Popular Mechanics Analyzes the Candidates

I suppose I should not stand on a political soap box - BUT -
if you live in the USA you in the middle of much political debate.

Where NASA and the thought of going to the Moon, Mars, and Beyond is going will be tempered by what is happening in the real world, both local and global.

The Popular Mechanics article has some links where you may choose to add your 2 cents worth to the candidates.

Will be interesting to see what will be left to look up at after the elections. The return on investment may well need to contribute to solving the energy crises.

Maybe someone will come up with a way to send a mechanical spider to space that can spin a solar net that will capture the energy from the Sun and space and know how to repair itself when hit by space debris. You too may be able to catch some rays.

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

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http://actionforspace.blogspot.com/2008/04/popular-mechanics-analyzes-candidates.html
Thursday, April 24, 2008Popular Mechanics Analyzes the Candidates Popular Mechanics systematically exposes that all 3 presidential candidates are soft on space. McCain will freeze the budget, Hillary focuses on a ensuring expensive government capability to do what COTS is trying to do, and Obama is stately against expensive and dangerous human spaceflight.
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4260504.htmlHow Clinton, Obama and McCain Could Change U.S. Space Policy: Geek the Vote Guest Analysis snipThe Bottom LineFor voters already behind NASA's targeted human spaceflight, don't get your hopes up—none of the three major candidates are likely to fund the current plan, because they'll all face the budgetary pressures implied by an aging population and a burgeoning federal deficit. snip
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http://www.spacepolitics.com/2008/04/14/the-coming-nasa-budget-crunch/
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Preliminary thermal modeling accounts for some (but not all) of the Pioneer Anomaly

Apr. 17, 2008 19:59 PDT Apr. 18 02:59 UTC

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 9:45 AM, LARRY KLAES wrote:

To quote from The Planetary Society blog:
The Pioneer Anomaly: April 13, 2008 presentation Slava Turyshev reported on the progress of thermal modeling of the Pioneer 10 spacecraft at the American Physical SocietyMeeting in St. Louis, Missouri on April 13, 2008.

The completepresentation may be downloaded here (PDF format, 7.2 MB).
http://planetary.org/blog/article/00001400/

Thanks for the link.- LRK -

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If anyone is interested in the Pioneer Anomaly paper that provides the information as to
where the data Slava Turyhev is using came from, you can down load the paper here.
- LRK -
http://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0512121 The Study of the Pioneer Anomaly: New Data and Objectives for New Investigation Authors: Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth, Larry R. Kellogg, Eunice. L. Lau, Kyong J. Lee(Submitted on 21 Dec 2005 (v1), last revised 6 Mar 2006 (this version, v2))
http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/gr-qc/pdf/0512/0512121v2.pdf

The file on the complete APS presentation seemed to take a very, very long time to access the Amazon.com server.
http://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/misc/Pioneer-Anomaly-TPS-20080417.pdf

Nice presentation, recognize Viktor Toth's work with MDR data.
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Phil Plait's Moon Hoax London Speech - Report

Maurizio sent me a copy of his post about seeing Phil Plait talk about the Moon Hoax.
Copied below.

There are still some that seem to think we never went to the Moon and yet scientists have been studying the materials brought back for some time.
Maybe we should just action off Moon Rocks and make some expensive Lunar Jewelry.
Hope we start bringing stuff back again and that it goes on a World Tour. :-)

Thanks for looking up with me.

And thanks even more to you who have woken me up from time to time. :-)

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Hello Larry

Just back from attending a speech on the Moon Hoax by renowned Phil
Plait aka "The Bad Astronomer". Perhaps your reader may find it
interesting?

regards
maurizio

http://omnologos.wordpress.com/2008/04/21/phil-plaits-moon-hoax-london-speech-report/
I had the honour to attend tonight in London a speech by Phil Plait
"The Bad Astronomer" on the "Moon Hoax Hoax" (i.e. the hoax perpetrated
by those that believe the Apollo manned lunar landings were a fake).

The presentation was organized by the UK's Skeptic Magazine as part of
their Skeptics in the Pub's monhtly gathering, taking advantage of
Plait's schedule in-between his Colorado home and a visit to the Large
Hadron Collider in Geneva.

In front of a large crowd downstairs at the in Holborn, Plait chose to
wear a hat after dazzling us with an impressive hairdo (or lack
thereof).

So how to respond to people still clinging to the odd notion that NASA
has been able to pull off a multi-decadal hoax involving tens of
thousands of people, something much more difficult that actually
landing on the Moon itself? The Bad Astronomer went through familiar
questions and answers, here summarized:

(1) No stars in Moon photographs? Obviously not. Those are pictures of
bright spacesuits and a bright terrain directly hit by the Sun's rays.

(2) Shadows are not parallel, "demonstrating" multiple light sources?
First of all, multiple light sources cause multiple shadows, and there
is none of that in the Apollo pictures. Furthermore, shadows are not
parallel on Earth either: it's called perspective!!!

(3) Astronaut's suits in the dark shadows on the Moon are not black? Of
course not, they are illuminated by the surrounding, bright lunar
surface.

(4) Waving flags on the Moon? Sure, with nothing much to dampen any
vibration, that's exactly what to expect.

(5) No crater from the LEM's landing engine? Large thrust, over a
large surface, means low pressure, hence...

(6) No flames from departing LEM's upper half in Apollo 17 video?
Flames are only visible for certain types of rocket fuel. Even the
Space Shuttle's main engines produce a barely visible blue flame at
take-off.

There are two main problems with "moon hoaxers": one, as Plait pointed
out, is that they choose to tell only that part of the truth that suits
them. The second, if I may add, is that they invariably never ever
reveal what evidence would convince them to change their mind.

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I have only one remark for the Bad Astronomer: sometimes he goes too
hard for it. All Moon-hoaxers' claims I have seen so far are already
ridiculous enough. Is it really necessary to build jokes around stuff
that is already laughable on its own?

Anyway...it's been great to meet somebody that enrolled me some time
ago as one of his minions.

Here some pictures from the evening�
[see at the bottom of Maurizio's blog. - LRK -]

Maurizio - Omnologos

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