Jackson Jambalaya

Elon Musk should get a Nobel Prize for making cool stuff happen.

At 10 years old in 1969, the Apollo moon landings were fascinating to me. I was way too young and way too naive to understand the combination of science and technology, and unfortunately, the politics it took get such an event to come to fruition. Simpler times. Over the years I was working, I was fortunate enough to work alongside a project manager who had also been a project manager for NASA in the Apollo program, and the 1st moon landing in particular. I heard some great stories, and some not so great, but it was heady stuff. The complexity of such an event is mind-boggling. I wish I could talk to him now and get his take on SpaceX and the frontiers they're reaching for. He'd probably grin and think it's as cool as I do, then start on another NASA story. The things SpaceX is doing is fascinating, too, but it now borders on magical. I know there was a LOT of trial and error, but the recovery of a Falcon 9 rocket from nearly 100 miles downrange onto a platform at sea, and it lands upright by itself, just makes me sit back and almost laugh in disbelief. Say or think what you will about Elon Musk, but one thing is for sure, there are some VERY smart people that work for him. Congrats to SpaceX for another successful launch...oh, and recovery.

You should be offering condolences to all the electric co-op members who are going to be on the hook for their leaders' misstep in jumping into the broadband business at Brandon's bullying. The bailout of the co-ops will be the next political scandal in Mississippi.

While I welcome the idea of easy access to rural broadband. The starlink microsats are failing in large numbers and the dead space trash is piling up. It’s a cool idea but their implementation is dogshit.

www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starlink-internet-satellites-percent-failure-rate-space-debris-risk-2020-10

Just like Tesla cars are not green, SpaceX is filling an already congested Low Earth Orbit with more space junk

5:19 -- I like Brandon's bulldog approach to getting things done for his constituents. I also very much like my local EPA's electrical service and rates. But I think they both bit off more than they can really chew with respect to implementing and running multiple, very large fiber networks to every Mississippi home and business -- which it now appears to be for *not* every home and business (for a long time) depending on where you live in the EPA's service area. As I've mentioned previously, this is not all being done with "free" grant money. They're taking loans which, in the end, use the EPA electrical system/service itself as collateral. Don't believe me? Look up "Co-Bank" and follow the funding draws by the EPAs.

6:25 -- S**t happens and satellites fail. That's why the Starlink design includes *lots* of resilience in the form of many satellites. The current 3% failure rate doesn't hurt service. A 3% failure rate for Hughesnet or Viasat puts them out of business. Space trash and astronomy visibility concerns were here long before Starlink and they'll continue...

@7:27
Let's apply the same logic to anything else:

"There is already a lot of trash on the highway, my truck bed full of rubbish won't matter"
"There are already record homicides in Jackson, my violent death wont matter"

Brandon Presley wants to be Governor of Mississippi so bad, he’ll bankrupt a few electric cooperatives to try and enhance his warped idea of his legacy. He is a sick person and he’s got a small number of people in North Miss. who seem to worship him. They can’t see his lies and the fact that he claims credit for what others do and when he’s caught in a lie he’s spreading, he whistles and walks off into the sunset. He’s so full of himself. Look at his Facebook page. He can’t get enough pictures of himself on there? He’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. Most Mississippians are not fooled.

Thanks KF !

I love watching every SpaceX launch.

I received info about the broadband effort by an EPA, and it clearly stated that the customers/rate payers would be responsible for the cost even if it was not successful. They'll just add on some cost adjustment to all customers if there are not enough broadband customers to cover the cost.

@9:37

If the EPA charges its electrical customers for anything to do with broadband, then they are in violation of Mr Presley’s broadband law and are open to litigation.