I haven’t had much to say about this kerfuffle, but CDR Salamander has a pretty good take, IMO.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Freedom In Outer Space
Is it at risk?
Starship Variants
An interesting thread:
I've been thinking about all the upcoming and potential SpaceX Starship variants on the horizon so they're listed here in this thread.
— KiwiThinker (@KiwiThinker) February 9, 2025
Start:
I count 15 variants. Let me know if you think I missed any.
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About The “Rescue” Of The “Stranded” Astronauts
I finally got fed up:
OK, so I’m getting really, really tired of listening to the abject ignorance and obtuseness from @JesseBWatters and @greggutfeld, at @TheFive who are normally smart people, about astronauts, the ISS, and NASA. No, Elon didn’t “rescue” them yesterday. If he “rescued” them at all,β¦
β Not-So-OK Boomer (@Rand_Simberg) March 20, 2025
[Saturday-morning update]
Jim Meigs has a similar take to mine.
[Bumped]
The Second Amendment Is Obsolete
Starship Troopers
This looks potentially promising, but I hate to get my hopes up.
Bringing Ancients To Life
Stunning sculptures when they are given life by AI pic.twitter.com/P0LoJVFKip
— Rose (@simple2work) March 15, 2025
Crew Or Automated
An interesting thread:
Will the flight crew get to βdriveβ Starship HLS during terminal landing on the Moon, or will landing be fully automated? The idea of a pilot landing something so tall and massive by hand on rough terrain seems a littleβ¦ difficult? But if thereβs no crew in the loop, how willβ¦ pic.twitter.com/338ApLPcLx
β Dr. Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) March 14, 2025
Warfighting In Space
What weapons the Space Force thinks it needs.
Linux Update Problem
When I ‘dnf -y update’ it downloads all the packages, but at the end crashes with this error message:
Importing OpenPGP key 0x7FAC5991:
UserID : “Google, Inc. Linux Package Signing Key linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: 4CCA1EAF950CEE4AB83976DCA040830F7FAC5991
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Importing OpenPGP key 0xD38B4796:
UserID : “Google Inc. (Linux Packages Signing Authority) linux-packages-keymaster@google.com“
Fingerprint: EB4C1BFD4F042F6DDDCCEC917721F63BD38B4796
From : https://dl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub
The key was successfully imported.
Transaction failed: Signature verification failed.
OpenPGP check for package “google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64” (/var/cache/libdnf5/google-chrome-6ed7e4f336f6863c/packages/google-chrome-stable-134.0.6998.35-1.x86_64.rpm) from repo “google-chrome” has failed: Import of the key didn’t help, wrong key?
Any idea how to tell it to ignore this and just do the other updates? I don’t see any obvious options on “dnf update.”
Thanks for the advice in comments. Unfortunately, I can’t deal with it until I get back from a trip on Friday.
[Friday update]
The problem seems to have resolved itself while I was gone. I updated last night with no issues.