A climate skeptic has filed a civil RICO lawsuit against a bunch of Leftist NGOs. Discovery will be very interesting, if it’s not dismissed.
SpaceX Update
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.
America’s Next President
America already hates him or her, and we haven’t even had the election yet.
Well, they should. They’re both terrible.
A system that produces nominees like this is dysfunctional. But will anybody do anything?
It seems like it just gets worse every cycle.
The IRS Commissioner
He shouldn’t be impeached; he belongs in prison. Just as Hillary does.
Natural Selection
Just one more reason to not take climate hysteria seriously.
Turning The Tables On Senator Warren
This is great. She just drips with hypocritical sanctimony.
Mars
What we need to know before we send people there. And they don’t even discuss the gravity issue.
[Update a few minutes later]
Eric Berger says that Elon is between a rocket and a hard place. I don’t think that taxpayer money should to go build giant rockets, whether by SpaceX or Boeing.
Cryonics
A very nice, but long piece on the current state of the art, over at Gizmodo.
Twitter Censorship
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.
I'm guessing that Glenn didn't actually do what they say he did. https://t.co/yPkHO2ykAX
— Deplorable-In-Chief (@Rand_Simberg) September 22, 2016
#ProTip: Killing someone in self defense when caught in the middle of a riot is not "murder." https://t.co/PS424ZoUY7
— Deplorable-In-Chief (@Rand_Simberg) September 22, 2016
[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.
Hacker-Proof Code
…through formal software verification. This seems like sort of a big deal. Particularly in the era of the Internet of Things and self-driving cars. Of course, the weakest link in security will remain the flawed unit between the seat and the keyboard.