Global Warning? Global Warming? Which is it? Well, probably both if you take the position of Al Gore, and many climate change scientists. As you know, Gore put together a slide show on the danger posed by the warming of Planet Earth, and then was approached by film...
I am in England, and in Hay, a town with more book stores than any other business, their annaul celebration of literacy is to be held. One of the books and film, An Inconvient Truth, is to be featured. Apparently, the organizers of the Hay conference are very...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake which hit the city at 5.12 a.m. on that day. In an earlier post, I commented on the significance of the 1906 earthquake, and recommended a book by Simon Winchester, A Crack in the Edge of the...
In the last post I reported that new goals for NASA, established by the current Administration, not only involve sending astronauts to Mars, but a return series of trips to the moon. Instead of Apollo, the astronauts will travel in an "apollo-like" spacecraft called...
Last year, President Bush established a goal for NASA that would put astronauts on Mars by 2020. This has naturally impacted (intended) NASA's budget. Although the NASA budget will increase this year, many projects that are much smaller in scope than completing the...
Last year, President Bush established a goal for NASA that would put astronauts on Mars by 2020. This has naturally impacted (intended) NASA's budget. Although the NASA budget will increase this year, many projects that are much smaller in scope than completing the...
