Gaia in Preparation for Launch

The Gaia star-mapper is lowered into position atop the Fregat upper stage for Soyuz, a photo by europeanspaceagency on Flickr.

Lowering into position atop its Soyuz-Fregat-type launcher.Hoping there's a video feed from Kourou!

Done the morning snow-shovelling...

... and there was a fair bit of that to do. But, it's done. Glad of the snowblower, even if I'm still having troubles getting it started properly.

So now it's off to one of the local malls for shopping errands. More later. 

“Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s child? I don’t think so.”

Who said that?

James Moore, our federal industry minister. The title is a direct quotation.

I fear to say more than this.

Gender Bias and Network Cartoon Shows

While we're on the subject of people with issues preventing prosperity on large scales...

Kevin Smith and Paul Dini - occasionally known on LJ as kingofbreakfast - aren't the ones with the attitude problem here, I suspect. The problems under discussion in the quoted interview at the other end were likely at the root of the latter's most recent LJ post.

Paul, my sympathies to you on these problems...and my thanks for the good work you've done on other fronts thus far.