Althouse: Sunrise

March 6, 2025

Sunrise — 6:29.

Talk about anything you want in the comments.

96 comments:

Jaq said...: Oh my goodness. It turns out that the Ukrainians can't actually operate their missiles without the active involvement of US personnel.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-turns-off-ukraine-missiles-205937132.html; 3/6/25, 5:45 PM
pacwest said...: Congrats on getting referred by Turley.; 3/6/25, 5:47 PM
tcrosse said...: Today I went to my friendly neighborhood supermarket to pick up some ingredients for a ghetto cassoulet. While checking out I thought, I have a little bacon and I have a little beans. So I can fight the bloody British at the town of New Orleans. But if the Brits run through the briers and run through the brambles, and run through the bushes where the rabbits couldn't go, run so fast the hounds couldn't catch them, it would be down the Mississippi to the Gulf of ... What?; 3/6/25, 5:49 PM
Jaq said...: Oh yeah, and the new German chancellor, the one who immediately on being elected repudiated his promise to control the high volumes of migration into Germany has now repudiated his other main promise to the electorate, he is gutting the "debt brake" and is planning to go deep into debt to re-arm Germany, presumably, and stop me if you've heard this one, to march through Poland and fight Russia.

The thing about gutting the debt brake is that he doesn't actually have the votes for the constitutional change required, so he is bringing back the old parliament, the one that just got voted out, to do the dirty work for him.

And France now is rattling its nuclear saber, Macron is announcing that La France will defend Europe from the Russian menace, this is the Macron who passed his budget by decree somehow, because every time he tried to pass it through the assembly, the governing coalition collapsed.

Europe is managed democracy. It's not democratic anymore. It no longer believes in freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, or national borders, except for Ukraine's borders, and thinks that democracy is a game to be rigged.; 3/6/25, 5:51 PM
n.n said...: No Tali-me-bananas in Kiev. Perhaps they can work with Kabul for their Biden benefits.; 3/6/25, 5:52 PM
DINKY DAU 45 said...: Let me see..TARIFFS they will start tomorrow ,no holdups on MEXICO and Canada. Stock market tanks,auto makers say bullshit,Canada and Mexico say ' after you chief and trump says oh never mind. Lets wait for the tariffs that are just so wonderful, American Farmers saying bullcrap unless your gonna pay us again like last time. . Everybody loves chaos in the markets right..What a hump.... this guy have any idea of what he is doing?; 3/6/25, 5:57 PM
rhhardin said...: I wonder what the rules for the nuclear sabre are. Regular sabre has right of way rules, no hitting below the belt. 4 judges, all of whom have trouble following the action.; 3/6/25, 5:59 PM
tcrosse said...: Europe is managed democracy. It's not democratic anymore.

In sha' Allah; 3/6/25, 5:59 PM
Leland said...: SpaceX stuck its third Starship booster landing but lost the orbiter seconds before engine cutoff.; 3/6/25, 6:17 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: Presidential material... In the Third World, maybe.

https://www.westernjournal.com/dem-governor-dumps-nearly-1-million-battery-maker-turns-around-abandons-state-red-one/; 3/6/25, 6:22 PM
gilbar said...: " run so fast the hounds couldn't catch them, it would be down the Mississippi to the Gulf of.. "

i Believe, the song goes like this:
..down the Mississippi to the Gulf and on to Mexico; 3/6/25, 6:51 PM
Inga said...: Another Starship blew up, good thing Musk isn’t in charge of DOGE…um, wait…; 3/6/25, 7:00 PM
Jupiter said...: If we can still make Peking Duck, the redcoats can continue to flee "On down the Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico".
BTW, the banjo intro is the first 12 notes of Dixie.; 3/6/25, 7:01 PM
tcrosse said...: Thus I refute gilbar; 3/6/25, 7:06 PM
tcrosse said...: In spite of all his accomplishments, this guy Musk must be an idiot because he disagrees with Inga.; 3/6/25, 7:11 PM
Jupiter said...: Igna may actually have come up with that comment on her own. If so, she is to be commended for her enterprise, if not for originality, wit, or any particular salience. The unfortunate NASA hostages have now confirmed Musk's claim that the Biden regime turned down his offer to rescue them for political reasons.
Unfortunately, Igna, that is probably why your handler didn't give you any talking points regarding that matter. Will they dock your pay for this insubordination?; 3/6/25, 7:17 PM
Kakistocracy said...: How's everyone enjoying America's "Golden Age"?
First quarter 401K balances go out in 1 month.

Trump changes course, delays tariffs on most imports from Mexico until April ~ AP

We didn’t have the cards. 🤣

It’s almost as if tariff man hasn’t got a clue what he’s doing.

Announcing policies and then wetting himself the moment they are supposed to be implemented. The art of not being taken seriously.

Credibility is a terrible thing to waste.

Trump inherited the world’s best performing economy and managed to squander it all in just 6 weeks. And with countries around the world now doing all they can to decouple from the US, the situation will only get worse.

There is no strategy. There's not even a concept of a strategy.; 3/6/25, 7:18 PM
Peachy said...: the leftists show up to criticize brilliant people... doing amazing things.

Inag and Company - Focus on Crook Joe and Kamala - your speed.; 3/6/25, 7:23 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Peachy: How long can you love someone for the weakness that they conceal?; 3/6/25, 7:31 PM
MaxedOutMama said...: I saw this "Choose Your Fighter" short vid from the Dems. Don't bother. Makes Trump look super centered and normal.

Shouldn't we be trying to start another political party to step in?; 3/6/25, 7:31 PM
David53 said...: "SpaceX stuck its third Starship booster landing but lost the orbiter seconds before engine cutoff."

The booster landing was really cool.

Too bad there's no person or entity in the world who can do something like this except Musk.; 3/6/25, 7:40 PM
Jupiter said...: That psycho-bitch Governor in Maine?
She's dirty. And not just 'cuz she's a Democrat.; 3/6/25, 7:40 PM
BUMBLE BEE said...: MaxedOutMama said...
I saw this "Choose Your Fighter" video...

It is hilarious in concept and execution. Self awareness is not a dem attribute.; 3/6/25, 7:42 PM
Kakistocracy said...: Lutnik is on TV every day trying to justify something that will be reversed the very next day. It's absurd. They've no idea what they are doing. Businesses and consumers need confidence before they make decisions. As things stand the Canadian and Mexican tariffs may or may not come back in April. These are the US' two biggest trading partners, vital to domestic supply chains. Then you have DOGE cuts and the administrations cancelling of various subsidies. In this environment of course the economy will sink.

“House Speaker Mike Johnson advised Republican members of congress not to hold in-person meetings in their districts”

GOP Senators and Congressmen are afraid to meet with constituents. Fallout from his tariffs and Ukraine policy will be even worse. 🍿; 3/6/25, 7:49 PM
Aggie said...: "GOP Senators and Congressmen are afraid to meet with constituents. "

You guys are really cracking me up tonight. Sure they are. Yeah man, they're hiding out ! I haven't seen you so desperate for red meat since..... well, since Kamala was doing so well on the campaign trail.; 3/6/25, 7:56 PM
Kakistocracy said...: "SpaceX stuck its third Starship booster landing but lost the orbiter seconds before engine cutoff."

I'm pretty sure those stranded astronauts are thinking "Yeah, you know what? We're good."; 3/6/25, 8:02 PM
Eva Marie said...: @Kakistocracy:
SpaceX has successfully brought astronauts back from the International Space Station (ISS) multiple times as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and other missions. Since its first crewed flight in 2020, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft has completed several round-trip missions, safely returning astronauts to Earth after their stays on the ISS. Here’s a rundown based on what’s happened up to March 06, 2025:

- **Demo-2 Mission (2020):** SpaceX’s first crewed mission to the ISS launched on May 30, 2020, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley. They returned on August 2, 2020, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico after 63 days in space. This was the first time a commercial spacecraft brought astronauts back from the ISS.

- **Crew-1 (2020-2021):** Launched November 15, 2020, with NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA’s Soichi Noguchi. They returned on May 2, 2021, after 167 days, marking SpaceX’s first operational crew rotation mission.

- **Crew-2 (2021):** Launched April 23, 2021, with NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, JAXA’s Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA’s Thomas Pesquet. They splashed down on November 8, 2021, after 199 days.

- **Crew-3 (2021-2022):** Launched November 10, 2021, with NASA’s Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA’s Matthias Maurer. They returned May 6, 2022, after 177 days.

- **Crew-4 (2022):** Launched April 27, 2022, with NASA’s Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines, Jessica Watkins, and ESA’s Samantha Cristoforetti. They returned October 14, 2022, after 170 days.

- **Crew-5 (2022-2023):** Launched October 5, 2022, with NASA’s Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA’s Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos’ Anna Kikina. They returned March 11, 2023, after 157 days.

- **Crew-6 (2023):** Launched March 2, 2023, with NASA’s Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, UAE’s Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos’ Andrey Fedyaev. They splashed down September 4, 2023, after 186 days.

- **Crew-7 (2023-2024):** Launched August 26, 2023, with NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA’s Andreas Mogensen, JAXA’s Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos’ Konstantin Borisov. They returned March 12, 2024, after 199 days.

- **Crew-8 (2024):** Launched March 3, 2024, with NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos’ Alexander Grebenkin. They returned October 25, 2024, after 235 days.; 3/6/25, 8:11 PM
Kakistocracy said...: SpaceX received 3 billion from NASA for the development of Starship ~ SpaceNews

DOGE might want to look into this....; 3/6/25, 8:12 PM
David53 said...: "I saw this "Choose Your Fighter" short vid from the Dems. Don't bother. Makes Trump look super centered and normal."

I'm sure that's gonna earn them some young male voters.; 3/6/25, 8:22 PM
Readering said...: Trump has issued an executive order targeting Perkins Coie law firm that is truly deranged.; 3/6/25, 8:25 PM
Aggie said...: Or, on the other hand, the stranded astronauts could ride back on the Boeing Starliner that was supposed to return them, ~9 months ago, after 8 days. Oh, wait. Boeing didn't have any confidence they could safely complete that mission. They've had 9 months and aren't any more confident, still - even though these astronauts have already been up stranded there the longest, and face serious health risks - thanks to a political stunt.

But a good Progressive Liberal Democrat would project their insistence on punking Musk by leaving them up there, saying they're 'so nervous'. We've got to punk Musk ! No cost is too high - right? As long as it's somebody else.; 3/6/25, 8:29 PM
Leland said...: Only $3 billion? How much did Boeing get for SLS? Hint, add a zero behind that 3. This was Starships 8th test flight. How many SLS flights have there been? BTW, did you know that none of SLS is reusable? It always crashes into the ocean. Only the capsule safely returns, although it currently isn’t flying because they don’t know yet if it can do it again.; 3/6/25, 8:29 PM
Leland said...: Readering said...
Trump has issued an executive order targeting Perkins Coie law firm that is truly deranged.

I agree. Perkins Coie law firm is truly deranged.; 3/6/25, 8:31 PM
Howard said...: The astronauts stranded by Boeing are not going to be rescued by the Starship which is still in the experimental testing phase, rather the crew 9 capsule likely a board a falcon heavy rocket.; 3/6/25, 8:46 PM
Michael McNeil said...: SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying astronauts to and from the international space station launch on a Falcon 9, not Falcon Heavy.; 3/6/25, 9:08 PM
Big Mike said...: The value of the contract received by SpaceX was reported to be $2.6 billion, which is significantly ($400 million) less than what Kakistocracy gave out in his comment. Of course if you’re a Democrat throwing money around, $400 million must seem like a rounding error.

But I do think DOGE should investigate — how did it come to be the case that Boeing received $4.2 billion for a spacecraft thst turned out to be as unsafe as their 737 MAX aircraft?; 3/6/25, 9:10 PM
Big Mike said...: @Kakistocracy, if you haven’t worked it out yet, we’re all laughing at you and Freder and Readering and Icky Vicky.; 3/6/25, 9:13 PM
Mason G said...: "Of course if you’re a Democrat throwing money around, $400 million must seem like a rounding error."

Last night, gadfly said gas going from $3.174 to $3.205 was a 25% jump in price.

Leftists do math like they do word definitions- disingenuously.; 3/6/25, 9:21 PM
Peachy said...: Kakapoodle - the Stranded Astronauts left behind by... Biden.; 3/6/25, 9:27 PM
Peachy said...: Leftists lose again.; 3/6/25, 9:28 PM
Big Mike said...: One thing I don’t get about the failed Boeing Starliner. All the way back in the NASA Mercury program (which began in 1958) we figured out how to build highly reliable thrusters. What went wrong?; 3/6/25, 9:41 PM
Jupiter said...: "'Lesotho is such a significant and unique country in the whole world. I would be happy to invite the president, as well as the rest of the world, to come to Lesotho,' Mr Mpotjoane told the Reuters news agency."
For those who don't know, and as President Trump noted, most don't, Lesotho is one of the South African "homelands", somewhat like American Indian Reservations, only more so. South African Boers are now hoping for a homeland of their own, where they might be safe(r) from the depredations of their murderous black neighbors. Perhaps Trump will accept Mr. Mpotjoane's invitation. Elon could tag along to show him the sights.; 3/6/25, 9:54 PM
HistoryDoc said...: 2 things that didn't survive election losses:

- Hunter's lucrative artistic career

- Clinton Global Initiative grift

When a dem loses a presidential election, there can be catastrophic financial consequences.; 3/6/25, 10:07 PM
Eva Marie said...: I like these types of photos. Spider webs, fairy wings, hand made lace. So many shapes to examine.; 3/6/25, 10:13 PM
Drago said...: Readering: "Trump has issued an executive order targeting Perkins Coie law firm that is truly deranged."

LOL

readering the dolt has been a huge backer of the completely corrupted and politicized Delaware Chancery Court where friends of the biden crime family wearing judicial robes targeted Elon Musk. In particular, one of readerings favorite corrupto-"judges", McCormick.

Readering went to the mat to defend the indefensible and since that time, the DE Governor, the DE legislature and DE Supreme Court have been making moves to undo the damage that readering lauded.

And now both Meta and Walmart are investigating reincorporation in another state similar to Tesla and other companies.

Not a minute too soon to exit readering-ville.; 3/6/25, 10:31 PM
Jim at said...: Celebrating the failure of an experimental spacecraft going through the regular development of success, failure, learn, improve, success. Rinse and repeat.

All because they don't like the guy who created the entire, damn project.

That's all they've got. And it's fucking pathetic.; 3/6/25, 10:42 PM
Mason G said...: "All because they don't like the guy who created the entire, damn project."

I'm so old, I can remember when they used to love him.; 3/6/25, 10:44 PM
William said...: Trump has a fair number of vices and flaws. I don't understand why the Dems need to invent such outlandish ones.....He's not in this for the money. He doesn't keep a copy of Hitler's speeches by his bedside. He doesn't rape women......The Dems would have better luck blackening his reputation if they didn't go so far overboard.......One thing Trump has working for him is luck. First time out that he runs for public office, he wins the Presidency. That's like taking up golf on Monday and winning the Masters on Sunday. Then there's the time he randomly turned his head a quarter of an inch and thus escaped assination........I am hoping that some of his luck will rub off on America, but maybe not. The first term we got COVID. Who knows what will happen this time around.; 3/6/25, 10:48 PM
Eva Marie said...: Do you think we would have gotten Covid (the lockdowns, etc.) if Trump wasn’t President?; 3/7/25, 12:03 AM
gadfly said...: Employees at the Social Security Administration were informed on Thursday morning that new rules forbid them from accessing “general news” websites on government provided equipment and services, including data sources which have been at the forefront of the reporting on Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) effort.

Obviously, many SSA employees left their desks and dialed up their favorite news website on their cellphones! Seriously folks, this autocratic shit has to end.

About the same time, Trump assembled his cabinet to tell top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was in the room.; 3/7/25, 12:30 AM
gadfly said...: Oh no! Another SpaceX blow-up and most of the DOGE folks are ex-employees at SpaceX. Musk contracts must now be $40 Billion and climbing.; 3/7/25, 12:42 AM
Original Mike said...: "I'm pretty sure those stranded astronauts are thinking "Yeah, you know what? We're good.""

Pretty sure, huh? Dragon is the only game in town.

Do you put any thought into your posts or do you just not care?; 3/7/25, 12:42 AM
Original Mike said...: Readering said..."Trump has issued an executive order targeting Perkins Coie law firm that is truly deranged."

My first question is, was Russia, Russia, Russia Perkins Coie or was it all Marc Elias?; 3/7/25, 12:44 AM
Original Mike said...: President Trump Removes Perkins Coie Security Clearance and FBI Workstations from Within Law Firm

"The original information from an FBI whistleblower first surfaced in 2022. Essentially the information was that the DNC contracted law firm of Perkins Coie had an FBI workstation in their DC office since 2012.

The Perkins Coie workstation (collocated by the FBI) has access to the NSA database on all Americans, including political figures. The Democrats contracted with Perkins Coie for “political research.”

It doesn’t take a lot of thinking to realize what this set up was all about; Perkins Coie could do opposition research on any candidate and feed that information to the DNC for use in their campaigning.

This means both Marc Elias (DNC lawyer) and Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann could exploit the NSA database to conduct searches of all cell phone, computer, email, text message, social media, electronic surveillance of their political opposition, or anyone else – anywhere, for over a decade. The ramifications of this joint collaborative activity are vast. President Trump just shut it down:"

Oh, yeah. Looks totally legit to me…; 3/7/25, 12:54 AM
Original Mike said...: That whole article (above) is worth reading. I want to know what is "deranged" about Trump shutting down Perkins Coie access to intelligence data.; 3/7/25, 1:02 AM
gadfly said...: Meanwhile, here’s the Treasury Secretary today:

“Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream,” Bessent said during a speech to the Economic Club of New York.

That’s going to come as a surprise to your buddy Jeff Bezos, fella.; 3/7/25, 1:05 AM
Original Mike said...: gadfly would beggar his neighbor to save a few bucks.; 3/7/25, 1:25 AM
Original Mike said...: "Absolutely Factual": Stranded Astronauts Confirm Musk's Pre-Election Rescue Offer Was Snubbed

Musk could have brought them home 6 months ago, but Biden rejected the offer for political reasons.

What a guy.; 3/7/25, 1:31 AM
wendybar said...: "Donald Trump has caused the Democrats to break themselves beyond repair. They now cannot applaud a young cancer patient only because that young man seems to like and respect President Trump. That is the last straw. Yes, it is way too late, but the time has come.

I will no longer be in the party of slavery, Jim Crow, killing babies, mutilating children, hating Israel, and laundering money to Democrat causes through publicly invisible government programs. I need not be concerned that people will think I support election processes that make it easier to steal elections and politicized lawfare disguised as a legal system.

Just before I started to write this, I changed my registration to Republican."

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/03/forgive_me_dad.html; 3/7/25, 3:36 AM
rehajm said...: The signs they went completely insane were there a decade ago but you’re just now getting around to announcing your departure? Vulnerable to propaganda you are, no doubt…; 3/7/25, 4:34 AM
john mosby said...: Eva Marie: "Do you think we would have gotten Covid (the lockdowns, etc.) if Trump wasn’t President?"

Yes. I hold that the outbreak was an accident. Certainly made much more likely by the messed-up secret way the virus was researched with Fauci's funding and ChiCom labor. But no one intended to release it.

Once the virus was out, the response was all leftie. Just like what Winston says about wars, the pandemic gave the left a chance to do all their command-economy stuff. Also note that with Republicans in the WH, most of the lockdowns were at the state level, with the blueness of the state correlating with the ferocity of the lockdown. The one Commerce Clause thing Trump tried to do - lock down the NYC area to protect the rest of the country - got shouted down as soon as he suggested it.

Wrecking the economy was not a bug of the lockdowns, it was a feature. With Trump in office, it was a handy bloody shirt to wave at him. Once Biden was in, it was an excuse for money-printing and crony-enriching. Had a D been in office at the time of the outbreak, all the welfare programs would have started much earlier. And of course the Covid voting protocols favored perpetual D victories.

Remember that the D's would rather reign in hell than serve in heaven. So their grand strategy tends to send the country straight to hell.

JSM; 3/7/25, 5:02 AM
Jaq said...: “Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream,”

This upsets gadfly because if you believe this, you might believe that suppressing wages for American workers is not a good idea in the long run. You might believe that it's a mistake to inflate the stock market by shipping working class non college jobs that pay well overseas.

You see, suppressing wages by importing millions of desperate migrants and ironing out "economic inefficiencies" by moving jobs to where wages are lower is a great strategy for the affluent Americans who benefit from it. It's only the yucky invisible deplorables who benefit from reversing that strategy, so what's the point? They shouldn't even be allowed to vote!; 3/7/25, 5:54 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Leland wrote: "Only $3 billion?"

SpaceX has received $9 billion in grants, contracts and other assistance from the US taxpayer so far, with another $11 billion earmarked. This is American taxpayer’s money.

"NASA spokeswoman Cheryl Warner said the agency has invested more than $15 billion in SpaceX for its work on numerous space programs" ~ WaPo

The working culture at SpaceX is not what it was. I am told that upper management works often remotely, entertains many other “ïnterests” and work at most 1-2 hours per day on SpaceX. Top management spends hours on end on social media, and lacks focus. SpaceX needs a return to work policy, hardcore working hours and iron discipline also for upper and top management. Wasteful spending should be stopped immediately before any new government contract is approved.; 3/7/25, 5:56 AM
Jaq said...: Somebody is sounding increasingly desperate.; 3/7/25, 6:00 AM
Jaq said...: Did you notice that network coverage claimed that the head of the FBI in NYC was fired over not handing over the names of agents who worked on J6 and not that he lied about handing over all of the Epstein files?

Why isn't the truth good enough? Desperation.; 3/7/25, 6:05 AM
Leland said...: Grants? Are you sure? SpaceX proposes fixed based contracts, meaning they assume risks of delays. Also, what has that $9 billion purchased? An Atlas V launcher is $153m each. That is about 90 launches, or one year of SpaceX flight ops, except an Falcon 9 only costs $63m, and virtually all of it is recovered.; 3/7/25, 6:08 AM
Jaq said...: The Battle of New Orleans problem is settled in the first line of the song: 'It was 1814..."; 3/7/25, 6:10 AM
Rocco said...: MaxedOutMama said...
I saw this "Choose Your Fighter" short vid from the Dems. Don't bother. Makes Trump look super centered and normal.

Shouldn't we be trying to start another political party to step in?

Already done. Pick one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_United_States; 3/7/25, 6:15 AM
Leland said...: Obviously, many SSA employees left their desks and dialed up their favorite news website on their cellphones! Seriously folks, this autocratic shit has to end.

It is autocratic to have employees use their own money and devices to read news on the job? You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.; 3/7/25, 6:21 AM
Iman said...: Kak is wack.; 3/7/25, 6:23 AM
wendybar said...: It is hilarious to listen to Ghetto Barbie. She sure talks tough for a girl who grew up very, very privileged....more privileged than most of us, yet she talks like she grew up in the hood....

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SEN. KENNEDY: "I think Elon Musk is a rockstar. The tofu crowd is mad, but when you trim fat, pigs squeal."; 3/7/25, 6:30 AM
BudBrown said...: 1814 huh. Me personally, I think The Gulf stuff is beserko and Trump is showing all old man 79. I mean , I've spent over 70 years near the Gulf and never have I heard a complaint about the name. What The Potass shoulda done was change the name of the turkey. Tha bird was first spotted in Mexico so every TDay we should be easting mexico. Imagining the Dem response to that's what keeps me near the Trump corner. Well, that and a few other things.; 3/7/25, 6:54 AM
Leland said...: I'm still laughing at Gadfly freaking out about an "autocratic" Trump, because civil servants will now have to pay for their own news subscriptions and read them on their own devices. I get that Althouse posts nearly daily how Democrats don't seem to realize how other people are seeing their faux outrage. However, this is just hilarious. It is like a toddler screaming because mom or dad decided not to buy them a lollipop or ice cream cone. Society will survive Gadfly.; 3/7/25, 7:26 AM
Iman said...: He was squealin’ when he should’ve been ‘flyin’…; 3/7/25, 7:33 AM
Iman said...: Or was it squeein’ ?; 3/7/25, 7:35 AM
rhhardin said...: "agree completelly" just popped up in Morse code, two guys arguing that global warming was BS. "L" is a cool letter in Morse.; 3/7/25, 7:44 AM
rhhardin said...: CD-RW computer disk cases are handy for propping up your hotspot cell phone to where it gets two bars instead of one. They make a stable tower.; 3/7/25, 7:49 AM
rhhardin said...: Gadfly - curious - if you worked for Bell Labs. It's a classical name though, and you're not into complaining about the cultural hostility of Christmas decorations, so probably not the same guy.; 3/7/25, 7:51 AM
tcrosse said...: "L" is a cool letter in Morse.

Sounds like "Fraternity".; 3/7/25, 7:53 AM
Big Mike said...: @rhhardin, that’s not an ‘L,’ it’s AI in disguise.; 3/7/25, 8:06 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: So stupid:

SpaceX received 3 billion from NASA for the development of Starship ~ SpaceNews

SpaceX has saved NASA approximately $20B in launch fees since taking over the heavy lifting: "Compared to NASA, SpaceX has significantly lower launch costs, with a typical SpaceX Falcon 9 launch costing around $62 million, while a NASA Space Launch System (SLS) launch can cost upwards of $2 billion per launch, making SpaceX considerably cheaper per launch."

You guys still can't figure out how to pick your battles, because you are allergic to facts. Hint: yesterday's "test" went as planned and has no bearing on the flight to rescue the astronauts that Biden stranded in space.; 3/7/25, 8:10 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: How do you think evolution like this happens without learning from what didn't work? Raptor; 3/7/25, 8:15 AM
Rusty said...: I wonder if gadfly knows that in the real world of work your cell phone is off and in your pocket or in your locker and if you're using it during working hours you better have a damn good reason.; 3/7/25, 8:48 AM
Peachy said...: "NASA has lost 42 spacecraft and 17 astronauts.

DoD has lost 550 spacecraft.

Space X has lost 9 spacecraft out of 477 launches. Frequently the ones being lost are EXPERIMENTAL. "

for the record.; 3/7/25, 9:21 AM
amr said...: Jupiter, Lesotho was never part of South Africa. It was part of the British Cape Colony from 1871-1884 but became a separate Crown Colony ("Batsutoland") in 1884 until its independence as a constitutional monarchy in 1966.

While it is completely surrounded by South Africa because the other colonies around it (Orange Free State and Natal) also joined the Union of South Africa, but it did not.

Do not confuse it with the nominally independent "Bantustans" that were more similar to the Indian Reservations of the US. Those were dissolved in 1994 at the end of Apartheid. Transkei made it to some world maps and ran from Lesotho to the ocean. It is now part of Eastern Cape Province.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Lesotho
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bantustan; 3/7/25, 9:37 AM
Kakistocracy said...: Talk about 'move fast and break things!'

Just breaking things at the moment. No progress from the last time he blew up a rocket over the Caribbean.

Ariane 6 completed a perfect mission just hours earlier.; 3/7/25, 10:12 AM
Big Mike said...: Back in the early days of NASA a launch failure was treated as a failure. Musk is taking the proper software developers’ approach: a successful test is one that exposes a bug. A test where no bugs are detected is the failure. It’s a cultural issue, and, as usual, our resident lefty trolls are on the wrong side of a cultural issue.

I do have to wonder where gadfly has worked where using company resources — computers, company Email, etc. — for things not company-related was not a firing offense. Perhaps gadfly has never really worked for a living.; 3/7/25, 10:13 AM
Rusty said...: Snow is coming down here in big sloppy dime sized flakes and a flock of cranes just flew low over my house croaking and honking. So low at first I had trouble finding them in the sky. Some things happen in life and for some reason bring you joy.
It makes you wonder if the usual suspects ever experience the simple joy of just being alive.; 3/7/25, 11:12 AM
rhhardin said...: "C" is a cool letter in Morse since iambic paddles. It used to be a matter of whether you sent it as KE or NN, the latter being deprecated. On an iambic paddle, you send it by sending "B" and holding the dash a tiny bit too long, which is unintuitive and so cool.; 3/7/25, 12:49 PM
Original Mike said...: So now Kaka is a rocket scientist.; 3/7/25, 1:45 PM
Josephbleau said...: “Just breaking things at the moment. No progress from the last time he blew up a rocket over the Caribbean.

Ariane 6 completed a perfect mission just hours earlier.”

I read things like the above with the same attitude as I have when I pick up a wet dog turd from the carpet. Utter stupidity.; 3/7/25, 2:03 PM
Josephbleau said...: The best Morse code byte is the period. Di da di da di da , it’s so happy to end a sentence. (Former 20 wpm cw operator of great renown).; 3/7/25, 2:08 PM
Josephbleau said...: With straight key or vibroplex, Morse code is not too complex.; 3/7/25, 2:18 PM
Leland said...: Ariane 6 completed a perfect mission just hours earlier.

Ariane 5's first launch

We should also note that this was Ariane 6's first "perfect" mission, and second flight ever. The first flight included a failure of an upper stage. If you were to really compare booster to booster, rather than upper stages; Ariane 6 and Starship were equally successful in the boost stage, with the latter being significantly cheaper due to reusability and larger payload capacity.

Still fair play to France having a clean and successful mission. I see they have 4 more missions on the books for 2025. That should help their economy. Meanwhile, SpaceX has 5 Falcon9 launches planned for next week. SpaceX had 12 perfect Falcon9 flights in February.; 3/7/25, 2:32 PM
Original Mike said...: Did Ariane catch their booster back at the launch pad? Will Arian ever catch their booster?; 3/7/25, 4:06 PM