The Silicon Graybeard

In the World of the High Tech Redneck, the Graybeard is the old guy who earned his gray by making all the mistakes, and tries to keep the young 'uns from repeating them. Silicon Graybeard is my term for an old hardware engineer; a circuit designer. The focus of this blog is on doing things, from radio to home machine shops and making all kinds of things, along with comments from a retired radio engineer, that run from tech, science or space news to economics; from firearms to world events.

Tuesday, March 3, 2026

I Can't NOT comment on this story

Especially since suggesting this one week ago tonight, February 24th.

NASA is targeting April 1st for the launch of Artemis II.

NASA has fixed the problem that forced the removal of the rocket for the Artemis II mission from its launch pad last month, but it will be a couple of weeks before officials are ready to move the vehicle back into the starting blocks at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The biggest joke of a launch system launching on April Fool's Day is just too good to be true.

Screen Capture from NextSpaceflight. Image credit NextSpaceflight.com.

One of my favorite old jokes is from Jeff Foxworthy, who made a career out of "talk like a redneck" jokes. The joke was based on the word "sensuous". Jeff turned it into "since you is up, would you get me a beer?"

So what? That turns into someone saying to the Artemis II vehicle "since you is" in the VAB, how 'bout we fix another few things. More details in the Ars Technica article on this.

And I'mma bet nobody who reads this would have thought about that "since you is in the VAB" line.