Category Archives: Space!

Billionaires in Space, Cont.

Posted on July 22, 2021 by tengrain

I missed this quote yesterday from very-little rocket man: “When you get up there, and you see it, you see how tiny it is and how fragile it is,” Bezos continued. “We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting … Continue reading →

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Billionaires in Space: A Conclusion

Posted on July 21, 2021 by tengrain

Honest-to-blog, Bezos said this, and I hope that it triggers enough feeble brains to realize that something is majorly wrong with our tax code: this is somehow a real quote Jeff Bezos: "I want to thank every Amazon employee, and … Continue reading →

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Thrust-off, Bezos

Posted on July 20, 2021 by tengrain

Masculinity-insecure billionaire Jeff Bezos Amazon Prime’ed hisself into “space” and returned 10 minutes later. Can hardly wait to read the review of his ticket purchase.

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More Pigs in Space, Please!

Posted on June 14, 2021 by tengrain

Good news! We’re shooting another plutocrat into the sun, er, into space! Seat on Bezos’ Blue Origin flight to space sells for $28 million at auction I wonder how much Bezos will charge for the return trip?

Posted in Billionaire Bastards, Space! | 9 Comments

Failure to Launch

Posted on May 28, 2020 by tengrain

The SpaceX failure to send Americans into space yesterday really isn’t a politics story… until it was. NYTimes (emphasis mine): At Cape Canaveral, Trump’s Search for a Heroic Narrative Is Thwarted “For President Trump, it was a chance to rewrite … Continue reading →

Posted in Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Science, Space!, Technology | 14 Comments

Splat Earther

Posted on February 24, 2020 by tengrain

I know I’m gonna get dragged for that headline… The WaPo has the polite one: ‘Mad’ Mike Hughes, who wanted to prove the flat-Earth theory, dies in homemade-rocket disaster The plan: Float dozens of miles high in a balloon, then … Continue reading →

Posted in Science, snark, Space!, War on Science | 19 Comments

We Did Big Things Once

Posted on July 17, 2019 by tengrain

This is pretty great: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ light show on Washington Monument to mark Apollo 11. The celebration includes projecting an image of the Saturn V rocket on the Washington Monument. Saturday will be the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission. … Continue reading →

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To The Moon With You!

Posted on June 16, 2019 by tengrain

Apollo 11 in Real Time: A real-time journey through the first landing on the Moon. This is so cool, fellow-nerds! It really is like reliving when we landed on the moon, minute by minute. You can join it in progress … Continue reading →

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Stable Genius: To the moon with you!

Posted on June 8, 2019 by tengrain

For all of the money we are spending, NASA should NOT be talking about going to the Moon – We did that 50 years ago. They should be focused on the much bigger things we are doing, including Mars (of … Continue reading →

Posted in Lord Damp Nut, The Russian Usurper, Science, Space! | 12 Comments

This is so cool

Posted on December 10, 2018 by tengrain

Instead of news driving you to drink, how about having one for the road for Voyager 2, which is now in interstellar space!

Posted in Science, Space! | 5 Comments