There's a great documentary "Majority Rules" Majority Rules about Alaska's 2022 open primary & #RankedChoiceVoting of top 4 in general election. Also looks at RCV measures in AZ CO DC ID MT NV OR. Stream on AppleTV, Google/YT, Amazon. majorityrulesfilm.com #politics #USpol

SPACE.com NASA Artemis NASA Ars Technica Eric Berger Stephen Clark "NASA Identifies Root Cause of Orion Heat Shield Char Loss" by Marcia Smith Marcia Smith - Not saying what it is, they claim to now know root cause of #Orion heat shield issue. Problem: #Artemis2 heat shield is already built. spacepolicyonline.com/news/nasa-iden… #Artemis🚀 #NASA🇺🇸 #Moon🌘

"Clark County Auditor identifies 488 damaged ballots from burned ballot box" by KOIN News CBS Portland - 345 of those voters already requested replacement ballots based on news of ballot box fire at Fisher's Landing in Vancouver WA. koin.com/news/elections… #Election2024 #crime

"Disposal" by @XKCD comic - You wouldn't even have to dig the hole if you find a real estate listing for a decommissioned missile silo. xkcd.com/3005/ #space☄️ #rocketry🚀 #WTF🤪

"Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk" by @TheNewStack / Darryl Taft - US🇺🇸 CISA requires software vendors to publish plan by Jan 2026 on migration away from memory unsafe languages C/C++ thenewstack.io/feds-critical-… #cybersecurity #software #engineering #tech

"Boeing & union reach sweetened contract offer in bid to end strike, vote scheduled for Monday" by CNBC / Leslie Josephs - 48 days into strike, union recommended members vote in favor of latest deal. cnbc.com/2024/10/31/boe… #BoeingStrike #business #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

"The puzzle of Spirit Lake has Pacific Northwesterners still dealing with Mount St Helens eruption 44 years later" by OPB PBS Portland - After Mt St Helens 1980 eruption moved Spirit Lake, unstable natural dam threatens collapse & flood opb.org/article/2024/1… #volcano #geology

"Alaska Air is growing; it needs Boeing to keep up" by The Seattle Times / alex halverson - Seattle-based Alaska Airlines now newly merged with Hawaiian has plans for new planes. But factory idle due to #BoeingStrike. seattletimes.com/business/alask… #business #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

"Lilium insolvent" by AOPA AOPA - German #eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff & landing aircraft) startup goes bankrupt aopa.org/news-and-media… #aviation #business #avgeek

"Probabilistic Uncertainty" by @XKCD comic - In search of a scientific definition of when to panic. 😱 Let's hope he never finds the answer. xkcd.com/3007/ #math #WTF

"Russia behind plot to plant bombs on cargo planes, Western official says" by NBC News - Russians arrested in Poland for shipping explosives intended to bring down #cargo planes bound for US & Canada. nbcnews.com/news/world/rus… #aviation #travel #avgeek #crime

Trivia: Texas is among the states that require an excuse to vote by mail. But since all #NASA astronauts live in Houston, they have an automatic excuse granted to astronauts in orbit. (PD image from Wikipedia) #space #Election2024