Posted in Informative Articles, Opinion on Mar 1st, 2006
[Antarctica, Arctic, Exploration, NOVA, PBS, Space Exploration]Last night, PBS aired a two-part series on NOVA about the search for the Northwest Passage and two of the most famous Arctic explorers, John Franklin and Roald Amundsen. As I watched I realized something that helped to put much of the discussion about Martian exploration into perspective: […]
Posted in Informative Articles, Opinion on Feb 23rd, 2006
[Michigan State University, Nuclear Physics, Physics, Rare Isotope Accelerator, Science]I have been happily attending Michigan State University since the fall of 1999. It has awarded me undergraduate degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Astrophysics, and is now hosting and funding my studies in the hydrological geosciences. Based in East Lansing, Michigan, MSU is only […]
Posted in Opinion on Feb 17th, 2006
[Alt.Space, LiftPort, Mars Society, Space, Space Elevator, Space Exploration]Fans of the Space Elevator (a great Wikipedia entry) concept may be aware of the company LiftPort whose stated goal is to build an elevator to geosynchronous orbit by April 12th, 2018 (they have a counter on their website). LiftPort recently achieved a milestone in development […]
Posted in Opinion on Feb 14th, 2006
[Education, Higher Education, incompetence, No Child Left Behind, Reform]A cold shudder ran down my spine this morning listening to a Morning Edition report about the Bush Administration’s planning on how to improve higher education in this country. Here’s what I wish the report had said:
Sensitive to the importance of higher education in this country, […]
Posted in Informative Articles, Opinion on Feb 12th, 2006
[Budget Cuts, NASA, Planetary Science, Science, Space Exploration, Terrestrial Planet Finder, TPF]Few scientific challenges are more important than determining if life on Earth is alone in the universe. Over the last ten years we have found almost two-hundred extrasolar planets, but none that seem likely to harbor life as we know it. Such […]
Posted in Opinion on Feb 8th, 2006
[Caricatures, Censorship, Freedom of Speech, Islam, Mohammed, Racism]There seems to be a fundamental difference between the way that Europeans (including Russia, sorry to geographically offend any Russians), and Americans have reacted to the controversy over the Mohammed caricatures. Officially, European countries are vocally for the cartoons while our newspapers and government officials have spoken […]
Posted in Opinion on Feb 5th, 2006
[Caricatures, Censorship, Climate Change, Islam, Mohammed, NASA, Science]I’ve been busy these past few days, but I have gotten a chance to read some truly good blog discussion about two issues that get my blood boiling. So I thought today I would mention them both, because censorship has very much to do with human progress. […]
Posted in In The News, Opinion on Jan 28th, 2006
[Hostages, Iraq, Military, War]News broke yesterday that U.S. military documents revealed that on at least two occasions, the wives of suspected Iraqi insurgents had been taken to use as “leverage” to garner the surrender of the suspects.
The AP reported was dated at approximately 3:00 PM yesterday afternoon, but where are the stories this […]
Posted in Informative Articles, Opinion on Jan 26th, 2006
[Energy, Nuclear Power, Pebble Bed, Proliferation, Renewable, Reprocessing, Wind Energy]Today the Washington Post published an article detailing the Administration’s plans to reprocess and distribute spent nuclear fuel from abroad. Also part of the mix would be legislation intended to encourage the development of new nuclear power plants. The time for discussion of nuclear […]
Posted in In The News, Opinion on Jan 23rd, 2006
[Alt.Space, Rocket Company, Space, Space Advocacy, Space Exploration, The Space Review]
The Space Review is uniquely positioned as the premier forum for discussion of space policy.
Good morning! This happens to be the first Monday that I’ve been at my blogging post for quite some time, and I was pleased to tune my RSS reader to […]
