vxbush 5/7/2024 5:49:55 AM

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Yesterday, kosh wrote: 

In #14 Kosh's Shadow said: If I were NASA safety chief, I would not fly that craft. And I'd make anyone who thinks it should fly with people onboard watch the Apollo 1 fire until they relent. The craft had FLAMMABLE TAPE on wiring bundles. Removed, but  removing it can damage the wiring.

Kosh, I'm assuming the tape you are referencing is for Apollo 1, right? Please tell me the Boeing folks weren't so stupid as t use flammable tape on wiring. 

vxbush 5/7/2024 5:58:17 AM

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vxbush 5/7/2024 6:02:59 AM

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Trump Isn't the Only One Silenced at His Trial

Prosecutors in the "Get Trump" case in Manhattan allege that Trump's nondisclosure agreement payments to two women shaking him down for money were actually federal campaign expenditures. The bookkeeping error they claim Trump made — misdemeanors if they're charged at all — are now, they argue, felonies because Trump did it in furtherance of stealing the 2016 election. Hillary said so. 

So if you're Trump's attorneys, you might say "Hey, let's get that attorney guy, the former Federal Elections Commission Chairman, who wrote that op-ed back in 2018 about how these payments aren't federal elections violations." 

"Great idea," they agreed. But then at pretrial motion in limine, which is Latin for Orange Man Bad, the judge said, well, he can testify, kinda sorta. 

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He can come and say what the law is but may not offer his expert opinion [which was why he could decide whether it was a federal election violation or not] on whether he thinks Trump broke it. Well, whoop dee doo. On second thought, he might be the only one in the trial who will tell the jury what the law is, because goodness knows the "Get Trump" prosecutors won't.

vxbush 5/7/2024 6:09:43 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 3:

The fix is in. This is the most banana court I've seen. I can't wait for Trump to appeal the decision. The problem is, how quickly can it be appealed and overturned? Probably not before the election, I'm guessing.

vxbush 5/7/2024 6:16:33 AM

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Kids' Safety or Digital Censorship of Conservative Views?

The First Amendment should resolve this issue once and for all, but everyone has to go back and try to tamp it down again.

vxbush 5/7/2024 6:29:20 AM

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vxbush 5/7/2024 6:30:09 AM

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Donald Trump says he is willing to go to jail for not complying with gag order

I don't know; this might be another situation where Trump ends up shooting himself. 

vxbush 5/7/2024 6:31:25 AM

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MIT becomes first elite school to eliminate diversity and inclusion hiring requirement

Finally, some rationality.

vxbush 5/7/2024 6:32:39 AM

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The federal government is working with left-wing organizations to implement “Bidenbucks,” which is President Biden’s executive order to turn as many federal agencies as possible into get-out-the-vote (GOTV) centers across all states. 

The Department of Justice worked with left-wing organizations to determine how to implement Biden’s executive order to use the federal government to register voters, which began after one of those groups aided the Biden administration with creating the executive order. 

JCM 5/7/2024 7:17:00 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 1:

My problem is we are flying 50 year technology, a capsule. Sure it has modern technology and materials. But we are still doing spam in a can for space flight. It has been 23 years since the last shuttle flight, and 45 years since the first.

NASA had 45 years to develop the next crewed launch system.

They have Orion and Artemis, which is literally reused shuttle parts, tanks, engine, solid rocket boosters.

Their unmanned missions have been spectacular. But NASA is genuinely pathetic on the manned stuff right now. 

JCM 5/7/2024 7:37:31 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 7:

..... from a grassy knoll.

vxbush 5/7/2024 8:26:31 AM

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In #10 JCM said: Their unmanned missions have been spectacular. But NASA is genuinely pathetic on the manned stuff right now. 

I have to wonder if the people directing the manned spaceflight don't read science fiction, and therefore can't get any ideas going. Or it's the opposite and they have taken to heart every bad thing that happens in any science fiction movie and it has created paralysis. 

Occasional Reader 5/7/2024 10:57:10 AM

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Reply to vxbush in 7:

This whole thing is just shameful.   The Democrats really want a banana republic. 

vxbush 5/7/2024 11:49:05 AM

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In #13 Occasional Reader said: This whole thing is just shameful.   The Democrats really want a banana republic. 

Based on the details of the case against Representative Cuellar and when the infractions apparently occurred, we are there already. The Intelligence Community is hanging the threat of charges against the leadership who take advantage of the grift built into the system. Stand against them, and they bring the hammer down. 

Occasional Reader 5/7/2024 2:11:24 PM

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Joe Biden was there when Obama's uncle liberated Auschwitz, in fact he was the very first American soldier in. True story.

In fact, when Biden met Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir last year, the first thing she did was hug him and say, "thank you". He asked, for what? She replied, "for liberating Auschwitz". Also a true story. Literally.

JCM 5/7/2024 3:33:39 PM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 15:

Brian Williams reported on it all!

Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2024 4:46:29 PM

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In #1 vxbush said: Kosh, I'm assuming the tape you are referencing is for Apollo 1, right? Please tell me the Boeing folks weren't so stupid as t use flammable tape on wiring. 

Not the same material, but yes, NASA found flammable tape was used on wiring bundles. The tape was removed, but that process can damage the wiring.

Kosh's Shadow 5/7/2024 4:50:56 PM

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In #10 JCM said: NASA had 45 years to develop the next crewed launch system.

They were never given the money. The Shuttle sucked it all up.

The problem is, the technology was not ready for a production Shuttle. Experimentation was needed, but the only way to get money was to promise it would meet fairly hefty requirements.

Imagine where air travel would be if the only way to develop aircraft in 1910 was to meet government requirements to carry 50 passengers cross country. It took decades of experimentation, determining what worked and what didn't, to get it right.

There were many attempts maybe 25 years ago (Rotary Rocket, Kistler Aerospace, and the DC-X group, to name a few), but they all ran out of money.

Rutan was right - the government IS the problem.