television: Ice Pilots


July 12th, 2011

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I really hate so called ‘reality tv shows‘ as they are not in my opinion real or even remotely entertaining. With that said…. I do enjoy the show called “Ice Pilots”. The show has been out for two seasons already with season three in the works, however it is a new discovery for me.

Ice Pilots seems more of a documentary than a ‘reality show‘, it does have a little too much drama for my preference but I can get past that watching them fly and maintain the old planes… that aspect I love!  It amazes me the amount of effort and skill needed to keep planes like that going. I really enjoy seeing them fly but would have zero interest in the work involved.

If it is available from your tv provider,  it’s really worth a look for those who like vintage aircraft.

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NASA: layoffs at the end of an era


July 12th, 2011

With the launch of the final Shuttle flight by Space Shuttle Atlantis, we also get the bad news that at least 7000 people will be looking for new jobs due to D.C.’s lack of support for the agency . How ridiculous is that??

It never made any sense to me that NASA has been underfunded for so many decades. NASA has been the ‘goose that laid the golden egg‘ in terms of technological payoffs that have touched almost every aspect of our lives, and instead of feeding the goose, D.C. bureaucrats have decided to cut the head off…. way to go dumb-asses!

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