Friday, January 3, 2020

August 2019 Diversions

Eternal Links:
Here is the twitter page of the guy who is constantly flying aerial spying missions at the Starship facility in Cocoa Beach:
https://twitter.com/John_Winkopp
The link to Unearth:
http://unearthcomic.com/

Politics:
The short lived news of the DC immigrant detention center plan: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/shocked-and-appalled-dc-leaders-attack-proposal-of-detention-center-for-migrant-children/65-1ffa8078-69d4-412e-a738-2288a2866a2d
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/feds-eye-takoma-neighborhood-for-detention-center-to-house-migrant-children/65-625711b9-10c7-4b54-8f6f-12c849a7ac73
Trying to find the story of when the jews fucked up an ICE station this summer. This isn't it, but interesting: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/its-not-what-america-stands-for-activists-protest-ice-detention-centers-outside-ice-headquarters/65-a78ed0a1-4c17-4a98-8661-fa5c6791d02b
Remember Parnas and Fruman? No of course not they've already been forgotten by the media circus.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/10/two-giuliani-associates-were-just-arrested-heres-what-we-need-know/

Misc Links:
From scanning the news about Hurricane Dorian hitting Florida (and the starship facility there). It passed by missing the coast. https://twitter.com/hashtag/Dorian?src=hash
I missed this internal Apollo 11 celebration, although it looks like it was probably lame anyhow compared to all the Smithsonian stuff that I also missed: https://internal.gsfc.nasa.gov/sites/internal/files/sites/default/img/slides/apollo_11_archive.jpg
A company trying to pass itself off as an NI distributor. Probably a surpluser, but they fooled Google. https://www.radwell.com/Shop?source=GoogleShopping&IgnoreRedirect=true&ItemSingleId=34245400&scid=scplp34245400&sc_intid=34245400
A page of cut and pasteable "Thumbs Up" ascii art, some huge and complex, some simple and cute:
http://textart4u.blogspot.com/2012/04/thumbs-up-and-big-like-text-art.html
A Birdenstine zinger: "Falcon Heavy is ready right now."
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/dish5y/lol_rep_aderholt_what_if_commercial_rockets_arent/
Everyday Astronaut's astonishing interview with Jim Birdenstine:
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/dghslj/a_conversation_with_jim_bridenstine_inside_spacex/
The PI for the Viking experiment for detecting life argues (unconvincingly) that Viking did not have a "false positive". This is in the run-up to Mars2020.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/15/us/nasa-life-on-mars-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
In honor of the issues being experienced by the Mole on Mars, here is a beautiful article about the little-known Luna24 mission:
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/luna24.html
Luna 24 was a follow-on to Luna 20 which was apparently the subject of a crazy CIA operation to photograph it after it was ill-advisedly sent on a tour of Europe:
https://www.popsci.com/cias-bold-kidnapping-soviet-spacecraft/
An astonishing scientific paper on the sample-return mission results from Luna16
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/compendium/Luna16Core.pdf
The Luna 16 (and later landers) were suprisingly beautiful: https://www.google.com/search?q=luna+16&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS753US753&oq=luna+16
From a search from actually a later month, the wikipedia page for Wrath Of Khan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_II:_The_Wrath_of_Khan

Work:
Keysight's new nightmare website for the E3631x power supply series. No longer has links to get quotes, manuals, etc.
https://www.keysight.com/us/en/products/dc-power-supplies/bench-power-supplies/e36300-series-triple-output-power-supply-80-160w.html