I’m hoping that is supposed to be sarcasm - Starhopper is 9 meters in diameter - you could fit 2-3 Falcon 9's (3.7 meter diameter each) inside it with plenty of room to spare.

Does the trunk at least auto-open if you stand there (with your hands full of groceries or whatever) with the key fob in your pocket?

Fun Fact, the Apollo flight computers were metric for all calculations and converted to imperial so the American pilots could understand it... So it was Metric that landed on the Moon.

“... looks like water using lapis lazuli ...”

It works in the way it will give you your latitude, longitude and altitude. Little more than a dot on a blank screen. You’ll need data or wifi if you want a map. Standalone GPS device comes with a map already. If you don’t think ahead to download a map for offline use, you’re not going to be very happy.

If you are using a cell phone , yes GPS isn’t as good without cell service or WiFi....but if you’re using a standalone GPS device (tomtom, magellan, garmin,...) device it doesn’t need any network connection at all, just the satellites.

Sorry - comment meant for miniditka

so you paid for it twice? When I bought Minecraft for my kids they wanted bedrock, but java version was included as a separate download....

Fun fact on that fuck up and design, Russia still has 11 active RBMK reactors (the same design as Chernobyl) running as of 2019, and they won’t all be shut down until the 2034. They’ve apparently increased safely from what they learned from Chernobyl.

Yeah, sorry, I knew the Martian sol lengths were only 39 minutes longer than our day, it was a lazy/dyslexic  copy-paste from wikipedia. 709 sols/728 earth days planned, current duration is 159 sols/162 days. I’m usually more strict with me space nerd facts _ should have re-read before I clicked publish.

Maybe the 2 important parts were he got a free pair to review, and he’s getting paid for this article? I dunno. I’m biased as I actually have the Sony MDR-1000's (version 1 until they fell apart at the hinges after 3 years of almost daily use and version 3 that I don’t honestly know how anything else can beat).

This hypothetical compressor, storage tank would still be extra mass that was unnecessary during flight and landing, plus extra power requirements to run it. And to what end? The main mission is planned for just 158 Martian days - 709 Earth days. They’re going to hopefully get all the science they can get out of that…

Since these dust devils happen so frequently there’s a better chance that one of them will do the cleaning for them. A brush will damage/scratch the panels, which is permanent and has zero chance of a dust devil cleaning. And compressed air is a mass penalty, is finite, and could just blow the dust up to land back…

As far as I’ve read the weren’t sure if they needed it for DM-1, but the lines were apparently slushing up on orbit without them installed, and they already had heaters designed just in case this was an issue, and it actually was, so they installed the heaters for the launch abort so they would be testing a 100%…

They also added hardware between it splashing down and this test - DM-1 flew with everything except heaters on the hypergolic fuel lines, which they added before this anomaly. The culprit could be those or the seawater, or something that no one outside of the people actually working on it can tell.

just because people have been doing it forever doesn’t mean it’s correct. See also: Ground or powdered animal parts, religion, acupuncture, and any other traditional/alternative medicine.

Third Option - Glass bottles. Case of beer comes in glass. The Beer Store here in Ontario Canada has a 96% recycle rate for their glass bottles and only drops to 87% when you take into account other alcohol containers (aluminum, non-standard glass shapes, plastic, bladders from boxed wine). And since you’re already…

Ideally, the autonomous system would be reacting to the car in front of it that would ideally be slowing down due to the hay bale in the road anyways. Tesla has been working on bouncing radar off of the road under the car ahead to see what is coming up in front of that car, so that may be part of the solution as well. …

the only correct size of Reese’s peanut butter cups is the 1/2 lb size. Only only exception is if they bring back the special edition 1 lb cup.

There’s a whole culture of crafty people who have uses for plastic bags. Best ideas I’ve seen are crocheting them into waterproof rugs https://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Make-a-Rug-from-Plastic-Grocery-Bags/