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Australia's Tritium croaked about a week prior, you'd think they'd be too busy celebrating and planning to gobble up its market share.

For the purpose of this discussion, since I parasitize on HeroForge, I decided to run some numbers. "Combat Patrol" is 12 Ultrasmurfs including two Terminators, and a half-sized beacon. Let's round that up to 15 minis, at 28 mm the Astartes are roughly comparable to the 30 mm humans. $150 Meanwhile, HeroForge offers similar minis at 13$ apiece, or 8$ just for the STL files. Ouch. If a quarter of an hour of searching is any indicator, there isn't much of a scene of dedicated 3D printing providers - the whole "culture" is about printing your own minis.

That's like trying to make big money off of books in the age of the photocopier. People will find a way to pirate STLs.

I found a pretty chonky rocket-propelled X-Wing from 2007. It didn't survive first flight.

That's either a Lancet in a very strange disguise, or someone is having way, way too much fun with a model airplane.

It's the blunt instrument that is a "haircut", hitting everyone with layoffs across the board. The only alternative is to become mired in picking whose pet project gets to die. And 2K hasn't been making particularly smart decisions in my memory.

ONE MILLION TONS The actually thought of airlifting crude oil back then...

A Hyundai Porter ice cream truck runs over 29 children in Kyrgyzstan. Cause of incident: disengaged handbrake, gravity. https://kabar.kg/news/v-suzake-minigruzovik-s-morozhenym-sbil-29-detei/ Truly there is no such thing as "too careful".

The US derivative of the 22,000-pound Grand Slam bomb was known as "Amazon". Fulfillment?

Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment.

Methinks that falls under Painter's Brush.

From a utilitarian standpoint, probably not. Given that we're talking WWI trench warfare, men and women alike probably get a mandatory close shave all over for pure sanitary reasons. Then there's also the grimdark lore and the fact that you don't want those de-individualized soldiers to start "accesorizing" themselves.

Not even that bad. As we see with the aftermath of the Boeing incident, merely giving press coverage to every last little incident can give the impression of a barely contained disaster.

They ordered a simulation of the impact at 60 m/s at a 10-degree angle from vertical and it returned a 3.5-5.5 m crater and a bounce of over 99 m. https://multiphysics.ru/stati/proekty/modelirovanie-padeniia-spuskaemogo-apparata-mars-6.htm And that article finally yielded a link to this HiRise strip: https://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_003894_1560 Doing a quick search for similarly overtly labelled images - there's a dozen - revealed a 2018 one that seems particularly certain in its titling https://www.uahirise.org/ESP_056982_1560 Also, this guy seems to have done the legwork to identify the exact spot http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=743e5ba2d3deef65dad1ef842b08b628&showtopic=8399&view=findpost&p=240470 P.S. The search project involved the poor guys from Dauria Aerospace...