The Rise of China and redirecting Softwood Lumber

China has been all over the economic news lately. They’re eating up “other peoples” (I use that term loosely) oil reserves and buying up refineries and pipelines. (though the UNoCAL bid fell through. They’re beneficiaries of the “outsourcing” scourge of the US and in turn selling their goods back at rock-bottom prices. It is clear …

Japanese Probe pulls up to Asteroid

takes some photos, and looks for a parking space. In November the probe will attempt to land… fire a projectile into the surface, take off, and catch the dust particles as they escape from the asteroid. It sounds sort of like when my cat bounds through our neighbours dandelions simultaneously scaring and catching bugs. Once …