The arianne 5 humbly launched JWST after 25 years, originally estimated at $1/2 billion in 1997 money, eventually $10 billion in today's money. Probably the last budget buster to be launched on a fully expendable rocket. None of the rocket cam views we're used to on commercial rockets. Just an intermittent mid 90's style peek at deployment. The big question is whether JWST will work.


There's a status page https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/webbLaunch/whereIsWebb.html




https://www.statesman.com/story/business/2021/12/22/where-does-elon-musk-live-austin-house-or-boca-chica/8997085002/


Lots of tweets about how he lives in a mansion after claiming to sell all his mansions.  Obviously, anyone can say they're selling all their stonk & houses, then buy all their stonk & houses back.  In this case, as someone very important & influential, people are willing to donate to him.  Whoever donated the mansion gets to say he housed the man who made life multiplanetary.  

Donating mansions to friends is not as fun as it sounds.  Being in the software business is a constant barrage of demands for donations & insults just because the media says programmers are rich when in reality, we're unemployed half the time, our landlords take everything, & only programmers at Google make money.  The rest just hang on.


Things that existed 20 years ago on xmas:

Emperor Norton sourdough
Stella Dora Xmas cookies
Single family houses
Mexican pizza
Devices that skipped commercials & recorded TV shows


 











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