“Shuttle’s Last Flight Leaves Russia With Space Monopoly”–headline, The Wall Street Journal, July 7
“USSR Wins Space Race as U.S. Shuts Down Shuttle Program”–headline, Onion, July 27
In the end, the U.S. is left to ponder an irony: It won the technological race to develop a space shuttle but lost the war. “You can argue that the Russians were on the right trajectory all along, by flying big, dumb boosters,” said Duke University space historian Alex Roland.
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The Norway Massacre: Born of Ideology or Belief? via
From Arne Fjeldstad: Belief? Ideology? Faith?”
It is not required that you have a personal relationship with God or Jesus in order to fight for our Christian cultural heritage and the European way. In many ways, our modern societies and European secularism is a result of European Christendom and the enlightenment. It is therefore essential to understand the difference between a “Christian fundamentalist theocracy” (everything we do not want) and a secular European society based on our Christian cultural heritage (what we do want).
The European cultural heritage, our norms (moral codes and social structures included), our traditions and our modern political systems are based on Christianity – Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and the legacy of the European enlightenment (reason is the primary source and legitimacy for authority).
Is Bachmann the media’s anti-Christ?
Yesterday, California became the first state to require gay history in public school textbooks. But Im thinking states might want to consider just focusing on basic history. Yesterdays news cycle was full of stories showing some pretty striking ignorance of the events of the 16th century.
The article links to Bachmanns Former Church says Papacy is Antichrist; Will it Matter?, which is quite entertaining.
How Frequent Fliers Exploit A Government Program To Get Free Trips (NPR)
Linked from News From The Future: Travel Hacking with Failed Government Currency (Make:)
This is perfectly legal. Note the differing titles, and the implied views of government.
From The Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Science
Scientists have been complaining for decades that, while they would be ashamed to admit knowing nothing about Jane Austen’s novels, literary colleagues can get away with total ignorance of relativity and quantum theory. Continue reading
There was a recent media kerfuffle about MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics), an alternative physical theory that supposedly eliminates the need to have dark matter be a major part of the universe.
Not content with anti-vaccination nonsense, which I have noted before, you can also find Pseudo-Astronomy at the Huffington Post.
Get the facts at Betelgeuse and 2012 and Will Betelgeuse Really Become a Second Sun in 2012?.
While WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is celebrating his $1 million-plus book deal on a 600-acre estate and enjoying his status as a lefty fringe hero, former cartoonist Molly Norris is in hiding.
The moral of this column is that in today’s world, cartoons, if they target Islam, can be more hazardous to your health than crossing the mighty U.S. government and its allies.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 