We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:29:11 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Open post for those with something to share, updated through the day. New, complete posts come in below this one. Note: If trackbacking, please acknowledge this post in your post. That's only polite. You're advertising here, we should get an ad at your place... ************************* In their rush last week to "celebrate" a particular anniversary by using military funding legislation to try to embarrass President Bush, the Congress overlooked an anniversary of actual import in the greater scheme of things:Last week marked the anniversary of shame in U.S. foreign policy, as Congress cut off military funding to Cambodia, beginning a... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html Wed, 02 May 2007 23:59:39 -0600 Someone seems to think that He will be a nice reactant for fusion reactors in the future. I don't know. That's way outside my realm, BCR. I just follow the electron as it bounces from carbon to hydrogen to carbon to nitrogen(sits for a sec) to carbon. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59638 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59638 Thu, 03 May 2007 00:46:32 -0600 Ry - link fixed. Oops. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59637 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59637 Wed, 02 May 2007 22:30:36 -0600 BCR: Solar wind deposits it. The Earth has a lovely shield protecting us from the wind, so we don't get it in larger supplies. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59636 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59636 Wed, 02 May 2007 21:26:03 -0600 helium dilution refrigerators, for when you need your beer not just cold, but millikelvin cold. Useful for superconductor research. So, we obviously have *some* resources available already. Why the Moon would have more than Earth puzzles me--we can't keep hold of what we got with the bigger mass, so the Moon would be even worse, ya'd think. Unless there are oil reserves up there?]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59635 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59635 Wed, 02 May 2007 20:09:02 -0600 Hey John, the Clowns and D... link leads to nowhere. Did you take that one out of rotation? All I get is the 'this ain't here' message. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59634 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59634 Wed, 02 May 2007 18:31:31 -0600 Eric, you're right. My bad. I forgot the two neutrons of the most abundant form of helium. My bad. Helium 4 is common(not 2) and Helium 3 is the isotope their pissed at. D'Oh. Gospodin MajMike, just so long as you don't get the Loonies to be judge. You'd space me in a heart beat. ;) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59632 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59632 Wed, 02 May 2007 16:56:54 -0600 I can't fully side with NASA on this one though, the Russians do have a better (and already functioning) heavy lift launch vehicle. No need for us to re-do research that's been done. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59631 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59631 Wed, 02 May 2007 14:17:22 -0600 ahh. that Luna Base is going to one harsh mistress. we better have all our stilyagi with us and go on up there and meet these cheloveki and turn them into our druzh... (crap, i just expended the last of my long forgotten Russkie phrases) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59630 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59630 Wed, 02 May 2007 14:09:51 -0600 Heavy helium? Isn't it light helium that's the issue? http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59628 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59628 Wed, 02 May 2007 13:13:54 -0600 I just read the AFSis link. That doesn't sound too good. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59627 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59627 Wed, 02 May 2007 12:45:04 -0600 Perhaps if 9/11 were an isolated incident in a glass jar it would be overdone and overreaction. It was certainly not the end of the world nor a symbol of impending US doom. But 9/11 went much deeper than a glass jar. It was a symbolic and highly visible wake up to the serious and real problems of radicals/terrorists which is by no means minor. It is right that action be taken to work against it. One could argue about the method and the how, why and where but these problems would not go away by ignoring them indeed they had been ignored too long already. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59626 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59626 Wed, 02 May 2007 12:38:14 -0600 Army blog and email restrictions. HOLY HELL]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59624 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/05/hi_fires_2_may.html#comment-59624 Wed, 02 May 2007 12:09:43 -0600