Ian Kluft ✈️🎈🌋 @[email protected]

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

"Russia behind plot to plant bombs on cargo planes, Western official says" by @NBCNews - 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

"Boeing machinists end strike after approving labor contract with 38% raises" by @CNBC / @lesliejosephs - Machinist union members in Washington and Oregon vote to accept contract, ending costly 52-day strike cnbc.com/2024/11/04/str… #business #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

"Alaska Air is growing; it needs Boeing to keep up" by @SeattleTimes / @byalexhalverson - 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

"Boeing workers overwhelmingly reject contract, prepare to strike" by @CNBC / @lesliejosephs - Airplane factory workers in Seattle area voted 96% to strike. Affects 737Max, 767 & 777 lines in WA, but not 787 in SC. cnbc.com/2024/09/13/boe… #business #aviation #travel #avgeek #PNW

"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

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

"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

"Boeing & union reach sweetened contract offer in bid to end strike, vote scheduled for Monday" by @CNBC / @lesliejosephs - 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

Hawaiian Airlines Unveils Airbus A330 Moana 2 Livery

"Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk" by @TheNewStack / @darrylktaft - 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

"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🤪

"Clark County Auditor identifies 488 damaged ballots from burned ballot box" by @KOINNews 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

Bulletin from Tsunami Warning Center @NWS_NTWC confirms no tsunami expected from M6.1 #earthquake off Oregon coast. tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/20… #quake #geology #PNW

M6.1 #earthquake in Pacific Ocean over 100mi/160km off shore from Coos Bay, Oregon. This is in a tectonic plate spreading area, not a Cascadia subduction event. M6 is not large enough to cause a tsunami. Info by @USGS / @USGS_Quakes . earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/ev… #quake #geology #PNW

@SPACEdotcom @NASAArtemis @NASA @arstechnica @SciGuySpace @StephenClark1 "NASA Identifies Root Cause of Orion Heat Shield Char Loss" by Marcia Smith @SpcPlcyOnline - 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🌘

There's a great documentary "Majority Rules" @MajorityRules24 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