As I understand it (and we all know how fallible I am) the FAA grounded it due to the failure of the flight termination system, which failure surprised everyone including SpaceX. Last I heard they were going to double the detcord that was supposed to split the tanks, which may solve the problem. Or not. It turns out…

I don’t waste skull sweat on ranks in the Star Trek universe. The only ones that are particularly consistent are Captain, First Officer, and Admiral. And it’s even a little wibbly-wobbly about the First Officer, who is sometimes a Commander and sometimes as low as a Lieutenant.

Yeah, but Ethan Peck’s overacting aside, it was a pretty good scene.

Season 2 episode 2 Ad Astra Per Aspera is better, even though it’s more drama than space opera. The first season 2 episode was kinda Meh.

I for one welcome our new AI over lords.  (If you will forgive the meme.)

I am ashamed that I know all these characters, yet have never seen any of the shows except various Gojira permutations.

Faster than a hangfire, you mean.

Thank you.

I have no idea who to credit.

Not at the time. It was in Portland so I’m sure he just drove down for the weekend. That being 17ish years ago I suspect she stayed home with Experiment #1 and Experiment #2.  Or at least she wasn’t at the table.

There were regular reports of Abe Vigoda’s death for decades, until he finally did die in 2016. His death was first reported in People Magazine in 1982, when they referred to him as “the late Abe Vigoda.” There was even a web site dedicated to his status:

No kidding. I’ve been reading Girl Genius at least that long.  That’s why I went to that comic book convention to begin with.  Phil Foglio was going to be there, but his table was mobbed and I didn’t get to see him. Aerie was along the back wall with a bunch of the other smaller creators.  

Yeah, I know.  I briefly met Aeire at a comic convention (not Comicon) in 2005 or so.  Good gods, that’s 17 years ago!

http://queenofwands.net/d/20020925.html

I’d be happy with an errant SpaceX Falcon 9 booster.  But if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

Yeah, particularly the Old Testament god was a real dick.

Jesus is real clear on plenty of stuff that apparently never gets filtered down to modern Christian congregations. For instance, how to treat immigrants:  Welcome them and treat them well.  And who gets to judge people (News flash: it isn’t them.)

Oh gods, I had that conversation with a woman in a park once. Her unleashed dog snuck up behind me and stuck its nose in my crotch. From behind. I told her she needed to leash her dog, that unleashed dogs were against the law in the park.

I never said Tonya was a bad person, just a sort of unfortunate wreck of a human. Having known plenty of people in her same circumstance of upbringing I’m hardly surprised. My experience with her is very tangential, and most of the times I’ve seen her have been pretty normal (having pizza with a friend, or attending a…

Still got my fingers crossed that my Maverick will be delivered sometime in March. Ford Vehicle Order Tracking says it’s “in production,” and it’s an Ecoboost model, not a Hybrid.