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July 12, 2024
The Falcon 9 is grounded pending an investigation, possibly delaying upcoming crew flights. //
"Upper stage restart to raise perigee resulted in an engine RUD for reasons currently unknown," Musk wrote in an update two hours after the launch. RUD (rapid unscheduled disassembly) is a term of art in rocketry that usually signifies a catastrophic or explosive failure. //
Going into Thursday's mission, the current version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket, known as the Falcon 9 Block 5, was indisputably the most reliable launch vehicle in history. Since debuting in May 2018, the Falcon 9 Block 5, which NASA has certified for astronaut flights, never had a mission failure in all of its 297 launches before the ill-fated Starlink 9-3 mission. //
The Falcon 9's only total in-flight launch failure occurred on its 19th flight on June 28, 2015, when the upper stage's liquid oxygen tank burst a couple of minutes after launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The rocket disintegrated in the upper atmosphere, dooming a Dragon cargo capsule en route to the space station.
SpaceX resumed Falcon 9 launches six months later in December 2015. On that flight, SpaceX landed the Falcon 9's first stage booster back at Cape Canaveral for the first time, a historic achievement and a harbinger of the company's later success in reusing rockets. //
SpaceX's Falcon family of rockets, which counted 335 consecutive successful launches since the on-pad explosion in 2016, or 344 flights since an in-flight failure. Both numbers are all-time industry records.
Annual Air Trends Report
Nationally, concentrations of air pollutants have dropped significantly since 1990:
- Carbon Monoxide (CO) 8-Hour, 81%
- Lead (Pb) 3-Month Average, 88% (from 2010)
- Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) Annual, 60%
- Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2) 1-Hour, 54%
- Ozone (O3) 8-Hour, 22%
- Particulate Matter 10 microns (PM10) 24-Hour, 34%
- Particulate Matter 2.5 microns (PM2.5) Annual, 42% (from 2000)
- Particulate Matter 2.5 microns (PM2.5) 24-Hour, 42% (from 2000)
- Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) 1-Hour, 90%
But no, 2024 isn't the warmest June in history. That honor belongs to the year of Dad's favorite hot weather stories - 1933.
If you look at the chart titled "Contiguous U.S. Maximum Temperature" for June, the nine hottest Junes on record are, in order of highest temps, 1933, 2021, 1988, 2016, 1918, 2024, 1936, 1394, and 1911 - six of the nine were in the 20th century, with five being before World War 2.
That doesn't seem to show much of a trend.
Add to this the fact (again, from a government source, and the Environmental Protection Agency to boot) that the air quality is better today than it has been in many decades, with specific pollutants dropping dramatically.
I'm using Fail2Ban on a server and I'm wondering how to unban an IP properly.
First, find the right jail to unban for. Use:
fail2ban-client status to get the actual jail names. Then, use this to find the iptables rule name:
iptables -L -nThe rule name and jail name may not be the same but it should be clear which one is related to which.
fail2ban-client set <jail-name> unbanip <ip-address>
Today, twenty years ago, the lights were turned on at RedState.
When it started, it was anything but a commercial project. Four guys — Ben Domenech, Mike Krempasky, Josh Trevino, and one other who is no longer involved in politics — had the idea of trying to energize the online right toward activism in the same way that DailyKos was inspiring the anti-American left.
Mornington Crescent?
I'm surprised that while visiting all those stations, the PFY never arrived at Mornington Crescent.
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Well, that's clearly not allowed under the Ealing Broadway South Swap rules, had we been playing the North Swap then you'd have been fine
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If we'd been playing with the North Swap rules though, you would have been in nidd for at least 2 moves.
Barry S
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At least he didn't get stuck at Dollis Hill.
Bugger. //
Ol'Peculier
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And at this point... we've lost the Yanks!
eldel
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My dear (chap/lady/being of unspecified type) we lost them all the way back at Mornington Crescent //
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"So your plan is to walk to Tottenham Court Road and ride the Central line to Ealing Broadway, change to Elizabeth Line and ride that to Slough.""
This is one of the more subtle digs at the boss's intelligence. For non-London-based readers, it should be pointed out that the Elizabeth Line also calls at Tottenham Court Road and takes about 15 mins less to get to Ealing Broadway than the Central Line... //
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This is utter pedantry however:
your plan is to walk to Tottenham Court Road and ride the Central line to Ealing Broadway, change to Elizabeth Line and ride that to Slough."
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"But on the way up Oxford Street you encounter [...] you're going to avoid the hippies and maybe leg it to Farringdon where you can ride the Elizabeth line direct.
If you're on Oxford Street and walking towards TCR, you're walking East. To get to Farringdon from Oxford Street, you go down Oxford Street, New Oxford Street, High Holborn and then Farringdon. So you cannot go to Farringdon and avoid the hippies without diverting off Oxford Street, and if you're doing that, you might as well go to TCR.
Besides which, you're on Oxford Street walking to TCR, and blocked by hippies so you walk to Farringdon? When Oxford Circus or Bond Street is .. right there.
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Or just a major road. From my house I can get to a nearby location by turning right and then left, in about 3 minutes. Google notoriously would send you to the left for a half mile or so, and right again, and along the slip road onto the three lane ring road, along to the next rather slow and busy exit, bring you off and turn right (roughly a 12 minute, one mile journey) which brings you to a point less than quarter of a mile from where I left home.
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BIDEN: "I'm following the advice of my commander-in-chief" 😳
7:51 PM · Jul 11, 2024
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Biden admits Nurse Jill runs the show: "I love my staff, but they add things ... I'm catching hell from my wife. Anyway..."
7:50 PM · Jul 11, 2024
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BIDEN: "If I slow down, I can't get the job done, that's a sign that I shouldn't be doing it. But there's no indication of that yet! None!"
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7:53 PM · Jul 11, 2024
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"Foreign policy has never been [President Trump's] strong point," says Biden — who has brought us to the brink of another world war after President Trump's four years of PEACE
7:56 PM · Jul 11, 2024
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REPORTER: You referred to VP Harris as "VP Trump." Right now, Trump is using that to mock you. How do you combat that criticism from tonight?
BIDEN: "Listen to him!"
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8:30 PM · Jul 11, 2024
You're never going to keep me out //
So I'm swapping the M and N keys on all the Beancounter keyboards in the early morning when I notice that the Head Beancounter's top drawer is locked. A quick check reveals that his second in command also has a locked top drawer. This is rather unusual as several years ago the PFY and I snapped keys off in their locks to prevent this happening. It's unlikely they had the keys removed as we had the foresight to smear the keys in epoxy resin before inserting them...
Update Blu-Ray divers to handle UHD video
Israeli parliament mulls a ban on Hamas-linked UN agency, may brand its a terrorist organization.
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BIDEN: "VICE PRESIDENT TRUMP"
"I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be Vice President cause I think she was not qualified to be President," Biden said.
7:38 PM · Jul 11, 2024
...measured temperature data clearly established that these “record” claims are completely phony and represent dishonest and climate science incompetent media driven climate alarmist political propaganda. //
A recent ClimateRealism Fact-Check June 2024 article addressed the climate science data unsupported claims by climate alarmist media that hyped phony temperature “records” (shown below) have occurred in June across the U.S. which the article establishes as being completely false.
NOAA has updated its Contiguous U.S. climate temperature anomaly and absolute temperature measurement data results through June 2024 with these results showing that the temperatures experienced this June were not “record” high outcomes as falsely portrayed by the climate alarmist media’s phony political campaign hype.
NOAA‘s June 2024 Contiguous U.S. USCRN maximum temperature anomaly data (shown below) clearly indicates that not only is there no established trend of increasing maximum temperature anomalies during the period starting in 2005 but also the June 2024 anomaly value (2.84 degrees F highlighted in red) is below the prior highest June value of 3.91 degrees F in 2021 as well as far below the highest anomaly value ever recorded during this period of 7.72 degrees F that occurred in March 2012.
NOAA’s Contiguous U.S. maximum absolute temperature measured data for the month of June for the period 1895 through June 2024 (shown below) establishes that June 2024 (84.61degrees F highlighted in red) value is only the 6th highest measured June value with the highest June value occurring in June 1933 of 85.91 degrees F