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Deceptive Democrats

April 6, 2021 Rand Simberg 4 Comments

They obviously want open borders, but refuse to admit it.

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Gwynne shotwell

April 6, 2021 Rand Simberg

Congratulations on her second award as satellite-industry executive of the year.

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What Happened To SN11

April 6, 2021 Rand Simberg 13 Comments

After inspecting the data from the SN11 flight, Elon stated there was a small CH4 (methane) leak that caused a fire on one of the raptor engines which ultimately caused the avionics system to fail. This is what caused SN11 to RUD in midair

📸:@astro_deven for @SuperclusterHQ pic.twitter.com/nRMdoI4LxV
— Deven Perez (@devenperez) April 5, 2021

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Virtue Signaling

April 4, 2021 Rand Simberg 10 Comments

…replaces baseball as the national pastime.

What we need is a coalition of the unwoke.

The great awokening:

[Update a while later]

I hadn’t been aware that Neill Ferguson had married Ayaan Hirsi Ali, apparently in 2011.

[Late-afternoon update]

The appeal of the new totalitarians.

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Senator Ballast

April 2, 2021 Rand Simberg 13 Comments

Will he drag NASA down? Jim Meigs is my former editor at Popular Mechanics.

[Update a while later]

Sorry, link is fixed now.

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Spaceship 3

March 31, 2021 Rand Simberg 10 Comments

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.

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