In their “priceless” advertising campaign, MasterCard offers that playing TPC Sawgrass, going to a baseball game, or buying your son an electric guitar are cherished things. In fact, these things are alleged to be so cherished as to be priceless even though they can, if fact, be charged to your MasterCard. With that laid down [...]
Archive for June 20, 2011
Space Collision Avoidance Notices? Priceless
Posted: June 20, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Collision Avoidance, Free-Rider, Moral Hazard, Space Security, Space Situational Awareness
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“Space Partnering” Means More U.S. Funded Space Work For Europe?
Posted: June 20, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Globalization, International Space, NASA, NASA Administrator
If this is space partnering, I don’t get it. While there’s tons of discussion regarding the health of the U.S. space industrial base, our need to compete, and the effects of globalization, the NASA Administrator offers this: “It is my hope that we’ll be able to have Europeans in the critical path somewhere in the [...]
In The Real World, Bad Ideas Die; In Washington, They Get More Funding
Posted: June 20, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Arms Control, Conventional Test Ban Treaty, CTBT
The Conventional Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), last rejected by the Senate in 1999 continues to get pushed by the administration. So is it green to recycle bad ideas? Check out the in-house CTBT take-down here, or today’s NRO version here. From the NRO link: We haven’t tested our nukes since 1992. (Yikes!) Since then, Pakistan, [...]
New Global Zero Tact
Posted: June 20, 2011 in Songs of Space and Nuclear WarTags: Global Zeros, Nuclear Disarmament
The Global Zeros want the world to go to zero nuclear weapons. People in Hell want ice water, too. As for myself, I’d like a time machine. The Global Zero organization has a decided Western European slant; their webpage is available in English, French, and German. Some Global Zeros stand on the position that nuclear [...]
