Orion Launch Abort System Assembly
Great rocket-scientist photo of the day: The launch abort system being fitted to a dummy CEV housing in preparation of February testing at White Sands, NM. Note the “spares” in the top left.
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Geo-Political Hot Spots of 2009
We are one month into 2009, and it is shaping up as one of the more dynamic years in my lifetime for geo-politics. As long as the economies around the world were expanding, everyone could be or pretend to be fat, dumb and happy. How that the global flood of easy money has evaporated, many […]
Japan’s Got The Idea!
Word from CNN that Canon of Japan has struck upon a novel idea that is actually more insightful than they may know. In a country where 12-hour workdays are common, the electronics giant has taken to letting its employees leave early twice a week for a rather unusual reason: to encourage them to have more […]
I may have my disagreements with Pres. Obama…
…but even I don’t think he deserves this: The website says this is the “determined pose”. The George W. Bush Chia Pet appears to have been discontinued. ..bruce w..
Holy crap…look what we did with the credit market!
Courtesy of a long chain of links (here’s where I found the graphic, over at Megan McArdle’s outstanding blog), here’s a chart showing total credit market debt as a percentage of US GDP: I’m not sure that vastly expanding the money supply in the United States is the right answer. ..bruce w..
Goat Detained Over Armed Robbery
This reminds me of a series of riots in Lagos some time ago where there were “black sorcerers” that were stealing men’s genitals. It seems that blaming some evil magic is a viable explanation for almost anything. Ah Nigeria! LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery. […]
Holy crap…look what the Fed’s done with the money supply
Pardon my French, but everything else that came to mind was even more profane. Courtesy of The Corner at National Review Online comes the link to this chart showing how the Fed has pumped up the money supply lately: That little tiny blip around 2000 is apparently when the Fed “flooded” the money supply in […]
A sense of liberation and relief…for me, at least
Earlier today, I watched live TV coverage of the second White House press briefing by new White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (the first was yesterday). To their credit, the White House press corps were not at all easy on Gibbs, perhaps due to some growing frustrations with President Obama and his interactions (or lack […]
The long, slow death of news magazines
I grew up in a family that always subscribed to Time magazine, and I started reading it at a fairly young age. But when I went off to college in 1971, I decided to conduct an experiment. At that time, the three major weekly news magazines — Time, Newsweek, and US News & World Report […]
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