Obviously 1.5 trillion is at best a rough estimate number being thrown about. but it’s still better than just saying “a lot” and gives us an approximation we can at least quantify.

Interferometry will get you the size you want, but not the light gathering. Now if we can commit to six hubbles and the software to manage them as one, then now we’re talking.

One of my greatest virtues as a human being is that I don’t give two craps about in-game cosmetic upgrades that I have to pay real money for.

Well, I partly agree, NASA is too bureaucratic. Why not stick to known tech. Well part of the problem is already an issue of size. You can’t really fit a JWST size Hubble on a rocket, so it has to be collapsible, so already you can’t just use the same old tech.

Well hopefully it means we learn our lessons for the next big projects. And hopefully we will get more science minded leadership in office.

Hey! Those are some serious tacos, like Deluxe ones with extra sour cream and cheese. If we’re not blowing them up, who is?

I don’t see a problem with this. Let them sort out all the issues now while we can still service it easily on the ground and stop rushing to meet artificial deadlines you can’t meet.

I once got shot right square in the joonies with a paintball gun. I was squatting over a low hill and thought I was safe, but nope. I watched that errant paintball skip on the ground once and smack me dead center. No cup.

Maybe in a clean room...

Yes, Ford as of late seems to be especially egregious of this. One thing that *might* work on your Ford is to pull the headrest forward. They have a one way ratchet mechanism, but if it’s all the way forward, one extra tug will cause it to reset and lean all the way back.

Yea, no problems with what he’s saying. Never remove the headrest for auto occupants.

Used to... Did he, you know, die in a fire?

I only notice bad headrest designs that are so forward canted because “safety” that it interferes with my ability to tilt my head back slightly and relax occasionally. It seems some cars are so afraid of crash injury that they tilt the headrests forward a lot to minimize the distance your head would bounce around, but…

That’s the real question. I want answers, damnit. What dealership would choose to be represented by this. A used car stealership that preys on the economically repressed?

Not sure which of those two groups you cite is worse. What sort of meaningful dialogue can you have with a group that thinks all other groups “not them” need to be enslaved or wiped out, or the group who just laughs and is totally ok with letting shit happen just for the lulz.

... which apparently we don’t get to hear because...

I learned to drive stick in an old 40's Ford pickup truck. I was always the getaway driver. The truck sat dead for decades in a friend’s driveway and I was always fascinated by the transmission. So I learned my footwork and shifting that way, in middle school.

I can operate almost all center console controls on my car without looking and only need a glance for the ones I use less.

I can feel myself slowly withdrawing, turning into a porch sitting old codger who yells “Git off my lawn!”

A friend of mine recently attended a group drive with people he met for the first Time. Everything was going fine until one member of the group kept trying to race people there and at one point ran from the cops. In the next town over the entire group was pulled over and issued citations.