None of the effects work in Infinity War is even remotely as impressive as the quality of even the in camera effects work in First Man.

I have a feeling the range of use is still extremely small. I think bonding the carbon nanotubes to the fibers permanently (so abrasions and normal use dont result in airborne nanotubes) will be the real difficulty.

I can haz Centurions?

Wow totally stated like a neophyte that has no idea how business or insurance works. By your theory everyone is at risk for everything, therefore insurance cant differentiate different costs.

It’s been there for years

I swear, Arizona is becoming the Florida of the western US.

The best part of both MER missions was the early decision by Steve Squyres, Jim Bell [the lead scientist in charge of Opportunity’s panoramic camera], and NASA, to share photographic images and scientific results with the general public as soon as they were obtained.

Yeah - those photos could probably have been taken on any day between the Cretaceous and now, and they’d look pretty-much the same, aside from sediment disposition and maybe some frost-cracking.

Fact: There was only supposed to be one rover, but after the back-to-back failure of Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander, NASA was extremely nervous about sending one rover and having it fail, so they found the extra money to build two. Of course, both far exceeded their expectations in the long run.

And noisy!!! I was lucky enough to see some rover testbed activities going on in the Mars yard at JPL a few years back. Mars rovers, at least how JPL makes them, are bare metal on rock driving around, and they creak, ping, scrape as they move.  Given all of the sorts of ungodly sounds that you hear and think shouldn’t…

Impressive from a technical standpoint, but it’s also a reminder of how boring planets are without tectonics and life.

I still can’t get over that Opportunity’s final transmission back in June was a stream of data that effectively said, “My batteries are low and it is getting dark.”

RIP, little rover that could.

I saw the strangest thing today: some conservative writers were actually agreeing with AOC regarding this deal and how Amazon does NOT deserve free money.

People can move anywhere in the world and some countries (like Russia) actively court them with lower taxes. Yet all the wealthy haven’t moved there. That would seem to imply there is a greater value living in the United States and other western democracies. Like any valuable real estate, they should have to pay more…

I mean, this is all just how you want to frame the narrative.  Another possibility might be that Amazon didn’t view NYC as a superior enough location to bother fighting for.

You may be right that NYC has set itself up for decline, but bringing in Amazon and giving them $3 billion in tax breaks is hardly likely to reverse that trend.

I side more with Josh Barro on this:

Die from a disease that is turning your brain to mush or graceful suicide. Hrm....

Or your quality of living has become so poor, usually due to complications from ageing, that you would rather end your life with dignity than waste away.

Wow. That is both a vast oversimplification and a totally dick thing to say.