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Oh, I see what the problem is. You're thinking the X-37B is a satellite! It's not, it's actually a space plane, so it kind of needs the wings and stuff do do it's job. As for how bad it is for the space plane to be in space, it's been there for three times as long as shuttle was, and it ain't broke yet. So... I guess somebody knows what they're doing with the thing? Like returning the payload and vehicle from orbit? What's the other solution to that? They haven't been testing it, they've been using it.

My car has an engine, which doesn't make any sense. Since my car sits in a parking space 95% of the time, it shouldn't have an engine that it's not using. Makes more sense that I should just get a new engine every time I need to drive, and throw it away when I'm done. Unless I am using my car to transport a large beagle, which is the only thing it could be used for, since a beagle is one of the many things that will fit in my car and might need to be transported.

The point of the X-37B isn't how many launches or payload per year. It's the 3770 days spent on missions, compared to 1330 days for shuttle. 1330 / 25 = 53.2 d/y vs. 3770 / 12 = 314.166 days per year

It does make the countdown much more exciting, doesn't it?

It would indeed be strange if every maternity ward was on the top floor of the hospital, and had skylights. Or no ceilings. Very strange implications for c-section births, as well. Not sure I trust those ORs. While kids are getting online at younger ages than in the past, I'm still not sure I'd be visiting the newborn section of the forum.

But you either have to carry all the foodmass, or resupply it somewhere. Growing plants requires supplies, energy, and time.1 And laws of conservation of mass and energy plus entropy mean that you're getting less usable energy and mass out of the system than you feed into it. Again, you have to consider if this is actually worth it, or just done for cool factor. 1Why bother growing plants to feed fuelbeast in the first place? That's inefficient. Just make a creature that you feed whatever you would use to grow the plant mass, and excretes pure rocket fuel as waste.

So instead of just hauling around rocket fuel, you're hauling around something to make rocket fuel and everything you need to keep it alive, which would require more energy/mass than just hauling the fuel. What's the advantage, beyond being able to scream "BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD ENGINE!"?

First attempt at roasting a goose:

I was recently given nearly a half gallon of syrup from the local farm near where my mother's family grew up. I figured I couldn't drink it all straight, of course.

The ones I have were not easy to open in such a way. Just a large cut on one. Not really deep, though; it's more parallel to the surface. But it's the one I use to operate my phone and the spacebar. And I keep hitting it against things.

A selection of observations of the day: 1. Replacing the simple syrup in a whiskey sour with maple syrup is good, but it really needs a reduction in lemon juice. 2. You never really notice how important thumbs are. 3. Band aids should really be made to be opened more easily with one hand. 4. When cleaning a blade, you should really pay attention to where the edge is in relation to your anatomy.

The question is how do you define "first"? By the clock in the game, or the clock on the wall? If A takes a week of real time to get to the Mun in 3 hours of in-game time, and B takes 4 days to get to the Mun in 5 years of game time, which one was "first"? If you're going by the clock on the wall, then it's not a space race, it's a timewarp race.

The last time we got snow, it made national news.

Diameter: 5'8", or 68 inches, so radius 34 inches. Volume of sphere: 164636.21 in^3, or 712.7 gallons. Density of water: 8.34 pounds per gallon 5943.918 pounds So, You are standing between me and a lake. I hold out my hand, and nearly 3 tons of water is now moving towards you at some velocity. How fast does three tons of water need to hit you to cause damage?

I just cannot... I... But... How do you live your life while being so wrong? The Simon and Garfunkel version evokes a sadness at a lack of connection to humanity. The Disturbed version screams anger about it. It's not what the I feel writer was trying to convey. Both are important reactions, but the remake is almost a complete 180 from the original. Maybe. But you're still wrong.

I'm just glad to know that one of my coworkers doesn't need to update dates on parking passes anymore.

Gonna be a lot of tired people at work tomorrow.

Many things should be, and in a sane world would be. But they aren't, and single-point failures are much more common.

As my coworker says, "'Should' should be a four letter word."

"It's midnight, and they've gone over everything five times already today," the intern thought. He settled down for a quiet shift, put his headphones on, and started watching through some Youtube videos. A hot cup of coffee nearby slowly changed to warm, lukewarm, and then room temperature. Suddenly, the phone rang.

I was away camping this weekend, so only found out about it when I got home today. I'm kind of stunned, since this B-17 has been around my area for years, and I've seen her flying around many times. I just saw her two weeks ago, when she was at the Houston airshow. It looks like she wasn't carrying passengers this flight, at least.

Existence is therefore evidence that someone really wanted an apple pie.

Combat vs. non-combat rules. In fighting, you get short sequences of action, the enemy can defend itself, move around, etc. Things get abstracted. If you stab a sleeping character in a fatal spot, the rules are allowed to align better with reality.

A large amount of our agricultural chemicals come from the petrochemical industry. No fertilizers means a much lower crop yield. Lower crop yield means cows and people don't get enough to eat. Less food -> less people/cows. Less people/cows -> less poop. Less poop -> less poopgas for fuel. Well, if we can't support the large population of either, than no, it's not inexhaustible. You have to feed something into the front end of the production chain to get a yield.