Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
Eight museum Corvettes go caving when a sinkhole opens up below them.
Tag: history
Another lunar Earthrise image from the 1960s restored and enhanced.
Another lunar Earthrise image from the 1960s restored and enhanced.
One must remember that when these images from the 1960s were first taken, it was the very first time humans were seeing our home world from a distance. While today we are somewhat sanguine about such images, then no one knew exactly what the Earth looked like. These images told us.
Twenty fascinating photos from history.
Congress has now officially renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong.
Congress has now officially renamed the Dryden Flight Research Center in California after Neil Armstrong.
The U.S. Senate on Wednesday (Jan. 8) passed a bill that redesignates the space agency’s Dryden Flight Research Center in southern California the “NASA Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center.” The legislation continues to honor the facility’s displaced namesake by renaming the surrounding area the “Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range.” The U.S. House of Representatives earlier introduced and passed a corresponding resolution in February 2013. This was at least the third time since 2007 that Congress has sought to name the flight research center for Armstrong.
On Thursday, the bill was presented to the President to be signed into law.
It still seems unseemly to me to remove the honor from Dryden. I would rather give Armstrong a better memorial, on the Moon.
A box of 100-year-old negatives from the Antarctica Shackleton expedition have been discovered, processed, and printed.
A box of 100-year-old negatives from the Shackleton expedition, discovered in an abandoned supply hut in Antarctica, have been processed and printed.
Photos taken 33 years ago by a photographer who died in the Mt. St. Helens eruption have been discovered and developed.
Photos taken 33 years ago by a photographer who died in the Mt. St. Helens eruption have been discovered and developed.
Reid Blackburn took the photographs in April 1980 during a flight over the simmering volcano. When he got back to The Columbian studio, Blackburn set that roll of film aside. It was never developed. On May 18, 1980 — about five weeks later — Blackburn died in the volcanic blast that obliterated the mountain peak.
Those unprocessed black-and-white images spent the next three decades coiled inside that film canister. The Columbian’s photo assistant Linda Lutes recently discovered the roll in a studio storage box, and it was finally developed.
Every image taken during the Apollo program is now available online.
Every image taken during the Apollo program is now available online.
I especially like this image, taken by Frank Borman, seconds before Bill Anders took the more famous version, which you will note is oriented here correctly, as Anders took it, with the horizon vertical.
George Washington: a victor in battle, a freeman in heart.
George Washington: a victor in battle, a freeman in heart.
An excellent article on the roots of American freedom.
The Republican leadership expresses contempt for any opposition to its budget deal that abandons the cuts imposed by sequestration
The Republican leadership expresses contempt for any opposition to its budget deal that abandons the cuts imposed by sequestration.
The Republican leadership are fools. If anything, this is the moment to push harder, to not only demand that the sequestration cuts stay in place, but to demand a repeal of Obamacare.
Obamacare, where the liberal dream crashes and burns.
Obamacare, where the liberal dream crashes and burns.
The botched website was an unforced catastrophe. But that’s not the real problem with Obamacare. The real problem, as dozens of thoughtful commentators have concluded, is the law itself. Obamacare is a massive policy experiment that seeks to remake one-sixth of the U.S. economy – a body that’s so fantastically complex, with so many players and so many moving parts, that nobody can possibly understand how they all interact. Tweak one part, and other parts will behave in unpredictable ways. Pull on a thread and half the sweater may unravel. Even Max Baucus, the Democratic Senate finance chairman, has warned that implementing a law so complicated could be a “train wreck.”
Generally, the way leftists and liberals have succeeded in gaining power is to work incrementally, in very small steps. This way, the link between their actions and the problems those actions have caused is easily hidden. They can then point to these new problems and demand another small incremental increase in their control and power in order to solve those problems, which in turn causes new problems that they can then use to justify another incremental step. And so forth.
Obamacare, however, broke this pattern. Rather than being incremental, it tried to do it all in one big massive attack. The result is that the policy is very clearly the cause of the disaster, the left can’t hide it, and their entire agenda for the past century now stands exposed as the fraud it is. The only way I can see them surviving this disaster is to try to seize power illegally, another typical leftwing technique that they use often when reality starts to go against them.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
An evening pause: Let’s have a taste of some ancient now lost culture.
The man who saved the world.
He wasn’t a politician, a scientist, a philosopher, or a university professor. He wasn’t even an American! But had he not had the courage to do what he did, a nuclear war would have happened in 1962.