• Technology

    Inside Astronaut Boot Camp

    By Dawn Stover Posted on 10.22.2009 10 Comments

    Three test pilots. Two flight surgeons. One molecular biologist. A flight controller, a Pentagon staffer and a CIA intelligence officer. These are the nine people chosen by NASA to be America’s next astronauts. Late this summer they reported to Houston along with two Japanese pilots, a Japanese doctor, a Canadian pilot and a Canadian physicist who will train alongside NASA’s class of 2009. Call them the lucky 14. Selected from more than 3,500 applicants, NASA’s new astronaut candidates arrive at a pivotal moment in the history of human space exploration. The agency’s bold ambition is to rocket humans beyond the International Space Station for the first time in more than 40 years. The question is when.

    10.29.2009 at 02:07pm - Comment by mcc99

    LMAO! Yeah, we'll go tot he moon all right, once we find out how to get people alive across the Van Allen Belt. One day we may get to the moon. Hell one day we may get a few miles passed the Earth. But I will say this, they have their artists and photogs lined up well in advance for the press releases and "real live footage from the Moon!" Ahhhahhaha Hey, anyone find the "original lunar landing" film reels yet? Hmmmm????

  • Science

    This Pill Will Change Your Life

    By Stuart Fox Posted on 8.26.2008 7 Comments

    9.12.2008 at 11:08am - Comment by mcc99

    Yep, more "men won't use it" re the male BCP, when in fact, that is total hogwash and everyone knows it. Why would a man say he is using it when he isn't unless he what, wants the woman to become the mother of his kids AND risk she would 1) abort or 2) sue for child support and deny access or 3) sue him or falsely accuse him of something when she learns she is preggers? If anything, it's women who lie about their BCP usage, and everyone knows it. The truth here is not that men won't use the BCP if they have one; it's that they will! Both feminists and conservative social thinkers have a devil's bargain on this but for different reasons. The fems want repro power to stay exclusively in the hands of women. Social conservatives want to keep the kids coming no matter what the cost and don't like BCPs anyway. Between the two, the conspiracy to suppress development of the male BCP continues unabated. But as we have learned from modern history, if an invention can be completed and used, it will. So it is just a matter of time. Then we'll see how the feminists like a dose of their own damned medicine!



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