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It's all a matter of whether or not he will be permitted to operate his company with such an approach. If you can accept RUDS, then he can proceed. If not, then he won't be permitted to proceed. How much of a hazard is SpaceX? The risk is small, in my opinion. But it is not zero. There WILL be risk.
Preliminary indication is that we had an oxygen/fuel leak in the cavity above the ship engine firewall that was large enough to build pressure in excess of the vent capacity.
Apart from obviously double-checking for leaks, we will add fire suppression to that volume and…
It also shows why that they need censorship and mind-control. A mere look up on the web can locate these facts and present them to anyone with an open mind. It also shows why people fall for cults of personality. For this is the only way to support a cult of personality. That is, to stifle all opposing views. Democrats are afraid of open discussion because their power is based upon fraud, fallacy, and fakery. We fail not because we are wrong, but for some other reason. That reason may well relate to basic human weaknesses, such as cowardice.
Slavery was almost everywhere and still exists in some parts of the world https://t.co/mcOXt6tqVs
This flight test was much anticipated, by many, including yours truly. That may be why I had some trouble keeping the picture on. Lots of viewers. It seemed like a problem at the source, as I moved from site to site looking for a good connection.
Anyway, there was another good catch of the booster, and all seemed well from what I could see of it. Then, all of a sudden, there's nothing from the second stage.
Further review shows a loss of an engine shortly after the catch, about 7:40 into the flight. A couple others followed about 20 seconds later, then the signal was lost.
After scanning the webs for information about what happened, I found several videos showing an explosion and a Columbia shuttle type debris field flying over the Turks and Caicos islands. That's way out in the Atlantic near Puerto Rico ( I think). Final readouts, as I recall, showed an altitude of 140 km, and maybe velocity of around 21k kmh. Therefore, not all that close to orbital velocity. Engines may have started underperforming well before. Scheduled engine shutoff wasn't that far ahead in the schedule.
So it does seem to be fully confirmed and all that it was a failure, but the reasons are not clear. This one may be hard to figure. The review showed what looked like a nominal flight, then a sudden loss of engines and explosion.
What this means is anybody's guess. Mine is that there will be a backlash of some kind to Musk. It would be a shame to see it get played all out of proportion to what actually happened, but it wouldn't surprise me if that happens.
8:08 PM:
Ellie in Space channel has some good video to consider. It kinda looks like fuel sloshing could be an issue after an engine goes out. The fuel indicates move around a lot. Sloshing is a problem, I suspect. Also, engine failures are an issue, especially after this many flights. If an engine out is going to do this much, then it may indicate a difficult fix. A bit early to say, though.
10:16 PM:
Something occurred to me. If the only engine left running is a non-gimbaling engine, should that have been an automatic abort? If so, then how does the flight software handle an obvious non-recoverable situation?
If you turn down the sound and just play the video over and over at where I've "jipped" it ( joined in progress), you will notice that one final engine was still on just before the signal was lost ( and presumable RUD)-- this wasn't a flight that was viable any longer, yet the engine was still on.
I am wondering if the ship could have been brought down in a more controlled fashion, as opposed to having it blow up way up in the sky like that. Maybe an engine shutoff, and the attitude control and flaps could have guided it down in a belly flop mode as if it were doing a soft landing. Maybe even an engine start attempt near the surface of the ocean, if the RUD was avoided. Just wondering if that were possible in this instance.
With all the demands from Senators that Pam Bondi pretty please look the other way, maybe that's a reason enough to look. The moving on part I mentioned was for the J6th people, not these creeps.
11:15 AM:
In my opinion, a long drawn out case serves no purpose. Just do a blanket pardon of them all. There was no insurrection, and to draw this out for a riot is absurd. People will tire of all this, and no more time needs to be spent on it. Time to move on.
Reconsidering the J6 Pardons - American Thinker https://t.co/Gsb54TN6xE --- For what it is worth. This article is about a legal way forward in considering the massive amount of work needed to consider all the cases individually. Not sure about this though.
The only thing that hasn't been attempted yet: a coup ( this one would be from the military), the one on January 6th has yet to be proven, but may have happened already
What do the RINOS have to do with this? The RINOS tend to disregard what the public wants. The new Speaker in Texas in an example of that. The UniParty cares nothing about the will of the people. This kind of talk is for the gullible types who fall for the rhetoric.
What could have explained why I didn't hear about this. I don't read Gateway Pundit that much.
Conservative media may have dropped the ball on this one, but it isn't necessarily a deliberate act. I wasn't ignoring it, I just didn't see it.
I have been screaming about this injustice for the last 2 years, not one peep from conservative media. Only the gateway pundit wrote about this travesty. They wrote on it several times, and it pisses me off that it was buried.😡🤬🤬🤬🤬
Stuff is still coming out. It would add further injury if the truth is allowed to be swept under the rug
NEW VIDEO Shows J6 Trump Supporter Rosanne Boyland Shot in the Face by Police Projectile, Then Pushed Down and Smothered, Before Metro Police Officer Beat Her with a Stick as She Died on US Capitol Steps https://t.co/eXKh3XdE2a#gatewaypundit via @gatewaypundit
JD Vance on J6 pardons (notice he said there is a grey area between those who committed violence and those who didn’t…there will be more to come on that I am sure): pic.twitter.com/RUFNczqkpD
The RINOS would rather fight the majority of its own party and join the Democrats. That means that there will be no school choice ( most likely). This is what we are up against. It is the very definition of the Uni-Party arrangement. That means that a lot of RINOS will have to be primaried, as Phelan was, and this process needs to continue until they are removed. Phelan won re-election, but lost the Speakership. This is just another Phelan installed. It's like there wasn't even an election.
This is one of my pet peeves. Why should there be a pendulum that swings back and forth? To me, it is like asking when will people start acting crazy again. "Liberalism" is just plain nutty. To me, it should never swing back and forth between nuttiness and craziness. It's best if it can stay sane on a permanent basis.
One thing that might be helpful is if we can all agree on a solid definition of what words mean. If you cannot define what a woman is, I think you've got a problem. There's a simple definition, but liberals won't like it. It is the biological one: two "X" chromosomes makes a female, the other is one "X" and one "Y". That makes a male. It should work about every time, unless there's some biological oddity from time-to-time.
If you cannot agree on what words mean, then how the heck do you communicate with each other? What does "democracy" mean? Did people actually vote to end democracy if they voted for Trump? Seriously? Are Democrats really in favor of the rule of law when they seem to want to cherry pick what laws to obey and which to resist? Trump wants to deport illegals in this country. How is that wrong if it is legal? If it is illegal, then resist it on that basis. But no. The Democrats want to resist what is legally called for. For if there are no immigration laws, then how is immigration going to be regulated?
One could go on and on with such arguments. But if there are no solid agreement on what the words mean, then what's the point? Even the word "liberal" doesn't have a meaningful definition. For today's liberals are not yesterday's liberals. If John F. Kennedy was liberal in 1960, he'd be a conservative in 2024. There's been a shift, and that cannot be denied. But what causes these shifts? The whole idea of shifts is a Marxist idea. To Marxists, there cannot be a standard, for if there were, there cannot be any revolution. The point of these shifts is to promote revolution.
Change is not necessarily a bad thing. But change for the sake of change makes no sense. Certain things, like the meanings of words, should change very slowly or not at all. If it is always changing, then how does one keep one's wits? Anyway, with respect to the question, we should not have any pendulum at all on basic principles. If we are getting back to basic foundational principles, I sure hope we stay there for a long, long time.
Nate Silver Wonders When the Pendulum Will Swing Back Toward Liberals https://t.co/fLm14NmXbN
I was going through a lot of music, and came across this one again on YouTube. I recalled having making a post on it, so I pulled it back up for a re-visit. But before pulling it up, I did do this little visit of the "Charismatic Voice" lady on YouTube in order to see her give her reaction to it.
She was a bit surprised at the depth of meaning to it. I'd say she was impressed. Maybe some day I will post something on the Logical Song, which is another of their hits. She has a reaction video to that one too. But not today.
1/29/24:
Did you ever "discover" something that has always been there? That's what happened just now. Supertramp had a lot of hits, but I never put them all together until this evening. I chose this one to post about because it has been a lot like that lately. Just the feeling of it. Enjoy.
I clicked on this in order to compare it with Hudspeth County, Texas. That's where I own 40 acres, which seems pretty remote. However, I do have access to civilization, but it is about 17 miles away. For me, having lived mostly in the big city, it seems pretty danged remote. These places on the video, are on a different level.
It seemed to me that this would be too technical to be interesting, but the video has gotten over 35 million views. Wow. Anyway, I knew that I had made mention of aerogels on this blog, and it was true. There were several on the topic of aerogel rocket engine concepts! Another "wow". There was yet another on aerogels in connection with anti-matter! Another "wow", as I just recently posted something on anti-matter rocket concepts.
So, just in case anybody who might find this kind of thing interesting, here you are. A video to your taste.
Not much else to say here. As for me, I wouldn't attempt this. It can be dangerous. The guy seems to know what he's doing. This is probably not for amateurs. That's even before you get into nuclear stuff, not to mention anti-matter kind of stuff.
