David Burbach 🇺🇸
@dburbach
Prof. National Security and International Relations. Space security, civil-military relations. Cats, science, photography for fun. Providence RI; Oregon at heart! Personal views ONLY; no govt resources used. Assoc Ed @TNSR.org
Interesting. No idea how reasonable or not this "high risk high reward" decision was in 2022 but apparently did not pan out
Heh, when even @sciguyspace.bsky.social says Starship unlikely to launch astronauts for maybe 10 years. I recall being jeered by the SpaceX brigade a decade ago for doubting Starship would carry general public passengers by 2025. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...
Where your Defense and NASA tax dollars are going, folks, to the overt racist right here. And he was just as much a darling of Dems through 2024 too.
A peak life experience (however jet lagged, sore, and sandblasted I was)
From Matt Yglesias. Political scientist here, and I'm speechless. Like, a guy who sat through one lecture on the spatial model of voting and called that good enough for a pundit career?
That said, there was clearly a side of him I didn't see in his office
Oh goodness yes. Anya (mom) clearly grooms Marshall (son) to express dominance. He is absolutely not authorized to groom back. Usually ends in a draw now given he's bigger than her and not so cowed after six years.
One possible use Reflect has cited is for someone (someone rich) to hire artificial sunlight for an all-night outdoor party. Except their beam is three miles wide, so your whole neighborhood (and nearby airport) get to join in, like it or not!
The 'AI' critter id in my trail cam really seems to default to "deer" as a comfort zone. Either that or "magma disturbance"
Well this was new to me via @talkingpointsmemo.com . No international regulations against it, would need US govt approval but that seems likely (and would have been under Biden or Obama). But with $250k in the bank they have a lot, LOT, of money left to raise
Tectonically, in the Wienerwald you hiked up an Alp! Barely 😂 bsky.app/profile/auss...
Ooh, I love that sort of photo. But a guess yet another reason to own a dslr gone
Theyvr all been like this, from different numbers and different (real) location each day. If a scam, hard to see how it works if I show up to an empty Grange hall or random brewpup, so I'm confused
I thought "make the rubble bounce" was meant to convey the pointlessness of re-blowing-up targets already thoroughly blowed up, but apparently JSOC understood rubble-bouncing as a valid objective worth major effort and risk?
Looks like maybe a fox in our urban backyard last night?!? Not chubby enough to be the neighbor cats at least
July 4th 1976, Johnny Cash is Grand Marshal of the Independence Day parade in DC. His "Man In Black" is on my 'ambiguously patriotic 4th of July' playlist. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDd3...
Maybe they can have some of the air armada passing overhead do water drops? As some USFS firefighting tankers?