This is a technology demonstrator and one of the technologies it is demonstrating is “get enough solar charge to run the battery-warmer and still fly”. A few sols of repeat will give good solid data that can be used on future missions.

A solar farm charging EV beach buggies, though - they’d be happy as Larry. Shame on the guzzoline.

Oh, Six Degrees Of Separation, not Six Degrees and then the climate goes runaway. I was confused there for a moment.

Mass “casual social” is a thing VR hasn’t nailed yet. VRChat isn’t quick pick-up-and-go, it needs you to find rooms and finesse avatars and all that. It’s great but there’s more than zero effort.

Chat for the filthy casuals will sell units if it’s done well. 

And some rockets are flying with automatic FTS, so if the rocket shows signs of straying from parameters, it’ll blow itself up before the slow RSO can reach for the button. 

Like that Kirk dialog was stellar.  (and S3 is fun)

This is like the UK’s annual MOT inspection? Yes, that’s a good thing. I’d have driven so many horrible beaters into my own rusty grave were it not for the traditional “this has too many fails to fix cost-effectively,” at the end of their life.

Isn’t this sort of thing universal?

Is that the same as the purple-eyed alien doing the gorilla running at the very end of the trailer? 

This looks like a lot of fun. Get on my face!

Consumer Reports recently confirmed that EVs are cheaper to own even in the cheap-gasoline USA. It’s just that the purchase price is higher, and I guess people have trouble doing long-term maths?  https://www.consumerreports.org/hybrids-evs/evs-offer-big-savings-over-traditional-gas-powered-cars/

It leans hard into “bloody hilarious” black humour, but it stays funny just from how ludicrous the ludicrous gibs are. 

First do the probes and spectrometers to determine if there’s something worth sampling and roughly what and where it is. There’s no rush.

And you’ve had a test since to confirm that it wasn’t just bad flu?

I was convinced I had it late March, but June tests came back negative. 

It’s the unacceptable robot soldier future from the Robocop reboot! Should be fun.

6 is an understudy for 5 if 5 blows up in the next few tests. 7 is just test tanks; 8 will be the first non-grain-silo-looking high-altitude test article to see if the control system works as expected.

They’re a control-improving hardware hack for big rotor RC helis. 

Rotorcraft really need to keep the tip speed down below the speed of sound, of things get all shook up. It can’t go at a zillion RPM for that reason, but it’s still heckin’ fast. Still needs double rotors, very low mass, and all the other good stuff. 

Avatar: 40k? #nurglebending

That would make an adorable body-kit for an Arrival van.

My brain has short-circuited: Roland Emmerich and giant spiders?