I wrote and posted this article almost 11 years ago. Given the current news about Biden’s student loan forgiveness, this seems like a useful moment to recycle it.
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Here’s a quick headline sample from the past few months:
I don’t think that any of these pieces address this point: Continue reading
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This article, “We’re all alone: Oxford study says chance of intelligent life elsewhere very low – Paper uses statistics to examine how long it took life to evolve on Earth and how likely each step was; concludes highly unlikely other intelligent civilizations out there”, prompted me to republish one I wrote back in 2010.
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April 19, 2011 (Republished Dec. 5, 2020, with minor changes)
Business is humming if you’re in the business of extra-solar planets, exobiology or exoenvironmental studies.
Recently, it was announced that scientists had determined that liquid water and hydrocarbons were present on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. They made this determination using Cassini’s plasma spectrometer, which had found specific ions characteristic of water in motion. (It never ceases to amaze me how scientists can tease information out of data using the most obscure scientific facts.)
That makes at least 4 worlds (Earth, Mars, Enceladus, and Europa) in our solar system where liquid water and other ingredients necessary for life have been found to be present now or in the past, or probably so. Continue reading
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This post was originally published by me on November 13, 2013, and 6 years later, some new information has recently come to light thanks to Josh:
Hello Mike,
I thought I would fill you in on what I learned.
I reached out to the national archives.
They immediately knew the video we were referring to. Unfortunately the man we have all seen fall in said video is unknown. They lead me to an index card the army has to label events in archival footage. It had no identifiable info on it about the man.
The video has a corresponding number to reference the video if you would like to look further. As the army does not know who it was. I feel we may never know.
It looks as though this will remain a mystery for now.
Again, thanks for looking into this as well. Have a great day!
That’s wonderful work. Thank you so much!
Can you provide the video reference, if you have it? Or tell me how to get it?
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Is This America’s Most Famous Unknown Soldier Of World War 2?
I know you’ve all seen it, this 2 second clip of black and white film taken on D-day; June 6th, 1944. You’ve probably watched it so many times that it’s just background to the bigger story of the invasion, and that’s certainly how this quick piece of film is used; 2 seconds of film showing G.I.s storming the beach. I’m not even sure which beach.
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike, just before the show. (Dec. 7, 2015)
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:
“What we’re discovering is that the Constitution is not a mechanism that runs by itself. Ultimately, we are a government of men and not law. The law has no force without people who are willing to enforce it. The ball is now squarely in the court of the Republican Party, and particularly Senate Republicans. Will they ever be prepared to say enough is enough?” ~ William A. Galston, a senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution who graduated from college just before Watergate.
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Houston Mayor Annise Parker [L] with Mike, just before the show. (Dec. 7, 2015)
SIGNOFF QUOTE[s]:
“What we’re discovering is that the Constitution is not a mechanism that runs by itself. Ultimately, we are a government of men and not law. The law has no force without people who are willing to enforce it. The ball is now squarely in the court of the Republican Party, and particularly Senate Republicans. Will they ever be prepared to say enough is enough?” ~ William A. Galston, a senior fellow in governance at the Brookings Institution who graduated from college just before Watergate.
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