They will use a parachute to land in the event they actually use the abort engines for an abort. If there was no abort, well then they have these engines and fuel anyway, may as well use it.

Better than getting blown up, which is pretty much the alternative in that situation.

You choose. Have all your vertebrae fused together, or have your vertebrae fused to a seat cushion.

No doubt. But I’m sure “injured” is always preferable to “blown up.”

The original PI was able to play 1080p video, and this is slightly more powerful, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t...

Already sold out at Adafruit and element14.

“Mini-HDMI port for digital sound and 1080p video”- From Magpi

Power Consumption: 0.5-0.7W (100-140mA at 5.09V)

...sigh...

Are you saying we should stop building tall buildings because someone might attack them? Stop building fast cars because someone might crash them? Stop building large ships because someone might sink them? Imagine if We hadn’t gone to the moon because we might fail. Fear of failure is a terrible reason not to try…

Actually, not a fools errand. Carbon nano-tubes are strong enough - and there are materials like synthetic spider silk that already meet the criteria. They are coming out of the research phase now into the manufacturing phase - with materials like Graphene - a “mythological” material 5 years ago now aiming to…

Yes, why bother with anything when we can decide ahead of time that it’s impossible and useless! Why, it’s not like science and technology develop over time or anything, that’s just silly talk.

Agreed! Huge! Elon has successfully toppled the glad-handing that was occurring between ULA and US military officials. It’s good to see results winning over cronyism. And all to help get us to Mars!!

This is a big friggin’ deal.

But a question I’ve been pondering with all of the Jobs media that’s been released in the years since his death is whether or not we absolve Jobs for his assholishness, just because he was a genius who had a huge positive impact on the world. Is it OK? Do we let him off the hook for the fuck ups, and the people he…

Here you go.

The stealing of business ideas and being a general asshole I can forgive. The denying of his daughter and stealing that kids liver in Tennessee, I can not forgive.

So many of my people I know are talking about how realistic this movie is. And how it was fascinating to see this part of who Steve Jobs really was. I don’t think enough people realize this isn’t true to life.

They can’t completely piss off the Apple camp

I’ve seen similar things regarding the fingerprint sensor. Every other review I’ve read has said it’s great, but both this review and the review for the 5x has said that it’s just not quite there.