Althouse: Sunrise — 5:20, 5:23.

July 1, 2023

Sunrise — 5:20, 5:23.

38 comments:

Original Mike said...: Euclid space telescope, in search for universe's dark matter, launches from Florida

Headed out to join James Webb at L2. This is an exciting mission.

"the spacecraft will survey galaxies at distances as far out as 10 billion light years. … Astrophysicists expect to establish how the universe expanded and its structure shaped over billions of years. And scientists expect to establish how dark energy and dark matter work."

"The booster stage returned to Earth and made a successful landing on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean about 8 minutes and 40 seconds after launch."

Thanks, Elon!; 7/1/23, 6:43 PM
Original Mike said...: Level headed climate discussion by Judith Curry.

Skip the first 10 minutes of silliness.; 7/1/23, 6:46 PM
farmgirl said...: Lovely- &they look great sideways &upside down, too!!; 7/1/23, 7:14 PM
Owen said...: Re: Judith Curry. She's great. I am almost finished her new book, "Climate Uncertainty and Risk: Rethinking Our Response," and it is well worth anyone's time. Her understanding of the "sociology of science" (which greatly affects how we frame and attack problems, what we can know and with what confidence) is a critical part of what makes the book so good. So too is her understanding of risk and how to deal with it constructively, rather with epistemic closure and magical thinking.

Do give it a look!; 7/1/23, 8:06 PM
Dave Begley said...: Ann! I saw video of naked bike riders down by the State Capitol bldg. True?; 7/1/23, 8:08 PM
MadTownGuy said...: Biden Picks Up After Journalist Calls Secret Burner Phone Revealed In Hunter Scandal

"Now get this - journalist John Solomon called the phone, and President Joe Biden picked up!

"One of those documents got leaked to me and it had a cell phone number that Hunter Biden was paying for, so I figured this was my chance. I’ve been trying to get fair comment from Hunter Biden, so I’m gonna call the cell phone!" Solomon told Real America's Voice. "So I called the cell phone, and guess who picked up the phone? Joe Biden!"

"Joe Biden! Boy was he shocked when he got – when he picked up the phone and found out it was me," Solomon continued, adding "He hung up pretty quickly!""; 7/1/23, 8:12 PM
Sydney said...: Gorgeous; 7/1/23, 8:37 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: The world is much more nuanced and diverse than a cross dresser Trump supporter even.

I take solace.; 7/1/23, 10:24 PM
gadfly said...: Original Mike said...
Euclid space telescope, in search for universe's dark matter, launches from Florida

Headed out to join James Webb at L2. This is an exciting mission.

Thanks, Elon!

The European spacecraft, Euclid, will spend six years going round and round at L2. It cost them $1.5 billion to build and launch into orbit and you can be assured that SpaceX was well paid. Likely far more than the costs involved, Elon gets most of his fast-falling fortune from governments.; 7/1/23, 10:24 PM
Lem the artificially intelligent said...: They are here, they are wannabe tyrants, and they are saying the quiet part out loud:

Blackrock CEO, "You have to force behaviors".

# Big If True.; 7/1/23, 10:37 PM
Political Junkie said...: Like the blue sky in #1. Made me think of the old blue slushees.; 7/1/23, 11:15 PM
gadfly said...: The legal world has gone upside down as SCOTUS ruled favorably on a fake claim by a Colorado website designer and right side up on Amazon's practice of soliciting reviews on their product offerings where there is no proof in the veracity of numerous five-star reviews received.

So I already knew that we Amazon fools are easy to get past but no lawyer or SCOTUS clerk even talked to the married straight guy who supposedly wanted a website for his upcoming same-sex marriage.; 7/1/23, 11:45 PM
gadfly said...: “I’ve come to like President Trump and he likes himself and we got that in common," declared the Eminently Kissable Love Doll Lindsey Graham at a Trump rally in Pickens, uh SC- pop. 3,126 (not WV where 66 folks live).; 7/2/23, 2:18 AM
Mark said...: "Ann! I saw video of naked bike riders down by the State Capitol bldg. True?"

Yes, a few weeks ago was World Naked Bike Day and for 30 seconds the angry scolds were outraged as everyone else laughed and turned their attention away.

I recall plenty of non sexual nudity when I visited Europe many years ago, didn't seem to crash their civilization either.; 7/2/23, 4:14 AM
wendybar said...: Dave Begley said...
Ann! I saw video of naked bike riders down by the State Capitol bldg. True?

7/1/23, 8:08 PM

https://madison.com/news/local/world-naked-bike-ride-returns-to-capitol-square/article_401fe4f0-0c7e-11ee-bf5b-3f32327e8dfe.html; 7/2/23, 4:35 AM
tim in vermont said...: Supposedly Moammar Khadaffy said that if NATO got rid of him, which it did, it was NATO, at the behest of Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton, that Europe would be flooded with blacks. How has this "security strategy" that the US cooked up, of destroying the government of any and every country that even winked at Russia, far before this Ukraine thing happened, how has that worked out for Europe? Refugees are still flowing into Europe from Libya in rickety ships. Thousands and thousands have drowned.

Brexit was probably caused by the refugee crisis that the US and it's little NATO gang caused in Syria, because Assad offered Russia a naval base, flooding Europe with *millions* of refugees. Why did we not save Ambassador Stephens in Benghazi? Was it because the White House Situation Room didn't know that help was possible? Or was it because they preferred Stephens to be dead, rather than answer questions about what he was doing there? Evidence is that he was buying up as many of the now free-floating weapons in Libya to send them to arm our merry band of pretext providers in Syria, that would be ISIS, with the weapons needed to give us the pretext we needed to go into Syria, which was the next target of the neocon's "security strategy."

Now Europe is flooded with Ukrainian refugees, and denied the cheap energy upon which it had built its economy. We will see what happens when Kiev somehow causes a radioactive "accident" at that nuclear power plant I can't spell. Just this week Kiev was assuring its residents that any "Russian sabotage" of that plant would not affect them, and the US sent a "nuclear sniffer" plane to the region. It looks like Russia is about to get "suicided" again, as we call it with Hillary's enemies. It looks like we are going to be told that Russia blew up it's own nuclear power plant, and created a catastrophe in the regions that Russia holds and thinks of as part of Russia because, well, you know how stupid Russians are and how they are always shooting themselves in their own foot! For instance, by blowing up that dam that they controlled, they have now, due solely to Russia's stupidity, I'm sure, made an attack on the plant far more practical, and have eliminated the possibility of using the dam to flood out any attacking army. This is even more stupid than blowing up Nordsream when all they had to do wast turn off the valves!

The time-honored strategy of "scorched earth" has always been a ploy of the defenders, and so the party with the most incentive to destroy that plant is the party that is the most likely to never control that region. By destroying the dam, ruining Crimean agriculture, Crimea which has been Russian for centuries, and by destroying the nuke plant, Kiev is poisoning, literally, the chalice that they are going to be forced to surrender to Russia.

Russia is no better than we are, worse in many ways, but our strategy for containment simply isn't working, and is creating far more problems for Europe than a strategy of compromise and engagement with Russia would have. What's happening in France, the recession in Europe, the horrific refugee crises, are all direct results of the US strategy to "contain" Russia. We can only hope that this widely-telegraphed plan to create a radiation catastrophe in Europe is a merely gambit to force Russia to the negotiating table, and will be held in reserve. It seems too obvious to be the lead up to an effective "false flag" operation.; 7/2/23, 4:53 AM
tim in vermont said...: Oh yeah, Kiev is giving iodine pills to its citizens in the region of the plant where the "Russian caused accident" is planned to take place.; 7/2/23, 4:59 AM
wendybar said...: They REALLY need help to cope with reality. Why do progressives ALWAYS act like 3 year olds having temper tantrums??

Matt Grawitch
@DocGrawitch
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Note to self, probably a good idea to avoid lawyers who come out of BU law.

@amuse
@amuse
THERAPY: Boston University law students offered therapy in response to recent Supreme Court decisions. Law students were sent mental health resources to help 'navigate these times'.
https://foxnews.com/us/boston-university-law-students-offered-therapy-response-recent-supreme-court-decisions.amp
6:05 PM · Jul 1, 2023; 7/2/23, 5:16 AM
wendybar said...: These are the people who want to force the rest of us to pay their debts....

Alessandra Biaggi
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Jun 30, 2023
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@Biaggi4NY

In 2012, I graduated from Fordham Law School with $180,000 is student loan debt.

I’ve been paying loans for 11 years. Even paid two of them off completely.

In 2023, my balance is $206,000.

JWF
@JammieWF
·

But you can afford a house in insanely wealthy Bedford. Sell your house and pay your debt.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/01/alessandra-biaggi-mocked-for-complaining-about-student-loans/; 7/2/23, 5:28 AM
wendybar said...: Besides Taylor Swift, who else gets crowds THIS size to hear him talk??

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12254151/Trump-shuts-city-strength-rally-charged-documents-case.html; 7/2/23, 6:00 AM
Narayanan said...: Joe Biden! Boy was he shocked when he got – when he picked up the phone and found out it was me," Solomon continued, adding "He hung up pretty quickly!""
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was Solomon thinking ahead to be able to record any of it? that would've been interesting!!!; 7/2/23, 6:12 AM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Smoke on the Water?; 7/2/23, 6:16 AM
tim in vermont said...: Hey look, the EU has sanctioned Russian fertilizer, only allowing it to go to Europe, since that is how the "grain deal" seems to have worked out, at least in the way that Europe has enforced it, fancy that.. Ukraine has blown up Russia's export pipeline for ammonia, which is primarily used in fertilizer production. And yet the EU is forbidding poor countries from building their own fertilizer production facilities. Now that Russia has announced an end to the grain deal, since the US has not allowed any grain or fertilizer to actually reach the markets, bottling it up in Europe, I am sure that Russia will be painted as the villain in the piece.

The EU has for weeks tried to help its poorer neighbours in Africa and the Middle East to weather the crisis by offering them fresh funds, while trying to convince them EU sanctions against Moscow and Minsk are not to be blamed for the food emergency.

At a summit of EU leaders later this week, the EU was planning a new initiative that would structurally decrease poorer nations' reliance on Russian fertilisers by helping them develop their own fertiliser plants.

But at a meeting with EU envoys last week, the EU Commission explicitly opposed the text, warning that supporting fertiliser production in developing nations would be inconsistent with the EU energy and environment policies, officials said.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-split-over-fertiliser-plants-poorer-nations-food-crisis-bites-2022-06-20/

Europe and the US want a single dominant hyper-power that can dictate policy to the rest of the world though control of finances, as well as military means, no matter how harmful it is to the Global South, for instance, without the interference of budinskis like China offering to build them fertilizer plants. WW3 is about climate, and the climate people have no problem with famines in Africa, BTW, and we are not even allowed to investigate the "science" behind global warming. We are required to take their interpretation of the "science" as read, and just follow them wherever they lead us, even into wars with Russia and China, both nuclear powers.

[Insert "Are we the baddies?" GIF here]; 7/2/23, 6:31 AM
iowan2 said...: Likely far more than the costs involved, Elon gets most of his fast-falling fortune from governments.

Because the Government is incapable of doing it as efficient, at a comparable price.

Filling a need is the opposite of taking govt handouts. Your disdain should be aimed at the govt buying vanity space trips.; 7/2/23, 7:08 AM
wendybar said...: Tell me again, that the election wasn't stolen. Where are Joe Bidens crowds??

https://twitter.com/bud_cann/status/1675228952863055872?s=20; 7/2/23, 7:24 AM
wendybar said...: gadfly said...
“I’ve come to like President Trump and he likes himself and we got that in common," declared the Eminently Kissable Love Doll Lindsey Graham at a Trump rally in Pickens, uh SC- pop. 3,126 (not WV where 66 folks live).

7/2/23, 2:18 AM

And the crowd booed him. A what a crowd there was!! How many show up to see Joe?? 5?? 10??; 7/2/23, 7:26 AM
Gahrie said...: Elon gets most of his fast-falling fortune from governments.

So does everyone else who either works for or provides services to the government... like me.; 7/2/23, 7:36 AM
planetgeo said...: "Maestro in Blue" (the original one, Who provides so much for Ann in other hues too).

But yes, I liked the Netflix series too. Starring the Greek islands mostly. Cheesy but charming. Did I mention that it was starring the Greek Islands?; 7/2/23, 8:08 AM
Original Mike said...: Thanks for the recommendation, Owen. Was thinking of getting it.; 7/2/23, 9:06 AM
tim in vermont said...: International Atomic Energy Agency representative says that Zelensky is lying about what is going on at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant based on the daily onsite reports he receives.

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/1675509498117586945

Kiev and its stenographers in the Western media have been lying about this plant for a year. Saying that Russia was shelling it, for example, while it was under complete Russian control and being hit by missile strikes from Ukraine, same as the dam had been. I guess it's my patriotic duty to believe a bunch of plain lies though. I just wish the guys I am supposed to believe were better liars, but I can see why they want to shut down Twitter. Lies as thin as tissue and which can't withstand any pushback can only work with a completely compliant press.; 7/2/23, 9:56 AM
Narr said...: I'm moving some WWII lit commentary from the Arkin thread.

rcocean mentions James Jones and "The Thin Red Line." I've never read the book and the follow-ups, but I live a stone's throw from the former Kennedy General Hospital, now the U of M South or Park Avenue Campus. Some of the original 1942 hospital structures are still there. Jones turned Memphis into Luxor for the book.

I read Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead," but wasn't all that impressed. Vidal wrote one novel based on his service on an Army ship.

For Pacific memoirs, you can't beat Sledge, and from the Brit side G.M. "Flashman" Fraser's "Quartered Safe Out Here" is great. Farley Mowat for the Canucks in Italy.

"The Men of Company K" and Charles B. MacDonald's "Company Commander" describe warfare in NWE, as does George Wilson's "If You Survive." Stackpole's Military History Series has some very interesting items--I read recently William B. Hanford's "A Dangerous Assignment: An Artillery Forward Observer in WWII." (His fool of a lieutenant often put them in unnecessary danger.)

Len Lebenson's "Surrounded By Heroes: Six Campaigns with Division Headquarters, 82nd Airborne Division, 1942-1945" is an unusual and informative account by a REMF.

William S. Triplett wrote two superb memoirs of WWI (he was a sergeant) and WWII (he was a colonel)--"A Youth in the Meuse-Argonne" and "With the Armored Divisions" respectively.

Gabriel Temkin's "My Just War" and Dimitri Loza's "Commanding the Red Army's Sherman Tanks" are essential for understanding the war in the East.; 7/2/23, 10:38 AM
Rusty said...: gadfly said...
Original Mike said...
"Euclid space telescope, in search for universe's dark matter, launches from Florida

Headed out to join James Webb at L2. This is an exciting mission.

Thanks, Elon!

The European spacecraft, Euclid, will spend six years going round and round at L2. It cost them $1.5 billion to build and launch into orbit and you can be assured that SpaceX was well paid. Likely far more than the costs involved, Elon gets most of his fast-falling fortune from governments."
So. You don't like science if the wrong people are involved. And if you think it's too expensive then have NASA do it at three times the price.
You want the search for knowledge to be free?; 7/2/23, 10:48 AM
Original Mike said...: gadfly said..." and you can be assured that SpaceX was well paid. "

That's how stuff gets done. People work hard in expectation they'll get paid for it. Don't you claim to be a conservative? Conservatives understand this.; 7/2/23, 11:18 AM
Mike of Snoqualmie said...: gadfly said..." and you can be assured that SpaceX was well paid. "

Part of government contracts for commercial services is a price reasonableness check. I worked for Boeing Defense. When ever we sought a service from Boeing Commercial, we had to do our own price estimate for the BCA service. My estimate and theirs had to be within 15%. If BCA's price was too high, they were gouging us. Too low, and they didn't understand what we wanted.

ESA could've done the same thing. Checked prices of other launches and made sure that the price they were quoted were in line with the other launches.

SpaceX has lowered the cost of launch services dramatically. Gadfly's just jealous of their competence.; 7/2/23, 12:29 PM
Gahrie said...: ESA could've done the same thing. Checked prices of other launches and made sure that the price they were quoted were in line with the other launches.

It wasn't in line, it was significantly lower.; 7/2/23, 1:33 PM
Gahrie said...: SpaceX has lowered the cost of launch services dramatically. Gadfly's just jealous of their competence.

No he just hates the company's owner.; 7/2/23, 1:34 PM
Dr Weevil said...: 'tim in vermont' just can't stop lying about Ukraine. We know for a fact that the Russians blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam because (a) it was built to withstand a nuclear attack, but with tunnels underneath so that someone in possession of it could blow it up with planted explosives, and the Russians even boasted about planting such explosives in December, (b) they've blown up smaller dams before and after, (c) some of them even boast about it on TV and social media, and (d) the farms damaged by the flood are in fact mostly Ukrainian farms. (TIV pretends that Crimea was the only place supplied by canals, when there are in fact 4 canals, and the one that goes to Crimea watered far more area in Kherson on the way to Crimea than the area it watered in Crimea.)

As for only defenders going 'scorched earth', the Russians have been on defense for more than a year, trying to hold on to what they invaded. They've already lost more than half in the retreat from Kyiv, the Kharkiv offensive, and the recapture of Kherson city. They have since gained a few square miles in Bakhmut over the winter, at huge cost, but the Ukrainian counteroffensive, still in its early stages (most reserves still uncommitted) has captured three times as many square miles in 3 weeks as the Russians captured in 3 months. And yes, the defenders are planning to go scorched earth by blowing up the nuclear power plant, and TIV will defend them when they do, like the filthy shill he is.

I could go on and correct his lies about Sudan and Syria, but why bother? I've already done that more than once, and he just waits and repeats his filthy lies without addressing any of the objections to them.; 7/2/23, 3:18 PM
Drago said...: The Hopeless gadfly: "The European spacecraft, Euclid, will spend six years going round and round at L2. It cost them $1.5 billion to build and launch into orbit and you can be assured that SpaceX was well paid."

The spaceflight illiterate gadfly is once again "commenting" on spaceflight operations by cutting and pasting the words of others. Per usual. Never attributiom.

Just weeks ago this gadfly buffoon had no idea SpaceX is the most successful and cost effective launch provider in history with more mass capacity to orbit with better reliability than all other global launch providers combined.

And that includes the owners of gadfly's beloved Dear Leader Biden, the ChiComs.

The Hopeless gadfly: "Likely far more than the costs involved, Elon gets most of his fast-falling fortune from governments."

Yes, the most cost effective space launch provider in history, with reusability built in for all major components from the jump, can easily charge less than going market rates and clear even greater profit per kg to orbit than any of their competitors.

Interestingly enough, gadfly has no idea that governments like getting better rates for services too!

Looks like we will have to add Economic Illiteracy to Engineering and Spaceflight Illiteracy as active gadfly...fragilities.

Also, a quick look at the daily Forbes World's Richest Person list shows the following:

Elon Musk: current net worth - $248.9B, a $20B gap between Musk and second place Arnault & Family.

Musk's current #1 position net worth represents an $11.2B (4.73%) gain, while all other Top 10 Richest are in the red or have very modest gains only.

Given that, you might ask yourself how it is The Hopeless gadfly could write something so profoundly stupid and at odds with reality while being easily checked as "...fast-falling fortune...".

Its because gadfly is also a Mathematical Illiterate.

Hence gadfly's multi-year campaign in praise of the "no inflation", then "temporary inflation only" Biden-nomic disaster.

It will be interesting to see what specifically gadfly plaigarizes in response...and from whom.; 7/3/23, 9:15 AM