Yup, I always tell people I'm biased about WI because I left. I'm sure OH has a lot of similar reasons.

Welcome to the resistance... Dick Cheney?

Hubris. They were up in the polls at the time and didn't think they needed to expand their appeal, so they caved and took Thiel's guy.

There are private/paywalled Discord servers and forums out there, too, so this could replace some of those. I think the Reddit format is better than a lot of alternatives, so I don't actually hate this idea.

I'm not really into the idea of moving everything to a baby Google, even if they're currently good about privacy. They just added an AI tool to email and a crypto wallet, which could be either awful or great signs depending on your perspective.

Ron Desantis's "Weekend at Bernie's president" joke at the RNC, like every other accusation from the GOP, was just more projection.

A DA will be a nice foil to the convicted felon.

Regarding ballot eligibility- I think part of timing for this is that the Dems are about to have their "roll call" in the next week or two to officially nominate a candidate to get on ballots before the official full convention.

The US healthcare system is completely broken unless you're rich.

Multiple things can be true at the same time, though: people don't take care of themselves and live very unhealthy sedentary lifestyles with awful diets.

So does Valve?

I was kind of hoping for Impulse Space, but they're probably too unproven.

One of Starship's engines on the lowest setting would tear the station apart. Regardless of whether they make this based on Starship instead of something more reasonably sized like a Dragon or Falcon 2nd stage, it'll still need either a new engine design or a big cluster of Dracos. It'll be something custom.

Regarding their Artemis work- the payments are milestone based, so they get money as they pass milestones. Engine relights and ship to ship prop transfer are some of the next ones.

Regarding their other customers- the Starship manifest includes another moon cruise, several satellite launches, and a lot of Starlinks.

Serious answer- SpaceX is building the deorbit vehicle then turning it over to NASA, who will have full control over it.

There's no way Russia builds a new station. The timeline for them getting Nauka to orbit basically proves that it's impossible. They've been trying to buddy up with China to visit theirs, though.

I'm just waiting for the moisture farmers to get landspeeders

Realistically, there's a SpaceX Dragon docked to the ISS, so that's probably their emergency shelter and ride home.

This process led to Falcon, which is one of the most reliable rockets of all time. The launch rate and reuse are unprecedented. Iterative design is a big part of how they got there. Their prowess in manufacturing and mass production is another large part of that success.

Good ole egulatory capture

It sounds like they still have some hope of bringing it back, so, fingers crossed.

It looks like more Venus probes will start launching over the next few years. There's the Rocket Lab / MIT mission first, then more from the US, China, India, and Russia to close out the decade. Plus ESA's next probe in 2032.

I expected nothing and I'm still disappointed

Milwaukeeans were already not going to be happy to deal with these people. If the event gets extra putschy now... uff da.

We've been trained to keep our expectations so, so low

Better than nothing. Hopefully this prevents some deaths.

And it will hallucinate and give wrong answers

I think Jared Isaacman is my favorite space billionaire? Not that that should be a thing, but he's at least spending his money on private missions that move technology development forward.

Because it's the only realistic option on a federal level until we have ranked choice voting.

VW must be running them

So now they'll threaten to move the teams to LA, right?

What about Substack?

I voted 3rd party in 2016. I regret it all the time.

On the issue of genocide, the vote is between more or less. Voting 3rd party, Republican, or abstaining is a vote for more genocide.

The moral high ground and smugness is worthless compared to less genocide, abortion, education, trans lives, healthcare, etc.

In 2018, right? When's the 2nd launch supposed to be?

I hope so, but if they launch on the suborbital trajectory again because they aren't certain about the Raptor relight for a deorbit burn, then I'm guessing a Starlink won't be able to deploy and raise its orbit in time to not also reenter.

SpaceX, in a perfect world, just wants to be the railroad to facilitate others who want to build stations, bases, mining, recycling, etc.

As far as the greenness of rockets, recycling would be 5th in the 5 R's:

• Refuse: refuse to use wasteful rockets? I don't really know how to apply this one.
• Reduce: I suppose rideshares and vehicles with multiple hosted payloads are good
• Reuse: See: SpaceX
• Repurpose: Wet workshops?
• Recycle: energy intensive and would need tons of infrastructure to process and use on orbit

I'm hoping this is successful enough to put Starlinks on the next one to actually get operational, but the loss of attitude control and lack of Raptor relight don't make me super optimistic.

Front Range Rail would be pretty great

Wirecutter and RTINGS both do a lot of testing and reviews, including for headphones.

The mass application boom is so annoying. Seeing a sankey diagram of someone who applied to hundreds of jobs always bothers me.

You would carry a gas can

I set my phone to auto download playlists and podcasts on WiFi, so it isn't really a problem. I think there was one month when I had to buy extra data so far, and that still ends up being cheaper than being on a plan with more data.

It kinda just looks like ground pork