Some of us are new to the subject.  :-)

Thank you, that was a very interesting overview of the different kinds of speed humps and their kindred.  I wish there were some of those in my neighborhood; I get some real speed demons tearing up the streets around my house, and it can be alarming.  Mind you, another consideration is winter snow removal --…

*sheepishly also raises hand*

Ewwww!!!!  Wow.  That is astoundingly bad.  It’s just another reason SpaceX has such a shockingly high turnover rate.  By all accounts, it’s a horrible place to work.

He’s got a lot in common with Donald Trump in that regard.

Oh god, going to Airbus on the Pegasus fiasco *now* after the unholy and ungodly mess that it’s been for an insanely long time? No, I don’t think the USAF is going to go down that road. It’s already been litigated to hell and back several times, to the point where “sunk cost fallacy” doesn’t even begin to describe it.…

Good advice, although it’s worth remembering that there’s really no limit to the amount that financial conditions can change.

It isn’t a thing. The more accurate term for this is “lying” -- the dealer is knowingly misrepresenting the state of the loan application in order to close the deal, hoping to be able to clean up the mess later on.

Chewy sent me a lovely, hand-signed sympathy card right after I cancelled the recurring order for my dog’s Rimadyl because we’d had to put her down. I totally wasn’t expecting that. It was very sweet of them. I mean, I know they’re doing it because it’s good customer service and it keeps me wanting to use them for…

Been done.  It can reach speeds of 3!

I just saw one in Burnsville this morning that had a wrap with a sort of starfield(?) pattern towards the back.  Only saw it briefly, but dang, it did not improve its looks.

I once joked at work that a software engineer’s job is to break the hardware. (I used to write test software for embedded systems.) I was saying it to an electrical engineer. He laughed.

Oh god -- galvanic corrosion in the *ground wire*??????  These will all be dead in a year.

Are they noisier than UPS trucks?  I guess that’s the real question.

You’d be surprised how small surveillance equipment is these days. That said, everything else in your post is absolutely spot on.

For what it’s worth, the first crewed Dragon mission to the ISS was originally slated to last two weeks, but ultimately got extended to 63 days. Instead of being described in the press as “stranded” and “indefinitely delayed”, they actually relayed what NASA said in their press conferences and described it as…

Correct. It’s a similar concept to the Apollo CSM — two modules, a command module and a service module. The command module carries the crew and life support and avionics and such atop a heat shield. That part is fully reusable. The service module carries the propulsion and is dispoable. It connects to the command…

I wouldn’t go that far. It’s performed very well, but “flawless” isn’t quite accurate. There have had some issues as well, including an explosion during a static fire test, an imperfect separation during the pad abort test (the vehicle recontacted the trunk, which would still have been survivable for the crew, so it’s…

How is it a lie to say that the main purpose of a test mission is, in fact, to collect as much test data as possible?  I mean, what else is a test mission for?  Anything else you accomplish on a test mission is gravy.

I’m just thinking, if even Collins was having trouble, it might be hard for *anyone* to develop a suit, so asking Axiom to do two suits might just result in both of them ending up behind schedule. :-/