Throughput: Fireball Edition
Last week, a spectacular fireball lit up the skies over Europe. Behold a few videos:
Author: Michael Siegel
Daniel Perry Freed
This has nothing to do with self-defense. And it never did. This case is about who was shot and who did the shooting.
Throughput: Superintendent Chalmers Edition
What happened with last week’s massive solar storm, why the Sun gets active, the danger such activity represents and whether or not Superintendent Chalmers minored in astronomy.
Apple Ad Misses the Mark
I mean … it’s just an ad. But it also represents how, under Tim Cook, Apple has really lost the narrative.
Thursday Thoughput: Fixing Spacecraft Edition
Fixing spacecraft is astonishing work: debugging a fifty-year-old computer at a distance of 15 billion miles.
The Shifting Politics of Abortion
The gripping hand with Trump and the politics of abortion is that he does not really care. And abortion will always be legal for the rich.
Thursday Throughput: Video Triple Play
I’m cooking up a throughput linkorama for next week. But for now, here’s some videos I’ve dropped recently.
Embassies, Attacks, and Iran
The simple fact is that Iran has never balked at attacked embassies. And far from bombing or invading Iran, we have usually just rolled with the punches.
Thursday Throughput: Collapsing Bridge Edition
[ThTh1] In 1993, Amtrack’s Sunrise Unlimited train derailed at the Big Bayou Canot Bridge, killing 47 people. Investigation showed that a heavy barge had turned up the wrong branch of the Mobile River and...
Throughput: Excited Delirium Edition
There’s been a concerted effort to pressure medical examiners to diagnose excited delirium when the real cause of death was positional asphyxia.
A Few Thoughts on Gemini-gate
Gemini was ill-prepared for a second generation of internet trolls that have platforms on Fox News and the New York Post.
Throughput: Oydsseus Edition
I was six months old the last time an American spacecraft soft-landed on a moon. And I’m getting a routine colonoscopy next month.
Stewart Returns to the Airwaves
Watching Stewart in his familiar set and doing his familiar schtick was a stark reminder of how poor his successors have been.
Throughput: Zoozve Edition
Pseudo-moons, or more accurately quasi-satellites, are fascinating objects and we now suspect that basically every planet in the Solar System has them.
MAGA versus Taylor Swift
There is a vacuum in political discourse right now that is-for the moment-being filled by the most famous woman in the country: Taylor Swift
Thursday Throughput: Boeing Edition
Various grifters have rushed to blame this on “DEI” policies at Boeing. But the problems are more conventional: corporate greed, regulatory capture and a culture of cutting corners.
Meatball Ron, We Hardly Knew Ya
Ron DeSantis’ final parting shot at “the establishment” was pathetic. My dude…you WERE the establishment candidate
Vaccines Are A Billion Miracles
The triumph of vaccines is being prevented by unscrupulous grifters and liars, bolstered by the anti-vaccine rhetoric of the COVID pandemic.
Mini-Throughput: The Moon Is Further Away This Week
If they keep going like this, I fear the Artemis program will be cancelled before anyone touches lunar soil
