Jeff Wise

Pushed away from the bot-filled hellscape of Twitter, the blind contrarians have made their way here. Combined with the feverish descent into authoritarian fascism, people want to feel right more than ever. It doesn't matter if they are actually right, as long as they can feel like they are.

So simple. Might add: "and going forward we will be enforcing the laws even when the perp is rich or powerful."

Yes, I've experienced many earthquakes in Japan and California and that was much shorter and sharper, my first thought was that it was a bomb blast.

Earthquake in the NY/NJ area? Felt like a short, sharp shock about 10.20pm

I imagine that's less a function of "talking down" than simply a matter of speaking at his own level of comprehension.

When he was younger he was fairly articulate. (Though, invariably and forever, full of s**t.)

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Re-upping this for anyone who missed it: Julie Roginsky and I launched a new series showing how Russia attacked the 2016 election to elect Trump. We won’t let Republicans rewrite history.

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Is Elon Musk’s Starship Doomed? The future of SpaceX keeps blowing up, and no one knows if he can fix it.

Starship is the most powerful rocket ever built and the future of SpaceX. But it keeps blowing up, and no one knows if Elon Musk can fix it, Jeff Wise reports.

Is Elon Musk’s Starship Doomed? The future of SpaceX keeps blowing up, and no one knows if he can fix it.

“The question is not, ‘Can you build an upper stage that is reusable with high-performance rocket engines?’ The question is, ‘Can you do it cost-effectively, and can you do it with quick reusability turnaround?’”

No one is saying Starship is doomed. Yet.

via @jeffwise.bsky.social

My latest for @nymag.com @intelligencer.com

This is very good.

The Debate Over the Air India Crash: Was It Suicide? The deadly crash of an Air India flight last month was caused by fuel switches being turned off. Jeff Wise reports that it has led to a furious debate about whether that was intentional.

The deadly crash of an Air India flight last month was caused by fuel switches being turned off. Jeff Wise reports that it has led to a furious debate about whether that was intentional.

Turns out that having a ton of guns didn't do much to stop the imposition of tyranny on these good citizens.

New MH370 Evidence from the Sea [S2Ep28 video] Ten years after the first debris came ashore, new data provides a new understanding

New MH370 Evidence from the Sea

10 years ago the first physical evidence of the missing plane was found on La Réunion. Today, unprecedented new evidence about the sea life on it puts the find in a new context, overturning assumptions about the debris' meaning.

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It's even more damning that the two switch-flicks happend not quite simultaneously, but a second apart -- so it didn't somehow happen as a result of accidentally being knocked

Esp given 1-second gap between one switch being flipped & the other.

Captain Steeve has come out saying that no way could it be accidental, btw. So it seems that consensus is settling on the idea that this was mass murder/suicide.

Juan Brown says that with first officer being the pilot flying, the captain would have their right hand on the throttle up to rotation speed, then remove it. No one's hand should have been near the throttle at liftoff, as it's too late for an abort.

Hard to see how it could be accidental.

Excerpt from preliminary report into Air India crash, stating that one of the pilots apparently shut off fuel to both engines immediately after takeoff.

India has released the preliminary report into the crash of Air India 171. One of the pilots apparently shut off fuel to the engines seconds after takeoff so it couldn't climb. The other pilot noticed & the fuel was switched back on, but it was too late.

Accident, or pilot suicide?

Hi Will, I'm working on a story about Starship for @nymag.com, would love to cite your work, could we connect? thx.

That's bait

An industrious investigator could find historical marine tracking data, look up what fishing boats were where, and ask them if they saw anything. After all, ships at sea are one of the few industries where there's always someone awake at all times.

Wonder why this wasn't done in the 1st place

It’s a horrible crash. I want to wait for officials to release more information so we can try to make some sense of it

Can the U.S. Destroy Iran’s Deepest Nuclear Bunker? Bombing the Fordow enrichment plant would be a complex, dangerous process, and it isn’t guaranteed to succeed.

Since we've decided that Trump can break any law he wants whenever he wants, why not let him start an illegal war?

But lobbing bombs at a smaller, poorer nation can be harder than it seems, as I explain in my latest for @nymag.com @intelligencer.com

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No, even better -- western Indian Ocean. The holy grail

Yes, they came in the mail -- and another buoy just got retrieved today. More to come soon!

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

Someday, we're going to rid of this criminal. It's not too early to start thinking about what we'll need to do after that if we want to return to democrocy and stay there.

For starters, the "give powerful law-breakers the benefit of the doubt" mindset has got to go.

Hopefully will write something once it becomes clearer what might have happened.

At the moment I'm a little puzzled as to why there's so little ADS-B data

I agree that it doesn't sound ideal. Flightradar24 has issued a correction saying they looked at the data in more detail and determined that the aircraft had back-taxied and did in fact use the whole runway on takeoff.

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin share a tender moment.

Happy Russia National Day, to all who celebrate. С праздником!

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