Anarchists attack science

nature h/t Behind the Black

quote:

The group targeted Adinolfi because he is a “sorcerer of the atom”, it wrote. “Adinolfi knows well that it is only a matter of time before a European Fukushima kills on our continent.”

“Science in centuries past promised us a golden age, but it is pushing us towards self-destruction and total slavery,” the letter continues. “With this action of ours, we return to you a tiny part of the suffering that you, man of science, are pouring into this world.” 

Comment:

What did I say in my last post?  These people think science is the problem.  Their "solution" is to go back to a world in which people live like the beasts.   What kind of solution is that?  It is no solution at all.  It is not defending life, it is promoting death.

The Weinberg Foundation Launch - Q&A Highlights / House of Lords

Uploaded by WeinbergFoundation on Oct 6, 2011

quote from the description of the video on YouTube:

8th Sept 2011 - Over 80 individuals including parliamentarians, nuclear and energy specialists, climate change advocates and media gathered at the The House of Lords for the launch of the Weinberg Foundation, a new organisation promoting a safe, clean energy future with thorium energy. Here are the highlights from the dynamic Q &A about Thorium energy that followed the opening presentation.

If you don't know who Alvin Weinberg was, start here.  Not to mention that I found this video via the Weinberg Foundation as you can see above.  It is also a good source for information as you may gather.

I learned about the Weinberg Foundation from the Thorium Energy Alliance website.  The link to the Foundation can be found on the left margin.  You can still go to the conference which will be on the 31st, which is only a few days from now.  They also accept sponsorships on that site.  If you don't have any money to spare, sign a White House petition here.

MSNBC Flack Can't Deal With the Concept of "Hero" on Memorial Day

ace

It looks like this guy is trying to impress everybody with how compassionate and concerned he is. /sarc

What does the word "hero" mean? Well, let's look it up. I don't see anything there glorifying war.

Doesn't hero mean giving yourself up for something bigger than self? If you look at it at that way, then it isn't too hard how it can be seen to be a difficult concept for liberals.

Before anyone cries foul, it is these guys who encourage people to "vote their own interests". But no man is an island, everything one man does affects everyone else. This is not to suggest one should follow a purely selfish or selfless life strategy. But generally speaking, someone who gives much of himself or herself is more admired than someone who is only out for themselves. For a liberal to say "vote your interest" to say he has a hard time understanding heroism is not so hard to understand in those terms.

Another shot at the liberals here: when they ask for sacrifice, it is you other people who are expected to sacrifice, not themselves. They want all the prizes for themselves. Funny how it always comes back to benefiting themselves first.

What Do SpaceX and Tesla Have in Common?

yahoo

What could a rocket company and an electric carmaker possibly have in common? At first glance, perhaps not much, unless the companies are SpaceX and Tesla Motors, which were both co-founded by the serial entrepreneur Elon Musk.

Comment: ( mild speculation alert)

I've been working on an economic analysis of Musk's car.  It doesn't make sense to buy one of these from an economic point of view.  You could buy one based upon its performance.  Electric cars are superior in acceleration.  You could buy it for its cleanliness- no carbon emissions.  But you would not buy it for economic reasons- solar isn't cheap enough and neither are batteries.

By the way, I wrote an series of posts on fuel cell powered cars.  (check the label at the bottom of this post) These would work provided that they last long enough and prices go up for fossil fuels.  However, if prices can come down for fuel cells and hydrogen fuel, these can be made to work.  But you could also say the same for batteries in the battery powered car like the Tesla.

I would favor a hybrid electric design that uses a combination of batteries, ultracapacitors, and fuel cells.  Each would complement the other.  Even so, the economics may not be there yet, but wait for developments.  Something like this could happen some day.

Obama’s Fatal Weakness In Dem Primaries

Dick Morris TV: Lunch Alert!

Comments:

Morris may be a wee bit partisan, so the ideology can make you stupid factor may be kicking in.  In other words, I wouldn't take great comfort from this, but it is useful as a counter to the propaganda coming from the other side.  What I mean by "other side" is the media.  They'll be quiet as a church mouse when it comes to any news that might hurt their guy.

Krugman attacks!

Kyle Smith: NYPOST.com  h/t Instapundit

The nation’s most dangerous economist, Paul Krugman, releases another book with his only idea for Dems — spend more money  [ emphasis added]

excerpts:

• The Nobel committee is not infallible (the guy who invented the lobotomy and declared it “always safe” got a Nobel), but even if it was, Krugman’s award was not for political philosophy but for an arcane point of technical analysis, and even if it were for political philosophy, many economists with the opposite philosophy (Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, Friedrich Hayek) have also won the Nobel.
• Krugman “writes with more vitriol than I find attractive,” writes Harvard economist and fellow Times columnist Greg Mankiw. He treats anyone who disagrees as “a mendacious idiot,” writes George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok. “Krugman should stop bullying people,” wrote columnist Michael Kinsley.
• Rugy had produced a chart showing that there haven’t been big government cutbacks in Europe. (Krugman didn’t link to it). To call the chart a blockbuster is to understate the case. It showed that France, Italy, Spain, the UK and Greece are all spending about the same as they were a couple of years ago and far more than they were spending five years ago.
• Rugy’s whole point — European austerity has consisted mainly of tax hikes, not spending cuts).
• For Krugman to be wrong about such a prominent subject matters: He not only has a lot of readers; some of them actually hold positions in government. They assume that King Krug can’t be wrong about anything.[emphasis added]
• Krugman’s problem, as he reminds us in “End This Depression Now!” is that he is a fanatic in the grip of a religion called “Keynesianism” which says you should borrow and spend your way out of a recession.  [emphasis added]
• When Harvard Professor Mankiw doubted the Obama administration’s projection of 15.6% real growth between 2008 and 2013, Krugman accused him of “deliberate obtuseness” in a post titled “Roots of Evil.” Mankiw offered to wager on the matter but got no response. That was smart: The economy will have to catch fire and grow at about 7% between now and the end of 2013 for the Obama projection to come true.

Comment:

What makes Krugman dangerous?  You'd have to watch The Ascent of Man series mentioned in the previous post to really get a sense of what's going wrong with Krugman.  It is this "push button" certainty of his that is so dangerous.  People crave certainty, but such is an illusion, as Bronowski points out.  As I have observed and pointed out on this blog, ideology can make you stupid.

Jacob Bronowski- The Ascent of Man series

h/t Behind the Black with respect to the post Modern intellectualism. Lie to the Public


How Galileo got into trouble with the Church: The Ascent of Man, part 6

Compare that with modern day liberalism's Political Correctness.  Moral:  don't contradict the powers that be.  But the powers that be aren't necessarily correct.