There should be laws on the books that dictate that a company that collects and maintains information on individuals is liable to maintain it’s security and proper use. See also, Experian. Otherwise it’s akin to someone collecting volatile chemicals being able to say “oh well!” when they leak. If YOU create the…

Let them get it right. The universe isn’t going anywhere and we don’t need another Hubble like screw up. We can’t fly up and fix this one.

Amazing take.

The seeding confused me so much that I questioned my own understanding of life and art.

Many folks on twitter believe this bracket to be wildly misconstructed based on the seeding. I would tend to agree with that opinion. How is Wall E and Incredibles happening in round one or Frozen v Moana?

Do not look Play Impossible Gameball directly in the eye.

Do not taunt Play Impossible Gameball.

I haven’t taken the plunge yet but I am close.

Lock laces FTW. I convert all my shoes to lock laces these days and I am able bodied (and lazy). They just feel better because they are elastic so when the shoe bends it does not squeeze my food as much as regular laces.

Yes, but where’s the fun in that?

If it weren’t for parchment/vellum being reused like this—a palimpsest—this medical text would likely have been forgotten entirely, as our distant ancestors didn’t quite feel the sentimentality of history like we do. Parchment was expensive, so reusing it, sometimes repeatedly, was the common practice for well over a…

Have to admit; the fact that Mitsubishi assigned a team of engineers and dedicated six months to creating the world’s greatest fidget spinner sort of warms my heart. If I were Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk this would be the sort of thing I would spend my money on, right after I tasked a team of engineers to create a working…

Tell you what... When someone does it better, faster or cheaper I’ll consider it. Until then, pound sand.

It’s hyperbole I use to impress upon people the fact that they’ve almost certainly committed a number of felonies in their life, even without necessarily realizing it, because so many are so simple. Taking this particular example, there are only two elements the government must prove to make out a prosecution for…

kflare makes important points here and below. The article has the tone of an expose, insinuating that Amazon is a sweat-shop and that Jeff Bezos eats babies. :-) Amazon hit a sweet-spot, burgeoned, and their massive business is not yet perfect. So? They are also creating jobs. (I own no AMZN shares but wish I did.)

Some time in the distant future...

Nozzle design isn’t going to be hugely impacted. Remember that typical first stages burn out at 200,000 feet or higher and are going to be optimized for the portion of the flight where they’re largely horizontal and approaching that burn-out altitude. So whether you’re starting at 0 ft or 35k ft, you’re still starting…

Orbital inclination is another big part of it. By being able to point the rocket in the right direction prior to dropping it, you avoid the need to perform a dog-leg maneuver to hit the desired inclination. So you save quite a bit of fuel by not having to perform a very inefficient maneuver and as a result your…

It exists to do a beautiful thing, therefore it is, itself, beautiful.

“this twin-fusalage’d aircraft isn’t really an aircraft at all—it’s an airborne rocket launching pad”