This is interesting, but sort of a head scratcher.
If the pilot wanted to ensure no debris, wouldn’t the simplest thing to do be to simply dive into the sea? Why glide in with gear down?
Was it the worst-run tech company of all time?
It might have stiff competition, but it could be.
The Solar Power Satellite Game
A weird and potentially wonderful new website.
[Monday-morning update]
Per a comment from Robert Smith, if you want to keep the site up, click on the choice buttons.
[Bumped]
My Thoughts On Artemis
They haven’t changed with the success of this mission. It would have been a shock if, after all the money they’ve spent, and schedule delays, it hadn’t been successful.
[Monday-morning update]
Here is Eric Berger’s take, FWIW.
[Update a while later]
Scanning through the (as usual, largely ridiculous) comments over there, it strikes me that the real race between SpaceX and SLS was not whether SS/SH would fly before SLS, but whether SpaceX will send people around the moon before Artemis II. I think it’s quite likely.
[Bumped]
[Afternoon update]
Looking for the “S” word in Artemis.
The Issue Is Settled
Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
The Fusion Constant
Maybe, after all these decades, the time until fusion is finally being reduced. I wonder, if there’s a catch, what it is?
[Update]
People are saying it’s paywalled, but I saw it from Twitter, even thought I don’t subscribe.
Huh.
Oops
News you can use if you use Android, though it doesn’t (yet) seem that useful, since they don’t really offer advice to users.
Loss Of A Pioneer
ESG
…is the psychotic bully of the western world.
[Update a few minutes later]
Vanguard backs down from ESG investing.
More, and faster, please.
True Misogyny
The brutal regime in Tehran can’t end soon enough.