The other one is named Just Read the Instructions, and A Shortfall of Gravitas began construction in 2018, but might never be finished. Their original rationale for a fleet of three was for the heaviest possible reusable Falcon Heavy - side boosters and core landing at sea. But, Falcon 9 just grew so powerful through…

Being literal rocket scientists, they put a lot of thought into it.

I did some programming before (LOGO, some C++) but I really cut my teeth on TI-BASIC in middle/high school. I actually coded entire games in it. Not particularly good ones, but I learned a lot. I also wrote a program that would fake the “Memory wiped” message, and even fake the main OS and display an empty list of…

It’s abnormal in that it was uncontrolled reentry from orbit.

A shame I didn’t hear about this sooner. I could have busted out my flight sim gear.

Soyuz (both the rocket and the spacecraft) has gotten upgrades and redesigns fairly frequently. The Soyuz-FG, until very used to send crew to the ISS, first flew in 2001. The Soyuz-2 first flew in 2004, and didn’t carry people until two weeks ago. Both of them derive from the Soyuz-U, a design from the 1970s; the…

SNC is getting a second chance - CRS Phase 2 contracts, for resupply missions to the ISS, went to Orbital ATK (now NGIS), SpaceX, and Sierra Nevada corporation. NGIS is using a slightly-enlarged Cygnus, and had their first launch in November. SpaceX is using a cargo-only version of the same Dragon 2 that will be…

The Shuttle gets a lot of flack for not living up to its promise, but a lot of that is 20/20 hindsight. With the knowledge of the time, Shuttle seemed like a winning combo. High-energy solid boosters, which were fished out of the water and recycled. A set of very high-efficiency hydrolox engines to get it the rest of…

Energy density.

No it is not. Because Space Godzilla is Void Beckoner. As far as the rules are concerned, this is just like a fanmade altered-art card. Only difference is, this comes from the factory. That’s why it has “Void Beckoner” printed below the other name. It’s why you can’t have four Void Beckoners and four Space Godzillas…

The graphics for the Death Corona version are for a printed card. The graphics for the Void Invader are for the online MtG: Arena. So it uses the bigger-font frame layout, and a color space better suited for monitors, while the first version uses a font and color space better for print.

The normal cycling cost, with no effect, is 2, or sometimes one colored mana. The only two cards with cycling 1 that I could find are Drannith Stinger, from this set, and Ash Barrens (which has basic landcycling).

The PS5 actually has really good compression tech. They’re using the algorithm from RAD’s “Kraken” compressor, which is one of (if not the) best compression algorithm in use, especially for the game asset domain. There’s a reason you see a RAD logo on a lot of games’ startup sequences.

Does anyone make M.2 drives that can hit 5.5GB/s? I haven’t kept too close an eye on SSDs but I couldn’t find any in a quick search. And that’s 2GB/s faster than my own desktop, which is not exactly a budget build.

CPU: Effectively a tie, depending on whether that “3.5GHz” is a baseline or boost clock. No significant difference either way.

Not yet, but I can write one for you.

“320mb” memory bus? I know that’s what the source article says but there’s no way that’s right. It’s probably a “320-bit” bus - large, but not infeasibly so. The widest memory buses I’ve seen were the 4096-bit (or 4kb) ones on Vega 20, and they were using HBM which trades bus clock for bus width. The widest GDDR*…

I dunno, the store I buy all my Pathfinder and Magic stuff is the same place I go every week to play them, so a Gamestop that’s also a perpetual LAN party might work.

While there’s a ton of problems with Youtube (and with user-created video in general), there’s at least one massive upside: It’s like a golden age for documentaries.

Any software that existed for it would have been only prototypes. AFAIK none have been found, and I would not be surprised if none ever are. They would have been seen as disposable test articles - burn it, throw it out when there’s a new build. Depending on how serious they were about security, they may even have…