http://www.marsblog.net/ Commentary on Mars-related news items and space topics in general. en-us T.L. James Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:50:28 -0700 http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001961.html If you want an unfiltered look at the goings on at the DNC convention in Denver over the next week, here is your site: Peoples Press Collective: According to recent news articles, the Democratic Party, its fundraisers, various lobbyist groups,... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001960.html I was discussing the recent launch failure with a former coworker, one who is now on the defense side of the aerospace business. He, having a somewhat jaundiced opinion of SpaceX, opined that he would think long and hard about... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001959.html And here's the promised pictures of Morskie Oko (Poland)... And Mala Studena Dolina (Slovakia)... So, did I miss anything? Oh yes...another SpaceX rocket blew up while I was out of town. Which makes it the magical number three for the... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001958.html Finally made it out of the Tatras and into Prague this morning (explaining the lack of posting over the past two weeks - I left in a rush and didn't post an "on vacation" entry). I wanted to post some... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001957.html It looks like PETA isn't entirely a punchline, after all: PETA Offers $1 Million Reward to First to Make In Vitro MeatPETA is offering a $1 million prize to the contest participant able to make the first in vitro chicken... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001956.html This is cool -- a little something extra from an old spacecraft: NASA's Deep Impact Films Earth as an Alien World... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001955.html I'm not quite sure why, but when I saw the movie poster here, the first thing that came to mind was this. I would swear I saw a movie poster or still from the latter with a similar sunrise (or... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001954.html LM is passing out free American flags non-environmentally-sensitive symbols of jingoistic nationalism and AmeriKKKan racism, imperialism, sexism, queerism, theism, and fillintheblankism at Thursday night's Rockies game, and disaffected suburban rapper poseurs aren't happy about it. Well, I guess I have... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001953.html A hat tip or even just a link would have been nice, Dwayne. Especially if you're going to take my point as one of your own. As an amusing aside, when one follows the Google search link he does provide,... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001952.html Space Adventures Charters Entire Russian SpacecraftNow Space Adventures has upped the ante by buying not just one seat aboard one of the expendable Soyuz spacecraft that have been the mainstay of the Russian space program since the 1960s, but an... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001951.html Interesting...Unbelievably, this is not science fiction. Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001950.html Behold: The Ron Paul Rocket. No...really... The Ron Paul Revolution is producing a spaceship for the purpose of lifting a payload into space so the entire Universe may receive Ron Paul's message for as long as we can maintain electricity.... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001949.html Oddly, given the ubiquity of photo and video devices nowadays, this is something you don't see every day: The Denver man who is pushing a ballot measure to have the city form an "ET Commission" showed video of what he... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001948.html After a weekend in Moab, I can see why the Mars Society picked the Utah desert for one of its research stations. Pretty martian.... http://www.marsblog.net/archives/001947.html A distracting side-effect I've experienced from reading Goldberg's Liberal Fascism is a newfound mental habit of playing Spot the Fascist Tendencies with everything I read. Case in point: "The Overview Effect," a phrase coined in the book of the same...