I’m not a fan of President George W. Bush. I really haven’t been since his first election win in 2000 when the politics surrounding the election essentially stole that election from Al Gore. However history is something that happens around you whether you want it to happen or not. There are some things you just […]
Read More →Gore is back in the news with his latest attempt at pushing forward a green agenda. That being for the US to try for 100% renewable energy within 10 years. Yes yes – all well and good. However in the process he has cited this call as being similar to JFK’s call to put a man […]
Read More →In the news today is more information about the growing ozone hole over Antarctica. Now it just happens that yesterday I was looking up information on the Earth’s magnetic field when I came across an interesting fact that I didn’t realize. The Earth’s magnetic field is weakening and has done so by at least 10% […]
Read More →Warren Buffett has provided an interesting proposal for the use of the Treasury moneys just recently passed by the US Congress and Senate. According to Buffett, allow people who do have funds available to invest to put up a 20% equity stake in the purchasing distressed assets with the Treasury providing the other 80%. In this […]
Read More →CNN reports today about NASA’s mid-life crisis and the agency having lost its way. In truth I feel that the lack of vision is not characteristic of a failure on NASA’s part to develop strategic policy but rather a lack of vision on the part of America‘s top administration to recognize the value such contribution […]
Read More →So here is a scary thought: Asteroid 2007 TU24 was discovered on October 11, 2007 and it was only determined on January 24th, 2008 to not be a threat. What is the problem here? The closest approach to Earth of this object was calculated to be just 5 days later. Now I don’t know about […]
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