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The original article was bullshit, you know. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comm...adinejad-jewish-family

When I read an article about this, they stated that the data they used to make their determinations was gathered before Iceland's implosion, so its placement should be viewed in that context. As well as the study itself, even. A snapshot of the world of yesterday...

Polls close at 8 where I vote. Determined local results are in the 11:30 pm news, and that is after they have been reported in the national coverage. Knowing who won in my riding and the regional ones usually takes an hour or two. Same timezone. As I said, there was a further item to...

In Canada we have paper ballots, and results are largely in in that sort of time frame. Sometimes the votes have been counted, and sometimes even the election decided, before polls had even closed on the Western parts of the country. What matters is that there are adequate amount of...

It's not every day that a man rejects the confidence of the house, but there you have Mr. Ignatieff.

1. The UN Charter explicitly forbids and delegitimatizes the acquisition of land through armed force by it's signatories. This concept was created to remove an incentive to wage war in the aftermath of the Second World War. Israel voluntarily signed the Charter when they became a member of the...

The entire premise of this thread is flawed. 1. Obama is not seeking to gut NASA, but rather is performing due diligence ahead of assuming power. 2. Ares is not the moon program, or NASA's manned spaceflight program, but an *implementation* to achieve those objectives. 3. The looking into...

This is the originating report about the conflict between Griffin and the transition team that spawned this story. http://blogs.orlandosentinel.c...2/nasa-has-become.html

The space elevator is a fantasy at this point; you could spend more than a hundred billion on it and achieve nothing.

Actually, I wouldn't say that heavy lift is a necessary component. Most of what comprises a lunar mission is propellant; the defueled components can easily be lifted into orbit on existing boosters. Then launch your propellant on separate flights and fuel them at a fuel depot. No need for new...

Here's a good rebuttal of it: http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=15333

This article is inaccurate; a very poor piece of one sided reporting. One, Obama and his transition team are not seeking to cancel moon missions, but are simply looking into the state of affairs at NASA before they take command and appoint a new administrator. The problem is that this Griffin...

That the Conservtives have the largest single block of voters is irrelevant. We elect Members of Parliament; to form government a party must have the confidence of the House, which means a majority of those members must support it. The Conservatives do not have that confidence, therefore they...

The space elevator isn't as technically feasible as you might imagine, and is a poor solution to the problem of cheap access to space. It ain't cheap. I'd recommend space tethers and reusable vehicles to reach them, as well as a pipeline type transport method like laser launch or light gas gun...

An interesting day in the House of Commons. A few years ago, the funding of elections was changed to forbid the contributions of corporations and unions to political parties. To maintain adequate funding, public financing was introduced, to the tune of 1.95 per vote received in the most recent...