The four astronauts will now be known as Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy America.
In other NASA news, the new Artemis lunar lander, currently in development, will be powered not by dimethylhydrazine, but by steam.
what would it be a dictatorship
A few too many bong hits? Bet it took ten minutes to write that.
They could just not run that AI. I wonder if that has dawned on any of them.
Sometimes the most obvious ideas are the most dumb. Or at least naive, not thought through.
No government was involved. The music charts are of the Australian Recording Industry Association.
Like the RIAA, but less evil.
What's this Ohio thing you're referring to?
FirstEnergy stole >$500 million by applying a surcharge to rate payers for smart meters, dumped the money into a general fund and spent it on other stuff, including some bribes of Ohio politicians, and colluded with the PUC to alter audit records to cover it all up. The former Ohio house speaker is in prison over it right now. Another politician died before trial; supposedly a suicide...
And no, we're not talking about different hardware. The same rampant corruption is endemic throughout the entire industry for all such procurement. The contractors, utilities, PUCs and politicians are all feeding at this trough.
To me it appears you've go an extreme definition of "meaningful". It you want to claim the effect will be small, I'll go along with you. If you want to claim it won't be present...why do you believe that? It appears to me to be an unreasonable claim.
every study anywhere shows that an education typically leads a majority of people away from the republican party.
Interestingly, that is only a recent trend. Until 30 years ago, more educated people tended to vote Republican, and the Democrats were supported by the working class. That has flipped, especially since Obama in 2008. The Republic party has shifted it even further since you-know-who in 2016.
I can tell you that's wrong.
You can provide an anecdote of your personal experience in one case. I, however, can tell you about the half billion dollar scam of FirstEnergy (Ohio), or what's gone on in Oregon, California, Michigan and others. The cases PUC scams around "smart grid" equipment are legion. Some of them are exposed. Many are entirely suppressed when the more competent criminals ensure the auditors are (willingly) prevented from noticing.
Well, actually Denver usually DOES have higher cancer rates. Attribution, however, is difficult. (It's probably not just altitude.)
What do you mean? Denver has frequently been compared with some sea level city, and found to suffer more radiation damage. (The exact radiation damage found depends on the study.) Of course, it's hard to control for the amount of granite, etc. nearby, so they aren't strictly reliable studies, but they *have* been made.
Sorry, that's a bad argument. It may well be true, but any absorbed radiation will raise the temperature, and any raise in the temperature makes unusual chemical reactions more probable. So you need to argue that the factor is too trivial to be significant. This is probably true, but has never been demonstrated, and probably cannot be demonstrated. (I've seen claims that they're demonstrated the harmlessness, but the claims were always logically invalid.)
they are incompetent
You are exhibiting insufficient cynicism. The people responsible are highly competent.
Their competence is discreetly handling the acquisition of COTS hardware at DOD prices from politically connected contractors. The contractors pocket the massive margins and fund the designated campaigns. These are the real priorities. Not whatever silly security concerns plebs like you have.
Any given tech nerd could do better at a fraction of the cost. But that wouldn't fund the mcmansions and range rovers and boats.
including what is the largest PCB factory in the world, and what will likely be the largest solar panel factory in the world
Don't forget the Terafab in Grimes TX.
Looking at the decision, it really makes a lot of sense. The coast of Louisiana has been a nexus of transport in the US since before it became the US. Obviously, there is the Gulf of America (hehe) plus the Mississippi river. That led to a convergence of several interstate roads. Plus, there is ample barely drained low value land with sparse population, and no risk that it will see a bunch of sub/exburbs sprout up in the foreseeable future. The state government, similar to the other gulf states, isn't bat-shit crazy commie adjacent, so that's another plus.
If they can get it built before POTUS is (D) again, they can pencil whip all the federal endangered species pressure group bullshit.
Hurricanes are a thing though. Obviously that will interfere with operations from time to time.
steel penis
Angry inch Californian watching the cool shit not happen in California anymore.
New Zealand is not Europe
Forget it, he's rolling.
Save gas, don't use the shell.
