No kidding; they're really going to be in trouble if all their crops are engineered for heat and the NA current brings on a local ice age, as some doomsdayers predict [see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/11 30_051130_ice_age.html/]. Maybe Brits should diversify their investments at the seed bank.
The problem was that a low-level cut-off fuel sensor seemed to be indicating the hydrogen level of the external fuel tank was low. There are four of these sensors but NASA prefers a high level of "redundancy" for the launch. Small things like this scrub liftoffs quite often. Spirits are low at NASA.
Thanks to NASA's live TV coverage, this problem was made public before even the NASA website could report on it.
I was going to liveblog the Discovery launch at GlobeLens.com until this happened. Rats.
It's important to understand that the issue of global warming is closely tied to the question of origins. I wrote a short article about global warming at http://www.globelens.com/blog/2004/10/15/global-wa rming-exposed.html
Read it and tell me if you think I'm way off base.
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No kidding; they're really going to be in trouble if all their crops are engineered for heat and the NA current brings on a local ice age, as some doomsdayers predict [see http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/11/11 30_051130_ice_age.html/]. Maybe Brits should diversify their investments at the seed bank.
The problem was that a low-level cut-off fuel sensor seemed to be indicating the hydrogen level of the external fuel tank was low. There are four of these sensors but NASA prefers a high level of "redundancy" for the launch. Small things like this scrub liftoffs quite often. Spirits are low at NASA. Thanks to NASA's live TV coverage, this problem was made public before even the NASA website could report on it. I was going to liveblog the Discovery launch at GlobeLens.com until this happened. Rats.
It's important to understand that the issue of global warming is closely tied to the question of origins. I wrote a short article about global warming at http://www.globelens.com/blog/2004/10/15/global-wa rming-exposed.html
Read it and tell me if you think I'm way off base.