You have to at least give me some credit for truing to find different things to talk about.  You’re probably skipping to beer and then proceeding directly to bitching about, I dunno, SCOTUS? Corporate Media?

I’m right aren’t I?

This is my review of Boulevard Rye on Rye

Something that caught everyone’s attention this week SpaceX test, that….blew up.  Nobody was on board.

The 165-foot-tall (50 meters) SN8 appeared to notch all of these big milestones, except for the final one: The vehicle hit its landing mark but came in too fast, exploding in a dramatic fireball 6 minutes and 42 seconds after liftoff.

SN8’s rapid unplanned disassembly did nothing to dampen the spirits of SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, who was thrilled by the results of today’s flight.

“Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed! Congrats SpaceX team hell yeah!!” Musk tweeted this evening.

“Mars, here we come!” he added in another tweet.

Musk was not expecting complete, wire-to-wire success today; he had previously given SN8 (short for “Serial No. 8”) just a 1-in-3 chance of landing in one piece. 

Emphasis mine.

Lets be real,  this is actually fantastic news if you compare the number of exploding rockets NASA built—with astronauts onboard.  Not to mention the Soviets, they probably had more but covered them up.

Musk was in the news even earlier this week when it was discovered the terms of service (ToS) for his Starlink satellite service included a small provision regarding the colonization of Mars:

For services provided on Mars, or in transit to Mars via Starship or other colonization spacecraft, the parties recognize Mars as a free planet and that no Earth-based government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities. Accordingly, Disputes will be settled through self-governing principles, established in good faith at the time of the Martian settlement.

 

Let it be known, Musk spends an extraordinary amount of time trying to get me to not hate him.   Yes, I am that self-absorbed to believe he threw this in there specifically to entertain me.

What do you mean this won’t hold up in court…there is no court.

The issue the linked editorial presents is Mars being a celestial body, falls under International Law. Mars therefore falls under the jurisdiction of the international treaties the US is a signatory and SpaceX is launching from the US.  They therefore that line in the ToS is void.

I don’t think so.  I am reminded of the idiotic nostrum that possession is 9/10 of the law, but more importantly that the key to government edict is the idea of legitimacy.  Without it there is no sense in following anything they say we need to do.  What many forget (not around here, obviously) that legitimacy is contingent upon their ability to enforce their edicts.

How can enforce their edict in a place where it it will take 9 months to reach, with a 26 month “ideal launch window?”

The truth is it will not be easy once the colony reaches a point where it can sustain itself without input from Earth.  At that point those who rule will be there locally, determined in a way the locals agree.  We’ve seen this story before.  It presents an optimistic view of the future if those locals see it the same way, even if the present appears awful.

 

This is an absolutely ryetastic beer.  Boulevard is known for their heavy Belgian-style ales and this one spent some time in a rye barrel with a dash of maple syrup.  Ever have Crown Royal Maple?  I could say it is like that and be done with this article and declare “yet another week in the bag!”… but I’d be lying.  There is that type of flavor in this but thankfully, its mostly the Quad.  Its the Quad followed by a dash of Crown Royal Maple.  Thats not so bad, because Crown Royal Maple is everything that Jack Daniels Tennessee Honey wanted to be but failed miserably. Boulevard Rye on Rye:  4.5/5