Author Archives for Dale Amon
Start your own space industry
Schroedinger's terrorist
2004 Election maps
Finally!
More Iraqi election comments
From out of Iraq
We's bad!
A cliff hanger or a cliff?
A few words from the grateful side of Germany
Time to decide
Three worlds
Burt is one of us
This is the day
Rutan reports on SpaceShipOne rolls
Just say NO to the draft!
Melvill safely back on terra firma
All is go in Mojave
X-Prize victory at hand; Prize for orbital flight announced
The Future has finally arrived
Shuttle threat from down under?
Never Forget
It's only rock and roll but I like it.
No gas, no glory
Bloggers and DNC
Hunger strike in Iranian prison
Global Space Meet up
Blatantly obvious strategy
35 years ago today
Forcing the issue
The Cost of Cowardice
IT is coming!
The changes at NASA
IFF failed on British Tornado
Iranian Prince tells it like it is
Tactical situation in Iraq
New blood in Canada
Us next? Please!
Singing a new tune
Mojave Pictorial: Two Parties and a Launch
Oh Canada!
Scuttlebutt
What does it all mean?
Luminaries at Scaled Composites
All ships down
They did it
Takeoff!
The last breakfast before the space age
Pre-dawn at Mojave
Pre-flight parties
Live from XCOR
Live audio coverage from Mojave
On the road again
Out to Launch
Academia and the Second Amendment
Radiological Weapons Containment
National Space Society joins the blogworld
National Space Society's 2004 Space Development Conference to be held in Oklahoma City
They don't exist!
Non-state rocket reaches space
The good news you don't hear
The fat fraud
Now where did I leave that torpedo?
US forces attacked with nerve gas
Iranian students protest Ebadi's presence at UCLA
Where have all the hotdogs gone?
Closing in on the Edge of Space
Worrisome stories on Fox News
Dover Hoax
When the going gets tough...
The paparazzi are restless
Higher! Faster!
Iranians for Bush?
Privatizing defense
It's about time
Bluetooth extractions
Speaking of home teams...
XCOR moving ahead on Xerus design
Return to Flight
Big Brother is watching... your wallet
Slugger on the air
Death of the Comanche
Gestapo American style
Disengagement
John Kerry, terrorist collaborator
It's not bleeding, so...
On to the Moon and Mars...
Dr. Mengele would be proud
Use of Weapons
Suffocation by democracy
Historic stringbags
The End Is Nigh
Balkan innovation
Yes, enlistees are smarter...
Attack of the Nano-mind
Commercial Human Spaceflight bill
I haven't changed my mind
Comforting news
Birds gotta fly
Iranian hostage takers meet with Congress
Spacer Days of Remembrance #3
Iranian mullahs execute insufficiently loyal officers
I'm not dead!
A suggestion for new teminology
If you can't beat 'em, bribe 'em
Admiral Gorschkov goes to India
The Nanowars
Spacer Days of Remembrance #2
Spacer Days of Remembrance #1
A sad announcement
The first post-Saddam month
It's almost libertarian...
Manhattan nights
An unpaid political announcement
The Triple Crown
SpaceShipOne flight eight test results
The Dawn of the Space Age
SpaceShipOne lights the candle
Death to child killers
Quagmire sightings
They don't control the horizontal and the vertical anymore
Will they or won't they?
Night of the Living Baathists
Iraqis will finish off the Baath Party
Conferences to be held by Iranian freedom campaigners
The tree of liberty grows between Pyramids too
Yes Brian, they are quite large
Another kind of drop test
Hotting up in the old Mojave
The Aurora of October 29th
It's deja vu all over again
SpaceShipOne fifth drop test
From those who know
The moment you've all been waiting for...
Extraterrestrial seed corn
SpaceDev on CNN
Better than Sharper Image
Quote Unquote
Mark your calendar
We now return to our regular programming
FAA accepts XCOR submission
Cats, pigeons and asteroid property rights
The Forever Refinery
Yes, the children are smarter
Innumeracy in print
Even the politicians get it
XCOR on the telly
Attack of the PC zombies
Arrival of the big one
Fisher fairy tale bites the vacuum
SpaceShipOne back in the air
Music to colonize space by
Eastern Europeans know why we're in Iraq
Administrivia
Calling all bloggers: attack in progress
Nuke roundup
New from Baghdad
Hypersonic developments
I, Puma Arm
The parts they leave out
Commercial Space Act of 2003
They're here...
Raising the cost of spamming
Comment spammers
Disney Senator slated to retire
Get government out of marriage
Agents dispatched to California
Swiss article on Iraq progress
The ups and downs of murder
Poles find new Roland missiles
Expanding the envelope
Kyoto takes one amidships
More on China space program
We are winning
Retard watch
They just won't go home
And now Italy...
Iraqi forces take over
Set your inner Martian free
Libertarians: The Next Generation
The only presidential Democrat
Other consequences
The enemy of my enemy
Coming soon: China in space
Tax Terminator
At least he's consistent
JDAM's from hell
Presidential pork goes off
Tax rejection
Is this the same Gordon Brown?
The Baghdad view
China in space
The dog that isn't barking
SpaceShipOne engine test completed
Rand nails 'em again
Another one bites the dust
Rumsfeld again
Words of Wisdom
Friends are where you find them
Remembrance
Vietnam? I think not.
A fairly reasonable people
Memorium for a great physicist
Big Brother wants YOU!
Winning by being nice... mostly
The victim game
It's only a number
It's the democracy, stupid
All clear
Looking back
SpaceShipOne lands again
2003QQ47
You can't stop them all...
SpaceShipOne has landed
Armadillo plumbing finished
The Hutton Inquiry
It can't happen here...
Secret history
Oppositiion!
Time is continuous
Salam replies... indirectly
Music to leave your planet by
US Crime rates are falling
Something missing, something black
Walter tells it like it is
Brazilian rocket explodes on pad
Armadillos in space
Greed that knows no boundaries
A disturbing video
Iraqi views of the liberators
A bit more civility guys...
Details on SpaceShipOne drop test
The Blackout of '03
A finger to the North
Downsizing the beast
Are you sure you didn't miss anything?
New theory of time makes waves
Whose idea was it?
Get ready for Mars
Scorpio rising
Tony Martin is free!
Is it a plane? Is it a rocket?
Very local news
Suicide? Probably not.
Long ago in the future
The particle that didn't bark
When Saddam met Osama
Support the Iranian students
Actually it is rather cool
Film Noir 2003
It's a small internet
Government Lemmings Department
Now you can camp with your laptop
The State moves to crush tax dissent
Fag gags and politics
I remember Thurmond...
Iraq is a honeypot
Would the last one out of the United Nations please turn off the lights?
Rutan spaceship prepares to fly
Killing the beast: voluntarily
Space Conference in San Jose
Victorian Gentlemen and the Anti-War Liberatarians
A token Monica Story
On the Road with Dale Amon
Beyond Blitzkrieg
No safety in weaseldom
The sadness of being correct
Send your thanks
This is surprising?
Let's get it over with
It comes as no surprise...
No more french fries
This is not what I wanted to hear
Iran can take care of itself
Ending the pin down
The one that got away
An 'in your face' war
There used to be liberals
They don't make Germans like they used to
Columbia updates
Help Wanted
No distance at all
Iraqi bounty hunters
An honourable fight
Oxymorons in Baghdad
Getting out of Arabia
Weapons? What Weapons II?
Weapons? What weapons?
Readers enhance Columbia image
Killing off a character
Dicey moves
Something Fischy in Germany
Price fixing in music
Told you so
A stout rope
It's not easy being green
A possible way out
You would rather not know
From those who know
A Canadian conversation
Seven Minutes
Janis Ian fights the good fight
A few good words
Astronauts found
Another scenario
Probably the last for tonight...
Debris field
What does it mean?
Be back soon...
Just for completeness
Nailed the booms...
Third day of Remembrance
Columbia breakup over Texas
Columbia feared lost
Perry get your gasmask
North Korea threatening nuclear war
Former UN Inspector says Saddam has nukes
Second day of remembrance (1)
First day of remembrance
White House document for your pleasure
Fly me to the moon
Iraqi Apples and Korean Oranges
Employment Opportunity
Very interesting...
Sigourney would love it
HPM == EMP
Light that candle!
Onwards and outwards!
Moving with the times
The Right Which Dare Not Speak Its' Name
Wazzup Hal?
How to give snoops the finger
A Major Victory
Information Awareness Office
Anachronism????
Why doesn't the CIA tell them?
Tale of a Winter's Launch
The future of naval warfare
Anti-draft sentiment at the top
Christmas supper is nigh!
TransOrbital test article is in orbit
TransOrbital mockup slated for launch
National Space Society Conference 2004 location decided
From their own mouths
Real news need not apply
UK opens discussion on missile defense
South Africa, a Space Faring Nation
More on the server room fire
We shall not yield
Poetry for our times
The digitization of a million books
Conservative knickers in a twist
US Navy ship shoots down ICBM
Bulgarian Rhapsody
Be Prepared
Newsflash! Debian security server destroyed in fire
US Drug Czar a common criminal
How very... comforting
The Leonidas Option
Who you gonna call?
NRO weighs in on translator dustup
0400 GMT Leonid peak from Belfast
Rumsfeld pans bureaucracy
Return of the Dead
A new idea for SETI
Military intelligence
Beam it down
Who'd a thunk it...
Putin suggests EUniks make it official
1st Amendment riots in Iran
His Royal Majesty King Reynolds
Showing your appreciation...
Don't drag in poor Mildred!
Demise of a Disney Democrat
Definitional annoyance
More on threat
Massachussetts election results
Banned in the UK
Last hurrah for the caissons
Rights for the Left
All they are is dust in the wind
URGENT: Massachusetts readers!!!
We've lost another one
21st century ray gun plane
Oh, by the way... it worked
Liberty == Personal Choice
Court slaps authoritarian wrists
Beware of rant
From out of the black of the Western skies...
Victory in Moscow
50 Years without worry
Art and the libertarian
North by Northwest
Murder they wrote
British newsies get it wrong
How to fight back
They don't get it...
al Q'aeda Goes to Washington
"This is no professional"
An uplifting experience
Holodeck for the home
Be afraid mine enemies
The German bomb
Not so bad... or is it?
Armadillo flies!
Top ten reasons why sharia will never succeed in the West
See you out there amongst the stars old friend
Urgent! Carla Howell needs you to Phone and Email Right Now!
Carla's covered
He owns a gun! Must be guilty!
Netanyahu after the riot
Never forget that we're crazy
Canadian Nazis trash elderly jews
History at your fingertips
Suborbital war fighting?
Just when you thought it was safe to sleep
Free software even if we have to pay for it
French islamofascists attack free speech
What's missing from this picture?
Columnist fired for getting laid
Warblog from the front lines
Not what you would expect
Astronaut decks idiot
Viva la France
An open letter to the Media
Remembrance
Question Authority
Saddam is indeed a threat
Greece: welcome to the third world
Carla takes on tax and spend defender
A horse with a name
His time is coming
There are only individuals
Attitudes change
Meteor strike in UK
Race doesn't matter much anymore
More for the Naval historians
Remember Pearl Harbour
Support for Boston Tea Party grows
Slipping the surly bonds...
More than she bargained for
New New York
Dawkins and Determinism
The Corps are coming
Doesn't it make you feel safe?
Belfast and the Middle East
Let loose the medics of war!
A duty discharged
Academic and European Elitists
First batch of WTC replacement ideas get deep-sixed
Red vs Blue?
Where is the Left?
The Eastern Front
Much ado about Apple
Tea Party support growing
Back to the Future
Test pilots in the crapper
Happy Trinity Day!
Kevin Holtsberry tells Dale Amon to drop dead
Everyone's got their whackos
Give that man a proctoscope!
New Improved Hall Thruster
2nd Amendment ads air tomorrow in USA
Unintended consequences
I come not to praise Fearon
Heil Comrade!
Bad judgement?
'The lads' will love it
Yes, there really are George
Selfish genes and unselfish behavior
Fritz Hollings backs terrrorist safety plan
I'm baaackk...
See you at the International Space Development Conference!
A mind is a terrible thing to waste
Open government and open source
He's going in!
Second Amendment Ad on Fox today
You'll get a real bang out of this apartment
Says it all, don't it?
Stars in space
The People know which side they're on...
The Gorey details
Self defense ad to air on Fox News
You bet your orbit!
It's nice to have company
Take it back!
Sex, drugs, rock and roll...but no jail and no safety net
Free love or fight!
Bloody peasants!
We will never forget
Liberalize or die!
New bits for old
Bullet hits bullet
Heavy results
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
A toke to your health!
The laser cannon comes of age
Legalize Heroin: it's life and death
Enron, the IRS and Pensions
US income tax is illegal
It's all our fault
Cold fusion found in cavitating bubbles of d-Acetone
I'm not dead!
On one hand, CMU...
And you thought Enron was bad?
Professional standing
We Were Soldiers
Dodgson's choice
Stephanie Dupont
At last, the real test for Samizdatistas!
Maybe I don't want that gig in Manhattan...
Its only a shadow if you've neglected your reading
Case of the missing nukes
Medical breakthrough or... ? Some
Important notice to Massachusetts readers
But wait, there's more!
More bad news from behind the Eurocurtain
Been there, seen that
The spirit of freedom
Emergency deployment to Samizdata HQ
A date to remember
Get a souvenir and help put us in space
Note to all B-17 owners...
Robot kamikazis... been there, done that
London dates of "The Importance Of Being Michael"
Capitalism, don't you just love it?
Belfast... Blues???
You really have to live here to understand
The Importance of Being Michael
83db? Can you walk with a guitar up your arse?
An artists night out in Belfast
Someone should warn him
While we're on the subject of freedom of speech
Give me smut!
Porn wars
Besides which, rapists are cowards...
Touch but no go
Taxation is illegal
Invest in Mars
Land of the tasteless newspapers
If we're ever invaded by aliens that look like beer bottles...
How to make a large lava lake
It's a Big Pond, but it's Home
We're from Different Planets
It's the story They chose
Freedom Of Religion?
Not Really a Star Trek War
Krugman Loses Touch With Reality
Carla declares for Massachusetts Gubernatorial race
Photo Funnies
An Aspirin For Rand Simberg's Sore Brain
In Remembrance
Apples and Orangemen
Libertarian Message on National TV
Welcome to the X Files...
A Modest Proposal, version 2
Just for the record
Well, they asked, didn't they?
Fried or Powdered, It's all the Same
A recipe for Privacy There
There's Pork in Their Horoscope,
There's Pork in Their Horoscope
Libertarianism is UP not Right
Sex, choices and why I despise conservatives
The Gun Wars I've stayed
Advance to the Rear Those
Perception is Everything I recently
Christmas Day Well, actually post
Who is "we" anyhow? One
Report from the Front Lines
You can be sure... Back
Reality Checks There have been
The Belfast Blitz I've long
A Non-argumentative "Rebuttal"
Treason
Carla's Tea Party Some months
Microsoft Viral Advertising?
Microsoft Viral Advertising?
Life, The News and Everything
Then and Now I'm nursing
Fear and Loathing at 10
We Don Need No Stinkin'
A Christmas Song Since it
Casualties Perry de Havilland raised
It Runs Deep
Star Wimps
An Incompetence Too Far I
Carla's Tea Party: Massachusetts
Imperial Habits Some habits are
A Normal War Glenn Reynolds
A Normal War Pundits seem
50 to 1 The negative
Lawrence of America I recommend
Miracles Do Happen After a
Carla's Tea Party Carla Howell
Non-Negotiable Amendments
Crack Suicide Squad Reality very
Airbus Down Jim Bennett contacted
Airbus Down There is not
Sum of All Fears According
A Time For Heroes. From
Yes, He Is. Take it
Freedom is For Clones
In the Beginning...
