I remember there being a debate about sending something up to save it before it got too far gone. I didn’t know the details, but I remember when ISS was built, people were saying “we already had this with Skylab and Mir, we could have added on to them instead of this expensive program.”

It came down prematurely; they didn’t destroy it on purpose. (That’s partially accurate — in fact they did somewhat control the reentry. It had no propulsion, so they tried to partially control the reentry by adjusting the angle of the solar arrays. It didn’t completely work, and they ended up hitting Australia…

When I was a kid, they destroyed Skylab. Sort of screwed up and ended up bombing Austrilia with it. But anyway, I didn’t understand why they didn’t just keep it up there.

“This is so obviously and purely gloating that these fuckwits may have just cost the Dems the Presidency.”

God you’re the worst kind of faux contrarian centrist

A newspaper article about the arrest of a criminal con-man isn’t going to sway the election, you stupid twatwaffle.

So this woman, Mandy Gunasekara who perports to be from the “Independent Women’s Forum’s Center on Energy and Conservation”, is actually a bullshit artist who actually doesn’t believe in science, right? I’d be curious to know if there is anyone else from “Independent Women’s Forum’s Center on Energy and Conservation”…

So Twitter is profusely bleeding advertisers (Elon Musk, gOoD aT bIzNuS) and we know Tucker Carlson drove them away from Fox by the barrel. So I see where this is going. They’re gonna charge (whether its Twitter Blue or extra) for the ability to watch the show. Elon will think this will be some brilliant move to…

A wealthy region’s governments actually coming up with a practical solution instead of just a new way to treat unhoused people like subhumans?

Your perspective is very limited; people have always been overworked and underpaid. Look at Japan in the 70s, 80s, and 90s: they were seriously overworked people there but they didn’t go on violent rampages. And even in America, with the constant assault on labor by each successive GOP-led Congress or Presidency,…

Jesus... I’m not speaking of any one single authority. Look up the word authoritarianism in any dictionary. And no, it has nothing to do with the ‘illuminati’... *facepalm*

The TSA is the same way.

That’s the obvious thing(s) to do, but to actually do so requires having humanity. Authoritarianism is much more fun, then you get to club everyone in the head with draconian rules and lord over them laughing maniacally, while your victims groan in pain and agony (and with children screaming), sitting on a cramped…

Fort Lauderdale to Miami is about 30 miles.

100%. I don’t think you could ever PAY me to vote for a Republican, but Democrats absolutely fucked up here. Biden broke the strike, which would have pushed for more regulations that were directly aimed at shit like this.

Why should Buttigieg be involved with this? Republicans in a Republican state supported a Republican who cut the regulations, but the Congress remains responsible for the laws. Even had the braking rule been in effect, it applied to trains with 70+ cars of hazardous material - this train had 10 and so would not have…

This is what happens when, as a Democrat, your party and leader breaks a strike. When an incident happens that is at least partially based on what the strike was about, especially so soon after breaking it, it completely destroys your ability to respond to it in any meaningful way. I hope Biden and all the other…

I’m willing to be there’s a “no stopping on tracks” sign just the other side of that beam.  This was pure idiocy.

100% this. That beam is freakin enormous. When they moved the Space Shuttle through LA they had to practically shut down the entire goddamn city, and that was actually 12 feet shorter than this beam

I feel like if you are moving something like that you need to coordinate with the railroad if a crossing is unavoidable.