Should it be broken up?
I think so. It’s much worse than Bell was.
Should it be broken up?
I think so. It’s much worse than Bell was.
They want America to become more like it, even as it declines.
[Update a few minutes later]
J. D. Vance is both right and wrong about kids and cat ladies.
Jeff Foust has the latest at The Space Review.
An idle thought: If Boeing bails, is it possible that some other entity could pick up where it left off with Starliner and make money?
I just ran across this interview from a month or so ago, in which my name is liberally taken in vain.
Is this the future of the Internet? I’ll have to check it out.
…in California. Congrats to Gail Heriot, who has been fighting this tooth and nail.
An interesting article on an interesting fruit. A friend of mine grows them on his farm west of Ann Arbor. It’s a tropical fruit that will grow at higher latitudes.
…prove that it’s a working-class election.
Part 1:
The fiasco continues.
But hey, let’s keep giving them billions of taxpayer dollars for a launch system that is behind schedule and that no one needs except Boeing and its pet Congresspeople.
[Update a few minutes later]
More from Eric Berger.
[Update a while later]
This seems relevant: Our crisis of institutional incompetence. Fortunately, SpaceX doesn’t suffer from this. Yet.
[Update mid morning]
Thoughts on Boeing and the defense implications from Jared Isaacman.
Some additional context: the headlines of stranded astronauts are unfair and misleading, but not necessarily clickbait, as I think the public has a genuine interest in the situation. My comments on Starliner are based entirely on what is in the public domain and has been… https://t.co/KDPd7yjMJS
— Jared Isaacman (@rookisaacman) August 10, 2024
And yes, it is probably the most consequential safety decision NASA has made since Columbia.
[Late-morning update]
Has NASA’s safety culture changed since Columbia?
[Afternoon update]
The fall of Boeing is complete.
Oh, I don’t know. I think that they still have some room below.