If you think I’m rough on it, let Casey Handmer tell you what he really thinks.
[Update a while later]
I just read the whole thing, and it’s (justifiably) brutal, particularly toward Boeing.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
AEI And Space
I’ve tried to interest AEI in doing more on space policy, and it looks like they’re trying. I know it’s short notice, but this event starts in a little over an hour.
The New Administrator
Well, this is terrible, if true.
Hard to imagine a worse pick. He’s the father of the mother of all Big Monster Rockets. His astronaut nickname was “Ballast.”
[Tuesday noon update]
The politician who said that politicians shouldn’t run NASA wants to run NASA.
That 777 Incident In Denver
Wow.
They (and those on the ground) were very lucky. If that shrapnel had angled up a little more, it would have hit the fuel tank in the wing, and they’d have probably been a fireball. I wonder if the engine was still providing thrust?
Well, That Was Fun
The BMW has been running rough, and the OBD says that it’s misfiring on #6. I changed out the plugs, and swapped the #6 coil with #5, to see if that moved the problem. It didn’t.
Next step (since it’s two decades old, with 180,000+ miles on it) was to check out and clean the injectors. So I spent a couple hours figuring out how to get them out, cleaned them, put on new O-rings, and reinstalled. Now #2 and #4 are leaking at the rail. Now I’m wondering if it was a mistake to change the O-rings, but I’m just scratching my head at how, as hard as they were to get in to both the port on the head, and the rail, they could be leaking.
The Texas Wind Turbines
Are they the culprit?
Though this was an extremely unusual weather event, there will be lessons to be learned from it to alleviate things in the future.
[Friday-morning update]
No, AOC, the Green New Deal is not the solution for the Texas blackouts.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
Good news from Texas:
Bill Gates
At what point do we realize that he is dangerously insane?
He does seem to have too much money. I think it was stupid of Buffett to farm out his philanthropy to him.
Perseverance
Congratulations to JPL on another successful landing. Bob Zimmerman has the latest.
“Scrap The Space launch System”
It’s behind a paywall, but that’s the hed of an editorial at Bloomberg News.
Boeing
Could it be the next McDonnell Douglas?
Note that this is just aviation, no mention of their problems in the space sector.