2/ You don't inspire interest & passion for spaceflight with the walk across the crew access arm.
What's life like *in space* for the 4 ordinary-people crew?
What are their immediate observations?
Zero-G after 4 minutes v. after 12 hours?
How's the view? the food? the toilet?
3/ THAT IS THE WHOLE POINT.
We really never have had a crew like this. This is a verbal, smart, funny group. (Yes, I've watched the Netflix documentary.)
I want to hear their voices in real time.
I don't buy the whole Netflix 'exclusivity' thing.
4/ SpaceX, Isaacman & St. Jude could easily have worked that out w/ Netflix.
Showing us what life is like in snippets of pictures and video doesn't undermine the value of the next Netflix episode — it enhances it.
This is a billionaire / fund-raising mission. That's the truth.
5/ But the way they're handling giving us a taste of the ordinary-person experience, while it's happening—that just increases cynicism & skepticism about the whole enterprise.
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2/ Tidbit #1: On Apollo 11, Armstrong & Aldrin spent 2-1/2 hours Moon walking.
They ended up so covered in Moon dirt, & found the dirt so irritating, they spent their one night on the Moon sleeping in their helmets & gloves to avoid the regolith (p.xiv).
Yesterday, a federal judge in Michigan did something extraordinary & important.
Yes, she penalized Trump's election attorneys for their conduct filing a lawsuit to have Michigan's 2020 election results thrown out.
But she did something bigger:
Took the suit seriously.
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2/ She went through every claim in the original suit, and then she went through every claim they mounted to defend themselves against charges of incompetence & bad lawyering.
And she crushed every single one — with barely restrained fury, but also with meticulous precision.
3/ One small example: Lawyers claimed they 'hadn't received' certain briefs mailed to them by lawyers for the city of Detroit.
They did receive the documents — Lin Wood tweeted mocking them.