I’ll be pretty much off the air today (unless I decide to purchase wifi on the plane), but should be back up tomorrow.
(Update at 1400 PDT)
Mission abort. My flight to DFW was delayed an hour when I arrived at the gate, which would have meant a missed connection on the last flight to PBI. So I changed to a better flight tomorrow.
(Tuesday morning update)
On the plane to Dallas.
(Bumped)
I’d like to say that this is amazing, but sadly, it isn’t.
Trump plays it safe.
That seems a little out of character, but he is keeping a campaign promise. We could have gotten worse, and were guaranteed to, if Hillary had won.
Haven’t looked at this in detail, but I suspect that by 2030, heavy-lift expendable rockets will be obsolete. and how in the world are they going to do a vertical landing with a solid booster?
It’s foolish to conflate educational level with intelligence, particularly when in many cases the “education” is a maleducation with a credential.
The oxygen levels are getting low.
This seems like a solvable problem, using ECLSS technology. Get some LiOH canisters and oxygen tanks in there. Also, Elon has sent some of his tunneling engineers to see if they can help.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Alan Boyle has the story on the Boring Company and SpaceX support. The former would presumably be tunneling, while the later would provide life support based on Dragon technology.
[Noon update]
Elon has gone full superhero.
[Update a while later]
This visually helps pic.twitter.com/MyX2YPbybq
— Rome Strach (@romn8tr) July 6, 2018
[Update Saturday afternoon]
Elon is building a mini-submarine, designed to fit through the tunnels, at SpaceX HQ to fly to Thailand.
Early-morning update]
Thought their politics suck, The Guardian is providing good live blogging of the operation.
[Monday-night update]
There were questions in comments how they got there. Here is Bridget Johnson’s story, including how the Buddhist monk training of the coach helped get them through.
[Bumped]
…because they’ve become the Gestapo.
They were always the Gestapo, in one form or another. The Nazis were leftists, just a more virulent form of them.
After all these years of advocating for it, I’m happy with how much traction the concept is finally getting.
Thoughts from Neo-Neocon and Charlie Martin on the Never Trumpers, and their death wish for the Republican Party.
Never having been a Republican, I wouldn’t mind seeing a political party replace the Republican Party, but not at the cost of the Democrats taking over again, which (as Charlie notes) would be disastrous for the Republic.
Marina Koren talked to Christina and Andy. I just hate to see this.