Virtually every car on the road today has one more more component or feature that could be characterized as a “beta” (relatively new and relatively untested). This is essentially how cars get safer every year. Ultimately... if an accident is found to be the result of misusing the component or feature then the fault nec…

They stopped looking at their calendar after management made them convert it into a slide show. 

Charon is about 1/2 the diameter (1/8 the mass) of Pluto, large enough that the barycentric point that they orbit about is above the surface of Pluto (i.e. they both rotate around a point in space).

People who believe conspiracy theories don’t do it because it causes them distress. It’s the opposite. They LOVE this shit. They love thinking they are the few who know “the truth” while the rest of us unwashed masses are deluded.

NASA’s latest update to the Webb launch situation was clear, concise, and grammatically incorrect. “The James Webb Space Telescope team is working a communication issue between the observatory and the launch vehicle system,” the space agency posted to its Webb telescope blog.

Your lack of self awareness is astounding.

And incredibly enough, I can see a scenario in which Tom is 100% convinced (and tries to convince Shiv) that he was acting in their best interest. If Logan was going to cut them all out anyway, Tom has at least secured something for them by securing his own position.

They need to start talking about the damn heron marked sword for one thing. Digging into Rand’s origins is how you make him a more interesting character.

And, strictly speaking, it’s not even correct. We’ve known for 116 years that time and space are relative, not absolute, and that the only absolute is the speed of light. Thus, a photon’s reference frame is the only one that everyone can agree on, regardless of the observers’ states of motion. And, since at the speed…

Oh fuck off...

Hee hee hee, I know. I just couldn’t help myself. Irony is not what I do to a wrinkled shirt!

I don’t really care if you “work for NASA” though I hope you don’t do anything important considering you’re an incredibly rude jerk with bad reading comprehension!

Let’s be perfectly clear: SpaceX has done literally nothing at all in terms of space *exploration.* [...] But they have done nothing when it comes to leaving Earth orbit, and this fiasco is evidence that these are not the same skillsets

The Great. It’s not fantasy or sci-fi, so I guess it doesn’t belong here, but more people should watch it. Dark humor historical series with modern sensibilities, a la The Favorite (by the same writer).

Yeah! I never cared much about Anna in the books; I mean, I didn’t dislike her, I just didn’t find her that interesting (people struggling with religious faith isn’t very interesting to me, the hardcore atheist), but Mitchell did a great job. Honestly the casting in this show is absolutely god-tier. I remember in the…

Oh he is brilliant on Servant!

“Are here”... “next year”.

God what a douche Bezos is. The guy has had a “Space” company as long as SpaceX and hasnt been able to get even close to getting to orbit.

So they suggest that the crew who walked out over safety concerns deliberately put someone’s life in mortal danger to express “We’re disgruntled”? That’s pretty dark even for these ambulance chasing sorts.

Half-assed tuna melts. $1 tuna packs x5, pack of bulkie rolls ($2.50), some cheese ($2.50), a condiment (free or minimal cost), and a toaster = lunch for a work week, for under the cost of half a sandwich in Boston, packed with protein.