Recent content by Robert van der Veeke

At home, i had a day off and was watching CNN just because of the Challenger launch. CNN was then something new on our local cable network. Cai-Westland, our local cable-provider was the first network in the Netherlands to have CNN on their network. And CNN did live coverage of Shuttle...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7923782.stm It appears that the crash is most likely cause by a faulty altimeter and human error.

The kind of answer that you could expect. How can we decarbonise our energy production without plunging the world into a depression that makes the current "Credit crisis" look like childsplay?

Could you define real progress?

Just for good order this hearing was on the 9th of february this year.

Its the "You should not ask questions" mentality advocated by climate-alarmist that i find suspicious, good science is about being skeptic, asking the questions in the first place. And yes i am very skeptic about the whole alarmist-claims that we are nearing the climate tipping point, act now...

The plane crashed tail first, the tailwings (while its rudder is more or less still attached to the plane) are lying more than a plane length behind the plane while its engine (or at least one of them) is lying in front of the plane. This is consistent with what people on the ground saw...

Hee leuk er mag nu ook Nederlands gesproken worden. De enige manier voor mij om nog ooit bij ESA/ESTEC te kunnen werken is als OBS (Oce Business Services) daar een nieuwe Repro medewerker danwel DTP'er/Vormgever nodig heeft (en dat is dus voor mij een nadeel, ik ben eigenlijk te duur als alleen...

Well, a 2 eurocents difference is saving me a full Euro at the pump, it sounds not much, but i have to fill that car a lot, on average i spend now about 35-40 euro's less a month on fuel than i did in june and july. Still a cheaper price at the pump does not mean that i will drive more because...

I think John Christy (Climatologist and writer for the IPCC) has some wise things to say about Climate Change. And then take some time to read the following interview from last year (and yes, oh irony it is on the BBC site) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7081331.stm Follow the herd.

Welcome to the Netherlands :)

People at Cern recieved deadthreaths for turning on the LHC, apart from this being very concerning and downright wrong and criminal. "The deathray will kill us all, so don't turn it on or we will kill you!"

It will be more like years if everything goes to plan, and I don't think that it would be a very big problem, the man (or woman) is there for a mission that goes beyond just being there. And when he/she finally dies we will cry and weep, we will mourn and be depressed, yet we also done...

It has been proposed before, this was in march of this year. http://www.universetoday.com/2008/03/04/a-one-way-one-person-mission-to-mars/ Volunteers, the only problem i see is do we have enough suitable volunteers. You are going into the history books as the first man to set foot on Mars. On a...

Min temp was -80 celcius wich is enough for frozen CO2 (just) but maximum today was -32 wich is way to warm for frozen CO2. At −78.51 celcius carbon dioxide changes directly from a solid to gas.