I got sucked into the rabbit hole of looking at Raptor 3 pictures tonight (because of the people dunking on Tory). It's an impressive engine. I'm still really curious how they're handling control/sensing/wiring on the engine. You can see a few wires, but very few. It's possible, for instance, that the reason you don't see hardly any obvious sensor tap ports, is that over all their testing and iteration, they found out that most sensors aren't actually needed or relevant for engine health management.

I don't think most people have been through a situation with rapid mass turnovers at work like what's happening at Twitter right now. I've been through too many of these, and I don't think most people appreciate the challenges of bouncing back from a situation like this.🧵1/n Let me start with my first major reboot, at @mastenspace back around the holidays in 2007. We were a vertical takeoff/vertical landing rocket startup out in Mojave, with four of us working full time on trying to build our first rocket-powered prototype fly. 2/n

I hadn't seen the news until today, but apparently this year Houston, Seattle, and Washington DC will be getting Giving Machines: newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/giving… The Washington DC location is still TBD, but for Seattle they'll be at Bellevue Square Park, and for Houston they'll be at Bravery Chef Hall. Denver is getting them again, once again at Writers Square (not far from the Voyager Denver offices).

Lee Valentine is now up talking about the Space Studies Institute, which is now nearly 42yrs old. #SpaceAccess19 Lee: Talking about various research projects they've funded over the years. NEA studies, Lunar Prospector (which they helped instigate). Funded a lot of ISRU research. Magnetic benefaction of lunar regolith. Aluminum production from lunar regolith, and glass-glass composites.