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We might be a little late on reporting for this one – the space exploration community is large, and sometimes, it’s hard to keep track of everything happening. But whenever there is a success, it’s worth pointing out. Back in June, two teams successfully completed the latest stage of the Break the Ice Challenge to mine water from the Moon. The Break, the Ice Challenge is one of NASA’s Centennial Challenges, which aims to tackle technologies useful in later space exploration. The Centennial Challenges have been around in different guises for almost two decades. Still, recently, they have narrowed their focus to three challenges, mainly pertaining to the upcoming Artemis moon missions. However, nearly every year, they have a challenge that pushes the boundaries of known technology closer to the end-use case for a mission. This year, the competition took place at Alabama A&M’s Agribition Center in Huntsville, near NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center. It took place on June 11th and 12th and featured seven teams that had made it to the finals by passing tests in earlier stages. NASA released a video of the competition at Alabama A&MCredit – NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center YouTube Channel Break the Ice has been a repeating challenge since 2020; however, it had similar predecessors going back to 2007, when it was known as the Regolith Excavation Challenge. This year’s challenge involved traversing rugged terrain, mining material from lunar regolith simulant, and seemingly dispersing it, as seen in a YouTube video released by NASA. There must be something about this challenge structure because the team’s lead engineer who won the competition this year, Todd Mendenhall of Terra Engineering, also competed in the 2007 challenge. Almost 20 years later, he and his wife are still working on autonomous lunar excavator technologies and are very successful at it. Terra Engineering’s rover, Fracture, completed most of the challenges before it, taking home a grand prize of $1 million. Starpath Robotics, a small start-up based near SpaceX’s facility in Hawthorne, California, took second in the competition and $500,000 in award money. Another team from Michigan Technological University completed the group of three that passed enough of the challenges that they were invited to test their rovers in the Thermal Vacuum Chamber at NASA’s Marshall Spaceflight Center. Terra Engineering’s Fracture Rover completed a 15 day endurance test as part of the challenge, as seen here.Credit – Terra Engineering YouTube Channel Testing would be necessary if these rovers ever see adoption into a fully-fledged lunar mission. However, NASA hasn’t been great at pipelining the technologies developed as part of these challenges into actual field-ready hardware. The challenges usually provide a fun engineering task for teams, but further effort to turn it into a real mission concept isn’t forthcoming. Other challenges, ranging from space tether robots to the original regolith challenge participants, have come and gone, with almost none of the technologies they’ve worked on making it through for use in an actual mission. It’s unclear whether the Break the Ice Challenge participants will suffer the same fate or if the challenge will return again next year. Theoretically, it should be possible to derisk the technology to a point where NASA gets a fully functional autonomous lunar excavator simply by continuing the challenge series for long enough. There hasn’t been an announcement about the next round of competition; however, the impressive displays of engineering from the various teams are viewable on YouTube if you’re interested in seeing how far they’ve come. Learn More:NASA – California Teams Win $1.5 Million in NASA’s Break the Ice Lunar ChallengeUT – NASA and HeroX are Looking to Light Up the Moon!UT – We Could Get Material On The Moon By Shocking It With LightningUT – Some Lunar Regolith is Better for Living Off the Land on the Moon Lead Image:Valerie and Todd Mendenhall (front) are presented with a $1M check and trophy for winning NASA’s Break the Ice Challenge, supported by executives from Alabama A&M and NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.Credit – NASA The post The NASA Break the Ice Challenge Awards $1.5M to Two Start-Ups appeared first on Universe Today.

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Politics The Mystery of Michelle Obama The former first lady didn’t seem like someone who wants to be president in her turn at the DNC. Your humble correspondent is in bad decline. Plague (genus: respiratory, locus: head, although there is something brewing in the chest region this morning) has struck the house of Russo. The Democratic National Convention, while considerably less of a carnival from hell than its Republican counterpart last month, is still a pretty bad trip when you are stuffed to the Afrin-spritzed gills with Zyn, instant coffee, Sudafed (the real stuff, not PE), and just a wee little glass of Wild Turkey (rocks) to smooth the ragged edge of the Sudafed. This is no condition in which to watch serious television. This is no condition in which to watch Michelle Obama.  I don’t have a lot of opinions or feelings attached to the former first lady. Thanks to an old-fashioned upbringing, I am disinclined to have detailed opinions about other men’s wives, even the wives of public figures. I was too young to be deeply invested in the Obama thing. By time I got the franchise, Barack was something of a figure of fun (competitions around the lunch table to see who could muster the most convincing Uh, let me be clear!), and the parade of broken promises about ending the war, about shutting Gitmo, etc., had dampened the heady enthusiasm of 2008. If you didn’t like his policies, there seemed to be little chance of getting rid of him or doing much beyond gumming up his legislative agenda. It was, for me, an era that discouraged strong passions. So the devotees of Michelle Obama Theory kind of mystify me. So far as I can tell, there are three main schools. The first is straightforward and embarrassing celebrity-worship, the same pathological grrrl-power! complex of behaviors trotted out for Taylor Swift, for Beyonce, for whatever new, horrifying pop stars of the feminine persuasion they’re cooking up in Rick Rubin’s subterranean complex of torture chambers. The second holds that Michelle Obama is a man, lesbian, and/or lizard. Both these groups spend an awful lot of time posting, inspecting, and commenting on pictures of Michelle Obama on social media. The third school, which is kind of chin-stroking and consciously intellectual and—dare I say it?—aspirationally Obamaesque, engages in open-ended psychological speculation about why Michelle, an accomplished lawyer who was going places, would throw it all away to be just a planet orbiting Barack’s splendid sun. All three types of Michelle Obama Theorist think she might run for president. I should mention, for the sake of completeness, that my teacher friends tell me the under-25 set mostly associates Michelle Obama with ruining school lunches.  So I guess I’m basically in the third camp, the chin-stroking one, to the degree I have any coherent priors. I tried to bring psychology to bear as, sniffling and groaning, I watched Michelle’s opening act for her husband and attempted to mill the wheat of experience into a neatly bagged column. It wasn’t a particularly good speech, but it wasn’t terrible, either. She threw some red meat to the party’s identity-politics factions—“Who’s gonna tell [Trump] the job he is currently seeking might just be one of those Black jobs?”—but her delivery was cool, studied. Her outfit was, to my eyes, unusual, but probably the sort of thing people who know about clothes like. She didn’t seem to feed off the crowd’s energy the way her husband or other generational political talents do—Bill Clinton, Trump—but she wasn’t cowed or nervous, either. She gave the impression of someone doing a job, and doing it competently without particular feelings about it one way or other. Maybe it’s a projection of my own phlegm-sodden ennui, but I didn’t get the sense that Michelle Obama wants to be president. In fact, I didn’t get a sense of anything about her subjective experience, her wants, fears, or passions. I noticed for the first time that she has a slight imperfection in her front teeth—she has forgone the cosmetic orthodontia that has become universal in the American upper classes. That seems human; there’s a real person behind the fame and obsession and Michelle Obama Theory. I’ve just got no insight into that person—goose egg, zip. She is basically a private person with a public job. People have the wildest relations to politicians. Tim Walz is the dad I wanted! Donald Trump is like my uncle who drinks two Yuenglings at Thanksgiving and starts having opinions about Mexicans! Momala! I don’t think that’s particularly normal or healthy, especially in a notional republic. I can’t imagine wanting to play that game, doing what it takes to meet those associations and turn them into fundraising and votes. Michelle Obama, at least as she was last night, doesn’t seem to want to play the game either. Who can blame her? Especially with the school lunch thing. I mean, do you want to be the politico who killed pizza day? I’d keep to myself, too. The post The Mystery of Michelle Obama appeared first on The American Conservative.

Politics Obama Is Still a Condescending Totalitarian The former president’s DNC speech was more coherent than any Democratic message so far—and darker. Following a failed presidential campaign defined by its standard-bearer’s angry incoherence—and amid a current presidential campaign defined by its candidate’s vague vibes and feigned joyfulness—Democrats must have greeted the former President Barack Obama’s firm coherence last night with welcome relief. Obama served as the keynote speaker Tuesday night at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where, in a surprise to no one at all, he spoke more eloquently than President Joe Biden and with far more precision than Vice President Kamala Harris. Of course, it is no great feat that Obama sounded good when compared to a president as ineffectual as Biden and a nominee as ill-defined as Harris.  Even Obama himself must have recognized that his appearance at the convention was akin to a movie star agreeing to appear in a community theater production, but that did not stop him from soaking in the adulation. He accused the Republicans of forming a cult of personality around Trump, but what was this if not that?  Obama was particularly tactless in discussing Biden’s involuntary exit from the race. “Looking back, I can say without question that my first big decision as your nominee turned out to be one of my best, and that was asking Joe Biden to serve by my side as vice president,” Obama said, but the use of the phrase “one of” seemed needlessly pedantic. At the moment of Biden’s ignominious relinquishing of power, why not just say that picking him was flat-out your best decision—period?  Later on, Obama said that Biden would be remembered as “an outstanding president,” a turn of phrase with a decidedly lukewarm flavor, given the former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s assertion that the president deserves a spot on Mount Rushmore. (Will Biden’s likeness on the monument include his signature sunglasses?) Of course, Obama maybe had a point. His enumerations of Biden’s alleged achievements were spurious at best and laughable at worst. In the latter category was Obama’s incredible statement that, amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Biden possessed the character “to put politics aside and do what was right”—a claim unlikely to ring true for any worker who faced a vaccine mandate.  Then Obama adopted the current Democratic formulation of praising Biden for his purported decision to quit the race—for, as Obama put it, “putting his own ambition aside for the sake of the country.” The crowd cheered this talking point without seeming to grasp its almost comically illogical implications: Biden is to be commended for being a great president, so great that he was sure to lose in November, and commended again for recognizing and acting upon his loser status by withdrawing. Or something like that.  That settled, Obama then articulated the Democrats’ actual vision for the country, which, if you squint, might conjure memories of an Obama-era meme, the notorious “Pajama Boy.” You remember him: He was the plaid pajama-clad millennial featured in a pro-Obamacare Tweet in December 2013. The tweet read as follows: “Wear pajamas. Drink hot chocolate. Talk about getting health insurance.” Many of us found Pajama Boy too much to bear because of this avatar’s willingness—his plain eagerness—to depend upon a clunky, inefficient government program, and the implication that no one in their right mind could possibly be opposed to said program.  All these years later, the same attitude behind Pajama Boy was baked into Obama’s incredulity when he said, on Tuesday night, that “a lot of Americans don’t believe that government can help.” As expressed in his remarks at the DNC, Obama regards it as within the government’s power and purview to get involved in housing, or, as he put it, to “build more units.” Obama said that Harris would work to “limit out-of-pocket costs” in health insurance. Most ominously, Obama said that Harris “won’t be focused on her problems, she’ll be focused on yours”—a scary prospect and perhaps the best-ever argument on behalf of libertarianism.  What of those who want no part in Harris’s interest in their lives? Obama spent a good chunk of the speech arguing for mutual understanding among Americans, but he framed this apparent plea for empathy as condescendingly as he talked about his former vice president. “If a parent or grandparent occasionally says something that makes us cringe, we don’t automatically assume they’re bad people,” Obama said. “We recognize that the world is moving fast, that they need time and maybe a little encouragement to catch up.” (Cue the crickets in the convention hall.) One can make certain inferences here: If you dissent from the Democratic agenda—including its endorsement of the trans agenda, climate change hysteria, and near-religious fervor for unrestricted abortion (which the former president, adopting the lexicon of the current left, euphemistically described as a “healthcare decision”)—Obama is not saying that he actually will tolerate your viewpoint. He is simply saying he will be patient with you until you come around to his. And if you don’t, you may learn the lesson of Joe Biden: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out. The post Obama Is Still a Condescending Totalitarian appeared first on The American Conservative.

Results from Florida’s Republican primary showed the incumbent Rep. Matt Gaetz winning decisively over the challenger Aaron Dimmock, 71 to 29 percent. Dimmock, a Navy veteran, was backed by the former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), whose allies in the Florida Patriots PAC spent $3.5 million attacking Gaetz and promoting Dimmock’s candidacy. Gaetz, who had Donald Trump’s endorsement during the primary, spent $1.5 million of his own, making the race one of the country’s most expensive this season. Gaetz will now face Democratic candidate Gay Valimont in the November general election for Florida’s First Congressional District. Gaetz is heavily favored to win. Dimmock’s run against Gaetz was part of a broader primary effort mounted by McCarthy and his friends and allies to eject a number of House Republicans who voted for his removal as speaker in 2023, including Bob Good (R-Va.), Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), and Eli Crane (R-Ariz.). The “revenge tour” has had disappointing results for McCarthy so far—of the representatives he attempted to turn out of office, only Good was ousted. The post Matt Gaetz Beats McCarthy-Backed Primary Challenge appeared first on The American Conservative.