Why Al Gore Shouldn't Run For President

First of all, congratulations to Al Gore for winning the Nobel. With that said, PLEASE don't run for President! Why you ask? Well, it's the very thing he won the Nobel for, the environment!

Whether you agree with him or not, he has brought a great deal of attention to this topic. After all, Galileo took a lot of criticism for contradicting Aristotle. Eventually, the geocentric mentality went bye bye. Mainly because Galileo didn't give up doing what he was doing, and that is why Al Gore shouldn't give up doing what he is doing. And while I would vote for him, since I did once already, I am afraid that the issue of the environment will get lost if he were to get elected.

The environment is a big enough issue for Al Gore to deal with by itself, he doesn't need to get involved in the mess known as the United States Congress! Besides, they are too busy going after political pundits!

The NASA Two Step

This is why politicizing agencies is not in the best interest of the American people. I bet you can pick out the statement by the political nominee from that of the NASA scientist.

Even "moderate additional" greenhouse emissions are likely to push Earth past "critical tipping points" with "dangerous consequences for the planet,"

Or

"I have no doubt that a trend of global warming exists, I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with."

Is Harriet Meyers leading NASA now?

Hot Springs On Mars?

The Mars rover, Spirit, has come across soil that scientists say may suggest the presence of hot springs on Mars. Yet another find from the rovers that suggest life may have existed on Mars once.

New Habitable Planet?

Scientists have discovered a new planet that they say meet the requirements to be considered habitable. No big deal you say? After all, Mars fits into that category. Well this planet is a first for one very big reason.

(SF Gate/AP) For the first time astronomers have discovered a planet outside our solar system that is potentially habitable, with Earth-like temperatures, a find researchers described Tuesday as a big step in the search for "life in the universe."

And it's only 120 trillion miles away. Did I hear somebody say, "Road Trip"!

10 Years Ago Today

The Heaven's Gate cult tried riding the Hale-Bopp comet.

Total Lunar Eclipse This Weekend

It is supposed to start at 2:18pm CST with the total eclipse happening at 4:44 pm CST

What's With Texas?

Why does Texas produce so many anti-science people? Pick your topic and Texas will tell you why the science is wrong and the bible is right. But this one takes the cake, the Chairman of the Texas House Appropriations Committee, Warren Chisum, doesn't believe that the planets revolve around the Sun, but rather the Sun revolves around the Earth. That's right, Mr. Chisum thinks Copernicus was wrong. Where does it stop with these religious nuts?

China Boisterously Joins Militarization Of Space

While some say it was done to provoke, others say it was a wake up call. Up until now, our government hasn't made many concessions when it comes to militarizing space. Maybe it was because we thought no one else had the technology or the money to make it happen, and if we could do it first, what a military advantage for us it would be. Well, with a single missile China announced it's presence.

(NYT) “It could be a shot across the bow,” said Theresa Hitchens, director of the Center for Defense Information, a private group in Washington that tracks military programs. “For several years, the Russians and Chinese have been trying to push a treaty to ban space weapons. The concept of exhibiting a hard-power capability to bring somebody to the negotiating table is a classic cold war technique.”

Is this M.A.D., the space version?

Bring Me To Your Leaders

It turns out that NASA may have found life on Mars in the 70's, but accidentally killed it.

(CNN) Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have found alien microbes on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist is theorizing.

The Viking space probes of 1976-77 were looking for the wrong kind of life, so they didn't recognize it, a geology professor at Washington State University said.

UFO At O'Hare?

When I first saw this over the weekend, I was kind of in a hurry so I just read the headline in my Netvibes page, but apparently there was a UFO or UAP sighting over O'Hare in November. And the FAA's answer is something right out of script of Men In Black or The X Files.

(Chi Trib) "Our theory on this is that it was a weather phenomenon," she said. "That night was a perfect atmospheric condition in terms of low [cloud] ceiling and a lot of airport lights. When the lights shine up into the clouds, sometimes you can see funny things. That's our take on it."

Apparently "swamp gases" won't fly in Chicago.

Shuttle To Make White Sands Landing?

If so it would be only the second time that a shuttle landed in the desert.Why you ask?

(USA Today) A combination of tight schedules and bad luck conspires to make a White Sands landing more likely than in other years. Bad weather is forecast Friday for both the shuttle's primary landing site at Florida's Kennedy Space Center and the backup site at California's Edwards Air Force Base. Good weather is forecast for White Sands.

Isn't it funny that the of all the things the shuttle can encounter in space, that rain and bad weather seem to be the cause of so many problems?

Water Flowing On Mars?

New pictures of Mars suggest that water has been flowing out of some craters.

(Guardian)Researchers have previously found evidence that ancient lakes once dotted the Martian landscape, and vast quantities of water ice are known to be locked up in sheets of permafrost at the planet's frigid poles. But this is the first evidence that liquid water, crucial to nurture life, might still be found on the planet today.

Nasa scientists compared pictures of the Martian landscape taken between 1999 and 2006 and looked for signs of recent changes on the surface. They identified two craters where light streaks suggested water had erupted from the walls and poured down the slopes, leaving mineral deposits for hundreds of metres.

Y2K Back For NASA?

Or should I say Y2K + 7? And these are the people we are going to trust to build a moon base?

Moon Bases By 2024

And you thought property in Manhattan was expensive? What do you think 2,000 sq ft will cost you on the moon?

(Chi Trib)The new lunar plan recalls NASA's Apollo era, when six missions landed on the moon between 1969 and 1972. But unlike Apollo and its lunar lander, the new space transport being developed--the Ares I rocket and Orion capsule--will have a lander designed for reuse and to serve as a kind of pickup truck, according to Horowitz. The plan calls for development of a pressurized moon rover that would allow astronauts to ride around the moon without wearing cumbersome spacesuits

Good luck finding a parking spot too!

They Know No Limits

It was only a matter of time until we brought the "Freedom March" to space.

(WaPo)President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone "hostile to U.S. interests."

The document, the first full revision of overall space policy in 10 years, emphasizes security issues, encourages private enterprise in space, and characterizes the role of U.S. space diplomacy largely in terms of persuading other nations to support U.S. policy.

"Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power," the policy asserts in its introduction.

Is there no end with this power obsessed Administration?