It’s Texas, didn’t they outlaw water breaks?

srsly. wake me when they sell one where he’s smiling

Clarence Thomas, I’m sure, can find a way to allow it. For a small consideration, I’m sure.

He won’t, a Trump White House is a pills-filled White House.

I hope so. I love the idea of the chopsticks - “Legs add another 10% mass to the rocket because they have to be so sturdy? Let’s just catch it mid-landing using the already existing grid fins!”

It looks like they’re doing a virtual flyback test to a specific point in the Gulf, running through the same landing procedures that would happen at the tower, just without the actual tower. So it’s not really on a back burner, just a front burner at a lower setting ;-)

Can’t edit my original comment anymore, but there’s a really interesting discussion of the heat shield and tile issues with Starship over on one of the SpaceX sub-reddits (including an actual Shuttle tile engineer):

I am tentatively interested in this, though would be much more interested if it were set in the “present day” of the federation, ie the start of the 25th century, and not what still feels to me like a tentative future state after a weird time-war. It STILL feels weird to me that the cultural differences between the 32n…

SpaceX had to destroy the booster during its failed landing attempt, with the Super Heavy exploding 1,515 feet (462 meters) above the Gulf of Mexico.

Discovery set up the insufferable Tilly as the main instructor at the academy.

Odds are, this will not be good. I’m already not looking forward to seeing Tilly’s continued ‘journey’ as a teacher / mentor / chief ‘it’s okay to be awkward, gee aren’t I cute?’ morale officer.

But hey—keeping it in this Trek time period…

There is one upside to the fent-panic. Many police departments now issue and train officers how to use narcan.

EXACTLY!

I do wish they were also doing a flyback test of Super-Heavy instead of ditching it in the Gulf, but I can understand why that’s on the back-burner. It’s much more important that they successfully get Starship fully tested, since if need be they can use it in an expendable configuration - and the last thing they need…

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…

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say this whole premise predates both Tesla and Porsche:

Protomolecule confirmed

Meanwhile, for a Mitsubishi mirage

I’m...not entirely sure that tracks? The principle vibe of Picard was not that the early years of the 25th Century are particularly halcyon days. Multiple Borg invasions, the Dominion War and the destruction of the Romulan homeworld all happened within the space of three decades

Apparently Trump and his lawyers never watched Law & Order, or they would know the prosecution’s closing arguments are last.

They’ve been churning out the disinformation any cries of it being unfair. Even before the verdict, they were complaining that Trump’s lawyers had to give their closing arguments before the prosecution did. They were acting like this was something specific to the Trump trial, when it’s actually standard procedure in…