I work on this mission and right now everything is a go for launch. Assuming the weather cooperates and no tourists violate the range safety keep out zones, we should go right away. Those are the two items that delay launches the most frequently, and with a 4am Pacific time launch the weather is what I’m most…

The nearer the equator the higher the orbital velocity boost you get from the Earth’s rotation. And, yes, direction matters. To get that boost you need to launch in the same direction as the Earth rotates, so East. Launching East from KSC in Florida is much safer since you’re heading over the Atlantic. This launch…

I remember when Vandenburg was supposed to launch shuttles. Much more compact than the Florida launch sites…

Those are the eyes of a man who just had a little misunderstanding and clearly never has done any hallucinogens or dissociatives.

Wow thanks, Google Maps, Uber, Trip Advisor and WhatsApp, never could’ve come up with those by myself without such an insightful article.

Curious why Uber is recommended instead of Lyft? which doesn’t have the negatives that were mentioned.

You’re right. We don’t like it. That’s why we’ve been trying to change that image for years, now. Yes, a lot of us have tempers, and part of it is a result of the stresses of a kitchen. But many of us are attempting to curb those impulses, to be more ‘camera friendly’.

Sorry, but stop promoting Uber, Lyft/Uber are interchangable, but Lyft at minimum has had less high profile shitfuckery going down at its company. Everytime you write an article that mentions Uber and not a competitor you are giving them free advertising. At the bare minimum you should mention both.

That might be true, but the problem is that making Ramsey such a prominent public figure glorifies the abusive behavior that is very common in kitchens. The shit he does is abuse, plain and simple. It makes for a hostile work environment and is partially responsible for the huge rates of substance abuse, insane stress…

Damn, but she’s charming.

Nope, PortlyPeddler is right. Technobabble is meaningless. Literally nothing of what Shuri or Banner said makes any sense in the real world. Shuri and Banner may be talking to each other, but the writers are talking to us. If they want to convey how much smarter Shuri is than Banner, the writers should find a…

I wouldn’t call myself a ‘smart person’, per se, but I am a full stack developer and, as such, often need to use precise and technical words to convey my thoughts. I can definitely confirm that I, and my peers, always talk with as simple words as possible, until we realize there is any confusion.

Or you know smart people use the big words because they are not ashamed of their knowledge and forced to dumb themselves down for everyone else.

I’d agree if she was talking to a non-technical person, but this is exactly when you’d have the characters using jargon.

Higher efficiency. Allows for cleaner burning engines, simplified design and development (read: likely better), and more power per liter. They literally tell you this in the article.

It’s amazing just how well good pilots operate. It’s as if in an emergency they shut down all the extraneous parts of themselves, and only the analytic and expert stuff comes out. It’s not like they’re machines - quite the opposite, they make decisions and improvise in ways machines simply can’t - but rather, as if…

People get in fatal car accidents every day, but I see this article and think FUCK I’M NEVER FLYING AGAIN WHAT IF THE ENGINE BLOWS UP AND I’M THE GUY WHO GETS YANKED OUT THE WINDOW AND I DIE. But I’m entirely willing to drive 50 miles each way to work.

This is a 737, basically the standard jetliner. The engines are mounted in pods below (but extending in front of) the wings. In theory, the engine’s cowling is supposed to be able to contain debris in case of a failure, though obviously that didn’t quite work here.

- now I’m curious WTF happened.

It is very possible that Tom Hardy does the worst accents of any currently working actor.