Category Archives: Technology and Society

Business, Space, Technology and Society

SpaceX Update

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This is an interesting announcement, in the context of Elon’s Mars speech next week in Guadalajara:

At this stage of the investigation, preliminary review of the data and debris suggests that a large breach in the cryogenic helium system of the second stage liquid oxygen tank took place. All plausible causes are being tracked in an extensive fault tree and carefully investigated. Through the fault tree and data review process, we have exonerated any connection with last year’s CRS-7 mishap.

Makes sense, but still doesn’t sound like they’ve gotten to the root cause.

Education, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, Technology and Society

Twitter Censorship

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Yes, “keep driving” would have been a better formulation, but as he says, it’s Twitter. I’ve also noticed that these suspension seem to be entirely one sided:

They tell users and investors that they don’t censor, but they seem awfully quick to suspend people on one side of the debate and, as people over at Twitchy note, awfully tolerant of outright threats on the other.

Not that I’m trying to be, but I’m a little surprised that I’ve never had a problem. Yet.

[Update a few minutes later]

Here’s the story from Legal Insurrection.

[Update a while later]

More thoughts from Nick Gillespie. I think I can guess what Glenn’s next USA Today column will be about.

[Update late morning]

Aaaaaand, the administration at the University of Tennessee reveal themselves to be asshats.

[Update mid-afternoon]

Here’s the story from PJMedia.