Musings of a minor megalomaniac
I didn’t see the economy. But since our human-made systems treat everything, including the very life-support systems of our planet, as the wholly owned subsidiary of the global economy, it’s obvious from the vantage point of space that we’re living a lie.
(S)pace (L)aunch (S)ystem (O)vercome (B)y (E)vents. I suffer military acronym impairment.
Whereas NASA’s ‘stretch’ goal for SLS is to launch the rocket twice a year, SpaceX is working toward launching multiple Starships a day. How or why the government would want to compete with that seems to be outside the realm of reason.
In short, the energy that Edison predicted is already here thanks to NASA. It is extremely powerful and records an efficiency never seen before in history.
Is this the breakthrough we’ve been waiting for?
The Supreme Cunts like it, too. String together a bunch of flowery prose with lots of adjectives and adverbs and what do you get? Back in the day, it would be the office poseur, demonstrating their lack of competence. Nowadays, it’s AI. Makes great spam for gullible consumers. Gets scary when the mainstream media distributes it.
Before 2023, it took a major world event like the coronavirus pandemic to see large jumps in word usage like this.
I stopped doing it sometime around the turn of the century. Parts were just too expensive and hard to come by in England. But you shouldn’t really expect it, unless you’re driving old, high-mileage equipment. People complain about the cost of auto repairs, but they’ll never appreciate it until attempting some themselves. Most never do. After hearing the story about that 6.7 Ram hub failure, Tanner‘s the king of that realm, no doubt.
There’s just alot of circumstances where this type stuff becomes a real sketchy proposition.
Since its June 5 liftoff, Starliner has experienced at least five helium leaks. In addition, some of the capsule’s thrusters have failed.
WTF is wrong with us? I mean, when bias and discrimination actually are the goals from the christo-fascist far right at least, what does anybody expect? Do people believe Altman is really totally altruistic, ever was? He knows about the on/off modulator as well as anybody. People have to use the shyt first, before anything else happens because of it. That’s where the money’s at, and people as a species generally suck when it comes to going after the easy kind. That’s also why the Pope, of all people, seems worried about it.
We’ll have AI Coordinator positions opening up on the pro coaching staffs anytime now. I like living where the scenery changes. Only the lead dog…
Colorado’s new law requires companies to inform people when an AI system is being used, and, if someone thinks the technology has treated them unfairly, allows them to correct some of the input data or file a complaint. It won’t allow an individual to sue over AI use, but sets up a process to look into potential consequences for bad actors.
There’s no doubt Bill Anders’ contributions go well beyond photography. Literally defining the concept of perspective in celestial terms might be a good place to start.
NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut William Anders.
We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.
“At every step of Bill’s life was the iron will of a pioneer, the grand passion of a visionary, the cool skill of a pilot, and the heart of an adventurer who explored on behalf of all of us. His impact will live on through the generations. All of NASA, and all of those who look up into the twinkling heavens and see grand new possibilities of dazzling new dreams, will miss a great hero who has passed on: Bill Anders.”
Like a compressed spring, the Starliner is readied for launch. The star imagery gets lost on me. We’re burning more hydrocarbons than an entire small town uses to heat their homes all winter just reaching orbit in one shot.
Then comes a crewed Starship, at some point soon. The Boeing vs. Space-X saga continues, with illusory bottom lines shifting faster than the shade I been throwing on Boeing for twenty years. I’m sure the astronauts have all their affairs in order.
The bottom line is that Boeing technically earned the flight software milestones in its commercial crew contract. But by not putting in the work for an end-to-end test of its software, the company failed its final exam.
Nice to see the locals getting on the green bandwagon here, smack dab in the middle of Central Oil ‘n Gas Megacorp USA. Probably never mentioned it before, but Ft. Lupton is one of my favorite stops. They have the best dog park I’ve ever seen, bar none anywhere for starters. CTD has a home-away-from-home at Country Truck®. And there’s a Sonic® keeping the Strawberry Cheescake shakes flowing. What more could a troglodyte like me ask for in a small Colorado town?
This is what I’m talkin’ ’bout. It’s time to put sexism, misogyny and all forms of bigotry to rest, once and for all.
Ayers graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 2011… and the rest is history, with a straight-up trajectory like nobody’s ever seen before.
Reality-denying feminists do women no favours.
I can’t fathom the bigness scale, which just keeps getting bigger.
“Having these extremely massive galaxies so early in the universe is posing significant challenges to our standard model of cosmology,” Lagos said. Mainly, this is because astrophysicists had not previously thought dark matter structures massive enough to facilitate galaxies as large as ZF-UDS-7329 could have existed in the early universe. Thus, additional observations will be required in order to help piece together the newly emerging puzzle of these early massive monsters.
Politics runs AMOC, while the world grinds to a halt.
Greenhouse Effect. Not to worry about California sliding seaward after an earthquake. We’ll just wash it down…
“Fundamentally, James Webb is rewriting the astronomy textbooks right now,” O’Brien said.
I remember back in 1999 when the DLA was attempting to implement an early data analytics system thinking “…eventually someone will figure out how to get this stuff running at scale and rule the world.” Here’s a little write-up I did for the CC at the outset of that little experience. Then came AI. All along…
The new project replaced Linux and Kubernetes with a new operating system stack at the bottom of which is a database system, the prototype multi-node multi-core, transactional, highly-available VoltDB, which Stonebraker started. Basically, the operating system is an application to the database, rather than the other way around,” he says.
The James Webb telescope took some stunning images in 2023.
Webb spies record-breaking ‘failed star’ that shouldn’t exist.
Webb’s 9 Most Scientifically Glorious Discoveries of 2023
