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Usually those ad links are done after page load by a script. If you can find out which script is doing that, it's not hard to tell Ad Block Plus to block it. Stuff like that gets a whole-domain block from me because the domain is usually from a company that does nothing other than web ads, thus nothing of value is lost.

The support is in there, it's just that it uses a whitelist, which happens to be very small, probably only to U00FF if that much. There are also likely problems on the client side where the user's browser posts in the wrong encoding.

Launching is not the priority, maintaining Shuttle-era pork is the priority. So SNAFU.

If there had been no side-mounted configuration, there would have been no disaster, whether or not the O-rings failed, or ice fell off of the ET. The basic design of the Shuttle stack prevented any form of crew escape, period, and it also subjected the crew vehicle to damage from the launch vehicle. Fortunately we're going back to capsules on top that can perform an emergency escape from the launch vehicle. It's not as sexy as an OMG SPACE PLANE but that was more trouble than it was worth.

Oh Facebook, you so silly!

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Except for the minor detail that it's the House that does the budgetary stuff.

And that's why it's a good thing that FH will be using the same parts as F9, only with a few struts added. Don't need heavy launches? Simply don't strut it together, and make three regular launches!

But don't limit your thinking to what we do now with what we have now. Just like with oil reserves increasing as the price of oil goes up (due to cost of recovery), the things people will want to launch rockets for will increase as the cost of launches goes down. And likewise, as the cost of heavy launches comes down, people will start building bigger stuff (or stacking multiple payloads) to make use of it.

To be completely fair, it wasn't the SRBs that killed Challenger, it was the side-mounted configuration that killed both Challenger and Columbia.

Sure, if you don't mind waiting for it to get there. For a manned mission, probably not so much.

I've only bought one LED bulb so far. It lasted maybe 3-4 years, but I would leave it on a good portion of the day. Of course the LEDs will last that long, but the weakest link is the power supply, specifically any electrolytic capacitors in it. I took it apart so I can play with the LEDs but haven't gotten around to it yet. I replaced it with an extra CFL I had lying around. Maybe I've been lucky, but I haven't had much problem with CFLs dying. If I had been having problems with CFLs, I would have bought more LED bulbs by now.