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10/10 Love the pictures: Sheldon Coopers Guide to Love and Romance Dr. Sheldon Cooper takes a break from Big Bang theorizing to write a paper explaining the quantum physics responsible for creating feelings of love. With contributions from Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler

I wonder if they'll try any fairing recovery on this one.

Hey, nice avatar. You must be a Canadian living in Iowa

Sure about that? http://www.space.com/8564-jupiter-volcanic-moon-io-target-life.html We're humans, since when have we cared what was there before us? Oh right, just in the last few decades. But once we've proven that life arose on its own somewhere else, do we really need to worry about preserving the entire body for it? Or worrying about life somewhere else? It's not like those microbes are going to do anything. OTOH, once we wipe those unique ET microbes out, we'd never know that they harbored/produced the cure for cancer. Not like the pharma companies would really care, because the money is in treating cancer, not curing it. But I digress.

Ah-ha! I have a chance to play and no one else has the save. What a coincidence! *grabs save* Mine! Mine, I tell you! All mine! Mwahahahaha! Edit: And done for now. Added a ghetto zone next to the spaghetti-rails behind my industrial zone to supply my expanded industrial sector with uneducated workers, which gave the population a nice little bump. Added to the water and electricity supply. Wanted to give the ghetto a commercial district nearby, but connecting it without running trucks through the ghetto would have been problematic, so I skipped it. Now back to trying to dominate the world with Emperor Montezuma in Civ6 http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=915543086

I sorta figured it was something like that, or someone managed to get themselves moderator powers

This. Whatever else one might say about the Shuttle, it's a wonder it ever flew, and flew right the first time. It was, after all, the most complex machine ever made. With 70's tech, no less.

It's all a matter of design requirements, really. How far are you pumping the heat? That adds piping mass. Are there any price or power restrictions? Peltier plates can probably move quite a few kW/kg, but iirc they are expensive. They are also power hungry which turns into additional heat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling

Waterworld?

Water, the stuff of life, first and foremost. Breaks down into oxygen and hydrogen for propellants Next would be anything carbonaceous, along with hydrogen can form methane for an easier-to-handle fuel, and all the organic chemistry that builds up from there. Especially useful for plastics and carbon composites. After that would be aluminum, which iirc is common in lunar soil, and can be refined with just electricity. Then iron and titanium and other metals.

The worst earworm to have: This old man, he played one he played nick-nack on my thumb nick nack paddy-wack give a dog a bone this old man came rolling home *Evil laugh*

I can understand it, when nobody, not even the tire stores, have snow tires, and everyone is sliding around.

Peter Jackson would give it a Bad Taste, and Abrams would flare everything. Spielberg is good for creating a sense of wonder though

I stand corrected, I saw that ranking calling Vancouver the worst many years ago, but Vancouver currently ranks fourth on the continent, behind Mexico City, LA, and SF. But we've opened a couple of new bridges and a highway in the last five-ten years, which has helped those areas a lot; it was much worse. It used to be pretty bad (hour+ lineup at crawling speed) trying to cross the Fraser River on the #1 (Trans-Canada) Highway until they replaced the old Port Mann bridge with a ten-lane bridge along with a few new spaghetti-bowls of interchanges. Boston ranks 15th, the Big Dig project probably helped that. Nonetheless, driving in LA will be.... interesting. Four lane roads (per direction) or wider are a rarity up here. I'm not really interested in driving in LA more than I have to. CSC will be worth it tho. We don't really plan on eating much actual park food, just hitting the restaurants around it. I'll certainly keep your recommendations in mind.

I'm from the Greater Vancouver (BC) area, where rush hour starts at 6am and ends at 7pm. I do believe they once said we had the worst traffic on the continent. For Universal Studios we'll take the shuttle bus, not really "out'n'about" then. The CSC trip (planned for mid-day) is when we'll rent a car, so I welcome suggestions for other stops (or drive-bys), food or otherwise, during that jaunt.

In developed countries, natural population growth (birth rate minus death rate) is dropping, while immigration keeps the population growing. In developing countries, outside help is bringing the death rate down, while the birth rate is still at their traditional high levels (make a bunch of babies hoping a few survive, but now medicine is helping more of them survive). Japan is on the down side of the demographic curve with their strict immigration policies. They've had to convert schools to senior centers.

Whoops, didn't notice the question at first. https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ksp A little pricey, but lots to choose from.

"Good to be alive right about now wooHOO!"

https://www.google.ca/amp/jalopnik.com/a-nascar-team-is-building-the-first-internal-combustion-1783198912/amp

Those places would make a lot of sense. The major advantage to landing off the California coast, especially during the experimental phase, is that all the risky stuff takes place over water. Although I suppose they could find some nice unpopulated stretches in the American southwest.

But I did!

The S2 could land wherever it can fly over a droneship, so it wouldn't need to loiter until its path went over the LZ. Land it right off the coast of LA if they want/can.

Either by reserving plenty of fuel to slow down, or by hoping it can survive a faster re-entry, which would at least allow more data collection.