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Starship/SuperHeavy Progress
An interesting report on doings in Cocoa Beach from Teslerati.
Landing On Mars
Elon is starting to scout out sites.
Email Problems
I’ve got a problem, that my system administrator won’t help me with. My Trash folder on the server has grown to several gigabytes, and there is no way for me to empty it. It slows down getting and deleting mail, but Thunderbird crashes when I even try to load it. Here is the helpful email I got when I asked to simply delete it on the server (which I can’t do, because I don’t have root privileges–on my own hosted server).
“You’ll need to access your email accounts with a proper email client from your PC to clear them out. We can’t just delete the mail from the server, then the indexes are messed up. You need to be properly emptying your trash.
You have multiple Gigs of mail in the trash folders on the Simberg account. “
Note that this is nothing I don’t know, except I don’t understand why it would mess up indexes to delete the trash. Is that true?
[Update a while later]
OK, Tbird crashes, but I seem to be able to access it from Evolution. But there is no obvious way to empty it, other than to Expunge, which seems a little drastic, but maybe that’s what I have to do. And it doesn’t load all of the headers; it gets stuck at 99%.
[Update a while later]
Well, I hit “Empty Trash” in Evolution, and it seems to have done the job (even though Evolution says it’s still working on it).
OK, Evolution thinks it’s finished now. My next problem is that it’s not properly displaying my inbox. But now my web interface is much more manageable.
Boris
I love all the hysteria about the “death of Democracy” from people who want to remain in thrall to unelected bureaucrats on the Continent.
Privacy Tracking
If you don’t use a VPN, they know all about you. I’ve started using ExpressVPN. Now they think I’m wherever the server is (generally the Bay Area). I was looking at Home Depot, and it thought I was in San Jose.
Anti-Aging Research
Breakthroughs will occur faster than you think.
I hope they occur faster than I hope, but at least I’m in good shape for my age.
The NASA IG
…has told Congress to butt out.
It will be interesting to see how they respond. Culberson isn’t there any more. I’m not sure that Shelby will care, as long as the money continues to flow to Huntsville.
[Update early afternoon]
Here’s the story from Space News.
Dorian
With the current track, the Cape is in the bulls eye. If it hits as a Cat 5, it could (finally) take out the VAB, which is only designed for a Cat 3. It might be a sign from God about SLS.
[Update a few minutes later]
I have to confess to being relieved, for the first time in a decade and a half, to not owning any property in Florida in hurricane season. Before we sold the house earlier this year, we did upgrade the siding, doors, and added a new window for impact, but the new owners will still have to decide if and how to shutter the old windows.
StarHopper
SpaceX’s live feed has started.
[Update a few minutes later]
A 57-second flight, that ascended, translated, and landed right on the bulls eye. Best water-tower flight ever.
[Update a few minutes later]
An early report from Bob Zimmerman, with pictures.
[Wednesday-morning update]
More from Bob: What Starhopper achieved.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here is Mary’s (@BocaChicaGal) video.
Here is Bill Harwood’s story.
[Afternoon update]
A drone’s-eye view.