It looks like the net is designed to give way quite a bit to quickly absorb the energy of the falling fairing.

The rare James Madison shade. +1 burning White House

Well... I suppose that’s one way to drain the swamp.

Yup. If a person *ever* rear-ends the car in front of him or her, the person is at fault. One must take full responsibility for driving. Maintain a following distance that allows you to come to a complete stop. If there is a chain of 40 cars that all crashed, then there are 39 people who did not maintain a reasonable…

I will be honest, I did not expect the first doping bust of the Olympics be from curling. And in a weird way I found my respect for it increased because of it.

About half the vehicles did come to reasonably controlled stops, including a surprising number of big rigs. The problem was the other half.

Mostly thumbs.

How did we become the dominant species?

Some car-washing tips the experts will never tell you:

Gravity isn’t simply the title of an overrated film it is also the answer to the title of this article.

Are you saying that technical people are widely known for their keen ability to pick up subtle social cues?

Seems much too loose. What if it’s not a date?

I’m going to hazard a guess that there are more people on Gizmodo (an online science, technology and pop-culture blog targeting a youthful demographic) who possess at least a rudimentary knowledge of Pokemon (the single most successful and popular entertainment franchise of the last 30 years and among the most popular…

Going forward, I think I’ll just cut out the middleman and share other people’s photos of wherever I am travelling.

I believe the booster is still slowing towards terminal velocity as it falls. Especially since, as it falls, terminal velocity is lowering. Waiting a few more seconds before ignition certainly shaves a bit off the braking needed.

from the article above ^^^^^ “The dry desert environment has allowed the markings to remain for 2,000 years.”

I believe the thinking is that one, long single-engine burning uses more fuel than a shorter burn with three engines during the landing burn. That leads to less fuel needed for landing and that leads to more payload upmass.

I have noticed though that our cleverest subcontractors use vans almost exclusively. The bosses seem to prefer driving about in pickups though, probably just to show that they’re not the sort who have to drive vans. I view modern pickups as practically useless. The beds are so short that most of them just amount to a…