Obama aims to ax moon mission
NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.
When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to the moon by 2020. The troubled and expensive Ares I rocket that was to replace the space shuttle to ferry humans to space will be gone, along with money for its bigger brother, the Ares V cargo rocket that was to launch the fuel and supplies needed to take humans back to the moon.
There will be no lunar landers, no moon bases, no Constellation program at all.
In their place, according to White House insiders, agency officials, industry executives and congressional sources familiar with Obama's long-awaited plans for the space agency, NASA will look at developing a new "heavy-lift" rocket that one day will take humans and robots to explore beyond low Earth orbit. But that day will be years — possibly even a decade or more — away.
"WhoDat's gonna beat dem Saints?"
I remember it from my time there, and my last NFL season in NOLA was '83. The Saints started out something like 7-1, and the line was "Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?" There was even a song that got some airplay.
The Saints ended up something like 8-8, and they missed the playoffs. Still, a vast improvement over the '80 team (my freshman year), which went 1-15 and inspired the bagheads.
The NFL very well may have trademarked it on the sly. Sometimes organizations will trademark stuff "just in case". However, if they have not defended the trademark previously, it weakens their case.
Well, according the article Dana linked to, the NFL is saying the Saints themselves hold the trademark.
I remember a "Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints? Who dat? Who dat?" song playing on the radio in NOLA in the early 2000s.
Well, according the article Dana linked to, the NFL is saying the Saints themselves hold the trademark.
Which, according to the arguments the NFL lawyermade to the SCotUS this past week or se, means the NFL holds the trademark for the Saints or some such thing.
That means that a black shirt featuring XLIV in gold letters, a representation of this year's Super Bowl, is off limits.
I'm making 30 of them tonight.
Who exactly is it?!
ION, Getting closer to practicable fusion.
(Note: this has nothing to do with early 70s jazz-rock.)
It's possible this picture has been posted before, but it is just so awesome I'm posting it now.
Pico Jumps
Back in 2005 Myles Weissleder shot an awesome photo of his dog Pico jumping in front of the Golden Gate Bridge with a rubber chicken in his mouth.
Take the Pew Political Quiz and see how you stack up to the rest of the country!
I was 12 for 12!
I spend too much time surfing political blogs, don't I?
