Blue Origin

I think I like Jeff Bezo’s heart. He named his space venture after Earth and New Glenn after a very brave man. 

These guys have to tough. I remember when Astronaut John Glenn was picked up in the ocean. There was peril even then for the astronaut and divers as they fit a floatation collar on the Mercury spacecraft. 

Today, the private companies are reusing a good part of the launch vehicle. That means there has to be coordination between the land based operation and sea operations. Not an easy task when the climate is dealing high winds and high seas.

The Blue Origin space center is impressive. Bezos doesn’t impose on NASA’s programs to use facilities paid for by taxpayers. Very interesting. It took a lot of capital to build an independent operation.

I am grateful there were no accidents today in the USA private space program.

Everyone have a better day.

Fireworks?

From what I am reading the investigation is leaning into fireworks that caused the original blaze on New Year’s Eve. 

Wow.

There was a time in this country when a person needed a permit and the display was carried out by a government agency with the fire department on site. That was about a decade or two ago. 

Now, the economy comes first before safety and anyone with a driver’s license can carry out their very own fireworks display.

Our society has become a “jack-ass” society where throwing caution to the wind is common practice and no one listen’s to wiser voices. It has gone so far that we now have a ringmaster for a president of the USA.

I certainly expect severe consequences for those who foolishly displayed fireworks in a known zone where drought was reported by a federal authority. There are dead, injured, and cities devastated by a self-indulgent fireworks display. 

I read Steve Bannon is back in town. Maybe Trump will have his old puppet master back. Maybe, just maybe some small degree of sanity might return. One can only hope.

I am sure Governor Gavin Newsom will set a day of mourning and the country needs to pay attention.