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my go-to response to anyone who questions the moon landing is: “pffft you believe in the moon??!!??”

Someone take some pictures when you storm Area 51!

Lots of comments about the Engineering side of things, but the manufacturing side has a lot to do with it as well. Not to knock the incredible strides made in making making things safer, but they way they made the parts and assemblies for the moon launches was different and very difficult to safely replace.

How did they make it work 50+ years ago when they were designing and building stuff? They over-engineered when possible to give slack in the design to account for unknowns. They controlled as much from the ground as possible, to make the flying systems as minimal as possible. They had ground teams with narrow but very…

Whelp, I needed a reason to re-watch this...

“The last human on the Moon was Gene Cernan in 1972.”

Wheels locks for $199 and “Nitrogen” for $249.

White House correspondent Peter Baker ducks, dodges, dips, and dances

I met Jim Lovell at a small book signing about 20 years ago. Really nice guy, and very humble about the achievements of him and the rest of the Apollo program.

They said one of the reasons we stopped is that the public thought that the moon had become “too routine”. If we can’t do the same thing 50 years later, I can’t even comprehend the brain power it took to do it time and time again with that time’s tech. The moon is easily the coolest thing we’ve ever done as a county,…

Coolest thing we’ve ever done?

Desire for a Cayman increasing. Money decreasing

So if making cars is hard, and going to the moon is hard, then if I make a car, I can go to the moon???

100%. I like the focus on hybrids over pure EVs.  Even just looking at what is on the road now, I think the strategy of electrifying the police service vehicles will yield a more tangible environmental benefit that a low volume production car. We have an EV, it travels less than 4k miles a year. A police vehicle…

I hear they are allowing the 3/5 brown, though.

Think about it. Drink one. About an hour later you’ve got to go to the bathroom right? Well either the man part of the beer is going in the women’s room, or the woman part of the beer is going in the men’s room.

I swear to god, the valid reasons to not eat the rich become less tenable every day....

“I was just following orders” is no defense in the Parking Courts!

History books. I want to see what future history books will contain.