Cities from Space
This is a pretty cool collection of photos from the ISS of the world's cities from space, sent to me by a friend. These are an order of magnitude more detailed than you are used to seeing in other earth-lights photos.
Posts tagged ‘ISS’
Smaller Government, The Final Frontier
I am with TJIC when he says that while colonizing space is a cool thing to do, it doesn't justify government coercion.
For a while now, I have been wanting to post on some of my positions that have changed since I was 18, as I have morphed from a secular conservative to a full fledged libertarian anarcho-capitalist. One such issue is on space. I used to be a supporter of government space programs (it was hard not to be such, watching moon landings and Tang commercials in my formative years). My logic was that the government wastes trillions on all kind of stupid stuff, and the space program was kind of interesting. I supported it as one of the government's least-bad things.
Unfortunately, I have realized that if you add up every person in the United States's list of least-bad government programs you get ... the totality of the US budget. Each program has a supporter that thinks that program is a kind of cool exception in the morass of government waste. I have also, by the way, come to the conclusion that the space program is a direction-less mess, and is not really as interesting as I once thought it was. The planetary probes are still cool (and probably have the most bang for the buck) but the ISS just seems like a UN building in space and the current plans for Moon and Mars missions appear to be NASA full-employment programs rather than realistic missions.
