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When I was on travel once, I ended up in a motel eating an order of fried rice with a pocket knife.

What's not working when you try it?

I am sad to say that I just learned about it myself.

My view has always been that any multiplayer system would need to be tailored for no more than 4-6 players, and they will need to be doing a coordinated project. Otherwise, multiplayer is just a bunch of people playing KSP alone with a chat option.

"Yes, the moon landings were faked, but the photographs are real." or "Well, of course the landings were faked. How else were we supposed to get Armstrong and Aldrin to Earth without raising too many questions?"

Congratulations! You now know everything that has been posted about the console versions of KSP since the last patch.

My usual response to that is: "If NASA has access to such advanced technology, why have we been scrabbling for funding, and why can't we go back to the moon?!?"

If you don't mind, I'd like to introduce you to my wife...

Considering that it's not even the NASA flag.

Well, we don't get much call for it around here, sir.

If you're going with Alton Brown, chances are it'll turn out well. I'll have to try the bacon thing next time. I'm not a big fan of cheddar, so I substitute about half for something else. This time I used a smoked gruyere, and it added a nice flavor.

Do you just mix bacon in with it, or is there a trick to adding it? Mine's out of the oven and cooling on the stove so I can eat. I've also got the cabbage filling mixed up, so now I just have to peel the cabbage. I hate that part.

Chicken fried steak, homemade mac and cheese, and stuffed cabbage. Not all together, though. I think I need to go to the grocery store.

I haven't been to the show in a few years, but I'm living about 3 miles from Ellington, so I do get to see some of the planes flying by. Last year's Thunderbirds were pretty impressive when they came straight overhead.

@dundun92 Must have been Sunday's show, just from the blue in the sky. I didn't hear a lot of activity on Saturday (besides the Blue Angels), but a decent amount on Sunday. I did see a couple of flybys of the Pearl Harbor formation, but not much else.

It's all around you. You have been given some of the many examples. [snip]

But if I don't have cards, what do I use for bookmarks?

Oh, not at all. How are you supposed to shuffle the tape?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fdjf4lMmiiI

Punchcards.

"The history of the RS-25 traces back to the 1960s when NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Rocketdyne were conducting a series of studies on high-pressure engines, developed from the successful J-2 engine used on the S-II and S-IVB upper stages of the Saturn V rocket during the Apollo program. The studies were conducted under a program to upgrade the Saturn V engines, which produced a design for a 350,000 lbf upper-stage engine known as the HG-3. As funding levels for Apollo wound down the HG-3 was cancelled as well as the upgraded F-1 engines already being tested. It was the design for the HG-3 that would form the basis for the RS-25." SSME came out of work on Apollo. One minor example. "The Space Launch System's Core Stage will be 8.4 meters (28 ft) in diameter and use four RS-25 engines. Initial flights will use modified RS-25D engines left over from the Space Shuttle program; later flights are expected to switch to a cheaper version of the engine not intended for reuse. The stage's structure will consist of a modified Space Shuttle external tank with the aft section adapted to accept the rocket's Main Propulsion System (MPS) and the top converted to host an interstage structure." Hey! There's that engine again! Even Apollo is still in the game. Hrm. I guess you got me there. Elon invented two-stage rockets himself, and the idea of reusable space vehicles has never been done before. Right. NASA has never been able to propulsively land a crewed vehicle. But you seem to be missing the point. It's not all about reusing the same engines, or fuel pumps, or screws, or computers. It's about information, too. What works and what doesn't. The behavior of fluids in a tank in zero-g. The reaction of the human body to prolonged spaceflight. All the research done prior to SpaceX even existing was done, and it wasn't done by SpaceX. SpaceX didn't have to reinvent the rocket, and life support, and navigation, and every other thing. Materials research, physics, how to live and work in space, etc. All this is data that SpaceX is not reinventing from basic principles. That data exists because others, mostly NASA, have already done a lot of the hard work. Remember the bit about standing on the shoulders of giants? Now, it's your turn. What has SpaceX done that hasn't been done before, and how much would they have gotten done if they weren't being funded by NASA, or chasing NASA contracts?

Refresh my memory. How long has it been occupied, and how many taikonauts are there now? Well, no excrements, Sherlock. You're the one saying nothing else has happened. [snip] There's been a lot going on. Not all of it is big public relations related crap. Right. All the data and experience and materials research just gets thrown away. Right. (Please, read that in a sarcastic tone.) Again, What has SpaceX done that has not been done before? And how far along would SpaceX be, if they didn't have access to what NASA had already done? It cost a lot. How much has what SpaceX done cost? Space is expensive. Oh, and shuttle was used to build ISS. And launch various probes. And launch Hubble. I guess HST has been worthless, since it was part of the shuttle program, not to mention an offshoot of spy satellite technology. By the way, has anyone else managed to catch a satellite and return it to Earth yet? Ask Elon Musk. By the way, how much business would he have if he wasn't chasing government contracts? Wow. Really? [snip] By the way, this is all related to the S of NASA. You're completely ignoring NASA. Perhaps you should pay some attention to the A. [snip] Two Viking landers. Plus a number of other Mars landings. That's a bit more than one probe, and that's only one planet.

Make my peace with what I've done in life, hope for the best, and then die before I have the chance to do anything else.

<Looks at an orbital station that has been continuously occupied by humans for just a couple weeks short of 18 years, as well as promoting peaceful cooperation among countries that a decade earlier were on the verge of wiping out the species.> <Shakes his head, pats you on yours.> You can minimize any of NASA's programs. Mercury was just hoping humans could do as well as monkeys in space. Gemini was a simple series of experiments to see if we could actually do anything in space. Apollo was a liquiding contest with the Soviets that ended up with a field trip to take a few photos and collect rocks. Skylab was a chance to see what astronauts would do with some free time. Shuttle was a canceled experiment in reusable spacecraft. In the same vein, SpaceX is just an example of what one rich guy can build when standing on the shoulders of the giants that have gone before. I mean, have they done anything that hasn't been done before?

Damn you. That is a catchy one, but it's just too short. Now I'm having to go through some more of her videos. (It disappoints me that it took so long to realize what the pendant she's wearing is.)