I love that when Lucy’s brother finds Bud-in-a-jar, he’s gotten hopelessly stuck in a corner. The entire Bud’s Buds plan, doomed by a bad turn if he hadn’t shown up! It ended on a cliffhanger, but I feel like we’re going to get another funny exchange between them at the start of the next season and he’s not just going…

It’s not unusual for hypothetically independent boards to be dominated by the CEO, but Musk is an extreme case in how cultishly servile they are to him. 

1st Gear: We’ll see how long it stays down. Musk still has a cult of retail investor fans, and they’ll probably start buying this shit up hard once it drops low enough to push it back up for Phony Stark.

I can’t believe that I missed that it was a painted fake door that drops them into Vault 4. That’s hilarious.

I wouldn’t be surprised if this is coming from investor pressure. One of the defenses I remember reading of Tesla’s incredibly high share prices was that they were going to become the “Windows of EVs” - IE the  Tesla OS would become the operating system for most EVs, including competitors licensing it out. That didn’t…

I’m curious what it felt like to anyone closer to the epicenter. We had a 5.7 here a while back, and I remember waking up and wondering if I was sick - because everything was swaying back and forth (I made the mistake of running for the doorframe instead of getting under a desk or table). 

I’ve both read and watched it!

If it’s a non-pressurized rover, then that really limits how far you can travel with one from your landing site. This is why I tend to think they should look for a good spot for a base with tons of research opportunities nearby, since it would then be easier to justify sending up a larger, pressurized rover that could…

I know it’s animated, but it honestly would be funnier if they did this as an extremely bizarre live-action show where they all wore the costumes like Teletubbies. 

If enough people want to live there and can afford to move there and live there, then you’ve got a colony. The light-lag is only about 30-40 minutes - folks could literally remote work from Mars for many jobs. 

Dumb. European train lines have had one-man trains for years, and there’s no impact on safety because of Positive Train Control. Most US lines have had that for years as well, but lobbying by the rail workers’ unions has held up the shift to one-person trains here. 

We really need some cheaper battery packs for these. It’s disproportionately high as a percentage of cheaper EVs especially. 

If he tries that, Mexico should reply by saying that they’ll speed any migrants passing through to the border, and refuse to accept any deportees or deportation flights. 

I hope they kept it as a period piece. One of the reasons it works is because of the time period - you can imagine some insignificant small town dropping off the map in the 1970s as part of the overall wave of economic change and dislocation, becoming just a haunted place that the locals know to avoid and a creepy…

This. People used to joke about Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches blowing up years back - nobody does that anymore, because the development process works and the early failures paved the way for heavy re-use and present day success.

Yep, it’s more about cost-effective re-use than re-use in general. The Shuttle was partially reusable, but the end result was more expensive than it would have been to use disposable rockets (or first-stage reusable ones if the technology allowed) and capsules.

Fortunately, they can do a bunch of flights. I figure they can probably get at least 3 more this year, and maybe more. Next flight will probably do even better.

Some of those weren’t surprising. RDJ was basically a lock for best supporting actor for a while, and it’s partially his performance and partially one of those “lifetime achievement” oscars where they’re rewarding somebody who is a great actor even if’ it’s not really their best role.

I’m thinking the Koopa Kids show up, bust Bowser out of jail so they can get him to command his army to help them (after which he ends up back in a cage and becomes anti-villain-ish for the rest of the movie), and then fight Mario & Friends.

I like the change with the Chani ending, and I have an idea of where they’re going with it. In the book Dune Messiah, there’s this whole subplot where Chani is being covertly fed contraceptives because the Bene Gesserit really don’t want any children from her and Paul fucking up their breeding program - and Paul knows…