The cafeteria food fight scene is epic.

SpaceX’s first Falcon 1 launch failed because of a $5 aluminum nut that cracked and leading to a fuel leak. It was inspected the day before the and it’s locking wire confirmed it was install correctly - it still failed. They thought it might have had an invisible scratch in the anodized coating that weakened it in the…

It’s kind of at the mercy of the wind, isn’t it?

I am both the producer/manufacturer and end-user. So are they when they buy from me. That’s not a wholesale relationship. 

“Now they want to stick close to the books?”

Why was hydrogen used for the pressure test?

TLDR: Yes... Europe shouldn’t become like the US and move to trucks/SUV like the US... and US should move away from that culture... but you are stretching the claims that the study you links to makes. 

I agree US vs Colorado wasn’t a great analogy... but “Ukraine is the second largest nation in Europe” is also misleading because that in geographic area... population-wise it it seventh. Having a larger border area with a much smaller army actually makes it harder to defend an invasion.

He’s only 19 now... and his unusually good play like (like above 40-1 chances of him winning continue past when he said he stopped cheating)

It’s interesting that that Ken Paxton doesn’t have issue with Clearview AI attempting to sell its facial recognition software to schools in the aftermath of the Uvalde, TX shooting (as described by below Gizmodo article written earlier this year).

“so with exploding pieces of coal”

Aren’t the Jedi also basically a Force cult when you come down to it?

I had the same question.

It is OK if you know things a few minutes before they happen, like that Juliet’s not really dead and Romeo is making a mistake.

I had no problem with that choice originally. I just think Muir dragged it out way too long.

obvious that Harrow was an unreliable narrator, but obvious exactly HOW she was unreliable. Because if what she believed was true, then nothing in “Gideon the Ninth” actually happened.

This was from this year’s Shark Week... someone belatedly realized they needed bigger, stronger “ghost cage”

If he had obeyed all the restrictions of wearing masks within 6 feet of him, how did he get sick?

I agree with the basic fact that tech companies haven’t dramatically changed global transportation for the better on a holistically level (i.e. people find Uber very convenient, but society overall hasn’t benefit from it). However, overall who is actually “surprised” by this fact.