SpaceX attempted to launch another Starship on a suborbital flight yesterday, and like the first one seven months earlier, it blew up again.

This would be a good time to talk about using rapid iterative development in the aerospace industry.

A thread. 🧵 The idea of rapidly developing prototypes, testing them to failure, and then developing a new one based on what was learned is not a new one.

Each time you iterate, things improve.

It's used in many industries and it's a very effective way of getting new products to market.

SpaceX is scheduled to attempt another Starship launch again tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 8am EDT from their facility in Boca Chica, Texas.

Here are my thoughts and predictions.

A thread 🧵 The first launch attempt occured on 4/20 of this year, and resulted in massive damage to their launchpad, as well as the ultimate destruction of the rocket itself.

Here's my thread about it.

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1649443447164776450?t=A4GA_Eydf95MqjZEs7fNxQ&s=19

Anybody want to talk about this movie? Starring a young and perky pre "Sex and the City" Kim Cattrall.

My parents are both in the 80s, and I am only now just realizing this morning how they are being regularly victimized by low-level scams targeted at older folks.

There are entire industries solely designed to target seniors and extract small/medium amounts of money from them... ...in seemingly legitimate ways.

They go right up to the line of legality and often cross it quite frequently.

In the last year, my folks have been scammed by software providers, attorneys, garage door repair people, etc.

It's fucking endless.

They're slowly being...

To be clear, I did exactly to Luca what he claims I did.

Only he didn't know I was doing it for the hour or so it was happening.

Then, all of the hundreds of replies were revealed at the same time, and he had a complete meltdown.

I've done this before to other trolls. Nobody else knew either, since no notifications went out.

I haven't blocked @Luca_Napoletano, but he's locked his account and blocked me.

He's apparently wandering around and commenting in my tweets while whining about being bullied.

The dude needs to get over it and go away. This still totally confuses me.

BREAKING: The FAA has grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again.

https://twitter.com/Tazerface16/status/1650604412451323904?s=20

Somebody at Twitter decided to delete my tweet about the FAA grounding of the Starship program.

I didn't.

Most likely Elon. So, what's your plan?

BREAKING: The FAA had grounded the SpaceX Starship program pending a mishap investigation.

This will most likely take many months to complete and require an extensive remediation plan before being allowed to launch again. cnbc.com/2023/04/24/spa…

I've now signed up on Mastodon in case Twitter goes kaput.

@Tazerface@mastodon.sdf.org

I expect to spend the next few days checking it out and getting my bearings.

P.S. Fuck Elon Musk and every one of his fanbois. Try following this link to sign up:

https://twitter.com/msierchio/status/1592884759998648320?s=20&t=KLpB5KA4m6L4H97t41cf2A

I'm noticing a shitload of former OEF/OIF combat vets who are signing up for the international Ukrainian defense force.

Some are even forming up their own 50 person platoons and coming over enmass so that they have some autonomy.

Wow! It's the world against Putin now

There's a 40-mile long column of Russian vehicles outside of Kyiv that haven't moved in 24 hours.

So far it's looking like the world's narrowest parking lot.

Best 2nd echelon ever! So far, no analyst has posited a good idea as to why, but it could just be logistical.

Shit breaking down and the ground around the road is wet and boggy.

Here's the sorta sad state of affairs in the Western United States with respect to COVID:

The high population centers in these states are predominantly liberal, and they are also where you can get the highest quality healthcare due to the density of well educated people. 1/ These high density population centers also have the highest vaccination rates, due to relative affluence and ease of access to healthcare, with respect to our rural areas.

The politics of these rural areas also play a role in the public acceptance of the COVID vaccine. 2/

Going to Japan had been a dream of mine since I was in the 4th grade.

A linguist came to class to talk about the languages of the world and he focused on Japan, for some reason.

I was hooked, then pretty much forgot about it as life took over.

Fast forward a few years... And I'm now in middle school taking French, (mostly because I had a crush on the French teacher).

I continued to take French in high school for the same reason.

No joke.

Six years of studying French with no real purpose other than my teenage libido.

That haircut is certainly...something.

Is there a name for this? So the style is called "Stank?"

Okay.

;-)

The Veterans Administration special counsel is coming after me for a Hatch Act violation.

Not unexpected.

The is the second time that the Trump administration has tried to retaliate against me. Considering the thousands of times that the Trump Administration has violated the Hatch Act, this act by the VA is especially appalling.

Just as another reminder:

The loonies are getting together with their guns on November 14th, to openly display their abject fear of going outside without a firearm.

Stay away from them.

They're loonies with shitty weapons management skills and poor impulse control. Please stay away.

Especially if they try to do a gathering in your local area, which is possible.

These white dudes, (because it's always white dudes), are trying to provoke a confrontation & gunfire.
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In no way is it a good idea to confront these guys.

That's what they want.

I will never forgive Trump for convincing 40% of this country to not wear a mask during a deadly pandemic.

Tens of thousands of people are dead because of him
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Trump needs to go to prison. And now his fuckwad supporters are gonna gather together on the 14th with their guns, just to prove to the world how stupid and pathetic they are.

They're all like little children having a temper tantrum.
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These people never grew up emotionally.

It's un-American.

On this Veterans Day, I'd like to give a shout out to everyone who voted for Trump.

Go fuck yourselves. We won't forget how you chose to destroy this country for your racism and/or greed.

By the way, I'm not the only former military officer who is saying that the U.S. Armed Forces will not back a coup attempt by Trump.

Pretty much ALL of us are.

Okay, if you don't trust me now, you will never trust me. There are a lot of folks who have have never served and don't understand the military at all, who don't believe me.

Fine.

I don't fucking care.

If you don't trust us, the experts, then just wallow in your worry.

I can't help you.

I walked through the gates of the U.S. Naval Academy when I was 17 years old.

I spent four years training just to take the Oath of Office

A pledge of loyalty to the US Constitution.

36 years later, I am sickened watching Republicans throw away their loyalty to this country. Both my anger and disappointment are incredibly profound right now.

I never thought my fellow Americans were capable of such a rapid descent into pure, unbridled fascism.

There are a lot of folks in this country who are completely broken and damaged people.