WHEW: NASA knows what knocked Voyager 1 offline, but it will take a while to fix.

Voyager 1’s distance from Earth complicates the troubleshooting effort. The one-way travel time for a radio signal to reach Voyager 1 from Earth is about 22.5 hours, meaning it takes roughly 45 hours for engineers on the ground to learn how the spacecraft responded to their commands.

NASA also must use its largest communications antennas to contact Voyager 1. These 230-foot-diameter (70-meter) antennas are in high demand by many other NASA spacecraft, so the Voyager team has to compete with other missions to secure time for troubleshooting. This means it will take time to get Voyager 1 back to normal operations.

“Although it may take weeks or months, engineers are optimistic they can find a way for the FDS to operate normally without the unusable memory hardware, which would enable Voyager 1 to begin returning science and engineering data again,” NASA said.

What a testament to the people who built Voyager 1 that it’s still operating at all after five decades and 15 billion miles.

GIVEN RECENT EXPERIENCE WITH EXPERT INTERVENTIONS, LET’S NOT RUSH INTO THIS: Injecting Sulfur Into The Atmosphere Could Pose Dangerous Risks.

JUST AVOID THE ORPHANS OF THE SKY SCENARIO: Could a self-sustaining starship carry humanity to distant worlds?

RAP MORE AND HARDER: J6 Judge Gets a Rap on the Knuckles for Abusing His Power in Sentencing.

FASCISM, STRAIGHT UP: Letitia James to Start Seizing Trump’s Properties. “On April 1, Trump submitted a $175 million bond to prevent the seizure of his assets by New York Attorney General Letitia James during his appeal of a civil fraud ruling. However, the court’s filing system rejected the bond shortly afterward due to missing paperwork, including a ‘current financial statement.'”

Seizing properties on a technicality ought to do wonders for New York’s business climate.

UTI HELP: Oral vaccine for UTI is potential alternative to antibiotics, finds 9-year study.

IT’S A WOMAN’S PREROGATIVE TO CHANGE HER MIND: National Organization for Women deletes social media post about ‘white supremacist patriarchy.’

GOOD ADVICE: Be Alert.

A young male came into the Church during the service, wearing dark clothing that had the air of a delivery uniform, with one of those urban draw-string backpacks on. Under one arm he was carrying what looked like a (decent sized) cardboard box with a delivery label on it. He came in and sat down (most were standing at the time) and stayed a while.

My first thought was ‘heck of a time for a delivery’ and the second thought was ‘uh oh.’ I kept a discrete eye on him, and it turns out the friend sitting next to me was keeping an even stronger eye on him. He got up and left, and my friend went to be sure he was leaving and see where he went — which was to the church across the street.

Now, this could be entirely innocent, however… The box was more than large enough to have held a single SMG or multiple regular pistols with spare mags. It could have held one or more explosive devices (may have walked over to be sure nothing left on the floor or secured under a pew despite not seeing any indication he had tried to access the box). My friend’s thought was to be sure he wasn’t going out to arm up before coming back in. Both of us, I think, have a concern he was casing churches in the area.

Could be innocent. Could be recon. Know I’m going to have an eye out and am inclined to see about giving an unofficial heads up to some LE types.

Read the whole thing — and be alert.

21ST CENTURY RELATIONSHIPS: The Desperate Shortage of Black Sperm Donors. “The severe shortage is forcing Black women who need donor sperm into a painful choice: Choose a donor of another race and raise a biracial child or try to buy sperm from unregulated apps and online groups.”

If white people were acting as if raising a biracial child was unacceptable, it would be treated differently, no?

UPDATE: Link was wrong. Fixed now. Sorry!

BRINGING COMPETENCE BACK TO THE WHITE HOUSE: Biden Not Might Even Be on the Ballot in Ohio, and I Can’t Stop Laughing.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Practical Tips for Dodging a Norovirus Outbreak.

I WOULDN’T EXACTLY CALL IT A SHOCK STUDY: Shock Study: Lockdowns Worsened Mental Health Outcomes.

I’VE HEARD WORSE IDEAS, FROM THIS ADMINISTRATION:

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OPEN IMMIGRATION’S VIBRANT TAPESTRY: Almost Half of British Muslims Support Hamas.

ICYMI: New Documentary Asserts Deborah Birx Was Real Culprit Behind Disastrous Covid Lockdowns: “It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump” shows how a career bureaucrat seized control of the government and created a disaster. And Birx had help…from Pence.

YUGE: Trump Campaign Fundraiser Crushes Biden’s… And It Wasn’t Even Close.

MICHAEL WALSH: Total Eclipse of the Brain. “Because legitimate science is always conducted under tight secrecy, to keep it away from the prying eyes of ‘critics.'”

I HAD BEEN ASSURED THAT MOUTH-BREATHING RED-STATERS DIDN’T HAVE THE ATTENTION SPAN TO MAINTAIN A BOYCOTT: On National Beer Day 2024, the US is drinking more Modelo than Bud Light as NA brews rise. “Modelo Especial overtook Bud Light in May 2023 amidst a backlash from conservative consumers after the Bud Light brand’s collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney to promote a contest for March Madness. This year, Bud Light sales are down 28% from a year ago.”

SEVEN MORE MONTHS OF THIS: Dems Realize They Can’t Win on Biden’s Record, Stake Everything on Trump-Hate.

READER FAVORITE: VIKING Microfiber Cloth for Car or Home, Professional Towel for Car Detailing. #CommissionEarned

BIDENOMICS IN ONE LESSON: From skipping meals to working more to even moving in with Mom and Dad: Here’s how Americans are trying to afford housing. “More than 42 million households spent more than 30% of their income on housing in 2022, the latest available data shows, making them what many call “cost-burdened.” It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Home prices and rents skyrocketed during the pandemic-fueled housing boom; the former are still setting all-time highs, while the latter have fallen slightly. Mortgage rates reached a more than two-decade high last year, but have come down too. Incomes, on the other hand, haven’t kept up. So people are making sacrifices.”

“SCHOLAR:” University scholar wants licensing of journalists, gov. agency to monitor ‘misinformation.’ “A visiting McGill University scholar wants an ‘Interpol-like agency’ to monitor the internet and the licensing of journalists by the government — all in the name of combating ‘misinformation.'”

Higher education was once promoted and defended on the basis that it encouraged free thought and open discussion.

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: San Francisco Has a Cool New Way to Stick It to the Poor.

HOSTILE WORK ENVIRONMENT: Arizona State prof sues school for mandatory anti-white DEI training.

DON’T GET COCKY: ‘Now They’re Voting Red’: A Pennsylvania Fracking Boom Weighs on Biden’s Re-Election Chances.

The area’s reliance on energy jobs helps explain why Democrats look to be losing more voters than they have gained here despite a Biden agenda that’s pumping billions of dollars into infrastructure and manufacturing.

“Everyone here is aware that it’s better for oil and gas if Republicans get elected,” said Adam Kress, who works with Sabo in Zelienople, 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.

There is little sign that Biden can regain substantial support in seven largely working-class and rural counties that surround the city, every one of which produced a larger vote margin for Trump in 2020 than in 2016. The resistance to Biden’s energy policies is making it harder for the incumbent to stop his party’s decline among noncollege voters there, forcing the party to wring more votes out of a Democratic base elsewhere that, so far, seems dispirited.

They have good reason to be.