The boosters were solid fueled, the main engines were liquid fueled. The O-rings didn’t see Cryogenic service.

I worked with a guy that was was part of the analysis team on what happened to the Challenger. He had some interesting things to say about what happened and what the solutions were.

It’s even worse than that, because MT management overruled their engineers only after the company had initially told NASA “don’t launch,” and the response from NASA was, literally, “My God, Thiokol, when do you want me to launch—next April?”

It’s highly possible that those O-rings were built using the religious equivalent of slave labor.

They were a company that made o-rings. So NASA’s subcontractor Thiokol bought o-rings from them. It’s not like they had some engineer fly from Houston to Salt Lake City and knock on the door with a briefcase full of SRB plans. 

Okay so...

I’d even go so far as to say if the button on the Tesla were on opposite sides of the steering wheel and appropriately sized, it would be acceptable. You just put your thumb in the area the turn signal should be, it activates, and you don’t have to worry about the placement.

If they were going to merge, you would never be able to tell until they’re already doing it.

This doesn’t work if you’re Jewish:

A real quick catch-up for anyone who feels behind on this:

Reddit investors in a week: “Hi, I bought this stock for $400 last week and I’d like to sell it now.”
Stock Market: “That’s worth $1 in cash or $3 in store credit.”

Well, it is - but maybe in a roundabout enough way so as not to technically be manipulation.

FIRST: I wholeheartedly believe that that is exactly what’s happening - rich people have lost billions of dollars and they don’t like it.

I’ve got no skin in this game, but I can’t see how this move by the trading apps is anything but corruption.  Can anyone smarter than me explain why this might not be them bowing to rich people pressure?

Unless CNBC was mistaken, they reported that nearly 150% of Gamestonk’s float was in short positions. Even without Reddit it seems impossible that a squeeze was avoidable when the shorts put themselves in that position

They need to sell in volume if they want to make a dent. Compliance EVs that sell 20k units per year don’t offset millions of combustion vehicles’s emissions.

To me, “sent from my phone” isn’t an apology for being away from the office. It’s an explanation for sending a short, quick response that may not have as much detail as I would have typed if I’d been at a computer. If anything, I think it signals “don’t expect my full attention if you’re emailing me on the…

It largely comes down to whether or not there are damages, either monetarily or to the brand image of the copyright.

I tend to use them more as a pause, to imply that I’m thinking and will finish the thought momentarily (if someone asks a question like what I want for diner I’ll reply “Not sure yet...”, or as catch all for an awkward pause when someone send me an unintelligible text , like “Ok...?” but you have to end with the…

Replying “ok...” can leave a text reader feeling as if you’re leaving something unsaid.