“Would have?” The United States already had a heavy-lift rocket with five times the payload capacity of the Shuttle.

Challenger happened because an o-ring in one of the solid rocket boosters froze in the abnormally cold January air, allowing extremely hot gases to blow a hole in the external tank, igniting the hydrogen. The Energia booster doesn’t have solid rocket boosters. In their place are liquid fueled boosters which can be…

1. Yes they did. They also did that with the atomic bomb. Instead of being pissed off at them for being better at espionage, we should be ticked at the CIA. Don’t hate the player etc.

2. That worked out well. So 40 years later, we’re going back to what? Oh yeah, disposable launch systems.

3. That’s the point. NASA was…

I think a lot must have been deleted, as I certainly saw some fairly vicious stuff that seemed to vanish a day later. I remember reading one where they said they wanted to take a knife to his testicles - that one stuck in my mind because of how weird the word testicles felt in a twitter threat!

There was one article I…

Poor Seinfeld, how will he ever survive life now?!?

I would have hyphenated tailor-made in this instance. You should be ashamed of yourself.

The point is to make a livable working environment for whom, exactly? Because it sounds like you’re advocating for a livable work environment for a misogynist man who held a very prestigious position at the expense of the careers of who knows how many women. Why don’t we try to make a livable work environment for the…

. . . I don’t get called that much.

Your boss can can you on the spot for anything from saying something grotesquely sexist in the planned remarks you deliver at a conference to your shoelaces. So, like . . .

He stills works! He still has his jobs! He lost a non-paying honorary position.

He was judged on his behavior in the workplace. At a professional event he advocated for segregated science labs because he thinks women are love-sick cry babies. Now he no longer represents a prestigious entity that cares about the perception people have of it.

This guy doesn’t know what happened to him because he has spent his whole life regaling colleagues with his wit and banter about gender politics, at cocktail parties for years and people smiled politely and moved on as you do. Welcome to the 21st century Hunt. Makes me wonder whether I should have a chat with my…

On one hand, I get the point that the internet amplifies things. On the other hand, I don’t think I’ve really heard of comedians becoming “history’s greatest monster” based on college campus shows. There has been some backlash against a few comedians, but I don’t think any of those started on college campuses (I can…

My bad, I didn’t see your username. Carry on.

Well for one, several Valve people now work for Oculus. Michael Abrash who played a lead role in Valve’s VR efforts for example.

I have case fans that rotate as 4000RPM and have been for almost 4 years straight (I rarely shut my PC off) that still work just fine. As well as a water pump for the liquid cooling that runs at 3-400 RPM. I have a ceiling fan that I run pretty much all the time, same story. Blender? I could go on. Not really sure…

Yeah, god forbid you use moving parts for things as crucial as data storage. Oh, oh wait. Hard drives. What the hell do you mean no moving parts on consumer products?

And even with those durability issues, it’s rare that it’s the actual motor inside them that gives up. And we can add the fans in our computers as well. A brushless motor like this will run “forever”. And in this case it will only be turned on for a few hours at a time at most compared to how long harddrives are left…

Optical drives and hard disk drives have moving parts and yet even modern devices like the PCs and Consoles still rely on both. Yes they do suffer from durability issues, no one would argue that. But there’s a good reason flash storage isn’t more common even though it is faster and more durable. Affordability is a…

Keep in mind that the only moving part is in the light emitting boxes that are mounted on the ceiling. Everything you hold has no moving parts, merely a sensor. Powering a constant 60rps spin in a stationary box is easy, and not likely to break within any real forseeable point of time.