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ISS Construction Resumes
avtchillsboro writes "The NY Times has an article detailing new construction on the International Space Station (ISS) and the additions via coming Space Shuttle missions through 2010. From the article: 'For more than three years, the International Space Station has floated half-built above the Earth. Maintained by a skeleton crew, the station — an assemblage of modules and girders — has not come close to its stated goal of becoming a world-class research outpost. But now construction, which has hung in limbo since NASA's space shuttle fleet was grounded after the 2003 Columbia disaster, is scheduled to resume. The shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off next Sunday carrying a bus-size segment of the station's backbone that includes a new set of solar-power arrays.'"
That sounds like money better spent than the $19 billion in farm subsidies the government pisses away each year.
really funny. There's been an Independent of times of late and Lieberman's only hopes are a tragic accident taking someone's life at the wrong time, and getting in on someone's termination, but get Lieberman in office and you'll hear just what you did with Vermont: "bi-partisan". If there are three parties represented in Congress, how can it be two?
It's obviously a means to make people think in terms of two parties, and only two parties.
A zero-sum game with two participants makes it real easy to know whom your opponent is. Scores of x and 100-x are the only values you have to know. Create an oligo* model (e.g., from the business world) and you'll find it can be done, but it's considerably more complex. And it wreaks havoc no those wanting to predict what's going to home. They don't want that to happen. For now, they'll be content to start spamming everyone and telemarketing (which is valid in most states).