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March 27th, 2012 | Tags: | Category: Miscellaneous | Comments are closed

400 Seconds with the SRBs

This is one of the coolest space videos I have ever seen:

March 18th, 2012 | Category: Entertainment, Rocket Science, Space Technology | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Lessons in Nuclear Safety from Fukushima

Technology Review has a short article on what has been learned since the meltdowns last year – What We Learned About Nuclear Safety From Fukushima:

Reactors and radioactive materials at Fukushima Daiichi were destabilized by back-to-back beyond design-basis events. First was the magnitude 9.0 earthquake that felled the plant’s power lines, triggering diesel generators to […]

March 8th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Enginastery, Science & Engineering, Useful Technology | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Limbaugh and ProFlowers.com

Interesting factoid: ProFlowers.com, currently “suspending” its advertising on the Rush Limbaugh show over the manufactured Sandra Fluke/contraception “controversy, was founded by Congressman Jared Polis (D-Boulder).

March 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: politics | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Vetting Obama

The first in a series, it would appear – The Vetting, Part I: Barack’s Love Song To Alinsky:

From today through Election Day, November 6, 2012, we will vet this president–and his rivals.

We begin with a column Andrew wrote last week in preparation for today’s Big relaunch–a story that should swing the first hammer […]

March 4th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: politics, PPC | Comments are closed

Commercial Spaceport for Colorado?

It’s apparently on the mind of the Governor and some legislators here in Colorado:

When I first heard mention of this last week, I scoffed because it struck me as just another bandwagon-jumping scheme akin to “green energy”. But as the video points out, there are good reasons to consider a spaceport in Colorado […]

March 3rd, 2012 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Economics, Space Commerce | One comment - (Comments are closed)

MarsBlog’s Ten Year Bloggiversary

…was actually last Thursday, but I’ve been so swamped for the past week I haven’t had time to celebrate.

The first post in the MarsBlog archives originated on Blogger, and had to do with the discovery of evidence of flood volcanism on Mars involving a volume of water the size of Lake Erie. In reality, […]

March 2nd, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Meta, Writing | Comments are closed