Then don’t approve the HQ move. As I understand it, the pay package isn’t up for vote; he’s moving the HQ in response to a shareholder lawsuit filed in Delaware over the pay package. If he moves to Texas, he will enjoy courts which will be less responsive to shareholder concerns and he can more readily move his pay…

Well, it does have angles you can’t achieve in Minecraft.....

Hell, for that lie, why not go all the way and show ‘em Musk’s other stainless steel baby?

Didn’t you know the Cybertruck has the awesome extra green feature of doubling as a solar oven?  :-P

Sounds like a call for malicious compliance to me......

Well, the last time I heard it was yesterday.  I do agree, it’s not as common as it used to be, but it does still happen.

There was a pizza company that for a while equipped its delivery drivers with electric motorbikes.  The motorbikes of course had to make electronic noises, per regulations, but as long as you’re having them make sounds, why not have them make sounds appropriate to the product?  Apparently they had them go…

Random factoid: TIE fighters and A-10s sound oddly similar.  (Except, of course, when they’re shooting.  A TIE simply does not BRRRT.)

I like this idea.  :-)

Oh, I would watch the hell out of that.

So, this is talking about the valve on Centaur that caused the scrub, not the valves that ValveTech sued about on Starliner — just to be clear.

Best part: the Moon isn’t going to ruin the show this time!  Thin crescent only!

They do apparently have sensors that can detect the chatter, since they were able to use recorded data from those sensors to count the cycles the valve had experienced during the episodes of chatter, so I suppose the question is why they don’t have telemetry on those sensors. However, I do question whether it’s as…

It’s not. ValveTech said they weren’t comfortable with launching today with this valve. (They made the valve.) ULA agreed with their recommendation and rolled the vehicle back to the Vertical Integration Facility) so they can replace the valve with a new one.

Along with the implication that it’s yet another Boeing whistleblower, when it’s neither Boeing nor a whistleblower. It’s a supplier to ULA indicating that they are not comfortable with it flying with this part.  And guess what?  ULA agrees.  They rolled back to replace it instead of pressing forward with a second…

This comment needs all of the stars.  The cognitive dissonance alone in alleged physician Sean Hollonbeck should be enough to melt anyone’s brain.

Yes, and for the same reason. Conventionally, objects in space are depicted with their southern poles down, so the Sun is also, and AR3664 (and its buddy AR3668) is in the southern hemisphere. It’s rotating away from Earth now, reducing the chance of further flares disrupting us — but it HAS been belching out a series…

First flight went well! That was very, very good to see.  I am already missing the Delta IV Heavy fireball, but they really need something that can compete and serve more customers than just national security launches, and Vulcan can be it.

Apology very much accepted, and respected as well! I hope that means you were having a good night. ;-)

Sorry to hear that. :-( They do amazingly cool stuff, and make some incredible vehicles. But the industry got absolutely clobbered in the 2000s. Not by SpaceX; this was before SpaceX came along. As a space geek, it was so exciting to see all of the amazing things coming up, and then so devastating to see it all…