Haven’t seen a story to link yet, but my Twitter TL is full of announcements that he’s departed earth for the final time. Flew in every NASA spacecraft except Mercury, first man to orbit the moon solo, and commander of the first Shuttle flight.
[Update a few minutes later]
Here‘s the NASA press release.
Why you’ll fire Siri and do the job yourself:
I spoke to ObEN co-founder and CEO Nikhil Jain this week. He told me ObEN’s technology generates a 3D, computer-generated representation of the user’s face with a single selfie.
ObEN also learns to copy your voice. Once it’s got your voice down, it can do things with your voice that you cannot — speak Chinese, for example, or sing.
That “personality” is based not only on how you speak, but on what you know as well. It’s even possible to add knowledge manually.
Hard to imagine anything going wrong with that.
I share Charles Cooke’s fear. And this will be like the argument over guns; safety versus liberty, the latter of which isn’t seen as a value by the Left.
This seems like a pretty major eff up. I’m running AMD, except for the new HP two in one I bought a couple weeks ago.
[Update a while later]
Linus Torvalds giving Intel both barrels over its CPU bug PR spin ??? https://t.co/f9MbPQhgz8 pic.twitter.com/Go02sQUN62
— The Register (@TheRegister) January 4, 2018
[Friday-morning update]
Are they “normal“?
If it’s exploration for exploration’s sake, probably. But if it’s for creation of wealth, I’d expect things to happen faster.
Dale Amon and Doug Weathers (former XCOR employees) have some.
I don’t understand what they mean by Cosmic Girl being in “the Hawthorne area,” though. I would assume it’s in Long Beach, by the Virgin Orbit facility.
Keith Cowing is pessimistic.
I’m not. NASA isn’t able to lead, but America will continue to.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of which…
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Launch now NET Jnuary 15th, with static engine test on Saturday. That will be impressive by itself, even without a lift off. If it’s successful, chances of a successful launch go way up. I suspect the biggest uncertainty is plume interaction between the cores, and that will resolve it.
A few weeks ago, the commander of Vandenberg said that he was facing competition from Florida. I didn’t understand what he was talking about, but apparently, they’ve found a southerly corridor that will allow them to get to high inclination from the Cape.
Also, though no one is talking about this yet, reusable first stages will probably allow inland spaceports with a high range of azimuths at some point.
An Alzheimer’s drug that repairs and regrows them?
Faster, please.