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Especially since inclination changes are fairly cheap at apogee, although argument of perigee would be similar…

Wow, I had no idea the video for that song was melded with Happy Days. A little digging to find out it was included on the Win95 CD-ROM!?! I had no idea this song was that old, but I didn't listen to much (modern) radio back then. Thanks for the enlightenment!

Don't want to make it too easy for them now... I wonder how the re-entry will work, if it can handle a direct re-entry or if they'll aerobrake the apogee down to a more reasonable level with multiple passes...

I see what you did there... It makes sense, since a comet is merely an asteroid still loaded with volatiles that get baked out into a fuzzy tail when it is close enough to the Sun. It also helps being in a highly elliptical orbit that keeps it frozen most of the time. But of course you know all that.

Well, there’s a high probability of both environmental poisoning (lead/mercury being the obvious ones, but there can be more subtle ones) and nutritional deficiencies, especially micronutrients leading to reduced “smarts.” I’m currently reading “Fats that Heal, Fats that Kill” by Dr Udo, which focuses on the lack of essential fatty acids in modern industrial diets, and how the trend of frying foods in oils generates unhealthy-to-the point-of-toxic trans fats. Modern cooking oils are highly processed to give them a near infinite shelf life, which strips them of healthy oils, especially EFAs which are degraded/spoiled by heat, air, and light. So yeah, they strip out all the healthy stuff and sell it back to us as supplements. Capitalism gone wild, as usual.

Hoooo-wie! Tonight’s chili had enough beans to fuel a Starship!

Well, that didn’t last long. It was occasionally working for me up until last night, but nothing but white screen this morning…

I'm going to guess by the deafening silence that the answer is no...

It took me a bit to figure it out, but, using the imgur app on iPhone, I tap the pic so it just shows the pic and a few icons underneath, tap the right pointing arrow at bottom right, then scroll down to copy link. Then over to the forum and paste. It works for me, just did it earlier today in the RIP thread…

Weird. It still works on movie for me, just one minute ago

RIP https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/carl-weathers-dead-1.7103456

Really weird. At least on PC the Edge browser has never let me down once , but other browsers are also 500

Hmm, I’m getting that too, but it works 3/4 of the time , occasional white screen…

Built in the 2020's using 1980s (70s, really) technology? Um yeah, outdated. Not including Orion, I suppose the tankage alloy is newer, and the engine controllers, but that's it.

*jaw drop * Holey Kraken, S&Sf is working for me again on mobile! It wasn’t yesterday… How about you, @JoeSchmuckatelli, is the kraken smiling on you today? I wonder how long it will last this time… E: Whatever the issue is, it’s not completely fixed, because KSP1 Discussion still gives me a white screen on mobile…

And to get back in he had to jump with RCS blasting, RCS was too weak otherwise…. So, MMUs for emergency ingress?

Well, the internet back then was not capable of streaming much. I think debut launches of a new vehicle would get a sound bite on the news, as well as any major deep-space missions. But regular rockets were definitely overshadowed by the Space Shuttle, and even that was soon reduced to sound bites when it launched and landed, if that. The first D4H launched in 2004, the second in 2007. I wasn't watching much TV in '04 (partially successful), and I don't recall much more than a sound bite in 2007. But most of my space news back then came from Space.com and its forum, and it was scorching on those launches. I do recall, back before the Space.com forums were closed, that the resident Shuttle program engineer there (Shuttle_guy) had his mind blown when one of the first F9 launches (2010) was recycled and launched ~90 minutes later (IIRC, may have been a few hours) after a hot abort (sensor reading outside conservative parameters; adjusted parameters and launched). A hot abort on a Shuttle launch would have been at least a 24hr recycle. But I digress....

My son showed me this, so now I have Star Wars music stuck in my head...

Well, when they’re flying 100 times a year on boosters that have seen 10+ launches regularly, it does become pretty routine. Wake me when Starship is on its final countdown…

You're supposed to call 411 for that! Way back in the day I called 411 for a baking unit conversion, hoping against hope they might know... nope! e: (sorry for the necroquote, lol)

Right now, I'm watching the original Predator, and just passed the point where one of the soldiers is yelling at the native tracker, "You know something!" (The response was "I'm scared.") Now, I also watched Prey (the most recent Predator movie), which was set ~200 years ago, involving a Predator's encounter with North American natives and French colonizers. Prey puts that line in a new light, suggesting that the legend of an alien predator was handed down through the generations. I like that idea. Of course, since the Predator movie predates Prey by some 35 years, it's really just coincidence, unless that line started a train of thought that led to the script of Prey... And yes, Prey was worth watching, IMO.

Ah yes, I remember having one Sims game where I was building up quite a cemetery, and the pool was one of the kill zones. As an aside, a buddy created a dungeon with a few slaves with the most basic furniture and no way out. They spent their time making paintings and gnomes for the dungeon master to sell. The dungeon master made their meals and the rest of the time just sat around watching TV...

That's what I was thinking. At first I thought different lighting, but the surrounding areas look the same.

It all comes down to the bean counters calling the shots, and they are probably coming down on people who rack up extra expenses in the form of extra man-hours doing "unnecessary" inspections, making people hesitant to do what is actually necessary. What's going on at Spirit is less clear, but if the facility is being run on the cheap then the grunts are probably underpaid and don't care, and it costs too much to fire them and train new ones. Or they do get fired and the replacements are no better. They get what they're paying for.