Day: April 20, 2016
An Obscure Switch Saves Apollo 12 From Aborting
November 14th, 1969, Apollo 12 is struck by lightning on take off, loses main power, and faces mission abort. Controller John Aaron remembers an obscure command from testing a year earlier, SCE to AUX. Power is restored and flight crew breaks out in laughter all the way to orbit.
A Trapped Cat
Ted Cruz now mathematically eliminated from clinching GOP nomination before convention
NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is now the only Republican candidate with any chance of clinching the nomination before the convention.
Ted Cruz was mathematically eliminated Tuesday after Trump’s big win in the New York primary.
Trump won at least 89 of the 95 delegates at stake. John Kasich won at least three and Cruz was in danger of being shut out.
There aren’t enough delegates left in future contests for either Cruz or Kasich to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to win the GOP nomination. Their only hope is to block Trump and force a contested convention.
It’s going to be Hillary (sorry Bernie supporters) vs. Trump in the general. This talk about a contested convention is fun to talk about when you have so many pundits who need to justify their existence but Trump is too far out ahead now.