Comments on: Buckled Roads, Broken Buoys, and Doomed Satellites

By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 17:25:18 +0000

Yeah, and the House has just recommended cutting $1 billion from NASA’s budget, while explicitly preserving planetary science. That doesn’t sound *too* unreasonable until you realize what the Bad Astronomer pointed out: if you order that a billion dollars comes out of the budget but you aren’t allowed to cut planetary science, it’s going to come out of Earth science. They have to know that. They’re politicians, but they’re not stupid. They just have priorities, and monitoring climate change clearly isn’t one of them.

By: D Hill

D Hill — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:35:00 +0000

I was in Arkansas (USA) one summer about 12 years and every night after leaving work the road was buckled from heat in various places (on blacktop paved roads), different each night. There seemed to be a road grader standing by to grade them down each night and they were fine the next morning. Somebody at the plant I worked in told me they only started buckling after they were stopped from using oil/gravel type paving (see the movie “Cool Hand Luke”) for environmental concerns and were only allowed to use blacktop.