Michigan just discovered that election automation software furnished to the state by Dominion Voting Systems turned 6000 votes for Trump into 6000 votes for Biden. Wow. Did Michigan do any testing of this software before putting it into service? And, more to the point, why are they using software to add up all the votes? Surely this could be done the old fashioned way with pencil and paper? Like we do in New Hampshire.
Nice long piece in Aviation Week about the history of ISS. It got started under Ronald Reagan back in 1984, 36 years ago. At the time the project was viewed as US-Russia cooperation deal intended to generate some friendship between the two countries. And the Russians were allocated some of the early important and expensive modules, on the theory it would keep them out of trouble. The original planning was to use the US Space Shuttle to lift the bigger chunks into orbit. Good thing we got that part done before a second disaster grounded the Shuttle fleet for good. As it was the Shuttles flew 37 missions to the ISS.
The major bit of information we learned from operating ISS is the bad effects of long term living in zero G. As it was, the ISS astronauts were required to exercise like crazy every day, and even with all this effort, they all returned to earth seriously weakened. They all recovered after return to Earth, but thinking about a crew returning from a long mission too weak to even fasten their seat belts is worrisome, to put it mildly. Any long duration space missions, like to Mars or the asteroid belt will need space craft that supply artificial gravity. Presumable this will be done with hoop shaped sections that rotate to provide centrifugal force as a substitute for gravity.
MacIntosh, nice and crisp, sweet, good tasting apple. Used to be most common in supermarkets. Something happened and now all the markets have are apples with weird names. And the weird name apples are mealy, not much crisp to them, not very sweet. A low speed apple. Bring back the MacIntoshes.
Now that Fall is upon us and it's getting cold, I see Trump wearing gloves to keep his hands warm. Only Trump wears black leather gloves, that make his hands nearly invisible. Trump uses his hands while speaking, gestures and the like. Except we cannot see the hand gestures. I recommend that Trump get himself a lighter colored pair. Nice tan deerskin gloves like I wear for skiing and for driving.
There ought to be. It's obvious to anyone that Biden is too old, too frail, and too confused to make a good president. His spoken plans, green new deal, ending fossil fuels, another national wide lockdown, more free stuff, terrible tax hikes. spell economic catastrophe. If he dies in office, or gets booted via 25th amendment, Kamala Harris, the ultimate far lefty becomes president.
Surely there are some democrats who fear this enough to withhold a Biden vote, or even, gulp, vote for Trump. Could there be as many as 1%? Or even 5%?
