
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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Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Tonight’s Double-Header
Falcon9 Starlink from the Cape
Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg
The Cost of Wokeness

Not related to any specific current issue.
Just triggered while grocery shopping.
Might do Aunt Jemima later.
Stuff That’s Hard to Do
Thursday Double-Header
Falcon9 Dragon Axiom-3 (private manned mission to ISS)
Skip ahead to 2h:08m to avoid the run-up yakking
Terrific views!
Approach & Docking (skip to 1h:42m)
Falcon9 Starlink from Vandenberg
(great landing view, this is separation to landing, no liftoff vid yet)
Japan lands spacecraft on the Moon
but solar-panel problem may ruin mission
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Fascinating detailed review after full problem analysis

