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.
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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.
Microsoft says it is fixing Windows 11, but users have heard this before
Instead of bragging about shiny new features or pushing more AI into everything, the company [Microsoft] is basically saying, “we hear you,” and trying to clean up the mess that Windows 11 has become in some areas.
Too late.
Space: Robert Goddard launched the 1st liquid-fueled rocket 100 years ago today
A hundred years ago, Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, making him the ‘Father of Modern Rocketry’.
His historic 1926 flight in Auburn, Mass. saw a liquid oxygen-gasoline rocket fly 41 feet in altitude and come back to Earth in about 2.5 seconds.
There are no photos because the events didn’t seem significant.
My eldritch nephew came over yesterday to install Linux on two of my computers. Aunt Joanne came along. To feed the boy, I went to Aldi to pick up some steaks. Easter hams were on sale.
This was going to be a big day for the dogs.
Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser… for your own convenience
I like Copilot, and often go to Bing when I want an explanation for something. What I don’t like is that Microsoft tends to shove their technology down our throats.
‘Historic first’: Massive US military jet airlifts nuclear microreactor to Utah
The US Departments of Energy and Defense transported a small nuclear reactor, or microreactor, via cargo plane for the very first time on Sunday.
My brother was critical to the Adopt-a-Dog project, so we talked pretty often this week. He mentioned that the Olympics were starting in a few weeks. I thought the Games were starting sooner.