Honestly, I was amazed how good he looked when he appeared in “The Power of the Doctor”. 99! That’s damn good. He almost made the century mark. So I decided to look through the rest of the folks that I could easily find associated with the first serial of Doctor who. All but two have now passed.

Well......Starship is the one that’s made of stainless steel. And it hasn’t completed a successful mission yet either. I wouldn’t really want to compare either one to something as singular as the Cybertruck, but Musk has been actively drawing similarities between Starship and Cybertruck. Hopefully that isn’t bad mojo…

One interesting further thing to note: apparently this power supply relates in some way to the valves on Centaur including the one that was chattering.  It’s possible (though by no means certain -- this could be a red herring) that the bad power supply was responsible for the previous scrub as well.  I’m sure ULA will…

Yep. incredibly stupid and pointless.

Well, yeah. I think he just picked the Tesla because it’s expensive (smashing expensive cars is, in some respects, more fun than smashing cheap ones) and he had one available for smashing.

Not knowing, I’m asking: could this lead to a road-equivalent to pilot-induced oscillation, a problem that bedeviled early fly-by-wire systems (and nearly crashed the Space Shuttle Enterprise during the ALT program)?

No one was hurt; with three parachutes, there was sufficient redundancy. Note: the article took pains to point out that Starliner uses similar technology, but didn’t mention that Dragon does as well, and so does Orion. And so do the various Mars landers. Hypersonic parachutes are a difficult technology.

Reminds me of the stories of how those huge but non-aggressive huntsman spiders in Australia apparently actually cause a lot of injuries to humans, not by bites, but because of car accidents when they startle drivers who suddenly realize there’s one in the car with them.

Oh my sweet lord.

I suppose it could’ve been worse. It could’ve been centipedes. *uncontrollable shuddering*

Welp, I guess I’m pulling an all nighter tonight. And tomorrow. And for the rest of my life, because I don’t need sleep anymore.

So, you didn’t read the article through to the end, then? The first sentence breathlessly repeats the fearmongering clickbaity assumption that the child just touched some fentanyl somewhere . . . but if you read the whole article you find that they don’t actually know the route the drug got into the child’s body, nor…

One of three redundant chassis in the ground launch sequencer apparently had a bad power supply. ULA has replaced the entire chassis and will perform root cause analysis to figure out why it was flaking out, causing that unit to not respond as quickly as it was supposed to; in the meantime, with it replaced with a fres…

No, and nothing in that article suggests he had symptoms similar to what officers have reported (which are panic attack symptoms). There is also nothing in the article saying there’s any evidence he died by merely touching a tablet. There’s certainly plenty of fearmongering right at the top of it about that, because…

It’s not going to be dramatically different. Not to the point of “if you touch it, you could die”. If it were that different, it wouldn’t be fentanyl anymore. It would be something else.  It’s going to be different only in formulation, so please, think this through.  This is absurd fearmongering.

I’ve been told it can cause vomiting, and quite honestly, I’m skeptical of any claim of a drug with no effects (unless we’re talking about homeopathy). But at the very minimum, it’s not especially cheap (except as compared to the ridiculously inflated prices of things like insulin and epinephrine autoinjectors), and…

My feet sometimes get really uncomfortable in shoes, so I’ll slide my stockinged feet out of them. (Or at least the right foot, because that’s the one with the problem. Had surgery a few years ago to try and correct it, and it absolutely worked, but just recently it’s started happening again.) But I will NOT walk down…

This myth was always absurd to me. It should never have passed the smell test for anyone, and is definitely a sign of how bad the fearmongering has gotten — people’s BS-meters have often shut down when it comes to information about drugs, because otherwise everybody should know this is baloney.

I really really really wish media outlets would shout out loud that these are absolutely panic attack symptoms, because one really big problem is they’re publishing serious misinformation about what an opioid overdose even looks like. Among other things, now that Narcan is available OTC, it could lead to folks giving…

Akatsuki, nooooo!!!! It’s been such a saga of determination, it’ll be really hard to let go of this one.