Hey, 60 Minutes, remember when the early Space Program had only success?

[edhopper]

I remember when Walter Cronkite reported how marvelously error free NASA was and how we should shut it down if they made any mistakes.
I am also sure Thomas Edison found the perfect light bulb the first time out.
Let's ignore the Faux style hatchet job you did on Clean Tech.
Do you think something that might be essential to the very survival of Mankind might be worth pursuing, even if every step is not successful?
Do you understand how progress happens at all?

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Gus Grissom. nt.

[edhopper]

2. Does this help?

[Warren Stupidity]

4. oops.

I plead Poe's law.

[yellowcanine]

5. And long before that the Vanguard Satellite launch failure in Dec. 1957.

Particularly grievous because the Soviets had surprised the American public by launching Sputnik I in October a body blow to American pride at the time. We were accustomed to thinking that the U.S. was first at everything.

In retrospect, the whole Sputnik/Vanguard episode is kind of hilarious, as illustrated by the following account.

On 6 December the US Navy launched a Vanguard rocket, carrying a 1.3 kg (2.9 lbs) satellite, from Cape Canaveral. It only reached an altitude of 1.2 meters (4 ft), fell and exploded. The satellite was blasted off the top of the rocket where it landed in bushes near the pad and began transmitting signals, leading to New York Journal-American columnist Dorothy Kilgallen remarking "Why doesn't somebody go out there, find it, and shoot it?" The American press called it Kaputnik.[5]

Imagine if this had happened on Obama's watch. Darryl would be issuing subpoenas left and right.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

3. 60 minutes has lost all credibility - they now do hit pieces and Amazon infomercials

When I heard their hit on Solyndra yesterday I knew they are no different than Fox.

[edhopper]

7. They did an hatchet job

on the country's clean energy program.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/01/06/whats-the-matter-with-60-minutes-cleantech-edit/197434

Seems they don't understand how innovation works.

[edhopper]

9. Well they did do an entire report on clean energy

without mentioning Climate Change.
First rate journalism.