After some thought, I've decided that we should refer to this apparent lapse by journalists as "Oceangate-gate-gate"

After decades of journalists attaching the suffix "gate" to anything even remotely scandalous, I was disappointed that I never heard anyone embrace the full stupidity of this practice by referring to this story as "Oceangate-gate"

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Your tax dollars at work

Were any of them any good?

... something something even war criminals right twice a day

It's always bats

If we could just work out how to efficiently mill waste plastic into 15 μm or so sizes, we'd then be able to mix the plastics directly into our wheat flours and whey protein powders. Why try to beat plastic when we could just become plastic?

OK, but why the ship and not the booster?

The Matrix

How did Tim manage to refrain from asking 'Where are the engines, Jeff?'

Really surprised me, too. Wow

Also official: North Korean balloons will carry trash to Everest

For those unfamiliar, Henny Youngman, comedian

Thanks to your comments, I went looking at more about Jupiter's influence on us and read that most of the other planets are more in line with Jupiter's orbital plane than the Sun's equatorial plane (which sounds impressive, but maybe only makes complete sense since the planets would have all initially formed from the same disk). Anyway, thanks

I don't know. I don't think we should make excuses for Jupiter just because of its size. Pluto's doing the best it can. Could any of us do any better, so far out from the sun?

Exactly. That's also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn't a planet either.

I know. Nothing stresses me out more than weighing mice

Yeah. I was in Hawaii when 9/11 happened, and of course all flights at the time were canceled for days. It wasn't a bad place to be stuck for a little while, but even that short of a delay in returning did cause a few issues.

Far easier to create "Violence without Provocation" True Comics

Yikes, does that say a single stick solid booster for the first stage? Seems like it'd be a rough ride up.

I was wondering how the capsule was doing. After 20 missions, I guess they know what they're doing.

I don't remember if Northrop Grumman submitted a commercial crew proposal. Like SpaceX, they would have benefited from their supply mission experience.

Eventually, they became confident that they were working with new material from two fragmentary Euripides plays, Polyidus and Ino. Twenty-two of the lines were previously known in slightly varied versions, but “80 percent was brand-new stuff,” Gibert says.

This cleared up my first thought: how can you tell the lost writings of Euripides from the lost writings of Sophocles (or from the writings of playwrights that haven't survived at all). I mean, unless these are sizeable fragments, it might not be easy to tell even Aeschylus from Euripides

Yeah, and the estimate is for the update to take 4 weeks? Didn't Boeing do an inflight update on the landing software on OFT-1?

Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

At first blush, this seems absurd. After all, Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test 2 mission in May 2022 was a fully automated test of the Starliner vehicle.

Just...unbelievable

Thanks for this post. I do wonder what prompted this. Is it related to ULA being up for sale? Is it directed at an individual who has caused issues in the past? Have news agencies complained? Could be anything. I just hope it gets enough pushback that other companies will shy away from moves like this

Rock, Paper, Scissors

It is sad that on any topic concerning South America, I am suspicious of anything that the US says.

The more I see posts that say "I don't get it", the older I feel. I guess I never realised how much Larson's comics reflected and commented on the time they were written

Along the same lines, it is so strange to me that we take in various solids and fluids into our bodies and rarely really think about it. To eat is to put things that we find in the world into us and ...

Good. NASA just doesn't have the money to have multiple vendors for every mission component.

What's wrong with middle eastern yogurt (labneh)?

I don't understand this move. ULA has so few flights these days that it is difficult to even be a fan. Unbelievable

We had a Saudi prince in custody?

John Bolton. I only want to hear from this guy if he's on the witness stand. I can't believe he still gets interviews.

That's a weird thing to say

No, no, no. Eating on the road is also bad; it could lead to driver distraction. Meals should be foraged from parks and fields, and while electronics in general should be avoided, the occasional abandoned printer is acceptable.

Do you remind people that trees aren't a taxonomic group every time they come up in conversation?

I don't, but I try to.

Sam is a hobbit of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will