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• Plaster of Mars? Scientists thrilled by rover's mineral find

  Wed Dec 7, 2011
  • It's just amazing that, for years now, we have enjoy the stunning results of scores of economical unmanned missions, return missions and earth orbit telescopes while NASA keeps insisting that outrageously expensive manned missions do it so much better! Do what better?

• 'Enough is enough': Grieving Pakistan questions its role in US war on terror

  Thu Dec 1, 2011
  • Sources vary but it appears we have given Pakistan about $20 billion in aid since 2000. Put another way that is 20,000 million dollars!

• Microsoft issues Duqu virus workaround for Windows

  Fri Nov 4, 2011
  • They are "racing" to fix this? Some race as MS has never been able to produce virus free products.

• New Apple Store app lets you do self-checkout

  Wed Nov 2, 2011
  • Another corporate brainstorm to make more money with free labor! Walmart saves big money on this same scheme by torturing people with long waits at the conventional checkouts - yet they do not discount these DIY purchases even one red cent!

• NASA: Pay the Americans now ... or pay the Russians later

  Thu Oct 20, 2011
  • Why does NASA simply protect it's expensive, manned "turf" when the issue raised is whether the decades long mindset of NASA, namely expensive manned missions, is the way to go when deep seas exploration and other similar endeavors have so decidedly embraced unmanned, robotic probes and AI systems?

• Obama announces total Iraq troop withdrawal

  Fri Oct 21, 2011
  • Good points Eoin,

• NASA: Pay the Americans now ... or pay the Russians later

  Thu Oct 20, 2011
  • In his book, "The Eternal Darkness", Dr. Robert Ballard notes the very logical and cost driven evolution of deep sea exploration from dangerous, manned diving vehicles to the various unmanned vehicles that now map the ocean floor better, cheaper, faster and safer.

• How strong is your marriage? Take our survey

  Thu Sep 22, 2011
  • Daisy A Day - fantastic love song by Jud Strunk.

• Pa. man gets 2 DUI arrests in 1 night

  Wed Sep 21, 2011
  • Officely Honester, I only had tee martoonies and I have all day Sober to Sunday up!

• Big questions about big rockets

  Wed Sep 14, 2011
  • Always nice to read your well considered points, Mob Barley, but if manned spaceflight is so compelling as to not even need to justify itself with discussion, why do you not happily deliver an intellectual knock out punch to my nose?