The only reason I mentioned Chicago and Hong Kong is because Chris seems to think the Underground was somehow a vanguard. But I suppose credit where credit is due for TfL being forward thinking.

The Ancient One is a white girl now? Oh hell no! REVOLT! REVOLT! Now let me jump over to another site and complain about the black Stormtrooper some more.

466 stations × ? fare gates + 5,777 buses (according to Wikipedia) = a ton of readers to be installed.

Apple says it won’t sue FBI to find out how San Bernardino iPhone 5c was hacked
Friday, April 08, 2016, 12:23 pm PT

Still, it’s an HTC... So while it’ll feel good in the hand, it’ll still be a piece of shit with an over-heating, under-performing, repair-inducing camera, and little “Sense” of individuality.

Camera is good for still shots, shutter lag makes things blurry.

Actually, the “juice packs” are filled with chopped produce. So the device is in fact extracting juice from it. Not that the cost is any less ridiculous, mind you, but it qualifies as a juicer.

which this lovely lady will safely deliver to you.

If your jet pack sucks, that would explain why you’re having so much trouble with it.

“Bizarro [insert something here]” is often used to describe something as “it’s like [insert something here], except somewhat different” when people don’t want to go into a few paragraphs describing the similarities and differences between two things. It’s not Mike’s fault if you’ve never encountered that before.

If it’s “not easy as all” and “very hard”, then that’s all the more reason to have backup systems. And right now, humans are required to board the drone and secure the rocket to the pad for the trip back to land. An automated securing system would make the transit faster and simpler.

I’ll have you know I’m an Internet recovery infrastructure doctor, thank you very much.

Thing is, currently there’s some engineers on a support boat whose jobs it is to go over to the pad and bolt the thing down. It’d be neater if they could automate securing the rocket as well.

They’ve already shown they can land on flat surfaces; they did that at Cape Canaveral. With Mars’s lower gravity, a rocket-powered landing would be even easier; the challenge would be in carrying the additional fuel needed. Probably best off sending a few orbiting fuel pods in separate launches in advance and fuel up…

You want maximum reliability with minimum reliance on external factors such as clamps.

Secondy, if the rocket can do it on it’s own, it literally allows them to land the rocket basically anywhere there’s a pad.

So then have a venus fly trap-style set of wire panels start to close in—coming in contact with the top of the rocket—when the rocket is within the horizontal bounds of the pad?

Take a slender object with a heavy base, hold it in your hand and try to keep it upright while swaying back and forth

Because kids are sociopaths by nature.

Presumably someone has an answer for this: given how accurate and precise these landings have been (even the ones that tipped over), how come there isn’t some kind of clamshell-type mechanism on the drone ships that swing up to cradle the rocket, kinda like a Soyuz launch in reverse?