I think we should change the name of the sperm whale to the less vulgar sounding “fail whale”.
The newly found “Goldilocks” planet should help us find how common life is… if we had something that went the speed of light and 20 years.
It would be great to tell the people of 1969 what the space program is like today so they could die knowing they didn’t miss anything.
It’s 2010 – WHERE’S MY MOON BASE?!!
I’ll finally admit it: I have no idea what the White House Chief of Staff does other than be the boogeyman for the other side.
All the Chief of Staff seems to do is stand around while people think he’s up to something. Perfect job for the Cigarette Smoking Man.
Actually, I want that job. What’s it pay?
Excited to see a bunch of Democrats kicked out in November, but then I remember they’re just getting replaced with Republicans.
Do you know you don’t register with a political party in Idaho? I guess as red as the state is, it’s just assumed.
So what’s happening with Feingold? Not stridently liberal enough?
In a much more sensible economy, hipsters would die of starvation.
Frank, are you jealous of the sperm whale? Ahab was.
He angered thousands of Wisconsinites by saying, “Congratulations to our Wisconsin Wolverines on their great season! We all look forward to watching our Wolverines play at Camp Kinnick Stadium in Madison!”
Idiot Democrats.
Wisconsin checking in. You know Feingold is in real trouble when he’s going back to the ‘average guy of the people’ campaign ads that got him into office in the first place. Of course, once in office, he was one of the most liberal senators in D.C. Ron Johnson is cleaning his clock with those kind of facts about Feingold. Unless there’s massive Chicago plus Minnesota-Franken level vote fraud here in Nov., we will be rid of all the ‘Fein’ in D.C.
Walker for Gov!
“The people of 1969”? We’re not fruit flies. We do live a longer lifetime.
The White House Chief of Staff is the Count Rugen of American government.
Re; life on Goldilocks
Make that 40 years if you want to get word back to earth
Didn’t they like film Brokeback Mountain in Idaho? The Blue Turf somehow made the connection for me…
“Excited to see a bunch of Democrats kicked out in November, but then I remember they’re just getting replaced with Republicans.”
It’s lines like this that remind me that I should never attempt to drink Coke whilst reading this blog. I think that I’ll mount this saying on my cubicle wall.
And also by being beaten to death by people disgusted by their smugness.
Your Moon Base funding is providing food and shelter to X-Box playing crack addicts. Feel better now?
Goldilocks planet? I want to find the Red Riding Hood planet. Picnic baskets to eat and wolves to hunt.
“In a much more sensible economy, hipsters would die of starvation.”
Ahh, the old days…when hippies starved to death when no one bought their stupid baskets. Now they get government grants to make baskets.
Frank, you’re simply baiting me now. As for telling the folks of 1969, those of us who haven’t died yet realize that we didn’t miss anything in the interim.
Fun fact: When Armstrong and Aldrin were taking off their spacesuits in the lunar lander, Aldrin broke the handle from the main circuit breaker that armed the engine for lift off from the moon. Short of flipping that breaker, Armstrong and Aldrin would have died on the moon. Ground control didn’t have a solution; however, Aldrin figgured out that he could take his pen, insert it in the hole and flip the breaker. To this day, Aldrin carries that pen with him.
Today, Burmashave, OSHA would have slapped Aldrin in jail upon his return for breaking some safety rule.
If we go back in time to the moon landing of 1969 (or for that matter, 1980, 1990 or even 2000) and tell the people that in the year 2010 the U.S. government was going to spend 1.8 Trillion Dollars, on a single bill, what do you think, they would think?
Personally, I find that the figure is so astronomical, that it sounds like it would be actually astronomical. The imagination races… A figure like that is beyond the comprehension of a single mind. It is so vast, that it can only exist as a fantastic and elaborate project unlike the world has ever seen. Is the might of the U.S. Government building a base on the Moon? Or a remote station on Mars?
For reference, The Apollo 11 Mission cost 355 Million dollars in 1969, which equates to 1.75 billion in today’s terms. That means the government spend over one thousand times the cost it would take to send a man to the moon with the older more expensive means via a capsule mounted on a Saturn V rocket. That’s roughly the cost of launching a manned crew to the Moon, every day for nearly three years. Your moon base could have been built, instead the money was blown off for some magic beans. Generations are now in debt to pay for union pensions, retirements, bribes, payoffs, scams, and pork projects. Your Tax Dollars At Work.
Second fun fact: The ascent stage of the Lunar Module weighed about 2 1/2 tons without fuel — about the weight of a fair sized SUV. This sounds like a lot until one considers that it had to house the astronauts and protect them from massive temperature changes while providing all life support, consumables, electricity, all of their equipment, etc. Plus, it had to launch them from the lunar surface back into orbit. Your average SUV only needs to get you to work and back.
Its exterior skin was about as thick as foil. While constructing the lunar module, workers had to be careful because even a dropped tool could puncture its thin skin.
And yes Storm1911, OSHA would have never permitted this. In fact, the venting of oxygen on the lunar surface prolly would have required an environmental impact statement.
Frank — c’mon, you live close enough to Boise to see those “Red State, Blue Girl” bumper stickers. You can assume whatever you want, but the Californicators are bringing their ways with them. . .