Well, this is bizarre. It seems the boys in black developed two Hubble sized telescopes for spying on earth’s surface, but the devices were never deployed and are now out of date … or something. So they’ve been turned over to NASA: [Read more…]
Well, this is bizarre. It seems the boys in black developed two Hubble sized telescopes for spying on earth’s surface, but the devices were never deployed and are now out of date … or something. So they’ve been turned over to NASA: [Read more…]
Odin and Internet willing (Speaking of which, don’t we need a patron saint of the Internet or a web god of some kind?) I will be posting results from the Wisconsin recall election this evening, at least until it becomes clear who is winning. Until then some background: [Read more…]
And by beauty we mean 700 °F pressure cooker topped with clouds of boiling sulfuric acid. Nevertheless, Venus is the brightest object in the night sky after the moon and the occasional visiting comet or even rarer nova, and the closest planet to earth. Later today it will make a rare transit between the earth and the sun the likes of which will not happen for another century: [Read more…]
Technically, wouldn’t god or gods or goddesses have to also qualify as non human intelligent aliens? That’s a great question, sadly, we can only explore the answer in fiction these days: [Read more…]
The latest polling in the Wisconsin recall could be a peek into the 2012 Presidential election: [Read more…]
I laughed when I saw this cartoon by Tom Tomorrow. But it turns out Drony has some brothers and sisters who aren’t quite as threatening: [Read more…]
Mars is a long ways away, and this is probably premature to say the least, but groups willing to colonise the Red Planet are already forming, some more credible than others: [Read more…]
Syrian President Bashar Assad claims his government had nothing to do with the bloody massacre of men, women, and children in a town named Houla last week and that not even monsters would so such a thing. He went on to insist the Syrian government, i.e., the Assad crime family, is only interested in peace: [Read more…]
Word is Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) was so buoyed by the recent slow down in the recovery that he called a closed-door meeting of House Republicans to review his gobs of jobs angle yesterday: [Read more…]
Reports have appeared that the US ran a cyber war program infecting the networks that manage Iranian centrifuges with computer viruses intended to slow down the production of weapons grade fissile material by the pariah nation: [Read more…]