for a week and then totally away for perhaps ten days.
Archive for June, 2009
Coal is Bad
Posted in Climate, Demotivation, Energy, idiocracy, tagged coal, nuclear, TVA on Wednesday 2009.06.24 | Leave a Comment »
And there could have been much less of its use – but the alternatives of the past lay in half finished ruins. Kirk Sorensen explores them and their history concisely.
Grand total: 85,000 tons of coal each day that TVA wouldn’t be burning.
Midsummer
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Architecture, Augustine, Panel on Thursday 2009.06.18 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve to leave for a friend’s summer cottage in a bit.
Meanwhile, I give you people who to refer to; people who “get it”:
Clark Lindsey at Rlvnews, Jon Goff at Selenian Boondocks, Rand Simberg at Transterrestrial Musings, Monte Davis (get him to testify please!!), probably Henry Spencer as well. I’m quite sure Jeff Greason in the [...]
Augustine Panel Session 1, comment 3
Posted in Architecture, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged Atlas, Augustine, Delta, EELV, Gass, orion, ULA on Wednesday 2009.06.17 | 3 Comments »
It seems ULA finally got out in the public with their opinion on how long and what it would take to launch manned stuff or Orion with their rockets.
It only took four years, laboring under threatening and suppression. What a refreshing happening!
Great work, whoever decided the panel would work openly! Was it Holdren, Augustine, Obama, [...]
The Panel’s First Session, Comment2
Posted in Depot, NASA, RLV:s, Spacecraft, industry, tagged augustine panel on Wednesday 2009.06.17 | Leave a Comment »
The future is shaping as we watch.
Senator Nelson pointing out how little there is money and how past budgets have been very unrealistic.
I will bet on the following:
ISS will continue beyond 2015. There will be a no frills capsule flying on an EELV. No heavy lifter for the time being.
First big thing
Posted in Architecture, Models, NASA, RLV:s, Science, Spacecraft, industry, tagged Augustine on Wednesday 2009.06.17 | Leave a Comment »
I think it’s Doug Cooke, presenting NASA things to the panel:
Key exploration objectives slide:
2. To ensure sustainability, development and operations costs must be minimized
Oh my.
Next thing: [these things] “drives you to heavy lift”. Excuse me?
EDIT:
Of all these goals in the slide, Ares I goes directly AGAINST each, except maybe for point 6, separate crew from [...]
Augustine Panel First Hearing
Posted in Architecture, Depot, Models, NASA, RLV:s, Science, Spacecraft, Suborbital on Wednesday 2009.06.17 | Leave a Comment »
Ongoing.
Norm Augustine
You can stream NASA TV with VLC, just paste this link into it:
http://www.nasa.gov/55644main_NASATV_Windows.asx
Adventures Inside the Atom
Posted in Energy, Science on Sunday 2009.06.07 | Leave a Comment »
Adventures Inside the Atom, a great way to learn how the nuclear reactions work – for both adults and kids. Click on the picture to go to the site.
Tim on Tim
Posted in Astronomy, Demotivation, Journalism, Science, idiocracy, tagged Al Gore, solar, Tim Blair, Tim Lambert on Sunday 2009.06.07 | Leave a Comment »
Tim Lambert exposes another one of Tim Blair’s articles. How can Blair be one of Australia’s top bloggers (in terms of traffic)? Just read some comments at Blair’s – they’re horrible excercises in outrage based on completely false information. The article ultimately linked to that’s supposed to be the source of all this knowledge doesn’t [...]
