Neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night nor a fantastic weekend junket at an undisclosed location will stay these couriers from the delayed completion of their Backstage meeting.
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Right Angle: Backstage (07-07-2021)
Neither rain nor sleet nor gloom of night nor a fantastic weekend junket at an undisclosed location will stay these couriers from the delayed completion of their Backstage meeting.
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Given Branson is a Democrat (when he feels like it), redefining the definition of where space begins is consistent with every other lie they put forward by redefining the language.
OK, that’s funny right there!
I teach health information management and when the students finally understand that the insurance company is the one who drives the patient care, some of them are quite shocked.
When I explain Advance Beneficiary Notices or ABNs are for Medicare patients when the doctor wants to provide a procedure, but it is unlikely Medicare will pay for it. I always use the same example: Grandma needs her knee replace, but the anesthesiologist wants to be sure Grandma’s heart is good enough for the surgery and orders an EKG. If her EKG comes back as normal, it procedure has to be coded as a screening and Medicare will not pay for it. If Grandma signed the ABN, she is now on the hook for the EKG. If a heart problem is found, Medicare will pay.
So, I tell students that they will have to learn a nice way to tell Grandma that the anesthesiologist does not want to get sued if Grandma dies on the table. Medicare does not care if she dies on the table, because that is one less patient Medicare has to pay for…
I think the flight of the billionaires, is going to set back the goal of human space flight by another fifty years, if either of those flights has a fatality, the Karens will be unleashed on the FAA, and they will ground SpaceX, and all the other companies that are not doing this the wrong way. Western countries will curtail there involvement in space like a bunch of timid monkeys, and China will end up owning Space as we know it for a century. Those two egotistical insecure jackasses are going to gift wrap the future to the Chinese Communists with their pissing contest.
Scott, stop trying to stop the conversation, we all would listen to 3 solid hours of unedited ramblings and delirium, I still rewatch your guys falcon heavy launch every time I get depressed, which is often. Also, please do more live spacex coverage
I agree that I don’t care how long the Backstage episodes run but Scott did say he had to get to work at his other job.
As with any zoom call…..(or in the case at BW, skype?) Scott says “See Ya!” and drops out. Drop in a photo of Scott selling furniture at his main job. Leave the other two to chat it up. It’d work for me.
Those three have a great chemistry and it’s worked for a looooong time.
I signed up for PJM just to see Steve, Kruiser and “that other guy” try to talk for an hour on their “Five O’clock Somewhere” show. It’s 3 guys talking over each other with lots of ackward pauses. I never make it beyond 20 minutes.
BWDC Backstage is remarkable because while they have a format, it’s unscripted and the 3 all contribute to what I feel is a valuable conversation.
I’m hoping Vodkapundit can somehow take control of the PJM show and give it some structure to add the same value.
Been thinking about signing up at PJM for VIP just for that show. Has it improved over time? Remember that these three have been doing this meeting for over a decade.
Nope. It might as well be called Preston Over All Show. Or, Ackward! Not a moment of spoken time does this Preston guy not talk over the two Steve’s. Mr Green should have the power to mute Preston, just so it can be enjoyable. PJ guys, sometimes 3 does not make a Trifecta…it just makes a crowd.
Well now….I just went there. Too much decaf.
Hmm. I might send Steve a private message and let him know.
Name dropper!
Hey he’s a member here. Send him a DM. I am sure he’d like some feedback.
Just did drop him DM on that topic. Thanks for suggesting it.
Undisclosed Location…Coeur D’ Alene?
A couple years ago I had go in for an MRI. My local hospital wanted over $8,000. But instead I went to a private provider. They charged me $600. Not $6,000, but $600.
Had a similar experience when Ronette needed an MRI about 5 years ago. First quote was $3500. My price ended up being 1500 with the insurance company I had. My BIL needed one two weeks later, with his insurance it was $600.
I just went through a similar experience, “Retail” Cash surgery would have been $129,000. Insurance paid $19,000. Hospital accepted that. When I saw the paid claim info, for a moment I actually felt sorry for the hospital….???
I am guessing a very brief moment.
As someone who has a background in Aerospace Eng, watched Challenger explode while at the cafeteria at NASA Langley, I share Bill’s concern and have a pretty good idea of what he said off the record. No way do I get on that craft. Very bad juju with this trip.
I was an AO2 petty officer in the USN, stationed at NAS Fallon, NV that day.
We had a slow operations day, and I kept finding reasons to go into the air terminal office, where the live feed was on the TV.
When I saw the explosion, my first thought was that they had ‘range safetied’ the booster. I remember walking back to our workshop and being asked how the launch was going. I said, “They blew it up…”
“what do you mean?”
“The shuttle exploded!”
When the whole shop got back to the terminal office, EVERYONE was off the flight line and watching the feed.
Before the end of the day, the base had an all-hands broadcast from the base CO about the tragedy.
I was at the Martin Marietta plant in Waterton Canyon that day for something related to the shipping cradles for the solid fuel boosters. I got delayed that morning for about 2 hours and drove through the gate just minutes before Challenger launched. I only needed about a half an hour on site, maybe 45 minutes, so if I hadn’t been delayed I’d have been and gone before the launch.
The launch was on every TV and monitor in the place. It was a terrible day. Not just the disaster, which was horrendous but they locked down the plant for several hours and I couldn’t leave. I was stuck in there with a lot of very, very upset people and I didn’t know a single one of them. As bad as I felt about the loss of Challenger, they felt much, much worse because it was personal to them.
I just happened to be at that place and at that time by the sheerest of coincidences but it left a lifelong impression.
Bill, Hope you had a great time at the undisclosed location. My biggest complaint against Bezos is that the Expanse is not guaranteed any seasons beyond the 6th which just wrapped filming.
I could listen to your conversations about space for hours.
First!
Musk is Delos D. Harriman
Been saying that for years, now. And Musk can’t go up now for the same reason Strong wouldn’t let DD go. “Don’t try to kid you way out of it, Delos. This venture is you and you are this venture. If you get killed, the whole thing folds up.” Amazing that story was written in 1949.