This is clickbait.

Just some really basic advice for wannabe plane thieves with no flying experience. You steer with your feet when you are on the ground.

And you are going to die.

No, her gear have been kept stowed the entire time. She’s been on dollies. Only Discovery and Enterprise are displayed on their gear.

My reaction to that comment too...is Passant ai?

I heard an interview from a former NASA higher-up the other day. He made the point that if NASA had as many failures as Space-X, congress would have cancelled their budget in a heartbeat. So there is a reason NASA takes a long time and costs a lot of money, their financial overlords have zero tolerance for failure and…

Now that guy has an axe to grind.  He’d better get to it.

Does this mean the FBI agents riding the bus are known as ghost bus-ters?

I got outbid, which made me really a Noid.

If my calculations are correct, that’s an average acceleration of 2.96G. Amazing!

Depends on what you mean by reliability, of course. The number is true enough in that five operational orbiters were built and three survived. I’d call that attrition rate, though, rather than reliability.

Build it and they will come

For me it was “I know he calls himself Irish, but... Oooh!”

EVs are a good enough solution - the problem lies in charging them. A post office might have 30-40 delivery trucks per location, so will need 30-40 charging stations. They may need to have the power company upgrade the power delivery for the facility - larger transformers, for example. The building will need an…

I enjoy pointing out hypocrisy as much as the next guy, but the rebuttal to that is that they’re taking money from people who give it to them, not money from government services. Mind you, if some of these people are taking unemployment insurance or are on benefits, that’s some real hypocrisy, but I think we’re…

Human hair has been used to collect ocean oil spills for ages, was also used for the BP disaster in the Golf of Mexico.

I figured there had to be a few - but I sure never see them.

If this isn’t a grouping adjective, it should be: A coincidence of conspiracy theorists.

I feel like dieselpunk has a more art-deco aesthetic. This feels more like 50's atompunk, but now we are definitely splitting hairs, with a frickin’ laser beam.

“Steampunk”