Just posted this as a comment on Space.com

DEEP SPACE THE HUBBLE when it's time comes, NOT DEEP SIX it!

Prior to the Shuttle Columbia disaster, NASA had originally planned to retire the Hubble at it's end of life by returning it to earth in a final shuttle mission.

Those plans are history for all the right reasons. It's way to risky.

HOWEVER we can save the Hubble. During this current re-fit mission, NASA is mounting a unmanned booster docking bracket to allow for a safe de-orbit into the Pacific ocean at the time when the telescope finally gives up the ghost some years from now.

I vote we start lobbying NASA and our congress that the telescope is way to valuable to simply allow to be burned up and dumped in to the ocean. I propose that the unmanned de-orbit mission be changed to an unmanned "rescue to outer space" mission.

My suggestion is to send up a more advanced unmanned booster and instead of de-orbiting the telescope, send it safely into deep space - perhaps even have it leave Earth orbit into a solar orbit. This would save the Hubble for centuries into the future allowing our descendants to rescue and proudly display as one of the most scientifically significant space achievements of our time.

Lobby now! DEEP SPACE THE HUBBLE when it's time comes. NOT DEEP SIX it!

That said, I still prefer Livejournal over the clutter of Facebook which seems to be "MySpace"-ing itself more and more every day.

Driving downstate. Sunny. Cool temps

tinyurl.com/dlhxst My sentiments exactly. I'll be at the Chicago Tea Party

Coal amounts to 90 percent of global CO2 production - Oil 10 percent

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=coal-poses-climate-catastrophe-after-peak-oil

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/oil-not-the-cli.html

http://seekingalpha.com/article/111454-plentiful-coal-not-peak-oil-is-greatest-global-warming-threat

This makes total sense.

Countries the worldwide are generating the vast majority of their electricity by burning coal.

Coal is almost pure carbon.

Oil is a Hydrocarbon 4 hydrogen atoms per carbon in a methane molecule, 18 hydrogens in an octane molecule.

So. Most of the emissions from burning oil products is water. Almost ALL of the emissions from burning coal is CO2 (after you scrub out the pollutants like N02, S02...)

Coal to Oil programs: ... hugely CO2 productive Recipe: 1) Cook (by burning more coal) Coal and Water in the absence of air. 2) Water breaks apart into H and 02 3) 4 H combines to C to make CH4. O combines to C to form CO (Carbon Monoxide). 5) Burn CO to make CO2 and add more heat to process. 6) extract CH4 and chemically reform into other hydrocarbons - Oil products.

So if we want to deal with Co2 production, we need to get ourselves and the world to stop burning Coal. Good Luck.... China has now surpassed the US in coal consumption. India is on its way. Other than France with their nukes, the vast majority of Europe burns coal for their electricity.

Oh. and C02 sequestration and storage is an enormously expensive, difficult and potentially dangerous problem to solve on a large scale. We burn hundreds of millions of tons of coal. Each pound of coal produces roughly three pounds of C02 (An oxygen atom has a similar weight to a carbon atom). Kudos to the person who can permanently store these quantities in a locations where it will never be accidentally catastrophically released... I'm not holding my breath.

CSH people eat LOTS of food

11:00am Mtn time on JB flt 126 den - jfk. 'bout to take off plane 2/3 empty. Woo hoo. Busy 10 days in Boulder.

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In Boulder still. Wacadoodles are out in force..see Ralph Nader signs.

Lots o work. Party tonight at a co-workers house - Ft Collins.

In new term 5 at JFK waiting for Jetblue flt 97 to Den. Terminal is über euro...or fung sheui says lady who liked my blue eyes in Cibo.

Jetblue free wifi works on the plane sitting at the gate.

@amouravski Csh website is cool. Next major proj. ... Mobile.Csh.RIT.edu.

T Boone pitkins. Cool plan. Watching him on 60 minutes. (directtv on jetblue)

responding to yet another twitter "follow storm". they tend to come in batches.

I wish Americans would stop thinking one magic solution will solve everything.

today we import 65 percent of our oil. And while we are mostly self sufficient for power (electricity) producing fuel, that is at risk as we continue to import greater amounts of liquid natural gas because virtually all new power plants built in the last 10 years are natural gas.

so. what solution do we do?

Answer: all of them...now.. in a big way.

1) develop more oil... shale oil, bio oil from saltwater algae, smart ethanol coal oil (fischer tropsch) , arctic, offshore, tar sand, and old well re-openings . .
2) develop power production of all types. nukes, clean coal, solar, wind, geothermal, tidal... Along with this develop efficient large scale energy storage systems.
3) demand destruction through enforced efficiency across the board.

each of these options *might* offset 20 to 30 percent of our energy import needs over in 15 to 20 years. even then, as populations climb, we are likely to remain shorthanded.

Until then, our dollar is becoming worthless as we flood the world (and a lot of the world who hate us) with trillions upon trillions of our hard earned cash.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNYHONEO1&month=6&day=18&year=2008

but it is so awesome, I have to post it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OBlgSz8sSM

http://www2.aya.yale.edu/classes/yc1952/whiffs(cc).html

In addition to being a terrific artist and beloved high school art teacher at Taft, he was an accomplished singer and member of the Yale Wiffenpoofs.

Since I now work for them, I feel the need to offer this irrelevant quiz.


If AT&T were a directive, what would it do? Where?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=511220&in_page_id=1770&ct=5

As of today I think I have 9 phone numbers and counting.

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• Home (Frontier)


• Brandreth (Frontier)


• Cell (Verizon - currently forwarding to new work loaner blackberry cell phone)


• new work blackberry (ATT/Cingular)


• Home office forwarder (goes to my real home office and then on no answer to corporate voicemail - IBM accessline)


• real home office (Time warner digital phone w/unlimited US calling)


• Mobility office line when I go into the IBM site. (corporate PBX)


• GM Onstar phone in my new truck (Verizon)


• Skype (Used for personal overseas long distance)

Go out and look to the eastern sky right after sunset and watch Mars get occulted by the full moon. You will need Binoculars to see the actual transition in the glare of the bright moon.

From Space.com:

"In the occultation zone

"If you live anywhere north of a line that will run southwest to northeast from near Newport, Oregon to Eastport, Idaho, and continuing on up toward western Hudson Bay, you will see the moon cross in front of Mars and temporarily eclipse it.

"This includes the northwestern part of Oregon, much of Washington state (except the southeast) and a small sliver of northernmost Idaho. Also within the viewing zone is a large part of western Canada, as well as the entire state of Alaska. Some notable cities are within the zone, including Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, Edmonton and Anchorage. From Portland, for instance, Mars will be hidden from 5:46 to 5:50 p.m. PST.

"The glare from the brilliant moon will make the disappearance and reappearance all but impossible to see with the naked-eye alone; binoculars or better yet, a telescope should be used as Mars gradually closes in on the moon and later moves away from it.

"A map of the visibility zone along with a schedule for dozens of cities in North America, as well as Europe and Asia (where Mars will be occulted during the predawn hours of Dec. 24) can be accessed at: http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/1224mars.htm

http://www.onstar.com/us_english/jsp/services/video.jsp?videoVar=ovd