Notice-Me-Now Rocket
For dictators the world seems to forget.
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Mark Fiore is an editorial cartoonist and animator whose work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Examiner, and dozens of other publications. He is an active member of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, and has a web site featuring his work.
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Fiore needs to make a
Fiore needs to make a cartoon about the biggest dictator of them Bush. Of course he needed two wars and a million dead to get noticed!
thank you
This is hilarious and frighteningly true.
Shannon from Brooklyn
http://www.findingdulcinea.com/home.html
Rockets and satellites and stuff
Nevermind who can launch what, what happens when they reach a 'critical mass' of orbiting stuff, where you end up with nuts and bolts and lost antennas and tools and shells and other bits and pieces of current and former orbiting machinery kind of bouncing off each other, and stuff? 23,000 MPH is the breakaway speed from earth's gravity, thereabouts, that's 6.3 miles per second, something like that, faster than a speeding bullet, at any rate. So, relative to the earth's surface, some of these things may not be going that fast, geo-stationary orbits and all that jazz, but relative to the space litter, it's probably a small miracle that more stuff 'upstairs' hasn't just wrecked out or basically been shot full of holes and put out of commission by having pieces and parts bouncing off their sensitive innards and through their solar panels and whathaveyou. How do they even manage to keep track of it all, how do you predict random trajectories and ricochets and all that?
Maybe it'll end up being a situation where no one ends up having any kind of space communication capability because of all the garbage floating around up there already...
Klaatu marachas necktie
