I suppose "this will be the first time we can test this slightly modified heat shield in the slightly different pressures and temperatures that it will have to endure." isn't quite as eye catching.
Sort of. At a certain threshold, everything is untested. I’d put this closer to modified than untested—the general config was tested in Artemis I and the specific configuration in a variety of ground tests.
It failed testing. What you’re describing is the exact same thinking that destroyed Challenger. The O-rings are leaking, they’re not supposed to do that at all, but they’re not leaking enough to cause a failure....
Artemis II is scheduled for re-entry to Earth on April 10th. That is when the heat shield issue will be the most dangerous.
If it fails and the mission fails with loss of life while knowing it went ahead despite the IG report about the heat shield... It might be the end of NASA.
For manned spaceflight, I'd say it already has. NASA itself has launched a grand total of one manned flight since July 2011. China has launched 14 and SpaceX has launched 20. Worse, the NASA vehicle is completely unsustainable. It was obsolete before it ever flew and it's so expensive that the mission launched yesterday likely costs more than the entire R&D cost of SpaceX's rocket and capsule. Probably China's too.
The problem is that the purpose of NASA's manned spaceflight program isn't to explore space. It's to make the President look good (and I'm not just talking about the current one here) and funnel money to contractors. In that respect it's doing quite well.
I mean, sure. But that's like equipping a sub with a screen door and claiming that in the grand scheme of things, it's a slightly different door with slightly different permeability characteristics.
Alpine's great. My entire homelab runs on it. Only complaint I have is its IPv6 support sucks. I have to hack together a bunch of scripts to get a reasonable network configuration.
I think their auto-scaling is somewhat broken currently. I set up auto-scaling with min=2 and max=6, and my VMs aren't scaling down from 3 to 2 even though there are 0 active connections on all the VMs.
In this world? Their share price assumes > 200% annual YoY growth for the next 6-8 years at least. Stock price is down 15% in the last 5 days (GOOG up 4%, META up 4%, F (ford) up 2%: not a general market movement) so the market seems to agree with me?
I guess so, but there are not 7.8B scientists that can develop the next battery or solar breakthrough, which is actually what is needed in a very big way right now.
Just recently I found out about sourcehut. The project is refreshing. I don't know if there is something similar in the market but I enjoy how simple and straightforward to use it is.
Good news, you need less than $250. Just buy a Protectli appliance, install OPNSense on it with the wireguard plugin. Setup Mullvad config and route all traffic through the tunnel. That's it!
I've been running a similar setup for a couple years now. It's been great.
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