KEEP GRINDING: SpaceX successfully launches more Starlink satellites. “The satellites were deployed into low Earth-orbit and the first-stage booster returned to Earth where it landed upon the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean, marking its 10th successful flight. The launch was SpaceX’s 48th of the year and 247th all time. . . . The company, which is aiming for more than 100 launches in 2023, has sent hundreds of rockets into space since Falcon 9 saw its first successful launch in 2010.”
Archive for 2023
July 20, 2023
NOT AN ACCIDENT? Dan Bongino Reveals the Latest Scuttlebutt on Cocainegate.
VERDICT: MOSTLY PEACEFUL PANTS ON FIRE. FACT CHECK: CNN Is a ‘Nonpartisan Media Outlet.’
NOW #1 BEST SELLER in Capitalism : You Will Own Nothing: Your War with a New Financial World Order and How to Fight Back. #CommissionEarned
WELL, THAT SOUNDS TEDIOUS: ‘Barbie’ Review: Greta Gerwig Delivers a Fierce Feminist Statement Dressed in Pink.
But whatever it’s like, the movie can’t possibly be as good as this meme:
GET PSYCHE-D: NASA Prepares To Launch Mission To $10,000 Quadrillion Asteroid.
Psyche is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy (the first interplanetary launch for that rocket) from Space Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center, with additional opportunities scheduled through to 25th October.
After escaping Earth’s gravity, the Psyche spacecraft will use solar electric propulsion to accomplish its six-year journey to asteroid Psyche.
Measuring about 173 miles (279 kilometers) at its widest point, NASA says the asteroid Psyche presents a unique opportunity to explore a metal-rich body that may be part of a core of a planetesimal, the building block of an early planet.
Once the spacecraft reaches Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, it will spend at least 26 months orbiting the asteroid, gathering images and other data that will tell scientists more about its history and what it is made of.
Luis Dominguez, the systems and electrical lead for assembly, test, and launch operations, is usually based at JPL but has been working full-time at the Cape since early June.
“We are moving forward,” he said, “and we’re confident that when we’re on the pad, we’ll be ready to hit the button. For all of us, we’ll be excited to launch this bird.”
If Psyche lives up to the hype about its metal content, it could be the key that opens up the entire solar system.
JONATHAN TURLEY: “God help us” if Raskin’s idea of normal at DoJ is true.
“Well I was stunned when Raskin said what you’re about to hear is perfectly normal,” began Turley. “And he was sitting in front of two witnesses who are incredibly credible and forthcoming, and they’re saying that this was anything but normal. They had never encountered anything like this before. They were waived off witnesses. They had targets tipped off before searches occurred. They had agreement with prosecutors on multiple felonies that were scuttled. They describe how there was a knowing decision to allow crimes in 2014-2015 to expire because of statute of limitations.”
“It was anything but normal. I mean, God help us if this is the normal process of an investigation and prosecution.”
It’s normal for a corrupt Justice Department, which is what we have.
RULING CLASS SOLIDARITY DRIVES AMERICAN POLITICS RIGHT NOW: Elite Journalists Love Big Brother: Prominent reporters and powerful officials know each other, share attitudes, and trust each other.
Flashback: Thoughts on Our Ruling Class Monoculture.
JAMES PETHOKOUKIS: Fear Not the Anthropocene Epoch.
Fervo’s “enhanced geothermal system” involves drilling deep wells, and then using fracking techniques developed by the oil and gas industry, it fractures hot, impermeable rock underground, creating an artificial geothermal reservoir. The company then pumps water into that reservoir, the water gets really hot, and then the water is pumped back to the surface to power a turbine and generate electricity. What this all adds up to is the prospect of clean, limitless, reliable energy.
Nuclear offers that prospect, too.
IT’S THE ONLY WAY WE GROW: Do hard things.
JUST LIKE THE USSR. OR CUBA: Massachusetts governor calls for quartering illegals in local homes.
Only to be fair, that wasn’t illegal aliens, at least. Just total strangers deemed to be in need. The thought is the same, if perhaps more insulting.
ABOLISH THE AGENCY; SALT THE EARTH: FBI Tried to Stop FBI Whistleblower From Telling Oversight Committee About Bureau’s Misconduct During Hunter Biden Probe.
DEMOCRAT GOVERNANCE, TOTAL SAVAGERY. IT’S THE SAME PICTURE: San Francisco Stores Use Locks on Frozen Food to Avoid Shoplifting.
THEREBY MAKING THEIR PRIORITIES VERY CLEAR: Cities Demand that Schools Start Housing Illegal Aliens.
WHEN YOU DIG INTO THE ROOTS OF THE COVIDIOCY IT’S LIKE LOOKING AT THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION: Stanford president resigns due to research fraud allegations.
The corruption goes all the way down.
OBVIOUSLY NOT. THAT’S WHAT THE CONSTITUTION IS FOR. TO STOP THEM, BEFORE WE HAVE TO: Feds shouldn’t be permitted to bypass the Constitution.
A LOT OF BIG MONEY DONORS TO UNIVERSITIES AND SUCH NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT’S BEING DONE IN THEIR NAME: Pushback: Arizona State University loses major donor for its anti-first amendment actions.
IT’S ALWAYS SAFE TO ASSUME THAT TOTALITARIANS LIE: Accidental release of data reveals how many people actually died of COVID in China.
WITH A LOT OF PRETTY PICTURES, FREE FOR YOUR PURPOSES: Blog Funding, day 14 of 15.
WESTERN CIVILIZATION RESTS ON THE SMALLEST THINGS: Bearings make the world go round.
And none of our supposed elites even know these things exist, let alone are essential.
OF COURSE IT IS: Censorship Is More Dangerous Than Disinformation.
Particularly since “Disinformation” is leftist for “Information we don’t like.”
AH. BUT YOU’RE ASSUMING THE LEFT DOESN’T WANT A CIVIL WAR: Biden Must Pardon Trump to Avert Civil War.