My prediction was borne out. Except it was a day late. And on the other side of the country.
More Intelligent Design Criticism
Cathy Young has a piece in today’s Boston Globe in which she quotes yours truly. I’ll probably have more on this subject later in the week, but this is my last day in California, and I’ve got a lot to do before I head back to FL tonight.
[Update on Wednesday morning]
David Adesnick says teach the controversy.
Living Their Dream
I mean, most of them think money and greed are evil, anyway, right?
Amidst the financial scandal at Air America (which (not so) shockingly, seems to get little attention from the MSM), they seem to be having trouble meeting their payroll.
This (though off topic) is a little irritating, though:
Written by company Vice President/Finance Sinohe Terrero (this article confims Terrero’s corporate role), it inferred the payroll processing company was to blame…
No. It implied. The author of the above inferred. This confusion between the two words, apparently suffered by many, is one of my pet peeves (like the inability to distinguish between “loose” and “lose”).
Still Oriana After All These Years
Taylor Dinerman has a new review of an old book. There seem to be only two copies available. With all of the Apollo nostalgia going around these days (especially at NASA) I’d bet there’s a market for a new printing. The proceeds would go to a brave and noble woman, who could use some legal (and sadly, medical) help.
Big Talk, No Action
Remember all the Bush haters who promisedthreatened to move to Canada if he won? Well, it turns out that American emigration to Canada actually dropped after the election.
Maybe it’s because they heard the (no doubt terrible) news that the Canadian government may be on the verge of giving up its monopoly on health care.
Ah, well. They’ll alway have Paris. Not that they followed through on that promisethreat, either.
Back (Briefly) In LA
Back from the Central Coast. I had a delightful dinner with Bill Whittle (and Dana, for those who read EjectEjectEject) and Transterrestrial web designer (among other things) Bill Simon. And I (almost fearlessly) predict a flawless entry and landing for the Shuttle in a couple hours).
[Update at 7:40 AM EDT]
Well, OK, I wasn’t considering the (always-present) possibility of subpar weather.
Off Line
I’m driving up to Cambria for a reunion with some long-time friends and former roommates. Back tomorrow, unless Motel 6 has wireless, in which case I may check in from there.
Sixty Years
…ago we employed the first nuclear weapon ever used in war on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. A few days later, we dropped another on Nagasaki. Neither we, nor anyone else has done so since. Let’s hope that it remains that way.
A New Heavy Lifter?
Elon Musk seems to be planning an EELV killer. And I’ve added Jon Goff’s Selenian Boondocks to the blogroll, as well as an Air Force procurement officer’s blog (he’s stationed at Kirtland, but reports on Musk’s visit to Wright-Patt recently, where he seems to have been training) from which Jon got the story, and he seems at first glance to be interested in space procurement. In addition to the SpaceX story, Jon has a lot of good reportage of the recent Return to the Moon conference, and some appropriate criticism of NASA’s new lunar return architecture.
A few weeks ago, I solicited suggestions for additions to the space blogroll, and am embarrassed to admit that I never got around to doing the update, so here’s a second call. If you have a partial or fully space blog that you think that Transterrestrial readers will find interesting, point it out in comments (in other words, I’m actually inviting comment spammers to post here, as long as it’s the right flavor), and I’ll try to actually do an update this time, but if nothing else, you’ll get a little PR from the comments section.
A Blast From The Past
“J. Random American” has a bit of fascinating deja vu from Aviation Week about Shuttle tile repair, and some good questions to which I don’t know the answers off the top of my head:
The similarity of the rest of the system to the original tps repair kit makes me curious about the circumstances under which the original tps repair system development was abandoned. Do we have some new 21st century technology that is essential to making it work which just wasn