“…then there was silence from the pad.”
Eric Berger writes about Apollo 1, on the fiftieth anniversary. I remember it, the day before my birthday. It was a huge wake-up call for the Apollo program, which ultimately resulted in beating the Soviets in the space race less than two years later, with Apollo 8.
We had a corrupt data base that was confusing MySQL, but things should be fixed now.
Reversing it with a single molecule.
Faster, please. I don’t want to go back to the early 20th century.
…won’t have sufficient performance margin to bring the first stage back. Though I’m not sure what she means by “Heavy satellites need a lot of extra speed at liftoff.”
His speech was the most Jacksonian since (Founder of the Democrat Party) Andrew Jackson. And I suspect he’s more interested in emancipating slaves than keeping them in shackles. The Democrats always get mad when you threaten to free their slaves.
…is one of the first political appointees to NASA. That’s good news, I think. He knows what a programmatic disaster SLS is.
[Monday-morning update]
Thoughts from Bob Zimmerman, who agrees that it’s potentially bad news for SLS/Orion (i.e., good news for people who want to actually accomplish things in space with NASA funding).
As he notes, it’s probably also bad news for Gavin Schmidt and GISS.
It’s been a really bad week for it.
More like a bad quarter century, going all the way at least back to the initial Clinton-worshipping era.
They can be some of the most destructive institutions in American life, but Democrats want to maintain the status quo.
@jimgeraghty Democrats always get enraged when Republicans threaten to emancipate their slaves.
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 20, 2017
I was very gratified to see that all of the climate BS on the White House web site is now gone.
[Update a few minutes later]
Obama did leave one more last-minute turd in the punch bowl; he outlawed three-way bulbs. That should be one of the first things that Trump undoes. In fact, Congress should repeal that idiotic law.
I’m glad Obama’s gone. I’m less thrilled that we have Trump. As others have noted, it was a pretty protectionist inaugural address.
But I’m happy with his picks, and I think that Gelernter would be a good pick for science adviser. And here’s one more reason Trump won.
A Yale professor who is a pioneer in parallel computing is anti-intellectual because he doesn't like Obama, guyshttps://t.co/tRvPN9mede
— Robert Mariani (@robert_mariani) January 19, 2017
[Update a couple minutes later]
And yes, Trump should defund the National Endowment for the Arts.
To me, it's not about saving money, because it's a trivial amount. It's about ending federal involvement in things it shouldn't be doing. https://t.co/Jctm6RwGvD
— Rand Simberg (@Rand_Simberg) January 19, 2017