CatastrophicFailure

This is mostly rhetorical but… will that ball even fit in a Soyuz fairing?

Crank up the damping on the chopsticks maybe? SS is smaller, that gives more distance to slow a fall… if they can really catch it…

MechaKraken.

So, finally got my FSD beta yesterday. And then lost it. And then got it again. Because apparently this happened: Beta software gonna beta, but yeesh, it was dang near undrivable for a stretch there, FSD or no. And now that I’ve had a couple drives with it… yeah, it’s kinda like driving with a flustered 16 year old at the wheel. This should be interesting. but it does seem to have finally stopped diving into turn lanes.

How to toilet train your Dragon…

Yup… demand problem all right…

Because that’s slow, and ultimately more expensive. You learn more from, ahem, integrated systems testing. Keep in mind, this isn’t the first time they’ve fired Starship with tiles attached. This has been an ongoing campaign since what, SN8? 9?

I had to look it up… Raptor exhaust velocity 3.26 km/s, lunar escape velocity 2.38 km/s, so… seems plausible…

…Flipper? thanked him for all the fish…

Better yet, just have Starship hover over the surface and excavate it’s own hole.

Well, looks like the install was indeed a success.

Things You Can’t Tow with a Tesla, Episode… er, 3. 4200lb bucket lift. Ok, this one I actually felt. High CoM, narrow track, and surge brakes makes it a bit but a new personal best for the “glorified golf cart.” And then a weekend of risking life and limb to do things I prolly shoulda just hired a professional to do, but tree limbs can’t be that heavy, right? let me just lean way over with this here chainsaw in one hand, what could possibly go wrong? Tho I’ll say I dunno how those SpaceX guys on the 150-foot lifts do it, I was never more than maybe 20 feet up and just… yeesh…

So you’re saying… someone needs to start a “what funny/interesting thing happened in some random stranger’s life at some point in the past” thread?

BO's former PR guy: BO's new PR guy: [ominous heavy breathing]

Disenchanted, former, and would-be fans...

Kinda been their whole MO lately…

Wow… So… got an email from the Through the Looking Glass forum about a reply to an old post of mine… very old… If anyone’s ever played the Thief series of sneak games (kind of created the genre), originally from Looking Glass Studios, back in the day I cobbled a few fan missions together.* Apparently people are still playing and enjoying them… one week shy of twenty years since the first release. Mind blown right now. Also I feel really, really old right now. My illegitimate digital child is almost of drinking age. *and by “cobbled” I mean slaved over for hours and hours a day in virtually every minute of my spare time

Brings a whole new meaning to the term “spicy fly.”

Hey y’all, dinner @StrandedonEarth’s house, @Puggonaut’s driving!

If you look just right you can see two wheels, a seat, and some handlebars.

You should cover it in tinfoil. Y'know, complete the look...

Just sayin… Just paint it black olive drab…