It's Monday

Gas Prices Inch Up to Hit Another High
Monday, August 14, 2006 - Page updated at 12:22 AM
(AP) - CAMARILLO, Calif.-Nationwide gas prices hit yet another record in the last three weeks, rising just over one cent to nearly $3.03 per gallon, according to a survey released Sunday.

(Ummm, make that $3.40 here)

Oil crisis: It's only just begun
Monday, August 14, 2006 - Page updated at 12:22 AM
By Paul Salopek
Chicago Tribune

Ummm, yeah, guys? you know that thing over in the Middle East? It's not really working out like we had planned, you know? Um, there isn't nearly as much oil as we thought, and the natives are acting up, so, gee willikers, I guess it's time to tell you that your whole way of life is ab-so-fucking-lutely unsustainable. We're real sorry that your great-great grandkids are going to have to pay for the mess, but it was a helluva party while it lasted, eh?

Published on 11 Aug 2006

by Energy Bulletin / Whiskey & Gunpowder.

Archived on 11 Aug 2006.
by Byron W. King

No more business as usual

this was interesting:

NASA can't find original tape of moon landing
Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:48 PM BST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government has misplaced the original recording of the first moon landing, including astronaut Neil Armstrong's famous "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," a NASA spokesman said on Monday.
Armstrong's famous space walk, seen by millions of viewers on July 20, 1969, is among transmissions that NASA has failed to turn up in a year of searching, spokesman Grey Hautaloma said.
"We haven't seen them for quite a while. We've been looking for over a year and they haven't turned up," Hautaloma said.
The tapes also contain data about the health of the astronauts and the condition of the spacecraft. In all, some 700 boxes of transmissions from the Apollo lunar missions are missing, he said.
"I wouldn't say we're worried -- we've got all the data. Everything on the tapes we have in one form or another," Hautaloma said.
NASA has retained copies of the television broadcasts and offers several clips on its Web site.
But those images are of lower quality than the originals stored on the missing magnetic tapes.
Because NASA's equipment was not compatible with TV technology of the day, the original transmissions had to be displayed on a monitor and re-shot by a TV camera for broadcast.
Hautaloma said it is possible the tapes will be unplayable even if they are found, because they have degraded significantly over the years -- a problem common to magnetic tape and other types of recordable media.
The material was held by the National Archives but returned to NASA sometime in the late 1970s, he said.
"We're looking for paperwork to see where they last were," he said.
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