Comments on: One Last Vote for 2008 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/12/19/60/ A Peculiar, Yet Refreshing, Blog Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:53:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: morroh http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/12/19/60/#comment-151 morroh Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:12:41 +0000 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/12/19/60/#comment-151 I probably haven't read every listing, but to me the amazing thing is how Big Oil has tried to use advertising to convince people they are going "green" and using new technology like "clean coal" (can you say "clean fart") to help solve global warming. What a joke. I don't think space exploration is our next big priority. I probably haven’t read every listing, but to me the amazing
thing is how Big Oil has tried to use advertising to convince people they are going “green” and using new technology like “clean coal” (can you say “clean fart”)
to help solve global warming. What a joke. I don’t think
space exploration is our next big priority.

]]> By: aurora_guy http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/12/19/60/#comment-142 aurora_guy Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:35:02 +0000 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/12/19/60/#comment-142 "President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China. "Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015, according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team." http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090102/pl_bloomberg/aovrno0oj41g History has yet to prove any combined effort between NASA and DoD can work effectively. For example, collaboration between NASA, DoD, and NOAA has not worked out so well in the example of the next-generation of weather satellites, known as National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). DoD has dominated the effort for a decade causing unnecessary risk-taking and enormous cost escalation. (http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive06/Npoess_072406.html) “President-elect Barack Obama will probably tear down long-standing barriers between the U.S.’s civilian and military space programs to speed up a mission to the moon amid the prospect of a new space race with China.

“Obama’s transition team is considering a collaboration between the Defense Department and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration because military rockets may be cheaper and ready sooner than the space agency’s planned launch vehicle, which isn’t slated to fly until 2015, according to people who’ve discussed the idea with the Obama team.”

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20090102/pl_bloomberg/aovrno0oj41g

History has yet to prove any combined effort between NASA and DoD can work effectively. For example, collaboration between NASA, DoD, and NOAA has not worked out so well in the example of the next-generation of weather satellites, known as National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS). DoD has dominated the effort for a decade causing unnecessary risk-taking and enormous cost escalation. (http://www.space.com/spacenews/archive06/Npoess_072406.html)

]]> By: bbbeard http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/12/19/60/#comment-129 bbbeard Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:15:31 +0000 http://blog.bbbeard.com/2008/12/19/60/#comment-129 Well, from my myopic perspective, not much has happened science-wise this year -- <a href=http://www.physorg.com/news145029766.html rel="nofollow">outside of the tantalizing results from CDF....</a> <a href=http://www.universetoday.com/2008/09/20/helium-leak-forces-lhc-shutdown-for-at-least-two-months/ rel="nofollow">Also, the disappointing startup pains of LHC. New physics, next year.</a> BBB Well, from my myopic perspective, not much has happened science-wise this year —
outside of the tantalizing results from CDF….

Also, the disappointing startup pains of LHC. New physics, next year.

BBB

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