A plurality voting is rewards a certain amount of ‘scumbagishness’. Under a better voting system, scumbags would be less likely to win.

I used dimensionality reduction to make it 2D

Huh, interesting. So is the idea to spread the data out as much an possible, while keeping “similar” communities near each other? What was the dimensionality of the original set?

Video from apogee: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1833734681545879844

Polaris Dawn and Dragon at 1,400 km above Earth – the farthest humans have traveled since the Apollo program over 50 years ago

Starbase activities (2024-09-10):

• Sep 9th cryo delivery tally.
• Sep 9th addendum: Timelapse of Test Tank 16 cryo test. (LabPadre)
• The wet continues. (LabPadre, Gomez)
• Workers begin reconfiguring the CC8800-1 crane. (ViX)

Other:

• SpaceX complains about regulatory hurdles. (full post is worth a read for context and details)
• A scale model was tested in a transonic wind tunnel at the NASA Ames Research Center.

Sounds like things are going well!

Since the update, Dragon performed the eight-minute burn to raise the apogee to 1400 km. (video)

Looking forward to day 2.

Crows or cows?

Nominal dehumidifier activation and service section Draco checkouts. Nosecone opening in progress.

Webcast coverage ending. Spacewalk is scheduled for Thursday September 12th.

Dragon separation confirmed!

M-vac shutdown, norminal orbit insertion, and stage 1 landing confirmed!

Norminal booster entry burn.

MECO, stage separation, and M-vac ignition!

Max-Q!

Liftoff!

Propellant load is complete! They are go for launch!

It’s been a while. I don’t think Soyuz and Shenzhou have ever supported EVAs. The Space Shuttle did, but it had an airlock. The last spaceship depressurization for a spacewalk might not have been since the Gemini days back in the '60s.

Edit: Shenzhou 7 did include a spacewalk, but it seems like they used the orbital module as a pseudo-airlock, and never depressurized the descent module. Wikipedia has a nice list of spacewalks.

Based on recent weather radar measurements, they are now targeting a new T-0 of 09:23:49 UTC.

Suit leak checks and comms checks are complete, Dragon side hatch has been closed.