Stuff: Rocket Lab ships two satellites to Cape Canaveral launch site for Nasa Mars mission
Fast Facts
- Space company Rocket Lab has shipped two Mars-bound spacecraft to Cape Canaveral for launch.
- The twin spacecraft, known as Blue and Gold, are designed for a mission that will help study the Mars magnetosphere.
- The mission would measure plasma and magnetic fields around Mars.
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Rocket Lab is an American company with a subsidiary and head office in Auckland.
Stuff: Ten things I’ll never understand about the US
Never mind serious issues such as politics and gun-control: as travellers in America, we have a host of more immediate, minor headscratchers to deal with.
CleanTechnica: Archer Gets Two Big Orders For Its Electric Aircraft
I wrote the other day about Archer Aviationpreparing for electric air taxi service in Los Angeles and San Francisco for the 2026 World Cup and the 2028 Olympics. A month prior, we wrote about Stellantis (the giant automaker) investing $55 million into Archer. But news from Archer is moving on quickly. The latest announcements from the past few days are that Archer has landed two big orders — one big in volume, and one big because of who the buyer is and what that could mean down the line.
Future Flight Global signed an agreement with Archer and plans to buy 116 electric “Midnight” aircraft from Archer. That’s a planned purchase totaling $580 million.
Wikipedia: Canadian Future Party
The Canadian Future Party (CFP; French: Parti avenir canadien, PAC) is a minor federal political party in Canada that was officially launched in 2024. It describes itself as being politically centrist. It is currently led by interim leader Dominic Cardy.
The Canadian Future Party: Home
More than two thirds of Canadians feel politically homeless. They’re worried about growing extremism on the left and right, worried our institutions are growing weaker, even as government gets bigger. The Canadian Future Party has a message for those Canadians: we may have been politically homeless but we are not helpless. Together, we can create a Canada with sensible, bold solutions to the problems our country faces – from health care to housing to the climate crisis.
WashPo: Jennifer Rubin: Trump’s decline: His interviews and lies get worse
Trump seems unable to handle reality. His opponent is beating him by multiple metrics, especially crowd size. In response, he posted several obvious lies on Truth Social, claiming that “nobody was there” and that photos and video of Vice President Kamala Harris’s crowds were AI-generated (our own reporters were eyewitnesses to the event). As lawyer and anti-Trump commentator George Conway said on MSNBC, “He has completely lost it. This post is, beyond question, delusional. But is was also inevitable because he realizes … he’s not just running for the presidency, he’s running for his freedom.”
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A glitch-plagued X interview (unable to start for 45 minutes) with Elon Musk, owner of the social media site, only made things worse. People on social media reflected shock at hearing him slur and ramble his way through a softball interview. His obsession with President Joe Biden, who is no longer running, sounds like Trump cannot cope with his actual opponents. A much less alarming performance in the debate effectively ended President Biden’s campaign.
NYT: Another North Carolina House Collapses Amid Hurricane Ernesto’s Waves
In Rodanthe, N.C., seven homes have been lost to the ocean in the last four years, as rising sea levels erode shorelines and put more buildings at risk.
NYT: The Painkiller Used for Just About Anything
All three are taking the non-opioid pain drug for off-label uses. The only conditions for which gabapentin has been approved for adult use by the Food and Drug Administration are epileptic seizures, in 1993, and postherpetic neuralgia, the nerve pain that can linger after a bout of shingles, in 2002.
Last Updated: 17.Aug.2024 23:58 EDT
