NASA: Nanny of AmeriSoc

Hansen's Boyz do Bloomberg And, Once Upon a Free Nation, NASA made the dream of human star-travel almost possible..... kinda hard,now, to believe; ain't it?

Chicago Uber Alles

The Peace Presidency is at hand.

Kagan Alone Has Looked Upon Corruption Pure

She is to American Law what Benedict Arnold was to West Point. The one who seeks responsibility in order to destroy.

The Dialectic Works in Mysterious Bleu State Ways

All hail the Party Theoreticians of the St. Petersburg and Leningrad regions!

Good Luck, and Don't Fuck This Up For Us...

Click on the title link. Then use the magnifying glass to zoom in on the article. Such topics are:

"ALGORITHMS, MOFO! DO YOU SPEAK IT?! So how can you sum up the last 10,000 years of scientific discovery in a completely universal way? Easy: MATH. The aliens won't know who Pythagoras was, but they'll sure as shit know his theorem. The right triangle will show our alien visitors, without any doubt, that humans are scientific-minded..."

What I Want for Christmas

[No,not my two front teeth]

Gimme! [No Coanda for you, Tecumseh]

Gore's Theorie, und Obama's Praxis.

If the Ameri-Socs have anything, it is the Audacity of Dope. The Idiotcracy made Flesh.

WTF FCP?

Russian and U.S. satellites smashing into one another hundreds of miles above earth and British and French subs bouncing off each other hundreds of yards below sea level. Now some bright streak shoots across Mr. Rot Arseman's Texas backyard? We should put Palin on the case, maybe we could get some kind of GUT out of her, no?

Planetary Gridlock

Note that at least one of the satellites was owned by Motorolla, a cellphone company.

Orbital fender bender

Get the Suitcases Out...

Barely 300 exoplanets -- some of which may have conditions similar to those that gave rise to life on Earth -- have been identified so far, though astronomers assume that far more are waiting to be discovered.

Groveling before the Imperator

Just before the presidential election, Griffin sent a letter to Obama saying, "I am deeply grateful to you, personally, for your leadership" on the vote to allow NASA to use Russian spaceships. Does NASA still exist? Last time I remember it doing something was 1969.

Another G.U.T.: Post-Einsteinian World

While general relativity is very successful in describing the gravitational interaction and the structure of space and time on large scales [205], quantum gravity is needed for the small-scale behavior. This is usually relevant when curvature, or in physical terms energy densities and tidal forces, becomes large. In cosmology this is the case close to the Big Bang, and also in the interior of black holes. We are thus able to learn about gravity on small scales by looking at the early history of the universe.

Starting with general relativity on large scales and evolving backward in time, the universe becomes smaller and smaller and quantum effects eventually become important.



Of course, I could've told you the same: Loop Quantum Cosmology happens all the time with the beer reserves (or depletion of) in my fridge. It's impossible to not take full account of the local -- at home -- beer supply.

Planetary Sanity Amongst the Naked Tree-Huggers?

A NASA illustration showing the newly discovered planet, Fomalhaut b, orbiting the star Fomalhaut. The brown and gold colors are a Saturn-like ring that astronomers say may encircle the planet. A vast disk of dust and debris surrounding Fomalhaut is shown in the background as the curving cloud-like feature that appears to intersect the 200-million-year-old star. The planet lies 1.8 billion miles inside the disk's inner edge. (ESA, NASA, and L. Calçada [ESO for STScI])

Another Reason to Take a Pisser

Is It Really Necessary?
I've got some in my fridge," he added. "It tastes fine to me."

Weighty Words & Light Paper

JJ, it sounds like this thing almost hit your house.

Snow White Does Mars

Coanda lives!

Is That Gold In That There Soil?

Well, maybe ice, maybe salts,..

Robins, Dinosaurs, Mars and NASA

When I look at birds, I think dinosaurs. Here's a nest full of little robins -- about 5 brothers and sisters total -- vestiges of those dinosaurs and such. The nest is, ah, nestled right above the driveway lamps between my folks' garage. I believe two of the five have already matured enough to leave the nest.

Also: NASA put some machine on Mars today, but how about getting NASA to think more about restructuring the organization to search for every space rock that is on its way to slamming into earth? The dinosaurs never had a program like that, and look how they ended up: as birds.