Sometimes the article goes on and on with multiple webpages but occasionally someone will summarize the topic in a brief comment. Or mention the person that wrote the article gets almost all his consultant fees paid by Monsanto. Not always i.e. a comment begins with insightful items but then concludes, "I was able to make $100K in one week! See gogetbids.com for more!"

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and transmission had only three settings: Forward, backward, and neutral. There was a pic showing one that broke in two because didn't spend time to engineer for steel contraction in very cold water. Must have been terrible when (if it did happen) at sea. Interesting comment from previous post, "Kaiser actually built one in four days in a carefully-choreographed stunt...two or three weeks was typical." Another benefit was Kaiser created employee health benefits as perk to attract workers. Companies did have to compete for employees in those days.

Interesting to compare South Korea to North Korea (ok, not much in comparison as so vastly different). What we have is a small nation that is a manufacturing economic powerhouse. I heard when they built their high speed rail, part of govt specs is components have to be made in SK as final assembly may seem way to go in terms of providing jobs in the country. But most of value is the parts manufacturing, and US buys HSR components and systems from SK. I remember 1988 Olympics when SK showcased their modern city Seoul while NK insisted they were the superior Korea and attempted to complete Olympics facilities. However, I read someplace it was not always like that after 1953 Korean War. For couple decades NK had better roads, rails, infrastructure etc. that was built by Japanese during their period of occupation as NK was industrial portion and SK being mostly farmland. But it was in 1970s, while corruption was rampant, the SK govt figured they better modernize into 20th century. Now I don't claim to be authority, too lazy to look up the facts (if they can easily be found, I rarely consult wikipedia), but then building huge ships is impressive, just think of all those boatloads of cheep Chinese stuff coming into Los Angeles and Oakland.

President and Congress direct NASA to carry out such and such programs but fail to provide enough budget. Yes, same whiney post like everyone else.

You can get a DeLorean but Mr. Fusion will never make it to commercial markets because of ITAR.

Interesting read about this Mk-54 (Davy Crockett) with 10 or 20 ton yield. There was a program on History Channel back when they had documentaries on history which described this beast and footage of it being fired. You fire the cannon (actually recoilless rifle) and then jump into a ditch to avoid radiation exposure. I was thinking what if cannon charge was a dud and only throws it 100 feet. One of the people they interviewed said Davy Crockett was "as practical as an atomic grenade." Can't throw it far enough.

That's why they carry firearms unless new procedures are otherwise.

In late 1990s I think. I saw a small article in San Jose mercury news he had a table and some his artwork (yes this cosmonaut is an accomplished artist ) but most passerbys didn't recognize him. If I knew he was on tour I'd ask him to autograph my Apollo Soyuz poster. Arrg. Also few years ago one of his paintings and a photo of him showing it that was up for auction. Next year is his 50th anniversary of that spacewalk and 40th anniversary of Apollo Soyuz.

James Harford in the 1997 book "Korolev" he interviewed several of Sergei Korolev colleages and one of them said when Kennedy announced the race to the Moon, the Soviets can either get in the race or not. They did neither. There were those in Politburo very interested in manned spaceflight, others that were not ("stop wasting resources with man in space which is only good for propaganda instead of actual military hardware). When Khrushchev was ":sent to Siberia" Korolev lost much support. He was able to proceed with Soyuz, N1 (he was also chief of many other programs) but their space program was not given all resources. So there was not enough resources for development and ground tests, N1 never had successful launch, Soyuz had it's growing pains and its first manned flight was a fatality.

I wonder if our space program is experiencing this "we're doing neither." No shortcuts are being taken in SLS and Orion development but there is no significant funding for landers and habitat modules. And where is US going? Moon, Mars, or an asteroid? Depends on who you talk to.

does this experiment include viewing water splatter from a UV source or something like that?

I ask the same as ebola is spread through bodily fluids but yet medical people where full suit outfits with masks. Probably can find helpful information but that's a lot of web surfing. Need to have some medical knowledge and political awareness to rid scare mongering articles. I read someplace that many doubt govt and medical officials because they see them doing blundering mistakes. I also think politicos have bankrupt their credibility after gouging the common people with years of costly wars and loose Wall St practices that damaged the economy. Although I'm certain there are highly competent people in CDC but they are under control of elected officials in DC.

well yes and their cellphones had global coverage, though no texting and video but didn't need zillion cell towers, audio was broadcast quality, and didn't have to futz with contracts and data throttling. And the women wore the mini-skirt outfits and go-go boots, big hair and heavy mascara (wow).

as Orion has no toilet compartment, no sleeping bunks for off shift use, no air lock, no room for treadmill (kinds of stuff Shuttle orbiter mid deck had).

oh great, another place for TSA to go and stick it to you.