Since it’s Monday and Sparky hasn’t woken up yet, starting a cult seems like a good way to pass the time. The cult won’t commence until March 14th, so it’s safe to tell you how the operation works.
Provide your social security number, and the universe provides guidance on what today holds for you. The system is based on the irrational number, Pi, so it’s scientific.
NPR: Data Centers are expensive, unpopular and could be a tipping point in the midterms.
I enjoy NPR because they think it’s plausible that data centers could influence the midterm elections. Data centers are not a tipping point, but are a big deal that smart people should be thinking about. So far, it seems like dimwits are just scrambling for cash. What gets done will effect normal people like us.
Five Amazing Facts About the Lockheed U-2
The Lockheed U-2 has been around for decades, but much of the information was classified. A new book is coming out, and it will probably be interesting.
The amazing fact I learned is that due to the operating altitude, conventional jet fuel boils off. To research an appropriate fuel, they turned to Jimmy Doolittle, of Doolittle Raid fame, who was then a VP at Shell Oil.
This is what happens when you get out of your lane on Youtube. The couple of Youtube videos I mentioned in earlier posts, has skewed my algorithm.
I watched one video of a talented girl playing Orange Blossom Special, and now Youtube thinks I want to see a girl with a club foot or palsy, busking with her banjo cousin. I’m not clicking on that, but somehow, it’s been viewed 16 million times.
The other one is worse. Why is a naked guy talking to a dog in the middle of what looks like Amsterdam? What is he saying? Something like, “Love knows no bounds. Acting on that love is only natural. Look, it’s only weird if you make it weird.” The dog looks receptive.
Newsweek: NASA Introduces Newest and Cutest Artemis 2 Crew Member
This dumb plushie mascot was mentioned in videos and articles about the Artemis 2 mission. It was embarrassing to watch them strain to make ‘Rise’ go viral.
WSJ: There’s No Separation of Church and Space
CWR: Artemis II moon mission ‘a great development,’ Vatican Observatory director says
Artemis 2 pilot, Victor Glover, gave a little Easter sermon from space, so the militant atheists on Earth pissed their pants and strongly objected to government astronauts talking about religion.
Bugs Bunny covered this in Mad as a Mars Hare.
NASA’s Artemis 2 moon mission breaks Apollo 13 distance record
NASA is doing their best, but the Artemis 2 mission isn’t exciting, heroic or impressive.
That’s the reason to change to Linux.
It takes some time and effort to abandon Microsoft Windows, but Linux doesn’t force software updates, require a Microsoft account, or remove programs.
Nobody is reporting the specific problem that Artemis mission commander, Reid Wiseman, had getting MS Outlook to run on his Microsoft Surface Pro, but Wiseman has a degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytech and a master’s degree in Systems Engineering from Johns Hopkins. He couldn’t get his email software to work, and needed to get a bunch of rocket scientists to fix it.
That is messed up.
The crew looks like stowaways traveling in a shipping container.
NASA chose a good looking crew. Then I did some research.
Artemis 2 launched today to take humans around the Moon for the first time in five decades. CNN was interviewing people who went down to observe the launch. The reporter asked this kid.
CNN: “Why do you want to be here? Why do you love space? Why do you love being a part of history?”
Kid: “We’re going back to the fucking Moon, that’s why.”
CNN is burying the clip, so I can’t find a version to link. When Spring Break is over, and that kid goes back to middle school, he should get a standing ovation.
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