The article did quote - approvingly - from Steve Meretsky, who developed the anti-"good American Christian morals" game, A Mind Forever Voyaging. I swear, there's so many parallel between that game and the present-day US that it freaks me out.
Project for a New American Century = Plan for a Renewed National Purpose. Discuss.
... and I'm not pissed. I actually find it terribly hilarious.
See, the situation was that the list I was on lost its server, and since one of the folks worked with the blackened.net site, it got picked up there. So, the administrator gets on the list to talk and stuff, and eventually manages to offend everyone on it, namely by verbally abusing those (including myself) who thought it not prudent to call those folks that joined the military due to financial/social hardships "fascists", "murderers", and the like. See the below:
if it comes to civil unrest, your beloved cousins who are "just doing their jobs" and "just feeding their working class families" and "just trying to get some money for college so they can get ahead" will be in the streets pointing their guns at you and believe me, they won't flinch when the duty of the state calls.
this is simple fact. we aren't talking about postal employees and DMV clerks here. we're talking about people who are willing to murder for the state no matter the rationalizations. right now they are murdering iraqis half way across the world for halliburton and shell oil.
This eventually ended up with him signing off the list in disgust with this particularly apt email:
i have had email from a few of you, however, with whom i'd make a stand behind the barricades, come what may. to you i say solidarity.
Well, so much for the "stand behind the barricades" part.
I totally agree. There is certainly cause for caution and skepticism, especially when you start tinkering with nature. Anyone with a smidgen of foresight could tell you that carelessly messing around with bioengineered crops could cause Real Bad Things(tm) in short order.
The problem is that the military does justifiably keep things secret. How open can they be about what they're doing without making their research obsolete? Then again, I could play dumb and trust that they won't do anything that would endanger the world... but there's a refutation to that in more than a few thousand nuclear warheads.
The initial post states quite clearly that a major portion of this is for military purposes, so that was a bit redundant (except for the "Angels Don't Play This HAARP" mention, which is instead a bit quackish).
There are quite legitimate reasons for producing an aurora. Amateur radio operators have used auroras to communicate over long distances for decades over decades. I don't blame the government for looking into this, although there certainly is a valid argument as to whether creating a large phenomenon is ethical or not. For instance, I'd hate to book some telescope time right when they decide to fire up a test. Still, I can't help but feel that a lot of the arguments against such research end up being a few layers short of an ionosphere.
Since most of us are living in quite light polluted areas, I think the submitter is essentially correct if a bit wrong on the technical aspects. No harm, no foul.
Sure - here ya go, right at David Wellbourn's reviews.
(Okay, technically, they're not screenshots. Rather, they're creepily accurate HTML/CSS representations of the beginning to each of the games, but they're close enough.)
I don't completely agree with the post you replied to - this is quite obviously trademark infringement of the most crass and blatant kind - but I have to admit that my initial thought was that the homogenization of radio has led to the introduction of a service such as this. If radio was more community-oriented, less driven by industry payola, and geared towards diversity, there would be no practical way for MS to do this. At least not for the next few years. Will we see Microsoft rip WREK's playlist? WFMU's? KBCS's? Not a chance in hell. Assuming that they would try to get the right to the little-publicized music that they play, they would have to encode all of that as well.
But this is really a digression. The main point of this should be that Microsoft is about to lose a large amount of money in court.
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Whenever there's a big coronal mass ejection or solar flare, I always see pictures from SOHO on the local news. Heck, I've even seen them on Drudge.
Space-related news still makes the news on a regular basis. To claim that NASA needs some controversy to get itself in the limelight is just incorrect.
What are those flying saucer-shaped objects in the LASCO images?
The "funny-looking spheroid" is a typical response of the SOHO LASCO coronagraph CCD detector to an object (planet or bright star) of small angular extent but so bright that it saturates the CCD camera so that "bleeding" occurs along pixel rows. There is a bright horizontal streak on either side of the image, because the charge leaks easier along the direction in which the CCD image is read out by the associated electronics.
CCD stands for charge-coupled detector, and refers to a silicon chip, usually a centimeter or two across, divided into a grid of cells, each of which acts like a small photomultiplier in that an incoming photon knocks loose one or more electrons. The electrons are "read out" by row (fast direction) and column (slow direction), the current converted to a digital signal, and each cell or picture element ("pixel") thus assigned a digital value proportional to the the number of incoming photons in that pixel (the brightness of the part of the image falling on that pixel). This is the same kind of detector as is used in a hand-held video camera, though until recently, the analog-to-digital conversion was left out in consumer devices.
If you point a video camera at a very bright source (say, the Sun), the image "blooms" or brightens all over --- there are so many electrons produced in the pixels corresponding to the bright source that they spill over into adjacent rows and column, perhaps over the entire detector. Better CCD's will "bleed" only along the fast readout direction (a single row), and perhaps a few adjacent rows.
The LASCO and EIT CCD cameras include "anti-bleed" electronics which limit the pixel bleeding around bright sources to less than the full row (and usually no adjacent rows). In the case of a marginally too-bright object, the pixel bleeding will be only a few pixels in either direction along the fast readout direction. Thus, the "flying saucer" images.
A few of the LASCO images that have appeared on the "extraterrestrial" Web sites show much larger and brighter, but still saucer-like features. These images are in fact obtained with the instrument door closed, but with an incorrectly long exposure. The big "saucers" result from massive pixel bleeding along every row of the detector containing part of the image of the "opal," or small diffusing lens, in the instrument door, that is used for obtaining calibration data.
If your correspondents still prefer to believe that the pixel-bled images of planets or bright stars are something else, ask them why the extended part of the "saucers" (i.e., the pixel bleeding) always occurs in the same direction relative to the image --- even when the spacecraft is rolled relative to its normal orientation relative to the Sun.
I've done some playing around looking for SOHO comets in the past. The images at the bottom are very clearly a planet or asteroid moving into SOHO's view. You can search through SOHO's image archives and you will see that this is exactly the case.
In fact, there's a great picture at Science@NASA that shows Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Saturn all in SOHO's field of view. All with the diffraction spikes at the sides of the planets.
Why am I, a true-blue leftist, on board for this? Check out the last two paragraphs from the LA Times article:
One reason President Bush may support the nuclear-rocket initiative is because there is significant concern that the nation is running short on scientists and engineers, analysts said. The number of students studying science and engineering has been steadily eroding while engineers and scientists who pioneered much of the world's most advanced aerospace technologies have retired, creating a gap in the nation's technological know-how and competitiveness.
Bush "may see this as a way to propel more students to go into science," McCurdy said.
Sure, like another poster said, this might just be to reward some folks with some nice contracts, but I'd put my wager on Bush actually getting some good economic advice - rebuilding the scientific infrastructure of the U.S. will pay off handsomely in the long run.
I can't say that I'm surprised that an organization that's so biasedly anti-NASA would write an anti-NASA press release (this hardly fits any definition of a news story). Before you give this "story" credence, look into the background of the Space Frontier Foundation. They basically want the first McDonalds on the Moon by 2020. They want to - get this - privatize and commercialize the International Space Station! They're one step from the Raelians.
From their statement:
Our definition of a "frontier enabling" technology or policy is one which has as its effect the acceleration of the creation of low cost access to the space frontier for private citizens and companies, enables or accelerates our use of space resources, and/or accelerates the rate at which wealth can be generated in space. In other words, is the project or policy going to provide a return on the national investment, if we define "return" to be the economically sustainable human habitation of space?
The key here is that astronomers are using different methods in an effort to determine the age of the universe. One group works on the amount of young stars in globular clusters. Another group works on cephid variables in distant galaxies. And so on and so on.
The reason why results like this are important is that it verifies the data received from other methods. If this result instead came up with a value between 20-25 billion years, we'd work on an explanation for that difference. However, this data agrees with previous observations, which confirms the previous estimate of the age, so scientists can gather that they're on the right track.
You don't want your own copy of this film to end up like all the ones it's portraying, do you?
Sure. With experimental stuff, sometimes that's the whole idea.
Case in point: Turntablist Christian Marclay once released a record with the inside sleeve lined with coarse sandpaper. Every time you pull it out, you get a "new" record.
The band Caroliner did one better - the outside cover had bits of gravel stuck to it.
Apostrophic Laboratories has a huge comic font set (50 total) called Komika that's well worth checking out. And it's freeware ("except to produce material that is racist, criminal and/or illegal in nature"), as are the rest of the foundry's fonts - mostly display, I think.
Right now the orbital data that we have for the object isn't good enough to exclude an Earth impact. Once we get a good number of observations over a period of time - and preferably find the object on older pictures - we'll narrow down the possibilities of its orbit. Right now there's enough uncertainty about the orbit that there's a greater chance of it missing us than hitting us.
The Earth's magnetic field wouldn't push it away, but various gravitational effects between now and 2019 could change the expected path of the asteroid.
You hit the nail on the head. Check out McWorter's entry out from a Shaolin Guestbook:
I am ever growing. I am ever discovering another ability or talent coursing through me. The energies of balance. The Yen and the Yang. I am light and darkness and accept Zen. I have never felt so much power in the Christian world! I am real! Connected with all of nature where the power of life trully resides to discipline, teach, and reveal. I am sad at my lonely position. I dream of finding a master to learn the Shaolin. To be the Dragon I was meant to be. 03/03/76. I was born in the year of the Dragon. I hold to the spinning enegies of it's balance. I yearn to fly and feel my chi seeking flight. Searching Searching...I learned guitar on my own. I've never gone to college, but I excel in computers, dance, philosophy, and science. I will seek into the universe and find the Dragon.
Wow.
This is the right person; the fractalized@yahoo.com address was connected to the email sent to the Belgian rockhounds according to the Houston Chronicle article.
You can actually detect stars on at least some of the NASA photos. Pop 'em into Photoshop (or your image editor of choice), select the sky, and adjust the levels. There's several that I've found that do show stars after enhancing the image - assuming that they're not compression artifacts (unlikely) or imperfections in the camea (I'm completely unable to judge that).
Not that I disagree that backyard astronomy is a great thing - or at least more romantic than awaiting a batch of results from a telescope a few thousand miles away - but nearly 500 comets have been discovered by folks processing SOHO images at home.
Sebastian's Comet Hunt is a great news site detailing SOHO comet discoveries, and there's links there that shows anyone (even tyros) how to pick these comets up.
According to Ain't It Cool News, Richard Linklater is set to direct A Scanner Darkly. Disappointing, since Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney had optioned it and I was assuming that Soderbergh would be directing (instead, he and Clooney are producing). But hey, they're doing Solaris, so all is forgiven...
I'd doubt that a studio would spend the money to option all of Dick's works considering that they're going for truly astounding amounts of money. A Scanner Darkly cost $2,000,000. Remember Impostor? That went for about $1,000,000.
N: The Chevy Nova has really poor positioning of the gas tank - it's liable to blow up on you. It's unsafe at any speed!
R: Yeah, well, where can I buy the car you made?
N: This hamburger has e. coli in it. It's dangerous to eat - it could kill you.
R: Yeah, well, where can I buy the burger you made?
N: This baby stroller is unsafe. Kids are liable to slip down in the seat and strangle themselves.
R: Yeah, well, where can I buy the baby stroller you made?
Re:The Department of Energy says they support it
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Only for five years, and the research into oceanic carbon sequestration has only been going on (from what I've seen) since 1999. Bush has also vastly increased the funding into carbon sequestration, so he's certainly set himself up to be wide open for criticism - especially since he's reducing funding and legal emphasis for already proven methods of reducing the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere (something you can't pin on Clinton).
You certianly have a point - after all, Clinton was dead set against the Kyoto protocols, too. In Bush's case, however, his abandonment of proven ways to clean up the environment make his actions particularly noxious.
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Leaving beside the logic of authoritatively referring to an article that you deride as poorly written, it looks like the Department of Energy is in fact supporting oceanic carbon sequestration. Here's a few links:
New Projects to Explore "Breakthrough" Ideas for Capturing, Storing Carbon Gases: http://www.fe.doe.gov/techline/tl_sequestration_ba a2002.shtml
DOE Carbon Sequestration Reference Shelf: http://www.netl.doe.gov/coalpower/sequestration/re fshelf.html
Statement of Robert S. Kripowicz, Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy to the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, and Climate Change, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate, January 29, 2002: http://www.fe.doe.gov/events/testimony/02_krip_sen environ.shtml
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Office of Science Financial Assistance
Program Notice 02-11: Ocean Carbon
Sequestration Research Program: http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/20 01-4/122101b.pdf (page 2)
And yes, there's more. If the Bush Administration isn't supporting oceanic carbon sequestration, then there's a lot of money that the Bush Administration is wasting by studying how to do it.
In a speech last June, Bush said carbon sequestration ''offers great promise to significantly reduce'' carbon-dioxide emissions. And the US Department of Energy increased its sequestration-research budget by 80 percent last year to $32.1 million, with a request for $54 million in the next fiscal year.
That certainly looks like the Bush administration has suggesting pumping in CO2, neh? But then, I actually read the article...
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The article did quote - approvingly - from Steve Meretsky, who developed the anti-"good American Christian morals" game, A Mind Forever Voyaging. I swear, there's so many parallel between that game and the present-day US that it freaks me out. Project for a New American Century = Plan for a Renewed National Purpose. Discuss.
See, the situation was that the list I was on lost its server, and since one of the folks worked with the blackened.net site, it got picked up there. So, the administrator gets on the list to talk and stuff, and eventually manages to offend everyone on it, namely by verbally abusing those (including myself) who thought it not prudent to call those folks that joined the military due to financial/social hardships "fascists", "murderers", and the like. See the below:
This eventually ended up with him signing off the list in disgust with this particularly apt email:
Well, so much for the "stand behind the barricades" part.
I totally agree. There is certainly cause for caution and skepticism, especially when you start tinkering with nature. Anyone with a smidgen of foresight could tell you that carelessly messing around with bioengineered crops could cause Real Bad Things(tm) in short order.
The problem is that the military does justifiably keep things secret. How open can they be about what they're doing without making their research obsolete? Then again, I could play dumb and trust that they won't do anything that would endanger the world... but there's a refutation to that in more than a few thousand nuclear warheads.
The initial post states quite clearly that a major portion of this is for military purposes, so that was a bit redundant (except for the "Angels Don't Play This HAARP" mention, which is instead a bit quackish).
There are quite legitimate reasons for producing an aurora. Amateur radio operators have used auroras to communicate over long distances for decades over decades. I don't blame the government for looking into this, although there certainly is a valid argument as to whether creating a large phenomenon is ethical or not. For instance, I'd hate to book some telescope time right when they decide to fire up a test. Still, I can't help but feel that a lot of the arguments against such research end up being a few layers short of an ionosphere.
Since most of us are living in quite light polluted areas, I think the submitter is essentially correct if a bit wrong on the technical aspects. No harm, no foul.
Sure - here ya go, right at David Wellbourn's reviews. (Okay, technically, they're not screenshots. Rather, they're creepily accurate HTML/CSS representations of the beginning to each of the games, but they're close enough.)
I don't completely agree with the post you replied to - this is quite obviously trademark infringement of the most crass and blatant kind - but I have to admit that my initial thought was that the homogenization of radio has led to the introduction of a service such as this. If radio was more community-oriented, less driven by industry payola, and geared towards diversity, there would be no practical way for MS to do this. At least not for the next few years. Will we see Microsoft rip WREK's playlist? WFMU's? KBCS's? Not a chance in hell. Assuming that they would try to get the right to the little-publicized music that they play, they would have to encode all of that as well.
But this is really a digression. The main point of this should be that Microsoft is about to lose a large amount of money in court.
Whenever there's a big coronal mass ejection or solar flare, I always see pictures from SOHO on the local news. Heck, I've even seen them on Drudge. Space-related news still makes the news on a regular basis. To claim that NASA needs some controversy to get itself in the limelight is just incorrect.
What are those flying saucer-shaped objects in the LASCO images?
The "funny-looking spheroid" is a typical response of the SOHO LASCO coronagraph CCD detector to an object (planet or bright star) of small angular extent but so bright that it saturates the CCD camera so that "bleeding" occurs along pixel rows. There is a bright horizontal streak on either side of the image, because the charge leaks easier along the direction in which the CCD image is read out by the associated electronics.
CCD stands for charge-coupled detector, and refers to a silicon chip, usually a centimeter or two across, divided into a grid of cells, each of which acts like a small photomultiplier in that an incoming photon knocks loose one or more electrons. The electrons are "read out" by row (fast direction) and column (slow direction), the current converted to a digital signal, and each cell or picture element ("pixel") thus assigned a digital value proportional to the the number of incoming photons in that pixel (the brightness of the part of the image falling on that pixel). This is the same kind of detector as is used in a hand-held video camera, though until recently, the analog-to-digital conversion was left out in consumer devices.
If you point a video camera at a very bright source (say, the Sun), the image "blooms" or brightens all over --- there are so many electrons produced in the pixels corresponding to the bright source that they spill over into adjacent rows and column, perhaps over the entire detector. Better CCD's will "bleed" only along the fast readout direction (a single row), and perhaps a few adjacent rows.
The LASCO and EIT CCD cameras include "anti-bleed" electronics which limit the pixel bleeding around bright sources to less than the full row (and usually no adjacent rows). In the case of a marginally too-bright object, the pixel bleeding will be only a few pixels in either direction along the fast readout direction. Thus, the "flying saucer" images.
A few of the LASCO images that have appeared on the "extraterrestrial" Web sites show much larger and brighter, but still saucer-like features. These images are in fact obtained with the instrument door closed, but with an incorrectly long exposure. The big "saucers" result from massive pixel bleeding along every row of the detector containing part of the image of the "opal," or small diffusing lens, in the instrument door, that is used for obtaining calibration data.
If your correspondents still prefer to believe that the pixel-bled images of planets or bright stars are something else, ask them why the extended part of the "saucers" (i.e., the pixel bleeding) always occurs in the same direction relative to the image --- even when the spacecraft is rolled relative to its normal orientation relative to the Sun.
In fact, there's a great picture at Science@NASA that shows Jupiter, Venus, Mars, and Saturn all in SOHO's field of view. All with the diffraction spikes at the sides of the planets.
More images with diffraction spikes:
The Finding of Comet SOHO 2002 C4
Hot Shots from SOHO - high bandwidth, but great examples showing that the image at the top of the EuroSeti page is almost definitely a comet
Why am I, a true-blue leftist, on board for this? Check out the last two paragraphs from the LA Times article:
One reason President Bush may support the nuclear-rocket initiative is because there is significant concern that the nation is running short on scientists and engineers, analysts said. The number of students studying science and engineering has been steadily eroding while engineers and scientists who pioneered much of the world's most advanced aerospace technologies have retired, creating a gap in the nation's technological know-how and competitiveness.
Bush "may see this as a way to propel more students to go into science," McCurdy said.
Sure, like another poster said, this might just be to reward some folks with some nice contracts, but I'd put my wager on Bush actually getting some good economic advice - rebuilding the scientific infrastructure of the U.S. will pay off handsomely in the long run.
From their statement:
Our definition of a "frontier enabling" technology or policy is one which has as its effect the acceleration of the creation of low cost access to the space frontier for private citizens and companies, enables or accelerates our use of space resources, and/or accelerates the rate at which wealth can be generated in space. In other words, is the project or policy going to provide a return on the national investment, if we define "return" to be the economically sustainable human habitation of space?
Policies of the Space Frontier Foundation
The reason why results like this are important is that it verifies the data received from other methods. If this result instead came up with a value between 20-25 billion years, we'd work on an explanation for that difference. However, this data agrees with previous observations, which confirms the previous estimate of the age, so scientists can gather that they're on the right track.
Sure. With experimental stuff, sometimes that's the whole idea.
Case in point: Turntablist Christian Marclay once released a record with the inside sleeve lined with coarse sandpaper. Every time you pull it out, you get a "new" record.
The band Caroliner did one better - the outside cover had bits of gravel stuck to it.
Marclay: http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/marclay.christian /discog.html / cliner_lp02.html
Caroliner - I'm Armed With Quarts of Blood LP: http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Paradise/1366
(b) it's connecting Ballard and West Seattle (like needing a Western Passage so building one from Lake Erie to Superior, ie it goes nowhere)
No. It's connecting Ballard to Downtown Seattle and West Seattle to Downtown Seattle.
Don't tell me that you're not aware of all the traffic that goes over the Ballard Bridge....
Apostrophic Laboratories has a huge comic font set (50 total) called Komika that's well worth checking out. And it's freeware ("except to produce material that is racist, criminal and/or illegal in nature"), as are the rest of the foundry's fonts - mostly display, I think.
Right now the orbital data that we have for the object isn't good enough to exclude an Earth impact. Once we get a good number of observations over a period of time - and preferably find the object on older pictures - we'll narrow down the possibilities of its orbit. Right now there's enough uncertainty about the orbit that there's a greater chance of it missing us than hitting us. The Earth's magnetic field wouldn't push it away, but various gravitational effects between now and 2019 could change the expected path of the asteroid.
I am ever growing. I am ever discovering another ability or talent coursing through me. The energies of balance. The Yen and the Yang. I am light and darkness and accept Zen. I have never felt so much power in the Christian world! I am real! Connected with all of nature where the power of life trully resides to discipline, teach, and reveal. I am sad at my lonely position. I dream of finding a master to learn the Shaolin. To be the Dragon I was meant to be. 03/03/76. I was born in the year of the Dragon. I hold to the spinning enegies of it's balance. I yearn to fly and feel my chi seeking flight. Searching Searching...I learned guitar on my own. I've never gone to college, but I excel in computers, dance, philosophy, and science. I will seek into the universe and find the Dragon.
Wow.
This is the right person; the fractalized@yahoo.com address was connected to the email sent to the Belgian rockhounds according to the Houston Chronicle article.
You can actually detect stars on at least some of the NASA photos. Pop 'em into Photoshop (or your image editor of choice), select the sky, and adjust the levels. There's several that I've found that do show stars after enhancing the image - assuming that they're not compression artifacts (unlikely) or imperfections in the camea (I'm completely unable to judge that).
Sebastian's Comet Hunt is a great news site detailing SOHO comet discoveries, and there's links there that shows anyone (even tyros) how to pick these comets up.
I'd doubt that a studio would spend the money to option all of Dick's works considering that they're going for truly astounding amounts of money. A Scanner Darkly cost $2,000,000. Remember Impostor? That went for about $1,000,000.
R: Yeah, well, where can I buy the car you made?
N: This hamburger has e. coli in it. It's dangerous to eat - it could kill you.
R: Yeah, well, where can I buy the burger you made?
N: This baby stroller is unsafe. Kids are liable to slip down in the seat and strangle themselves.
R: Yeah, well, where can I buy the baby stroller you made?
Only for five years, and the research into oceanic carbon sequestration has only been going on (from what I've seen) since 1999. Bush has also vastly increased the funding into carbon sequestration, so he's certainly set himself up to be wide open for criticism - especially since he's reducing funding and legal emphasis for already proven methods of reducing the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere (something you can't pin on Clinton). You certianly have a point - after all, Clinton was dead set against the Kyoto protocols, too. In Bush's case, however, his abandonment of proven ways to clean up the environment make his actions particularly noxious.
New Projects to Explore "Breakthrough" Ideas for Capturing, Storing Carbon Gases: http://www.fe.doe.gov/techline/tl_sequestration_ba a2002.shtml
DOE Carbon Sequestration Reference Shelf: http://www.netl.doe.gov/coalpower/sequestration/re fshelf.html
Statement of Robert S. Kripowicz, Acting Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy to the Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, and Climate Change, Committee on Environment and Public Works, U.S. Senate, January 29, 2002: http://www.fe.doe.gov/events/testimony/02_krip_sen environ.shtml
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Office of Science Financial Assistance Program Notice 02-11: Ocean Carbon Sequestration Research Program: http://www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other/20 01-4/122101b.pdf (page 2)
And yes, there's more. If the Bush Administration isn't supporting oceanic carbon sequestration, then there's a lot of money that the Bush Administration is wasting by studying how to do it.
In a speech last June, Bush said carbon sequestration ''offers great promise to significantly reduce'' carbon-dioxide emissions. And the US Department of Energy increased its sequestration-research budget by 80 percent last year to $32.1 million, with a request for $54 million in the next fiscal year.
That certainly looks like the Bush administration has suggesting pumping in CO2, neh? But then, I actually read the article...