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Since all discussion of the presidential election is now of academic interest only, and since we're talking about subjective impressions, there's this: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/palin-gives-more-to-charity-than-biden-despite-less-income-2008-10-03.html Which is consistent with the...

To me, the main benefit that COULD be gained from the ISS is the experience in systems development and implementation for on-orbit construction and long-term space operations. Of course, NASA, seems hell-bent on not harvesting any of that wonderful experience. Now, if the station were to be...

I'm speaking from memory here, but I think she actually referred to "Shia terrorists" as an adjunct to and not an adjective of bin Laden. I remember it, because I was impressed with the detail, having held my breath every time she started to use details. As for impressions, well, as I've said...

Unfortunately, because these are spacecraft3.dll vessels, the scenario editor won't work on them. I know there's a "fix" for this by which you create a .cfg file that leads you to sc3 and the appropriate .ini file, but I've honestly never looked into that closely enough to know how to do it...

Again, just curious: Where did you see the news item to which you are referring?

So, seriously -- obviously the majority sentiment on this forum is pro-Obama, so I'd really like to know -- did the media outlets you see have any discussion of Biden's misstatements of fact?

I'm wondering whether our friends who depend on outlets like the New York Times, the LA Times, The Washington Post, tec., or non-American newspapers have heard anything at all about whether Biden made any mistakes of fact or made any mistatement in the debate? Anything? I'm not asking what...

Green dogma in action: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4836556.ece

You're right, and of course I don't really wish my Dad had listened to Kennedy and Lindbergh. But, honestly, I think the possibility of dialogue at this point is too small to be worth pursuing. The kind of outrageous insult you flung above makes me think that there just aren't enough shared...

Once again you say something that makes me wish my father's generation had listened to Joe Kennedy and Charles Lindbergh.

Well, a comment based on my experience with the JSC Saturn V project: Raising money for such things is much, much more difficult than I had imagined. Without strong allies who already have positions of power and wealth, it's basically not possible to raise more than small sums. FWIW, we had...

Try for just a second to drop the partisanship, ok? My point was that Biden completely mangled the history. He'll get a complete pass on this -- no serious criticism from the press at all, mark my words. Had Palin done this, we'd be hearing about it wall to wall. My point was about process...

Perhaps the best thing to do would be to go to the people who are really running the aerospace industries and organize THEM to approach whoever is the real political power (I assume Putin) and propose the formation of a national air & space museum, as a matter of national pride. The Smithsonian...

At the most fundamental level, the logic behind such huge support behind Obama from "lawyers" generally is the fact that undertakers do well in a plague. Lawyers thrive on laws, and the expectation is that there will be a lot more laws in an Obama administration, supported by a Congress with...

Thanks for this post -- it's always nice to have some input from someone who actually knows what they're talking about :lol: If you go back and read the material surrounding the drafting of the US Constitution as an indication of "original intent" (which, BTW, is a perfectly legitimate and...

Ownership and care of things like this tend to get transferred to the Smithsonian in the US. I learned about this when I got involved in raising money to restore the Saturn V at JSC and build a protective enclosure for it. It's an interesting "public-private partnership" unlike just about any...

I'm about to unplug to go watch Palin get destroyed by that great statesman, Joe "Plugs" Biden. I only posted a link to the piece that started that discussion because my "Enlightenment bona fides were being question. When the topic veered off as a result, I started another thread about those...

Oh yeah!?!? And who says democracy is such a great thing, anyway!?!?!? Just kidding. Sort of. Anyway, for those not familiar with the intricacies of the case, Bush v. Gore presented to the US Supreme Court the relatively narrow issue of whether it was constitutional to apply different...

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... sigh ... First "faithless electors": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector As you can see, a near majority of states now have laws REQUIRING electors to vote in accord with popular vote, and the exhaustive list of "faithless electors" in that Wiki article is, under the...