Shuttle launch: at least $500M, up to $1.5B depending on how you count costs.

Here’s an attempt to brighten it up a little. The quality of that imagine isn’t so great.

Yeah, the official state twitter probably can’t directly say “It’s a bad idea to go to instanbul” since it isn’t official policy [yet], but saying “here are precautions you can take” is pretty decent.

Mistakes I made:
Make sure you know a place you can safely set the thing up and leave it set up overnight. Ideally, your backyard which isn’t light-polluted.
Make sure you budget about $5k
Make sure you don’t live in area that’s frequently cloudy
You can’t do it on the cheap with crappy equipment just by being careful.…

Direct hit by a screw to a fuel tank probably could’ve done it. Hopefully it doesn’t keep falling apart and adding to the space debris problem :(

Gotta say, I’m impressed that the Model 3 hasn’t leaked. There’s got to be a _lot_ of industrial designers and engineers that have had the chance to see the overall look of the car, and it seems like we haven’t had a credible leak yet. That’s either secretive design within the company where people are only designing…

Weee, Orion! Mine went from:

4.5" scope, DSLR wobbling around in a 3x barlow:

From wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BA_2100

Like the other guys said, they were probably taking videos so they could use something like Registax or PixInsight to turn them into nice photos. I’d bet they only noticed this when they were using the software to run through the videos and were like “WTF is that?”. Above is my best Jupiter, taken with a 8"/20cm…

[this is car-related, trust me]

They just need to send up a BA2100 (~5 times the habitable volume of the ISS, and would fit in a single launch of the upcoming SLS rocket).

Think of a car tire - they can develop slow leaks without explosively decompressing.

I love watching the in-car cams from the LMP1 cars when they resume from a yellow flag. They both sound and look like they’re going into warp when the gas and electric stuff goes to full blast.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it is in multiple parts stored very far apart, gets manually assembled just before undock, and has several safety interlocks that need to happen post-undock.

If she’s having a hysterectomy after 1-2 pregnancies, then they might just remove all the foreign tissue, so she might not have to take the anti-rejection drugs forever.

On top of what the others have pointed out, another risk for a ground fire is parachuting right back into the flames. It has happened at least once.

Sorry, BOV was the wrong term, wastegate was what I was looking for. Basically, instead of bleeding off air to prevent turbine overspeed, they can use the MGU to take that energy instead.

Why split? See the linked article. Basically, massive packaging and cooling improvements. Otherwise you have to route your intake air to the back of the engine where the turbo is, or run your exhaust up to the front where the turbo is. This way, air comes in front->gets compressed->gets exploded in cylinder->exhaust…

I agree that it probably shouldn’t be murder, if only because it clearly wasn’t intentional murder and that might risk the case being thrown out entirely. Idiots that can afford fairly nice cars but don’t take them to a track to get their jollies off can rot in hell.

It’s potentially an issue if someone can write an exploit that can adjust your date.