SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches: Less government regulation in action

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19867358

The first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS) has lifted off.

A Falcon rocket carrying a Dragon cargo capsule lifted clear of Cape Canaveral in Florida at 20:35 (00:35 GMT).

The robotic Dragon ship will deliver 400kg of food, clothing, experiments and spares to the orbiting platform's six astronauts.

It is the maiden flight in a sequence of 12 missions that California's SpaceX company is performing for Nasa.

The US space agency is looking to the private sector to assume routine transport duties to and from low-Earth orbit.
 
Bush's Raygun is a Failure: Government regulation in action

Since most of this was built on Bush's watch I have decided to blame him, a la pinhead bravo.

Also, this is an example of government failing and a clear indication why we should get rid of it all, a la pinhead \\((|))//.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/o...r=1&&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews

After spending more than $5 billion to build and operate a giant laser installation the size of a football stadium, the Energy Department has not achieved its goal of igniting a fusion reaction that could produce energy to generate power or simulate what happens in a nuclear weapon.


The latest deadline for achieving ignition was last Sunday, Sept. 30, the end of fiscal year 2012, but it passed amid mounting concerns that the technical challenges were too great to be mastered on a tight time schedule.


Congress will need to look hard at whether the project should be continued, or scrapped or slowed to help reduce federal spending.

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As William Broad reported in The Times last Sunday, there is a sharp split among experts on whether the project - one of the most expensive federally financed projects ever - is worth the money. Just operating it costs roughly $290 million a year.

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Hmmmm, that's less than PBS gets though.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com.../a-post-pbs-educational-television-landscape/
 
Who the hell are you having this lunatic conversation with ?.....
Do you make a post and then hear voices echoing in your head.....???
 
Looks like The Janitor mopped the floor with Blabo.



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Poor Blabo.
 
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