Political blogs: Tranche Three

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brothersjudd
dustinthelight
snappingturtle jmc
hoystory
indcjournal
lileks
best of web
liberalsagainstterrorism
proteinwisdom
rogerlsimon
poorandstupid
ombudsgod
windsofchange

Motive

Why move our Atomic forces to the Outer Territories?





Continental US Fallout Pattern for Prevailing Winds (FEMA-196/September 1990)

Update: The FEMA map is unscaled, here's a scaled map of a single 1MT ground burst.

Who's in?

Moblog:
Who has the best profit margin in the space
business? The Star Namers*. Is what they do in the space biz?
Is astrology? This Russian astrologer is worried about
a space we cannot imagine mystical, untouched. The
namers inventory is almost invisible, actually untouchable.

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* I provide a link to the best service, Name a Number, $5, to own any number. They don't explain this, but each star has a birth time which corresponds to a positive integer.

Smoking Gun

LBJ conspired against our frontier.

I therefore issue a fatwa on him.

as seen at Back Off Government!

The argument continues
Saturn V a Cost Barrier?

Curmudgeons Corner comments on comments

Paranoia the destroyer

the successful trial attack on comet Tempel-1.

Orion on Nexus

from NASA pdf original doc. pg. 15

as seen at Project orion.com board.

Fireworks in Space

Movie

Music Video

Quality Animation

Seriously cool looking Orion ground SRB/atomic launch

Direct movie page link.
More format options.

The animator, Rhysy's blog.



Compare to a Flash animation of Sakharov's versionhere click on "Majiee" near the bottom.

Described here