June 17, 2007
End Times Watch : Spaceblogging Edition
Two of the Brickmuppets crack team of science babes point us to this very complete, neat and well organized space-centric linkfest by one Ferris Valyn over at...
...The Daily Kos!?
Its a great post and looks like it will be an ongoing feature there. It is so good and generally pro-manned space and entrepreneurship that one wonders why he's a diarist at Kos....
...Oh.".BTW, a warning if you want to respond to Mark Whittington in the comments section - he is firmly of the belief that liberals/progressives/Democrats who support manned spaceflight, space development, and space colonization are freaks of nature, despite plenty of other evidence."
Ah...that explains it...total denial of the lessons of history.... :-P
Sorry Ferris, Whittington is right...(another "end times moment")...you are a freak of nature. There is no evidence that liberals/progressives/Democrats (who BTW generally are none of the above) are good for space or tech progress in general. They are too interested in hurting the successful and funding their well intentioned but counterproductive Ponzi schemes.
The idea that "we must solve all problems on earth before we go into space" is very much a mainstream one in lefty circles, The Dems in general....with the single exception of Edwards...maybe...seem to really dislike manned spaceflight. This has been true since the Mondale wing of the party took over and began attacking Apollo. It applies doubly to nuclear power and irradiated and genetically modified food. The left is in no way the friend of technological progress. *
Nevertheless, Ferris Valen, you are a worthy and welcome aberration and I salute you!
Partisan snarking aside, this really is one of the better space linkfests I've seen. I even agree (shudder)with several of his editorial points, as such, this is heartening proof that people on the utter opposite sides of the political spectrum can actually find common ground about things more substantive than restaurants and TV shows.
That this is such a surprise is a sad commentary on our times. This is how a Republic is supposed to work.
(A Democracy....not so much...but that's a post for a different time.)
*NOTE: As this blog leans to the right, there will, of course, be absolutely no mention of Leon Kass and and company.
Update: Kirk Sorensen points to another sign of the end times...a pro nuke Kossack......The end times are surely upon us... I must organize my MRE's and duct tape.
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...The Daily Kos!?
Its a great post and looks like it will be an ongoing feature there. It is so good and generally pro-manned space and entrepreneurship that one wonders why he's a diarist at Kos....
...Oh.".BTW, a warning if you want to respond to Mark Whittington in the comments section - he is firmly of the belief that liberals/progressives/Democrats who support manned spaceflight, space development, and space colonization are freaks of nature, despite plenty of other evidence."
Ah...that explains it...total denial of the lessons of history.... :-P
Sorry Ferris, Whittington is right...(another "end times moment")...you are a freak of nature. There is no evidence that liberals/progressives/Democrats (who BTW generally are none of the above) are good for space or tech progress in general. They are too interested in hurting the successful and funding their well intentioned but counterproductive Ponzi schemes.
The idea that "we must solve all problems on earth before we go into space" is very much a mainstream one in lefty circles, The Dems in general....with the single exception of Edwards...maybe...seem to really dislike manned spaceflight. This has been true since the Mondale wing of the party took over and began attacking Apollo. It applies doubly to nuclear power and irradiated and genetically modified food. The left is in no way the friend of technological progress. *
Nevertheless, Ferris Valen, you are a worthy and welcome aberration and I salute you!
Partisan snarking aside, this really is one of the better space linkfests I've seen. I even agree (shudder)with several of his editorial points, as such, this is heartening proof that people on the utter opposite sides of the political spectrum can actually find common ground about things more substantive than restaurants and TV shows.
That this is such a surprise is a sad commentary on our times. This is how a Republic is supposed to work.
(A Democracy....not so much...but that's a post for a different time.)
*NOTE: As this blog leans to the right, there will, of course, be absolutely no mention of Leon Kass and and company.
Update: Kirk Sorensen points to another sign of the end times...a pro nuke Kossack......The end times are surely upon us... I must organize my MRE's and duct tape.
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As far as progress goes, both buttocks of our political class are deeply reactionary. So Ferris is right in some way. The difference between them is, Democrats hate America and want it to lose, and Republicans... not so much. In case of space development, they both suck equally, and use the space policy as a pawn in political game.
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