I was always bothered by the idea that a 23 year old was playing an experienced neurosurgeon, when in real life, she probably would have been a first year med student. Who is she, Doogie Hauser? If you’re going to do that, at least go into the backstory a bit.

Now that’s the car racing movie I need, but did not know.

Maybe because it just visited where I live, but I thought this:

Thank you for reminding me how awful the narrated version was.

An airplane must be strong enough to be fully structurally sound unpressurized. If not, it would structurally fail if it decompressed or at low altitudes where there is little to no pressure differential.

When they played the University of Iowa Hawkeyes at the 2016 Rose Bowl, they did a “Farmers Only” dating website-themed halftime show. Iowans, who take pains to indicate that only a small percentage of them are involved in agriculture, did not appreciate the joke (see comments).

Every car has a use case. The use case for this one potentially seems to jibe with your needs.

I posted this elsewhere, but lately, all his speeches are like a glitching ChatGPT AI with the input, “Write a speech that will appeal to racist isolationist rubes.”

Lately, all his speeches are like a glitching ChatGPT AI with the input, “Write a speech that will appeal to racist isolationist rubes.”

Yeah, I collected a few letters behind my name from BU, too. That’s what moved me out to Boston from the Midwest.

My wife has run it a few times, and we used to live in Hopkinton. I approve of the color scheme for jackets, tattoos (not yet, but she’s window shopping) and t-shirts, but unless you start incorporating some unicorn stitching, it’s not floating my boat as a car interior.

Speaking of denim and Formula 1, I give you the 1980/81 Osella!

Did Bugatti actually tool up injection molds for 12 cars? The molds for that can run into the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yeah, I know they’re selling $26 million of cars, but still, for such a small item? A lot of low-production cars use lighting units borrowed from other cars, as Jalopnik itself has…

“Comes from money,” but doesn’t have a card?

Boeing is still on the hook for the contracted Commercial Crew flights. If they don’t deliver, they don’t receive the contracted amounts. So they’re highly incentivized to complete their contractual obligations.

It is important to point out that this was done under an entirely different contract. SpaceX and Orbital Sciences were awarded Commercial Resupply contracts under an earlier program. This did give SpaceX a valuable leg up on their competition, and is one of the reasons that they bid less on the Commercial Crew…

In addition to other comments, it should also be noted that one of the reasons why the SpaceX award was smaller than the Boeing one SpaceX started with a sort of existing prototype, the Cargo Dragon. This would simplify their development process. Boeing was starting entirely from scratch with Starliner.

Checked - it looks like the only time that they did a spacewalk on Soyuz was Soyuz 5-4, and they used one of the modules of two docked Soyuz spacecraft as a sort of airlock.

Mentioned Gemini elsewhere. Actually, the Alexei Leonov’s Voskhod EVA used an inflatable airlock, and it almost killed him. He couldn’t get back into it, and he had to partially deflate his spacesuit (!) to get back in. Steely eyed missile man. I didn’t know what standard practice on Soyuz EVAs were (or if there were…

It’s all about the partial pressure of oxygen. The Apollo 1 mission I referred to had pure oxygen at > 16 psia bsolute on the pad, to keep a slight outward pressure on the hatch and seals at sea level 14.7 psi. In the normal atmosphere, oxygen is about 3 psi partial pressure. The idea was that they were going to bleed…