I used to be on the one-DVD at a time plan. I was single and pretty good about watching them the night they came and putting them back in the mail the next day.

What I liked about it wasn't that I didn't have to go out to rent them, though that was nice. I liked that I could manage my queue when I wanted, with reviews and suggestions and the like, and I didn't have to remember or search them out at the store. If the classic film I was looking for wasn't available, I didn't have to figure out plan B.

Those are trying to be two completely different films.

If anyone is interested, Scott Manley just put up an interesting video on the background and delays of this mission.

Maybe paramotors?

There is exactly one jetpack I'm aware of that is in any way viable, and they are super expensive, require extensive training, and still largely limited to the company that is developing and demonstrating them.

I'm sure others have been working on their own versions, but there's no way to get around the enormous cost and complexity of micro turbines.

And, they're loud. There would be no mistaking the sound.

Well, that's less silly than nuking the moon.

The Northeast is already that somewhere.

With all due respect, the opposite is to recognize it's not going to happen.

But Russia already puts significant mass in orbit every year. That capability has long since been demonstrated. This is a silly motive to attribute for rekindling their deep space exploration program.

Could be Access.

Could be. Then again, I'm pretty sure there were similar predictions about Win 10 because of the telemetry. I liked Windows 10 more or less from the outset. I wish they had stuck with then iterative approach like Apple, but... here we are with 11.

So, McMaster-Carr?

But they can crash, and sometimes do.

Agree. It's a great read, but it should be understood as having an extremely unreliable narrator.

But, taken for what it is, it's a great explanation of social engineering.

The country does need the resource. That should be uncontroversial. Now if the implication is clearly about needing independent access to the resource, that is different.

Can you? I'm less tethered to the Windows ecosystem than I used to be. I have a gaming laptop I can use for that and all of the technical things I want to do--including messing around in .NET or PowerShell--I can do on my Mac. I'm not paranoid about telemetry or anything, but I do find MacOS is less intrusive than Windows though I prefer Windows' keyboard support for UI operations.