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Join Keith, Marshal, and special guest Rish Outfield, as they trek with the crew of the starship USS Enterprise (NC-1701D) to Starbase 173 where Captain Jean-Luc Picard fights in a Starfleet court for Lt. Commander Data's right of self-determination, not to be declared mere property of Starfleet, as desired by cyberneticist, Commander Bruce Maddox, while Commander William Riker is obliged to argue on behalf of the scientist.To download, right-click here and then click SaveTo comment on this or any episode:Send comments and/or recordings to journeyintopodcat@gmail.comLook for JourneyInto on Instagram, Threads, Facebook, or even X

Return after a week off with a wide-ranging roundup covering AI tools, Earth's rotation, ancient protective statues, Canadian politics, surveillance, climate data, archaeology, body brokers, and geopolitical theories. The hosts trade clips, react to current events, test AI summarization tools, and explore how symbolism, institutions, and hidden power structures shape the stories they're discussing.   To gain access to the second half of show and our Plus feed for audio and podcast please clink the link http://www.grimericaoutlawed.ca/support. For second half of video (when applicable and audio) go to our Substack and Subscribe. https://grimericaoutlawed.substack.com/ or to our Locals  https://grimericaoutlawed.locals.com/ or Patreon https://www.patreon.com/grimericaoutlawed Key topics The hosts return after a two-week break and catch up on what's happening in their lives. Darren and Graham test Claude and Grok for summarizing dense information and debate whether AI tools rely too heavily on mainstream sources. A scientific paper about Earth's rotation and changes in the length of day is translated into plain English. Graham explains the history and symbolism of the Lamassu, ancient winged guardian statues from Mesopotamia. The destruction of Lamassu statues by ISIS is compared with the construction of a giant Prometheus statue near Starbase in Texas. The hosts discuss Prometheus, the Statue of Liberty, technological ambition, and the symbolism of monumental art. Darren and Graham revisit JD Vance's comments about "doing God's work" and debate how much context is lost in short political clips. Flock cameras, surveillance systems, and possible replacements become part of a broader discussion about institutional control. The episode explores claims involving Davos, chemtrails, weather modification, and the reliability of viral investigative videos. Mark Carney, the World Economic Forum, Canadian politics, and alleged elite networks are examined. Graham discusses BC politics, floor crossing, party loyalty, and voter representation. A story involving the RCMP and online comments leads to a discussion about free speech and political censorship. Ursula von der Leyen's comments about putting European savings to work prompt a debate about financial control and government overreach. The hosts question climate records, NOAA data, weather stations, and the treatment of historical outliers. Darren shares clips about prehistoric surgery, early human settlement in Australia, and the possibility of giants in ancient North America. A disturbing story about body brokers and the illegal trafficking of human remains leads to speculation about a larger black market. The second half turns toward Iran, Israel, Trump, JFK, Q-related theories, and alleged coded messages in official government posts. 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On today's episode, the Fearsome Threesome take on Technology Thursday with Mark LaGrone joining from San Antonio. We start with Starbase rising over the old softball field, then dig into Telegram's crypto wallets, X Money, AI trading bots, and a 24/7 tokenized market with instant settlement as the Texas Stock Exchange gets its soft open. From there it's persistent AI that learns how you drive, using AI to push back on an insurance adjuster, and what any of it leaves for lawyers. We print a house, print a chess queen, and print dinner, then get serious about Anthropic's fight with the Pentagon, quantum theft, and who actually holds authority over the courts. The back half runs from humanoid companion robots and raising kids around AI to Waymo in Dallas, the singularity, and a crypto sprint through the Clarity Act, Russia's new framework, and why limited supply plus institutional demand has everybody watching for FOMO. Lightning Network and buying Bitcoin through E-Trade got parked, and next Thursday we're going all in on SpaceX. Don't miss it!

Max checks in from a musty Missouri hotel while earning his Light Sport Repairman certificate, and the guys detour through GA maintenance, Starbase, RTA wizardry, and the ongoing decline of 123.45 as a social network. Mailbag covers Sugar Alpha, Qantas' ultra-long-haul A350 plans, where Spirit's pilots and traffic may have landed, and whether 21.Five needs a Discord server. In Flight Advice, Dylan and Max tackle the stereotype that pilots are destined to cheat—and how couples can build trust, recognize real red flags, and keep the hotel-bar lifestyle from becoming a relationship MEL. Mentioned in this episode: Land or Go Around: https://www.instagram.com/land_or_go_around/ Temu-style quadcopter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUkvDe0x47A&t=15s Husk.irl AI troll account: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61577492686970 Show Notes 0:00 Intro & AMP Training 12:16 Networking In The Sky 17:22 Max's Musings: Overnights in Harlingen 21:53 News: Allegiant Contracts & Ebola 24:11 Listener Reviews & Comments 28:29 Mailbag 43:03 Flight Advice: Cheating Stigma 57:36 Temu Quadcopter?!? Our Sponsors Tim Pope, CFP® — Tim is both a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a pilot. His practice specializes in aviation professionals and aviation 401k plans, helping clients pursue their financial goals by defining them, optimizing resources, and monitoring progress. Click here to learn more. Also check out The Pilot's Portfolio Podcast. Advanced Aircrew Academy — Enables flight operations to fulfill their training needs in the most efficient and affordable way—anywhere, at any time. They provide high-quality training for professional pilots, flight attendants, flight coordinators, maintenance, and line service teams, all delivered via a world-class online system. Click here to learn more. Raven Careers — Helping your career take flight. Raven Careers supports professional pilots with resume prep, interview strategy, and long-term career planning. Whether you're a CFI eyeing your first regional, a captain debating your upgrade path, or a legacy hopeful refining your application, their one-on-one coaching and insider knowledge give you a real advantage. Click here to learn more. The AirComp Calculator™ is business aviation's only online compensation analysis system. It can provide precise compensation ranges for 14 business aviation positions in six aircraft classes at over 50 locations throughout the United States in seconds. Click here to learn more. Vaerus Jet Sales — Vaerus means right, true, and real. Buy or sell an aircraft the right way, with a true partner to make your dream of flight real. Connect with Brooks at Vaerus Jet Sales or learn more about their DC-3 Referral Program. Harvey Watt — Offers the only true Loss of Medical License Insurance available to individuals and small groups. Because Harvey Watt manages most airlines' plans, they can assist you in identifying the right coverage to supplement your airline's plan. Many buy coverage to supplement the loss of retirement benefits while grounded. Click here to learn more. VSL ACE Guide — Your all-in-one pilot training resource. Includes the most up-to-date Airman Certification Standards (ACS) and Practical Test Standards (PTS) for Private, Instrument, Commercial, ATP, CFI, and CFII. 21.Five listeners get a discount on the guide—click here to learn more. ProPilotWorld.com — The premier information and networking resource for professional pilots. Click here to learn more.   Feedback & Contact Have feedback, suggestions, or a great aviation story to share? Email us at info@21fivepodcast.com. Check out our Instagram feed @21FivePodcast for more great content (and our collection of aviation license plates). The statements made in this show are our own opinions and do not reflect, nor were they under any direction of any of our employers.

SpaceX has a spaceport in Texas. How has that gone? We talk with Joe Pappalardo, an author and journalist who has covered Starbase, Texas since it was just a beach.

* We spend some time with Sidney Torres and get his perspective on how the New Orleans sanitation system has been functioning and his company's experiences. * SpaceX has a spaceport in Texas. How has that gone? We'll talk with Joe Pappalardo, an author and journalist who has covered Starbase, Texas since it was just a beach.

SpaceX officially announced Starbase Louisiana, and I break down why the site fits Starship's launch, landing, and orbital architecture so perfectly. I also look at the transition from Falcon to Starship, and the new launch vehicles on the verge of debut. This episode of Main Engine Cut Off is brought to you by 32 executive producers—Warren, Matt from Built, Theo and Violet, Tim Dodd (the Everyday Astronaut!), Natasha Tsakos, Lee, Donald, David, Matt, Joonas, Russell, Steve, Frank, Will and Lars from Agile, The Astrogators at SEE, Josh from Impulse, Fred, Joel, Kris, Pat, Joakim, Miles O'Brien, Stealth Julian, Jan, Ryan, and four anonymous—and hundreds of supporters. Topics SpaceX Launches New Era of Commercial Spaceflight with $100 Billion Louisiana Campus - Louisiana Economic Development SpaceX intends to invest up to $100 billion in massive Louisiana spaceport - Ars Technica Episode 245 - Polar Bears and Penguins (with Jonathan Goff and Mike Loucks) - Off-Nominal AAS Paper Review: RAAN Agnostic 3-Burn Departure Methodology for Deep Space Missions from LEO Depots (Part 1 of 2) | Selenian Boondocks AAS Paper Review: Practical Methodologies For Low Delta-V Penalty, On-Time Departures To Arbitrary Interplanetary Destinations From A Medium-Inclination Low-Earth Orbit Depot | Selenian Boondocks An Updated Propellant Depot Taxonomy Part V: Human Spaceflight Fixed Depots (Low-Orbit) | Selenian Boondocks SpaceX on X: Ship 40 Reaches Christmas Island Ship 40 arrives at Christmas Island, Plans Return to Starbase - NASASpaceflight SpaceX on X: Ship 41 Single-Engine Static Fire Ship 41 Completes Engine Testing Ahead of Flight 14 - NASASpaceflight Satellite operators are in panic mode due to a worsening launch crisis - Ars Technica Nova payload module, second stage, and Andromeda engine fit check - Stoke Space First three flight-one Zenith engines ready for acceptance testing - Stoke Space Rocket Lab Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results: Posts Record Revenue and Record Backlog, Guides To Another Record Revenue Quarter in Q3 2026 - Rocket Lab Rocket Lab Unveils GHOST Deployable Launch System to Enable Responsive Space Missions Worldwide - Rocket Lab Firefly Aerospace Announces Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results With Record Revenue Of $117.7 Million, Up 659% Year-Over-Year - Firefly Aerospace Tank problem delays first RFA launch - SpaceNews Relativity Space engine integration milestone for Terran R first stage - NASASpaceflight The Show Like the show? Support the show on Patreon or Substack! Email your thoughts, comments, and questions to anthony@mainenginecutoff.com Follow @WeHaveMECO Follow @meco@spacey.space on Mastodon Listen to MECO Headlines Listen to Off-Nominal Join the Off-Nominal Discord Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, TuneIn or elsewhere Subscribe to the Main Engine Cut Off Newsletter Artwork photo by Zhou Quan Work with me and my design and development agency: Pine Works

Doug Messier details SpaceX's plans to build "Starbase Louisiana," a massive $100 billion, 125,000-acre spaceport designed as the world's largest launch facility. Scheduled for construction in 2027 and launches by 2029, the facility will feature ten launch pads supporting thousands of annual, airline-style Starship flights. While bringing thousands of jobs, the coastal development raises environmental concerns regarding wetland habitats, which SpaceX has pledged to help restore. Messier also highlights Space Force's startup funding arm, SpaceWERX, which is fostering new aerospace innovators like Antares Nuclear and Muon Space. (9)

SpaceX Building Spaceport in Louisiana Bigelow Attempted to Obtain #UFO Material #podcast #news   Attribution Robert Bigelow's hidden role in UFO research via @TheMysteryWire Link: https://x.com/TheMysteryWire/status/2092390244477993179?s=20   Starship Rescue via @MarcusHouse Link: https://x.com/MarcusHouse/status/2092573106783256681?s=20   Elon Musk checking out SpaceX's new Starbase, Louisiana location. Via @SawyerMerritt Link: https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2092287859776458817?s=20 Link: https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2092286741591757074?s=20

Chase Bunker is in for Kristine Bellino. SpaceX has designated a site in Louisiana for their next, and largest-to-date, launch facility. Starebase Louisiana is expected to host its first launch in 2029. FOX News's Eben Brown looks at the expectations for the new facility, and how it is anticipated to impact existing launch and control facilities in California, Texas, and Florida.

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SpaceX just fired one Raptor on the next Starship and described the test as a deorbit-burn demonstration for upcoming orbital missions. Hours earlier, Elon Musk said a tower catch would probably happen in a few months, which appears to remove that attempt from Flight 14. Flight 14 can still become the first true orbital Starship return test. Could SpaceX send the ship around Earth multiple times and land it in the Gulf as a full rehearsal for a future return to Starbase?An offshore landing could preserve most of the return profile while protecting the tower, launch mount, and pad infrastructure. The new evidence comes from the ship's engine test, SpaceX's FCC filing for a Starship Orbital Return Demo, an FAA-reviewed landing zone off the Texas coast, and Musk's new catch schedule. We are going to trace the mission change, explain the orbital mechanics, and show how a Gulf landing could test every step short of actual chopstick contact.

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Starship Flight 14 may spend hours and multiple orbits around Earth before attempting to return to Starbase. Here is how SpaceX could use that time to test cryogenic boiloff, propellant settling, RF fuel gauges, delayed Raptor restart, power, navigation, and the systems Flight 15 may need for a long-duration orbital refueling mission.

The city of Starbase, a municipality closely tied to Elon Musk's SpaceX, is currently seeking to expand its borders by annexing over 7,000 acres of land in south Texas. This growth strategy aims to bolster the company's rocket manufacturing and launch capabilities for future missions to the moon and Mars. However, the proposal has sparked significant backlash from local activists and landowners who cite concerns regarding environmental degradation and the loss of private property. Critics argue that the city's leadership, which includes SpaceX employees, prioritizes corporate interests over the well-being of the surrounding community and its fragile ecosystems. Despite this opposition, local officials suggest that state laws may provide few avenues to halt the space company's territorial ambitions. The situation remains a tense conflict between technological progress and the protection of pioneer landscapes and resident rights.

The city of Starbase, a municipality closely tied to Elon Musk's SpaceX, is currently seeking to expand its borders by annexing over 7,000 acres of land in south Texas. This growth strategy aims to bolster the company's rocket manufacturing and launch capabilities for future missions to the moon and Mars. However, the proposal has sparked significant backlash from local activists and landowners who cite concerns regarding environmental degradation and the loss of private property. Critics argue that the city's leadership, which includes SpaceX employees, prioritizes corporate interests over the well-being of the surrounding community and its fragile ecosystems. Despite this opposition, local officials suggest that state laws may provide few avenues to halt the space company's territorial ambitions. The situation remains a tense conflict between technological progress and the protection of pioneer landscapes and resident rights.

Astronomy Daily · S05E163 · “The Long Way Home” · Monday 10 August 2026. Sources verified against primary / institutional outlets. Starship “lost at sea” (Flight 13) •    Flight 13 launched 24 July 2026 from Starbase, South Texas; the upper stage (“Ship,” Ship 40, ~52 m) made the softest Starship water landing yet in the Indian Ocean off Western Australia — and, in a program first, survived intact and afloat. •    SpaceX had not planned to recover it. Musk confirmed the salvage attempt on 28 July (“We're sending a ship out to recover Starship”); recovery ship Go Australis was joined by Norwegian tugs Normand Ranger and Skimmer Tide, with a tow line to the nose. •    On 7 August, Musk said recovery is “not looking good right now” in rough seas — but the team had already obtained close-up photos of critical heat-shield and engine regions for future upgrades. A saltwater-soaked Ship was never going to be reflown. •    Heat shield: on SpaceX's first quarterly earnings call (4 August) Musk said he'd “consider the heat-shield problem solved,” long the biggest hurdle to full reuse. •    The flight also deployed 20 next-gen Starlink V3 satellites; the Super Heavy booster had engine trouble and was lost in the Gulf of Mexico. Stacked, Starship stands ~124 m. Flight 14 is targeted for late August — its first attempt at operational orbit with production Starlink. •    Sources: SpaceX / @elonmusk on X (7 Aug); Space.com (Mike Wall, 7 Aug); CNN (3 Aug). Landspace Zhuque-3, second landing attempt •    Landspace (private, Beijing, founded 2015) targets liftoff ~7:45 p.m. EDT Mon 10 Aug (23:45 UTC / ≈9:45 a.m. AEST Tue 11 Aug) from Jiuquan, aiming for a propulsive first-stage recovery on legs (Falcon 9-style), landing downrange in Gansu. •    The methalox, stainless-steel Zhuque-3 (~66 m) is broadly a Falcon 9 rival. Its Dec 2025 maiden flight reached orbit but the first stage failed its landing burn and crashed. •    Accuracy note: this is China's fourth orbital-class recovery attempt. A Long March 10B already landed via net-capture on 10 July (China became the 2nd nation to land an orbital booster) — so tonight would make Landspace the first Chinese company to attempt a propulsive/landing-legs recovery, not “China's first.” •    Sources: Space.com (7 Aug); Yahoo/Space (7 Aug); launch trackers (NOTAM-based). Uranus's “breathing” bow shock •    New multifluid-MHD modelling shows Uranus's bow shock expands and contracts over a single ~17-hour Uranian day — driven by the planet's own extreme rotation and tilted, offset magnetic field, not by changes in the solar wind. •    The model is constrained by Voyager 2's 1986 flyby — still the only direct measurements ever taken inside the Uranian system (a nice callback to E159's Voyager 2 “Big Bang” lead). •    Implications for future ice-giant missions and for the many ice-giant exoplanets now being found. Cao et al., AGU Advances; surfaced via an Eos research spotlight this week. (Framed as newly-spotlighted rather than newly-published.) •    Sources: AGU Advances (Cao et al.); Eos research spotlight; phys.org (7 Aug). Total solar eclipse — 12 August 2026 •    The only total solar eclipse of 2026. Unusual over-the-pole path: Arctic Siberia → eastern Greenland → western Iceland → northern Spain (clipping NE Portugal) → the Balearics at sunset. •    Greatest eclipse ≈17:46 UTC; max totality 2 min 18 s just off Iceland's west coast, with the Sun only ~26° high. Iceland's first total eclipse since 1954 (Reykjavik's first in 593 years); Spain's first since 1905. •    North America sees a partial across the northern tier (Alaska to North Carolina) and most of Canada — deepest in the far north, a shallow bite (

Today Chris sits down with Justin Lopas, Co-founder & COO of Base Power Company. On Monday Base announced a $1B Series D at a $13B post money valuation. Justin spent his early career at SpaceX, where he helped lead the Brownsville site that became Starbase, then ran manufacturing at Anduril. Base puts large batteries on homes, owns and operates them, and uses the fleet to support the grid. This is a conversation about speed, and about how much of it turns out to be a decision rather than an effort level. They discuss:• Why he wanted their first battery installed fast instead of right• Why he thinks good manufacturing is decided during design, not on the factory floor• Why he does not push his suppliers as hard on price as he could• Why SpaceX put him in charge of building the Starship factory two and a half years into his career• The question he asks to find out why a job is really taking so long• How a battery company ended up training its own electricians• Why he calls Base an infrastructure company and not a product company Timestamps:(00:00) Intro(00:48) From Late-Night Research to an Office in Austin(07:55) The First Battery Install Was an Epic Failure(09:15) Finding a Battery Supplier Who Would Let Them In(15:47) Killing Gen Two and Skipping Straight to Gen Three(22:52) From a Hundred Requirements to Cardboard Cutouts(26:02) Good Manufacturing Is Won or Lost at the Design Stage(32:48) How to Build a Supply Chain From Nothing(40:51) Negotiating With Suppliers and Deciding What to Build Yourself(44:58) The Turtle That Marks the Slowest Team(47:39) The SpaceX Lessons on Talent and Speed(54:09) Building a Regulatory Team and Choosing the Next State(58:19) Managing Complexity Is the Whole Job(1:03:20) Tesla Sells Products, Base Owns Infrastructure(1:05:24) Training Electricians and Staying Out of Commercial === Presented by Airshare: Trusted across the country for fractional ownership, jet cards, charter, and aircraft management, Airshare gives you a smarter way to fly private - over 25 years of experience, operating their own fleet, with the top safety ratings in the industry. Drive up to the FBO, walk on, and go. Go to flyairshare.com to learn more. === Sponsored by: True North Advisors is a multi-family office and private wealth advisory firm serving business owners, entrepreneurs, and families since 2000. With over $5.6 billion under management, they're real investors offering conflict-free counsel and portfolios built around your life. Learn more at https://truenorthadvisors.com Collateral Partners builds institutional-grade investor materials for private credit, private equity, real estate, and family office firms, the kind of marketing collateral that helps you close capital. Learn more at https://collateral.com/powers Relay Human Cloud gives you pre-vetted, fully managed global talent for up to 75% less than hiring locally. Your best people stop doing repetitive work and get back to the work that moves your company forward. Learn more at https://www.relayhumancloud.com/powers === Chris on Social Media:X: https://x.com/fortworthchrisInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thepowerspodcastLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrispowersjr/ === Visit our website: https://www.powerspod.com/Leave a review on Apple: https://bit.ly/45crFD0Leave a review on Spotify: https://bit.ly/3Krl9jO

27. Oktober 1997: Teil 5 des großen Staffel-6-Handlungsbogens. Nur widerwillig besucht Morn den Geburtstag seiner Mutter und verbindet bisher separate Handlungsorte: Auf Terok Nor drängt die Zeit, denn bald kann das Dominion Verstärkung durchs Wurmloch holen – folgerichtig sammeln Admiral Ross und Ben Sisko bei Starbase 375 alle verfügbaren Schiffe zum Großangriff. Fortsetzung folgt übernächste Woche. In Deutschland: Ein kühner Plan, ausgestrahlt am 6. Juni 1998.

This episode is about the developmental progression and mission outcomes of SpaceX's Starship program, specifically focusing on Flight 12 and Flight 13. Documentation for the twelfth test flight highlights the introduction of Block 3 hardware and the activation of a second launch pad at Starbase, though the mission ended with the grounding of the fleet following a booster mishap. The subsequent coverage of the thirteenth mission describes a more successful iteration where the upper stage achieved several milestones, including the deployment of Starlink satellites and a controlled soft splashdown in the ocean. Together, these sources outline the iterative process of testing the world's most powerful rocket to meet future NASA Artemis lunar goals. The texts also catalog the rigorous technical testing and vehicle histories of the specific boosters and ships used in these high-altitude trials. Overall, the information illustrates the shift from experimental prototypes toward an operational vehicle capable of rapid reusability.

Viral Starship Video, New Bledsoe Orb, Flight 14 and Giza Secret #Podcast #Alien #News    ROSS COULTHART: TRUMP FEARS HE COULD BE KILLED via @UAPWatchers on X Link: https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/2082232327053144126?s=20 New orb video Chris Bledsoe via @The_Astral_ on X Link: https://x.com/The_Astral_/status/2082248843274367238?s=20 Splashdown of Starship Flight 13 via @SpaceX on X Link: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2082186658162626898?s=20 NEWS: SpaceX is seeking FAA approval for a new Starship reentry route from the Northern Pacific to Starbase, Texas, along with expanded emergency landing zones across the Pacific. Giza Images: https://x.com/emerito_cotto/status/2033520211521941574?s=20 Jessie Michaels: https://x.com/AlchemyAmerican/status/2033246120147615924?s=20 ‼️FAIR USE NOTICE: This video MAY contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. The Tempest Universe Podcast distributes this material for the purpose of news reporting, educational research, comment, and criticism, constituting Fair Use under 17 U.S.C § 107.‼️  

Viral Starship Video, New Bledsoe Orb, Flight 14 and Giza Secret #Podcast #Alien #News    ROSS COULTHART: TRUMP FEARS HE COULD BE KILLED via @UAPWatchers on X Link: https://x.com/UAPWatchers/status/2082232327053144126?s=20 New orb video Chris Bledsoe via @The_Astral_ on X Link: https://x.com/The_Astral_/status/2082248843274367238?s=20 Splashdown of Starship Flight 13 via @SpaceX on X Link: https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2082186658162626898?s=20 NEWS: SpaceX is seeking FAA approval for a new Starship reentry route from the Northern Pacific to Starbase, Texas, along with expanded emergency landing zones across the Pacific. Giza Images: https://x.com/emerito_cotto/status/2033520211521941574?s=20 Jessie Michaels: https://x.com/AlchemyAmerican/status/2033246120147615924?s=20 ‼️FAIR USE NOTICE: This video MAY contain copyrighted material the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. The Tempest Universe Podcast distributes this material for the purpose of news reporting, educational research, comment, and criticism, constituting Fair Use under 17 U.S.C § 107.‼️  

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick released additional Senate interim committee study charges today. One item has the Leftist press in a heightened tizzy; like this: Dan Patrick directs Texas Senate to study ways to further ingrain religion into public life. That is NOT what the study charges say at all. In fact, on it's alternate headline for RSS, the Tribune tells the truth with this: “Dan Patrick directs Texas Senate to expand religious liberty.” That's a BIG difference between the two headlines for the same story!Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.RIP: Tom Luce. A great Texan with more influence on the Texas turnaround and Texas Miracle than most will ever know.13th Starship/Superheavy launch goes almost perfectly from Starbase, Texas on Friday evening. ‘I was speechless': Thousands cheer as SpaceX's Starship Flight 13 finally launches after delays.Texas manufacturing output growth accelerated in July.IRS migration data show Texas gained $5B as NY, CA lost billion. The key part of this story that has the most positive meaning is the part about productivity increasing in Texas.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

This week, we cover how Starship Flight 13 finally prepares to launch amid a legal battle over SpaceX's proposed land swap at Starbase, plus a Chinese Long March 3B rocket gets struck by lightning during liftoff, yet still delivers its satellite safely. Then, guests Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston join the show to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars and revisit the mission's groundbreaking life-detection experiments and the decades-long controversy over what they actually found. The conversation traces Mars exploration from the earliest Mariner flybys through Viking's ambiguous, still-debated results—later explained by perchlorates in the Martian soil—and the fierce scientific rivalry the findings sparked. Join us! Headlines: SpaceX Starship Flight 13 faces engine and weather delays ahead of launch SpaceX land swap proposal sparks conservation group lawsuit over Rio Grande Valley wildlife preserve Chinese Long March rocket survives dramatic lightning strike during launch Main Topic: 50th Anniversary of Viking Mars Landers—Search for Life on Mars The evolution of Mars exploration from telescopes to Viking lander Early Mars missions: Mariner flybys, Soviet attempts, and breakthroughs in orbital imaging Viking 1 and 2: Ambitious design, life-detection experiments, and landing impact Mixed public and scientific reactions to Viking's first iconic Mars surface images Technical overview of the Viking biology experiments and their controversial results The unresolved debate: Did Viking detect life or chemical reactions on Mars? Personal accounts of key scientists, scientific disputes, and the "Wolf Trap" experiment that never flew Lessons from Viking: Limitations of technology, extremophile discoveries, and shifting strategies for detecting life The scientific case for seeking life in Martian caves and subsurface environments Critique of current and future Mars missions: Perseverance rover findings and value of Mars Sample Return Exploring planetary protection, contamination risks, and the challenges of certifying Martian samples= Key takeaways for future missions—bold searches, new technologies, and the ongoing quest for answers Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guests: Pascal Lee and Dr. Penelope Boston Download or subscribe to This Week in Space at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/twis

This week, we cover how Starship Flight 13 finally prepares to launch amid a legal battle over SpaceX's proposed land swap at Starbase, plus a Chinese Long March 3B rocket gets struck by lightning during liftoff, yet still delivers its satellite safely. Then, guests Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston join the show to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars and revisit the mission's groundbreaking life-detection experiments and the decades-long controversy over what they actually found. The conversation traces Mars exploration from the earliest Mariner flybys through Viking's ambiguous, still-debated results—later explained by perchlorates in the Martian soil—and the fierce scientific rivalry the findings sparked. Join us! Headlines: SpaceX Starship Flight 13 faces engine and weather delays ahead of launch SpaceX land swap proposal sparks conservation group lawsuit over Rio Grande Valley wildlife preserve Chinese Long March rocket survives dramatic lightning strike during launch Main Topic: 50th Anniversary of Viking Mars Landers—Search for Life on Mars The evolution of Mars exploration from telescopes to Viking lander Early Mars missions: Mariner flybys, Soviet attempts, and breakthroughs in orbital imaging Viking 1 and 2: Ambitious design, life-detection experiments, and landing impact Mixed public and scientific reactions to Viking's first iconic Mars surface images Technical overview of the Viking biology experiments and their controversial results The unresolved debate: Did Viking detect life or chemical reactions on Mars? Personal accounts of key scientists, scientific disputes, and the "Wolf Trap" experiment that never flew Lessons from Viking: Limitations of technology, extremophile discoveries, and shifting strategies for detecting life The scientific case for seeking life in Martian caves and subsurface environments Critique of current and future Mars missions: Perseverance rover findings and value of Mars Sample Return Exploring planetary protection, contamination risks, and the challenges of certifying Martian samples= Key takeaways for future missions—bold searches, new technologies, and the ongoing quest for answers Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guests: Pascal Lee and Dr. Penelope Boston Download or subscribe to This Week in Space at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/twis

This week, we cover how Starship Flight 13 finally prepares to launch amid a legal battle over SpaceX's proposed land swap at Starbase, plus a Chinese Long March 3B rocket gets struck by lightning during liftoff, yet still delivers its satellite safely. Then, guests Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston join the show to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars and revisit the mission's groundbreaking life-detection experiments and the decades-long controversy over what they actually found. The conversation traces Mars exploration from the earliest Mariner flybys through Viking's ambiguous, still-debated results—later explained by perchlorates in the Martian soil—and the fierce scientific rivalry the findings sparked. Join us! Headlines: SpaceX Starship Flight 13 faces engine and weather delays ahead of launch SpaceX land swap proposal sparks conservation group lawsuit over Rio Grande Valley wildlife preserve Chinese Long March rocket survives dramatic lightning strike during launch Main Topic: 50th Anniversary of Viking Mars Landers—Search for Life on Mars The evolution of Mars exploration from telescopes to Viking lander Early Mars missions: Mariner flybys, Soviet attempts, and breakthroughs in orbital imaging Viking 1 and 2: Ambitious design, life-detection experiments, and landing impact Mixed public and scientific reactions to Viking's first iconic Mars surface images Technical overview of the Viking biology experiments and their controversial results The unresolved debate: Did Viking detect life or chemical reactions on Mars? Personal accounts of key scientists, scientific disputes, and the "Wolf Trap" experiment that never flew Lessons from Viking: Limitations of technology, extremophile discoveries, and shifting strategies for detecting life The scientific case for seeking life in Martian caves and subsurface environments Critique of current and future Mars missions: Perseverance rover findings and value of Mars Sample Return Exploring planetary protection, contamination risks, and the challenges of certifying Martian samples= Key takeaways for future missions—bold searches, new technologies, and the ongoing quest for answers Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guests: Pascal Lee and Dr. Penelope Boston Download or subscribe to This Week in Space at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/twis

This week, we cover how Starship Flight 13 finally prepares to launch amid a legal battle over SpaceX's proposed land swap at Starbase, plus a Chinese Long March 3B rocket gets struck by lightning during liftoff, yet still delivers its satellite safely. Then, guests Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston join the show to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars and revisit the mission's groundbreaking life-detection experiments and the decades-long controversy over what they actually found. The conversation traces Mars exploration from the earliest Mariner flybys through Viking's ambiguous, still-debated results—later explained by perchlorates in the Martian soil—and the fierce scientific rivalry the findings sparked. Join us! Headlines: SpaceX Starship Flight 13 faces engine and weather delays ahead of launch SpaceX land swap proposal sparks conservation group lawsuit over Rio Grande Valley wildlife preserve Chinese Long March rocket survives dramatic lightning strike during launch Main Topic: 50th Anniversary of Viking Mars Landers—Search for Life on Mars The evolution of Mars exploration from telescopes to Viking lander Early Mars missions: Mariner flybys, Soviet attempts, and breakthroughs in orbital imaging Viking 1 and 2: Ambitious design, life-detection experiments, and landing impact Mixed public and scientific reactions to Viking's first iconic Mars surface images Technical overview of the Viking biology experiments and their controversial results The unresolved debate: Did Viking detect life or chemical reactions on Mars? Personal accounts of key scientists, scientific disputes, and the "Wolf Trap" experiment that never flew Lessons from Viking: Limitations of technology, extremophile discoveries, and shifting strategies for detecting life The scientific case for seeking life in Martian caves and subsurface environments Critique of current and future Mars missions: Perseverance rover findings and value of Mars Sample Return Exploring planetary protection, contamination risks, and the challenges of certifying Martian samples= Key takeaways for future missions—bold searches, new technologies, and the ongoing quest for answers Hosts: Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik Guests: Pascal Lee and Dr. Penelope Boston Download or subscribe to This Week in Space at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-space. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsor: rippling.ai/twis

Astronomy Daily S05E148 — "Far Side" Thursday 23 July 2026 Starship gets a second shot at Flight 13 — with a schedule caveat worth knowing about. The first far-side lunar samples reveal that Earth has been quietly shielding the side of the Moon that faces us. Astronomers debate whether the lunar far side should be closed to industry. The Milky Way's only helium nova finally steps out from behind twenty-five years of dust. And the case that our entire galaxy once turned over. Plus a skywatch closer with a straightforward piece of advice about the Delta Aquariids: do not wait for the peak.In this episode Starship Flight 13 ●        Window opens 6:45pm EDT / 2245 GMT Thursday 23 July — 8:45am AEST and 10:45am NZST Friday 24 July. ●        Schedule is not locked: Starbase road and beach closure notices point to further Pad 2 testing. ●        The 16 July attempt aborted at T-0 when four of 33 Raptors missed start parameters; the limit is three. ●        Two Raptors were removed and replaced before this attempt. ●        First-ever Starship deployment of V3 Starlink satellites — 20 of them. ●        Super Heavy splashes down in the Gulf at ~7 minutes; Ship targets the Indian Ocean off Western Australia at ~65 minutes. No catch attempts. Chang'e-6 and the solar wind ●        Published in Nature Geoscience by a team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Geology and Geophysics. ●        Based on 1,935 grams of regolith returned from the South Pole–Aitken basin on the lunar far side. ●        First direct laboratory comparison of solar wind implantation between the near and far sides. ●        Far-side soil records faster, deeper-penetrating particles; the neon isotope ratio sits below every near-side sample measured. ●        About a quarter of the solar wind exposure at the Chang'e-5 near-side site involved wind decelerated by Earth's magnetosphere. The far-side site shows none. ●        Opens the possibility of using lunar noble gases as a fossil record of Earth's magnetic field over deep time. The far side debate — NAM 2026 ●        Held Tuesday 21 July at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting, University of Birmingham. Convened by Prof Martin Ward. ●        For the motion: Prof Joe Silk (Johns Hopkins) and Dr Jonathan McDowell (Durham Space Research Centre). ●        Against: Dr Nikita Chiu (Durham) and Dr Manuel Salvoldi (aerospace engineer and educator). ●        For: the far side is the only radio-quiet site near Earth — critical for detecting the cosmic dark ages, and an exceptional platform for gravitational wave detection. ●        Against: commercial investment is what makes lunar exploration sustainable, and governance can let science and industry coexist. ●        Audience support for the motion rose from 68% to 76% across the debate. V445 Puppis ●        Presented at NAM 2026 by John Mills, University of Warwick. ●        The only confirmed helium nova in the Milky Way. Erupted in late 2000, then vanished behind its own dust for over twenty years. ●        Now confirmed as a white dwarf accreting from a rare stripped helium star — only a few thousand such stars are thought to exist in the entire galaxy. ●        Orbital period of 3.7 days, roughly double previous estimates. Mass transfer has resumed. ●        Unexplained high-speed "bullets" of possibly oxygen-rich gas travelling up to 20 million mph (~9,000 km/s) — never seen in any other nova. ●        Data from ESO's Very Large Telescope, Hubble, the Southern African Large Telescope and TESS. ●        Helium novae may be one pathway to Type Ia supernovae, the standard candles used to measure cosmic expansion. The Milky Way disc flip ●        Presented at NAM 2026 by Kirill Batrakov, Durham University. ●        Based on 25 Milky Way-like galaxies in the Auriga simulation suite, followed across roughly 11 billion years. ●        Galaxies with the most slowly rotating stellar haloes shared a major head-on merger and a disc reorientation greater than 90 degrees. ●        Our stellar halo rotates at only 10–20 km/s; the disc moves at around 220 km/s. ●        The Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus collision roughly 10 billion years ago is the candidate trigger. ●        Batrakov describes a disc flip as likely rather than confirmed, and is looking for independent signatures. ●        Separate 2026 work led by Ling Zhu, using 600,000+ giant stars from Gaia and LAMOST, found the outer dark matter halo oriented almost vertically to the stellar disc — consistent with the disc having tilted. Skywatch ●        Southern Delta Aquariids are active now, running into late August, with maximum around 30 July. ●        Full Moon on 29 July means peak night is close to 98% illuminated — the worst conditions of the run. ●        Best window: the pre-dawn mornings from now until roughly 27 July, after moonset. ●        Radiant near Skat in Aquarius. Use Fomalhaut and the Great Square of Pegasus to locate it. ●        Australia and New Zealand: radiant climbs near overhead. Best from around 2am to first light. ●        North America: radiant sits low in the south — fewer meteors, but a better chance of long-trailed earthgrazers. Same 2am-to-dawn window, local time. ●        Sunspot region AR4493 has grown rapidly to beta-gamma-delta complexity — the highest classification — and has already fired three M-class flares in a day. Worth watching aurora alerts. Sources ●        SpaceX / Space.com — Starship Flight 13 mission details and timing ●        Nature Geoscience — noble gas analysis of Chang'e-6 regolith (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology and Geophysics) ●        Royal Astronomical Society — NAM 2026 far side governance debate ●        Royal Astronomical Society — NAM 2026, V445 Puppis (John Mills, University of Warwick) ●        Royal Astronomical Society — NAM 2026, Milky Way disc flip (Kirill Batrakov, Durham University) ●        EarthSky and the American Meteor Society — Delta Aquariid observing guidance ●        NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center / EarthSky Sun News — AR4493 activityBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/astronomy-daily-latest-space-news--5648921/support.Sponsor Details:Ensure your online privacy by using NordVPN. To get our special listener deal and save a lot of money, visit www.astronomydaily.io/nordvpn. 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SpaceX's Starship V3 development, highlighting a recent launch abort during its 13th test flight. The mission was halted at the Starbase facility in Texas when four Raptor engines failed to ignite, causing a delay of several days for repairs. This technical setback follows a previous Flight 12 mishap where engine failures led to the loss of a booster and triggered a federal investigation. These recurring mechanical issues have significantly impacted investor sentiment, driving SpaceX's stock price below its initial public offering value. Despite these challenges, the company has rescheduled the next launch attempt for July 23, 2026. Ultimately, the articles illustrate the ongoing struggle to achieve engine reliability for a rocket system intended to transport cargo and humans to the Moon and Mars.

Today's top stories, with context, in just 15 minutes.On today's podcast:1) President Donald Trump accused China of interfering with US elections in 2020, threatening to upend ties with the world’s second-biggest economy as he focuses on securing a victory in the midterms in November.2) Concerns are growing that the US and Iran will intensify hostilities, with the sides clashing for a sixth straight day and Tehran refusing to back down over the Strait of Hormuz. The US hit southern Iran overnight, widening the scope of its targets by striking six road bridges, according to Iranian state media. There were separate reports of attacks on the southern town of Bushehr, which houses the country’s only nuclear power plant, and the western province of Lorestan.3) SpaceX said it will aim to launch its Starship rocket again in a few days after aborting Thursday’s mission when some of its engines didn’t fire up, sending shares lower.Starship was slated to take off on its 13th major mission from SpaceX’s South Texas launch facility, called Starbase, at 5:45 p.m. local time. But right at the planned liftoff time, plumes of smoke erupted from the launch tower, and the rocket remained in place.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Starship system is a fully reusable, two-stage-to-orbit super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by SpaceX. The system is composed of a booster stage named Super Heavy and a second stage, also called Starship.Track everything happening ahead of SpaceX Starship Flight 13 in one place. This live Starship Tracker follows the real-world milestones from Starbase as they happen, including vehicle status, test campaign progress, schedule signals, and any official updates that move the launch closer.Flight 13 is one of the most anticipated tests yet. After the Version 3 hardware debuted on Flight 12 and the program worked through booster recovery objectives, Flight 13 is widely expected to attempt the first catch of a Super Heavy booster at the launch tower, a milestone that would mark a major step toward full rapid reusability.What you will see on this tracker:Current readiness status and major pre-flight milestonesStarbase activity updates and test operations timelineShip and Booster progress checkpoints (as reported by credible sources)Launch window signals, delays, and what they likely meanFlight 13 news recaps when meaningful updates breakSources referenced may include: SpaceX statements, FAA notices, public filings, on-site reporting, and reputable spaceflight outlets. This is an independent tracker and is not affiliated with SpaceX.If you want more Starship coverage, subscribe and turn on notifications so you do not miss key Flight 14 developments.#SpaceX #Starship #Starbase #Flight14 #SpaceNews

The news of Texas covered today includes:Our Lone Star story of the day: Railcar company TTX wants to build out a large maintenance facility in Slaton. Lubbock County Commissioner Jason Corley explains and gives his side to why a property tax break should be given.Our Lone Star story of the day is sponsored by Allied Compliance Services providing the best service in DOT, business and personal drug and alcohol testing since 1995.Thursday is the target date for the next test flight of SpaceX's SuperHeavy booster topped with Starship from Starbase in South Texas.They're coming for you next!: Democrat running for Texas attorney general wants to investigate Musk if elected. Good on Bob to pickup on what a liar Nathan Johnson, and other media outlets, is on this issue.UNT Appoints Critical Race Theory Scholar as Interim Provost. Why after many years, way before the DEI scandal, has Governor Greg Abbott not done anything effective with regents at University of North Texas to stop its wallowing in the far-Leftist abyss?TX19 Democratic Party executive committeewoman, Kim Gonzalez of Lubbock, publicly celebrated death of Senator Lindsey Graham. Not a far stretch from already supporting the mass murder of babies.TX13's Ronny Jackson running for top GOP spot on Armed Services pane.Listen on the radio, or station stream, at 5pm Central. Click for our radio and streaming affiliates.www.PrattonTexas.com

The Starship system is a fully reusable, two-stage-to-orbit super heavy-lift launch vehicle developed by SpaceX. The system is composed of a booster stage named Super Heavy and a second stage, also called Starship.Track everything happening ahead of SpaceX Starship Flight 13 in one place. This live Starship Tracker follows the real-world milestones from Starbase as they happen, including vehicle status, test campaign progress, schedule signals, and any official updates that move the launch closer.Flight 13 is one of the most anticipated tests yet. After the Version 3 hardware debuted on Flight 12 and the program worked through booster recovery objectives, Flight 13 is widely expected to attempt the first catch of a Super Heavy booster at the launch tower, a milestone that would mark a major step toward full rapid reusability.What you will see on this tracker:Current readiness status and major pre-flight milestonesStarbase activity updates and test operations timelineShip and Booster progress checkpoints (as reported by credible sources)Launch window signals, delays, and what they likely meanFlight 13 news recaps when meaningful updates breakSources referenced may include: SpaceX statements, FAA notices, public filings, on-site reporting, and reputable spaceflight outlets. This is an independent tracker and is not affiliated with SpaceX.If you want more Starship coverage, subscribe and turn on notifications so you do not miss key Flight 14 developments.#SpaceX #Starship #Starbase #Flight14 #SpaceNews

The legal, environmental, and logistical challenges surrounding SpaceX's expansion in South Texas. Conservation groups and indigenous organizations have filed multiple lawsuits to block a land exchange with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and to challenge frequent beach closures that restrict public access. While the Texas Supreme Court recently upheld the state's authority to close beaches for launches, federal litigation remains active regarding the protection of endangered species and sacred lands. Simultaneously, SpaceX is advancing its "Starpipe" project, an eight-mile natural gas pipeline designed to replace truck convoys and support a significantly higher launch cadence. This infrastructure push coincides with the company's record-breaking initial public offering, signaling a strategic move toward total vertical integration of its fuel supply chain. However, local opposition persists over concerns regarding industrial wastewater discharge and the long-term ecological health of the South Bay estuarine environment.

Amy Gamerman, contributor to The New York Times, offers her insights into what it's really like to live in Elon Musk's town Starbase.

How do you inspire the next generation of scientists, engineers, innovators, and leaders? In this episode of Voices of Montana, Tom Schultz visits with Kara Bates Tangedal, director of Montana STARBASE, along with former campers who now serve as mentors. […] The post STARBASE – A Great Place to Launch Into STEM, STEAM Space first appeared on Voices of Montana.

Carl Quintanilla, Jim Cramer and David Faber kicked off wall-to-wall coverage of SpaceX's public debut day. Elon Musk's company was valued at nearly $1.8 trillion after pricing its record-setting IPO at $135 per share. The anchors explored what's at stake for the markets and investors. You'll hear Musk's speech to SpaceX employees at the company's headquarters in Starbase, Texas. Also in the mix: Cramer's message on SpaceX's opening trade, a live report from the trading floor of Morgan Stanley — one of the lead underwriters of the SpaceX IPO, a flashback to the first trading days for companies including Tesla, Facebook (now Meta) and Alibaba.  Squawk on the Street Disclaimer Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This Day in Legal History: Wallace Stands in the Schoolhouse DoorOn this day in 1963, Alabama Governor George Wallace physically stood in the doorway of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama to block the registration of Vivian Malone and James Hood, the two Black students whose enrollment had been ordered by a federal district court. Wallace's “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door” was the culmination of a long campaign of state defiance of federal desegregation orders that ran from Brown v. Board in 1954 through Cooper v. Aaron in 1958 — the case in which a unanimous Supreme Court told the Little Rock school district, and by extension every state actor, that federal constitutional rulings are the supreme law of the land and that state officials may not nullify them.President Kennedy responded to Wallace's stand by issuing Executive Order 11111, which federalized the Alabama National Guard, and ordering Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach down to Tuscaloosa to confront the governor. Wallace gave a long speech invoking states' rights and Tenth Amendment sovereignty, then stepped aside, and Malone and Hood walked in and registered. That night, Kennedy went on national television and delivered the civil rights address that put the Civil Rights Act of 1964 onto the national agenda. The legal and political throughline matters: the schoolhouse door, the executive order federalizing the Guard, the televised address, and the omnibus civil rights legislation that followed were a single coordinated federal response to massive resistance, and the institutional habit they built — the willingness of the federal political branches to back federal court orders with whatever force is necessary — is the substrate on which the modern enforcement of civil rights law sits. Whether that habit holds up under contemporary pressure is one of the live constitutional questions of our moment.The “Anti-Weaponization Fund” saga we have been following all week reached at least a partial resolution on Wednesday when Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia declined to extend her temporary restraining order against the program into a preliminary injunction. The reason, in essence, is that the Justice Department has now formally represented to the court, in writing and through acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, that the $1.8 billion fund is “not going forward.” Brinkema took DOJ at its word for present purposes and dissolved the TRO, which under standard mootness doctrine is the right call when a defendant credibly commits to abandoning the challenged program. But she also did something practical: she warned the government in plain terms not to “play possum with this court,” language that gives the plaintiffs a built-in mechanism to come back fast if the fund quietly re-emerges under a different name.The substantive theory the plaintiffs were pressing — that the fund is an unappropriated expenditure of public money, that the underlying Trump-IRS settlement was a litigation in which the United States was never really adverse to the President in his personal capacity, and that the program's payout criteria are based on political characterizations of past prosecutions rather than any neutral standard — is now preserved for another day rather than litigated to judgment. The practical lesson is the durability of voluntary-cessation doctrine: a government defendant who is willing to abandon a program in court usually wins on mootness, but the cost is real, because future revivals get scrutinized against the prior representation. Watch the Federal Register and the DOJ component-level budget submissions for the next six months — if there is a successor program coming, those are where the first signal appears.Judge declines to halt “anti-weaponization fund” since Blanche says it's dead, but warns DOJ not to “play possum” | CBS NewsA coalition of environmental and tribal-nation plaintiffs filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday seeking to block a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service-approved land exchange that would transfer 715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge to SpaceX, in return for 683 acres of privately owned land elsewhere. The plaintiffs are the Center for Biological Diversity, Save RGV, the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas, and the South Texas Environmental Justice Network.The legal theory of the case is unusually multi-statute: the complaint alleges violations of the National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997, the National Historic Preservation Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act, with the central administrative-law argument being that the Fish and Wildlife Service's environmental analysis failed to grapple seriously with impacts on endangered ocelots, aplomado falcons, and a long list of migratory species whose habitat the refuge was designed to protect when Congress created it in 1979. The plaintiffs describe this as one of the largest national-wildlife-refuge land exchanges outside Alaska, and the suit asks for vacatur of the exchange decision rather than damages — the standard APA remedy.The political and infrastructural backdrop is hard to miss: SpaceX's Starbase facility at Boca Chica has been expanding into the Lower Rio Grande Valley for years now, and the exchange would consolidate the company's footprint on land previously held for the protection of one of the last remaining ocelot ranges in the country. The merits of the case will turn on the rigor of the FWS environmental analysis. Expect a request for a preliminary injunction within weeks.Lawsuit challenges Trump administration's land swap with SpaceX in Texas | The Washington PostA Los Angeles County jury on Wednesday added $22 million in punitive damages to the $176 million compensatory verdict already entered against socialite and former philanthropist Rebecca Grossman and former Major League Baseball pitcher Scott Erickson, bringing the total civil award to the Iskander family to roughly $198 million.The underlying facts of the case are stark: in September 2020, Grossman and Erickson left a Westlake Village restaurant after drinking and street-raced separate Mercedes SUVs through a residential neighborhood, with Grossman striking and killing two young brothers, Mark and Jacob Iskander, then 11 and 8, as they crossed a marked crosswalk with their parents.Grossman was convicted of two counts of murder in 2024 and is serving 15 years to life. The civil case the family brought is the wrongful-death companion, and the punitive damages award the jury added on Wednesday is the part that does the most policy work: the jury split the punitive award $21 million against Grossman, $1.17 million against Erickson, which under California's reprehensibility-and-net-worth framework reflects both the much greater direct culpability of Grossman as the driver and the substantial disparity in their respective financial positions.The case is notable beyond the parties involved because of how clean it is on the standard punitive-damages analysis the Supreme Court laid out in BMW v. Gore and State Farm v. Campbell: high reprehensibility, a relatively modest single-digit ratio of punitive-to-compensatory damages, and an underlying compensatory award that itself was supported by the gravity of the loss. Watch for an appeal that focuses on the compensatory rather than the punitive number — that is where the appellate leverage actually is.Jury Ups Philanthropist, Ex-Pitcher Crash Verdict To $198M | Law360 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Iran hits U.S. bases in Jordan and the Gulf after American retaliation for a downed Apache helicopter. Tehran says its World Cup ticket allocation has been pulled. SpaceX's Starbase divides a Texas community.  The USDA ramps up the production of sterile male flies, in a bid to wipe out screwworm. Anti-immigrant riots erupt in Belfast. And Bad Bunny gets a private audience with the Pope.  Listen to the Morning Bid podcast ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Sign up for the Reuters Econ World newsletter ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Listen to the Reuters Econ World podcast ⁠⁠here⁠⁠. Visit the Thomson Reuters Privacy Statement for information on our privacy and data protection practices. You may also visit megaphone.fm/adchoices to opt out of targeted advertising. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Business and finance news from the Asia-Pacific. Asian stocks fell alongside US equity-index futures as the AI-fueled rally that powered global equities to record highs lost momentum after a weak forecast from Broadcom. Asian losses followed a pullback on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 snapped a nine-day winning streak as renewed US-Iran clashes damped risk appetite. Some relief emerged early Thursday after the US announced a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, helping Brent crude halt a three-day rally. For more on the markets, we speak to Paul Dobson, Bloomberg's Executive Editor for Asia Markets. Plus - SpaceX is seeking to raise $75 billion in an initial public offering that would be the biggest of all time, as Elon Musk's rocket, satellite and artificial intelligence company targets a historic debut that could clear a path for more mega-listings. The Starbase, Texas-based company plans to market about 555.6 million shares for $135 each, according to its filing Wednesday with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. At that price, SpaceX would have a market value of almost $1.77 trillion based on the outstanding shares in the filing. Bloomberg TV hosts Haidi Stroud-Watts and Shery Ahn spoke to Sylvia Jablonski, CIO at Defiance ETF's.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Some of the richest companies on Earth want your money. OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX are racing to raise as much of it as possible by going public. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Gabriel Dunatov, engineered by David Tatasciore, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. SpaceX's Starship 39 rocket launching from Starbase during the 12th test flight. Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Natürlich geht es heute um die SpaceX-S1-IPO-Filings, aber vorher sprechen wir über die Google I/O (Universal Cart, Gemini Spark, Gemini 3.5 Flash und viele mehr). Wir vergleichen Umsatz und Verlust (Gewinn) von OpenAI und Anthropic. Andrej Karpathy wechselt zu Anthropic, Cursor erreicht $3 Mrd. Annual Sales Rate. Starlink ist die SpaceXs Cashcow ($11 Mrd. Umsatz, $4,4 Mrd. Profit) und subventioniert die mit 12,5% wachsende KI-Sparte. OpenAI kündigt am Tag des S1-Filings überraschend frühen IPO an. Binance launcht SpaceX Pre-IPO Perpetuals. Bezos hat sich diese Woche auch zu Wort gemeldet. Zudem sprechen wir über Forum-AI-Studie: Falsche News-Antworten von KI, Google holt Contextual-AI-Team für $100 Mio, Airbnb erweitert auf Hotels und Mietwagen. Earnings von Nvidia und Workday. SAP, Mistral und unser Digitalminister Wildberger lässt offenbar Texte/Reden von schreiben. Unterstütze unseren Podcast und entdecke die Angebote unserer Werbepartner auf ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠doppelgaenger.io/werbung⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Vielen Dank!  Philipp Glöckler und Philipp Klöckner sprechen heute über: (00:04:00) Google I/O Recap (00:25:44) OpenAI Q1 Earnings: $5,7 Mrd. (00:34:33) Anthropic Q1 & profitable im Juni (00:41:21) Karpathy zu Anthropic (00:42:40) Cursor bei $3 Mrd. Runrate (00:44:39) SpaceX S1 Filing Deep Dive (01:19:30) SpaceX kauft Cybertrucks für $140 Mio. (01:24:30) OpenAI IPO-Filing kommt früher (01:28:29) SpaceX Pre-IPO Perpetuals (01:32:37) Arbeiter stirbt in Starbase (01:33:28) Bezos: Space-Datacenter & Steuer-Debatte (01:38:34) Forum AI: GROK unzuverlässig bei News (01:41:19) Google holt Contextual-AI-Team für $100 Mio. (01:41:51) Airbnb: Hotels, Mietwagen, Everything-Travel (01:43:39) Nvidia Earnings +85% (01:46:51) Workday Earnings +14% (01:47:22) Zuckerberg-Audio: Mitarbeiter-Spionage (01:47:44) Enhanced Games (Steroid-Olympics) (01:52:21) Reuters: GROK 3 von 400 US-Behörden-Fällen (01:53:12) WaPo: DOGE-Datenzugriffe geheim (01:54:04) Trump schützt sich vor IRS (01:54:46) Cohere übernimmt Reliant AI Shownotes Google I/O 2026: Größte AI-Ankündigungen - theverge.com OpenAI behält $1 Mrd. Umsatz-Vorsprung vor Anthropic in Q1 - theinformation.com OpenAI Action-Figur-Werbung auf Instagram - instagram.com Anthropic wird erstmals profitabel - wsj.com Andrej Karpathy wechselt zu Anthropic - bloomberg.com Cursor erreicht $3 Mrd. Annual Sales Rate - bloomberg.com SpaceX-IPO: Founders Fund vor $60 Mrd. Return - theinformation.com OpenAI IPO-Filing kommt früh - wsj.com OpenAI klaut SpaceX die Show mit IPO-Ankündigung - marketwatch.com Binance launcht Pre-IPO Perpetuals für SpaceX - prnewswire.com SpaceX: Arbeiter stirbt in Starbase - futurism.com Bezos / Blue Origin: Data Center im All - cnbc.com WOLF Financial Tweet (bitte manuell prüfen) - xcancel.com Studie: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok bei News unzuverlässig - bloomberg.com Google: $100 Mio. Acqui-License von Bezos' Contextual AI - bloomberg.com Airbnb fügt Hotels und Mietwagen hinzu - cnbc.com Nvidia-Earnings: +85% durch AI Boom - theguardian.com Workday Q1 Earnings: Aktie +14% - cnbc.com LayoffAI Tweet - xcancel.com Steroid Olympics - ft.com Christian Angermayer und die Enhanced Games - theguardian.com Grok fällt in Washington durch: Nur 3 von 400 Behörden-Fällen - reuters.com Behörden verweigern Auskunft über DOGE-Datenzugriffe - washingtonpost.com Trump schützt eigene Steuererklärungen vor IRS-Prüfung - spiegel.de Cohere übernimmt deutsches KI-Startup Reliant AI - manager-magazin.de Reliant-AI-Gründer Karl-Moritz Hermann verkündet Cohere-Deal - linkedin.com Schreibt ChatGPT die Reden des Digitalministers? - de.linkedin.com

LIVE: SpaceX Starship Launch & UFO NewsStarship Flight 12 (IFT-12) is the maiden flight of Starship Version 3 (Block 3), using Booster 19 (B19) and Ship 39 (S39). It marks the first launch from Starbase's new Orbital Launch Pad 2 (Pad B) and debuts major redesigns for full rapid reusability.The flight is a suborbital test (transatmospheric trajectory), with the booster splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico and the ship in the Indian Ocean. Launch targeted for May 21, 2026, around 5:30–7:00 PM CDT (window shifted to ~6:00 PM CT).Key Highlights and Special FeaturesFirst V3 Vehicles: Significant upgrades to Starship, Super Heavy, and Raptor 3 engines (clean-sheet propulsion changes, increased tank volume, new startup methods, larger grid fins on booster). These incorporate lessons from prior flights for higher performance, reliability, and eventual 100+ ton payloads to orbit.New Launch Pad (Pad 2): First use of the redesigned pad with upgraded propellant farms (more capacity and faster pumps) and improved tower chopsticks (electromechanical actuators for speed/reliability).Heavy Payload Demo: Deploys 22 Starlink simulators (~44 tonnes total mass, a record for Starship tests). Includes 20 standard simulators + 2 specially modified ones to scan Starship's heat shield during flight and transmit imagery (testing future tile inspection for return-to-launch-site missions). Some tiles were painted white to simulate damage.In-Space and Reentry Tests:Single Raptor engine relight in space.Controlled reentry with banking maneuver (simulating future Starbase return trajectory).Intentional stress test on rear flaps.One heat shield tile was intentionally removed to measure the effects on adjacent tiles.Booster Objectives: Full launch, ascent, hot-staging separation, boostback burn, and landing burn — but no tower catch attempt (conservative water landing as it's the first V3 flight).Raptor 3 Power: 33 engines on the booster delivering massive thrust (over 9,000 metric tons), with improved reliability shown in static fires.This flight focuses on proving the redesigned architecture in real conditions rather than attempting catches or full orbits yet. It's a big iterative step toward operational reusability, orbital refueling, and missions like Artemis or Mars.AttributionSpielberg on The Late Show via UAP James@UAPJames on Xhttps://x.com/UAPJames/status/2057061621818683797?s=20Avi Loeb on Neil DeGrasse Tyson via Red Panda Koala @RedPandaKoala on Xhttps://x.com/RedPandaKoala/status/2056986929795871046?s=20Starship Flight 12 Launch via SpaceX Broadcasthttps://www.spacex.com/launches/starship-flight-12Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-tempest-universe--4712510/support.Please follow the #podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTempestUniversePodcast?sub_confirmation=1

Starbase. Prospera. California Forever. Mars. From private cities to interstellar colonies, tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel have backed experiments designed to operate beyond the borders — and laws — most of us live by. So we wondered: has this happened before? In this episode, we visit an Arctic archipelago, homesteads floating in the ocean, and a startup city in Honduras to explore where places built with the ultra-rich in mind leave all the rest of us.Guests:Atossa Araxia Abrahamian, author of The Cosmopolites and The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the WorldWayne Gramlich, retired computer engineerDan Girma, producer on NPR's Embedded podcastJacob Silverman, author of Gilded Rage: Elon Musk and the Radicalization of Silicon ValleyTo access bonus episodes and listen to Throughline sponsor-free, subscribe to Throughline+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org/throughline.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

8. Starbase and the Era of the Starship In Boca Chica, Texas, SpaceX built Starbase, a massive rocket factory and launch site, from modest beginnings in a swamp. The focus here is on Starship and the Super Heavy booster, a fully reusable system more powerful than the Saturn V. Innovative "chopstick" arms on the launch tower are designed to catch returning boosters to eliminate landing legs and speed up relaunching. The ultimate vision involves a fleet of starships refueling in low Earth orbit before departing for Mars every two years, establishing a permanent human presence on the Red Planet. (8)1897 WAR OF THE WORLDS

Preview for later. Bob Zimmerman explains why the town of Starbase, Texas, may cancel its upcoming elections. With no challengers appearing for the incumbent SpaceX-affiliated officials, Texas law allows for the cancellation of uncontested races. (12)1938