Getting the equipment from Turin to wherever the future launch site will be difficult, since the Russians destroyed that giant Antonov cargo plane while bombing Ukraine. Even under the best circumstances it will take year to rebuild. 

While we’re discussing activist contradictions, how about a few words about a movement that demands an end to combustion engines but simultaneously opposes extracting the main ingredient for high capacity batteries.

85 miles across is awfully big. But how dense is it? getting hit by an earthly snowball that big would be devastating, but how heavy are we talking here?

In none of the linked articles does it state that this event was not anticipated when the mission was planned. anybody have any idea?

Why do you care about this?

The trial has been going on for a week and the Root is only now getting around to covering it? Also, a total blackout on the Waukesha drive through massacre. Is there anybody in the office?

The claim that the Joint Chiefs took the button out of Nixon’s hands was also made by Woodward back just after Watergate. With equally little proof, I might add. If you have a good story, why not reuse it?

3-D printing? even in 20 years its gone from producing plastic keyfobs to generating working rocket engines.

The white population decrease is not 8.6%. It’s only 2.6%. Washington Post issued a correction.

It’s interesting that the root is covering this story, while it has put in a blackout on the R Kelly sage. There has been a lot of action on that front. Kelly has been moved to the New York federal jail, and he’s been trying to change his legal team at the 11-th hour.

Latinos may get in on the ground floor, just before the sinkhole swallows up the building. While everybody is scrambling to get dispensary permits, the excessive state regulation is ruining the business. California is considering a massive bailout for their distressed providers. How long before New York has to do the…

I don’t understand your objection. Can you expand?

And in other news, Martian tripods have been sighted outside Grover’s Mill, NJ.

We’re making progress on the back end programming, but it seems to me the real bottleneck is the actual neuro interface. We will need surgery to make this work, as we do with cochlear implants, but the sticking of wires into the brain gives me the willies.

Something I’m not clear about: did the Chinese expect a totally uncontrolled re-entry and just went forward with the mission anyway? Or did something go wrong and they lost control of what was supposed to be a splashdown in some remote area?

I was producing educational material for medical radiologists some decades ago when an existing technology called nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was adapted to medical imaging. However, this was around the period of the 3 Mile Island episode and the alarmist movie The China Syndrome’s release. In order to allay…

According to testimony at her trial, Guyger had no alcohol or drugs in her system at the time of her address.

A doctor once told me that the rule of thumb for anti-tetanus shots was that if the patient can’t remember when they last got a shot, give them a new one. 

Been done. Behold the Albatross, from Jules Verne’s 1886 novel, Robur the Conqueror.

Loretto is not the nearest hospital to Trump Tower. Northwestern Memorial is 5 minutes away in bad traffic, and Rush Medical not much further.