Definitely “Nightfall”, but it also makes me think of Lord Byron’s poem “Darkness” (which may have inspired “Nightfall”):

Yeah, that’s where things go off the rails, because that’s when you lose the ability to tell right from wrong, fantasy from reality, truth from falsehood. Me, I have the firm conviction that all religions are wrong about something, and probably quite a lot of things, but are also right about a lot of things, and the…

“in aviation you also have multiple redundancies as well and can switch on the fly for inputs.”

Battery replacement is something that can be expected to eventually happen if the vehicle lasts long enough — and please DO note, you’re making this comment in response to a story involving a battery replacement, so clearly it’s not an unreasonable expectation. Making it more difficult to replace the battery means…

Uh, if you found any of these comments complimentary to Tesla, I’m not sure you’re reading them very closely.  :-)

You’re in a prime position of your career to build your resume for it, then!  They open up applications for new astronaut classes on a regular basis.  ;-)

....  The hell?

Wow.  I can see where that would speed up manufacturing, but it seems idiotic for maintainability.

I dunno, I’ve flown out of there and it’s fine. It’s an airport. *shrugs* It does have those crazy tall shuttle things, which are unique at least.  Otherwise it’s mostly just kind of airporty.  I dunno.  There are only so many ways to do an airport; they each try and do something distinctive, yet end up with a…

Ow!

Oh, I know, and I’m counting on that to make sure they pick something REALLY appropriate. :-D

They’re creative, though.  I’m sure they could find a way to express their sentiments about him in a particularly *fitting* way.  :-)  A bus terminal toilet stall, perhaps.

It seems like a reasonable idea. It really does. The problem is that it takes even more energy to get it further away from Earth than it does to get it to fall back down. So if it’s hard to get it down safely, it’s even harder to get it away.

Well, for things too big, the general plan is to steer them so that the bits too big to break up are guaranteed to end up somewhere isolated — generally the South Pacific. This pallet was a special case, because the intended plan fell through, which exposes a weakness.  It also really drives home the urgency of…

I absolutely adore the way Oliver leans into stuff like this.  :-)

Or New York, where he originated.  I’m sure they can come up with something very *special* to name in his dubious honor.

The entire Trump Presidency is like Poe’s Law made flesh.

Reagan and W actually wanted to have the United States still exist for their grandchildren, and cared about its prosperity enough to want to make sure the basic functioning of the country continued to happen from day to day. Trump? He doesn’t care. It’s a vanity project for him. If it all burns the day he dies, it…

Oh, I need that.  :-D

And, crucially, they didn’t mislead people about *how* they worked.