StrandedonEarth

Mmmm, wind-flavoured gummies. Hope the blades weren’t downwind from a landfill or rendering plant…

So liftoff is set for Monday at 0833 EDT, or 0533 PDT.. I need to leave for work at 0545 at the latest to be on time. (usually aim to leave at 0540). I think I may be a bit late that day... I guess that's why they call me / They call me the working man

A meme that turns out to be at least a few years old came up on my wife's facebook feed, but neither of us had heard/seen it before. But it triggered an old earworm...

Homemade potato wedges. Gonna have to put some cheese on them next time...

Hurdy-Gurdy, metalhead mode… E: Bonus: Scardust feat Patty and her 'gurdy

HOLY MOTHER OF GRETZKY! Was anyone watching the gold medal game of the World Junior Hockey championship? What a game-saving save by McTavish in overtime, and then they go down and score. Like WOW!

That sucks, should have been a good view up there…

Clouds here too. But I did happen across this post on Imgur, judging by the poster's other posts it's in SW Manitoba... https://imgur.com/gallery/5b184xj

Depends if the new owner wants to actually live in it or not…

Oddly enough, it didn't say it wasn't available here, it simply said "Video unavailable." Unless they changed the message. But thanks for the repost!

Unavailable video is unavailable (I've given up on just posting videos, now i always (try to remember to) add the song title / artist in case this happens... But sometimes I forget...)

:whaleprobe:

The pilot was there to pilot the craft; astronauts were pilots and resented being treated as “spam in a can” by scientists. The navicomp had them heading towards a boulder field and he piloted the LM away from it. While they may not have had much fuel left in the descent stage, there was plenty of time to finally abort if necessary using the ascent stage. He was simply doing his job, and he did it well. That’s why he was selected.

This. Factories don't make money building the tooling (tooling manufacturers notwithstanding), they make money building and selling products and services. Starship can be considered a tool for building out Starlink, and that service will be the cash cow that pays for Starship. Selling Starship launches to outside customers will be gravy.

Maybe missing some context? Perhaps it meant first launch of a new vehicle (took 4 launches for a successful Falcon-1 launch). Or maybe BEO missions? I know Mars-bound missions were especially problematic, at least until the last few NASA rovers...

I was born in 1970 (an early online username was "StrandedonEarthsince1970"), between Apollo Missions. Based on the cadence at the time, it's possible that if if Apollo 13 hadn't had its issues, I may have been born during a Moon mission, but it was not to be. I think what first got me interested in rockets was model rocketry, when I was probably 8 or so (after Star Wars, because it was a "Proton Torpedo" rocket). Well, that and the Star Wars and Battlestar Galactica movies probably spurred my interest in space. But no Apollo missions of any sort in my memory bank. I had lots of of rocket and space-related books (including my mom's university astronomy textbook) and Lego, but probably the first one I came across (in after-school care, ) was... That's where my interest in Tintin books started, and come to think of it maybe this is where my interest in space started. The first spaceflight news I remember was the Skylab crash and the nuclear-reactor-powered Kosmos crash in northern Canada. And of course there were the first few Shuttle launches, before the media lost interest. I remember telling a classmate I had watched the second Columbia launch on KVOS-TV that morning, and he didn't believe me because that's when Scooby-Doo airs, and I had to tell him it was pre-empted for the launch. Of course, the big year in my growing years was 1986 (grade 10), with the one-two punch of the Challenger explosion followed by the Chernobyl disaster. I learned about Challenger when rumors bounced around school that morning, and then I saw the replays on TV when I went home for lunch. It was a sad day....

All I made for dinner was a roast beef sandwich (spit-roasted in the air fryer yesterday), with lettuce and herb-and-spice havarti. I spent my morning/early afternoon hunting-gathering at Costco and a farm market, as well as picking up local native-caught/cleaned whole sockeyes, so we were too busy all afternoon/evening with cutting, seasoning and freezing salmon (in reusable silicone bags), making bread-and-butter pickles (mandolin was great for slicing those), and making yogurt. Finally time to sit down and watch reruns at 8pm (nothing else catching our eye after binging everything of interest)...

First time I've heard of Rocky Road potatoes...

Were you able to copy/paste any sections, like in Factorio?

Crew-rated spacecraft

After looking up the source of the quote, I didn't remember the song, so I had to look it up. Catchy! (Dire Straits, The "Bug")

And you think regular leaf blowers are loud. It won't just blow them, it'll burn them! Also good for melting ice, if you have the traction to control it...

Following David Willis on Twitter, it seems like the Artemis Hype Train is finally rumbling to life... This Bird may actually launch before summer is out?!? Finally! Although, for the cost, they may as well have lined the flame trench with bricks of dollar bills...