“which would be incredibly expensive to get into orbit.” Then don’t build it on the ground. And screw the expense; it’s only money.

Infrared? Really? A piece of tape is all it will take to circumvent this bit of wizardry.

They chickened out.

At some point at least one person simply must have looked at that character design, realized that it was going to vaguely remind people of Colonel Sanders, and then failed to do anything about it.

These things aren't all that elusive. Science people just need to get out of the lab more often.

Climategate wasn’t about scientists “having harsh words for kooks and shills”, it was about emails admitting to manipulating data which didn’t tell the story they wanted to tell, charting trends from weather stations which didn’t even exist, a hockey stick graph which turns out to be driven by a program that will give…