re: #26 Charles

I couldn’t disagree more — it’s very shortsighted to look at a speculative study like this and declare it useless. This is what research does, and if your criteria is whether the usefulness is immediately apparent, probably the majority of research studies would fail.

Hang on a second. Looks like right-wing genius Allahpundit updated the Hot Air blog:

Update (8/19): So goofy is this paper that we actually got an e-mail from a NASA spokesman this morning noting that it isn’t an official agency study. One of the authors is affiliated with NASA, but that’s it. Duly noted.

Which basically destroys his original and hysterical argument.