Reminds me of Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns cutting a compliment promo on each other.

Hats off to my man MrEdders. Yes, I’ll absolutely watch your three hour video on some obscure 90’s FMV noir game!

But exactly because of that, they don’t have yeet. Long periods of low thrust are great for long duration missions, like satellites, stations and interplanetary probes, awful for a TLI burn.

Ion and plasma drives. They’re electric and work very well. All the thrust of a hefty fart, but high specific impulse allows them to burn for a long time, so they’re great for maneuvering in the vacuum.

I’ve been bilingual from an early age and consider English to be my second native language. There’s no difference in tone or intonation and I can slip from one language to the other in the middle of a sentence without missing a beat. But, for some reason, it’s a lot easier for me to be social in English than my actual native language.

Counterpoint: Blender was the first 3d modeling tool I tried and I bounced off that UX so hard that I haven’t touched it in nearly 20 years. Sometimes a bad UX is just bad UX.

Definitely interested to read your take on why colonizing Mars is never happening. Far as I’m aware, there’s no laws of physics stopping it, it’s rather a number of complex engineering problems.

That, notably, does nothing to solve the issue that your fingernails are gonna get ripped out. It’s rather unpleasant, in case you haven’t experienced it yourself. And it’ll happen way before you manage to cut anything sturdier than paper.

Sadly, haven’t really had the opportunity to build as much as I’d like recently. I’ve basically run out of display space and most of my kits are already put away. Suppose I could put up pictures of what I have out at the moment, though.

If Supes is doing it to stop some dickwad from destroying the Earth, enslaving humanity, or erasing the concept of pizzas, I’ll be yelling at him to do it again. Fuck the car, I can walk!

It’s apparently not okay when someone you don’t like says something you’d otherwise agree with. Can’t have complexity like that these days.

Nope. Not until they’re going for a Ship catch. It has to come down somewhere and the only places it can safely come down are either the ocean or the catch tower. So until they get the catch hardware to a state where they believe it would work out, every Ship is going to fly a trajectory that ends in the ocean.

Suppose we’ll see. Not unusual to have a long gap between the early launches, lots of data to analyze for the first time. Was 8 months between the first and second launch of Ariane 6, for example.

Their first orbital rocket, New Glenn, had its inaugural flight earlier this year. IIRC, it performed rather well in the “launch to orbit” aspect, but they lost the booster as it was coming back to land on a drone ship. It’ll take them time to iron out the kinks, but as long as they don’t scrap the project, I don’t see why it couldn’t become a contender in heavy lift.

Whenever the Roci’s railgun is fired, it’s accompanied by a momentary burn of her main drive to cancel out that impulse.

https://youtu.be/C3pIB1ZdMiY

The basics (getting the OS installed, some initial settings to your liking etc) is quick. Managed to go from “completely untouched build” to “we gaming on Linux now boys” in a couple hours and most of that was waiting for BG3 to download on my 100Mbit connection. Pretty much everything I needed worked right on the first boot. Then again, I didn’t have much data to transfer over.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong about this, but wasn’t the original thruster problem, on the second uncrewed flight, that the thrusters were too insulated and couldn’t dump enough heat, so they overheated? So for the crewed demo, they removed some of the insulation and the thrusters were dumping heat into adjacent thrusters, once again overheating? Seems like the doghouse is a poor design, at least in Starliner’s case.

I found a reddit post from a year or so ago, reportedly Bazzite has drivers for the dongle out of the box. I’m a little more concerned about the keyboard+touchpad combo, since I’d imagine that’s not quite a standard device. Fortunately, I give negative fucks about any RGB, so I really don’t care if any RGB the components happen to have don’t even light up.

Planning for the future has nothing to do with whether or not one fears death. And it’s perfectly okay to live more in the moment, because the moment is all we have. The past is gone, the future is yet to come, you exist in the now. So go ahead, procrastinate a little! The vast majority of our problems are not so time-critical that an hour long walk is going to ruin your future. Treating yourself to a coffee and a donut every now and then doesn’t leave you fated to be destitute in 5 years.

There’s no use in fearing the inevitable. It will come, whether you like it or not, and no amount of fighting can stop it. Fearing it only makes you focus on some indeterminate time in the future and lose sight of the now.