Better & Better
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Stuff That’s Hard to Do
This week’s launch action (that I care about):
Times EST, schedules WX-driven
Falcon9 PACE Oceanographic night launch from the Cape
Stg-I landing back at the Cape
Falcon9 Starlink clear afternoon launch from Vandenberg
Best vid from a VSFB/SLC4 launch so far
Axiom mission returning from the ISS:
Undocking
Splashdown
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Add this link to your bookmarks,
if you’re interested in launches elsewhere the World
Technostuff works better when you’re a good engineer
rather than a half-assed shaman.
(What? Well, yeah, okay; but golf’s different, innit?)
Smart Thugs Operate in NYC
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Sausage-Making
Here’s something considerably different from the drivel I usually post.
It’s purely instructive.
If you’re interested in how firearms laws and adjudication happens
(and there are a lot of important cases being dealt with these days),
this 14-min video is the best, clearest example I’ve seen of how the
constitutionality of jackass gun laws gets handled in the courts.
No, it’s not for everybody; but it’s interesting to me*, so here it is.
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* I considered law school after retiring from the AF in order to get into
this very subject, but my natural laziness and judicial aversion won out.
I also enjoyed learning and teaching the laws as a concealed-carry instructor.
Reality Check
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Stuff That’s Hard To Do
Falcon9 Cygnus Resupply to ISS
Daylight launch, landing at the Cape
Best videos ever of stage separation, landing, and payload separation
Electron Launch from NZ
Booster parachute water recovery
Not How It Works
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