I have been running around a lot the past few days, and I haven’t been keeping up with the news from NASA as much as I’d like. However, here are a few things to keep you busy over the weekend:
- A reprieve for Dawn? Maybe.
- Rep. Culberson on saving NASA science
- A CNN article critical of NASA’s Earth science decisions.
- This is a few days old, but NASA data from the satellite ICESat confirm that the polar ice sheet are melting at an accelerating rate. Just as important, the rates match very well with computer models made by scientists who study global warming. The irony of this is amusing to me, in a schadenfreude sort of way.
March 18th, 2006 at 1:07 pm
It’s probably not a good thing that the polar ice sheets are melting. We’d better stop monitoring them or at least not publish the data…..
March 18th, 2006 at 3:46 pm
Greetings from around the corne
The Infinity Society (which admits it probably is guilty of some bad science) claims to have an answer to countering the dangerous level
of scientific ignorance and unscientific thinking/methodology. Its answer is
part of a broader effort at promoting philosophical thinking an deep philosophical ideas. The melting of the polar ice sheets is beyond alarming, and the corruption of governments and institutions worldwide is
a very serious threat to all humanity and the biosphere as a whole. We hope our organization will get the attention and publicity will can ill affor to
pay for and which we dare claim to deserve. http://www.infinitysociety.org … because mass (social) phenomena effect is little understood and even less so taught at major institutions of higher learning.
March 18th, 2006 at 10:12 pm
And one of Spirit’s wheels has stopped working (found thanks to Slashdot)!
March 18th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
This part on the Dawn news report gets me:
“NASA headquarters declined to say what the new evidence was and refused to make Geveden available for an interview. JPL spokeswoman Veronica McGregor said the center had no comment pending the review.”
Mama Mia! There is _no new evidence_. There wasn’t logical reasons in the first place for the cancellation! The review is March 23. We hope it will be well.
March 19th, 2006 at 2:12 am
From Rep. John Culberson’s letter:
Yikes. Just. . . wow.
March 19th, 2006 at 2:27 am
It’s also worth noting that Rep. Culberson is a Republican from Texas described as an “up-and-coming House conservative”. Sorta reminds me of the judge who declared, “this is manifestly not an activist Court”, a moment before calling the Dover school board’s adoption of ID “breathtaking inanity”.
The left/right axis in the United States just doesn’t mean what it used to.
March 19th, 2006 at 6:43 am
Hmm…
Where are we going?
Why are we in a handbasket?
March 19th, 2006 at 7:00 am
I live at abut 25 ft. ASL – Beach party at my place in 2010?
March 20th, 2006 at 7:45 am
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot to mention that my guess turned out right: this Culberson guy represents the Seventh District, which is a chunk of — surprise, surprise — Houston, Texas. Four to one says this is pork barrel economics at work.
March 20th, 2006 at 12:19 pm
Yeah, but it’s good* pork barrel economics.
*Good, as in it’s my pet project.
March 20th, 2006 at 10:32 pm
It’s true!
Just look at these SHOCKING before andd after pictures of the Anatonauk Glacier!
Before: http://tinyurl.com/mhlog
After: http://tinyurl.com/rsdjd
It’s the End TImes, I tell you! the End Times!!
March 21st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
Life’s a beach…then you dive…