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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Well I’ve got no idea who that is, but if so it kinda doesn’t really change the point even if the motivation is potentially a bit suspect

    People should be free to wear clothing that doesn’t break any laws without getting even a modicum of grief from pearl clutchers, particularly when those people spend their energy on that rather than more real problems.

    A broken clock can be right twice twice a day and all that

















  • The engineers and managers at NASA are not stupid, and they are not cavalier with astronaut’s lives. They’ve read the Rogers Commission and CAIB reports, and many of them remember Challenger and Columbia firsthand. But they exist in a context.

    That context is a moon program that has spent close to $100 billion and 25 years with nothing to show for itself, at an agency that has just experienced mass firings and been through a near-death experience with its science budget. The charismatic new Administrator has staked his reputation on increasing launch cadence, and set an explicit goal of landing astronauts on the Moon before President Trump’s term expires in January of 2029.

    I really don’t think it’s a stretch to say the first thing isn’t really a factor at all in why this is being rushed, this is 100% down to Trump wanting either a distraction or to be able to say “well I put someone on the moon”