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You meant Apollo 13. Apollo 1 never left the pad. I'm sure Boeing/NASA has data on the thruster failures and can likely find a root cause without the actual part.

First I agree that there should be more female (or those identifying as female) representation on boards, but the judge is correct that the way the legislature went about it violates the equal protection clause of the federal constitution. What California should have done is require female representation on boards of companies doing business with the state. That approach does not violate the equal protection clause, and is well within the rights of a government. This type of approach was just validated when the federal government used CMS funding as the vehicle to enforce a COVID mandate against medical workers whose employeers were taking federal dollars.

The simple answer is red tape. Look at just the case of Bill Maher. He had a solar system installed by a reputable installer. It took the local authorities 1131 days for them to flip the breaker switch to on (https://twitter.com/billmaher/status/1376644161172987905). Think larger projects have higher or lower barriers to entry? China, and it pains me to say this, is doing a better job than the US. China realizes the answer isn't one type of power generation over another, but an all the above solution. The Chinese have just announced that they have six plants under construction (https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/China-approves-construction-of-six-new-reactors#:~:text=The%20construction%20of%20two%20new,6%20of%20the%20Lufeng%20plant.). Those new reactors (https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/new-plants/ap1000-pwr) have built-in passive safety systems designed by lessons learned from all three previous major failures.

So yes, energy demand has not been curbed globally. It demand continues to expand, Our best hope at providing non-carbon generating power was nuclear fission. Yes, there are risks but what's more important controlling global temperature rise or deactivating and preventing new construction of nuclear plants. You can have both. It doesn't work. The current solar efficiency, wind efficiency, and hydroelectric cannot provide sufficient baseload to keep up with demand. Even when you deploy the most efficient batteries available you don't get there. Yes, in the short term we are going to consume more carbon producing energy to fill the gap. Governments need to streamline the process to bring on more nuclear fission reactor, new designs, with better safety systems than those built in the 1970s. We need to keep increasing the efficiency of solar and batteries as well. Lastly we need to push forward with nuclear fusion research because it will be what saves us in the end. Our salvation where we don't go backwards and continue to raise the world toward the first world level.

So you'd be in favor of hacking Obama's email account and share his emails, cell phone numbers, etc. with the net community as well? I know I wouldn't like it and I'm just a lowly computer programmer. I hear this argument all of the time, "We violated the law, but it was in the public good." We have laws and we need to follow them, otherwise we're not better than the apes flinging poo at the zoo.