That big sunspot that SoHo spotted a few days ago has given birth to a healthy solar flare: [Read more…]
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That big sunspot that SoHo spotted a few days ago has given birth to a healthy solar flare: [Read more…]
XCOR was founded in 1999 and has grown from those four original founders, working out of a tiny hangar, to a team of two dozen highly skilled and talented employees housed in a 10,000 square foot hangar in Mojave, California. The employees of XCOR don’t just dream of affordable spaceflight, they are rapidly making it a reality. I had a chance this week to visit with one of them, company CEO Jeff Greason. [Read more…]
Once a self-described stalwart protector of Medicare, Mittens has pulled one his characteristic spine-snapping flip-flops and now wants to deprive millions of Americans of the benefits we paid for: [Read more…]
Unemployment extensions expire at the end of this year, along with the Bush tax cuts, and it’s a near metaphysical certainty that conservatives will hold the former hostage to benefit the same zillionaires we bailed out: [Read more…]
Felis Cattus, is your taxonomic nomenclature, an endothermic quadruped carnivorous by nature. Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses, contribute to your hunting skills and natural defenses. [Read more…]
A second protestors has been seriously injured by police in Occupay Oakland, this one also a veteran:
Kayvan Sabehgi, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, is in intensive care with a lacerated spleen. He says he was beaten by police close to the Occupy Oakland camp, but despite suffering agonising pain, did not reach hospital until 18 hours later.
The spleen is a vascular organ, it bleeds profusely when damaged. People die every day from that exact injury. Sabehgi survived 18 hours with no treatment in a jail cell before officers took his condition seriously. At last report he was being prepped for surgery.
If you haven’t seen the sickening video of Judge William Adams beating the living shit out of his disabled daughter, I’ve placed it below the fold. Fair warning, it will make you ill. What’s incomprehensible isn’t just that this nut is a sitting state Judge who has presided over child abuse cases. What’s amazing is the Texas DA whining that the sick perp can’t be prosecuted because the statute of limitations has passed for 16 year-olds. According to a legal expert on MSNBC, the statute has not passed for younger children, and the victim and her mother have both stated this was a pervasive pattern of violence that went on for years before and after 2004 when the video was shot. If so, how could a DA not know that and why aren’t they investigating it right now? [Read more…]
I’m not sure what cave Michael Bloomberg has been buried in for the last 30 years, but he apparently emerged this week and discovered, to his shock, that his former party does not believe in science: [Read more…]
If you make your living on the Internet you notice every little bump and fart that comes along. It’s been farting alot this week for me. This odious phenomenon is marked by webpages that take their sweetass time to load, and it’s been happening on wicked fast work PCs and my more humble home set up. [Read more…]
If you’re a wonder junkie like me, and not reading Ethan Siegal’s blog, Starts with a Bang!, you’re missing out. This post on why cosmologists think our universe is part of a multiverse is one of the best I’ve ever read. And it was from another of his superb pieces that I swiped the video below the jump showing a binary neutron star system decaying via gravity waves and merging into a single hot, throbbing mass. [Read more…]