Both Barack Obama and John McCain have spoken on space policy, and both are wrong. McCain is clearly more interested (he was a pilot and Republicans tend to like big objects and big programs). Since his views are more extensive there are more problems with them. These illustrate how wildly...

Campaigns, and the media covering them, are continually (justly) criticized for trivialities and for ignoring important issues. Further discussion is in randomabsurdities.wordpress.com.

One topic, which strangely no one ever mentions, but which is terrifying, is accidental nuclear war. The US has more than 20,000 nuclear weapons --- thousands ready...

Nuclear weapons are possessed by at least nine countries, posing a grave danger to humanity; the more countries the greater the danger. Uncontrollable proliferation is a real danger with one country threatening to start a political chain reaction: Iran. Although it claims to be interested only in peaceful use, power...