Random News And Notes 28 May
SpaceX launched Starship from the company’s Texas Starbase facility. The launch marked the first time the Super Heavy booster was reused. While the test was ultimately unsuccessful, SpaceX gathered much useful data.
Both the Super Heavy Booster and Starship suffered catastrophic failures. According to reports, Super Heavy was pushed beyond design parameters on purpose in order to collect data on the expected – and unexpected – failure points. Starship suffered a loss of control upon re-entry and had a rapid unintentional disassembly over the Indian Ocean.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been quite vocal about his belief that you can learn more from a single failure than dozens of successes, He, and the team at SpaceX, are not afraid to test that hypothesis.
Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville has announced he is running for Governor of his state. Tubervile coached the Auburn University Tigers football team from 1999 to 2008. Tuberville also had coaching runs at Texas Tech and Cincinnati before he officially retired from coaching in 2016. In 2020 Tuberville ran for the Senate, unseating incumbent Democrat Doug Jones.
Current Alabama governor and fellow Republican Kay Ivey is term limited. As of now, it looks like the most likely opponent for Coach is the man he defeated for his Senate seat, Doug Jones.
WAR EAGLE!!
I like Tom Homan. I like the fact that he doesn’t suffer fools gladly. I like that he DGAF about anyone’s feelings when it comes to border enforcement. I really like that he speaks his mind and does so with a bluntness and honestly that is so often lacking in public discourse.
Shortly after the dustup at the Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, Alexandria Occasional Cortex issued a blanket threat of unknown and undefined ‘consequences’ to anyone who might hold people to account over it. Well, Tom Homan says he’s still waiting.
Yeah buddy.
As if I needed another reason to be glad our Founders told King George III to f*ck clean off in 1776. King Charles III gave a speech in the Canadian Parliament and Sausage Fingers didn’t disappoint. He kicked off the speech with a land acknowledgement.
For those unfamilar, a land acknowledgement is a performative nod, usually at the start of an event or document, where folks solemnly recite that the land they’re on was once home to Indigenous peoples before it was snatched, colonized, or otherwise “rebranded.” It’s like saying, “We’re sorry this place got stolen, but we’re still using it for our purposes, so… let’s move on!” It’s a ritual that makes the speaker feel woke without actually doing anything.
I haven’t bothered to listen to any other parts of his address, because the US does not have a king and I really don’t care what that particular figurehead has to say about any goddamned thing. Maybe the UK should figure out how they wound up with more Admirals than warships in what used to be the greatest naval force in the world.
Guitarist and rock icon Rick Derringer has died. Alongside his hits, ‘Hang On Sloopy’ from his first band the McCoys, and ‘Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo’, Derringer played on multiple hit tracks from other artists including the Edgar Winters Group – he played guitar on their instrumental hit ‘Frankenstein’, Cindi Lauper, Weird Al and Donald Fagen.
It is being reported that Derringer was battling ill health for the past few months. The exact reason or his death has not been disclosed. Rick Derringer was 77. Requiescat in pace.
