Given that the rover mission was designed to be two years long and it’s been rolling for four and half years, they’re only still working over twice as long as required. So “flaws in NASA Optimism” is just flat wrong. Yeah, they’d like to get more than 250% lifespan out of everything, sure...and given that Curiosity is…

There’s no such thing as copy-editing here. You could email the article to an Indian for a couple of bucks and they wouldn’t even spring for that.

I dunno, you try to buy any .22lr lately?

Copyediting, Jalops!

I thought aircraft carriers are pointless, easy to sink and have never been used since WWII?

D.B. Pooper

Parachute, poorly faked death.

Yeah, I’m just gonna point out that the biker was %100 at fault here. Everybody involved screwed up, and like you said, we hope he’s OK after this...but it’s pretty plain to see that the biker was driving way too fast for what he was doing.

Isn’t the guy in the car that filmed all this at fault, too? He left his lane and went onto the shoulder. Shoulders aren’t there for people to move onto to be nice to people on motorcycles. This created a space that the lane changer wouldn’t have expected to appear, through which the motorcyclist passed through at…

Had to read a little further but this diagrams from the linked article on the bullitin basically explain what the super fuse capability does

Can we all applaud and celebrate that he used landscape mode?

Electric Bogie Porn was Zappa’s most underrated album.

Plus that mesh would have to be heated to prevent icing which would make it even heavier and complicated.

The JTD-8 is still there in spirit, or at least in the song of the APU. Man, those things drown everything else out.

Because anything strong enough to adsorb the impact of a goose at 500 mph -and not end up breaking free and being sucked into the engine it’s supposed to protect! - is probably going to reduce the free air area of the intake by 10%.

Someone JUST WROTE a great article on what constitutes a bad headline, one that does no service to the article and one that I defended because people use the term click-bait when it doesn’t apply.

The ultimate fuckery is when the recipe calls for caramelized onions AND risotto. Yeah assholes, 15 minutes my nards.

You can think whatever you want but as a practical matter there is no difference. They’re taking steps to identify people and avoid people who A) they are legally entitled to avoid if they so choose and B) are likely to cause them expense and difficulty.

I’m constantly amazed at bad internet lawyering. On what basis do you, random internet person, declare their business model “illegal”? Have you approached federal prosecutors with your damning evidence of their illegal business model?

I honestly don’t see a problem with it. People actively avoid cops all the time. Hell, this is basically just an internal version of waze’s road reports, with a little more predictive finesse thrown in.