Don’t pretend to quote physics to a physicist when you’re comparing the reconstruction of rocket fuel from rocket exhaust to regenerative braking.  

Half hour before launch, the same happy-happy announcers pointedly said the sole objective was to clear the launch pad, anything else was a bonus. It’s not like the objective, or idea that this was a success, is being retconned to cover failure. They were very clear about objectives beforehand.

Hell, it’s a good thing people didn’t have that “failure is catastrophic” attitude during the early spaceflight era.

That’s, what, three rocket lengths away? So 450 meters?

Plus there’s the whole entropy thing preventing it.  

A group in my jr high in the ‘80s snorted Sudafed. Didn’t get high, but had REALLY clear sinuses.

I watch that video. Went from “No way I’m watching 2 hours of a guy dig a hole” to “This is ridiculous, I can’t turn away.”

The bill actually says “with or without compensation” in several places.

Almost certainly both.  It’ll just be more effective in low-income areas.

With the notable exception of For Your Eyes Only, which was light on both the camp and gadget porn.

I’m looking for a reason to hate this, but I’m not coming up with anything interesting.

Or I could spend nothing and have an OS completely optimizable to my own purposes.

I’m no fan of Musk...but anyone who thinks he’s the “douchiest CEO” needs to listen to more CEOs.

The second-most annoying thing about Win 11. Apparently there’s a way to fix it, but it’s about as complex as a moon launch.

Is it an odd- or even-numbered day?

And the snowpack probably isn’t packed hard, so is going to melt at a faster rate.

Less “keep the brands alive,” far more “keep the copyrights alive.”

And the Loch Ness Monster.

I actually studied it for years as a grad student. Never really weirded me out until I got to quantum chromodynamics and Gell-Mann’s weird-ass pursuit of not grounding it in anything resembling reality (and left me singing to myself “Don’t it make my down quark blue...”)

The researchers redesigned the double-slit experiment, which was first performed in 1801 and demonstrated a curious trait of light: that it can behave both as a particle and a wave.