It doesn’t matter that it was private. It doesn’t matter that it was potentially a joke. What *does* matter is the staggering cost of incorrectly ignoring a real terrorist threat, in millions of dollars and countless lives. Whereas the cost of over-reacting to a joke is a few hundred thousand dollars and jail time for…

An astronomical amount of ice?

Seriously though, I think the telescope primarily cooled passively. The sunshield keeps the sun light off it as the heat slowly radiates away. MIRI specifically has an active chiller system which... a quick Google search later...

It’s “you’re holding it wrong” all over again.

....and the landing was fine. It was Kinja that was a complete disaster.

Question, were you trying to say “grokked the fact”? Like, Heinlein reference? Or was it Gronked on purpose? Like.. NFL reference? Asking for a friend..

I own the Portal router, and I was a Kickstarter backer. So I really like the idea.

1) The router works are advertised, it is significantly faster than any of the other routers I have owned.
2) The company is extremely poor at keeping the owners up to date documentation wise.
3) Their forums are running on ZenDesk which…

I own the Portal router, and I was a Kickstarter backer. So I really like the idea.

1) The router works are…

Actually, creationism just makes me laugh a bit, before shaking my head. Of all the things to latch on to - it just amazes me that people would rather have a “creator” to guide them than to have the knowledge that every moment of our existence has been bought and paid for with billions of years of effort of everything…