The latest on the ongoing California debacle. Some of us predicted this a dozen years ago. It never made economic sense.
Iran
…has already beaten Biden.
Well, it’s pretty easy with someone who apparently wants to be beat.
A Chinese-American Rights group
…calls Critical Race theory “a hateful fraud.”
They’re not wrong. They know Maoism when they see it. They didn’t flee one cultural revolution to come to another.
A Space Shanty
A very nice one.
[Update Saturday afternoon]
OK, now let’s come up with some verses for “What Shall We Do With The Drunken Belter?”
[Update a couple minutes later]
Laura Montgomery has another one from a few years ago, but no known tune.
New Glenn
The schedule has slipped until the end of next year.
Not getting the Air Force contract seems like an excuse to me. Either Bezos is serious, or he isn’t. If he is, he’ll spend whatever it takes to start getting revenue. The longer he delays, the farther ahead Elon will be. In fact, if he wants to keep up, he’ll start work on New Armstrong now.
Propellant Depots
An interesting discussion at Selenian Boondocks.
Internal Divisions
…are America’s greatest vulnerability.
Yup. And it’s not by accident.
Fry’s
RIP.
I’ve seen this coming for a couple years, with the empty shelves, and going to a consignment business model. I don’t think it would have survived anyway, but the pandemic was the last nail in the coffin. It’s the end of an era.
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Bryan Preston remembers Fry’s. Our Fry’s was Tahitian themed. It was probably also the smallest store in the chain, perhaps because of real-estate prices in Manhattan Beach. It never carried appliances. If I wanted to have more selection, I had to drive to the ones in Commerce, Canoga Park, or Fountain Valley.
[Bumped]
Steak
This would be a great technology for the planet, and off planet. I wonder what it will cost per pound when they scale up production?
Long March 9
Another rocket that, like the SLS, will be obsolete before it first flies.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, first link is fixed.