2/ After Sputnik was launched Oct 5, 1957, its distinctive beeping was broadcast on radio & TV across the US & around the world.
Said an NBC news anchor, introducing the sound:
'Listen now for the sound which forever more separates the old from the new.'
Turned out to be true.
3/ This is #8 in the series from last summer celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing—the incredible work it took to get Americans to the Moon in the 1960s.
These stories have great resonance for this summer as well — ordinary people making the impossible possible.
4/ The computer beep marks our lives every day — maybe every hour. It marked not just the start of the space age, but the digital age as well.
See the TIME magazine story below on Sputnik, headlined: 'The Beepers Message.'
On the bridge of the container ship Dali, 4 minutes from disaster, there's one critical moment we haven't heard about yet.
The very moment the ship lost power the 1st time.
What did the pilot do, right then?
His first thought, apparently, was safety — the bridge looming ahead.
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⤵️ NTSB photo of the bridge of the Dali...
2/ The 1st 'event' leading up to the collision that the NTSB notes in its timeline is 1:24:59—when alarms on the bridge indicate power failure.
The ship was without electricity, engine power, lights, navigation, radio.
Dali was dark, literally & in terms of communications.
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3/ The first thing the pilot did — apparently within the first 30 to 60 seconds of the ship going dark — was take out his cell phone and call harbor pilot dispatch.
He told his dispatcher: We've lost power, close the bridge. Close the bridge.
Sam Bankman Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for the FTX crypto fraud.
Below from @WSJ — a great chart comparing him to other major white collar criminals.
SBF gets a decade more than Jeff Skilling from Enron. Twice as long as Elizabeth Holmes.
2/ Here's the WSJ account of this morning's sentencing hearing.
US Dist Judge Lewis Kaplan said he thought SBF was a risk to commit future fraud if freed; didn't seem to tell the truth on the stand; and lacked 'any real remorse.'