Comments on: August 14, 2024 Quick space links https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/august-14-2024-quick-space-links/ Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: wayne https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/august-14-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1510347 Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:45:00 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107512#comment-1510347 Dropping this in here….

Gregg Kihn
[July 10, 1949 – August 13, 2024]

“The Breakup Song” (They Don’t Write ‘Em)
Live at Wolfgangs Vault (February 24, 2011)
https://youtu.be/vzQ07lataP4
4:24

“I’d like to do a song that put both my kids through College, and partial grandchildren as well…”

]]> By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/august-14-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1509182 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:51:29 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107512#comment-1509182 In reply to Blair Ivey.

Blair Ivey: There is a link at the tweet to the original Hubble press release with a high resolution version.

]]> By: Blair Ivey https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/august-14-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1509172 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 04:43:57 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107512#comment-1509172 “On this day in 2007 the Hubble Space Telescope capture a rare edge on view of Uranus and its rings”

That’s a Cool Image. Lo-res, but still cool.

]]> By: Richard M https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/august-14-2024-quick-space-links/#comment-1509034 Thu, 15 Aug 2024 01:00:20 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107512#comment-1509034 Following up on the TCEQ story, iyt looks like the lawfare activists *may* have finally scored a hit – there may be state enforcement action against SpaceX in the works now. From Tim Fernholz of Payload, quote tweeting SpaceX’s correction of CNBC’s latest “revision” of their story on Starbase wastewater discharges:

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Here’s SpaceX’s response, which stresses the work they do on compliance but basically confirms they have been discharging wastewater without a permit.
3:42 PM · Aug 12, 2024

It’s always interesting when a company has a comprehensive response like this prepared at publication time but doesn’t share it with the journalist, who I would guess asked for comment days before publishing
3:44 PM · Aug 12, 2024

I asked TCEQ, the Texas environmental regulatory agency, whether it gave SpaceX permission to discharge wastewater without a permit.

The answer? “There is a pending enforcement action. Due to this, we cannot comment any further at this time.”
12:53 PM · Aug 14, 2024

One of the aforementioned activists then weighs in, but I’ll let interested parties go there to read it if they wanted.

https://x.com/TimFernholz/status/1823764945043165611

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