Flight 8 Report

With approval for another flight as early as next week, SpaceX has released a report on what happened on the last two flights, and what they’ve done to prevent a repeat of either.

[Tuesday-morning update]

For those with X, Elon is about to talk about getting multi-planetary, as a prelude to this afternoon’s launch attempt. For the Xless, just go to SpaceX.com.

[Update a few minutes later]

It just changed the start time from 1015 PDT to 1800. So after the flight, instead of before?

News On The Mann Front

[Friday-morning update]

The worm has turned.

[Update Saturday morning]

An actual news report in Pennsylvania.

[Update]

The ice cracks.

[Update a few minutes later]

More over at WattsUpWithThat.

This is the best reporting on the legal situation so far, but I hope that at some point Jonathan Adler weighs in.

Harvard

FAFO:

[Saturday-morning update]

Harvard is totally corrupted.

It’s unclear that it’s even salvageable.

Fracture Day

The five-year anniversary is coming up.

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