Will he drag NASA down? Jim Meigs is my former editor at Popular Mechanics.
[Update a while later]
Sorry, link is fixed now.
Category Archives: Business
Too Much Risk Aversion
…is too risky.
Someone should write a book about that.
Spaceship 3
I wonder what the improvements are? They really should have gone with a liquid engine years ago (after the accident in Mojave). They can’t fix the problem with the shuttlecock, but they could fix that.
Continuing To Learn
I’ll look forward to learning what happened to the latest flight attempt.
Is there an SN12? Or will the next test be of SN15?
The Dream Of The 90s
I remember when Nancy moved up there. She told us she was planning it at a Halloween party in 2003 at the late Cathy Seipp’s place.
Europe’s Response To The SpaceX Challenge
…is about as pathetic as one would expect.
I told Clay Mowry back in (I think) 2014 that Ariane 6 would be obsolete before it first flew. He didn’t buy it then, but now he’s with Blue Origin.
Mask Mandates
There’s not much science behind it.
California’s Job Killers
The idiot politicians in Sacramento don’t seem to know the first rule of holes.
Environmentalists
A new project on the harm they cause.
It’s much more about hatred of humanity than it is about the environment.
Another Weird Car Problem
My adventures in diagnosing the BMW made me decide to get another bluetooth OBD plug for the Toyota, and use an Android tablet as an extended dashboard. But I can’t get it to pair. My phone can’t even see it. It can see the one in the BMW next to the car in the driveway, but it can’t see the one that’s two feet away in the 2013 RAV4. The light is on, so it has power, and I turned the ignition on to make sure that it was transmitting, but no dice.
Another weirdness of the car (which may or may not be related) is that one of the keys doesn’t unlock the car electronically, and I’ve never been able to get it to go into programming mode to reset the key, despite following all the incantations of opening and closing doors and turning the ignition on and off that they say to do online.
[Update a few minutes later after a quick search]
Looks like it’s not just me.
[Update a few more minutes later]
Mystery partially solved. I plugged in a stand-alone OBD reader, and there’s no output. Maybe I need to look for a blown fuse?
[Monday-afternoon update]
OK, I pulled the fuse, clearly marked “OBD,” and it’s good. Now what?
[Bumped]
[Update]
I put the fuse back in, and now it works. Go figure.