"...a power outage at #SpaceX’s California facility caused a loss of #GroundControl, meaning that the mission control team was briefly unable to command the #spacecraft."
Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failover₂, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.
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They're gonna get people killed and in so doing also poison the public's view of #SpaceExploration, all because they cannot be bothered to buy an mf-ing generator or something that a f-ing 8th grader could sort out. This recklessness is bad and so typical of the apartheid space douche and his cascading bad ideas. All he does is accumulate money for himself and hurt others.
#Musk is a hazard to all living things, and some non-living things.
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Footnotes:
₁ three points-safe - at least three independent components or safety features must fail simultaneously for major disaster happen.
₂ failover - NIST defines as the process of automatically switching to a backup system when the primary system fails. The goal of failover is to minimize or eliminate the impact on users and keep critical systems running.
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That's pretty unreal. 
@DoNotPunchDown it really is. Cutting foolish corners and praying ain't the move, and they think it is.
I wish I could fast forward about a decade so I could just look back at the horror that's coming our way
@DoNotPunchDown oh my gosh yes. I so want to do that too. I really really want to.
@DoNotPunchDown @davidaugust It’s not going to be any fun experiencing it that is for sure.
Nope. Not even a little
Only trouble with doing that is, at this rate the next decade after that will be even worse...
True. Very true. Glad I'm old
Any time in the future where humans are on the planet will most likely be worse than it is now.
That's true, too. We sure have perfected the art of screwing the planet
@TheEffekt @DoNotPunchDown @davidaugust Is my life going to be better than my distant descendants lives in the same way that my distant ancestors lives, living in a mud hut under some “noble’s” thumb was better than mine?
@su_liam @DoNotPunchDown @davidaugust
The way I look at it is in a basis of perspective from whatever timeline we're talking about.Our ancestors in mud huts may have felt they were living a good life.
But we exploited our resources to live above our means. Now many people are miserable because they never have enough. So the state of how we think we live is all subjective.
It becomes more objective when we consider the impact of our lives on the earth and it's beings.
@TheEffekt @su_liam @davidaugust
It's like the rich have learned better how to keep us down with each new era.
@DoNotPunchDown @su_liam @davidaugust
And they sure got a big boost when they realized they could pay politicians to make laws to protect them as well.
@TheEffekt @su_liam @davidaugust
Absolutely. Politicians and judges
@DoNotPunchDown @TheEffekt @su_liam that would be in no small part due to citizens united.
Its creation was a dark day that casts a long shadow over the world and future.
@davidaugust @TheEffekt @su_liam
Citizens United has allowed so much graft and let billionaires buy politicians and elections.
I have to mention that there was only one politician speaking against Citizens United during the last election cycle, Bernie Sanders
Now we have the SCOTUS decisions to allow more bribery
BTW, I miss that Keith Olbermann
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4754860-supreme-court-decision-bribery-law-corruption/
@DoNotPunchDown @TheEffekt @su_liam yeah. Scotus has done too many bad things this year. Way way too many.
Their power comes from their legitimacy, or their perceived legitimacy. They’re unmaking themselves.
I wrote this in response to their immunity garbage: https://bit.ly/scotusdroned
@davidaugust @TheEffekt @su_liam
Awesome! Great article. Thank you for that.
Gotta admit, I wouldn't be upset
@DoNotPunchDown @TheEffekt @su_liam thank you so much! 
@DoNotPunchDown@mastodon.social @davidaugust@mastodon.online
Decade ain't gonna be enough.
Nope, not to skip the horror. Sadly
@DoNotPunchDown @davidaugust Make it a century. It will take a long time of struggle to get rid of this corposcum.
@Natanox @DoNotPunchDown @davidaugust At least another century to clean up the mess. If ever.
@su_liam @Natanox @DoNotPunchDown there are some patterns.
Like in US: every ~80 years people of US forget underlying value matters, & also economy has revolved beyond safeguards put in place since last financial crash, so another happens. Agrarian & land speculation economy of 1830s 1840s has a panic. By 1929, it’s an industrial economy & everyone from the last time is out of the economy. Then 2008, a commercial economy & again no one running stuff was there in 1929. 2080s may have another.
@davidaugust @su_liam @Natanox
I don't think we'll get to 2090 without revolution. It's becoming too bad. IMHO
It's mind blowing how we've allowed it to get this bad. But then again, the wealthy made sure they played a better hand to keep us down while they continued to take control
Elon just eats money and lets everything else fail.
Any suggestion where he could buy a back up power system?
@SuperMoosie right?! Like wtaf is wrong with him that his company can't sort basic electricity _on earth_.
This joker thinks he's gonna do anything other than snuff people he tries to send to mars, he is kidding himself,(and some of the public).
He should be personally criminally liable for the lack of safety of his products, this is beyond reckless.
His cars are dangerous too: https://www.fastcompany.com/91234168/new-study-shows-tesla-makes-some-of-the-most-dangerous-cars-on-the-road
Absolutely terrible.
See also Tesla "spacesuits" that have apparently "solved" certain problems yet appear to have no standardised hookups (don't know the correct term offhand), and only a single tiny connector for O2 located near the knee, no backup/alternate.
@likelyjanlukas no backup connection? One could on earth in certain places and times of year be borked from simple water ice. 
In space, because ground control can’t be bothered to have back up power, no one really will hear you scream.
Their claims are astounding and laughable because to be honest I truly wish #RobertHeinlein were alive at this moment if only to show how he, as a detailed, imaginative and knowledgeable FICTION writer, accurately identified issues that SpaceX has elided over or ignored completely.
(#Disability digression in 2/3, link to blatant PR nonsense in 3/3)
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I couldn't find whatever piece I originally read/watched back when I was trying to figure out whether I could make a heat-transfer system against my body (like spacesuit AC does) to shift excessive heat to cold areas when outdoors (awaiting buses, etc).
Lifelong med issues cause this but it is deadly when just walking to a bus stop overheats you so badly everything is now wet, so now hypothermia is a serious threat. (Layering not enough)
Sorry, I digress …
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So … just now searching "SpaceX solves spacesuits" I found this fanboi overview.
I couldn't bring myself to watch 100% of it but the ~05 min mark talks about the air supply connecter.
The earlier bits are worthwhile to see the sheer audacity of pointing out critical designs for EVA in typical suits somehow less-good EVEN THOUGH it is obvious the SpaceX suits here are only potientially useful INSIDE the space vehicle.
PS: Lots of edits made above due to less-functional brain today, including outright aphasia. A common yet transient problem for me, and invariably deeply frustrating!
Hopefully I caught the most confusing errors.
@likelyjanlukas you’re all good, I understood and didn’t catch any errors. Gonna watch that video now. Hope the aphasia backs off a little (I don’t know if it varies from time to time, sounds challenging).
Smart thinking to see if there was a tech or method that could make a useful heat transferring suit. Sounds pretty practical.
@likelyjanlukas less than 1:30 in & they hired costume designer for a real life space suit?! I almost just threw my phone.
I’ve worked w/scores of brilliant costume professionals & they can be talented, skilled, deft & innovative…AT COSTUMES. I don’t know if any had materials science, engineering, fluid dynamic or other academic backgrounds relevant, but they didn’t have experience needed to consistently not end astronauts lives in reality am by themselves. Can’t watch more right now 
Oh definitely -- do a LOT of self care and break-taking when watching this crap.
I'm not entirely against costume designers being involved -- iirc, there have been some ideas taken into space design that have been good adaptations.
After all, each speciality has it's own affordances but also it's own blindspots or even misinformation (cf doctors making engineering claims wrt N95 masks 
)
… but …
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Just like doctors making claims NOT covered by their training (yet well established via math, physics, engineering, etc), it's highly unlikely a costume designer is the best place to start. On the team? Sure. The goal? Erm …
Even early Goodyear(?) engineers hadn't realised how fast a human body will overheat in a spacesuit so AC had to be added after running suited subjects on lines caused rapid and dangerous heat effects.
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IIRC, Heinlein had figured that out first, merely by thinking through the issues, including the challenges of bending joints with extreme pressure differentials.
Can't find a better linkage between his work and actual on-use suits (thanks, AI-slopped search engines!!!1! ) but they do exist.
This novel is chock-full of the relevant specs to accomplish a suit that will work correctly on EVA w/o overheating, CO2 poisoning, etc
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_Space_Suit—Will_Travel
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This was the first Heinlein novel I ever read. It was considered a "juvenile" novel yet I note that it, as with his other works, all contains the correct maths to accomplish the task. I had no idea until I was much older -- while I expect I am well-suited to engineering, my math competency is geometry-oriented, something that was NOT valued nor extended upon back in the days of drill-and-kill times tables.
In any case -- kids weren't being talked down to.
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Compare this to Wier's "The Martian" which I first encountered as a movie with the kids. Within moments I'm scratching my head because I always thought Mars had an incredibly thin atmosphere and thus it seemed obvious that it wouldn't be able to build the pressure necessary for the core disaster plot.
Still, fun to see a camera on every surface and a soliloquy for every camera, plus a fab soundtrack.
The book though?
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Now, like the movie, I enjoy the book. The themes of solving problems as they arise and staying alive just one more day has strong resonance with my lived experience (despite the priviledge of education and good healthcare).
But not only is the storm pressure issue wrong, but I strongly suspect the author doesnt MAKE things with his hands.
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Why? Because the novel goes into great detail about "han canvas", an ultrastrong multilayer fabric for the inflatable Mars habitat dome.
He even points out that 6m^2 extra has been sent for any emergency repairs.
He uses it well for his various projects -- but as one who sews (with both Metric and Imperial patterns) AND the details given for the first project, unless that fabric magically relengthens itself, he absolutely does NOT have enough for more.
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Apologies for wandering but to me this is all a direct line -- when people craft SF and work hard to get the discoverable details correct vs people making an entertaining story.
I learn from the former and pass time with the latter.
Alas, I suspect that SpaceX's spacesuit approach is taking the latter sort of vision far more seriously than present science and natural laws such as physics affords. 
Actual engineering and science matters a LOT!
/fin
I'm not great at "math" but spatial relations such as fabric, cutting, folding, etc are a cinch for me to see in my mind, nvm actually create with my hands.
So the hab fabric thing drives me batty.
Compare to Heinlein, who in the days before home calculators (nvm computers) spent time with his wife and a roll of butcher paper in the backyard to get a calculation for a *single sentence* in one novel.
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@likelyjanlukas Agree, costume designer on the team makes sense, as the first hire: a little odd at best.
I would guess the first spacesuit engineers may not have known as much about the thermal realities of the human body as is now known. Impressive Heinlein thought his way there.
Bear with me as I paraphrase stuff I'm not expert in: some actual experts in biological anthropology have discovered that the human pelvis, allowing for upright movement...
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@likelyjanlukas and lack of fur allowing for faster heat loss, are key in human endurance.
I can't out speed a common dog over short distances, but I can out endure them as they struggle to fully breathe deeply while they run due to pelvic and diaphragm trade offs. They don;'t sweat do breath is a big way they bleed off heat. Without full breaths, the common dog will overheat faster and falter before the human (by and large).
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@likelyjanlukas So, the suit designers may not have realized just how much thermal energy a human gives off and breathes away.
"...work hard to get the discoverable details correct vs people making an entertaining story" is a tension I have felt and faced in my own writing for screen and otherwise. I have often been a stickler for wanting to get the discoverable details right, and sometimes chafe when a movie, TV show or other thing gets things easily...
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@likelyjanlukas ...and preventable without changing the budget, wrong. For example: ays ago I posted here about a show that had a container ship in the pacific 2 days from Barcelona, which no container ship could do that fast.
I want everyone, even experts, to buy into the story enough to connect and stay basically connected. If we don';t get it right, they may balk and focus on the error instead of remaining engaged because it feels wrong/counter the story's reality.
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Glad it was intelligible! 
I have a lot of complex chronic conditions and some stuff -- like the asphasia -- we've never been able to figure out. Weirdly I can usually *describe* the thing (eg: earlier today, said "thing that collects the sun to make the light work" as "solar panel" was utterly gone) and also if I know the word in another language that one usually remains.
Alas that never helps as no one around me ever knows those languages. 
Back to your point re finding solutions -- there is a huge gap between what various disabilities would benefit from for mitigation and anyone willing to do much about it, partly becuase they are often unique solitions and don't scale (at least not scalable to meet the demands of capitalism).
I suspect most disabled folks end up inventing bespoke solutions (as able to do/afford) when nothing OTS exists, or looking to related problems for scaling down to need.
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@likelyjanlukas makes sense, The profit pressures make a lot of things simply not get pursued, or if they are pursued, not made available.
Not ideal, and not fair.
It was a definite eye-opener/mind-changer when I saw other disabled folks discussing things that are generally seen as novelty gadgets -- that many of these are things that help/completely mitigate a disability, but the only way they can get manufactured is by the novelty angle for a larger potential market.
Similar issues to buying pre-peeled oranges, etc: it's NOT lazy or entitled nonsense if otherwise one can't eat the fruit. 