on Mercury?
- Mapping the world’s most influential languages
- Evaporating dry ice chunks create gouges on Mars
- Curiosity finds organic materials on Mars, including fluctuating levels of methane
- The John Wright Band – The Lock Keeper
- Boeing to bid CST-100 for ISS cargo contract
- Venus Express mission ends
- Orbital Sciences picks another Russian engine for Antares
- The Falcon 9 first stage landing barge about to set sail
- The reasons behind Russia’s proposed new space station
- The seas of Titan
- Google Lunar X-Prize news
- Countdown begins for the suborbital test flight of India’s new rocket
- Conservatives can remove John Boehner as House speaker
- Colin Hay – Goodnight Romeo/Prison Time
- Friday’s Falcon 9 launch delayed
- India’s rocket and manned capsule test flight a success
- Falcon 9/Dragon launch rescheduled
- Kepler reborn
- The liberal hatefest
- Halftime dogs at Eagle’s football
- CO2 satellite overcomes design flaw
- Comet 67P/C-G: the Movie!
- Emailing a wrench to ISS
- The cowards in the Sony/North Korea kerfuffle
- New data says volcanoes, not asteroids, killed dinosaurs
- Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell – Begin the Beguine
- Successful Falcon 9 static fire
- Geoffrey Castle – Ring Christmas Bells
- IRS leadership planned harassment of conservatives
- Angara A5 rocket launches successfully
- The top 10 things you DON’T need for Christmas
- After a year Obamacare still stinks
- Delta employee caught repeatedly smuggling guns on flights
- Nicaragua and China break ground on new canal
- Loose fibers significantly cuts Gaia’s output
- Sue Richards & Maggie Sansone – The Ash Grove
- India’s Mangalyaan Mars probe working fine
- A Russia/Brazil partnership for Sea Launch?
- Possible ebola exposure at CDC
- Get ready to have your health records hacked
- Newsong – The Christmas Shoes
- Climate scientists massage data to create illusion of ocean acidification
- Home Free – Angels We Have Heard On High
- Shock! A Democrat actually pays attention to cost
- 33 examples of liberal intolerance in 2014
- Charles Mokotoff – Bach: Sheep may safely graze
- Proton launches commercial satelite
- Vostochny spaceport construction back on schedule
- What happens when you wring a wet washcloth in space?
- Dawn begins its approach to Ceres
- Memory problems on Mars rover Opportunity
- Penalties in Obamacare to rise in 2015
- Improper charge card use by government employees wastes millions
- New York cops stop harassing citizens in protest
- Comet Lovejoy becoming visible to the naked eye
- The Sun’s most spectacular events for 2014
- The Fendertones – Sloop John B
- Ten of the worst zero tolerance school discipline actions in 2014
- New Years resolutions for climate scientists
- On the table
- The most rocket launches in 20 years
- Catholics now forced to march in gay pride parade
- Rod Stewart – Auld Lang Syne
- The benefits of fewer New York police arrests
- The bigoted root of liberal double standards
- Genesis sale over as of midnight
- Eye update
- The Chieftains & friends – Give the fiddler a dram
- Egyptian leader demands an Islamic reassessment
- Abbott and Costello – Loafing
- Obamacare requirements to employers arrive in 2015
- Korean satellite threatened by space junk
- Weather reports moderately favorable for Tuesday’s Falcon 9 launch
- Why the pause in global temperature rise?
- Some details on the SpaceX’s attempt to land its Falcon 9 first stage
- SpaceX job offers posted for Brownsville Texas
- China lifts export limits on rare earth minerals
- Chinese service module journeys to and from Moon
- Mary Black and Joan Baez – Ring Them Bells
- The search for Philae goes on
- Falcon 9 launch scrubbed
- Sierra Nevada loses its protest of NASA contract decision
- Europe reconsiders reusability in its rockets
- Kevin Delaney Makes a Cloud
- More Earthlike exoplanets confirmed
- New Hubble images to celebrate its upcoming 25th anniversary
- Comet impact theory replaced by common house fires
- Islam murders 12 people at magazine
- Do not submit!
- The sunspot cycle update for December
- Six Turnin and Four Burnin
- Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Saturday
- Ancient fossils on Mars?
- Paul Kelly – Careless
- 9 of the 10 worst countries for Christian persecution are Islamic
- An update on the on-going ebola outbreak in Africa
- New York Times explains why it won’t publish Charlie Hebdo cartoons
- Comparing the weather on Mars and Earth
- Travel posters for alien worlds
- Airbus-Safran demand total control of Arianespace
- California newspaper vandalized for defying pro-immigration groups
- “It’s time to stop lying.”
- Senate Republicans call for gas tax hike
- Ra Paulette – cave artist
- Dragon reaches orbit
- Opportunity reaches high point on crater rim
- Islamophobia is a myth created by the bigotry of the elites
- “Dear France, wrap their bodies in the carcasses of pigs.”
- The world’s biggest ship arrives in Great Britain on its maiden voyage
- Elon Musk’s twitter explanation of the 1st stage landing attempt
- Jihadists kill thousands
- Political prosecution of conservative in South Dakota
- The madness of IRS Obamacare paperwork
- “The freedom to write history without intimidation was no longer something that I took for granted.”
- Cruz and Rubio to chair important space and science subcommittees
- Photos of SpaceX’s floating landing barge
- Dragon arrives at ISS
- Sarah Brightman to begin training for space flight
- A close look at Russia’s next generation space station modules
- Muslim students refuse to honor murdered victims of terrorism
- Georgia police declare war on okra
- Sting – Every breath you take
- Judeo-Christian tolerance vs Islamic tolerance
- Ten time capsules lost and then rediscovered
- Dream Chaser lives on!
- Arianespace and SpaceX neck and neck in race for contracts
- The world’s most majestic libraries
- IRS harassment of conservatives continues
- Politicians in Paris do photo op rather than participate in demonstration
- Six cool science experiments you can do at home
- Falcon Heavy launch still set for 2015
- False ammonia leak alarm causes evacuation of US portion of ISS
- High Russia space official shoots down idea of new Russian space station
- Test flight of Europe’s first prototype space plane has been rescheduled
- Cats vs dogs in genome research
- Oxford University Press bans mention of pork in books to avoid offending Muslims or Jews
- Read an english translation of Charlie Hebdo
- Big asteroid to fly past Earth
- Lerner discouraged investigation by supervisor of IRS harassment
- Islamic leaders worldwide react with hostility to Charlie Hebdo cover
- Fred Astaire & Barrie Chase – Miss Otis Regrets
- A 132-year-old Winchester rifle found leaning on a tree in national park
- SpaceX to open satellite-building operation in Washington state
- India gets new space agency head
- Ten years after Huygens landed on Titan…
- Scientists demand more skepticism of doom-sayers
- IRS chief warns of bad service due to budget cuts
- New Horizons to begin observations of Pluto
- Funding obtained for 648-satellite internet constellation
- Head cold delays the start of Sarah Brightman’s space training
- Joe Cocker – The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress
- More commercial problems for Russian rockets
- Lost Beagle 2 found on Mars by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
- More Earthlike exoplanets found
- Comet 67P/C-G’s plumes
- Orbital signs deal for Russian engines
- Images of Falcon 9 first stage crash
- Paul Ryan: No new gas taxes
- Holder bars use of federal law to seize private property
- John Jorgenson – Red On Red
- Next Falcon 9 launch delayed two weeks.
- A Japanese Nobel laureate blasts his country’s treatment of inventors
- “They were talking about [killing] hundreds of millions.”
- New images of Ceres from Dawn
- Karine Polwart – Follow the Heron home
- Google and SpaceX team-up?
- Holder’s end to federal property seizure ban exaggerated
- Fourplay – Bali Run
- SpaceX confirms Google deal
- Planet Labs confirms big investment deal
- NASA explains why it picked Boeing over Sierra Nevada
- Sarah Brightman’s first day of astronaut training
- A Honda Rube Goldberg
- Why I ignored Obama’s State of the Union speech
- Were two Iridium satellites hit by space junk?
- Putin endorses Russian government consolidation of space industry
- Ukrainian space workers protest lack of pay
- A quasar shuts down
- Government abducts homeschooled children on trumped up charges
- Comet 67P/C-G’s coma fluctuates widely
- Nanci Griffith – Love at the Five and Dime
- Ten astonishing images from Rosetta
- Ocean science deals with limited budgets
- Messenger’s life at Mercury extended
- Small businesses dump health insurance
- The man who saved the world
- Isn’t it Romantic?
- Look like a Jew in Sweden and get attacked by anti-semitic Arabs
- A drone for Mars
- SpaceX drops Air Force lawsuit in new deal
- Water flows on Vesta?
- Google Lunar X-prize awards five teams
- Comet 67P/C-G’s water output has increased
- The left wing pundit press makes fools of themselves
- A plane is born
- SpaceX moving forward on manned flight
- Asteroid that flew past Earth has its own moon
- Solar system of ancient Earths found
- New Horizons’ first images of Pluto on the way
- Manned balloon crossing the Pacific
- Massive federal/state program uncovered to track millions of cars nationwide
- Ceres comes into focus
- Got $500? You too can get a scientific paper published!
- JPL releases movie of asteroid fly-by
- The Seekers – I’ll Never Find Another You
- SpaceX animation of Falcon Heavy launch
- The surprisingly dark and organic surface of Comet 67P/C-G
- Weird jobs for science
- Ted Cruz introduces bill outlawing political targeting of citizens.
- Michael Davis – Juggler
- 9 unbelievable things discovered by hikers
- Air Force gives more launches to ULA
- Manned balloon approaches North America
- Obama allies himself with Islam radicals
- Madre Luna – Aelfheim
- Color snapshots of England 1960
- Update on Philae on Comet 67P/C-G
- Boeing’s commercial manned space effort
- Privately-built weather satellite constellation to be built
- Hayabusa-2 in “tip-top” shape
- Threatened water shortage on ISS
- New Mexico wants out of the spaceport business
- Senate Democrats consider boycotting Israeli leader’s speech
- Two Eagles manned balloon breaks record
- Itzhak Perlman & Janet Guggenheim – Two pieces
- Air Force to open bidding on launches
- Gravitational wave/inflation discovery literally bites the dust
- Obamacare tax mess
- Getting ready for the first Dragon launch abort test
- Iran orbits a satellite
- Proton launches successfully
- Hayley Westenra – Scarborough Fair
- The Hubble Space Telescope lives on!
- Iranian satellite success confirmed
- The Obama administration’s 2016 NASA budget proposal
- Roscomos puts the squeeze on Ukraine
- Paul introduces bill to rein in government property seizures
- When will the pause end?
- Life found that hasn’t changed in 2 billion years
- Lars Andersen – Archery done the right way
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- Republicans to stand firm on blocking Obama’s illegal over-reach on immigration?
- Obamacare website allows commercial companies access to personal data
- New Pluto images from New Horizons
- The rockets of the world
- The government as thief
- The Browns – Little Jimmy Brown
- SpaceX gives names to its floating landing barges
- TSA supervisor arrests traveler for no reason and then lies about it in court
- Hubble captues triple moon transit across Jupiter
- Dawn snaps more images of Ceres
- The Russian spaceport construction still behind schedule
- Obama: all religions the same
- “Oh, she’s going down.”
- Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold – I Remember It Well
- Annual fund-raiser plus lower price for Genesis
- “It is ironic a sign warning of the liberal thought police was potentially stolen by the liberal thought police.”
- Five years later a second attempt to put a Japanese spacecraft into Venus orbit
- Astronomers find an invisible dwarf galaxy
- OSIRIS-REx to get more fuel for its asteroid mission
- Rocket tank lands on Brazil farm
- Scientists discover that bigger is not better
- NASA safety panel questions safety of SLS
- Plumes and dust surrounding Comet 67P/C-G
- IRS re-hires employees it fired for being tax cheats
- 42 second engine change
- Weather 90% go for Falcon 9 launch today
- “The fiddling with temperature data is the biggest science scandal ever.”
- Falcon 9 launch scrubbed
- What happens if Homeland Security shuts down?
- Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Tuesday evening
- Ratings plunge for network news shows
- Could we get people to get vaccinated if we said measles contained gluten?
- Eleanor Powell – Hula
- Staples cuts hours to avoid Obamacare
- Busy day for SpaceX
- Yutu still alive!
- All things go for test flight of European space plane prototype
- New ebola drug appears somewhat effective
- A drone that flies in a protective cage wins million dollar prize
- Brian Williams is no exception, he is the rule
- Cholesterol warning about to disappear
- Obama administration stonewalls IRS investigation
- The sideshow of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress
- High winds cause Falcon 9 scrub
- Unions discover Obamacare sucks
- Dragon returns to Earth safely
- Emmylou Harris – Pancho & Lefty
- Europe test flies its engineering prototype space plane
- The last two satellites in Russia’s missile warning constellation have failed.
- Rosetta preps for close fly-by of Comet 67P/C-G
- IRS steals widow’s savings
- Sunspot activity tracks prediction
- No barge landing attempt today for Falcon 9
- Another Falcon 9 launch success
- Procol Harum – A Whiter Shade of Pale
- The endless and all-compassing terrors of global warming
- Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday
- A new drill hole into Lake Vostok
- Virgin Galactic opens facility for developing LauncherOne
- Week long movie of Pluto produced by New Horizons
- SDO celebrates its fifth year in space with a time-lapse of the Sun
- Looking down a comet’s plume
- Movies before the code
- Gunmen attack free-speech event in Copenhagen
- More Obamacare website problems
- The mystery of Martian plumes
- Europe’s last ATV leaves ISS
- A television reality show to pick 24 candidates to go to Mars — one way
- Images from Rosetta’s weekend fly-by of Comet 67P/C-G
- Origin of Chelyabinsk meteorite remains unknown
- Republicans continue to show little enthusiasm for Obama Attorney General candidate
- Democrats discover that Obamacare fines are costly
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- What the Islamic State really wants
- Sierra Hull – Someone Like You
- South Korea unveils its own lunar rover
- SpaceX signs leases for first stage landing pads
- The quietest places in the U.S.
- Ceres comes into focus
- The crooks in the tea party movement
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- Rupert Holmes – Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
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- JJ Cale & Eric Clapton – After Midnight & Call me the Breeze
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- Judge rules that Christians should be persecuted if they disagree with gays
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- Work accelerates towards the first test flight of Falcon Heavy
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- World still terrorized by ‘‘Random Angry Unknown Folks’’ the Obama adminstration declares
- Will Rogers – The Ropin’ Fool
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- Orbital ATK announces date of next Antares launch
- Another Obamacare law delay
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- Survey shows Obamacare reduced worker hours
- College punishes students for sexist chanting at party, even those not there
- A drastic drop in complaints immediately after San Diego outfitted its police with body cameras
- Tony Smiley – Baby Steps
- NASA has decided to grab an asteroid rock rather than bag an asteroid
- GAO denied access to Webb telescope workers by Northrop Grumman
- Stay tuned for photo tour of Vandenberg
- Dark matter is even more of a mystery that expected
- Air Force demanded too much in its SpaceX certification process
- Hovercraft Deer Rescue
- How scientists are using the Kelly twins during Scott Kelly’s year-long mission to ISS to learn how weightlessness effects the human body
- Air Force subsidies to ULA to end
- UN finds that only Israel violates women’s rights
- Curiosity’s impact scars are evolving at different rates
- Messenger completes 4,000 orbit around Mercury
- A photo tour of Vandenberg Air Force Base
- NASA cuts Opportunity and LRO from budget
- Two astronauts begin year-long mission on ISS
- Obama about to make deal with Iran
- Keith Jarrett – Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Republicans pass the first budget resolution in six years
- U.S./Russian deal on space cooperation past 2024?
- Florist fined $1000 in Washington in same-sex refusal case
- Iranian defector claims U.S. negotiating for Iran in nuclear weapon talks
- NASA denies new space station partnership with Russia
- Seed from ancient extinct plant planted and brought back to life
- New study finds fracking does not contaminate drinking water
- Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Botti – Cinema Paradiso
- Opportunity has another brief memory loss
- X-37B to fly again!
- Ants in space!
- Musk invests in Musk
- China’s first reusable shuttle?
- Iran military chief insists it will retain the goal of destroying Israel
- Rubio and Bush move to extend NSA snooping of Americans
- Opportunity enters Marathon Valley
- Three future targets of the same-sex fascists
- Les Paul – Sleepwalk
- SpaceX schedules its next Dragon launch
- Russian government takes over Vostochny construction
- Problems for Rosetta during its most recent fly-by of Comet 67P/C-G
- Dawn’s chief engineer gives us a detailed update
- It’s National Hate Week!
- Gnome Management in the Garden
- The GAO discovers another out-of-control NASA project
- Jewish kindergarten denied insurance because too many Muslims live nearby
- New Jersey pardons mother of concealed carry charges
- Ben-Hur – John Wilson Orchestra
- Death threats from homosexual activists put family in hiding
- Judge demands that IRS hand over list of targeted conservative groups
- Liberals are the New McCarthyites—and they’re proud of it
- ESA and Airbus Safran in budget dispute over Ariane 6
- The establishment of a state religion called progressive liberalism
- Sierra Hull – River Of Jordan
- Americans rally to support persecuted Christians
- Unpaid Russian workers at Vostochny go on hunger strike
- Kansas Republicans forbid welfare recipients from buying luxury items
- Colorado: Discrimination by gays good! Discrimination by Christians bad!
- Vostochny strike ended
- Build a satellite of your own for less than $30K
- $10 billion wasted on military projects
- Jordan and Israel agree on Dead Sea water project partnership
- Obama lets stand Iran’s goal of destroying Israel
- Dawn in excellent shape
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Smells like Teen Spirit
- ALMA captures the rotation of the large asteroid Juno
- Brontosaurus returns!
- Rising sales of US Constitution put Homeland Security on alert!
- Another global warming advocate demands the arrest of skeptics
- The sunspot crash continues
- Blue Origin to begin flight tests of new rocket engine
- Congress moves to require NOAA to use private weather satellites
- Abbott & Costello – 7×13 =28
- Charles Murray’s field guide to civil disobedience
- 3D printed items made in space come back to Earth
- The hidden glaciers of Mars
- Governor orders one week shut down of Thirty Meter Telescope project
- Rosetta team asks for help from amateur astronomers
- Indiana pizza parlor to reopen despite violent threats
- Brandi Carlile – The Story
- ULA to trim working launchpads from 5 to 2
- NASA to use giant SLS rocket to launch cubesats
- Astronomers find complex molecules in baby star system
- New studies struggle to explain the origin of the Moon
- Global Warming advocates debunk their own theory
- Russian hunters find frozen carcass of extinct whoolly rhino
- The fascist state of the modern American university.
- Destroy a building rather than let a charter school use it
- The day frozen pudding-pops destroyed Boris Yeltsin’s faith in communism
- Airbus Safran demands full ownership of Ariane 6
- J.S. Bach – Air on a G string
- ULA to reveal design of new rocket April 13
- SpaceX to try a first stage recovery again on April 13
- Cubesat satellite industry booming
- Rosetta team adopts new approach strategy
- Tank tests for launch abort rocket
- 90% of New Yorkers defy the state’s new gun registration law
- Fleet Foxes – The Shrine / An Argument
- Dump Obama’s asteroid mission says advisory council
- Next X-37B launch delayed
- New Horizons begins Pluto approach phase 2 of 3
- Hawaii governor extends halt to construction of telescope
- Dark energy evidence found to be uncertain
- The storms of Saturn
- Tracking the weather on an exoplanet
- The first detailed map of Ceres
- The skewed view of American inside the progressive bubble
- The distortion of the global surface temperature datasets
- Weather issues have scrubbed today’s Dragon/Falcon 9 launch
- ULA has dubbed its next generation rocket Vulcan
- Donna Summer – McArthur Park
- Comet 67P/C-G does not have a magnetic field
- More evidence found for liquid water on Mars
- Stratolaunch update
- A detailed look at ULA’s proposed Vulcan rocket
- Another successful Dragon/Falcon 9 launch
- New Horizons takes another picture of Pluto
- Ground-breaking for LSST takes place in Chile
- Patty Loveless & Vince Gill – My Kind Of Woman/My Kind Of Man
- Video of Falcon 9 first stage landing attempt
- Antares failure cause pinpointed
- Why SpaceX’s first stage failure is really a magnificent success
- A real report of Hillary’s first campaign stop
- Human tower competition in Tarragona, Spain
- No obvious evidence of advanced civilizations in 100,000 galaxies
- An engineering analysis of the Falcon 9 first stage landing failure
- Stratolaunch considers multiple rockets for its giant airplane
- SpaceX is considering a ground landing for its next first stage return attempt
- New images of Ceres
- “If life were only like this.”
- Russia delays first manned launch from Vostochny
- Mercury mission to end on April 30
- Sierra Nevada and Germany sign agreement
- Dragon has berthed with ISS
- Incorrectly built SLS welding machine to be rebuilt
- Massenet – Meditation from Thais
- TMT construction postponed again
- Ceres’ bright spots come into view
- Japan to the moon!
- More strikes at Vostochny
- An update on the Falcon 9 landing attempt
- 25 famous predictions that turned out to be wildly wrong
- For the birds
- Rosetta records the appearance of a new jet on Comet 67P/C-G
- Protesters prevent minorities from attending class
- SpaceX schedules Dragon pad abort test
- Paul Simon, David Crosby and Graham Nash – Here Comes the Sun
- Liberals may regret their new rules
- NASA ISS cargo contracts delayed
- New Shepard test flights to begin within weeks
- Hubble finds something astronomers can’t explain
- The building rage is not just against Democrats
- Russia slashes spending on space
- The first reflected light from an exoplanet detected
- Aerojet Rocketdyne faces the possible loss of most of its business
- Gilda Radner – Miss Emily Litella
- Chinese scientists do genetic experiments with human embryos
- Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte
- Russia ends effort to build a nuclear-powered rocket engine
- Seismic data of Yellowstone has found a bigger second magma chamber
- Students vote to ban Chick-fil-A from Johns Hopkins campus
- Judge rules family should be destroyed for refusing to bake a cake
- FBI found to have routinely faked incriminating data
- Russia launches criminal investigation at Vostochny
- The Band – The Weight
- A detailed look at the decision-making process behind ULA’s Vulcan
- “They have become the Mongol hordes.”
- Layered mesas inside Martian crater
- Seven big failed environmentalist predictions
- Top scientists to review data adjustments of temperature data
- Dawn begins science research at Ceres
- Russians cancel effort to fly humans from Vostochny by 2019
- Next Falcon 9 launch set for Monday
- IAU contest to name 20 exoplanets moves forward
- Supreme Court rejects Obama’s contraceptive mandate again
- Air Force reveals some details of next X-37B mission
- Another successful Falcon 9 launch
- On the radio
- “Let’s all be manly!”
- Progress freighter in big trouble
- Two thirds of Obamacare recipients have to repay subsidies
- ISS supply lines strained by Progress failure
- Musica Universalis – Blackbird
- IRS Inspector General finds another 6,400 lost Lois Lerner emails
- “American cities are by and large Democratic-party monopolies [and] the results have been catastrophic.”
- Rosetta team releases almost 1300 images of Comet 67P/C-G
- Progress freighter declared lost
- Is it dark matter, or a previously unrecognized failure of Newton?
- Latest images from New Horizons see Pluto’s polar cap
- Cosmic Guinea Pig
- New Shepard makes its first test flight
- Third stage separation focus of Progress failure investigation
- Furniture for space!
- The IRS targeting of conservatives is ending says inspector general
- Messenger has crashed into Mercury
- Faith Hill – This Kiss
- An update on Sarah Brightman’s astronaut training
- Hawaii agency withdraws support for TMT
- Indecision at Virgin Galactic over engine design
- Obamacare exchanges in trouble
- An exoplanet that shouldn’t exist
- Claude Bolling – Sentimentale, Suite No. 1 for Flute and Jazz Piano
- India has successful rocket engine test
- The Sun drifts downward
- Johnny Carson Show – Egg trick
- Five things to know about the Dragon launchpad abort test
- R.I.P. Grace Lee Whitney
- Astronauts drink the first home-brewed coffee in space
- Mysterious X-rays at the center of the galaxy
- A review of what little we know of Pluto prior to New Horizons’ arrival
- Scientist abandons research due to protests and lack of support
- Conservative journalist obtains evidence the IRS audited him because of his political views
- Federal government demands NY strip Times Square of billboards
- Lori Lieberman – Killing Me Softly with His Song
- Dragon launchpad abort test a success
- Freedom speaks: An interview with Pamela Geller
- DEA steals life savings of innocent man
- A second experiment on the next X-37B flight revealed
- Boston – More Than A Feeling
- The plans for the first Arab probe to Mars revealed
- Pamela Geller a non-person to the Obama FBI
- Michigan voters resoundingly reject tax increase proposed by Republicans
- Tory Party unexpectedly wins big in Great Britain
- Progress failure causes delay in next manned mission to ISS
- Extreme wood bending with ammonia
- Russian sources confirm their plan to flip launches to ISS
- XCOR progress report in construction of Lynx
- Obama administration admits it defied a judge’s injunction
- Tory victory in UK even better than predicted just yesterday
- The liberal bias of pollsters
- The Americanization of Emily – “War is not moral”
- New images of Dawn’s double bright spot
- The 9 strangest drones from the world’s biggest drone show
- Sunset on Mars
- Construction at SpaceX’s new spaceport about to begin
- Speak free or die
- Elton John – Daniel
- Ted Cruz’s finest moment
- Prototype variable star has a previously unknown companion
- Is the dark material along Europa’s long surface fissures sea salt?
- Russians confirm flip of Progress and Soyuz launches
- Clint Mansell – Lux Aeterna (Requiem for a Dream)
- NASA announces bold plan to still exist by 2045
- New Horizons spots all of Pluto’s 5 known moons
- Engine failure for Japan’s Procyon probe
- Willie Nelson – Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
- What caused the failed separation of the Soyuz and Progress?
- Sarah Brightman pulls out of her flight to ISS later this year
- Arianespace admits it is in a head-to-head competition with SpaceX
- House Science Committee approves changes to space law
- Stephanopoulos admits he is a Democratic stooge
- Nina Conti – “I think the world is ready to see my dance moves.”
- The rage builds, even in a posh DC suburb
- Lorrie Morgan – Something in Red
- Another Proton launch failure
- Balanced rock on Comet 67P/C-G
- Update on Saturday’s Proton launch failure
- Broken arm
- Gordon Lightfoot – Carefree Highway
- Celebrating the death of the mainstream media
- Update on Seattle’s stalled Big Bertha tunnel project
- House Appropriations reveals its proposed NASA budget
- The media’s fraud and dishonest bias documented
- Rogozin pins Proton failure on “moral degeneration”
- Guang Dong – Pas de deux
- How the DEA harasses and robs train passengers
- India prepares reusable prototype mini-shuttle for July flight
- X-37B launch a success
- Russians delay next Angara launch to replace Briz upper stage
- Zooming in on Ceres’ mysterious double bright spot
- Chico and Harpo Marx – At the piano
- Jack Johnson, Eddie Vedder, Kawika Kahiapo – Constellations
- Another Dragon returns home
- House passes revisions to space law
- India considers its next interplanetary mission
- Nature ignores the elephant in the room
- Coral islands defy sea level rise
- Patriot Act snooping prevented no terrorism
- Fascist gays attack business for providing them services
- Health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket under Obamacare
- Drastic changes in Mars South Pole icecap
- B.B. King – The Thrill Is Gone
- PBS news anchor admits she is a Democratic stooge
- Russian executive acknowledges SpaceX is beating them
- Japan to upgrade its ISS cargo freighter
- XCOR gets funding from Chinese venture capital firm
- Patriot Act renewal fails in Senate
- The Dragon launchpad abort test, from the capsule’s point of view
- “If they are white kill ‘em all.”
- Corruption in the Russian space industry
- The state of the Republican presidential campaign
- Berlin July 1945 in color
- UAE establishes space agency
- The Russian investigation into Progress failure stalled?
- ISS reconfiguration moves forward
- New world record for longest hoverboard flight
- Senate Republican leaders ready to cave to save Obamacare
- Appeals court rules against Obama immigration executive order
- Democrats propose more Obamacare to solve problems caused by Obamacare
- Kenny Rogers – The Gambler
- NOAA caught tampering with temperature data again
- Air Force finally certifies SpaceX
- Solar sail experiment stymied by software crash
- ISS module rearrangement a success
- Hawaii’s governor imposes new deal for Mauna Kea
- Criminal charges against Russian workers who caused Proton failure
- Obamacare overhead eats 22% of all health care costs
- Secret Service tries to steal $115K from a business couple
- Hubble films of movie of a jet firing from a black hole
- NSF to help fund the development of implantable antennas
- New Images of Pluto from New Horizons
- X-37B orbit uncovered
- Russian rocket now garden furniture in England
- ABBA – Arrival
- “These are the brownshirts of our time.”
- A journalist and filmmaking team fake a study and the press buys it
- It looks like the Moon!
- Russian rocket engines ready for shipment to U.S.
- A solar system like our own, but when it was a baby
- Another major image release from Rosetta
- Sesame Street – Fat Cat Sat Hat
- ALMA detects a solar flare on Mira 420 light years away
- Same-sex science paper retracted
- Live anthrax spores shipped improperly by U.S. military
- A teacher’s Title IX inquisition
- The increased bureaucracy imposed on doctors by Obamacare
- The replacement SpaceShipTwo gets its legs
- Rosetta team proposes landing on comet to finish mission
- Proton third stage design problem cause most recent failure
- ESA and Airbus Safran agree on deal to build Ariane 6
- Carrie Underwood – Different Drum
- Pro-crime policies work!
- Unsafe anthrax shipments more extensive than first revealed
- The long term decline in the United States’ GDP
- More details concerning Russian Proton investigation
- New flights from SpaceShipTwo will likely not happen for years
- India’s spaceplane prototype to fly by August
- LightSail reboots and restores communications
- Highlights from the just completed 2015 robotics conference in Seattle
- LightSail deployment scheduled for Tuesday
- Steve Martin – The Crow
- ULA to trim management by 30%
- Senator proposes criminal charges against global warming skeptics
- FEC tries to force PAC to change its name
- Astronomers accept terms imposed on them by protesters in Hawaii
- Air Force asks private companies to develop new rocket engines
- Akilah Hughes – Every youtube video ever
- Mars One only had about 4,000 applicants, not 200,000
- Angara to launch commercial payload on next launch
- Pluto’s moons rotate chaotically
- GMT about to begin construction
- Even more rate hikes expected in 2016 due to Obamacare
- J.S. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in D on Glass Harp
- A massive breach of federal personnel data
- Pushing Darwin
- LightSail deploys, then falls silent again
- Soyuz rocket to launch this week
- Scott Walker reveals his inner Democrat
- Republicans propose replacement after they repeal Obamacare
- Airbus unveils its first stage re-useability concept
- The Everly Brothers – All I Have To Do Is Dream
- Hawaii’s highest court takes on TMT case
- Manned flights from Vostochny delayed
- LightSail back in business?
- “There’s certainly something ironic about watching thousands of people watching three hundredweight of circuitry and metal trying to sort out a doorknob.”
- Obamacare bureaucracy threatens doctors who speak out
- State Department proposes fines for writing about guns without permission
- Bee die off hasn’t happened
- Turkey’s Islamists lose Parliament in elections today
- LightSail deploys its solar sails
- Jets on Comet 67P/C-G now persist into the night
- Dawn makes a movie of Ceres
- SpaceShipTwo debris from crash almost hit two truck drivers
- LightSail successfully deploys solar sail
- Bullet hole found in Mauna Kea observatory
- Problems at Stratolaunch
- TSA fails to find links to terrorism of airport workers
- Ramp down to solar minimum continues
- Want a law passed? Bribe your Senator!
- Parachute problems again for NASA’s flying saucer
- Parks and Recreation – “Thoughts For Your Thoughts”
- Google and Facebook cancel satellite plans
- Hole in observatory door was not caused by bullet
- Russia completes Soyuz launchpad at Vostochny
- Video of NASA’s flying saucer test
- Rare large meteorite stolen from Australian museum
- Obamacare sets record for unpopularity with public
- $28 billion spent on poor biomedical research?
- Did some dinosaur soft tissues survive fossilization?
- Finding caves on Mars
- Debussy – The Girl with the Flaxen Hair
- Russia announces revised launch schedule for ISS
- Fifteen-year-old discovers exoplanet
- The collapse of Russian scientific innovation
- New close-up image of Ceres’s double bright spots
- SpaceX begins planning a 4,000 satellite internet constellation
- Judge rules the arrest of a citizen during a local meeting illegal
- A compilation of robots falling down at the DARPA Robotics Challenge
- The truth about bottled water
- The first sex in space!
- The crooked politics behind the Obamatrade deal
- Is this Philae?
- “It’s declassified and made public once it’s agreed to.”
- ISS crew returns safely to Earth
- Death by 1000 lashes for writing a blog post
- Peter Gabriel – Solsbury Hill
- New images from New Horizons of Pluto
- NASA to launch first interplanetary cubesats
- Things look bad for Obamatrade fast track
- Flashback to ABC’s 2008 climate predictions for 2015
- 75% of Russia’s satellite electronics come from U.S.
- The sad remains of the Soviet space shuttle program
- SpaceX – The Blue Danube
- Philae returns to life!
- The complicated status of Obamatrade in Congress
- Maryland DJ under attack for not working a homosexual party
- OneWeb picks Airbus to build its first 900 satellites
- Getting Philae back up and running
- All that Jazz – audition scene
- Methane in Martian rocks
- Anti-drilling environmentalists trash environment during protest
- Federal government has no system for verifying Obamacare subsidies
- Cat Choir
- Another successful course correction for New Horizons
- Rosetta repositions to improve contact with Philae
- Saudia Arabia and Russia sign space exploration agreement
- France sells Arianespace to Airbus Safran
- UrtheCast releases its first commercial videos of Earth
- OPM ignored warnings last year its computers were insecure
- Research finds that viewing cat videos makes people happy
- Astronomers have discovered an exoplanet smaller than Earth
- The Swiss Top Secret Drum Corp
- Active lava flows found on Venus
- Spaceports battle for space tourists
- The newest Republican proposal on Obamacare
- Fast track trade authority passes in House
- Some stories of hate
- Supreme Court voids local sign ordiance
- Retired test pilot buys his own Harrier
- SES wants to launch with a recovered Falcon 9 first stage
- Philae contacts Rosetta again
- Falcon 9 landing barge replaced and upgraded
- School scans student thumbprints, giving data to federal government
- Federal Court rules in favor of lawsuit against IRS for harassment
- Woods – Rain On
- The Pluto/Charon orbital dance
- TMT construction to resume on Wednesday
- Government forces closure of another Christian business
- A closer close-up of Ceres’ double bright spot
- When to doubt a scientific consensus
- Supreme Court rules government cannot confisicate farmer crops
- Russia replaces Brightman with Kazakhstan astronaut
- Rosetta’s mission has been extended until September 2016
- Another Vega rocket launch success
- The orbiter structure for India’s next lunar mission delivered
- Ted Cruz outlines why he now opposes fast track trade
- Government celebrates ten years of stealing private land
- New images of Pluto
- The icy patches on Comet 67P/C-G
- Republican-led Senate proposes big budget boost for NIH
- The disaster of state-run Obamacare health exchanges
- One month after it realized it needed them, IRS erased email backups
- ISS Symphony – Timelapse of Earth
- House conservatives push back against Boehner
- Construction crews turned back by protesters at Mauna Kea
- Conservative journalist harassed by customs agents
- “Words no longer have meaning.”
- Hawaii governor halts TMT construction again
- The world launch market embraces launch reusability
- OneWeb awards major launch contracts
- Finding Pluto is really New Horizon’s biggest problem
- House leadership reinstates conservative lawmaker
- Black hole awakes after 26 years
- Lois Lerner’s hard drive failed because of “impact”
- Art Garfunkel – Bridge Over Troubled Water
- An update on Rosetta’s effort to re-establish contact with Philae
- The foolish petty Republican response to the Supreme Court
- SpaceX reviews its previous first stage landing attempts
- Tiller’s Folly – Panhandle Rag
- Cruz proposes requiring judges to face voters periodically
- Hawaii governor condemns protesters
- Audi joins race to the Moon
- Falcon 9 explodes two minutes into launch
- The future roadmap of religious persecution in America
- The mighty J58 engine, the SR-71’s secret powerhouse
- NASA to waste $150 million on SLS engine that will be used once.
- Russian sets record for most time spent in space
- Road to Mauna Kea to remain closed for the rest of the week
- Another Dawn image of some of Ceres’ bright spots
- Cher – Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves
- New Horizons gets closer
- Contractor’s assets seized at Vostochny
- Cubesat company raises $80 million
- The negative, depressing mainstream press
- Active sinkholes found on Comet 67P/C-G
- New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – The Windmills of Your Mind
- What we will and will not see during the Pluto fly-by
- TMT protesters complain about road closure
- Rocket Labs picks New Zealand for its launch site
- The jets on Comet 67P/C-G come from its sinkholes
- Air Force sticks with SpaceX
- Jonah Morgan – A GoPro view of surfing in Indonesia
- Progress successfully launched into orbit
- Dragon/Falcon 9 launch abort test moved from Vandenberg to Kennedy
- New poll finds hostility to the federal government growing
- Oregon fines couple who refused to bake a same-sex cake $135K, also ordering them to shut up
- Take 6 – Star-Spangled Banner
- New Horizons temporarily loses contact with Earth
- “All my Muslim brothers and sisters must understand that it became a moral imperative for all inhabitants of war-torn Middle-East, namely Arabs, to desist their absurd hostility toward Jewish people.”
- Obamacare continues to cause health insurance premiums to skyrocket
- The Fifth Anniversary of Behind the Black
- All A-OK with New Horizons
- Fifth anniversary fund-raiser
- James Taylor – Still crazy after all these years
- Dawn recovers from safe mode
- Great Britain space agency calls for an increased space effort
- Astronomers propose giant super Hubble replacement
- An overview of New Horizons’ mission, in graphics
- Study finds electric cars more environmentally damaging than gas guzzlers
- The fascist academic community
- The IRS and Obama administration planned to criminally prosecute its opponents
- IRS defies judge’s court order in Lerner email scandal
- Brainstorm – the world’s smartest mouse
- New Horizons team proposes cool names for Charon and Pluto features
- Musk makes first extended public comments since Falcon 9 failure
- A New Horizons map of Pluto
- Dance of the stars
- Giant robot battle set for June 2016
- Oregon bakers raise $200K from supporters
- A Democratic senator admits she doesn’t believe in free speech
- Joni Mitchell – Both Sides Now
- Best image yet of Pluto
- Watch Opportunity’s full journey on Mars, in 8 minutes
- Some results from SpaceX’s Dragon launchpad abort test
- A new double dynamo theory to explain the Sun’s solar cycle
- A bullseye in space
- On the radio tonight
- Vince Carrola – Pachelbel’s Canon in D
- New image of Pluto and Charon
- New radio communications from Philae
- India puts five satellites in orbit with one rocket launch
- NASA names its astronauts for the first Dragon and CST-100 flights
- Juno flight plan at Jupiter revised
- SpaceX in no hurry to launch 4000 satellite constellation
- The incivility and hostility of the Mauna Kea protesters
- Persecution of conservatives by the IRS and Wisconsin Democrats linked
- Frank Sinatra – My Way
- Oregon threatens to take home of Christian bakers
- Another new Pluto image
- Hawaii officials vote to limit access to Mauna Kea
- Ceres’ white spots might be salt not water
- The last image of Pluto’s opposition hemisphere
- Pluto on July 11
- The approaching perihelion of Comet 67P/C-G
- Free to shut up
- On the radio
- The size of Pluto pinned down
- TU Delft – Ambulance Drone
- Pluto just before close encounter
- Road to Mauna Kea opened, with restrictions
- Some speculations from scientists about Pluto data
- Peace in our time!
- Court rules Obamacare requires nuns to buy contraceptives
- Pluto and Charon in false color
- “We are in lock with telemetry with the spacecraft!”
- Bond Girls – Korobushka
- First Vostochny launch expected before year’s end
- A geological tour of Comet 67P/C-G
- The wine-sipping butchers of Planned Parenthood
- Why the Jews are the canary in the coal mine
- First New Horizons fly-by images released
- Democratic fake skepticism, and Republican failure theater
- Obamacare gives money to fake applicants
- Astronomers find exoplanet twin of Jupiter
- Don McLean – American Pie
- Growing and eating lettuce on ISS
- The government-run Russian space program trims its budget
- A Canadian man faces jail time for merely disagreeing with two feminists on Twitter.
- Weird geology on Charon
- Wisconsin Supreme Court declares illegal Democratic SWAT team raids on conservatives
- Bird loves GoPro
- India engine test a success
- Russia considers building heavy-lift rocket like SLS
- More Pluto news!
- Angara to fly commercially by 2017
- Islamic attack in France
- Apple makes the conservative internet vanish
- Obamacare increases are only going to get worse
- Tim Weisberg – Margarita
- Dawn resumes descent to Ceres
- The Earth from a million miles away
- Philae status update
- Baikonur Cosmodrome to open for tourists
- Internet tycoon commits $100 million to alien life search
- Iran’s parliament questioning Iran nuclear deal
- SpaceX pinpoints likely cause of Falcon 9 failure
- Judy Garland – Somewhere over the rainbow
- Another successful engine test for India
- Falcon Heavy first test flight delayed again
- John Kerry doesn’t understand the words “Death to America!”
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Prelude and Yodel
- Japan wants you to name Hayabusa-2’s target asteroid!
- Mountains and craters on Pluto?
- Haze spotted over Ceres’ double bright spot
- Robotic servicing demo resumes on ISS
- Hackers demonstrate they can remotely take over moving vehicle
- Soyuz launches crew to ISS
- Phil Collins – In The Air Tonight
- Russians confirm their commitment to ISS through 2024
- More problems at Virgin Galactic?
- Astronomers confirm Kepler discovery of near twin of Earth
- GAO finds IRS still focused on harassing conservatives
- Worlds without end
- Senator Bob Corker (R-Tennessee) discovers why he is an idiot
- Leroy Anderson – Typewriter Song
- Cruz calls McConnell a liar in the Senate
- New Pluto data released
- Dolly Parton – Jolene
- India’s space agency calls for more hiring
- Proton failure investigation finds quality control the root problem
- Anthony Newley and Petula Clark – You and I
- Names on Ceres
- $126 million stolen in Vostochny construction
- The UK launches a 3D printed airplane drone
- SpaceShipTwo accident report released
- Where the Columbia River meets the Pacific Ocean
- How Comet 67P/C-G interacts with the solar wind
- Hawaii government not enforcing Mauna Kea emergency rule
- Four skeletons at Jamestown identified
- Puzzling red arcs on the Saturn moon Tethys
- Tammi Terrell and Marvin Gaye – Ain’t No Mountain High Enough
- Counting bats on a Saturday evening
- Kazakhstan gets a cut rate deal from Russia
- “I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally in contempt.”
- Obamacare co-ops losing money
- Arrested for playing Star-Spangled Banner on July 4, man reject plea deal
- Astronomers confirm existence of Earthlike exoplanet 21 light years away
- Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven
- The supernova of 1987 finally begins to fade
- Philae results published
- Alan Stern gives the IAU a piece of his mind
- Why an impossible space engine has not been discovered
- New Ebola vaccine 100% successful in trial
- Snake vs Centipede
- Twenty arrested for blocking trucks to different mountain telescope in Hawaii
- Republican leaders find support for Boehner’s speakership very weak in House
- All Rosetta data through Philae landing released
- China races to finish giant radio telescope
- NASA considers offering SLS for commercial payloads
- Lorrie Morgan – Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- Orion might not be ready for 2018 test flight
- Solar panels more climate damaging than coal
- The Muppets – Ode to Joy
- Airbus patents design for a supersonic ramjet airplane
- Texas government officials kidnap 11 children illegally from parents
- Curiosity looks ahead at its future travels
- The sunspot decline continues
- TMT protesters gather outside IAU conference in Hawaii
- DSCOVR images the Moon crossing in front of the Earth
- Joe Hisaishi & New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra – Tubular Bells
- NASA extends Russian crew ferry contract through 2019 for $490 million
- Big fire in the mountains above Tucson
- Auschwitz commandant outraged over Mengele video
- Finger Rock Fire update
- Another movie of Ceres from Dawn
- Russia delivers to Orbital ATK the first two new Antares engines
- The bog bodies of Europe
- Stratolaunch shifts to the small sat market
- Footage of the Red Baron from 9/17/17
- Scientists narrow the next Mars rover candidate landing sites to 8
- Houston trying to steal land from two churches
- Anne Murray – I Just Fall in Love Again
- Mauna Kea visitor center reopens
- The mobile launch building at Vostochny
- The troubles caused by Obamacare in Colorado
- Nathan and Eva Leach – Hero
- Sudden outburst activity on Comet 67P/C-G
- Update on Boeing’s CST-100
- Ten years after the Russians did it, NASA finally produces lettuce in space
- Astronomers chart the universe’s slow death
- July 4th flash flood captured on video
- Where is Pluto’s nitrogen coming from?
- Orbital ATK orders second Atlas 5 for launching cargo to ISS
- Contract to build Ariane 6 signed
- Contract to build upgraded Vega rocket signed
- The Space Show modernization crowd-funding campaign
- David Gilmour of Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
- NASA considers using Bigelow module for deep space missions
- DARPA awards phase 2 space plane contracts
- A look at Ted Cruz’s election strategy
- The wild Martian terrain
- Obamacare forces schools to cut back
- Cassini’s last fly-by of Dionne on Monday
- Astronomers photograph an exoplanet
- The entire world economy explained using cows
- “They just didn’t think.”
- The Brothers Four – Scarlet Ribbons
- A 30-year government science fraud exposed
- NOAA scientists predict developing El Niño could be strongest ever
- Requiring scientists to document their methods caused positive results in medical trials to plunge
- Lumbering the Redwoods
- Spectacular 3D image of Mars from Mangalyaan
- NASA postpones decision again for 2nd ISS cargo contracts
- “When EPA is not ignoring Supreme Court limitations on it, it is blithely disregarding rule-making laws required of it.”
- Fund-raising campaign to help bakery threatened by gay fascists
- IRS computer hack bigger than previously thought
- Orbital ATK cargo contract extended
- Sibelius – Waltz Trist
- Soyuz rocket builder proposes major upgrade
- A detailed status update on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
- Comet 67P/C-G’s fractured surface
- Another slew of science papers retracted because of fraud
- What cavers do for fun
- Japan launches HTV cargo ship to ISS
- The modern horror story
- Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
- Boeing’s 747 is finally heading for retirement
- Russians consider building reusable rocket
- Ecologists try to control reporting of their presentations
- A calculator beats IPCC supercomputer models in predicting climate
- Cruz’s good positioning in campaign recognized by more pundits
- Cassini’s last close-up images of Dionne
- Scott Ott – How NPR really covers the GOP Presidential Primary race
- Eight telescope protesters arrested on road to summit of Haleakala on Maui
- Whiskey in space!
- Oldest message-in-a-bottle found after 108 years
- The next Lois Lerner, this time at the Federal Election Commission
- Florida demands real skim milk be declared “imitation” because nothing was added to it.
- Making excuses for moden Islamic slavery
- The one climate prediction that has come true
- Iran: We “reject the existence of any Israeli on this Earth.”
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano concerto No.5
- Two years from today a total eclipse will cross the U.S.
- “SJW zealots proved their commitment to tolerance, openness and variety by vowing not to read a work found on [an opposing] slate under any circumstances.”
- Oregon forest fires blamed on federal ban on logging
- An update on XCOR’s Lynx suborbital craft
- Helium reserves might be greater than previous believed
- Wisconsin spends $1.2 million defending “John Doe” prosecutors.
- Tooth of Time
- IRS reveals Lerner used more than one personal email address
- New sharp images of Ceres from Dawn
- Russia to do all-female simulated Moon mission
- Boeing lobbies for renewal of the Export-Import Bank
- A breakthrough in creating fusion power?
- EPA withholds Colorado disaster documents demanded by Congress
- Cubesats to the Moon!
- Rod Hull And Emu – How To Groom An Emu
- An update on Gaia’s first year of astronomical observations
- New Hubble image of Twin Jet Nebula
- Russia delays first manned Vostochny launch seven years
- India starts countdown for the launch of its big rocket
- IAU balks at some Pluto names picked by New Horizons team
- The Statler Brothers – Flowers On The Wall
- Launch of India’s big rocket a success
- States okay big insurance premium increases caused by Obamacare
- The terrible political consequences of Iran deal to the Democratic Party
- More than half of published psychology papers cannot be replicated
- Alexander Rybak & Stefan Ibsen Zlatanos – Clair de Lune
- Comet 67P/C-G goes boom!
- Proton launches successfully
- Hawaii Supreme Court hears arguments on TMT constructions
- Wyoming farmer defies the EPA
- New EU tax law puts thousands out of business
- Judge rules IRS must disclose White House requests for private taxpayer information
- New Horizons team picks its next Kuiper Belt target
- Alexander Rybak – Into A Fantasy
- A movie of New Horizons’ Pluto fly-by
- Russia accelerating development of Soyuz replacement
- Charges dropped against man for playing Star-Spangled Banner on July 4th
- Obamacare to punish small businesses for helping employees
- Anti-establishment non-politicians top Iowa poll
- On the radio
- The elephants of Bushcamp Company’s Mfuwe Lodge
- SpaceX delays its next launch
- What it was like practicing Islam for the first Malaysian in space
- Data from New Horizons does not match what is seen from Earth
- The Space Show website upgrade is 70% funded
- Kentucky clerk again defies Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages
- Largest glacier calving event ever filmed
- Government still hasn’t notified individuals whose personal data was hacked
- Curiosity spots a spoon on Mars!
- Blue Origin abandons patent for barge-landing a rocket
- Blue Origin wins financial incentives to build in Florida
- Manned Soyuz heads for ISS with new crew
- Atlas 5 successfully launches U.S. military satellite
- Technical problems for cosmic ray detector on ISS
- Shake-ups in the Google Lunar X-Prize competition
- 170 million guns purchased, crime drops by half
- Iran deal gets enough Democratic votes to pass
- Jay Ungar & Molly Mason – Ashokan Farewell
- First Falcon Heavy launch now scheduled for April/May 2016
- Soyuz capsule maneuvers to avoid space junk
- Apollo lunar samples crumbling to dust
- High res radar instrument fails on Earth observation satellite
- The Earth has a lot of trees!
- New engineering gives a man paralyzed from the waist down the ability to walk again.
- VA fiddled while sick veterans died
- CST-100 name to be unveiled on Friday
- The Tokens – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
- Crew docks with ISS
- School lunch program collapsing under Obama
- Boeing names its CST-100 manned capsule Starliner
- Glen Campbell & Flip Wilson ~ Rocky Racoon
- New Horizons data dump about to begin
- Russia testing upgraded Soyuz capsule
- The push at SpaceX to resume flights is accelerating
- How a scuba tank is made
- Another political story today says John Boehner’s position as House Speaker is under threat
- Al Stewart – Year of the Cat
- Venus probe about to rise from the dead
- China lunar lander to be aimed at the Moon’s far side.
- Spaceport head says Lynx to launch in early 2016
- Closing in on Ceres’s bright spots
- Republican revolt over Iran deal vote
- Earl Scruggs & Men with Banjos – Foggy Mountain Breakdown
- Aerojet Rocketdyne makes $2 billion offer to buy ULA
- Police arrest 8 protesters camping illegally on Mauna Kea
- ULA and Blue Origin sign new agreement
- Engineers propose using SpaceX rocket and capsule to bring samples back from Mars
- New human species found?
- Martian floods regional, not global
- Brandon Ridenour & Rachel Kudo – Fantasy Variations” on a theme by Paganini
- New Pluto images!
- A new company enters the smallsat business
- Europe’s Galileo GPS constellation reaches 10 satellites
- SpaceX releases video showing glimpse of manned Dragon interior
- A detailed update on the efforts to contact Philae
- Southern ocean absorbs more CO2 than expected
- Mitch McConnell makes a fool of himself
- CDC expands investigation into military handling of dangerous disease samples
- Petrified sand dunes on Mars
- The day we forgot
- Whiskey tastes strange after being aged in space
- The Bridge at Q’eswachaka
- The first sharp pictures of Pluto’s moon Nix
- Doctor fired for daring to disagree with homosexual agenda
- New launch contracts for SpaceX and ILS
- The slow disappearance of college English departments
- Decline to solar minimum
- Two more arrests for embezzlement at Vostochny
- Gale Garnett – We’ll Sing in the Sunshine
- Astronomers find no evidence of nearby alien civilizations
- Rivers and lakes on Pluto?
- Second successful Proton launch in a row
- Virgin Galactic announces changes to LauncherOne
- Yearlong mission on ISS reaches halfway point
- Blue Origin announces it will launch from Florida
- Giant global ocean inside Saturn’s moon Enceladus
- Cursing the police and the law is legal
- Obamacare more severely punishes hospitals serving the poor
- More rumors swirl about replacing Boehner as House Speaker
- Lou Reed and David Bowie – Waiting for the Man
- On the radio
- Philae landing in real time
- Aerojet Rocketdyne lobbies its rocket engines to Congress and ULA
- Road crews remove stone altar built by TMT protesters on Mauna Kea
- New census data confirms more Obamacare failure
- NASA delays first Orion manned flight two more years
- ULA rejects Aerojet Rocketdyne $2 billion bid to buy company
- Railroad thermite welding
- ILS to slash prices for Proton
- EPA violated Endangered Species Act in Colorado
- The Tiny Dot
- New images from Pluto
- Students defy school restrictions on free speech
- Auckland Symphony Orchestra – Angry Birds
- Ted Cruz, Sitting Pretty
- Hawaii arranges to schedule next TMT protest
- Worker fired because lesbian was bothered by his Christianity.
- Students win lawsuit against university speech restrictions
- Saudia Arabia condemns 17-year-old to crucification for protesting government
- ExoMars delayed three months to fix technical problem
- Philomena Cunk’s Moments of Wonder: Time
- Audit finds Obama administration complicent in the Obamacare website fraud and cost overruns
- Global warming advocates call for the prosecution of scientists who disagree with them
- China to launch new rocket today
- Why I am not impressed with Fiorina’s impressive words
- More data tampering at NOAA
- Changes on the surface of Comet 67P/C-G
- Long March 6 launch a success
- Iran nuclear deal allows Iran to increase funding to terrorists
- New SpaceShipTwo first flight delayed until 2016
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Mangalyaan in great shape
- Researchers push for access to confidential government records of the public
- Robert Tiso – Moonlight Sonata on glass harp
- ULA and Orbital ATK ink new rocket motor contract
- GAO criticizes the staff and budget request of FAA’s commercial space office
- Boeing reveals landing sites for Starliner
- Harvesting tulip bulbs with modern engineering
- Legal costs to university from Mauna Kea protests squeezing education budgets
- Milky Way’s central black hole is getting active
- Obamacare causes health insurance deductibles to skyrocket
- New Pluto images
- China debuts another new rocket
- Aerojet is considering increasing its $2 billion offer to buy ULA
- Rosetta data reveals how a comet evaporates
- Boehner steps down
- Opportunity marathons on
- The Lion Roars
- First rocket arrives at Vostochny
- 66% of all surface climate data is adjusted
- Using fish to study bone loss in weightlessness
- Boeing’s first stealth plane concept
- New EPA ozone regulations based on fantasy
- India launches its first space observatory
- The dark streaks on Mars are water
- Comet 67P/C-G was formed by a soft collision
- SpaceX test fires its Falcon 9 upgraded first stage
- Back to the Grand Canyon
- The modern glassmaker
- Back from the Grand Canyon
- Virgin Galactic tests new rocket engine
- Creeping towards commercial and private weather satellites
- NASA signs deal with Boeing for operating ISS through 2020
- Development of Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine moves forward
- Smallsat company buys its own Falcon 9 rocket to launch 20 satelites
- Congress places additional limits on Russian rocket engine use
- NASA pulls funding from private asteroid hunter
- Vostochny launch building built to the wrong size
- A new map of Ceres
- Charon in color
- It wasn’t just an asteroid that killed the dinosaurs
- New Horizons next fly-by
- Moon Express buys launch contract
- Lockheed Martin eliminated from ISS cargo contract competition
- ULA completes its 100th successful launch
- France considers developing reusable first stage
- A list of all smallsat launch rockets
- Government overpayments going up by billions
- School officials ashamed of the U.S.
- Facebook to provide internet access to Africa
- Nat King Cole – Red Sails In The Sunset
- Republicans investigate global warming scientists who demanded skeptics be prosecuted
- Curiosity’s future path
- What Facebook “likes” reveal about the candidates
- Ramp down in sunspots continues
- IPPC replaces head with economist
- Guess where?
- An avalanche on Mars, as it happens
- Government workers earn 78% more than private workers
- Sounds of a Glass Armonica
- Another Google Lunar X-Prize contestant announces launch contract
- Russian proposes private lunar satellite to prove Apollo landings
- China launches first commercial Earth-observation satellite
- Yale makes available online 170,000 photographs from WWII period
- A planet-forming disk with mysterious ripples
- Ozone-destroying gas suddenly decreases for no reason
- How the Republican Party might break-up
- Government admits whole milk was always good for you
- Conservative Republicans back Webster for Speaker
- Construction by helicopter
- Sierra Nevada touts new work on Dream Chaser
- Second Atlas 5 launch in only six days
- Cygnus grabs March Atlas 5 launch slot
- Army building its first operational ray gun?
- Kevin McCarthy drops out of Speaker election
- Ice and blue skies on Pluto
- More confirmation from Curiosity of past lakes in Gale Crater
- To Scale: The Solar System
- Another EPA wastewater spill in Colorado
- Sunlight rolled the rocks on an asteroid
- Russian lunar mission delayed again
- 3D image of Comet 67P/C-G
- Next New Shepard test flight expected before December
- Increase push to get Ryan to run for House Speaker
- Joaquin Rodrigo – Concierto de Aranjuez, 2nd movement
- Ella Fitzgerald – Angel Eyes
- Back from a weekend underground
- Judge rules in favor of telescope protesters
- Pentagon refuses ULA Russian engine waiver
- Russia to sell China rocket engines?
- ULA picks Vulcan launchpads
- Getting India’s first space telescope working
- Neiman Marcus sells suborbital space tickets
- Solar ramp down jumps slightly
- Judge proposes using courts to ban global warming skepticism
- New weather maps of Jupiter
- Cassini’s last flybys of Enceladus
- Next Falcon 9 launch delayed to December
- Don Henley – Take A Picture Of This
- Putin delays first launch from Vostochny
- “There are kindergarten classes with more realistic assessments of cost-benefit tradeoffs than the crowd watching this debate at the Wynn Las Vegas.”
- New global maps of Titan
- Kepler finds a star no one can explain
- Real clam digging
- Next Cygnus to launch December 3
- Antares failure wipes out Aerojet’s 2nd quarter profits
- Smallsat rocket launchers get NASA contracts
- More evidence of giant flash floods on Mars
- Iran writes its own bill
- Two more Obamacare state co-ops fail
- Ben-Hur – The Chariot Race
- Fractures on Enceladus’s north pole
- R.I.P. George Mueller
- Mark Knopfler – Last Exit To Brooklyn
- SpaceX switches payloads for next launch
- Another Proton launch success
- China launches commercial satellite
- Study questions scientific dating method
- Eleven more Obamacare co-ops face bankruptcy
- MTNS – Lost track of time
- Obamacare causes school shutdowns in Tennessee
- New cheap way to turn sea water drinkable?
- This year’s building El Niño?
- Islamic State in retreat in Iraq?
- 200 new lunar impact craters discovered
- Bridge Girder Erection Mega Machine
- Earth might be one of the universe’s first habitable planets
- Two NASA employees indicted for allowing Chinese scientist access
- Hawaii names third telescope to be removed from Mauna Kea
- SpaceX Dragonfly test vehicle arrives in Texas
- Tom Lehrer – The Irish Ballad
- Chris Botti & Sting – Bourbon Street
- New Horizons begins course change
- Another Pluto Moon revealed
- Update on Vostochny delays
- ULA prepares Atlas 5 for its third October launch
- The largest astronomical image ever
- Obamacare still accepts fake enrollees
- Engineers create the blackest material yet
- Justice Dept ends IRS investigation with no charges
- The coming dark ages
- Mason Williams & Deborah Henson-Conant – Classical Gas
- Mysterious piece of space junk to hit Earth
- Pluto in 3D
- A detailed update on the Falcon 9 return-to-flight
- Zero-G airplane makes emergency landing
- NASA to decide on 2nd cargo contracts Nov 5
- Drinking beer prevents brain damage!
- Pluto’s meandering canyons
- Billions of Obamacare funds pocketed by Democrats
- Congressional leaders negotiating 2-year spending deal
- New Horizons makes second course burn
- Worldview tests subscale prototype of its balloon and capsule
- The New Periodic Table Song
- Lockheed Martin ready to build Orion?
- The Okinawa missiles of October
- John Williams – Dry Your Tears, Áfrika
- Dawn begins descent to final orbit around Ceres
- Buy the first computer to fly in space!
- Early Apollo rover prototype sold for scrap
- ULA shuffles and trims its executive leadership
- Russia’s ten-year space policy delayed again
- Comet 67P/C-G has passed peak brightness
- Get 2 out of 10 questions right and pass!
- Ryan to support budget deal
- Another Obamacare co-op fails
- A mother and father is still the best for kids
- 45 Republicans vote against Paul Ryan nomination
- Boots Randolph – Yakety Sax
- Oxygen in Comet 67P/C-G coma
- Cassini survives unharmed its close flyby of Enceladus
- Moon buggy saved from scrap heap
- Camille Saint-Saëns – La danse macabre
- New Horizons completes third course change engine burn
- Yutu still operational after two years
- Fiber optic cable damaged on Mauna Kea
- High school coach suspended for praying
- Christians do have a right to religion in Dearborn
- Enceladus flyby images begin arriving
- John Jorgenson Quintet – Ghost Dance
- Eutelsat signs a multi-launch Proton rocket deal
- Greenland ice sheet not covered in soot
- An Enceladus close look
- History: CNBC, the tea party, and this week’s debate
- Sea level fraud by the Colorado Sea Level Research Group
- Third successful Atlas 5 launch in October
- Another Obamacare co-op, the largest, collapses
- 2016 Obamacare premiums to skyrocket 20%
- Rosetta special science issue
- British spaceplane concept gets infusion of cash
- ISS celebrates 15 years of continuous occupation
- French television weatherman fired for doubting global warming
- Cruz demands Justice Dept preserve IRS scandal documents
- Excommunication scene from Becket
- Richard Branson makes another prediction!
- China unveils model of planned 2020 Martian probe
- The Martian surface was shaped by volcanic acid fog?
- A hybrid coyote/wolf prospers in the eastern U.S.
- Grizzly bear no longer endangered in Yellowstone
- Kingston Trio – They’re rioting in Africa
- Experimental Air Force rocket launch fails
- Update to commercial space law stalled in Senate
- Tomato harvesting
- Crowded Mexico City and colonization of space
- Recreating the changing giant starspots on a distant star
- A closer look at the fake sea level data
- Tony MacAlpine Band – Tears of Sahara
- New Horizons on the way to 2014 MU69
- No sign of alien civilization at distant star
- Competition for ISS cargo contract reduced to three
- More Mexico commentary to come
- Noteworthy – Amazing Grace
- Yale students demand two administrators be fired for defending free speech
- Two Mauna Kea protesters convicted but get minor sentences
- Epic monuments and power
- Why cold fusion and NASA’s EM Drive are most likely frauds
- Nested comments disabled
- Republican claims of media bias supported by facts
- Ice volcanoes, spinning moons, and more proof of geologic activity
- David Arnold – Independence Day
- Time to shut the universities down?
- The proper way to peel hard boiled eggs
- Phobos is being pulled apart
- Comments restored
- The most distant object in the solar system
- Another new American rocket engine tested successfully
- Congress revises law governing commercial space
- SpaceX successfully tests its Dragon capsule abort rocket thrusters
- Stars in the Milky Way so old they predate it
- Wrong professor fired at University of Missouri
- Vera Lynn – We’ll Meet Again
- Earth-sized exoplanet found only 39 light years away
- Ground-breaking for the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile
- Planning the coming end of Rosetta
- Failed GPS satellites to test Einstein’s theory
- Dubai to use jetpacks to fight fires
- Iridium launch delayed to fix problem
- Bibles banned from school libraries in Tennessee
- More mob college protests, now in New York
- Student reporter files complaint against teacher
- Vizio smart televisions watch YOU
- Decline to solar minimum continues
- Florida school district threatens homeschool parents with arrest
- EPA rewards Gold King contractor with more contracts
- Annual Sept 11 event banned at University of Minnesota
- Copenhagen Phil – Ravel’s Bolero
- Next Blue Origin test flight before end of year
- Astronomers measure 5,400 mph winds on exoplanet
- Mysterious piece of space junk burns up over Indian Ocean
- Denial by everyone
- College students demand professor be punished for expressing an opinion
- Playwright forces play cancellation for racist reasons
- Amherst students demand punishment for those expressing opinions they disagree with
- Police steal a citizen’s guns and ammo
- Obama declares “we have contained ISIS” even as they execute an attack in Paris
- Mendes Harmónica Trio – Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
- Orbital ATK’s next cargo ship to ISS is packed and ready to fly
- Obamacare causing large numbers of doctors to flee medicine
- Is ISIS Islamic? Islam scholars say yes!
- Enceladus rises over Dione
- The uncertainty of climate science
- on account of because
- Curiosity heads for the dunes
- Short circuit on ISS
- ULA concedes GPS competition to SpaceX
- Israel eases its restrictions on gun use
- John Rich – The Battle of New Orleans
- Why the English language is odd
- Vine to Wine
- The first image of a newly formed exoplanet
- Japan’s Venus probe zeros in on Dec 7 arrival
- Hawaii’s Supreme Court temporarily stops TMT
- Largest diamond found in more than a century
- The Portland Cello Project – Denmark
- ULA is adding cubesat capability to its Atlas 5
- Bezos gives museum recovered Saturn V engines
- Another company enters the orbital remote sensing field
- Obamacare regulations to destroy craft beer industry
- Trump’s real weakness
- Dawn’s first close look at Ceres’s poles
- The Pacific Crest Trail in Three Minutes
- NASA contracting development of new ion/nuclear engines
- More students demand firing of a teacher for saying things they didn’t like
- NASA contracts Aeroject Rocketdyne to build shuttle engines for SLS
- Gene Pitney – Last Chance To Turn Around
- Spat between senators over Russian rockets
- Blue Origin lands first stage rocket vertically
- XCOR founders step down
- Japan launches its first commercial payload
- The climate fraud at NASA
- Ex-Im bank: Crony capitalism at its absolute worst
- They mean what they say
- Oldest known footage of New York City
- Earth’s magnetic field might not be flipping
- The launch cost of Japan’s H-IIA rocket
- Aerojet Rocketdyne gets Boeing rocket engine contract
- Iran deal “not legally binding”
- Tommy Emmanuel, John Jorgenson, Pedro Javier González – Sultans of Swing
- A developing new astronomical mystery
- The blackballing of Judith Curry
- Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
- Falcon 9 failure debris washes up off English coast
- The United Kingdom Ukulele orchestra – Tubular Bells
- The big money for climate alarmism
- Marine court-martialed for displaying Biblical verses
- Mainstream media outlet notices possible news!
- 3D shape model of Comet 67P/C-G
- The jets of Enceladus
- The global warming conference’s gigantic carbon footprint
- John Williams – Flying theme from ET
- Russia describes its planned first manned Moon mission
- Deposed XCOR founders form new company
- Turning planes into trucks
- Scientists begin another attempt to drill through the Earth’s crust
- Cygnus to launch on Thursday
- NY’s Obamacare co-op failure forces doctors to demand cash up front
- The first Ceres atlas
- Money is worthless in 2016 Presidential campaign
- Hope and Cagney dancing
- Next Falcon 9 first stage to touch down on land?
- More than half Kepler planet candidates false positives
- Loggins & Messina – Watching the River Run, House at Pooh Corner, Danny’s Boy
- Japan’s Hayabusa-2 flies past Earth
- Lisa Pathfinder lifts off
- Hawaii’s Supreme Court kills TMT
- Russia’s ten-year space budget slashed again
- Arm yourself
- Syria’s only astronaut now a refugee
- Oblique view of Ceres’s bright spots
- Boxer cites California gun laws to stop California terrorist attacks
- U.S. Navy Midshipmen – Naptown Funk
- Atlas 5/Cygnus launch scrubbed due to weather
- LRO finds lunar impact site for Apollo rocket stage
- NASA Mars lander might miss 2016 launch window.
- Virgin Galactic to use 747 for LauncherOne
- Beaver dams centuries old
- India wins contract to launch private weather satellites
- New spectacular images of Pluto
- Winds scrub Atlas 5/Cygnus launch
- Richard Galliano Tangaria Quarter – Autumn Leaves
- Western Muslim reformers to name extremists in their mosques
- The murder rate on U.S. islands with strict gun laws
- Atlas 5 successfully launches Cygnus to ISS
- Russia has another launch failure
- Success at last for Akatsuki
- A new technique for creating diamonds
- Rabbis endorse Cruz as polls show him surging
- Sunspots continue predicted decline
- Roosevelt’s speech responding to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
- Japan commits to ISS through 2024
- National Youth Orchestra of the USA – Simple Gifts
- More data says no alien civilization at KIC 8462852
- Akatsuki’s Venus orbit confirmed
- Cygnus berthed at ISS
- French Mars’ instrument repair looks good
- Second Google Lunar X-Prize launch contract confirmed
- Gagarin wins contest for new Russian spacecraft name
- Bright spots on Ceres likely salt deposits
- Kurt Nilsen – Walking In The Air
- A movie of Ceres
- Obamacare squeezes the economy
- Gabriella Quevedo – 7 Years
- Curiosity arrives at Martian dune
- Next Falcon 9 launch set for December 19
- How to land on a carrier with a missing front wheel
- Hayabusa2 on course for asteroid rendezvous
- Proton launch success
- The King’s Singers – Greensleeves
- Rosetta hi-res images released
- New astronaut crew to ISS, including Brit
- ULA’s fight to use Russian engines continues
- Hype in science papers on the increase
- Government audit finds EPA broke the law!
- On the radio
- Olivia Newton-John & Bob Hope – Silver Bells
- New China manned vehicle under development
- Successful India launch
- Soyuz docking issue during ISS arrival
- Budget deal boosts NASA budget
- Russian officials decide to broadcast launches
- The Democratic Party’s disconnect from reality
- Michael Jackson – Smooth Criminal
- Builders of TMT begin removing equipment
- Astronomers successfully predict appearance of supernova
- Budget bill lifts ban of Russian engines on Atlas 5
- Landing an F-15 with only one wing
- Saturday launch of Falcon 9 uncertain
- On a caving expedition
- William Zeitler – Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Falcon 9 launch delayed until Monday
- Cause of Soyuz docking problems pinpointed
- Strong academic objections to unopposed election for National Academies president
- Daniela Andrade – Christmas Time Is Here
- SpaceX lands the first stage!
- Water unneeded to produce wet gullies on Mars
- Fossil fuels might cool the planet
- The coming bright age
- Images of Ceres from Dawn’s lowest orbit
- InSight Mars mission suspended
- Roy Clark – 12th Street Rag
- Ditto Orchestra – Christmas Medley
- Musk vs Bezos vs Branson
- ULA buys 20 more Russian engines for Atlas 5
- U.S. production of plutonium-238 resumes
- Images from Cassini’s last Enceladus flyby
- “The Democrats’ theme for 2016 is totalitarianism.”
- Russia hints at Vostochny schedule
- A new lightweight and very strong metal
- Jose Feliciano – Feliz Navidad
- Prosecutors investigate scientists while blocking efforts against plant disease
- Proton successfully launches satellite
- Pagagnini – Pachelbel’s Canon in D
- California high schools to get diploma for failing
- Vostochny update suggests further delays and corruption
- Andre Rieu – 2013 Brazil Skater’s Waltz
- SpaceX to display recovered first stage
- First test flight of India’s prototype space shuttle delayed
- Russia cancels all Moon missions till 2025
- Uptown Funk – Mark Ronson
- Confusion in Russia’s space program
- Seth MacFarlane – What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?
- Japan looks to private space
- Science journal publishes fake study
- Make Trump go away with software!
- Robbie Williams & Frank Sinatra- It Was A Very Good Year
- Recovered Falcon 9 first stage undamaged
- Seeds from archaeological site grow into extinct squash
- 2015’s 13 most ridiculous protests on college campuses
- Leningrad Cowboys & the Red Army Choir – Sweet Home Alabama
- Washington state releasing convicts early by mistake since 2002
- The presidential campaign primary schedule
- A detailed look at Trump’s positions
- Millions opt out of Obamacare despite penalities
- Bob Stromberg with Ken Davis – Hand Shadows
- Four elements added to periodic table
- 2015 the busiest launch year for Florida since 2003
- Hillary Clinton vows to investigate UFOs if elected
- 2014 Budapest Airshow highlights
- Europe might end its ISS partnership in 2020
- Rubio as establishment proves tea party won
- Mark O’Connor & Wynton Marsalis – Boil ’em Cabbage Down
- Starliner schedule shapes up
- Arianespace sales top SpaceX in 2015
- How to really look for aliens
- Sunspot decline continues
- 2CELLOS – The Book of Love
- One last chance for Philae
- Betelgeuse baffles astronomers
- Mold on ISS plants
- Next Falcon 9 first stage will try to land on barge
- Lay-offs at Bigelow
- “If they can’t, turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure.”
- “You’re just not couth!”
- Russians to develop Falcon 9-like rocket
- China has big plans in space in 2016
- World’s second-tallest skyscraper completed in Shanghai
- Mystery at LHC confounds theorists
- Mighty Saturn
- Glowworms in Motion – time lapse
- Philae officially dead
- Was the Wow! signal from two comets?
- Static fire test of next Falcon 9 successful
- Crater close-ups from Dawn
- Former Virgin Galactic employee battles company in court
- Gaming Obamacare
- The rules to buy and sell guns
- Daft Punk – Get Lucky
- SLS still has no mission
- The Falcon has landed
- On the radio
- Four-wheeled robot climbs walls
- Water behavior on Comet 67P/C-G
- That space junk was from Lunar Prospector
- Juno becomes most distant solar-powered mission
- Orbital ATK and SpaceX win Air Force contracts
- Self-healing composite developed
- Bush, Cruz, Carson, and Sanders on space policy
- A cold-eyed look at Trump’s actual record
- A detailed review of the climate data tampering at NASA and NOAA
- SpaceX, Orbital ATK, and Sierra Nevada awarded contracts to ISS
- Patsy Cline – I Fall To Pieces
- Most powerful supernovae ever
- Russia trims its 10-year space plan
- New Orbital ATK rocket to compete for military launches
- Tonight’s Batchelor podcast
- China goes for the Moon
- Spacewalk cut short due to spacesuit water leak
- A river on Mars
- Zagreb Guitar Quartet – Bach Little Fugue BWV 578
- Falcon 9 launches NASA satellite, first stage landing fails
- Russia names next manned spaceship “Federation”
- Fraud detected in science research that suggested genetically modified crops were harmful
- Lonette McKee – Ill Wind
- The Falcon 9 first stage almost landing
- Corruption uncovered in federal environmental project
- Captain & Tennille – Love Will Keep Us Together
- Tuesday’s Batchelor podcast
- India’s first launch of 2016
- Astronomers propose Neptune-sized planet in Kuiper Belt
- Flowers bloom on ISS
- World View gets incentives to settle in Arizona
- The Palin endorsement of Trump
- AirPano – Panoramas taken throughout the world
- Dantu Crater on Ceres
- Howard Shore – The Shire (Concerning Hobbits)
- FAA flight restrictions suggest upcoming New Shepard flight
- Thursday’s Batchelor podcast
- Video of Dragon/SuperDraco engine test
- Orion: construction in slow motion
- Angara at Vostochny trimmed
- Trump: “Let’s get to be a little establishment.”
- Europe kicks in money for Dream Chaser
- Billy Joel – Travelin’ Prayer
- Blue Origin reflies and lands New Shepard again
- Thirty Meter Telescope’s future in Hawaii in state’s hands
- Comet 67P/C-G’s active surface
- Gordo – street drummer
- Blue Origin to increase New Shepard launch rate
- Air Force certifies Falcon 9 upgrade for military launches
- Trump: “I can be the most politically correct person you’ve ever seen.”
- Jinan Acrobatics Troupe – Rings
- Hawaii’s governor expresses empty support for TMT
- Two thoughtful endorsements of Ted Cruz
- Bing Crosby & Grace Kelly – True Love
- SpaceX successfully tests parachutes for manned Dragon
- Computer program learns and then wins at Go
- McCain and Air Force question ULA military arrangement
- Private company proposes commercial airlock for ISS
- Arianespace completes its first commercial launch in 2016
- Antarctic fungi survive Martian conditions on ISS
- New York oppresses opposition to gay marriage
- Using Roman tactics to quell riots
- Europe settles on Ariane 6 design
- Flying over Ceres
- Average Obamacare premiums are unaffordable
- 300 climate scientists demand NOAA explain its global warming climate data
- The January 28, 2016 Batchelor podcast
- Water ice on Pluto’s surface
- Maksim Mrvica – Bohemian Rhapsody
- Russian Proton rocket successfully launches commercial satellite
- An issue with Curiosity’s scoop
- Another 5 month slip of first Falcon Heavy launch
- A look at the emerging dark age in California
- Crystal Gayle – Cry Me A River
- Iowa results suggest strong Cruz future
- NASA ships a capsule
- The candidates’ take on science
- The Roman Legion at War
- First SLS launch will carry 13 cubesats
- New Shepard launch update
- National debt tops $19 trillion
- North Korea announces planned satellite launch
- Luxembourg to establish space property rights
- Carter would pick Trump if he had no other choice
- Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show – Sylvia’s Mother
- February 2, 2016 Batchelor podcast
- Successful course correction for Juno
- Falcon 9 to be modified
- A look inside Comet 67P/C-G
- Curiosity moves on, scoop still not working
- China releases images from lunar rover and lander
- Kristin Chenoweth – I Will Always Love You
- February 4, 2016 Batchelor podcast
- The floating mountains of Pluto
- Atlas 5 launches GPS satellite
- SpaceX promises increase in Falcon 9 launch rate
- Experts: NASA’s SLS Mars proposals bunk
- R.I.P.: Moonwalker Edgar Mitchell passes away
- Long and Big Trucks
- North Korea launches rocket
- TMT to repeat hearings before state
- One dead, four ill, in drug study in France
- The first recorded human death from a meteorite?
- Next Falcon 9 launch date announced
- Marlene Dietrich – Lili Marleen
- A second Little Ice Age uncovered
- North Korea’s satellite tumbling
- A new Japanese X-ray telescope to launch February 12
- NASA bans employees from writing the word “Jesus”
- The long decline to solar minimum
- Oregon as seen by a modern drone
- SpaceX to reduces chance of first stage recovery on SES-9 launch
- February 9, 2016 John Batchelor podcast
- Brainstorm
- ULA launches spy satellite
- Mold forces Cygnus launch delay
- First direct detection of a gravitational wave
- Russian engineers develop an ATV capable of going anywhere
- India and UAE to ink Mars project deal
- England Dan and John Ford Coley – I’d Really Love to See You Tonight
- Astro-H launch scrubbed due to weather
- TMT might abandon Hawaii
- The politics of high fantasy
- February 11, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast
- The final search for Philae
- The graffiti inside Apollo 11
- Tests confirm meteorite at India impact site
- Big solar storm not so big
- SpaceX loses a launch payload
- The first music video in zero gravity
- Abraham Lincoln – a tribute on his birthday
- Obamacare to increase costs 60%
- The stupid party
- Justice Antonin Scalia passes away suddenly
- Congress is now in recess until February 22
- Study determines which light bulb type bugs like
- Exploding nanobubbles destroy cancer cells
- India privatizing PSLV rocket
- A toy replicator for kids!
- The first geology map of Pluto
- Balloon Flight over Cappadocia, Turkey
- LISA Pathfinder’s cubes floating free
- Astronomers make first analysis of a SuperEarth’s atmosphere.
- Ukraine’s aerospace industry in collapse
- Harper Collins bans a sci-fi book because it isn’t sufficiently liberal
- Lou Rawls – You’ll Never Find Another Love Like Mine
- China’s long term space science plans
- February 16, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast
- Japan launches X-ray space telescope
- A modern caveman in a modern cave
- Bureaucrats fight over the regulation of commercial space
- Hubble measures the rotation of an exoplanet
- India okays its own LIGO detector
- Apollo 11 First Stage liftoff in Ultra Slow Motion
- A frozen underground ocean on Charon?
- The Obama-like promises of Trump
- John Denver & Cass Elliot – Leaving on a jetplane
- February 19, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast
- Virgin Galactic unveils new SpaceShipTwo
- Toy boat crosses the Atlantic
- National Youth Orchestra of the USA – America the Beautiful
- Falcon 9 static fire test completed
- Investment in commercial space zooms
- Drop test of Boeing’s Starliner capsule
- Trump threatens private citizens for opposing him
- University President shuts down speech because it is conservative
- El Camino del Rey
- February 23, 2016 Batchelor-Zimmerman podcast
- First map of Comet 67P/C-G’s southern hemisphere
- America’s ten most oppressive colleges
- No security at Homeland Security
- SpaceX launch scrubbed
- The cratered surface of Ceres
- Cam – Can’t Help Falling In Love
- LISA Pathfinder cubes in freefall
- GAO finds fraud rampant in Obamacare subsidy program
- The moment Yeltsin became a capitalist
- Fraud in many science surveys?
- Successful test of India’s GSLV rocket engine
- Lexington proposes gun confiscation
- MozART Group – Wild, wild West
- SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch again
- Wrapping up the longest space mission by an American
- Iridium dumps Russia for SpaceX
- Changes in DARPA rocket projects
- The coming collapse of Obamacare
- Our glorious Democratic leaders!
- Brownshirts try to silence conservative speaker
- February 25, 2016 Batchelor/Zimmerman podcast
- IRS hack of private files much larger
- Falcon 9 launch rescheduled for Sunday
- Steve Martin – The Great Flydini
- Falcon 9 launch scrubbed again
- UC-Berkeley Chemistry College to shutter?
- Tom Lehrer – Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
- SpaceX aims for Tuesday launch
- Air Force awards contracts for American rocket engine
- Honing the search for alien civilizations
- Georgia House passes space act
- China’s next manned mission
- The suicide of the GOP establishment
- Falcon 9 launch scrubbed again
- Al Bowlly – Melancholy Baby
- Wally Eastwood – Piano Juggler
- Astronauts return after 340 days on ISS
- India’s space agency ISRO gets a budget boost
- Trump winning open primaries, Cruz winning closed ones
- March 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Mars’ giant volcanoes shifted planet’s axis
- Free government money for Aerojet Rocketdyne!
- Titan’s changing shorelines
- Hubble finds galaxy with record-breaking redshift
- Building a log cabin, alone
- March 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Methane ice on Pluto’s mountain peaks
- Getting higher on Mount Sharp
- Businessman found innocent of all charges after years of persecution by the Justice Department.
- Trump begins to “evolve”
- Successful SpaceX launch
- Victor Borge – Getting ready
- Roscosmos approves space tourism project
- Clouds on Pluto?
- A Ted Cruz surge tonight
- Dawn’s chief engineer reviews the mission
- King Crabbing on Bering Sea Ice
- On the road
- The Kingsmen – Louie Louie
- Ceres’s big mountain
- NASA reschedules rather than cancels InSight
- Second solo Ariane 5 launch in 2016
- Jeff Bezos gives a tour of Blue Origin
- Want to discover gravitational waves? You can!
- Computer beats human in Go
- College student faces charges for expressing conservative opinions
- Monthly Solar Cycle update
- Iran tests ballistic missiles
- Gaelynn Lea – Someday we’ll linger in the sun
- ExoMars ready for launch
- Another Falcon Heavy customer switches to different rocket
- India launches sixth GPS satellite
- More details about China’s space station, planned for launch in 2020
- XCOR wins Vulcan engine design contract
- Russia completes investigation into Vostochny embezzlement
- March 9, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Violence against reporter and protesters at Trump events
- Multicultural Student Government approved at Kansas University
- “How I Went from Trump Curious to Anti-Trump.”
- “The Republican Establishment is Worse Than Trump.”
- Images of North Korea’s rocket and nuclear bomb?
- Making art from aluminum cans and anthills
- ULA’s parent companies express caution about Vulcan
- SpaceX estimates 30% price cut from reusable 1st stage
- Rosetta detects magnetic-free bubble around comet
- Good HDL cholesterol might not be so good
- March 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The bigotry in the Democratic Party
- Jeremy Schonfeld & Deborah Cox – Somewhere Out There
- Democratic fascists force cancellation of Trump rally
- Second SLS flight delayed until 2023?
- The cost of delaying the Mars InSight mission two years
- Blue Origin engine testing update
- “I’m Angry! So I’m Voting For Donald Trump.”
- Russian Soyuz rocket launch aborted seconds before launch
- It’s a sweep!
- ExoMars blasts off
- Mathematicians discover pattern in prime numbers
- Iran to launch satellite?
- Pinpointing Curiosity’s location in Gale Crater
- Hunting truffles in Oregon
- Akatsuki to finally begin studying Venus
- Fifteen-year-old pilot wins 250K at drone race
- What next for the computer Go program?
- China plans first commercial rocket company
- Curiosity reaches Naukluft Plateau
- Obama shuts down oil exploration in Atlantic
- Another glorious Democratic leader speaks!
- IRS given power to revoke passports
- Conservatives to block gigantic budget plan
- High Diving Giraffes
- Starting a fire in space, on purpose
- Tea party Republican wins primary for John Boehner’s seat
- Changes in Ceres’s white spots
- Grace Slick & Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit
- ULA head rejects his engineer’s remarks about Aerojet Rocketdyne
- March 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- ULA official resigns
- Virgin Galactic awards contract
- Self-tightening shoelaces!
- Hubble finds unexpected crop of massive stars
- Pluto 8 months after fly-by
- Wintergatan – Marble Machine
- Roscosmos budget slashed 30%
- NOAA head poo-poos private weather companies
- March 17, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- South Korea commits almost a billion dollars to AI research
- First step in producing silicon-based life
- Russians use wooden matches to ignite rocket engines
- Injected stem cells cure osteoporosis in mice
- Russia finally approves 10-year space plan
- North Korea test fires another ballistic missile
- New ISS crew successfully launched
- “Have they tried SEC to Aux?”
- SpaceX sets date for next Dragon launch
- Orbital ATK expands in Arizona
- Exoplanet with cometlike orbit
- The Irish not of Celtic origin?
- Getting real close to Comet 67P/C-G
- China shuts down its first space station
- Filleting a giant tuna
- New supersonic passenger plane coming?
- United Arab Emirates teams up with Japan
- Vostochny begins practicing launch procedures
- A new gravity map of Mars
- Fuel for Russia’s nuclear space engine
- Does captivity hurt or help killer whales? Scientists disagree
- “We don’t need another lecture about Islamophobia.”
- New close-up of Occator Crater’s spots
- Emory University takes action to stop free speech
- Eddie Reader – Dragonfly
- Near disaster for ExoMars
- VA reinstates worker who committed armed robbery
- Atlas 5 launches Cygnus
- Court again rules against IRS and Justice Department
- TMT leadership looks at alternatives to Hawaii
- DOD opens ULA investigation
- An estimated $55 billion in Obamacare waste
- It’s the Beatles
- Nation’s largest health insurance company wants out of Obamacare
- House proposes killing Commerce Department
- New Horizons’ future research goals
- Another Rosetta close-up of Comet 67P/C-G
- Saying “All Lives Matter” is now white supremacy
- New Jersey actor sentenced to 10 years for using a prop gun
- Titan’s tallest mountains
- Count Basie- Flight of the Foo Birds
- Premature shutdown of Atlas 5
- First Rocket Lab launch this year
- Virgin Galactic signs deal for supersonic plane
- Vulcan passes first design review
- March 24, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Nigeria aims for manned space
- Europe aims for the Moon
- The sad state of South Korea’s space sector
- Cosmic rays cause the red in Jupiter’s Great Red Spot
- Vostochny contractor ordered to pay loans
- Vast Martian dune fields
- Bill to trim BLM/Forest Service power
- ISS astronaut to steer rover on Earth
- Practicing Landings on a Carrier in bad weather
- “Why do Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton believe they know more about Islam than Muslim clerics?”
- Next Atlas 5 launch delayed
- March 25, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Frozen pond on Pluto
- DARPA to build satellite repair robot
- No communications with new Japanese X-ray telescope
- TMT consortium considers India for telescope
- Debris spotted near Hitomi
- Conservative professor to be fired for his opinions
- SLS software over budget and behind schedule
- Preserving strawberries the 18th century way
- Computer chip company sues SpaceX
- Video suggests Hitomi tumbling in orbit
- Justice Department resumes program to steal property of citizens
- Combined Earth-Space radio array discovers superhot quasar interior
- More chalk oppression at Emory!
- Air Force: Hitomi not hit by space junk
- A possible impact on Jupiter?
- Federal law outlaws launches on foreign rockets
- Guy Clark with Karen Matheson – Dublin Blues
- Democratic AGs team up to prosecute global warming skeptics
- On the radio
- March 29, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Using lasers to travel to the stars
- Another subsidized solar power company going bust?
- Emory University alumni push back against free speech attacks
- The Ronettes – Be My Baby
- Russia selling Sea Launch?
- Further chaos at Vostochny
- SpaceX wins first round in lawsuit
- Earth forming around sun-like star?
- OneWeb begins hiring in Florida
- India signs deal for its own LIGO
- White nose syndrome found on Washington state bat
- Rod Stewart – Moonglow
- Fuel system on Atlas 5 linked to premature shutdown
- Ordered to reduce red tape, federal bureaucrats increased it
- Looking back at Comet 67P/C-G
- Opportunity takes a spin
- Sierra Nevada favors Alabama for Dream Chaser’s commercial port
- The two most important stories for today
- New Shepard to fly this weekend
- John Prine – Sabu Visits The Twin Cities Alone
- New Shepard flies again, for the third time
- April 2, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Video of Saturday’s New Shepard flight
- Russia insures first Vostochny launch
- Florida passes law outlawing theft by government
- Evanescence – Going Under
- Reorganization at Arianespace
- Russia schedules first Vostochny launch
- Misuse revealed of vomit comet at NASA
- Another Cassini flyby of Titan
- Using ICBMs to lower launch costs
- Close encounter with a dust devil
- TSA wastes $1.4 million
- Anne Sofie von Otter & Stéphanie d’Oustrac – Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour
- Russia denies that Proton upper stage failed after launching ExoMars
- Boeing moves to block Russians from selling Sea Launch
- Falcon 9 completes static fire test
- India to test reusable mini-shuttle in May
- WISE completes another year of asteroid hunting
- The invention of the escalator
- Take-aways from Cruz’s win in Wisconsin
- The sunspot decline continues
- April 5, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Ariane 6 delayed by tax and legal issues
- The supernovae that fertilized the Earth
- Pink Floyd – Julia Dream
- North Korea can launch nuclear bombs
- Smallsat company searches for launch services
- The changing color of Comet 67P/C-G
- NASA picks Aerojet Rocketdyne engine for SLS upper stage
- Update on Dawn at Ceres
- In the wild
- April 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Phase 2 begins in DARPA spaceplane program
- Brownshirts shut down student Trump meeting
- Fascist New Jersey threatens prison for man flying Trump flag
- Vet charities not getting promised Trump donations
- Serious security flaws found in Obamacare websites in three states
- SpaceX lands its first stage on a barge
- Imogen Heap – Just For Now
- ULA trims workforce
- Kepler in trouble
- Next Atlas 5 launch delayed indefinitely
- Video of Falcon 9 first stage barge landing
- Dragon arrives at ISS
- Delusional banking
- Kepler out of safe mode
- Merle Haggard – Okie From Muskogee
- ULA to launch two Bigelow space station modules
- NASA’s moon buggy prototype goes up for auction
- Falcon 9 first stage returns to port
- Universe’s expansion rate contradicts dark energy data
- Next Atlas 5 launch date set
- Russian assets in France seized
- Dave Matthews Band – Satellite
- April 12, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Russian billionaire backs interstellar project
- Swiss company buys jet for vomit-comet
- Aerojet Rocketdyne pitches its AR1 rocket engine to reporters
- Orbital ATK to launch robotic servicing mission
- Japanese Venus probe sends back first science data
- French court rules against freezing Russian assets
- NOAA plans use of private weather data
- The Orion fantasy
- North Korea might have mobile ICBM capability
- More Obamacare exchanges expected to fail
- R.E.M. – Driver 8
- More job cuts planned at ULA
- Falcon 9 first stage hoisted from barge
- Construction of China’s next space station complete
- Vostochny’s past and future
- McCain challenges ULA cost figures for new engine
- Tucson to be sued over space tourism deal
- Next Atlas 5 launch delayed again
- The history of Falcon 9’s recoverable first stage
- L’Arpeggiata – Ciaconna by M. Cazzati
- April 14, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- First test flight for Rocket Lab upcoming
- Drone racing deal for ESPN
- Funds needed to identify “Wow!” signal
- ExoMars instrument activation so far good
- Obamacare unsustainable according to insurers
- North Korean missile launch fails
- Audioslave – I Am The Highway
- Privately-built inflatable module installed on ISS
- Prep work for SpaceX’s Texas spaceport continues
- Hi-tech shrimp fishing
- The asteroid didn’t do it all
- OneWeb to set up operations in Florida
- An update on SpaceX’s recovered first stage
- An update on Philae
- Pakistan pulls out of India satellite project
- The commerical battle over U.S. surplus ICBM’s
- UnitedHealth abandoning Obamacare
- Tetanus boosters can work for almost thirty years
- Nick Drake – One of These Things First
- Problems with attitude system doomed Hitomi
- Video of recovered Falcon 9 first stage on the road
- OneWeb satellite factory coming to Florida
- Senate committee throws money at NASA
- Russian government rescues Proton manufacturer
- Largest jet engine ever test fired
- The coming dark age, part 2,322
- Rodgers and Hammerstein – Oklahoma!
- “You have no right to speak.”
- April 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Liver damage from weightlessness?
- Want to live in a hobbit-hole? You can!
- 50 year old time capsule in Houston reveals space artifacts
- China grows mouse embryos in space
- Foo Fighters – Times like these
- Orbital ATK negotiating lease for part of VAB
- California’s Democratic fascist attorney general loses in court
- San Francisco requires new buildings have solar panels
- Evidence of water on Ceres?
- China to launch full space station in 2018
- Shelby blocks Export-Import Bank nominee
- Obamacare bankrupting state governments
- More evidence you can’t trust anything Donald Trump says
- The failed predictions of Earth Day
- Isabelle Druet – Ah que j’aime les militaires!
- Bigots harass white woman for singing music from India
- Avoiding the period in space
- Did Russia test hypersonic glide plane?
- Brown shirts attempt to silence conservative speaker at American University
- April 22, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Fake images in biology research papers
- Soyuz rocket launch scrubbed due to faulty IMU
- Nirvana – Lithium
- Vostochny’s first rocket on launchpad
- New images of failed Beagle 2 on Mars
- New Hubble image of Red Rectangle
- Soyuz successfully launches from French Guiana
- Problems at Stratolaunch?
- First Long March 5 begins assembly
- Congress micro-manages rocket engineering again
- New smallsat rocket company obtains financing
- An extended Dawn mission might go to another asteroid
- Hubble discovers moon circling Kuiper belt object
- Airbus Safran joint rocket venture moving forward
- The methane seas of Titan
- A close look at Falcon 9’s reusable cost savings
- April 25, 2016 Zimmerman Space Show appearance
- Colin Hay – I just don’t think I’ll ever get over you
- April 26, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Why Science Is Broken, and How To Fix It
- Fascists try to shut down conservative panel at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
- First Vostochny launch scrubbed at T-1.5
- Curiosity drills again
- Dragon to go to Mars in 2018
- Tallest tunnel slide to open in London
- Venus’s dark stripes remain unexplained
- Billy Joel and Michael Pollack – New York State of Mind
- First launch from Vostochny a success
- Another successful launch for India
- SpaceX gets its first official Air Force contract
- New research confirms CO2 increase is greening Earth
- Curiosity’s wheels handling rough terrain
- John Prine – Hello in there
- April 28, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Fuel valve cause of Atlas 5 shutdown
- Money for space
- The stupid party, part 2
- Halo craters on Pluto
- Claudia Drake – I can’t believe that you’re in love with me
- Anti-Trump protesters get violent
- Next Atlas 5 launch delayed until summer
- Blue Origin selects company to build its rocket factory
- Russian court calls for arrest of Vostochny suspects
- SpaceX updates its prices
- Boiling water on Mars
- The depressed heart of Pluto
- Russia and Europe agree to delay next ExoMars mission
- Exoplanets found nearby
- Such Great Heights
- The doodles of a 7-year-old in 1300
- Why Russian aerospace will not compete
- ULA shuffles Atlas 5 schedule
- NASA signs engineering test agreement with new launch company
- The Oil Seepage Thread
- Ice and volcanoes on ancient Mars?
- How tiny cowardice is destroying us
- Taking Heads – Psycho Killer
- May 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Pluto’s solar wind interaction more like a planet’s
- SpaceX gears up for first Falcon Heavy flight
- Congressman proposes major changes to regulation of commercial space
- Eighth-grader arrested for using $2 bill
- You asked for this
- Employers hiring freelancers to avoid Obamacare
- New jellyfish spotted at 2 miles depth
- Weather delays next SpaceX launch one day
- Problems with nanosat launched from Vostochny
- The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain – Psycho Killer
- Manager resigns as investigation pinpoints issues during first Vostochny launch
- Putin signs Russian homesteading act
- Trump’s new finance chief donates 2x more to Democrats than Republicans
- Obamacare includes 171-word definition of menu
- Cruz’s political stature enhanced by campaign
- Luxembourg signs deal with asteroid mining company
- Future Republican battle leans right and anti-establishment
- Foster The People – Houdini
- SpaceX lands the first stage again!
- May 5, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Global elevation map of Mercury
- Pima county files motion to dismiss World View lawsuit
- Does Trump have the best space policy?
- SpaceX’s second first stage barge landing
- On the radio
- A review of Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth”, ten years later
- Increased earthquake activity at Mount St. Helens
- A new Enceladus geyser mystery
- Why I use Linux
- Pearl Jam – Alive
- May 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Pratt podcast
- Death threats to vegan restaurant owners for eating meat again
- Trump calls for a minimum wage increase
- Mercury’s transit today
- Long March 7 heads to spaceport
- Saturn’s moon Epimetheus
- Sunspot activity crashes
- Facebook routinely suppressed conservative news
- Judge rules White House showed “bad faith” in global-warming case
- New analysis says it ain’t aliens at strange star
- Iran completes another ballistic missile test
- Stevie Wonder – I Just Called To Say I Love You
- Falcon 9 booster returns to port
- More problems at Khrunichev
- Watch the last Blue Origin landing, from the rocket
- Computer simulation models Sun’s magnetic field during grand minimum
- Harvard researchers discover that Obamacare isn’t working
- NASA uses computer model to find exoplanets
- Wyoming rancher beats EPA over stock pond
- A bibliography of my research into climate
- Stevie Nicks – Edge Of Seventeen
- May 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- NASA considers advancing first SLS launch two months
- Texas town regulates SpaceX engine tests
- Why Trump and Cruz dominated campaign
- Dragon returns home
- A Kuiper belt object turns out to be large
- Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
- Two years of weather at Gale Crater
- First manned Starliner flight delayed
- ULA’s CEO explains why they are retiring Delta
- A new Vostochny embezzlement investigation begins
- Airbus initiates smallsat launcher project
- Court rules against illegal Obamacare subsidies
- Republican-led Senate passes spending bill larger than requested by Obama
- Pink Floyd – See Emily Play
- Off to Belize
- Lacy J. Dalton – Black Coffee
- In Belize
- Vostochny manager resigns
- Congress demands Air Force spend less and more at the same time
- Iran announces satellite plans
- Two days in Mountain Cow Cave
- The Dubliners – Dirty Old Town
- Status of the third recovered Falcon 9 first stage
- Upgraded Antares rolled to launchpad
- On the radio from Belize
- Blockhead – The Music Scene
- TMT permitting process about to begin anew
- May 17, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Johann Strauss – Perpetuum mobile
- Jamey Johnson & Lee Ann Womack – “Give It Away”
- Leaving Belize tomorrow
- SpaceX, Lockheed Martin, and Mars
- ULA sets dates for next Atlas 5 and Delta 4 Heavy launches
- China to build space communications facility in Argentina
- India sets date for spaceplane test flight
- Airbus begins assembly Orion service module
- Congress pushes for Europa missions
- Electric Light Orchestra -.Can’t get it out of my head
- X-37B completes year in orbit
- Another look at China’s space station plans
- Cruz supporters dominate Washtington state convention
- Mars’s giant tsunamis
- Why I went to Belize
- India test flies its first spaceplane prototype
- United Kingdom cancels spaceport competition
- More weird Pluto geology
- TSA removes its head of security
- The Cowsills – The Rain, The Park and Other Things
- House committee reshapes NASA budget
- Iridium announces its own alternative to GPS
- Orbital ATK introduces a new rocket
- Chito
- May 24, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Anti-Trump protesters get violent at Trump rally
- ESO signs giant telescope contract
- Protesters crash stage and threaten conservative speaker
- Antares static engine test scheduled
- Wintergatan – Starmachine2000
- More violent protests against Trump
- Bigelow’s ISS module expansion halted
- TMT calls for removal of official supervising permit process
- D.C. ignores 2nd amendment court order
- IRS steals millions from people for depositing the wrong amount of money
- Another look at what President Trump would likely do
- Jupiter exoplanet around baby star
- Planetary Resources has raised $21 million
- Belize and Guatemala
- Yanni, Lisa Lavie, Lauren Jelencovich – Aria
- Health insurance premiums to rise 24% because of Obamacare
- Next New Shepard test flight to test parachute failure
- China to fly sample return mission to Moon
- The party of science?
- May 26, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Microsoft and Facebook to lay Atlantic cable
- Blue Origin builds engine test facility in only seven months
- Juno enters Jupiter’s gravity well
- New Horizons’ best Pluto close-up
- Rosetta finds organic compounds at Comet 67P/C-G
- SpaceX does it again!
- Want to buy your own 747?
- R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
- Rocket Lab tests second stage engine
- NASA to try module expansion again on Saturday
- DARPA requests spaceplane proposals
- Russia tests a missile designed to take out satellites
- High speed Falcon 9 first stage camera view
- More enraged anti-American protests against Trump
- BEAM module expanded successfully
- XCOR layoffs, ending Lynx?
- Premature engine cutoff on Soyuz upper stage
- The B-1 Lancer Bomber
- Rosetta almost lost during weekend
- Obamacare forces small businesses to drop employee health benefits
- Emmylou Harris & Mary Black – You’ll Never Be The Sun
- Orbital ATK successfully completes Antares test fire
- Airbus Safran begin Ariane 6 engine tests
- May 31, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- New data challenges consensus on galaxy formation
- Longest and deepest rail tunnel opens
- Pluto: the world’s largest lava lamp
- Manned Soyuz launch delayed
- Prince & Lenny Kravitz – American Woman
- Billionaires propose big space plans
- Why I use Linux, part 2
- Yale students demand that the school stop teaching English literature
- California moves to ban climate dissent
- Connecticut moves to ban 2nd amendment
- A faster Hubble constant?
- Disturbed – The Sound Of Silence
- Another leftist mob attacks Trump supporters in San Jose today
- California effort to make climate dissent illegal fails
- Falcon 9 first stage returns to port, with a noticable list
- Why the Goldwater Institute sued to block Tucson space deal
- The Rosetta science team wants your help!
- NASA signs Blue Origin for suborbital missions
- FEC Democrats vote to punish Republican for a political joke
- Liberal editor calls for riots against Trump
- Another Obamacare co-op fails
- Ricky Syers – Marionettes
- No sunspots for the first time in two years
- June 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Luxembourg to invest $200 million in space mining
- Why I won’t use Windows
- Trump the liberal revealed again
- No sunspots for two days
- Astronauts enter privately built BEAM module
- Hawaii turns down requests to remove TMT hearings officer
- Titan over Saturn’s rings
- Sunspot cycle update
- SpaceX lobbies Texas government for spaceport backing
- Russia delays next manned Soyuz flight
- President Roosevelt’s announcement of D-Day, June 6, 1944
- LISA Pathfinder proves space-based gravity wave detection technology
- The history of the stopwatch
- Elon Musk to meet with Defense Secretary
- National Science Foundation considers shuttering Arecibo
- FAA warns public of military GPS jamming tests
- Insurance companies abandon Colorado because of Obamacare
- New poll shows Trump barely winning Utah
- Journalist demands murder of legislators who disagree with him
- Passenger – Let Her Go
- RINO Ellmers loses in North Carolina
- June 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Elon Musk sends a tweet and the world listens
- Boeing begins assembling second Starliner manned capsule
- Four new names proposed for periodic table
- Proton launch delayed 24 hours
- Masten unveils two new reusable suborbital rockets
- North Korea restarts processing of plutonium for nuclear weapons
- Student sues police for fine after refusing Breathalyzer
- “For The Race everything. Outside The Race, nothing.”
- Cake – Short Skirt, Long Jacket
- A sunspot returns to the Sun
- Proton launches successfully
- India’s government proposes ending satellite competition
- Federal court rules against 2nd amendment
- Another Russian rocket, the Proton this time, has underperformed
- Mars’ seasonal dust storms
- The Corrs – Everybody Hurts
- California moves to criminalize journalism
- Battle for communications spectrum between private companies
- Republicans in Congress move to limit civil forfeiture
- Pay cash for healthcare and save a fortune
- Pluto’s jagged shores
- Stuck in part-time work or unemployed? Blame Obamacare
- San Jose police herded Trump supporters into mob
- Auction of silver medals flown on Apollo brings in $800K
- Musk hints details of SpaceX Mars project
- Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries
- Europe develops net gun to capture space junk
- Successful ULA Delta 4 Heavy launch today
- NASA and United Arab Emirates sign space cooperation deal
- Luxembourg purchases 49% stake in Planetary Resources
- Blue Origin will webcast live its next flight of New Shepard
- The liberal response to terrorism: Disarm the innocent!
- Disturbance in Saturn’s outermost ring
- Why I use Linux, part 3
- June 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Insurance premiums skyrocketing due to Obamacare
- Cygnus to depart ISS, then start a fire
- How Its Made – Train Wheels
- Rosetta detects krypton and xenon at Comet 67P/C-G
- Curiosity heads south
- Muslim Democratic Congressman reveals his pro-Islam bias toward murder
- Democrats work to abolish 2nd amendment merely because the FBI suspects you
- Next China lunar lander aimed for farside south pole
- SpaceX to launch again on Wednesday
- McCain agrees to compromise over Atlas 5 Russian engines
- Direct image of exoplanet
- Niamh McGlinchey – Love You ‘Till The End
- Opportunity moves on from Marathon Valley
- University in Michigan drops math while requiring four diversity courses
- June 14, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Another successful Falcon 9 launch
- Muslims celebrate the Orlando mass murder on Twitter
- Russian robot escapes!
- Trump the gun control expert
- Another gravity wave detected by LIGO
- Leftwing filmmaker Michael Moore demands the removal of every elected official who disagrees with him
- Anthony Hopkins & André Rieu – And The Waltz Goes On
- Orbital ATK delays Antares launch until August
- ULA pinpoints cause of Atlas 5 premature shutdown
- Newly discovered asteroid quasi-moon of Earth
- Fire in space
- Kelly describes medical issues from weightlessness
- Global warming skeptic responds bluntly to Democratic subpoena
- Democratic Senator condemns idea of due process
- ExoMars snaps its first images of Mars
- Quincy Coleman – Baby Don’t You Cry (The Pie Song)
- Blue Origin delays New Shepard flight
- Senate to vote Monday on four gun control bills
- Facebook bans gay web magazine for criticizing Islam
- Ten scientific benefits of owning a cat
- June 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Iraqi forces retake Fallujah from ISIS
- The Tenors – My Father’s Son
- Exploring Space in the 21st Century
- GOP congressman defeated in primary because of Obamatrade support
- Russia negotiating with Australian investors to buy SeaLaunch
- Europe announces a three month delay for Orion service module
- Video of fire experiment on Cygnus
- Trump affirms support for denying Americans their second amendment rights
- New Shepard successfully completes fourth flight
- Trump softens tone on gun restrictions
- Backgrounder on June 23 UK vote on EU membership
- Stratolaunch three quarters complete
- The Band – The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
- Florida demands $15K port fee from SpaceX
- Beware new javascript ransomware
- Russia’s continuing weakness in space
- Neil Young – Old Man
- Firefly tests aerospike engine
- Pluto might have subsurface liquid water ocean
- Judge strikes down as illegal Obama fracking regulations
- Another North Korea missile test
- Trump campaign announces Christian advisory board
- UC-Irving bans Republican club for a year
- The Think Tank Culture of Washington
- India today successfully launched 20 commercial satellites on its PSLV rocket
- Damaged Falcon 9 first stage returns to port
- China announces four day launch window for Long March 7’s first launch
- Russia plans 12 person lunar base by 2030
- RINOs in Senate team up with Democrats for gun control push
- Russia in perspective
- New model for Enceladus’s subsurface ocean
- Judy Garland – The Man That Got Away
- California bills man for rescuing family
- Sierra Nevada prepares for Dream Chaser glide tests
- SpaceX’s first stage teaches them how to land on Mars
- The first solar-powered flight across the Atlantic
- Democrats perform sit-in in Congress to protest 5th amendment of Bill of Rights
- Hubble spots new dark storm on Neptune
- Saturn from Cassini
- Colorado university investigates professors for noting alternative opinions
- Hubble lives on!
- Joey Alexander – Over The Rainbow
- UK votes to leave EU
- Atlas 5 successfully launches military communications payload
- Science elites move to block UK exit from EU
- Russia looks to reduce Proton launch costs
- Data manipulation at U.S. Geological Survey science lab
- Sun blank again
- Ceres’s brightest spot
- Blue Cross Blue Shield pulls out of Obamacare in Minnesota
- Angela Hewitt – Claude Debussy’s “Clair de lune”
- June 23, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Getting and Installing Linux
- China launches first Long March 7 rocket, recovers test capsule
- The elite speak!
- Virgin Galactic gets another launch contract
- University of North Carolina publishes guide on squelching free speech
- Why I use Linux, part 3,453,333
- Juno closing in on Jupiter
- Some reasons to keep money out of Paypal
- Democratic Party platform will demand prosecution of global warming skeptics
- 2D Photography – Rube Goldberg Machine
- Moon discovered orbiting Kuiper Belt Object Makemake
- Judge rules No-Fly list unconstitutional
- The howl against democracy
- A Russian space station spun off from ISS?
- NASA approves robot satellite refueling mission
- More Rosetta high resolution images released
- Longest blank sun since 2010
- Orbital ATK test fires SLS solid rocket booster
- Geologists discover giant field of underground helium in Tanzania
- Jim Gaffigan – 4 Kids
- Court rules no warrant needed for police to hack your computer
- June 28, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The 17 equations that changed the world
- Russia looks to develop reusable first stage
- Blue Origin breaks ground on rocket factory
- Sierra Nevada signs deal with UN
- Elite journalist considers murder the appropriate response to Brexit vote
- The fascist nature of the European Union
- June 28, 2016 Zimmerman Space Show appearance
- Blue Cross Blue Shield is losing money nationwide because of Obamacare
- Dawn data suggests recent hydrothermal activity on Ceres
- Oakland city council micromanages the shipping industry
- New evidence that Lois Lerner released confidential taxpayer information illegally
- Glenn Miller Orchestra – Moonlight Serenade
- Our limited understanding of the Martian climate through time
- Rosetta’s finale set for September 30
- Airbus Safran merger completed
- Hubble images Jupiter and its aurora
- Space reporter banned from space news website
- Republicans and Democrats fight to restrict freedoms
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – Sweet Home Alabama
- Juno has entered Jupiter’s magnetic field
- 1.6 million people drop Obamacare in 2016
- California university backs down and reinstates conservative organization
- China’s space plans for the rest of 2016
- ULA reduces its workforce and costs
- Puerto Rico debt restructuring signed into law
- Tennessee makes owner responsible for harm caused by gun-free zone
- NASA okays New Horizons mission extension, rejects Dawn asteroid fly-by
- TSA injures and arrests a disabled teenager, because they can
- Michael McDonald – Hits Medley
- July 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Getting and Installing Linux – Part 2
- Microsoft gives people another reason to dump Windows
- The defense of Little Round Top
- Federal court rules a farmer plowing his land violates Clean Water Act
- The story of the writing of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
- The Declaration of Independence
- The American Revolution, as reported by modern reporters
- Iran reveals the Iran deal facilitated aiming 100,000 missiles at Israel
- European experimental space junk removal mission to launch
- 1776 – Hatching an Egg
- Juno successfully enters orbit around Jupiter
- The fix for Hillary Clinton is IN
- Court rules Obama adminstration can’t use private email accounts to bypass law
- A short but weak solar maximum?
- Another Obamacare co-op to fold
- Grease – We Go Together
- Cubesats to the planets!
- Auction of first published book describing Copernicus’ heliocentric theory
- Weird dunes on Mars
- Curiosity in safe mode
- Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young – Almost Cut My Hair
- Hotel clerk loses her job and might be jailed for reporting suspicious behavior
- July 5, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Upgraded Soyuz capsule launches three astronauts to ISS
- New Hubble image of Crab Nebula
- Balanced rock on Mars
- FAA moves to regulate backyard drone use
- House Freedom Caucus opposes Republican gun control measure
- VA performance worsens with more money
- Obama illegally funding Obamacare, stonewalling Congress
- A planet with three suns
- Most of America’s elite universities do not require history majors to study U.S. history
- State Department reopens investigation into Clinton private server
- Boston Dynamics – Atlas, The Next Generation
- Curious George celebrates Ramadan
- Smallsat market to exceed $22 billion
- July 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Juno turns on
- A description of SLS’s first launch
- MRI software bug invalidates 40,000 research papers
- Permanently shadowed regions on Ceres
- The terrorist murders in Dallas
- A blunt honest appraisal of America today
- New Navy communications satellite in trouble
- TMT likely to abandon Hawaii
- The Avalanches – Frontier Psychiatrist
- Two anti-fracking/anti-oil industry environmental papers retracted
- Another Obamacare co-op folds
- Getting and Installing Linux – Part 3
- Upgraded Soyuz docks with ISS
- Virgin Galactic to resume SpaceShipTwo test flights in 2017
- Vision problems from weightlessness
- Astronomers discover Kuiper Belt object half Pluto’s size
- Curiosity resumes full operations
- Huey Lewis and the News – Workin’ for a livin’
- Sierra Nevada completes first Dream Chaser milestone
- China launches second generation space tracking ship
- Black racism and hate
- Ban AC for DC
- The first Juno picture of Jupiter from orbit
- New Mexico insurance company abandoning Obamacare exchange
- Mary Travers – Follow Me
- Breakthrough on battery life?
- Toilet failure on U.S. segment of ISS
- Rocket Lab gets new launch contract
- July 12, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- ESA contract for hypersonic engine research
- Privately built smallsat designed deep space communications
- Dormant volcano near Rome reawakens
- Why no one should be surprised by AG Lynch’s failure to uphold the law
- Another Obamacare co-op fails
- Trump doesn’t care if Republicans hold Senate
- Paul Mauriat & Orchestra – La pie voleuse
- Iridium’s next generation constellation of satellites
- Angara’s status
- DARPA pushes its Experimental Spaceplane program forward
- More bright spots on Ceres
- Trump picks Pence
- Freedom caucus demands impeachment vote on IRS head
- Route to Balanced Rock
- Trump rally attendees sue San Jose
- Mother, Father, Sister, Brother – The Sound of Philadelphia
- Late Sunday Falcon 9 launch looks good
- Antares launch set for no earlier than August 22
- New Horizons looks back at Pluto
- SLS engine shuts down prematurely during test
- Want to get a close look at the Russian spaceport during a launch? You can!
- A brief history of the nuclear defence triad
- Madeleine Peyroux – Don’t Wait Too Long
- Getting and Installing Linux – Part 4
- SpaceX chooses recovered first stage to reuse
- July 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Another successful Falcon 9 launch
- The rings of Saturn
- New climate model works better, but doesn’t!
- 100 Kepler exoplanet candidates confirmed
- SpaceX seeks two more pads for returning 1st stages
- Reused Dragon cargo capsule to ISS within a year
- New rocket company raising investment capital
- BLM demands removal of police float from gay parade
- Alexei Arkhipovsky – Going Home
- North Korea fires three more missiles
- Japanese military satellite damaged during shipping
- Progress freighter arrives at ISS
- Health insurance rates in California to rise
- Franky Zapata demonstrating his Flyboard Air
- Trump will ask Congress to ease the firing of government workers
- July 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- A glacier on Mars
- International space efforts to double in next decade
- Trump Treasury Secretary to be former Clinton donor and Goldman Sachs banker?
- EPA’s gasoline efficiency tests are garbage
- Nearby exoplanets have Earthlike atmospheres
- Satellite hit by space junk, still operational
- Half of TSA employees cited for misconduct
- France: Windows 10 collects “excessive personal data”
- No 6207 A Study in Steel
- New Shepard aced its landing test
- WIMP detector finds nothing
- The Indian government considers privatization
- Astronaut touts space at Republican convention
- European commission approves Airbus-Safran buy of Arianespace
- Rosetta’s landing site chosen
- Flyboard Air company purchased
- ULA chief says Congress deal clears path to Vulcan
- Trump considers fracking businessman for Energy Secretary
- Cruz’s speech at the convention
- Keith Emerson – Creole Dance
- Humana abandoning Obamacare
- July 21, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Black Lives Matter rejects good will gesture by police
- Trump considers funding super-PACs to defeat Cruz and Kasich in later elections
- New smallsat rocket company plans first launch in 2018
- Danny Kaye – Monahan O’Han
- Getting and Installing Linux – Part 5
- More speculations about Trump’s cabinet
- A good summary of the Wikileaks DNC emails
- Curiosity’s way forward
- Another da Vinci discovery
- Democrats add space language to platform
- No U.S. category 3 hurricanes for more than a decade
- Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds are a girl’s best friend
- Rosetta says goodbye to Philae
- India faces $1 billion in damages for space contract cancellation
- Swedish engineer test flies human-carrying drone
- Hackers devise method to take over wireless keyboards/mouses
- Two different kinds of boos
- Ceres lacks large craters
- The Sun is blank again
- ULA interns launch record-breaking model rocket
- Donna Fargo – Funny Face
- Take a 3D tour of the Apollo 11 capsule
- New smallsat company plans 200 satellite constellation
- “They can’t be real.”
- China unveils world’s largest amphibious plane
- Astrobiologists meet to better their search for exoplanet life
- The pro-Clinton mainstream media, challenged by one guy with a camera
- Landslides in China!
- The Lie that is Orion
- Lower Waterholes Canyon, Arizona
- Great Red Spot hottest spot on Jupiter
- NASA guesses SpaceX’s Dragon-Mars mission will cost $300 million
- GAO warns of more cost overruns for SLS/Orion
- July 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Atlas 5 successfully launches U.S. surveillance satellite
- How Comet 67P/C-G was made
- ExoMars successfully completes long mid-course burn
- Heading directly for Balanced Rock
- “Have you reached your breaking point yet?”
- Documents prove IRS targeted conservatives because of ideology
- Harry Nilsson – As Time Goes By
- SpaceX test fires one of its recovered first stages
- Sierra Nevada preps for Dream Chaser glide tests
- Making a choice in November
- Martian gullies not formed by water flow
- More Junk Science and Journalism
- Success on second SLS static fire engine test
- Ed Sheeran – The Parting Glass
- July 29, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Getting and Installing Linux – Part 6
- Juno swings back towards Jupiter
- Japan’s troubled space agency
- Russia’s troubled new spaceport
- China’s Chang’e 3 finds no water on Moon
- Angara gets a customer
- Top IRS officials approved and supervised harassment of conservatives
- Millennials favor GOP, want Clinton imprisoned
- First Virgin Galactic Unity taxi test
- Roscosmos delays next Proton launch
- Bernadette Peters – Unexpected Song
- NASA delays asteroid redirect mission one year
- A one room fire at SpaceX
- Io’s atmosphere freezes and reinflates daily
- Design problems for Starliner
- Sara Bareilles – Many the Miles
- Outsiders win primaries in Kansas and Missouri
- August 2, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Vector completes suborbital test launch, signs contract
- “News Media Now Giving Trump the ‘Full Palin.’”
- 3rd largest insurer begins retreat from Obamacare
- The interior of Ceres
- Moon Express gets FAA approval for Moon landing
- After 31 months, Jade Rabbit ceases operation
- ULA and SpaceX to compete for GPS launch
- Pete Townshend – Let My Love Open The Door
- North Korea’s space goal: Hit the Moon in five years
- SDO not returning data
- Another reason to avoid Windows
- Three stops on Iceland’s golden circle
- Poll shows Hawaiians strongly favor TMT
- August 4, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Reviewing the history of Jupiter exploration
- New evidence suggest lake once existed in Gale Crater
- Trump reveals economic policy team
- Peggy Lee – Fever
- Sunspot ramp down continues
- Chloe and Jason Roweth – The Wild Colonial Boy
- The mystery of Tabby’s Star deepens
- NASA finalizes more cubesat deals for first SLS launch
- A big Perseid meteor shower on Friday?
- Cruz visits NASA
- A report from Smallsat 2016
- Physicists fail to find sterile neutrino
- Wind erosion on Mars
- Illinois college proud to offer “blacks-only” courses
- Clinton sued by Benghazi families, endorsed by father of Orlando terrorist
- One Year on Earth – Seen From 1 Million Miles
- Rivers of liquid carved deep gorges on Titan
- Deep Space Industries to fly probe to asteroid
- SpaceX prepares to test its next generation rocket engine
- Orbital ATK delays Antares-Cygnus launch until September
- Clinton put State Department up for sale
- Craters on Ceres
- Sondre Lerche – My Hands Are Shaking
- Russia considers reducing its ISS crew
- August 10, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Curiosity prepares to move on
- Jimi Hendrix – Red House
- The landing site for ExoMars’ Schiaparelli lander
- Aerojet Rocketdyne gets NASA contract for cubesat engine
- TMT will probably not go to India
- Russia’s space station faces funding problems
- A fine collection of Rosetta images
- Trump considers John Bolton for Secretary of State
- Heading to the Grand Canyon
- Polio returns to Nigeria
- Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour
- Obama goes after gunsmiths
- SpaceX launches another satellite and recovers another Falcon 9 first stage
- Yutu might still live!
- The Backwards Brain Bicycle
- August 12, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Aetna pulls out of Obamacare
- The status of SLS for its first launch in 2018
- Balanced Rock at last
- The Grand Canyon
- Gloria Gaynor – I will Survive
- Trump’s agriculture advisory panel
- August 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Costs rise on Obama’s asteroid mission
- Russia commits money to research manned lunar mission
- An isolated dune on Mars
- More evidence ULA will pick Blue Origin over Aerojet Rocketdyne
- Dirt roads Omaha’s solution to crumbling roads
- Zager And Evans – In The Year 2525
- SpaceX to up its purchase of carbon fiber?
- China’s biggest rocket ready for shipment
- Lots of launches
- Dave Brubeck – Unsquare Dance
- ULA’s Delta 4 successfully launches two military satellites
- Russia-Boeing settlement in Sea Launch dispute?
- Another establishment Republican endorses Clinton
- EPA never did ethanol studies required by law
- Clinton and aides ignored law requiring ethics training
- Murray Buttes panorama by Curiosity released
- More reasons why I don’t use Windows
- Küzdők
- Astronauts attach new U.S. docking port to ISS
- August 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- SpaceX’s first recovered first stage placed on display
- The world’s longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge
- Russia announces it is building “a super-heavy-class rocket”
- Dione’s global geology
- By 2017 one-third of U.S will have no Obamacare insurance choices
- Beyond Murray Buttes
- Mars’ wet streaks might not be wet
- Contact re-established with dead solar satellite
- Pink Floyd – If
- Lawsuit against Tucson and balloon company to proceed
- Russia reveals its proposed new cargo spacecraft
- Unknown new British company will fly space tourists in five years
- SpaceX tests parachutes for manned Dragon
- The bigots in academia
- Dooley Wilson – Knock on Wood
- China unveils its 2020 Mars lander/rover
- August 23, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- North Korea fires a ballistic missile from submarine
- Fossilized rivers on Mars
- Virgin Galactic, an expert in diversity!
- A visit to OSIRIS-Rex clean room
- Another balanced rock!
- New York college offers class called “StopWhitePeople2k16.”
- Obamacare in Tennessee near collapse
- Earthlike exoplanet discovered orbiting the nearest star
- “Our projections were completely wrong.”
- Baltimore to ignore behavior and homework in school grading
- How to Kiss
- Chinese company agrees to buy Israeli satellite company
- Rosetta photographs outburst on Comet 67P/C-G
- Arianespace sets payload weight record
- More details about Proxima Centauri’s Earthlike exoplanet
- India to test ramjet engine
- A university declares its stand for freedom
- The November Democratic primary expands!
- Federal debt to rise to $28 trillion
- Paul Winter Consort – Icarus
- ULA wins contract to launch 2020 NASA Mars rover
- The Earth’s shifting waters
- Starliner and Orion drop tests
- Changes on Comet 67P/C-G
- Justin Hayward – Forever Autumn
- August 26, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Juno’s closest Jupiter fly-by
- Dragon splashes down
- Concrete poured for Blue Origin factory
- India tests scramjet successfully
- Suggesting Evening Pauses
- The alien buttes of Mars
- Antarctica defies global warming predictions
- New EPA toxic spill in Colorado
- Beautiful and mysterious Saturn
- The evening pause
- New and very distance outer solar system objects beyond Neptune
- ThatCelloGuy – River Flows in You
- Comments down – Fixed
- First relaunch of Falcon 9 1st stage announced
- World record for largest 3D printed object
- Russian hackers attack US election systems
- Obama to ratify Paris climate treaty, bypassing Senate
- Michigan court rules against civil forfeiture
- Richard Feynman explains the Scientific Method
- Third Lunar X-prize competitor signs launch contract
- August 30, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- An update on Stereo-B’s status
- Three professors ban skepticism of human-caused climate change
- DNA sequencing successfully done on ISS
- Big scandal for Virgin Galactic’s investment partner
- Dawn moves to higher orbit around Ceres
- Scientists discover exoplanets orbiting both stars of binary system
- Social Security paid $1.7 million to dead federal workers
- 747 designer dies at 95
- Iran to launch three satellites
- NASA extends Hubble contract through 2021
- The Cleverlys – Single Ladies
- Falcon 9 explodes on launchpad
- The Earth’s oldest fossil?
- Video of Falcon 9 launchpad explosion
- Ahuna Mons, Ceres’s biggest mountain, is an ice volcano
- On the radio
- Tasmin Archer – Sleeping Satellite
- Did China today have a launch failure?
- The surface of Ceres lacks water
- NASA sets InSight’s new launch date to Mars
- Rosetta’s end
- First science results from Juno
- Budget constraints and technical challenges delay commercial crew
- Opportunity’s future travels on Mars
- September 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Richard Thompson – Wall of Death
- Opportunity’s steep downhill path
- New delays for Angara
- Want to buy a used NASA robot? You can!
- China to launch next space station September 15
- Update on Falcon 9 explosion
- Philae found!
- Head of Swiss Space Systems attacked
- Russia completes preliminary design for Progress replacement
- UAE adopts a national space policy
- Sunspots: A recovery in August
- Big money for California air pollution researchers
- North Korea fires three more test missiles
- The cattle business
- The cat who co-authored a physics paper
- Mars rover update
- Federal Dept of Ed forces school to close
- More budget cuts to Russia’s space program
- The Webb Sisters – If It Be Your Will
- September 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- OSIRIS-Rex cleared for launch
- ISS crew returns safely to Earth
- Orion faces more budget and schedule delays
- The dunes of Titan
- The Peasall Sisters – Farther Along
- IRS refuses to stop harassing conservatives
- Rosetta finds carbon molecules in comet dust
- The technology of Star Trek
- India’s GSLV rocket successfully launches again
- Blue Origin to use two launchpads at Cape Canaveral
- The government vs the people of Louisiana
- Obama administration gave Iran as much as $33 billion in cash
- Atlas 5 successfully launches OSIRIS-Rex
- Tina S – Moonlight Sonata, 3rd Movement
- First test captive carry flight for Unity
- Blue Origin to do New Shepard launch abort test
- Arianespace offers to pick up SpaceX business
- Update on the Falcon 9 launchpad explosion investigation
- September 8, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Rosetta’s final descent to Comet 67P/C-G
- The flowing formations of Lethe Vallis
- An attack on Israel coming?
- The people directly hurt by Obamacare rises
- Upcoming lecture in Illinois
- Do you have video of the Falcon 9 explosion? SpaceX needs it!
- Ozric Tentacles – Aura Borealis
- NASA touts Curiosity images of Murray Buttes
- Blue Origin reveals its orbital rocket
- Russians consider building another new rocket
- Statistical analysis suggests Moon can cause quakes
- Louie Schwartzberg – Gratitude
- Blue Origin engine test might delay ULA decision on Vulcan engine
- Russia to expand Proton rocket family
- Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne signs another customer
- Some uncomfortable but valid thoughts about SpaceX
- A Mars Rover Update
- Another Obamacare co-op folds
- John Williams – Theme from Jaws
- More fraud found in Obamacare
- September 13, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Website issue solved
- First Gaia release suggests Milky Way larger than previously thought
- SpaceX aims for November launch
- ULA announces new plan to speed up launches
- SpaceX explosion will not effect its Air Force certification
- Antares return now set for October
- ESA/Airbus Safran deal finalized
- Launched today, Israel military satellite in trouble
- Russian ISS crews to be reduced beginning in spring 2017
- Charles Bolden poo-poos private space
- Court rules EPA violated privacy of farmers and ranchers
- Charon’s red polar region explained?
- Davey Graham – She Moves Through The Fair
- Israelis official think they can save Ofek-11
- China launches its second space station
- Congressman proposes new legislation to better regulate commercial space
- Republican leadership avoids vote on IRS head impeachment
- Four different research papers this year find no evidence linking human activity to sea level rise
- Hubble captures on-going comet break-up
- New evidence of lakes and streams in Mars’ recent past
- Israeli soccer fans prevented from attending game by Palestinian protesters
- Saturn in all its glory
- “Since when is bigotry a foundation for peace?”
- André Rieu – Zorba’s Dance (Sirtaki)
- September 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Arianespace launches 5 satellites with Vega rocket
- Rosetta’s last days
- UN Secretary-General declares climate change debate ‘over’
- Obama meets with health insurance execs in effort to save Obamacare
- Puccini – Madam Butterfly
- Are thousands of Kurds abandoning Islam?
- News media pushes the idea of President Obama demanding and releasing Donald Trump’s tax returns, without his permission
- Atlas 5 launch scrubbed
- Russia postpones September 23 manned Soyuz launch
- Thirty ton meteorite excavated in Argentina
- New Zealand government okays commercial launches by Rocket Lab
- NOAA signs first contract for private weather satellites
- New NASA authorization bill introduced in Senate
- Read the reviews for Hillary Clinton’s new book! Really!
- House votes ease rules for firing VA employees
- Suspicious climate data manipulation at NASA
- Russian government going broke
- Short circuit cause of Soyuz scrub
- Brushfires force another scrub of Atlas 5 launch
- A detailed look at the Russian elections today
- Vandenberg wildfire spreads
- Scientists make guess about origins of Pluto’s nitrogen sea
- Federal agencies question establishment of SpaceX spaceport and three liquefied natural gas plants in Brownsville
- What is happening with Stratolaunch?
- NY/NJ bomber arrested in shootout
- Feds mistakenly grant citizenship to more than 800 potentially dangerous immigrants
- Saturn’s wonderful rings
- The powerless GOP
- Crowded House – Weather with you
- India army suffers largest terrorist attack in decade
- Senior Bush to vote for Clinton
- Putin to revive the KGB
- Manned Soyuz launch delayed until November
- Update on wildfire at Vandenberg
- How cats conquered the world
- Elon Musk’s speech next week to be webcast
- Mars rover update: September 20, 2016
- Orbital ATK aims for October 9-13 Antares launch
- John Moore – Paint It Black
- An avalanche pile on Mars
- Vandenberg wildfire expands to 12,000 acres
- College students using coloring books to ease stress
- Michigan public school official calls first American flag symbol of “exclusion and hate”
- Democrats blame lack of gun control for knife and bomb attacks
- September 20, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- IRS chief John Koskinen makes excuses
- Big warming, or no warming, depending on dataset
- The Known Universe
- Russian engineers locate short circuit problem on Soyuz
- Fire at Vandenberg 70% contained
- Windows 10 breaks computers
- Republican leadership pushes Democrat-approved budget deal
- Nils Lofgren – Dream Big
- Arab columnist discovers that Arab youth admire Hitler
- “War clouds are gathering. A hard rain is soon going to fall.”
- September 22, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Russia to break safety rules to repair Soyuz capsule
- Stratolaunch loses top executive
- The outbursts on Comet 67P/C-G
- Mars’ weird windblown surface
- Puddles Pity Party & Haley Reinhart – Mad World
- On the radio
- SpaceX update on launchpad explosion investigation
- First light for world’s largest radio telescope
- Vandenberg wildfire 90% contained
- PSLV places multiple satellites into different orbits
- SpaceX test fires Raptor engine
- Mercury still geologically active?
- Water plumes on Europa?
- Trump names climate skeptic to transition team
- Dave Brubeck Quartet – Take Five
- Rocket Lab completes construction of first launchpad
- Pathfinder 1 communications confirmed
- Watching Rosetta’s finale
- More delays for Russia’s next ISS module
- An ancient volcanic mountain chain on Mars
- OSIRIS-Rex checks out okay
- Jeff Bezos releases first images of New Glenn prototype
- First computer music recording restored
- Musk’s Mars plan
- Taimaine Gardner – Taimane’s Toccatta by Bach on Ukulele
- Mars rover update: Sept 27, 2016
- Russian airline owner signs deal to buy Sea Launch
- September 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Dream Chaser to fly 14-day UN mission in 2021
- Vandenberg wildfire overview given by base commander
- Roman coins found in Japan
- September 27, 2016 Space Show appearance
- Roy Clark on the Odd Couple
- Archaeologists find stone toilet in religious shrine
- The interior of Comet 67P/C-G
- Keeping the Deep Space Network working
- The end of freedom
- Evgenia Laguna – Fifth Element
- Republican budget deal backed by more House Democrats than Republicans
- Republican Congressmen question SpaceX’s investigation
- SpaceX targets November 17 as next launch date
- Rosetta’s last image
- Airbus imposes management cuts to save money
- Next New Shepard test flight set for October 4
- Office politics delays Russian ISS module
- Black Lives Matter protesters shut down debate at university
- Pakistan threatens India with nuclear attack
- Libertarian VP candidate praises Hillary Clinton
- The Pretenders — I’ ll Stand By You
- Airbus signs first customer for its ISS external platform
- Cash shortage and court problems for Firefly
- Sabotage?
- Dark matter unnecessary?
- September 29, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- A detailed look at SpaceX’s Raptor engine
- Spring Creek – Hello Operator
- On the road
- Curiosity moves on
- Blue Origin test flight scrubbed
- Firefly shuts down
- Not sabotage!
- The mystery of Tabby’s star deepens
- Agriculture Secretary demands Americans reduce their food portions
- Vitas – Opera #2
- Space letter wars in Congress!
- Redesigned Antares launch scheduled for Oct 13
- IRS renews harassment of tea party groups
- October 4, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Success for New Shepard launch abort test
- Predicting the next Martian global dust storm
- Tapping the Maple tree
- Sunspot ramp down resumes
- The childishness sweeping America
- Mars rover update: October 6, 2016
- Ryan Adams with the Cowboy Junkies – 200 More Miles
- Stratolaunch to use Orbital ATK’s Pegasus rocket
- Russia schedules manned Soyuz launch for October 19
- SpaceX offers 10% discount for satellites launched on reused 1st stages
- Hawaii Supreme Court approves solar telescope construction
- October 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Launches at Vandenberg remain suspended due to wildfire damage
- China considers moves against North Korea
- Opportunity to head into Endeavour Crater
- Cristina Gatti – Someday
- Green Bank goes private
- The war with Islam explained
- The arrogance of today’s government class
- The world’s most terrifying car
- Antares launch delayed one day to October 14
- Vandenberg launches will not resume until late October at the earliest
- Cosmic rays a threat to Mars travel
- More madness from our intellectual betters
- Obama makes another empty space commitment
- Antares delayed again, until October 16
- A large Kuiper Belt object discovered
- NASA to offer port on ISS for private modules
- A*Teens – Halfway Around The World
- October 11, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Boeing pushes back first Starliner flights
- Russia gets two contracts for Proton
- TMT considers alternative sites to Hawaii
- Upper Austrian Youth Orchestra – Sebastian, the Cyber Conductor
- The first nation in space?
- Vector Space Systems to open Tucson facility
- More Proton delays
- The Moon gets pounded more than expected
- Breakthrough increases plant yields by one third
- Ten times more galaxies than previously believed
- New power source for planetary missions?
- André Rieu – The Beautiful Blue Danube
- Details on Starliner changes
- No more manned Soyuz purchased by NASA after 2019
- ExoMars 2016 bearing down on Mars
- Kaguya data released at last
- Vanishing Obamacare plans
- The intolerant religion of peace
- Tripp Crosby – Conference Call in Real Life
- Good distractions
- Antares launch delayed by faulty cable
- Problems with Juno’s main engine
- China launches two astronauts on 30-day space station mission
- Schiaparelli lander successfully separates from orbiter
- Used Dragon to fly in 2017
- October 14, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- ExoMars 2016 in detail
- Audrey Hepburn – Moon River
- Antares successfully launches Cygnus
- Vector Space Systems signs $60 million contract
- Mars in ultraviolet
- New comments by Musk on Sept 1 launchpad explosion
- New object found beyond Kuiper belt
- The first Arab space program
- Mars rover update
- The clouds of hot Jupiter exoplanets
- Active volcano on Venus?
- Chinese astronauts dock with station
- Comet 67P/C-G slowly breaking apart
- United States Navy Band – Selections from Jersey Boys
- October 18, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Three astronauts launched to ISS on Soyuz
- Landslides on Charon
- Hydrogen loss on Mars is seasonal
- Juno enters safe mode prior to Jupiter close approach
- Three GOP offices have now been attacked
- Fate of Schiaparelli remains unknown
- Bette Midler – Do You Want To Dance?
- Another failed North Korean missile test
- October 19, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Schiaparelli landing apparently a failure
- Did Opportunity see Schiaparelli?
- Two Trump advisers push for National Space Council
- Iron Horse – Rocketman
- TMT hearing a fiasco
- October 20, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Opportunity did not see Schiaparelli
- Virgin Galactic lawsuit against Firefly moves forward
- Did Viking discover life on Mars?
- MRO images Schiaparelli on Mars
- Celtic Woman – Isle of Inisfree
- Expansion rate of the universe might not be accelerating
- Something in the Kremlin is jamming GPS
- Did fueling procedures cause Falcon 9 launchpad explosion?
- Moon found orbiting one of the larger known Kuiper belt object
- Saturn’s changing north pole
- Science conference accepts fake paper
- Kepler finds exoplanets orbiting dwarf stars
- New map outlines the river basins of the US
- Pentagon demanding return of cash bonuses given to soldiers a decade ago
- Changing seasons on Titan
- Musk answers questions on reddit
- Obamacare premiums skyrocketing again
- Charlene – I’ve Never Been To Me
- Astronomers track Io’s volcanic eruptions
- ISRO begins ground tests of its first lunar lander
- Russia considers using Ukrainian rocket
- Schiaparelli failure focuses in on altimeter data
- The storms of Jupiter’s south pole
- Brownshirts vandalize and attack neighbors’ homes of Republican senator
- London university pockets millions for fake global warming research
- Court awards $197K to Christians
- October 24, 2016 Midnight Ocean Zimmerman appearance
- Tony Bennett – I’m Just A Lucky So And So
- Juno successfully completes engine burn with smaller thrusters
- Vandenberg launches to resume Nov. 6
- Russia and ESA in money dispute
- October 25, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Aggressive SETI observations of Tabby’s star upcoming
- Clinton campaign outlines its space priorities
- The effect of weightlessness on the spine
- Vandal destroys Trump’s Hollywood sidewalk star
- Berkeley students block pedestrian bridge to whites
- Defense Secretary suspends Pentagon’s demand that soldiers repay bonuses
- Peter Green & Carlos Santana- Black Magic Woman
- Chinese smallsat snaps pictures of Chinese space station
- Designing a propulsion system for cubesats
- Birds that can fly practically forever
- Russia to test components of nuclear engine on ISS
- NASA’s headquarters sold
- Spacesuit problem from January declared solved
- New details emerge of Schiaparelli crash site
- Police arrest man who destroyed Trump’s sidewalk star
- October 25, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor short podcast
- New Horizons returns the last data from Pluto fly-by
- Ghetto Kids Dancing – Sitya Loss
- October 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- SES financial report
- SLS schedule changes impending
- NASA solar weather satellite in trouble
- U.S. marshals attack lawyer in Bundy case
- “This year, my premium is going up 96 percent. Ninety-six percent.”
- More climate fear-mongering
- SpaceX update on Sept 1Falcon 9 launchpad explosion
- Want to see an Ariane 5 launch in French Guiana? You can!
- Resonance experiment
- Commercial space industry meets to set its own safety standards
- Kim Jong-un orders investigation into missile failures
- Boeing patents concept for vertical take-off commercial jet
- Virgin Galactic to begin glide tests of Unity
- “Academic freedom: It’s great, as long as you don’t use it.”
- Saturn from above
- Modern college students think America invented slavery
- It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown
- TMT consortium picks Canary Islands as alternative site to Hawaii
- Christopher Cross – Arthur’s Theme
- Virgin Galactic glide test cancelled due to winds
- China company to launch suborbital tourists by 2020
- Mars rover update: November 3, 2016
- George Carlin on language of politics
- Curiosity finds a meteorite
- China’s new big rocket set for launch Thursday
- China’s smallsat rocket scheduled for first launch in December
- November 2, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Long March 5 successfully launched
- Atlas 5 Vandenberg launch delayed again
- Virgin Galactic releases Unity test flight program
- SpaceX may lose a customer payload
- MRO color images of Schiaparelli crash site
- The Origins of Slavery in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century
- North Korean children on the guitar
- November 3, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Atlas 5 to launch Cygnus in March
- Midland spaceport approved as Dream Chaser landing site
- Luxembourg invests $28 million into asteroid mining company
- Vector teams up with private company for low-cost launch tracking capability
- Unity glide test scrubbed in flight
- High school student suspended for wearing “Hillary for Prison” t-shirt
- Largest Texas meteorite ever found by accident on dude ranch
- IRS harassment of conservatives continues
- Jury rules against Rolling Stone in gang rape story
- Musk predicts mid-December return to flight
- Matt Monro – Born free
- November 4, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Decline in sunspots continues
- The Script – Superheroes
- Orion faces more delays
- Using the X-37B as a space ambulance?
- The Star-Spangled Banner
- The moderate Democrat wins
- Clinton supporters issue death threats and riot
- November 8, 2016 Batchelor/McCotter/Rose/Zimmerman podcast
- More death threats against Trump
- Natalija Havralenko – In A Sentimental Mood
- Anti-Trump protesters vandalize Richmond Republican headquarters
- Colorado voters reject single payer Obamacare clone by 80%
- Russians to put first centrifuge on ISS
- Europe and Airbus Safran ink deal to build Ariane 6
- The pushback against Trump begins
- Will Republicans and Trump reduce the budget? Maybe not!
- A list of potential Trump cabinet picks
- Diver accidently finds long-lost nuclear bomb
- ““Die whites die”
- Henry De Winter and the Bratislava Hot Serenaders – Livin’ in the Sunlight, Lovin’ in the Moonlight
- NASA considers alternatives to Orion
- A list of potential Trump staffers
- ULA Atlas 5 launches successfully from Vandenberg
- Angles and Dangles on the USS Pasadena
- November 11, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Chicago Cubs are being forced to give up their World Series title
- “Kill the police!”
- Oxo Crater on Ceres
- Oregon official who destroyed Christian bakery loses election
- IRS denies tea party groups tax-exempt status
- Mars rover update: November 14, 2016
- Roger Whittaker – The Last Farewell
- The Fact and Fiction of the NASA EmDrive Paper Leak
- Chinese astronauts to return to Earth this week
- First images from Pathfinder-1 test smallsat released
- Luxembourg establishes its own legal framework for asteroid mining
- DARPA tests anti-terrorist radiation detection network
- Pro-Israel artist threatened with prison for posting posters at university
- Three things Trump can do to strengthen the 2nd amendment
- House Republicans to vote on ending ban on earmarks
- House passes new tax on concrete companies
- Tine Thing Helseth – Libertango
- TMT legal case in Hawaii gets messier
- November 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Problems with Russia force private company to deemphasize ISS cameras
- Software issues threaten Orion/SLS schedule
- Stereo images of Schiaparelli crash site
- Nebraska bans civil forfeiture without a criminal conviction
- The American city-rural political divide
- November 15, 2016 Space Show appearance
- Ryan stops vote on earmarks
- OutKast – Hey Ya!
- SpaceX files FCC application for 4000+ internet satellite constellation
- New conclusions about Pluto from New Horizons data
- No Trump NASA transition team yet
- Explosion at SpaceX test site part of launchpad investigation
- Another Vostochny criminal case opened
- Scientists puzzle over possible connection between a fast radio burst and a gamma ray burst
- Astronauts going up and down from different space stations
- Boeing and Russia to partner on building lunar space station?
- Buckethead – Big Sur Moon
- “You are still crying wolf.”
- November 17, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- China’s Shenzhou-11 returns two astronauts safely to Earth
- NASA global warming advocate Gavin Schmidt fights back
- Boeing files FCC application for 3,000 satellite constellation
- Drilling at the Chicxulub impact site has unveiled the crater’s shape
- Ceres’ cratered surface
- Obamacare Medicaid expansion to overwhelm state budgets
- Florence Lacey – It Only Takes a Moment
- UAE sheikh okays next phase in Mars mission
- Atlas 5 launches NOAA weather satellite
- Russia postpones Proton launch again
- Cygnus leaves ISS
- Mark Wills – Jacob’s Ladder
- An update on the Bigelow inflatable module on ISS
- Democrats look in all the wrong places to explain their losses
- Massachusetts college bans American flag
- The worst fake news stories in the past few decades
- Judge blocks illegal Obama overtime rule
- Micah Tyler – You’ve Gotta Love Millennials
- SpaceX wins NASA satellite launch contract
- Donor pulls funds from Hawaii college for Trump protest
- A lawsuit that could end all federal gun regulations
- New Defense directive permits concealed carry on bases
- November 22, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Off to Death Valley
- John Mellencamp – Longest Days
- Improvisation at the train station in Paris
- Andrew Danube – A medley of piano music
- Back from Death Valley
- Rocket Lab delays first rocket test flights
- Software error caused Schiaparelli crash
- SpaceX to launch EchoStar satellite in early January
- Canyoneering in Death Valley
- Artists Of Then, Now & Forever – Forever Country
- Possible cause of microgravity vision problems identified
- Autistic boy disqualified from victory because he swam too fast
- ExoMars’ Trace Gas Orbiter takes first pictures
- Drilling for the oldest ice
- Dispute in ESA over Schiaparelli failure
- Trump picks two for overhauling Obamacare
- Trump picks pro-voucher conservative for Education Secretary
- ISS Fisheye Fly-Through
- Trump and the Republican establishment team up
- Another Google Lunar X-Prize team secures launch contract
- New Chinese launch company gets its first customer
- U.S. and China top Russia for most launches in 2016
- New ULA website allows customers to configure their launch
- The science lobby looks at Trump’s pick for Health Secretary
- Trump picks NASA transition team leader
- Airbus to slash more than a 1,000 jobs to cut costs
- Russia sets budget for Vostochny through 2019
- Democrats pick Pelosi again
- November 27, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Modest Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition
- LIGO 25% more sensitive
- Russia Progress freighter lost during launch
- Buzz Aldrin evacuated from South Pole due to health issue
- Megan Lee – Winter Wonderland
- SpaceX sets Dec 16 for next launch
- Cygnus fire experiments a success
- December 1, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- New astronomy webpage and grants devoted to next year’s eclipse
- Fourth Google Lunar X-Prize team gets launch deal
- Japan developing small rocket for commercial smallsats
- Japanese company developing suborbital mini-shuttle
- Aldrin condition stable
- Another captive carry flight test of Virgin Galactic’s Unity
- Hampshire College ends ban on U.S. flag
- Trump initial agenda includes Obamacare repeal and “fundamental tax reform”
- ESA approves ExoMars 2020 funding
- Mark Knopfler – Brothers in arms
- Cause of Progress failure unlikely to be found
- The beginning of Cassini’s final year at Saturn
- The ever shrinking and delayed Orion/SLS
- Why we have Trump
- Unity successfully completes its first glide flight
- Altitude sickness caused Buzz Aldrin’s Antarctic health problems
- How Bush after 9/11 overwhelmed Al-Qaeda
- Vega launches a Turkish commercial smallsat
- Another Russian Roscosmos official arrested
- Russian authorities locate Progress debris
- Cassini makes its first close ring flyby of Saturn
- Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are
- “Researchers baffled by nationalist surge”
- Drill issues at Curiosity
- NASA awards contract for satellite refueling mission
- Pentagon buries report documenting $125 billion of waste
- SpaceX to delay December 16 launch
- Sunspot activity continues to drop
- Susan Boyle with Libera – In the Bleak Midwinter
- First images from Cassini’s first Saturn ring flyby
- ExoMars’ Trace Gas Orbiter images Phobos
- Republican Congress passes National Park bill that raises fees
- India successfully launches Indian Earth resource satellite
- UAE to issue national laws to facilitate space tourism and exploration
- Update on Blue Origin’s new rocket factory
- Dispute in Russia over Progress failure investigation
- December 6, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Upcoming lectures
- Trump picks oil industry ally and global warming skeptic for EPA
- USGS responds to Congressional inquiry about data tampering with blank documents
- Successful Delta 4 launch of Air Force satellite
- The weird south pole of Mars
- STAR WARS Stormtrooper VS. Fort Worth Police Officer!
- John Glenn hospitalized
- SpaceX confirms its next launch will be in early January
- Europe commits to a second service module for Orion
- Design flaw in India’s Mars Orbiter
- Two new studies say different things about Greenland’s icecap history
- SpaceX’s loses launch contract due to scheduling delays
- Details revealed about Trump’s space policy?
- December 7, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- John Glenn has passed away at 95
- Mars rover update: December 8, 2016
- Christmas in Hollis Carpool Karaoke
- December 8, 2016 Zimmeman/Batchelor podcast
- Japan successfully launches its ISS cargo freighter
- The present strengths and limits to North Korea’s nuclear missile capabilities
- Dutch rightwing politician convicted by court for expressing anti-immigration opinions
- Jupiter’s chaotic storms
- China preparing for anti-satellite test?
- More members of Trump’s NASA transition team named
- Juno’s upcoming December 11 Jupiter flyby
- Democratic Senators force short government shutdown
- Sammy Hagar – Eagles Fly
- December 9, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- First dinosaur tail found, preserved in amber
- India hires private companies to build satellite
- Curiosity cleared to move but not drill
- Update on Progress/Soyuz launch failure
- Did a giant black hole eat a star?
- Pennsylvania college students replace Shakespeare portrait with black author
- OSIRIS-REx to search for Earth’s Trojan asteroids
- SpaceX pushes back first manned Dragon flight
- Miyako Arishima – Nocturne in G major Op. 37 No. 2
- Another Obamacare co-op shuts down
- Drill issue stalls Curiosity again
- Shonen Knife – Sweet Christmas
- In Santa Barbara
- Juno completes third Jupiter flyby
- Rocket Lab rocket ready for first test flights
- Louis Armstrong – When The Saints Go Marching In
- NASA begs out of first SpaceX’s Mars mission
- Obamacare subsidies to go up almost $10 billion next year
- Back from Vandenberg
- Lots of ice on Ceres
- Joe Satriani – Midnight
- Flying over Occator Crater on Ceres
- December 15, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Orbital ATK’s Pegasus launches successfully
- Judge: NASA cannot confiscate an Apollo 11 artifact that was sold by mistake
- Vector successfully test fires its rocket engine
- Lunar lava tubes could be big
- President of Cornell College Republican club attacked
- How the new Congress will repeal Obamacare
- Four richest counties are all suburbs of DC
- The Space Show annual fund-raising campaign
- The first powered flight
- Another successful ULA Atlas 5 launch
- Proton launch postponed again
- Swiss Space Systems declared bankrupt
- China’s Chang’e-3 lunar lander still working after three years on the Moon
- December 16, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Death threats and harassment from Democrats to members of Electoral College
- Betelgeuse might have eaten a star
- Joe Journeys – Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood, Saint Petersburg, Russia
- OneWeb raises $1.2 billion in investment capital
- John Glenn and Charles Lindbergh
- Japan’s Epsilon rocket launches successfully
- “Anomalous readings” detected during testing of Webb telescope
- JAXA signs agreement with private lunar mining company
- The squealing of pigs
- Pressure on Trump to shift NASA transistion team towards private space
- Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan – El Pastor
- “The oldest computer (not) on Earth.”
- On the radio
- A review of Trump’s current cabinet picks
- December 20, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Russia conducts anti-satellite missile test
- Fifth Google Lunar X-Prize team gets launch deal
- What happened at SpaceX the first time they landed a first stage
- Computer modeling suggests light fluctuations at Tabby’s Star are natural
- December 20, 2016 Space Show appearance
- A Very Murray Christmas – Fairytale of New York
- Leftist and Muslim student organizations make demands at University of Maryland
- December 21, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- China and the UN open future Chinese space station to international research
- Fatal clinical drug trial failed because company did not review all data
- Close-up of Pandora
- Lace on Mars
- Pentagon makes believe Iran isn’t using $1.7 billion for military
- Fake Hate Crimes
- EPA only archived 86 out of 3.1 million agency texts in 2015
- Mars rover update: December 22, 2016
- Gloria Estefan – Turn the Beat Around
- Trump puts Boeing and Lockheed Martin in competition!
- ESA signs contract for construction of its part of ExoMars 2020
- A rover review of 2016
- Lobbying for the Moon
- Second successful glide test for Unity
- U.S. tests anti-missile interceptors
- The recent changes in Earth’s magnetic field
- George Washington University drops American history requirement
- Rod Stewart – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- Russia once again postpones next Proton launch
- December 23, 2016 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Kaylee Rodgers & Killard House Special School – Hallelujah
- A Christmas Carol
- Ben Abraham and Guests – O come, O come, Emmanuel
- NASA estimates one month to address Webb vibration issues
- Adam Shugar – Hanukkah Overture for String Orchestra and Clarinet
- Vera Rubin R.I.P.
- China outlines its next five years in space
- CUFI Cornerstone Singers – Hava Nagila Texas Style
- Venezuela: the bankruptcy of socialism and modern intellectualism
- Chinese rocket fails to put two satellites into correct orbits
- Trump interested in lunar manned mission?
- California history professor wants to bar climate skeptics from internet
- 100 Years of Men’s Fashion: New Year’s Style
- Obama and the UN vs Israel and the Free World
- Debbie Reynolds – I Ain’t Down Yet
- Republicans consider delaying Obamacare repeal
- Debris inside Curiosity drill might be cause of problem
- Colleges in California and New York ranked #1 and #2 as the most anti-Semitic
- Ørkenens sønner – Dance in the fog
- California Democrats legalize child prostitution
- Robot lie detector being tested by Canada
- SpaceX preps for next launch
- EPA moves to punish Alaskans for burning wood to heat their homes
- EPA moves to regulate key pizza ingredients
- The upcoming Israeli response to the UN and Obama attacks
- Johann Strauss Sr. – Radetzky March
- Prime-time audiences drop by double-digits in 2016
- The fall of the USSR, as seen by a witness
- Republicans offer two meaningless resolutions condemning UN-Israel resolution
- U.S. wins launch scorecard for 2016
- The real margin of error for polls
- SpaceX plans Jan 8 launch
- An igloo on Mars?
- Study reveals that today’s elites cluster in out-of-touch urban bubbles
- A New Year
- Update into into Dec 1 Progress failure investigation
- Curiosity looks at Mount Sharp
- House moves to weaken its ethics panel
- It’s Still a Mad, Mad California
- First sunspot for the next solar cycle spotted
- 94% of all new jobs under Obama part time
- Another Boston Dynamics robot video
- New Republican bill to move U.S. embassy to Jerusalem
- U2 – New Years Day
- NASA awards more operational manned missions to SpaceX and Boeing
- Republicans introduce first measure for repealing Obamacare
- The competition heats up
- January 3, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- NASA approves two new asteroid missions
- House passes bill to cancel all regulations created during Obama’s lame duck rule
- BLR – iDiots
- Astronomers identify for the first time the source of a fast radio burst
- Launch of joint NOAA/NASA weather satellite delayed again
- January 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- SpaceX launch delayed until Monday
- Arianespace wins two contracts, aims for a dozen launches in 2017
- India considers going to Jupiter and Venus
- Republicans prepare legislation to defund UN
- Corzine fined $5 million for stealing $1 billion
- Leonid & Friends – Chicago’s 25 or 6 to 4
- Trump does a clean sweep of all politically appointed ambassadors
- House passes bill requiring Congressional approval for major regulations
- Astronomers predict binary stellar merger in 2022
- Could Venus’ atmospheric dark streaks be life? Mission proposes to find out
- Obamacare: The Republican strategy of partial repeal vs full repeal
- Hubble takes a look at both Voyagers’ interstellar path
- A feudal and isolated California
- The Earth and Moon, as seen from Mars
- GOP schedules six confirmation hearings for one day
- Bohemian Rhapsody on 111-year-old organ
- FAA okays SpaceX launch on Monday
- Handicapping Trump’s Supreme Court pick
- January 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- January 6, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- SpaceX launch delayed to January 14 due to weather
- Memories of Arthur Clarke
- Herschel Crater on Mimas
- Famous sequoia tree falls
- Republicans moving to restore earmarks
- The sunspot crash continues
- Olivia Newton-John – Take me home Country Roads
- China’s Kuaizhou rocket launches first commercial payload
- Pentagon test flies a swarm of 100 micro-drones
- Could Tabby’s Star have eaten a planet?
- The status of telescopes the NSF is getting rid of
- Japan unveils new small rocket
- Utah climate scientists whine about possible NASA cuts
- Private money to VLT to search for Earthlike planets at Alpha Centauri
- Coordinated bomb threats against Jewish schools and community centers
- Luciano Pavarotti – Ave Maria
- Japanese SS-520 rocket launch scrubbed due to weather
- The X-37B flies on
- January 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The raging storms of Jupiter’s south pole
- Launch industry trends, based on recent history
- Russians complete investigation into Progress launch failure
- These Gears Really Work?
- SpaceX to land both Falcon Heavy first stages and Dragon at Cape Canaveral
- January 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- A centrifuge costing 20 cents based on a toy
- Senate passes Obamacare partial repeal
- Leftist organization organizes boycotts of many companies for Trump support
- Berkeley professors demand silencing of dissent
- January 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Noory podcast
- Jon Lord – Miles Away
- NASA asteroid redirect mission delayed again
- NASA names acting administrator
- “We do see ourselves as preventing a peaceful transition of power.”
- House approves Senate budget resolution repealing Obamacare
- Joss Stone – Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye
- Moon Express completes funding for Google X-Prize lunar mission
- Yannapoulos speech canceled because of violent protesters
- January 13, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Pakistan test fires a submarine-launched cruise missile
- SpaceX is flying again
- Japan’s SS-520 launch a failure
- “We have waited for you for a very long time.”
- Private Chinese rocket company gets launch contract
- Preparing to dive into Saturn’s rings
- Gene Cernan, 82, has passed away
- Video of leftists planning terrorist acts during Inauguration events
- Kara : a PS3 new technology
- Head of ethics office Obama supporter
- Inaugural event organizer to bring charges against leftists for their terrorism threats
- ULA Atlas 5 launch delayed
- Big money offered to protest Trump
- Some background on leftist terrorist Colin Dunn
- School fires employee for correcting spelling error
- Second video released of planned violent protests at inauguration
- Curiosity spots cracks formed from drying mud
- ABBA – Waterloo
- Russians to replace Soyuz engines for next few launches
- Boeing obtains available seats on Soyuz as result of Sea Launch settlement
- Recovered Falcon 9 1st stage arrives in Los Angeles
- January 17, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- SpaceX prepares used 1st stage for February launch
- ELT construction moves forward
- Cause of vision problems in space pinpointed?
- Akatsuki discovers a giant wave in Venus’ upper atmosphere
- 18 Jewish organizations hit with second wave of bomb threats today
- Mars rover update: January 18, 2017
- Carion Quintet – Jacques Ibert’s trois pièces brèves, I. allegro
- Atomic clocks on 9 of 72 European GPS satellites have failed
- India delays next launch of its largest rocket
- Chris Hadfield, Barenaked Ladies, the Wexford Gleeks – I.S.S. (Is Somebody Singing)
- Bigelow proposes extending life of its ISS module beyond its two year demo
- Anti-Trump protesters riot in DC
- Judy Collins – The Blizzard
- Planes flying at high latitudes can travel through clouds of high cosmic radiation
- January 20, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Trump’s 1st NASA appointees suggest future policy
- Chinese lunar sample return mission set for November
- Major budget cuts and agency eliminations coming from Trump?
- Baby it’s cold outside
- Proton launch delayed again, possibly for months
- Japan launches first military satellite
- Lennon and Maisy – Ho Hey
- Trump shuts down public communications at numerous federal agencies
- Project Veritas videos lead to one arrest
- A 1960 Soviet-era vision of the U.S.S.R. in 2017
- January 24, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Newly discovered quality control problems ground Russia’s Proton
- Google Lunar X-Prize finalists named
- Giant networks of fake twitter users discovered
- Trump threatens to “send in the Feds” to control Chicago violence
- A Saturn moon makes waves
- Trump “clamp down” no different than past transitions
- Jay Proctor (Jay & the Techniques) – Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie
- Boeing unveils its spacesuit for Starliner missions
- Webb telescope vibration tests resume
- Clock problems on one of India’s GPS satellites
- UAE’S 2020 Mars mission still on schedule
- Upper stage engine test of India’s GSLV
- Jupiter’s Little Red Spot
- Trump’s top five picks for Supreme Court
- New measurements of the universe’s expansion rate
- John Denver – I Remember You
- Dream Chaser arrives at Edwards for testing
- 85% of the world’s governments are corrupt
- Fifty years ago today: the Apollo 1 launchpad fire
- ISS twin study suggests weightlessness stresses the body in unexpected ways
- Have scientists produced a speck of solid metallic hydrogen?
- A Martian sinkhole
- Making a Linux laptop
- Tina Arena & Kane Alexander – I Want To Spend My Lifetime Loving You
- Soyuz launches successfully from French Guiana
- Next Falcon 9 launch delayed as SpaceX rearranges manifest
- A review of Trump’s first 17 executive orders
- Iran tests ballistic missile despite UN ban
- New close-ups of Saturn’s rings
- Elon Musk’s design vision
- Trump fires acting AG for refusing to defend his executive order on immigration
- India to launch spare GPS satellite because of single satellite failure
- A review of 2016 launches
- China tests long-range missile carrying 10 warheads
- “We need to start killing people.”
- Dan Licht – Dexter Suite
- Gorsuch picked by Trump for Supreme Court
- Some radioisotope dating might be overestimating the age of samples
- Japanese experiment to remove space junk fails
- U.S. 2020 Mars rover faces delays
- SpaceX to double leased space at Los Angeles port
- January 31, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Plotting the interstellar path to Proxima Centauri
- Recovered Falcon 9 first stage prepped for launch
- Government-owned Alaska Aerospace considers second spaceport
- SpaceX gets an eighth Iridium launch
- The private weather industry moves forward
- Almost 200 federal workers to take “civil disobedience” class
- How government wrecked the gas can
- The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
- New Horizons adjusts its course
- Russian prosecutors indict four rocket engineers for Proton failure
- ESA commits $91 million to reusable rocket engine development
- Russia proposes increased space cooperation with the U.S.
- Violent rioters shut down free speech at UC-Berkeley
- Curiosity’s drill remains out of commission
- A robot that imitates the flight of bats
- Juno’s next Jupiter fly-by today
- UAE considers initiating its own manned space program
- The vanishing volcanoes of Ceres
- Iran officials thumb their noses at Trump
- The ships of Hanjin six months after it went bankrupt
- More new robots from Boston Dynamics
- February 2, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Tyrone Wells – Beautiful Girl, Beautiful World
- Congressional report worries over Falcon 9 engine cracks
- Protesters attack and shut down lecturer at NYU
- Congress moves to overturn numerous Obama regulations
- Judge strikes down Tucson/Worldview spaceport deal
- Russia sets early April for next Proton launch
- ULA to trim workforce again
- Strange beat-up Martian terrain
- The fascist face of the left
- How past fascist dictators took power
- Man wearing Trump hat assaulted at Berkeley today
- Jean Redpath – How Can I Keep from Singing
- February 3, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Anti-Trump protesters block ambulance with critically-ill patient
- Whistleblower exposes climate data manipulation at NOAA
- At Jupiter reality imitates art
- Obamacare numbers continue to tank
- The Sun turns
- New Curiosity data leaves scientists baffled about past evidence of water
- The wit of Ronald Reagan
- Democratic party leaders endorse obstruction as political tool
- NanoRacks and Boeing to build private airlock on ISS
- Milo Yiannopoulos plans to return to UC-Berkeley
- The fascist and violent intentions of the left
- Educated Fish
- UC-Berkeley student newspaper publishes essays praising riots
- February 7, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- NASA SLS/Orion facility in Louisiana sustains tornado damage
- An orbital change extends the life of India’s Mars orbiter
- Democrats in Pima County vote to appeal World View court decision
- Orbital ATK sues DARPA over its satellite repair program
- Trump jokes about “destroying” Texas politician
- EPA employees protest Trump pick for agency head
- How Differential Gear works
- SpaceX sets February 18 for next Falcon 9 launch
- Iran tests short range missile
- February 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The Warning – Enter Sandman
- Birthday bleg time again!
- Lockheed Martin screwup delays delivery of Air Force GPS satellites
- Trump to the Moon!
- UK commits £10 million to space development
- China to test unmanned space freighter in April
- Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner
- February 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- NASA narrows to three the Mars rover landing sites in 2020
- North Korea test fires another ballistic missile
- Black Lives Matter co-founder advocates black supremacy and genocide of whites
- “For the first time in my adult life, I was outside of the liberal bubble and looking in.”
- New Horizons enters safe mode
- SpaceX successfully completes Falcon 9 static fire test
- American citizen detained and forced by Customs to unlock his JPL secure phone
- Orbital ATK prepares Cape Canaveral launchpad for July Minotaur launch
- Japan to try another launch of low-cost mini-rocket
- A glimpse at China’s unmanned cargo freighter
- NSF voids punishment of scientists who committed plagiarism and data fabrication
- Hunting Javelinas
- Olivia Millerschin – Look Both Ways
- Heart risks from secondhand smoke completely bogus
- X-37B about to land?
- A comet breaks apart
- Countdown begins on India’s record-setting launch of 104 satellites
- Short circuit caused launch failure of Japanese mini-rocket
- The international government effort to come up with a cis-lunar ISS
- Mars rover update: February 14, 2017
- Maybe the Earth’s magnetic field is not weakening
- Freedom Caucus to push for swift Obamacare repeal
- Join the Snowflake Squadron!
- John Paul Young – Love Is In The Air
- February 14, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- India launches record 104 satellites at one go
- Capitalism in Space to be released early next week
- NASA considers putting astronauts on first SLS/Orion flight
- The Feather King
- February 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- India preparing rover for 2018 Moon landing
- Rocket Lab delivers first test rocket to launch site
- Two congressmen propose naming SLS for astronaut Gene Cernan
- Republican leaders propose Obamacare revisions
- Weather threatens Saturday Falcon 9 launch
- UAE proposes building Martian city within a century
- George Jones – The Grand Tour
- Dawn finds organics on Ceres
- Killing both commercial space and American astronauts
- The consequences of leftwing censorship
- Tilleson starts State Department purge
- February 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Juno to remain in 53-day orbit
- Mexico’s supermarket dancing cow
- SpaceX launches Dragon and lands first stage
- SpaceX delays first Dragon Mars mission to 2020
- China suspends coal purchases from North Korea
- Janet Devlin – Time After Time
- Another nationwide wave of bomb theats against Jewish facilities
- India’s space agency wants to build a space station
- ULA lets the press see part of SLS
- UC-Berkeley and Google looking for amateur images of upcoming August eclipse
- High School band to exclude whites in its music selection
- Senate passes NASA budget that slashes environment spending
- “This is how socialism always ends.”
- Testing of Virgin Galactic’s LauncherOne first stage engine
- Pan Am Boeing 707 – 1965 Emergency Landing
- Scientists propose new planet definition that reinstates Pluto
- Polar bear populations continue to grow and thrive
- Off to Belize
- Last Soyuz-U launches Progress to ISS
- Dragon aborts berthing with ISS
- Sea Launch deal finalized?
- A solar system of exoEarths!
- Daniel Boaventura & Carlos Rivera – Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps (Quizás, Quizás, Quizás)
- Aerojet Rocketdyne sets record testing new rocket engine
- NASA signs technology development contracts with eight companies
- February 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Aaron Copland – Fanfare For The Common Man
- Dragon safely berths at ISS one day late
- India’s government a barrier to private space
- The life of Robert Mitchum
- February 23, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Caving all day
- New auto-destruct system to increase launch rate
- Unity completes third glide test
- The Champs – Tequila
- Gustav Holst – Jupiter from The Planets
- Heading Home
- NASA buys Soyuz seats from Boeing
- Carrot harvester
- China considering multi-asteroid mission
- The oldest fossils ever?
- The winds of Mars
- Bigelow advocates his space stations for lunar missions
- The tampering of climate data at NOAA and NASA
- Asteroid breaks in two, each piece develops a tail
- Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
- China completes construction of space station core module
- SpaceX loses 89 smallsats due to delays
- China launches smallsat on new rocket
- Virgin Galactic spins off LauncherOne into its own division
- Blue Origin proposes unmanned lunar mission
- March 2, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Police arrest former journalist for bomb threats against Jewish centers
- College Republicans at Berkeley-UC continue to be threatened
- Two of five cameras on Japan’s Venus orbiter Akatsuki shut down
- Fascist protesters attack professor and speaker at Vermont college
- A propeller in Saturn’s A ring
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe – Didn’t It Rain
- 44 days for first round of hearings on TMT
- Cuts to NOAA, EPA, and the environmental bureaucracy
- New commercial proposals for launching almost 15,000 satellites
- TSA to make pat-downs more “intimate”
- Democrats make no gains in special elections
- March 3, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- North Korea test fires four ballistic missiles
- Scientists estimate age of bright spots in Occator Crater on Ceres
- Automated factory to build smallsats
- Japan passes its own commercial space law
- Russia puts four engineers on trial for Proton launch failure
- Sunspot update for February 2017
- Scandal – Goodbye To You
- Vega launches European research satellite
- Dream Chaser flight tests upcoming
- Blue Origin unveils first completed BE-4 rocket engine
- Republican leadership endorses Obamacare
- House approves NASA authorization
- Boeing 747 brake test
- Blue Origin gets its first orbital customer
- A Kuwaiti space agency?
- Anti-Trump protesters who threatened violence during inauguration get off scott free
- A Ted Cruz telecon
- Local Vermont voters dump mayor who pushed accepting refugees
- At the crest
- March 7, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Noble Sissle and his Ciro’s club dance orchestra – Little White Lies/Happy Feet
- Blue Origin signs second contract for New Glenn
- Rand Paul introduces his Obamacare replacement
- Meet the fascist professors at Middlebury College
- March 9, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Walk off the Earth – Somebody that I used to know
- Stratolaunch to fly in 2017?
- Congress micromanages rocket development at ULA
- Saturn’s weird moon Pan
- Sessions asks all remaining attorneys appointed by Obama to resign
- The Key of Awesome – Somebody that I use to know parody
- Lockheed Martin abandons Athena rocket
- Decision on new Orbital ATK rocket expected in 2018
- Parachute tests for Boeing Starliner
- New York dumps literacy tests for teachers
- Crosby, Stills & Nash – Marrakesh Express
- Microsoft inserts ads in Windows 10
- University removes weight scale from gym because TRIGGER
- Weather delays Falcon 9 launch till Thursday
- Engineer invents teabag dunking machine
- Ukraine-Canadian partnership to launch from Nova Scotia
- March 13, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Last Super Fortress B-29 takes to the air
- SpaceX wins another Air Force launch contract
- House leans to less regulation of commercial space
- Minneapolis: another American city destroyed by Democrats
- Titan’s fizzy oceans?
- March 14, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Jack Bruce – I Feel Free
- Less evidence of dark matter in early universe
- SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite
- Want to watch a nuclear bomb go off? You can!
- Trump budget proposal
- March 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor/Livingston podcast
- The math hidden in Van Gogh’s Starry Night
- Europe’s Trace Gas Orbiter has passed its check out
- OneWeb breaks ground on satellite factory
- The terrorist protesters in North Dakota
- Japan launches military satellite
- The layered mesas of Mars
- March 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Faron Young – Sweet Dreams
- Capitalism in Space:
Private Enterprise and Competition Reshape the Global Aerospace Launch Industry - College eliminates English and math placement tests
- Conservatives “violently threatened” at Lutheran college
- Ariane 5 launch delayed by labor strike
- Tom Jobim – Waters of March/Águas de Março
- SpaceX signs lease for Florida warehouse to refurbish 1st stages
- Atlas 5/Cygnus launch delayed until next week due to technical issue
- Trump signs NASA authorization
- The rings of Saturn
- The changes seen by Rosetta on Comet 67P/C-G
- Republican healthcare bill faces defeat in House
- Postmodern Jukebox – All About That Bass
- Rocket Lab raises $75 million
- More strike actions delay Ariane 5 again
- Vector Space Systems plans launches from Kennedy
- More wear found on Curiosity’s wheels
- North Korean missile test a failure
- Lawsuit against San Jose by Trump supporters to go forward
- March 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The longest stretch of no sunspots since 2009
- Why U.S. farmers are hacking their John Deere tractors
- Atlas 5/Cygnus launch delayed again
- Deborah Kerr – I whistle a happy tune
- Another arrest in Jewish center bomb threats
- Another NASA authorization bill this year?
- Vote on Republican Obamacare bill canceled
- Labor strikes force Arianespace to suspend all French Guiana launches
- Strawhatz – A China Concept
- SSL sues Orbital ATK over proprietary in-space servicing technology
- More problems for Russian ISS module
- Next Proton launch tentatively set for May
- Republican Obamacare bill does not have votes
- X-37B sets new orbital record
- March 23, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- “Limited in attention span, all about big talk and identity politics, but uninterested in substance.”
- Reused first stage static fire dress rehearsal today
- Today’s modern fascist university
- Science discovers that cats prefer human companionship over food
- Hot Wheels double loop dare
- Juno completes fifth flyby of Jupiter
- French Guiana strikes continue
- David Gilmour – The Blue
- ESA narrows landing site choice for ExoMars 2020 to two
- A NASA Image and Video library, available to all
- California to prosecute pro-life activists
- March 28, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- A look at Blue Origin’s upcoming plans
- Vector signs deal with Georgia spaceport
- Genocidal professor wants protesters to silence speaker’s free speech rights
- Washington Bubble fights back against Capitalism in Space
- Atlas 5/Cygnus launch delayed until mid-April
- Gene Watson – Farewell Party
- Less than 1% of all science papers follow scientific method
- Private Space wins the Race
- New theory eliminates need for dark energy
- SpaceX successfully launches a previously flown first stage
- A tour of Vector Space Systems
- Practically every Russian Proton rocket engine defective
- New data from MAVEN confirms how Mars lost its atmosphere
- SLS faces more delays
- Rush – Countdown
- SpaceX recovers fairing of upper stage of Falcon 9
- Bad solder joints cause of Russian Proton engine defects
- Returning to the Grand Canyon
- How to Replace Blinker Fluid
- First Falcon Heavy demo launch to include two used boosters
- Russia responds to SpaceX reused booster success
- Ekso Bionics’ Bionic Suit
- Sha Na Na with Johnny Contardo – Those Magic Changes
- Yes – I’ve Seen All Good People
- ULA gets three launch contracts
- Atlas 5 launch of Cygnus set for April 18
- New Horizons halfway to 2014 MU69
- SpaceX gets commercial launch contract
- ULA reduces workforce at Vandenberg
- Orbital ATK developing new rocket
- Russia proposes extending ISS beyond 2024
- ULA prepares to choose engine for Vulcan
- Strikers attempt to occupy Arianespace spaceport in French Guiana
- Suborbital promises
- Hubble snaps close-up of Jupiter
- Exoplanet twin of Venus found
- Sarah Connolly & the BBC Orchestra – Rule Britannia
- March 31, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Atmosphere detected around Earth-sized exoplanet
- Citizen scientists crowd scource discovery of 4 exoplanets
- Air Force willing to use re-used Falcon 9 first stages
- ULA slashes launch prices for Atlas 5
- Mob shuts down speech at Claremont McKenna College
- Another Grand Canyon tour
- Elvis Presley – Love Me Tender
- Solar panel project costing millions produces enough energy to run one microwave
- R.I.P: Georgy Grechko
- Soyuz returns ISS crew to Earth
- The storms of Jupiter
- Cement Mixer Slim Gaillard
- Large archive of Canadian ice cores melts
- New Horizons goes back to sleep
- Sweden delivers science instrument for Chinese lunar probe
- Scientists find persistent cold spot on Jupiter
- Aerojet Rocketdyne trims and reorganizes workforce
- Italian rocket engine company stock surges in trading debut
- Turkey moves to create its own space agency
- China and South Korea agree to counter North Korea’s missile/nuclear program
- U.S. refuses to sign G7 statement supporting Paris climate accord
- California professor repeatedly calls for the assassination of Donald Trump
- Sunspot update for March 2017
- Eric Church – Kill A Word
- April 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Off to Israel + new op-ed!
- The Last Day
- April 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- First Falcon Heavy side first stage ready for initial tests
- China launches advanced communications satellite
- Jennifer Connelly – The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
- Audit finds SLS unlikely to launch in 2018
- Water plumes on Europa plus hydrogen in Enceladus plumes
- Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address
- Court allows lawsuit against NASA agent who detained elderly couple
- NASA to rely more on private space for deep space missions
- North Korea missile test fails
- New Zimmerman op-ed in The Federalist
- Anna Martin – Dead and Lovely
- Japan aims for record 8 launches in 2017
- ULA successfully launches Cygnus to ISS
- Landslides on Ceres reveal presence of ice
- Jean Mitry – Pacific 231
- Luxembourg rejects proposed space legislation because of Outer Space Treaty
- Want your food kosher in space?
- U.S. space law versus UN Outer Space Treaty
- New poll says most Hawaiians favor TMT
- Bobby Vee – Take Good Care of My Baby
- Israeli student cubesat launched from Atlas 5
- UC-Berkeley tries to silence Coulter speech
- Private company builds high resolution space radar facility in Texas
- First results from Breakthrough Listen’s search for alien radio signals
- Scientists release geological map of potential landing site for 2020 rover
- Berkeley backs down to Coulter, partly
- Peter Pringle – The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian
- Soyuz launches two astronauts to ISS
- China launches first unmanned freighter in test flight
- The “March for Science”: a Democratic Party operation
- Some teasing pictures of Stratolaunch
- How Russia’s next ISS module got contaminated
- Arianespace wins new commercial contract
- Mars rover update: April 21, 2017
- Trump signs commercial weather satellite bill
- The Maine – If I Only Had The Heart
- France settles union dispute in French Guiana
- The Israeli finalist in the Google Lunar X-Prize is out of the running
- China’s first unmanned freighter successfully docks with test station
- Airbus-Safran gets go-ahead to build first Ariane 6 test rocket
- Berkeley mayor belongs to group that organized riots against Milo Yiannopoulos
- Donors and students fleeing Drexel University, home of genocidal professor
- Vector suborbital rocket test scrubbed
- 19 federal agencies eliminated in proposed Trump budget
- Refueling tests begin on Chinese test space station
- Former Obama official confirms climate data manipulation by bureaucrats
- Cassini makes last fly-by of Titan
- Crystal Gayle & Muppets – River Road
- Clemson administrator proposes that candidates be prescreened for ideology
- A look at some Israeli West Bank settlements
- Salt N Pepa – Whattaman
- Latch blamed for Webb vibration test issue
- Cassini about to make first dive into Saturn’s rings
- Liberated Mosul districts reconnect with satellite television
- European push for more space regulations under international law
- Bigoted professor to accept students in course based on race
- April 25, 2017 Zimmerman Space Show podcast
- Ann Coulter has cancelled her speech at UC-Berkeley
- Rod Stewart – When You Wish Upon a Star
- Report finds NASA spacesuit development over budget, behind schedule, and inadequate
- Third reaction wheel on Dawn fails
- April 25, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Cassini successfully completes first dive between Saturn and its rings
- UAE and Algeria sign space accord
- Space, regulation, the Outer Space Treaty, and yesterday’s Senate hearing
- Portland parade cancelled because of threats by leftist fascists
- Hibernation research for long space flights
- NASA officially delays SLS first flight to 2019
- April 26, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Pietro Mascagni – Preludio Cavalleria Rusticana
- Chinese freighter successfully completes first refueling test
- Trump administration eases technology restrictions to Saudi Arabia
- North Korea ballistic missile test ends in failure
- Fascist California abandons the Constitution
- April 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Winny Jessica Setiawan, Sheila Permatasaka, and BEBOP Light Orchestra – Something Stupid
- Trump administration plans 9% staffing cuts at State Department
- The coming fascism
- SpaceX launch of spy satellite scrubbed
- New bipartisan budget deal cuts nothing from bloated federal government
- SpaceX successfully launches first surveillance satellite
- North Korean missile explosion part of planned test
- Unity successfully completes fourth glide test
- Elton John – Rocket Man
- Cassini finds gap in Saturn’s rings surprisingly empty
- Iranian owner of Middle East satellite TV company assassinated in Istanbul
- To celebration May Day and communism, leftists riot in Portland
- Anti-white protests shut down Minnesota college
- Trump threatens shutdown in September after caving in May
- North Korean missile destroyed because it was heading to Russia?
- Astronomers find that Epsilon Eridani solar system resembles our own system
- The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian
- May 2, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Company that analyzes satellite data raises $50 million
- ISRO requests Indian proposals for Venus probe
- Iran announces launch plans for 2018
- NASA looks to private companies for lunar missions
- The soft avalanches of Mars
- Submarine test launch by Iran of cruise missile fails
- Maiden flight of China’s new 158-seat C919 passenger jet
- Vector completes first suborbital test flight
- Cassini science team releases movie of images from first ring dive
- Serena Ryder – Racing In The Street
- 3D printing of bricks, using moondust
- California proposes taxes on commercial space companies
- New poll suggests majority of Americans support free speech
- Republican Trumpcare passes House
- Senate passes $1 trillion continuing resolution 79-18
- Arianespace successfully resumes launches in French Guiana
- Curiosity’s last dune investigation
- Nancy Sinatra – Sugar Town
- Senate to ignore House Obamacare replacement, write its own bill
- India’s GSLV rocket successfully launches communications satellite
- Bezos sells about $1 billion of his Amazon shares
- Trump signs $1 trillion spending bill
- China’s space managers now dominate China’s government
- Gilbert & Sullivan – Three Little Maids
- SpaceX to launch Bulgarian satellite in June with used first stage
- May 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The UAE plan to tow an iceberg from Antarctica for drinking water
- X-37B lands at Kennedy after spending 718 days in orbit
- Trump administration removes members of EPA science advisory board
- NASA may have decided to fly humans on first SLS test flight
- Saturn’s north pole hexagon jet stream
- Speak your mind at Duke Divinity School and get threatened
- Sunspot update for April 2017
- The status of all of Trump’s executive appointments so far
- Ray Bethell – Romancing The Wind
- Brittle and weak welds on SLS tanks?
- Georgia governor signs spaceport bill
- Europe considers a helicopter drone for future Mars missions
- The city of the future will watch you all the time
- The left moves to indoctrinate elementary school kids
- Ray Bethell – Good Stuff
- SpaceX completes first static fire test of Falcon Heavy core stage
- Japan begins testing new rocket engine
- Palestinian Authority stops shipping medicine to Gaza
- SLS oxygen tank dome dropped and damaged
- New multi-wavelength image of Crab Nebula
- Aetna leaves last two Obamacare exchanges
- Kim Wilde – Kids in America
- May 9, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Two Dragon Mars missions in 2020?
- Air Force agreement with ULA expires
- UAE reveals details on its 100 year Mars colonization plan
- Irreplaceable plant specimens destroyed by Australian customs.
- Propellers by the dozens
- Assistant principal who harassed pro-life protesters resigns
- Nina Simone – To Love Somebody
- May 10, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- American colleges: Today’s blueprint for tomorrow’s totalitarian state
- NASA nixes plan to fly humans on first SLS flight
- The press begins to turn against SLS
- Percy Shelley – Ozymandias
- North Korea completes ballistic missile test
- May 12, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Rocket Lab sets May 21 for first test launch of its Electron rocket
- Engine test of Blue Origin BE-4 engine goes bad
- Mars rover update: May 15, 2017
- Another California speaking event shut down by students
- SpaceX launches commercial satellite
- Nana Mouskouri – La Paloma
- Islamic expert Robert Spencer poisoned by leftist protester
- GAO: Cost and scheduling problems with many big NASA projects
- A former leftist sees the light
- Beethoven – Turkish March
- Dubai of the UAE and its push for science, space, and technology
- NASA Inspector General blasts agency construction of SLS test stands
- Trump rules out moving embassy to Jerusalem
- Cruz to hold hearing on updating Outer Space Treaty
- Juice Newton – Angel in the Morning
- Rocket Lab gets another contract
- Arianespace successfully launches commercial satellite on Soyuz
- In 2016 federal government improperly paid out $144 billion
- Moon discovered around Kuiper belt dwarf planet
- The bigotry that dominates today’s colleges
- Republican Trumpcare bill might require another vote
- Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe?
- FAA issues launch license to Rocket Lab
- The first 3 of a 200 nanosat constellation delivered for launch
- White House decision on embassy move only after Trump’s Middle East trip
- Tabby’s Star is dimming again and astronomers are rushing to watch
- Juno does fifth flyby of Jupiter
- Patty Loveless – The Boys Are Back In Town
- Court of Appeals rules FAA drone registry illegal
- Academic journal publishes another hoax paper
- Primary data relay electronics unit on ISS truss fails
- Rocket Lab launch delayed
- Emergency spacewalk on ISS to replace electronics relay box
- The face of Ceres
- Rocket Lab launch scrubbed again due to weather
- Democrats have worst fundraising April since 2009
- Julie Feeney – Love is a Tricky Thing
- Spacewalkers successfully replace failed unit on ISS
- Nat King Cole – But Not For Me
- Trump budget released only to be immediately trashed
- Rocket Lab reschedules test launch
- California woman arrested for selling space technology to China
- Lawsuit by fired SpaceX employee goes to court
- Sixty-six programs slated for elimination in Trump budget
- May 23, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Washington rallies around the Outer Space Treaty
- After 7 years Cassini reaches Saturn’s solstice
- How to land a space shuttle
- Boeing wins DARPA contract to build reusable first stage spaceplane
- Rocket Lab launches its first Electron rocket
- Russia completes first military launch in a year
- College professor arrested for attacks against Trump supporters
- Civil War museum closes rather than remove its Confederate flags
- Star becomes black hole without supernova explosion
- First science results from Juno
- Threats and violence against dissent at university
- The Muffs – Don’t Pick on Me
- Egypt considers creating space agency
- Looking at Jupiter’s southern hemisphere
- California single-payer $400 billion healthcare plan approved by state committee with no funding
- Connecticut: sinking in debt with a fleeing population
- NASA delays launch of space-junk removal test satellite
- LRO hit by meteoriod in 2014
- Doris Day – Young at Heart
- Kim Jong-Un Consults With Planned Parenthood To Learn How To Cover Up Atrocities
- May 26, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Brewing beer on the Moon
- Construction begins on the European Extremely Large Telescope
- Son of Democrat VP candidate charged for attacking pro-Trump demonstrators
- Dog sits on editorial board of seven medical journals
- North Korea fires another ballistic missile
- Results after one year on ISS for Bigelow’s inflatable module
- Another impact flash spotted on Jupiter
- A Memorial Day remembrance
- Curiosity data increases time water existed Gale Crater
- Academic invents new non-oppressive physics to protect minorities
- Air Force successfully tests ICBM interceptor
- Pole of Saturn’s moon Enceladus shifted 55 degrees in the past
- Jimmy Roberts – A House With Love In It
- Astronomers find star with giant ringed planet
- Road construction at SpaceX’s planned Texas spaceport
- Near the Martian south pole
- Washington State legislators move to defund Evergreen State College
- If TMT moves from Hawaii Canada might exit partnership
- May 30, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Santo & Johnny – Sleep Walk
- Japan successfully launches navigation satellite
- Stratolaunch unveils its giant mother ship
- NASA names next solar mission after pioneer solar scientist Eugene Parker
- Frost on the Moon?
- LIGO detects its third gravitational wave
- Russia moves to reduce launch costs with new rocket
- Rat sperm exposed to weightlessness still produces healthy rats
- Trump to keep U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv
- Cumulative data from Curiosity shows Gale Crater lake stratified
- Trump exits Paris climate agreement
- SpaceX launch of used Dragon to ISS scrubbed
- VSS Unity completes fifth glide flight
- 15 absurd over-reactions to Trump’s withdrawal from climate treaty
- Did the Pentagon give ULA $27.4 million for work already done?
- Mucking about off-hours in San Francisco, California
- California passes single payer health plan, without a way to pay for it
- Arianespace successfully launches two commercial satellites
- Soyuz safely returns two astronauts from ISS
- Iran abandons effort to put humans in space
- Arianespace wins contract to launch 3 Eutelsat satellites
- California’s bankrupt house industry, crippled by government
- Coalition of leftwing states and cities to uphold Paris climate treaty
- Tatyana Ryzhkova – Capricho Arabe
- June 1, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Hoax “penis as concept” paper finally retracted
- SpaceX successfully launches the first reused cargo Dragon
- Another proposal for dealing with the Outer Space Treaty
- India successfully launches its first GSLV Mark 3 rocket
- Proton rolled to launchpad for June 8 launch
- Turkish company announces plans to build commercial rocket
- NASA considering using used first stages for Dragon cargo launches
- More near Earth objects found by WISE
- Exoplanet hotter than some stars
- Jupiter’s cloud-tops, up close
- Julie Andrews and Gene Kelly
- Fascism at Emerson College
- The atomic rocket that never was
- Imans in UK refuse to say prayers for terrorists
- Air Force awards SpaceX contract to launch next X-37B mission
- Jupiter gets two more moons
- China to ramp up manned missions to build space station
- Climate scientists increasingly show no warming in peer review papers
- Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum est
- June 6, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Russia lowers its Proton launch plans for 2017
- China reveals landing site for Chang’e-5 lander/rover
- Astronomers confirm that comet caused Wow! signal, not aliens
- T Rex fossils suggest it was covered with scales, not feathers
- Simon & Garfunkel – The Sounds Of Silence
- At the rim
- Luxembourg revises space law to address Outer Space Treaty
- Using math to protect the Washington power structure
- Jury rejects lawsuit by disgruntled former SpaceX employee
- Russia launches first Proton in a year
- World Party – Ship Of Fools
- June 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Vangelis – Chariots Of Fire
- What ISRO charges for a launch
- Sunspot update for May 2017
- House committee passes new commercial space bill
- Laura Engel – Bésame Mucho
- How NIMH policy effects research
- A dust-off broom for Mars
- More news from fascist Evergreen State College
- Worm grows 2 heads on ISS
- KFC pays to put chicken sandwich on four day World View shakedown flight
- Lennon Sisters – May you always
- June 13, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Russians successfully launch Progress to ISS
- Design questions might delay construction of China’s first big optical telescope
- Boeing cuts management, streamlines its operations
- China to attempt to grow potatoes on Moon
- A new map of Mimas
- The Emotions ~ Best of My Love
- Senate to hold third hearing on commercial space
- China launches X-ray space telescope
- Truck driver killed in fire related to crash of Soyuz stage in Kazakhstan
- Digitizing Venice’s 1,000-year-old archives
- Titan’s clearing northern skies
- T Rex – Bang A Gong (Get It On)
- China’s Tianzhou-1 freighter completes second refueling test
- Air Force budget reveals cost differences between ULA and SpaceX
- The state of the global aerospace industry
- It’s the hate, not the violence
- Thomas Quasthoff & Sylvia Schwartz – Papageno & Papagena
- New smallsat rocket company plans first flight of aerospike engine
- Illinois facing budget collapse
- June 16, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- SpaceX delays Bulgarian satellite launch to replace valve
- Did China experience a launch failure today?
- How cats used humans to conquer the world
- Update of Kepler exoplanet catalog
- Largest quake in Yellowstone since 2014
- China’s Tianzhou-1 completes second docking test
- Sachal Jazz Orchestra – Take Five
- British government to loosen regulations on space
- Trinity College professor calls for death of whites
- Tubeway Army – Are Friends Electric?
- Arianespace gets another launch contract
- Russia moves to capture the smallsat launch market
- Recent Kuiper Belt discoveries cast doubt a big planet exists there
- Trump administration continues to clean house at EPA
- Russia offers Soyuz capsule for tourist flights, even after it is replaced
- Iridium launches might use reused Falcon 9 first stages
- Senate hearing on commercial space postponed
- Journey To The Edge Of Space
- SLS first mission delayed again
- June 20, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Warp in Kuiper Belt suggests existence of Mars-sized object
- A congressman acts to limit competition in solid rocket motor production
- Senate introduces its version of Trumpcare
- Nils Lofgren – Keith Don’t Go
- NASA shuts down asteroid capture mission
- House lawmakers push Air Force to use reusable rockets
- ESA discovers the wonders of capitalism!
- India’s PSLV rocket successfully launches 31 satellites
- Bulgaria credits SpaceX’s low costs for making its satellite possible
- OneWeb wins FCC approval for 720 satellite internet constellation
- Mars rover update: June 23, 2017
- SpaceX launches satellite with reused first stage, recovers stage
- Russia successfully launches military satellite with Soyuz rocket
- Maria Mena- All This Time
- Four reasons why college degrees are becoming useless
- June 22, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- A detailed look at the UAE’s national space policy
- California government healthcare plan shelved
- SpaceX launches 10 Iridium satellites, lands first stage
- Blue Origin to build its rocket engines in Alabama
- Japan’s next rocket on schedule for 2020 launch
- Joe Bonamassa & Tina Guo – Woke Up Dreaming
- Climate scientists once again claim ozone layer is threatened
- The academic community weighs in on Outer Space Treaty
- Success of test mission paves way for orbiting gravitational wave detector
- Luxembourg offers prizes for new space business proposals
- Orbital motion of a binary black hole detected for the first time
- US military tests laser weapon fired from helicopter
- SpaceX to try another launch on Sunday
- Blue Origin’s BE-4 rocket engine still leads race with Aerojet Rocketdyne
- George Michael & Wham Careless Whisper
- June 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast with Iridium CEO Matt Desch
- June 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- First test launches of commercial manned vehicles upcoming
- New company formed to service satellites in-orbit
- Uranus’s magnetic field switches on and off daily
- SpaceX expanding facilities in Florida for refurbishing used first stages
- A river canyon on Mars
- Public school teachers now required to do student mental health assessments
- China cuts off oil to North Korea
- CNN Lists Job Opening For Head Fiction Writer
- Ariane 5 successfully launches two communications satellites
- Republican House restores spending in NASA budget
- Lesley Gore – California Nights
- Astronomers discover complex molecules in protostar accretion disk
- UCLA fires popular free speech professor
- Improved software uploaded to Curiosity to extend wheel life
- Astronomers take best image of Betelgeuse yet
- World View launches chicken sandwich in test ballon flight
- Vector obtains $21 million in funding
- Liberace & Jack Benny
- Russian student satellite hopes to be the brightest star in sky
- ULA wins Air Force launch contract
- JAXA proposes Japan send humans to the Moon
- More political problems for the private Russian company taking over Sea Launch
- Republican Senate restores spending in NASA budget
- Dress rehearsal completed for SpaceX’s Sunday launch
- As predicted climate scientists begin adjusting satellite data to fit models
- Surrey Satellite closing U.S. factory
- June 29, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The Fixx – Red Skies
- Iraq recaptures Mosul mosque from ISIS
- China’s second launch of its Long March 5 rocket fails
- Reba McEntire -You can’t get a man with a gun
- SpaceX aborts launch at T -9 seconds
- Reused Dragon makes second splashdown successfully
- Long March 5 failure occurred at satellite separation
- The soft craters of Epimetheus
- Sunspot update for June 2017
- Falcon 9 launch aborted at T minus 10 again today
- Vanessa Williams – Save the Best for Last
- North Korea test fires another ballistic missile
- World View test balloon flight cut short due to leak
- Commercial communications satellite breaks apart in orbit
- Becoming American
- New data suggests Sun undergoing fundamental changes
- “It took two wars to make me an American.”
- A close look at the first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence
- “This is paradise. I want to live as long as possible.”
- “People were different, not only from Swedes, but from each other.”
- A look at the war for independence
- 1776 – Hatching an Egg
- Qatar blockade threatens worldwide helium supply
- Fastest stars in Milky Way escaped from Large Magellanic Cloud?
- UK’s space industry bill introduced in House of Lords
- Five satellite Air Force contract up for bid
- Will Dawn head to another asteroid?
- SpaceX successfully launches commercial satellite
- South Pacific – You’ve Got to Be Taught
- German government sets ethical rules for self-driving cars
- XCOR shuts down
- Israel and India sign three new space agreements
- Team Indus needs to raise $40 million for Google mission
- Universities increasingly encouraging segregated events
- New Horizons’ next target might be smaller than predicted
- Pablum from Pence on space
- “We will get better aim.”
- Jessica Rabbit – Why don’t you do right
- Roskosmos completes investigation into deadly post launch debris fire
- ESA unveils dual orbiter mission to Mercury
- China planning its own commercial sea launch platform
- NASA and JAXA approve replacement of failed Japanese X-ray space telescope
- Crab Processing
- July 7, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Professor who interfered with reporters loses job
- XCOR layoffs due to loss of ULA contract
- Creating space dirt
- Ghana launches its first satellite
- Another Vostochny executive arrested for taking bribes
- China begins 200-day simulated self-sufficient space station experiment
- Australian academic group to review Outer Space Treaty
- Toots & The Maytals – 54 46
- The confusing Iranian space program
- China’s giant single dish radio telescope FAST nears completion
- Near disaster at San Francisco airport
- Navy temporarily relieves commander from ocean collision
- U.S successfully tests missile intercept system
- Hamas has made Gaza unliveable, according to the UN
- Juno completes close fly-by of Great Red Spot
- John Williams – Raider’s March
- Space law vs the Outer Space Treaty
- Africa and space
- Evergreen College already admits to drop in enrollment
- July 11, 2017 Zimmerman Space Show podcast
- Mars rover update: July 12, 2017
- Juno images of Great Red Spot released
- Missing Persons – Words
- July 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Lunar landers/rovers for sale!
- White House rejects House proposal to create a military “Space Corps”
- Giant iceberg breaks off from Antarctica
- Australia to consider forming its own government space agency
- House Republicans push for big spending in Defense and NIH budgets
- Commercial space has won
- More news from racist Evergreen State College
- Ryan Adams – English Girls Approximately
- July 12, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Orbital ATK suit against DARPA dismissed
- First Starliner manned flight delayed to late 2018
- Soyuz successfully launches 73 satellites
- Luxembourg parliament adopts draft space law
- House appropriations approves NASA and NOAA budgets
- White House appoints first member of National Space Council
- I Are Cute Duckling AWW
- Fire at SpaceX Florida building that stores returned 1st stages
- NASA communications satellite damaged during launch prep
- July 14, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Trump administration to increase use of asset forfeiture
- Valentina Lisitsa – Chopin’s Minute Waltz
- Dream Chaser test vehicle undergoing tow tests
- A map of Pluto
- Republican health tweak of Obamacare dead, Senate to vote for straight repeal
- Claremont McKenna College suspends students who led violent protest
- New adjustments to early satellite data confirm accelerating sea level rise
- Fire at SpaceX caused by spark from grinder
- SpaceX competitors team up to try to block its satellite constellation
- Townes Van Zandt – If I Needed You
- July 18, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- LISA Pathfinder switched off
- Fish trap
- Sierra Nevada picks ULA’s Atlas 5 for first two Dream Chaser cargo flights
- Has India cut its cubesat launch prices?
- News from SpaceX
- Hundreds of NASA videos uploaded to Youtube
- UC-Berkeley blocks another conservative from speaking
- “If you want to care for your grandson you will have to give up some of your constitutional rights.”
- Hubble shoots movie of Phobos
- Mueller widens witch hunt investigation
- Google street view of ISS now available
- Opportunity takes panorama at top of Perseverance Valley
- Yuja Wang – Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble-Bee
- July 20, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- NASA and Boeing to replace damaged antenna on NASA satellite
- UC-Berkeley backs down will host and pay fees for conservative speaker
- ISRO’s 104 satellite launched earned India about $7 million
- Growing cucumbers in space
- Opportunity enters Perseverance Valley
- Gays ban Jewish banners in upcoming march
- Lecture by atheist/scientist Richard Dawkins canceled in Berkeley because he criticized Islam
- Is the Arctic icecap now larger than in 1971?
- NYC law bans pet sitting without license
- California community colleges consider eliminating algebra requirement
- Schedule for commercial manned flights solidifies
- Buckethead – Walk on the Moon
- July 21, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- NASA and Lockheed Martin to build simulated interplanetary spaceship, on the ground
- R.I.P. U.R. Rao
- Fake “Star Wars” science paper accepted/published by four journals
- Congressional Republicans give more money to agencies Trump wanted to eliminate
- First results from Cassini’s dives between Saturn and its rings
- Facebook moves to protect Islam from criticism
- California iman calls for genocide against all Jews
- Brooks and Dunn – Only in America
- Another space company partners with Luxembourg
- New Horizons team spots stellar eclipse by 2014 MU69
- Tupperware in space!
- The endless bands of Saturn
- Astronomers find unexpected comets in outer reaches of solar system
- LA Speed Check
- Interorbital’s first test rocket, Neptune 1, is almost ready for flight
- The damage and repair of TDRS-M creates complicated scheduling problems
- Computer simulations prove that we can geoengineer the climate!
- Repeal of Obamacare fails in Senate
- July 25, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- TDRS-M launch moved to August 20
- Japan’s first private rocket to launch this weekend
- Commercial lunar mission gives launch contract to ULA
- Jane’s Addiction – Jane Says
- Anti-vaccine campaigns are threatening the return of measles
- Denmark facing the first “summerless” July in four decades
- Judge okays TMT permit
- Breakthrough Starshot puts smallest satellites ever into orbit
- Time/PBS video documentary nominated for Emmy despite factual error in title
- Cameras on next Kepler-like exoplanet space telescope out of focus
- FBI arrest former IT staffer for many Democrats in Congress
- Iran launches satellite
- Cole Porter – Night and Day
- July 27, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Video of Iranian launch today
- Republican Senate committee restores all cuts to NASA climate budget
- SpaceX now one of the world’s most valuable companies
- Have astronomers using Kepler discovered the first exomoon?
- Musk announces November as month for 1st Falcon Heavy launch
- Russia launches crew to ISS
- The Great Red Spot
- North Korea launches another ballistic missile
- IRS routinely rehires fired workers
- Pennsylvania school district apologizes for teacher who attacked pro-life protesters
- John McCain, Liar
- The Present
- Trump fires chief of staff Priebus
- July 28, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Japanese private rocket launch terminates early due of communication failure
- Solid gold Apollo 11 lunar module replica stolen from Armstrong museum in Ohio
- Next test flight of Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket delayed
- Booking service now available to rocket and satellite companies
- Robots communicating in languages humans can’t understand
- Another California Islamic iman calls for Jewish genocide
- Russ Roberts – It’s a Wonderful Loaf
- Sun’s core rotates 4X faster than surface
- China punishes more than 500 scientists for peer review fraud
- Vector to do 2nd test launch in Georgia on August 3
- Global warming activists tremble as Trump administration reviews their work
- Virgin Orbit’s launch jumbo jet arrives at company’s base in California
- An explorer’s club for Mars missions
- Australian weather bureau caught tampering with temperatures
- Government officials expect disaster during eclipse
- Getting safe eye filters for viewing eclipse
- On the radio
- The difficult task of legally preserving the Apollo lunar sites
- Julie Andrews – My Favorite Things
- Arianespace launches two Israeli built satellites
- University decides political displays must be hidden to avoid offending anyone
- The head of Iran’s space effort to step down
- Court allows lawsuit against police for improper drug raid to go forward
- EPA stonewalls investigation into its Gold King Mine disaster
- Desmond Dekker – Israelites
- Lockheed Martin begins construction of new satellite factory
- Hawaiian protesters fail to block mirror for solar telescope
- Vector live streaming test launch
- India to almost double launch rate with new rocket assembly building
- New images downloaded from Curiosity for the first time in two weeks
- Aetna to withdraw from all Obamacare exchanges
- Some Amazon Echo speakers can be hacked to spy on you
- August 1, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- MU69 is not round
- Video of Vector test launch
- Live from the Flight Deck
- International group forms to get UN protection of Apollo sites
- One of Jupiter’s mid-sized storms
- Sly & the Family Stone and Prince – Everyday People
- SES agrees to a second Falcon 9 launch with used first stage
- California’s public colleges to no longer require students to know math or read
- August 4, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Vostochny update
- Ground equipment caused premature end to first Rocket Lab launch
- Webb telescope launch might be delayed again
- China has a giant radio telescope and no one to run it
- Looking down at Saturn’s rings
- Georgia University professor allows students to pick their grades
- Sunspot update for July 2017
- Blue Öyster Cult – (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
- A Martian Journey
- University scrubs professor’s plan to let students pick their grades
- Google unveils new slogan
- Rogue Wave – Lake Michigan
- August 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- The Google Gulag
- How did the Democrats’ IT foreigners get in the U.S?
- University excludes white males from $10K journalism grant
- Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
- Cassini’s last five orbits of Saturn
- First very short movie from Jupiter
- Minnesota writing conference cancelled because of too many whites
- The fifteen most popular search engines
- SpaceX completes static fire for next launch, advances its Falcon Heavy prep
- Development of argon plasma rocket engine continues
- This is why we fly…
- Russia to spend $630 million to build Vostochny Angara launchpad
- Cubesat builder becomes cubesat operator as well
- Palin wins first battle with NYTimes in her libel lawsuit
- Cell towers to the Moon!
- China admits it will do nothing to stop North Korea from attacking US
- University backs down, will allow 9/11 memorial as planned
- Stanford University course to study the evils of “whiteness”
- Mars rover update: August 11, 2017
- Antonio Calsolaro – Tarantella Napoletana
- An article in New York magazine claims blonde hair is racism
- A memo from Google advising employees on correct thought
- August 11, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- White nationalist protest in Virginia
- Chinese engineers and astronomers fight over new telescope design
- Unexpected big storm on Neptune
- Virgin Orbit gets another launch contract
- Cassini’s last close look at Titan
- Japanese launch scrubbed due to problem with rocket
- New Japanese private joint venture to enter smallsat rocket industry
- Amazon refunding customers who bought fake eclipse glasses
- SpaceX launch today
- Rocket Lab looks to second test flight of Electron
- New research challenges theories on Earth formation
- The gentle storms of Saturn
- A celebration of hate and ignorance
- Love Unlimited – It may be winter outside (but in my heart it’s spring)
- North Korea appears to back down
- 3D printing and how it will change what things look like
- Radical left calls for more violence
- More Russian launch delays
- Ten planetary probes track a solar eruption through the solar system
- S7 announces plans to resume launches on Sea Launch
- UC-Davis establishes rules to allow free speech
- Of Monsters and Men – Dirty Paws
- August 15, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Google Lunar X-Prize extends deadline
- Russia to launch twice from Vostochny this year
- Japan’s beginning shift to commercial space
- The mob attacks
- Three leftist protesters arrested in Chicago
- California Democrats move to stifle free speech
- Loggins and Messina – Angry Eyes
- ISIS files “cultural appropriation” complaint against ANTIFA with UN
- Proton successfully launches Russian military satellite
- Water ice found near Martian equator
- Imran Awan, Wasserman Schultz’s computer geek, indicted
- Street performer
- August 17, 2018 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- ULA’s Atlas 5 successfully launches NASA communications satellite
- “One of the greatest discoveries of the century is based on these things and we don’t even know what they are, really.”
- To protect students from eclipse some schools will close Monday, or will keep their students indoors
- Edvard Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
- SpaceX postpones Mars Dragon missions
- Japan launches GPS satellite
- How To Know You’re In a Mass Hysteria Bubble
- At Zion on the way to the eclipse
- Local officials deny pro-Trump group rally permit
- Indicted Democratic IT staffers suspected of selling sensitive info to hostile foreign governments
- Judge comes down hard on IRS for its harassment of conservatives
- In Idaho Falls, ready for the eclipse
- Navy destroyer collides with merchant ship
- Trump administration to end climate panel
- Democratic staffer signed off on computer theft by foreign IT workers
- Young Readers – We Will Become Silhouettes
- The Eclipse
- Billy Preston & Syreeta – With you I’m born again
- Steely Dan’s Rikki Don’t Lose That Number
- Glacier: Why I am not posting this week
- SpaceX launches commercial satellite, lands 1st stage
- SpaceX’s flight suit for manned trips to ISS
- Private Japanese company to test fly again by December
- Astronomers produce best image yet of a star
- Firefly emerges from bankruptcy
- Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn – Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man
- North Korea launches another missile
- Eugene Godsoe – Your Hand in Mine
- Orbital ATK’s Minotaur rocket launches Air Force satellite
- Russia and China to team up to explore Moon?
- Johnson Space Center shuttered due to flooding
- Silly magic act
- Dream Chaser engineering vehicle completes tow tests
- SES flips satellites between SpaceX and Arianespace launches
- Celtic Woman – Westering Home
- Global warming and Glacier National Park
- Problems with 6 of 72 cubesats launched by Soyuz
- Akatsuki finds super-rotating equatorial jet on Venus
- Evergreen State College faces budget deficit
- Dream Chaser test vehicle completes captive carry flight
- John Hiatt – Have a little faith in me
- Angola establishes its first space strategy
- Yenne Lee – Autumn Leaves
- India’s PSLV rocket fails to release satellite
- Astronomers search for water on Trappist-1 ecoplanets
- Peter Schilling – Major Tom Coming Home
- Trump nominates James Bridenstine as NASA administrator
- Cassini movie flying past Saturn’s rings
- Mars or a bacterial cell?
- SpaceX completes static fire tests of Falcon Heavy first stages
- Soyuz returns three astronauts to Earth from ISS
- A look at UAE’s space program, its overall goals and its Mars probe Hope
- Action in House to limit use of civil forfeiture by Sessions
- Hollywood’s worst summer box office in 25 years
- North Korea completes H-bomb underground test
- New study claims global warming caused 2015 spike in road deaths
- Dschinghis Khan – Moskau
- Building launch backlog in China
- SpaceX wins another launch contract
- Senate/House budget conflicts over science and space
- First images released from Juno’s seventh close fly-by of Jupiter
- Local Democrat calls all disaffected New Hampshire voters “white supremacists”
- Sunspot update for August 2017
- John Williams – Imperial March
- Arianespace has launch abort of its Ariane 5 rocket today
- September 5, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Russia and China both condemn North Korea’s nuclear test
- New Generation looks to establish private spaceport
- Trump teams up with Democrats on debt limit deal
- How the “internet of things” robs us of our rights
- Paul Simon – 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
- Arianespace pins down source of launch abort
- GAO report finds Navy training in Pacific inadequate
- SpaceX launches X-37B
- Mars rover update: September 6, 2017
- “Witches, Jews And Climate Deniers”
- Juno finds mystery in Jupiter’s aurora
- Illegal votes may have decided 2016 New Hampshire results
- Foxes and Fossils – Can’t Hurry Love
- September 6, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- Plan of New Horizons’ fly-by of 2014 MU69 announced
- First Juno movie of Jupiter’s changing weather
- Saturn’s magnificent rings
- Google appears to favor liberal sites in its searches
- Senate committee approves funding for UN global warming bureaucracy
- Prosecutors focus on laptop contents in Democrat IT scandal
- Trump Justice Department will not prosecute Lois Lerner
- Fleetwood Mac – Tusk
- September 8, 2017 Zimmerman/Batchelor podcast
- ULA delays California launch because of Florida hurricane
- Iran to put man in space in 8 years?
- Why is no one buying time on Nigeria’s satellites?
- Successful test of Austrialian 3D printed rocket engine
- Cassini says goodbye to Saturn
- Republicans called Klan members by protesters at Amherst
- Russia’s Proton rocket today successfully launched a commercial satellite
- New Horizons team looks for second flyby in Kuiper Belt
- In memory of…
- Private rocket does short test flight
- Arianespace announces new launch contracts
- Curiosity tops Vera Rubin Ridge
- Movie of Juno’s September 1 fly-by of Jupiter
- Journalist and author claims police actions against looting equals “white supremacy”
- Federal debt tops $20 trillion
- Obamacare collapse in Virginia
- Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird
- China successfully completes third robotic docking
- Soyuz launches three astronauts to ISS
- Space hype versus reality
- Virgin Orbit wins launch contract
- An oral history of the Cassini mission to Saturn
- Trump administration shuts down NIH anti-gun research
- “Taking the red pill”
- Wasserman Schultz’s IT guy Imran Awan funnelled data to illegal secret server
- Cassini on final approach to Saturn
