Some LC-36 updates. Now that we’ve had access to the pad and integration facility we can share a bit of good news. The propellant farm, oxygen, liquid hydrogen and LNG tanks are all in good shape. This is good luck because these are very long lead items. The water tower is also good. The big support tower is damaged, but it can be repaired in place rather than torn down and replaced. The booster “Never Tell Me The Odds” and the three GS-2s that were onsite in the integration facility also look good.
I’ve seen some speculation that we might move directly to the 9x4 configuration, but we won’t do that. Rate manufacturing of 7x2 is going well, and we’re going to continue that at pace as planned and store the stages for use. In addition, we had already been working for some time on eliminating our transporter-erector in favor of an alternative vertical conop, and we’ll now go directly to that; so we don’t need a new transporter-erector.
We will fly again before the end of this year. Gradatim Ferociter.
BIG NEWS: Microsoft is launching its first real MacBook Pro competitor in the Apple Silicon era with its new Surface Laptop Ultra, coming this fall.
Microsoft is making a beefed-up Surface Laptop complete with NVIDIA’s new N1X SoC, officially dubbed RTX Spark. It’s the most powerful Surface ever made, competing head to head with high-end configurations of the MacBook Pro and offering 1 petaflop of AI Compute power, up to 128GB unified memory, and full CUDA support.
It features an incredible 15-inch Mini-LED screen, the largest haptic trackpad ever on a Surface, and a wider selection of ports including HDMI and a full-sized SD card reader.
This is the full package. The ultimate Windows laptop. So exciting. https://t.co/zrGzfiGdoB
The media has been reporting that China is making a major effort to increase the birth rate.
As evident for this, they’re paying $500 a year for each child under three.
That’s woefully inadequate. I wish there was a society that made a fraction of the effort it put toward shovelling money to retirees toward increasing fertility.
@FangYi11101@DeepValue000 Yeah the factor zoo has evolved by so much against FF3/5 that I'm not sure any equity quants actually have "alpha". Not even convinced that most arb strategies are alpha either.