There was a good article on Ars Technica this morning, Starliner makes a safe landing—now NASA faces some big decisions. In the article the author cites and links to the commercial crew contract with Boeing which he notes:

But, as I understand it, the mission was also to test docking to the ISS. Even under human control, there are a lot of control loops, sensors, thrusters and mechanical items that would have been tested with a successful docking. It might be a hard sell to the safety oversight committee that the first time you bring a…

You fail miserably as a personal fiance writer too.

There is really very little point to F1 going electric, if you consider how small is the amount of hydrocarbons being used by 20 cars over a race weekend.

“Toledo has a great maritime museum!

Thanks for linking the Guardian review, it is simply brilliant.

I just checked and thankfully AT&T isn’t getting rid of all 3G till February 2022. There are going to be some limitations starting next year but hopefully it won’t affect us, as I have lots of bucks left on my prepaid account ;)

Good luck. As of the end of 2019, carriers are shutting down 2 and 3G networks. So most of flip phones are useless.

Did you take that picture with a smartphone per chance?

“Some not-so-well-known vendors still make 4G/5G flip phones

I saw a late model one of these the other day and couldn’t figure out why Porsche would name one of their cars after a town in Georgia.

I know, Walmart apparently isn’t carrying my AT&T Z222 flip phone anymore, so I’ll have to make my current one last till the network no longer recognizes it :(

Good gosh, what is that? I haven’t seen so many steam gauges since I got to sit in the cockpit of a Boeing 707.

Actually quite different than transporting gasoline. Those vacuum insulated spheres have to withstand the supercold temps of LH2 on the inside of the inner sphere, a vacuum in the annulus space and then the ambient temperatures on the exterior. Early in my career I was a field engineer working with a 900K gallon LH2…

“Hellifica” is awesome! Sounds better than “Hellivan”.

Yup, totally on board with “Hell & Country”. “Hellivan” sound like it should have rotating blades on top... wait, what? I’d buy that too ;)

Please make sure it’s a Dodge Caravan with Stow ‘N Go, that’s the only configuration that truly works for my wife and I. And just don’t tell me that’s where the batteries would go. In that case, make it a cargo van and I’ll put lawn chairs in there for the relatives.

Sadly many folks I’m around just think when someone else hiccups it is a cause for mirth. However, for some people, like me, hiccups are also painful. There’s nothing funny about it for me and so when someone else gets the hiccups I try to be sympathetic and if possible helpful.

My wife and I are very lucky in this area of concern. We have a very good and consistent relationship with not only our mail carriers but also the local UPS and FedEx folks. I’m still working on getting chummy with the Amazon folks. So mail and packages tend to get treated with respect. It never hurts to be on a first…

This article is pretty casual about mixing the terms phone and smartphone. Some of us still have regular landline phones which are used to call relatives on holidays. And we also have an answering machine so we can not bother picking up the phone when relatives call us, unless of course it is a relative we like ;)