Why it has the greens running scared.
SLS
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.
The Democrats And Censorship
They love it.
[Afternoon update]
Matt Taibbi: Censoring Fox News is the dumbest idea ever.
Matt seems to be one of the few liberals left on the left.
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.
Naomi Wolf
I’ve criticized her in the past, but I was impressed with her appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show last night. She is a true liberal.
War
Is the Biden administration stumbling into it?
I wouldn’t rule it out.
The Covid Epidemic
It really is ending.
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.