Tag Archives: Space

And the Bowl of Petunias Thought, “Oh No, Not Again”

4th
Aug. × ’12
By Roderick

This is supposed to happen tomorrow (CHT Reed Richter): It looks a tad tricky. If it succeeds, we can go into Randian rhapsodies about the triumph of human reason. If it fails, we can go into Hayekian jeremiads about the fatal conceit of top-down planning. So it’s all good.

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In Hoc Signo Vinces

24th
May. × ’12
By Roderick

From Christian News Wire. (CHT Bruce Majors; be sure to read the whole thing.) A Cross made from the Cross carried Around the World on foot by Arthur Blessitt (319 nations, island groups and territories almost 40,000 miles) Is ‘Now Orbiting The Earth’! The Cross went up on the SpaceX Falcon 9 Dragon Spacecraft. Celestis [...]

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SpaceX Marks the Spot

22nd
May. × ’12
By Roderick

The private space exploration company SpaceX has just launched an (unmanned) space capsule, headed for a rendezvous with the international space station. SpaceX is under contract to NASA, so this isn’t true privatisation yet; but at least it introduces a bit of independence. This seems an appropriate occasion to post once again a link to [...]

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What Did You Do Over Summer Break?

28th
May. × ’11
By Roderick

Monash undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie found the universe’s missing mass during hers.

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Cloaking Device

2nd
Feb. × ’10
By Roderick

Perhaps a new answer to the question “Where is everybody?” (CHT LRC.)

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Ashes on Earth, Phoenix on Mars

25th
May. × ’08
By Roderick

And still worse news: shouting huckster and semi-liberventionist Wayne A. Root is the running mate. In better news, the Phoenix has landed.

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