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Voting On RobertsI addition to the liberal newspapers Ken Blanchard mentioned, add the LA Times as endorsing john Roberts for Chief Justice. I would argue that the bellwether for the Senate Democrats is not their leader, Harry Reid, but Hillary Clinton. Clinton...Denise Ross: "Is Hilde getting some revenge?"
From the Rapid City Journal blog Mt. Blogmore: By Denise Ross The FEC has sued the Club for Growth, and it?s all over that nonsensical anti-Daschle ad the group ran in the midst of all the other campaign ad clutter....College Football Saturday
It's a beautiful day outside, and did manage to get out for a little bit, but am still mostly housebound thanks to my nagging stitches. So I'm watching college football. Big surprise, eh? This morning while I was watching ESPN's...Thune Responds to USA Today
John Thune has responded to the Gannett/USA Today editorial that advocated the closing of Ellsworth:'Common sense' to maintain South Dakota base by Senator John Thune USA TODAY's editorial Cold War drags on ? forever ignored facts for fiction. When the...Space Elevator Concept Starts to Buzz
Dissent on the RightGoing Up?...all the way to Geosychronous Orbit
A couple of articles on a concept found in science fiction from Arthur C. Clarke and others: a tethered orbital elevator system! At first glance if one is unfamiliar with the concept it sounds like something from a hallucination - but the physics works, and with recent new developments in materials technology, the means are also now available.
The big advantage: CHEAP cost to orbit, especially compared to rocketry. Check these articles out: one from this weeks Sunday (London) Telegraph, and the other from none other than the big gorilla of the blogosphere hisself: Glenn "Instapundit" Reynolds writing on Tech Central Station.
Click on image to enlarge. (Image from liftport.com)The race is on to build the first "space elevator' - long dismissed as science fiction - to carry people and materials into orbit along a cable thousands of miles long.In a significant step, American aviation regulators have just given permission for the opening trials of a prototype, while a competition to be launched next month follows in the wake of the $10 million (£5.6 million) "X Prize'', which led to the first privately developed craft leaving the Earth's atmosphere, briefly, last year.Folks, this isn't pie in the sky conceptualizing - it's going into the engineering phase - that's about as concrete as it gets!
I've written here in the past about NASA's work on space elevators, and on the new leaner, meaner, prize-oriented approach favored by NASA Administrator Mike Griffin. Now there are some signs of real progress on a number of fronts. As I noted earlier, NASA was offering prizes for space elevator research. That's still going on, but there are some new studies suggesting that space elevators may be closer to practicality than previously thought.Indeed!
George W. Bush may have met his Waterloo with conservatives over the Katrina relief proposal. It's not just the proposal itself, but coupled with an unwillingness to reign in any government spending (such as on the highway bill), Bush is...Rita
Hurricane Rita is warming up, and the city of Galveston isn't taking chances. Residents of this island city packed up mementoes and pets and started evacuating Wednesday as Hurricane Rita intensified into a Category 4 storm with 135 mph winds...Kranz on Daschle Presidential Run
Daschle's old college publicity chairman Dave Kranz is writing about Daschle's possible run for President today:Daschle for president? Speaking at Iowa dinner DAVID KRANZFormer Sen. Tom Daschle set off speculation Tuesday that he might be interested in running for president...
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