Monday Overnight Open Thread (10/27/25)

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"We've had a tremendous amount of interest since we announced that we were exploring the pro league earlier this year. I think that really just shows the strong belief in, and the demand for, a professional flag league for both women and men."Stephanie Kwok, the NFL's vice president and head of NFL Flag

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‘Don’t have them in your home. Take every precaution you can. Listen to your gut. I never thought it would happen to my child.’ Clare Gillespie

Insanity. Doing the same shit but expecting better results.

Even as our uneducated media goes bonkers over another Musk kerfuffle, this time with interim NASA administration Sean Duffy, it is ignoring what now appears to be a strong effort by NASA to cover up some serious issues with the Orion capsule’s heat shield, issues that might be far more serious than outlined in a May 2024 inspector general (IG) report.

That IG report [pdf] found the following:

Specifically, portions of the char layer wore away differently than NASA engineers predicted, cracking and breaking off the spacecraft in fragments that created a trail of debris rather than melting away as designed (see Figure 3 [shown to the right]). The unexpected behavior of the Avcoat creates a risk that the heat shield may not sufficiently protect the capsule’s systems and crew from the extreme heat of reentry on future missions. Moreover, while there was no evidence of impact with the Crew Module, the quantity and size of the debris could have caused enough structural damage to cause one of Orion’s parachutes to fail. Should the same issue occur on future Artemis missions, it could lead to the loss of the vehicle or crew.

In our judgment, the unexpected behavior of the heat shield poses a significant risk to the safety of
future crewed missions. [emphasis mine]

If you want a Rolex. Go out and buy it. Genius Award Winner.

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posted by Misanthropic Humanitarian at 10:03 PM

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