Tesla is a carbon offset manufacturing company. All the other stuff is byproduct.

I love that they tried, they just missed the mark on multiple levels

Obviously the DeLorean.

Every single Leyland attempt at a “sports” car. But, since they actually tried it, lets say the Marina “sporty” coupe. Yeah, that is right. British Leyland tried to make a sporty Marina at one point. They seriously tried. They did not succeed.

Does the Mustang II count as a sports car? If so that.

As the oldest person to ever run for President, he really needs to quit the race. He never was competent to be President, but now he’s incompetent AND senile.

I love cars and internal combustion engines. Unfortunately, the ICE is literally killing us and we need governmental action to help build suitable replacements and supporting infrastructure.

OK, clarification: Donald Trump has no policies or policy ideas. He has vague ideas, mostly bad ones. Like maybe we could expose our guts to the sun to kill covid. He is however surrounded by really dangerous people who have policies, and those people know they can get him to sign off on anything if they just suck up…

Sure this is a hard repair, but we shouldn’t let it shake us too much. After all, accidents like this are... An Edge case.

FYI sysadmins are always people to cherish because they’re trying to keep things going. The problem here was caused by a mistake made by a DEVELOPER and then a whole failing chain of QA people who thought it was fine to push an update to hundreds of thousands of system, automatically, all at the same time (same day),…

QA can’t find every bug, but surely one that BSODs *every* system the software is applied to?

THIS was my first thought.

BTW, cheated on this one to do it quickly by using an online Hohmann orbit calculator. Hohmann transfer from 400km to 440KM is 22.56 m/s, or about 7,500kg of fuel assuming 421MT non-propellant mass (I’m assuming 420MT ISS and 1T orbital booster/tug). Not exactly a ridiculously large amount to launch to orbit.

OH, I HADN’T READ THE SPACE NEWS ARTICLE YET! They stated that they’re going to an 800 km orbit. They have already calculated out that this would require 220 m/s delta-V, which they claim is the same as re-entering it. Using an online Hohmann orbit calculator confirms this (I can longhand it out tonight if you’d…

I majored in Chemistry, minored in Physics, PhD was a weird mix of Immunology, Biochem, and Stats, so this type of math isn’t quite my bag. But I could probably work it out for you, at least in terms of how much energy you’d need to accelerate the mass of the station into the new orbit in a vacuum. Then it’s mostly a…

What in?

Exactly. The execution is the easy part. Funding the endeavor is the impossible part.

Executing such a plan isn’t technically difficult, but selling it to the people who would fund such an undertaking would be herculean. They’re going to ask you why they should spend billions to move an uninhabited, obsolete station (plus the attendant maintenance it would require to keep it mothballed).

I know they do. And so do I. And, like them, I have spent many years working for governmental and military science agencies. Doing this would be massively expensive, and for what? It’s the space-faring equivalent of renting a *very expensive* storage locker for the clothes you swear you’ll fit into again one of these…