Saturday, December 23, 2017

Apogee Industries Holiday Special 2017

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Week of 12/23/2017 - Holiday Special
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Segment I

Industry News


SpaceX launches Iridium-4 mission last night
  • SpaceX successfully launched and deployed 10 Iridium satellites for the Iridium 4 mission last night
  • The mission launched from SLC-4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base on the coast of California
  • The Falcon 9 first stage was an expendable core
    • The rocket had no landing legs and there was no drone ship waiting to catch it
    • The first stage was a reused stage
    • The interstage was still grey from its last flight and did have grid fins on it
  • The second stage carried the payload up to altitude in a polar orbit crossing over the south pole and coasted around the planet before doing a final orbital insertion burn just south of Madagascar.
  • All 10 Iridium spacecraft were deployed successfully
  • The spacecraft launched just after sundown and flew up into the sunlight making for an interesting display


UPS orders a bunch of Tesla semi trucks
  • UPS will be buying 125 Tesla electric semi trucks, the largest order so far
  • The Tesla truck is expected to go into production in 2019, and will cost about $200k each
  • Other orders have come in from Walmart, J.B. Hunt, and PepsiCo
  • With the inclusion of Tesla semis, UPS will be expanding its alternative-fuel fleet, which already includes electric and natural gas vehicles


Google Chrome is available to download on Windows Store
  • Google has added Google Chrome to the windows store in an interesting way
  • It is a packaged app for Windows 10 that opens itself up to the Chrome download page
  • This is funny because
    1. Edge sucks
    2. Google would never make a Chrome App for windows 10
  • This is because windows apps that use the internet have to use specific HTML and JavaScript codes for Windows 10 (which are basically codes that tell the browser how to make stuff look)
  • Chrome uses its own HTML and Java codes and for an app to be possible they would have to completely rebuild Chrome which would kinda be a pain in the ass


Disney to acquire 21st Century
  • The Walt Disney Company has reached a deal to buy most of 21st Century Fox’s properties, giving them the muscle to challenge Netflix, Apple, and Amazon
    • Not included in the acquisition: Fox News, the Fox broadcast network and the FS1 sports cable channel
  • Disney has already announced an ambitious plan to introduce two streaming services by 2019.
    • ESPN Plus, will arrive in the spring.
    • A second offering built around the Disney, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Pixar brands, will roll out late next year.
    • Disney will now also own a majority stake in Hulu, an established service that focuses on older viewers with programming that includes ABC shows.
      • Disney previously owned 3%. Comcast and Time Warner also have stakes
  • “This will allow us to greatly accelerate our direct-to-consumer strategy, which is our highest priority.”
  • Goodbye Cable TV: To augment ESPN Plus, Disney is adding 21st Century Fox’s chain of 22 regional cable networks dedicated to sports, including the YES Network, which carries New York Yankees games.
  • Disney is buying the Fox television studio, which has 36 series in production, including
    • “The Simpsons,”
    • “Homeland,”
    • “This Is Us”
    • “Modern Family.”

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Apogee Industries Holiday Special (definitely better than the Star Wars one)
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR TAKING CALLS:
  • Callers can either use Discord  OR James’ phone number (which I will NOT give out on stream, they have to have it already)
  • For Discord: potential callers need to join the fan chat channel, then Jonah will move you onto the stream channel and make sure your question/comment is good, then we will join the stream channel and you can ask us your question
  • For phone line: just call James’ cell, Jonah will answer and make sure your question/comment is good, then we will receive your call on the show and you can ask us your question
  • Discord callers get priority - so if you want to make sure you get on the air (and if you want to have better sound quality) use Discord
  • questions /comments cannot be stuff like “is the Earth flat”, or overly personal/political in nature

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Segment II

Extra Stuff

Stuff we Didn’t Talk About

Apple admits to slowing down old iPhones, says it helps batteries

Links

Music

Too High - WRWLF
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