We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.
Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. - a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR [Russ.,= self-publishing house]
|
It’s not easy being green A few of you may have noticed a comment I made a few days ago about the flaking problem being due to NASA trying to be green. I didn’t follow up on it at the time because I had very little more than hearsay on it then. Brian Carnell has the confirmation.
We may just have to lay this disaster at the feet of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Further, I believe safety recommendations for return to flight should require a return to the old and proven CFC based ET (External Tank) insulation foam.
|
Who Are We? The Samizdata people are a bunch of sinister and heavily armed globalist illuminati who seek to infect the entire world with the values of personal liberty and several property. Amongst our many crimes is a sense of humour and the intermittent use of British spelling.
We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
|
I agree. It is way past time that greens be required to do an environmental impact statement on their funny ideas, and that a failure to incorporate any perceived inaccuracy should preclude their receiving any intervenor funding.
I am a little confused as to the point of the experiment. If there is flaking on the shuttle launch but none during the tests, then obvious the test do not match the Shuttle exact stress conditions. So what is the point of the test in the first place.
This is particularly disturbing. Its one thing to trace a cause back to an engineering choice made as result of a valid argument between professionals, or a design or materials choice made for budgetary reasons –
but it is particularly egregious to think that seven lives were squandered in such a horrific way for the sake of grovelling at the alter of junk science, and the desire to affect a naturally fluctuating ozone hole at the South Pole in the hopes of…what? Reducing the percentage of skin cancer risk in a bunch of farking penguins?
The system is truly broken if prior incidents of this sort were not fully explored and remedies sought and applied, as appears to be the case here.
Toss up wether to roast seperately or communally the EPA numbnuts and their NASA paper pushing facilitators, or the engineering cadre that drug their feet and crossed their fingers hoping this wouldn’t bite them in the ass instead of doing something to fix it.
This all diverts from the central issues however, which Simberg outlined quite well in his articles on the matter. Basically, whats the point – and there is one, and that should be the driver for our efforts. Humans have time and again accomplished wonderous things when racing for a goal line.
Low earth orbit and watching spiders build webs in micro-G aint it.
Get your ass to Mars.