StrandedonEarth

Oh, it looks like it’ll be getting plenty hot in that basket…

Ok wait. Now I've read the linked BO article on arstechnica. I didn't see anything about beamed power in there?

@JoeSchmuckatelli My bad, didn't actually read the article, just read the posted quote

Not for beaming power to Earth, but for powering equipment on the Moon.

This. If it can be made and laid out by autonomous machines, then who really cares how efficient it is? The $/W is bound to be magnitudes cheaper than shipping from Earth. The first steam engines were 0.5-1% efficient, after all

Okay, who let Jeb fly it?

There are old friends, and there are bold friends, but there are no old, bold friends

This. And then they give R2D2 jets for hovering instead of repulorlifts. I’m sure they had their reasons.

Yeah, that's what i figured

True, but I wonder if the engine that stopped on its own was on the opposite side, to balance thrust, as per flight software. At the same time, I wonder if it has enough gimbal authority to handle a single engine out.

Oh for the love of little green dragons…. I knew I should have taken my break earlier! Great to see that they could fire it on the first attempt, even if only 31 lit. Even better that there’s no apparent damage to the hardware, although the flapping birdware may beg to differ. I’m sure the deluge helped keep future concrete replacement to a minimum

I hadn’t heard of Burt, but that’s quite the impressive list of credits he has…

I don’t know what setup you have, but for stuff like this I game on my laptop and put YouTube on the smart tv. OTOH, you could just leave the audio running in the background so you know when to pause the game and switch over to the feed. On the gripping hand, dual monitors are your friend, if your setup can handle it… Meanwhile, I’m stuck at work, so all I can do is check for updates on my breaks (like now). Gotta keep production up, ya know…

Wouldn’t be able to see a “banana for scale” at that scale anyways. A blue whale, on the other hand…

Probably more about the angle of the sun vs the orientation of the station, how soon after dusk, etc...

Thanks for the article. At the end, she states what the real goal is:

I admit I got a chuckle out of it too, but pines are coniferous, not deciduous.

Thanks for the shoutout @Gargamel, although I admit I don’t always update the title with names that I don’t think are as well known, even though I may sometimes be mistaken with that assumption. If anyone wants to make sure I update a name into the title, please request it.

Came across this Katherine Johnson tribute...

While true, at least this time the everything appears ready to go, unlike before when not even the launch pad/tower was complete. Depends how that full 33-Raptor static fire goes...

Rocket engine cooking https://i.imgur.com/420OzCw.mp4

So they are unsold inventory? I'll give you 20 hand axes for a mammoth carcass? 100 for your hot daughter? A bunch ready for the whole tribe to use when they drag home a mammoth? Obsidian is pretty sharp, maybe they used them to shave (j/k)?

I've got a bad feeling about this - every Star wars character, also Indiana Jones...

My mom is also in LTC, all the way over the Alzheimer's bridge. Fortunately she falls into the "cheerfully confused" category (her adopted mother, who was always the sweetest woman, fell into the "mean, nasty b...." category when she lost her marbles). She was living with my oldest brother, who is on permanent disability after a bad car accident, until the roles reversed for a year or so until he couldn't handle it anymore (one person simply cannot provide 24-hr care/supervision). Naturally, she never wanted to go to a 'home,' and no one wanted to send her there, but when the time came there really were no other options and she no longer had the faculties to resist or even know what was really happening. Fortunately, or unfortunately depending on your PoV, she appears otherwise healthy and may keep ticking for many years yet. One thing about her condition is it seems to have resolved her Type 2 diabetes since she was forgetting to eat; previously she could never resist the sweet things enough

No, but expect saves/careers to become imcompatible with the latest update now and then...