It’s a small item - probably weighs 200 - 300 grams. When it hadn’t arrived after a week, I visited Amazon’s parcel tracking service - and this is what I found:
(Confusingly, you have to read these pages from the bottom up)
So now it’s in a depot in the UK, and probably due for delivery tomorrow. The thing is, it cost me 25 GBP (about 30 Dollars). It started life in China, travelled most of the USA, and now it’s in England - and everbody who handled it made a profit of some sort. That’s computerised logistics.
I have this vision of Amazon shuttling the thing around the US, with Trump’s tarrif people in hot pursuit - and Amazon desperate to get the thing out of the country before the tarrif man catches them.
Today, I over heard two 11-13 year olds discussing the out come of a black hole and a white hole colliding and black holes in general. They were well versed in the topic.
I don’t know why, but I was on the edge of my seat!!11
Okay maybe the edge of my bed. The inner edge. Under the blanket. Anyway.
I had the ESA page open where they showed estimates and diagrams that became more and more precise. It was a great way to depict this information and how they work. They could calculate a line and say it will crash somewhere between Germany - India - west coast Australia, between this and that hour.
Its orbit went over Germany many times, so ESA reported regularly “yup, still there”, until once, it didn’t come back. So they assumed it dropped in the previous orbit – last estimate was Turkmenistan, but nobody reported seeing it.
The thing is supposed to be unkaputtable, so it would be quite the sight how much of it survived after 50 years.
We’ve had Robot Wars for years - but that’s essentially amateurs building destructive models.
This is a whole different order of things. This is a proper, professsional, robotics company - and the best way they can think of to demonstrate the capability of their product is to have them fight each other.
It demonstrates the way the manufacturers and their backers are thinking. I find it extremely worrying.
Found this first edition at an estate sale. Not valuable but it was only half a dollar.
It was nice they included a glossary of terms.
Missing it’s dust jacket
TOKYO–June 6, 2025–ispace, inc. (ispace) (TOKYO: 9348), a global lunar exploration company, released the following update on Mission 2 SMBC x HAKUTO-R Venture Moon following its attempted landing on the moon.
On June 6, 2025, (JST) the RESILIENCE lunar lander began a landing sequence in an attempt to touchdown on the lunar surface. Following the landing sequence, the Mission Control Center was unable to establish communications with the RESILIENCE lunar lander. As of 8:00 a.m. on June 6, 2025, mission controllers have determined that it is unlikely that communication with the lander will be restored and therefore completing Success 9, is not achievable. It has been decided to conclude the mission.
On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m. CT, the Starship preparing for the tenth flight test experienced a major anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase. A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for.
Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site and the immediate surrounding area in conjunction with local officials. There are no hazards to residents in surrounding communities, and we ask that individuals do not attempt to approach the area while safing operations continue Source X
It’s definitely the strangest season of For All Mankind yet, setting it in reality was a bold move. I wonder what sort of shenanigans the Russian spys got up to? Or maybe it was the Koreans! ;0; Either way it’s a fantastic fusion of ARG and Prime Time TV!
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