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Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with congressmen to
"discard" democracy
Where in Washington, D.C. is Sun Myung
Moon?: Moon: Work with congressmen to
"discard" democracy
03/30/2005 07:38 AMSun Myung Moon wants congressmen to "discard" democracy 3/30
.. it's time to end American
democracy
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03/30/2005 09:20 PMFly Us to the Moon -- All of Us
Fly Us to the Moon -- All of Us
01/16/2004 11:26 AMPresident Bush wants to establish a permanent lunar outpost as part of
a revitalized space program. Well and good. But don't turn the moon
into an extension of Fortress America. Welcome the world, or deep-six
the plan. Opinion by Tony Long.
The Man and the Moon
The Man and the Moon
05/04/2004 10:32 PM
I'm Congressman Danny K. Davis, and I approved this
crowning of the messiah. [more inside]
If they can put a man on the Moon....
If they can put a man on the Moon....
03/17/2005 03:23 AMTwo talks at MIT this week have been thought-provoking in similar
ways. The first was by a physics professor, Frank Wilczek, who
recently won the Nobel Prize for his work on the Strong Force, which
holds together quarks to form atomic nuclei. Wilczek showed some
impressive drawings from the latest European particle accelerators in
which subatomic particles are smashed together until the quarks start
flying out. (This lecture is available at http://web.mit.edu/nobel-lec
tures/.) John Grotzinger, a geology professor, gave a talk
about his experience with the Mars Rovers, which
found evidence for flowing water on Mars in sedimentary rocks.
The
Rovers communicate with an orbiter and can also communicate
directly with stations on Earth. In Grotzinger's more than one
year with the project they've never had a communications problem.
So... if human minds can get together to make ever-better particle
accelerators, why can't anyone build a reliable inexpensive nuclear
power reactor? And if the Mars Rovers can call Pasadena, how
come nobody with a T-Mobile phone can make a call from most spots on
the MIT campus or along Memorial Drive?
In the 1970s people would ask questions of the form "If they can
put a man on the Moon, why can't they do X?" What would be the
modern equivalent? The one great human achievement of our
current decade that can be compared to the lack of accomplishment in
most bureaucracies?
To the Moon!
To the Moon!
04/09/2004 04:05 PMWell, maybe not that far. Yet.
The FAA on Wednesday licensed the first private rocket, and has
given the green light for a real sub-orbital space flight. Burt Rutan and his
California-based Scaled
Composites have built SpaceShipOne,<
/a> a funny looking rocket-powered plane that Burt hopes will usher in
"a renaissance for manned space flight."
The primary goal of SpaceShipOne is to develop opportunities for
private citizens to take a sub-orbital excursion:
Our plan involves flight in a 3-place spaceship, initially
attached to a turbojet launch aircraft while climbing for an hour to
50,000 feet, above 85% of the atmosphere.
The spaceship then drops into gliding flight and fires its rocket
motor while climbing steeply for more than a minute, reaching a speed
of 2,500 mph. The ship coasts up to 100 km (62 miles) altitude, then
falls back into the atmosphere. The coast and fall are under
weightless conditions for more than three minutes. During weightless
flight, the spaceship converts to a high-drag configuration to allow a
safe, stable atmospheric entry.
After the entry deceleration which takes more than a minute, the
ship converts back to a conventional glider, allowing a leisurely 17
minute glide from 80,000 feet altitude down to a runway where a
landing is made at lightplane speeds.
Additional incentive for the project is the $10 million X-Prize, which is a contest of sorts
to help create a space tourism industry, which will hopefully drive
innovation in the field of space travel. Thus far the history of space
flight includes only government-funded projects, but with tight
budgets and political bickering over funding of these projects, their
future is dubious.
The solution? Privatize it. So far the XPrize has 24 entrants from
seven countries competing. The rules are pretty simple; the prize goes
to the first privately-funded group that builds and launches a
spaceship able to carry three people to 100 kilometres (62.5 miles),
returns safely to Earth, and repeats the launch with the same ship
within 2 weeks.
Looks like Rutan et al will take it. They just completed their
second successful test flight today.
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fly me to the moon...
fly me to the moon...
01/16/2004 11:27 AM
Finally the long-rumored announcement from the Bush administration
happened yesterday, and the New York Times has both an article and analysis (more coverage from
CNN, the Washington Post 1, 2, 3, and space.com). At first I was excited, since as I've expresse
d before I wholeheartedly support spaceflight. True spacefaring
abilities is be among the short list of things mankind should strive
to achieve in this century. (Along with tending to some...err... tiny
problems we still seem to have when taking care of our home
planet).
The plan is (apparently) to phase out what's left of the Shuttle
fleet (STS, or Space Transportation System). There are three Shuttles
left: Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. (an early model of the
orbiter, the Enterprise, only performed tests flights). Additionally,
NASA space science programs will be downsized, including cancellation
of further servicing to the Hubble Space Telescope. The STS phase-out
would be complete by 2010 (which would also be the "date of
completion" of the International Space Station), and the new
transportation vehicle would be ready by 2014.
And herein lies the first problem with this plan. Are we seriously
saying that the US will stay out of space for four years? I
find this very hard to believe, considering that the Chinese are
certain to have made some progress by then on their own goal of
landing on the moon. (And let's not forget Russia...).
After the new launch, a lunar base would be established, "at most"
by 2020, and subsequently used as additional research, development and
launch platform for launching a manned Mission to Mars.
This "schedule" seems to me slow, and with many of its targets are
so far off that (as the NYTimes analysis makes clear), easy to derail.
Not to mention that the announcement provided basically no new funding
for the program ($1 billion, plus the money that would come from
phasing out the STS fleet).
A big factor in this seems to be "safety". For example, the NY
Times analysis mentions that the shuttles have been "prone to
catastrophic failure". This statement appears to imply that other
space vehicles have not been prone to catastrophic failure.
Mmm. Let me see. The Shuttle has flown over a hundred missions
(STS-107 was the last flight of the ill-fated Columbia) with exactly
two catastrophic failures. In contrast, the Apollo program flew
less than 15 manned missions (with a few more unmanned) and it had two
massive failures, the first in Apollo 1 (which killed the crew during
a test) and the second with Apollo 13, which barely made it back to
earth. The number of Soviet failures at the same time is difficult to
know with a high degree of confidence, but no one thinks that it was a
walk in the park. The Soviet Union, after all, never managed to put a
man on the moon, and Soviet technology, though constantly a bit behind
the times, was never that bad.
This reminds me of one of Steve Buscemi's lines in
Armageddon: "You know, Harry, we're sitting on 4 million pounds
of fuel, one nuclear weapon, and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts
built by the lowest bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?"
Setting aside the nuclear weapon for the moment (Flying to Mars and
beyond may well involve some sort of nuclear- or even antimatter-powered spacecraft), this is one
of those "funny 'cause it's true" jokes.
What I'm saying is: I don't get it. Can't they get astronauts to
fly? What's the problem? If they can't find anyone, sign me up!
But of course, they can get astronauts to fly. They would,
under whatever circumstances and whatever risks. But of course this
whole obsession with safety is something that has been growing and
growing in the Western world, with the US "leading the way" but with
Europe particularly in the same boat. Apparently, people are just not
supposed to die anymore.
And what about the technology? Does it really take more than 10
years to create a new moon crew transport vehicle? Of course not. Our
science and technology has advanced by leaps and bounds since the 70s,
particularly computer technology which is crucial to this whole
endeavor. As the Washington Post notes:
Bush has outlined a tortoise-like pace,
dictated by severe budget constraints, that allows a full decade just
to develop a vehicle that would, once again, deliver people to the
moon -- something Apollo engineers accomplished, starting from
scratch, in about eight years.
The problem is not
technology, it's political will, and funding. In fact, this new
project is a mirror of something that was proposed ten years ago,
which went nowhere, as
one of the articles from the NYT
describes:
In 1989, in a speech honoring the 20th
anniversary of the initial lunar landing, the first President Bush
proposed that the nation establish a base on the Moon and send an
expedition to Mars to begin "the permanent settlement of space." He
set the Mars goal for 2019 but the effort soon fizzled when the cost
estimates hit $400 billion.
In today's western culture
(but it's really happening all over the world) with our
instant-satisfaction, one-click-shopping, celebrity-obsessed and
24-hour-of-irrelevant-news media, it's hard to think that popular
support will keep steady over the course of the 15-25 years required
for this project.
I must say, though, without cynicism, that I hope I'm wrong. I
really, really hope that the US can stick with it. It's the one
country that has the knowhow and the resources (and, at times, the
spirit) necessary to pull it off. And for all the criticisms, it
has maintained a continuing space program, to its credit. Does
anyone think that the International Space Station would be anything
but a blueprint by now if it wasn't for the time, money, and energy
(however misdirected) that the US has spent on it?
And, by the way, why does the US have to do this by itself? The
Chinese are moving forward, but if they keep at it there will be
questions as to how much international aid they need, as this article from the economist notes. And,
where's Japan, where's Russia? More importantly, where's the EU?
There's been lots of talk about the potential world power the EU can
become. But instead of talking about worthy goals, like using the
European Space Agency for a daring multinational space exploration
program, we keep discussing agricultural subsidies and whether one
country has more votes than the other. It's not of course that those
are not important issues, but there is zero attention, money, or
"political capital" put forward for anything other than those things.
I mean, Germany, France, the UK, and all the other great countries.
Come on! Europe has to stop running scared from its past of
internicine warfare and truly look forward to the future. The US can't
be left alone holding the bag with this.
I suddenly think of part of a Sagan quote I
posted sometime ago:
Spaceflight, therefore, is
subversive. If they are fortunate enough to find themselves in Earth
orbit, most people, after a little meditation, have similar thoughts.
The nations that had insituted spaceflight had done so largely for
nationalistic reasons; it was a small irony that almost everyone who
entered space received a starting glimpse of a transnational
perspective, of the Earth as one world.
We are not
that far away. We can only hope that we, as a society, can for once
look just a little beyond our noses and truly make it happen.
To the moon
To the moon
01/16/2004 11:04 AM
Bush Outlines Plan for 2015
Moon Landing is the first thing that President Bush has proposed
that I'm actually in agreement with (well that's not true, I supported
his State of the Union proposal to send millions to Africa for AIDS,
but last I heard, that money still hasn't been sent). I've always been
sad that we haven't returned to the moon since December 1972 -- nearly
my whole life! And the thought of renewed exploration of the moon and
then Mars thrills me, maybe I can even go! But, I can't help but
wonder a) where the money will come from for all this and b) how the
heck Bush can actually think he's for smaller government when, according to the
Cato Institute, "based on his first three budgets, President Bush
is the biggest spending president in decades."
And of course, with Americans carrying record amounts of consumer
debt, 17 percent of American children living in poverty, and millions
of Americans going without health insurance, returning to the moon
doesn't seem like the highest priority.
Meanwhile, on Mars, Sprit's rolled off its landing platform and is
ready to begin its roving exploration of the Martian surface. Woo
hoo!
The man on the moon
The man on the moon
06/02/2004 02:27 AM
Moon Walk 1835
-- Was Neil Armstrong Really The First Man on The Moon? The
Europeans did not arrive in American till nearly
the end of six thousand years; this time was necessary for
them to carry their navigation to such perfection, so as to
cross the ocean. The people of the moon know already,
perhaps, how to make little flights in the air, and at this
time may be exercising themselves. When they shall be more
able, we may see them. Dreams of the Moon
Dreams of the Moon
01/04/2004 04:37 PMOnce in a Blue Moon
Once in a Blue Moon
07/09/2004 10:05 AMThe phrase refers to the second Full Moon occurring within a
calendar month and it's happening on 31 JUL. Its rarity is about
every 2 1/2 years, i.e. once in 30 occasions. Get the 411 on this
crumbly Bleu Cheese source at [NASA]
Helium-3 on the Moon
Helium-3 on the Moon
01/22/2004 02:12 AM The
real reason we're going back to the Moon? "Researchers and
space enthusiasts see helium 3 as the perfect fuel source: extremely
potent, nonpolluting, with virtually no radioactive by-product.
Proponents claim it’s the fuel of the 21st century. The trouble is,
hardly any of it is found on Earth. But there is plenty of it on the
moon."
A moon under water
A moon under water
01/22/2004 03:01 AMI've had the Amazing Travelling Mucus Bug these past three days, going
from runny eyes to runny nose to icky throat to nasty chunk-upping
cough. I only mention it because you need context - and to remark on
the wackiness...
Moon, Mars and Beyond
Moon, Mars and Beyond
06/18/2004 05:06 AMMoon, Mars and Beyondhttp://www.moontomars.org/The President's Commission on Moon, Mars and Beyond. This site
gives the latest reports, data and current information on the
President's Commission "Moon, Mars and Beyond". This has been added to
Astronomy Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Blue Moon
Blue Moon
07/08/2004 02:10 AM“The month of July 2004 has two full moons, which means one of
them is a Blue Moon. But will it really be blue? Believe it or not,
scientists say blue-colored moons are real.” I found the links
about Krakatoa particularly fascinating…
Moon is Noah's Ark
Moon is Noah's Ark
09/09/2004 12:03 AM
The Moon should become a DNA Noah's Ark for repopulating the
Earth in case of catastrophe, suggests the chief scientist
Bernard H.
Foing of the
ESA's
Research and Scientific Support
Department. A more
earthly
frozen ark is already under construction.
Blue Moon 2.7
Blue Moon 2.7
12/25/2003 03:15 AMBlue Moon solitaire for Unix.
That mystifying moon
That mystifying moon
07/06/2004 01:54 AMUSA Today Jul 6 2004 6:06AM GMT
Moon not to blame
Moon not to blame
05/27/2004 03:23 AMUSA Today May 27 2004 6:48AM GMT
To the Moon and on to Mars
To the Moon and on to Mars
01/18/2004 07:05 AMI have been watching to see how public opinion would fall in President
Bush's plan to return to the Moon...
To the Moon, Alice?
To the Moon, Alice?
12/04/2003 12:12 AMRumors are flying about the scope and direction of future NASA
projects. Will we be heading back to the moon, or will we be stuck in
near-Earth space?
Blue Moon 2.9
Blue Moon 2.9
01/11/2004 04:50 PMBlue Moon solitaire for Unix.
When the moon comes calling...
When the moon comes calling...
01/06/2004 04:32 AM... this nutcase gets out in the snow with his brand-new SLR digital
camera and his nightrobe!Taken at 300mm/f10/1/500s/100ISO (and, yes, I
did have to adjust the colour levels in Photoshop, and the image has
been cropped off of a...
What a Little Moon Dust Can Do
What a Little Moon Dust Can Do
04/04/2005 06:08 AMOn Earth, dust is annoying. On the moon, it's downright dangerous.
Future explorers will have to handle it very carefully if they plan to
set up a lunar base. Amit Asaravala reports from Sunnyvale,
California.
Soyuz To The Moon?
Soyuz To The Moon?
08/02/2004 10:50 PMWi-Fi Shoots for the Moon
Wi-Fi Shoots for the Moon
12/10/2003 03:07 PMNASA has tested Wi-Fi gear from Tropos for potential use on the moon
or planets: NASA used the Tropos gear in Arizona in a simulated area
of an interplanetary exploration mission, connecting a base camp with
a mobile computer. NASA wants to be able to connect various pieces of
gear including laptops embedded in space suits, vehicles, cameras and
microphones....
Moon missions projected
Moon missions projected
05/20/2004 02:16 PMUSA Today May 20 2004 6:49PM GMT
Geology of Earth's Moon
Geology of Earth's Moon
09/05/2004 07:59 AMGeology of Earth's Moon1) Lunar
Seismologyhttp://mahi.ucsd.edu/rb
ulow/lunars.html2) Institute of Space and
Astronautical Science (ISAS)Planned Missionshttp://home
.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/near_isas.html3) PDS
Map-A-Planethttp://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/PDS/public/explorer/html/moonpick.htm
4) Volcanism on the
Moonhttp://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/planet_volcano/lunar/Overv
iew.html5) Moon Rocks through
the Microscope: A Web Gallery of Imageshttp://www.cas.usf
.edu/~jryan/moonrocks.html6) Science Channel
video clipshttp://media.science.discovery.com/convergence/planets/video/
video.html7) Understanding
the Moonhtt
p://www.nasm.si.edu/research/ceps/research/moon/moon.cfm8) Historical Lunar Data
Archivehttp://a
strogeology.usgs.gov/Projects/LunarConsortium/First,
researchers at the University of California, San Diego discuss the
importance of studying earthquakes on the moon, also known as
moonquakes, and the Apollo Lunar Seismic Experiment (1). Users can
discover the problems scientists must deal with when collecting the
moon's seismic data. The students at Case Western Reserve University
created the second website to address three missions the Institute of
Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS) has planned between now and
2010, including a mission to the moon (2). Visitors can learn about
the Lunar-A probe that will be used to photograph the surface of the
moon, "monitor moonquakes, measure temperature, and study the internal
structure." Next, the Planetary Data Service (PDS) at the USGS offers
users four datasets that they can use to create an image of a chosen
area of the moon (3). Each dataset can be viewed as a basic clickable
map; a clickable map where users can specify size, resolution, and
projection; or an advanced version where visitors can select areas by
center latitude and longitude. The fourth site, produced by Robert
Wickman at the University of North Dakota, presents a map of the
volcanoes on the moon and compares their characteristics with those on
earth (4). Students can learn how the gravitational forces on the Moon
affect the lava flows. Next, Professor Jeff Ryan at the University of
South Florida at Tampa supplies fantastic images and descriptive text
of the lunar rocks obtained by the Apollo missions (5). Visitors can
find links to images of meteorites, terrestrial rocks, and Apollo
landings as well. At the Science Channel website, students and
educators can find a video clip discussing the geologic studies on the
moon along with videos about planets (6). Users can learn about how
studying moon rocks help scientists better understand the formation of
the earth. Next, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
presents its research of "lunar topography, cratering and impacts
basins, tectonics, lava flows, and regolith properties" (7). Visitors
can find summaries of the characteristics of the moon and the main
findings since the 1950s. Lastly, the USGS Astrogeology Research
Program provides archived lunar images and data collected between 1965
and 1992 by Apollo, Lunar Orbiter, Galileo, and Zond 8 missions (8).
While the data is a little old, students and educators can still find
valuable materials about the moon's topography, chemical composition,
and geology. [From The NSDL Scout Report for the Physical Sciences,
Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003.
http://scout.wisc.edu/Mine The Moon For Helium-3
Mine The Moon For Helium-3
01/22/2004 02:10 AMSlashdot Jan 22 2004 2:52AM GMT
Operation Moon Bounce
Operation Moon Bounce
07/25/2004 02:30 AMMoon rocks on Earth
Moon rocks on Earth
07/29/2004 08:41 PMDirect and Related Links for 'Moon rocks on
Earth'
MSNBC reports that a rock from the moon dating back some 340,000
years ago was found right here on our very own little chunk of real
estate called Earth. A rare find to be sure, this is still not the
first time a moon rock has been found on our own planet. Roughly 30
moon rocks have been found on Earth since 1979, with about 20 lunar
impacts causing them to head our way in…
Russian Rovers on the Moon
Russian Rovers on the Moon
02/10/2004 06:48 PMMSNBC - Moon Rocks
MSNBC - Moon Rocks
07/13/2004 08:23 AMMSNBC - Moon Rocks ..
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The Gadflyer: Moon Over Washington
The Gadflyer: Moon Over Washington
06/14/2004 05:08 AMCongressmen Declare Rev. Moon the Messiah .. excellent
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Saturn Moon Up Close
Saturn Moon Up Close
06/14/2004 05:16 AMWired News Jun 14 2004 9:55AM GMT
That's no moon, it's a space station
That's no moon, it's a space station
05/13/2004 09:18 AM
IS
S-Jupiter Transit tonight. Notable space station flyover tonight
for you skywatching East Coasters: the ISS will pass quite close to
Jupiter, and some of you lucky ones [
coordinates|
map] will even see the station briefly eclipse the planet.
(Side note: Remember those days when everyone was using its radio call
sign
&quo
t;Alpha?" Now the media just say "space station."
Sigh.) East Coast, 9:30pm, I'll be outside, looking up.
Cassini set for moon encounter
Cassini set for moon encounter
06/11/2004 11:12 AMThe Cassini space probe is about to make a flyby of Saturn's
mysterious moon Phoebe.
Hail to the Moon king
Hail to the Moon king
06/21/2004 07:35 AMThe deeply weird coronation of Rev. Sun Myung Moon in a Senate office
building -- crown, robes, the works -- is no longer one of
Washington's best-kept secrets.
Where in Washington, D.C. is Rev. Sun
Myung Moon?
Where in Washington, D.C. is Rev. Sun
Myung Moon?
06/23/2004 08:20 PMBoingBoing reader
Adam Rakunas says:
So, last March, a bunch of Congresscritters and religious
leaders held a little ceremony in the Dirksen Senate Office Building
for Sun Myung Moon, head of the Unification Church, owner of the
Washington Times, and an all-around peach of a guy with a messianic
complex like you wouldn't believe. During said ceremony, Moon and his
wife are wrapped in ermine robes and crowned by an Illinois
Congressman. The video appeared on the Church's site, some blogs
found it, it got yanked, and now John Gorenfeld, whose site tracks
Moon, has the video and has cranked out a BitTorrent of it. They can
take away our press, but they can't take away our Torrents!
Link to your tax dollars at work heralding
Rev. Moon's
"declaration of God's fatherland and the era of the peace kingdom, the
realiziation of God-centered families, and true peace."
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