"Designing for the extremely high vacuum of space is a hard problem. Some materials and processes, such as photographic film, just don’t work in that vacuum. The outgassing damages them too fast. In the 1960s there were no viable alternatives to photographic film - the CCD was invented in 1969. Of the many hard problems of landing man on the moon, this is one of the few that has been solved as time passed."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-157325838

Vivek Ramaswamy doesn't even want real Ohioans working for his campaign...

I'm attending the grand opening, today. https://signals-museum.org/

"Something just doesn’t add up. The scale and unmanned flight tests that preceded Apollo pushed the performance boundary far beyond that of the manned flights. There’s a long history of successful development for unmanned craft with similar technology. Yet the Apollo re-entry can’t be replicated with Orion, despite flying a skip profile that avoids the high enthalpy conditions previously associated with spallation damage."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-157583476

"If you don’t understand why Alphas matter and why it is virtually impossible to succeed over time without one helming an organizational hierarchy, this brief exchange should suffice to educate you on the concept."

International Diplomacy and the SSH
https://open.substack.com/pub/sigmagame/p/international-diplomacy-and-the-ssh?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

What happens when a curious worker lights foam rolls covered in butane

Yesterday's argument from another angle

Ukraine: Front line changes since 1 year
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There is no more acceptable hatred in America than the hatred of poor whites in Appalachia.

Since 2018 religious books like the Bible and Quran were banned and confiscated in China, allowing only versions published by the CCP. Through its censorship, Apple is now aiding China’s repressive censorship policy by removing religious apps from the App Store in China because they include unauthorized versions of the Bible and the Quran.

Apple, though founded and based in the United States, has a massive presence in China with 228 million iPhones sold (compared to 120 million sold in the United States), which contributes substantially to making them the most profitable company on Earth. Apple’s recent censorship is tantamount to collusion with the CCP denying religious freedom to millions.

This is also a stark change from Apple’s early days, which launched its brand with a Superbowl ad evoking George Orwell’s 1984, a work of speculative fiction which depicts an extreme authoritarian future where the “Ministry of Truth” is dedicated to “correcting” all books, newspapers and media to reflect state endorsed “truth.” In this ad, Apple depicted the dark gray halls of the Ministry and a young heroine running through them, bright in her white shirt and red shorts against the stark background, wielding a sledgehammer. She enters the assembly of party members mesmerized by Big Brother on a massive screen, pronouncing: “Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.” The heroine hurls the sledgehammer through the screen, ending the message of Big Brother and releasing the members from their trance. The message following that is simply: “You’ll see why 1984, won’t be like ‘1984’,” a mission statement which Apple, in their collusion with the CCP, has abandoned.

Field, S. (2021). How Does Apple Enforce Communist Party Religious Censorship in China? - World Religion News. [online] World Religion News. Available at: https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/apple-enforce-communist-party-religious-censorship-china/?amp=1
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UKRAINE: Obama’s team including Anthony Blinken, Victoria Nuland, Susan Rice, and Alexander Vindman advised Zelensky to reject Trump’s deal in violation of the Logan Act.

h/t @MatthewNichol5

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