StrandedonEarth

As others have said, dual-wielding only really happens in entertainment media. Because, it's cool. The only fiction that touches on reloading while dual wielding (that I know of) is The Gunslinger, who relies on years of training and practice to reload his revolvers, cartridge by cartridge. One line from the book stands out, which my mind somewhat paraphrases into a compact, standalone line (compared to the wordier quote in the book) "And still his fingers did their trick..." Stephen King admits that Roland was inspired by Clint Eastwood, of course...

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Apparently it's pinned in place by magnetic fields.

I learned it as "power of Hydrogen" which makes sense to me given the "Hydrogen ion exponent." I never realized there was any debate as to the actual meaning.

What team? They looked at it wrong and were instantly dissolved...

IIRC the atmosphere has a good proportion of sulfuric acid (although I'm not sure if that it true at ground level) so I think this is the most likely condition of Venera...

I always wanted to visit Meteor Crater, but that's three hours away from Phoenix...

The Defector, by Chris Hadfield, was a pretty good read.

And yeah, it went back to a white screen for me last night (Sunday evening, to be precise)

Ah, but, what percentage would have to look up a given word, vs how many can infer the meaning (or have a pretty good assumption) from the context?

So now it’s a litterbug….

Delta wing, single engine, no strakes? Doesn't look at all like an F-18 to me...

Another article: IM-1 lunar lander tipped over on its side - SpaceNews One tidbit that I don't recall being mentioned in this thread (emphasis mine): So in other words, a pre-launch (closeout) checklist failure/omission. I'm assuming there was a checklist, but that the switch was not on said checklist. Too bad the switch could not be flipped remotely....

Well, juvenile griefing could be curtailed if there was a more realistic game response. What happens in real life when the young of an animal is threatened or harmed? You get Momma Bear on your tail. If attacking/killing a juvenile spawned a full-grown bronto or T-Rex bot on top of you, with next-to-nil chance of survival, that should curtail such griefing. But the devs would have to see the need to make that happen. Unfortunately, the best way to make them see the need is if they lost player base due to juvenile griefing.

Ok, that was cute. Ima gonna paste the pic from that story....

Oddly enough, it still works for me, for now. I know it’s not fixed, because even when S&SF works, KSP1 Discussion still doesn’t. Which is no great loss, but when S&SF goes down it’s a great loss.

Well, the US landers were developed commercially, while JAXA seems to have proven a design (materials) problem with their engines. China is a more mature program, and India is the exception that proves the rule that space is HARD.

Well, it is still sending (whispering?) data. Call it a partial success. Certainly not a full success if some instrumentation wasn't working on descent. Sort of the equivalent of "Any landing you can walk away from"

Yes, definitely hoping to see that. I'm also waiting/hoping for some official to admit they "kerballed" the landing. That's slang for a non-optimal but survivable landing that I would love to see adopted...

Oh, there’ll be a lot of pushback from the environmental end. I think the original EPA license was for 4-6? launches per year, but having trouble finding that info…

It’s actually been working for the last 72 hours or so (S&SF, but not KSP1 Discussion). Hope I’m not jinxing it…

Yeah, I had a 502 error several minutes ago. But for the last 72 hours or so at least I’m not getting the kraken ban error that has been the dominant state for months now.

I don't think their reaction wheels are quite as strong as the ones in KSP, and it looked like the legs were (non-deployabe/retractable) anyways. Otherwise that maneuver would be BadS...

There’s probably an equipment core that’ll reduce the ‘stranded zone’ considerably. Not to mention, how do you get stopped in the middle in the first place?

The difference between iron and steel is the carbon content, so carbon is still needed for steelmaking. Of course, that's bound carbon, so it still shouldn't result in carbon emissions if done right...