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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village In other words, it looks nice at first glance, but quite different from what's going on behind the scenes. The real Library of Congress:

I worked tech support for a server hosting company a while back. Got a call from a customer saying their server was not responding. Turns out they had just switched to a new server and canceled the wrong one, and the new server had been reprovisioned and was now being used by another customer. (The hard drive had been swapped, so it was finally located with the customer's data...) Then there was the guy that managed to accidentally rm -rf his root directory.

One day, at work: Hrm... That number seems a bit high. "Hey Frank, they make backups of this stuff, right?" It happens. Hopefully it's fixed soon.

Redacted.

I'm not sure how I feel about it, honestly. I like the idea of a monthly budget. It feels like the right idea. However... I'm not sure the way it's implemented works for me. I'm using Kerbal Construction Time. I often find myself looking at the budget screen, thinking "I have X now, tomorrow I'll have X+Y. If I spend X now, I'll still have X+Y tomorrow. If I don't, that X will be wasted." Proceed to spam the order button for KCT, like office supplies in September. I'm just not sure how one would run things differently with a budget system.

If you didn't spend the budget you were authorized to spend, you obviously were budgeted too much. We must now remove funding from you to correct the previous oversight. Also known as "Why do we always get so many new office supplies in September?"

Well, yeah. If we're going to go with the whole "you can make a sword out of a bunch of light that just stops at a certain distance and it's really super amazing and it can cut through anything except another light just like it", why draw the line at "well, it's just silly if you add a crossguard to the magic sword!"? However, if you look at the image, you'll see that the crossguard is actually connected to the central blade. This is what makes it effective as a guard. The handle projection off to the side is to protect the user's hand from slipping up into it. Yes, it would be destroyed if the opponent's blade hit the housing, but the blade inside it would stop it from going further. (While this is pure speculation, there's nothing in canon that I'm aware of that says this cannot be how it is constructed.) Luke's wrist got severed. The saber itself was not harmed. Darth Maul's was just two lightsabers stuck pommel to pommel. I'm not sure where it was cut, but afterwards, he was only using a single blade. This makes sense if one of the sabers was damaged by the cut.

Hasn't this been endlessly debated yet?

Interesting. But when the Rebels shoot out the main power reactor or the shield generator, the walls (unlike the shields) don't cease to exist. I mean, sure, if they shoot the wall, the wall goes away. But that's only in one local area, not the entire ship's hull. We can shut airtight doors between the remaining part of the people storage tank and the hull breech.

And a year to the day after Wayne Rogers, another M*A*S*H star.

I was pointing out that you would want a hull. Kerbart brought up the idea of a hulless ship covered in shields.

True, but the frequency at which shields fail in sci-fi space combat would make me very very much want to have a solid wall between me and the outside vacuum/laser storm/debris field. (Preferably several walls. (With more walls that can be sealed off if needed.))

Because hulls don't require energy to maintain, probably.

O7 Thank you for your good works, sir.

Closer to 80 at this end of the Gulf. And even warmer inside. Meanwhile, A/C repair is currently looking like it might happen tomorrow...

Ah, winter. The wife called the landlord on Christmas Eve to report the AC not working. We won't be able to get anyone working on it until the morning of the 26th. It's damn near 80 degrees inside, and only a couple of degrees cooler outside, with 90% humidity. Downright chilly conditions, if it were July.

My gods. So that's what it was! I remember seeing it when I was a kid (Mostly in the bucket of Legos.), but I could never remember what "that red thing that looked like a phone" was.

So the answer was "Yes, I did miss something." That's where I had a problem with your example. As far as I could remember, there was nothing in the movie that indicates the two transmissions are different in any way except size.

So, when email is down, you email that person to tell them to fix the email so you can email them? Point is, if they can send a transmission through the shield, why do they need to get rid of the shield to send a transmission? If we can send a message on channel X, why can we not send another message on channel X? If the shield gate were being closed (but was still open), a quick "keep the gate open" message would make sense. But if the shield blocks transmissions, then the message to open the gate would never arrive, since the gate was already closed by the time the message was sent.

Ok, did I miss something?

Bah! Humbug!

CapCom is one of the positions within Mission Control. Whenever they talk to CapCom, they are talking to Mission Control.

Various places. I'm not sure who the source was. However, the outlook seems to have improved.

I'm perfectly willing to admit that I cannot always remember the action groups I have set for a vessel, considering I may have designed, built, and launched it months ago. There are other people that have had saves running for years. Forgive us for not remembering every single action group on hundreds of different types of vessels. Not all of us have the unfallible minds of gods such as yourself. But then, if your powerful mind managed to overlook such a tiny little fact as that, maybe you should be playing tic-tac-toe yourself?

While it is possible, let's keep in mind that the LES is used only when things have already gone very, very wrong. It's better in that situation to not make any assumptions about what the vehicle may or may not be doing/capable of doing. For example, I can see activating an abort at low altitude/speed. This is within the parachute deployment zone. Detach capsule/LES from booster, deploy parachutes, and activate a high-thrust rocket engine. That could be quickly followed by a message about parachutes being destroyed by airflow.