To be fair, the flight profile did call for Starship to nearly make it to orbit during the test.

My guess is that it was mostly the existing Dune fans that made the trip to see it in theaters while all of the casual movie watchers/people mostly unfamiliar with Dune just watched it on HBO.

I agreed right up until I found out that “Hattie Davis” doesn’t exist. Che hiring an actor to up the pressure on Jost is a pretty amazing bit.

I wholeheartedly agree. The Xbox One was the first system that became more than just a game system. Microsoft just kept adding more and more features that kept improving it.

The white hats apparently found code in the system that bricked the trains if they sat for too long, if they were GPS located at a competitor’s independent maintenance facility, if they had replacement parts installed without an approved serial number from the manufacturer, or if they simply had too many miles on…

Weathervanes might be Isbell’s best work since Southeastern, which might be of the best albums of the last decade.

I am guessing the delay won’t be from SpaceX. They have the hardware ready. It will be the mandatory post-flight reviews and approvals from the FAA, FTC, EPA, etc.

I don’t know what the weight penalty would be, but with Starship’s design, it would appear to be feasible that you could design a “command deck” module that could pop off in case of loss of thrust. I know that a capsule ejection system was considered for the shuttle, but scrapped as too complex and heavy. With…

If I were Ferrari, I’d be suing the shit out of the race organizers for their shoddy track ruining a very expensive PU.

Agreed. There was a hiccup in the word, but that is what I heard as well.

It’s more than vaporware. They have tested the second stage engine (which is the coolest part of this rocket) many times and have conducted a hopper test recently.

Actually, SpaceX wrote the list and shared it with the FAA. The FAA reviewed the list and adopted it as the corrective action requirements. SpaceX got it done so quickly because it was their own investigation that generated the list in the first place.

This dispute was the thing that finally broke my complacency to cut the cord. Not being able to watch ESPN during college football pissed me off enough to sign up for a free trial of YouTube TV (which is cheaper than my current cable package).

Having Roland state in the film that he doesn’t care about the Tower shows that the filmmakers didn’t understand the books at all. That was probably the worst thing that they could have done with the character. The story exists solely because of Roland’s unshakable (and ultimately destructive) obsession with the…

Huge miss by the author of this piece. Craig’s show was complete lunacy.

Nice!

The thing that always gets me is that the Soviets were watching us the entire time. If we didn’t go, why didn’t they call us out and embarrass us publicly? They could easily verify whether the claims held up. Hell, you still can. The laser reflectors left by the Apollo astronauts are still there and still in use…

Very true. I was admittedly oversimplifying the process.

Doing it again involves recreating all of that old technology, with vastly less budget and vastly higher safety margins.

Rockets create an incredibly inhospitable environment for machinery to operate in. Huge velocities, High Gs, massive aerodynamic stresses, incredible heat, etc. If just one of these parts fails to work perfectly, the entire process can fail. If anything, it is amazing that they work as reliably as they do.