You know that's kind of old school. There is this new technology called "digital communications" which means that they can read the instruments from miles away, removing the need for the bunker since the mid 1960's or so. There were no bunkers for the Saturn V (I believe the first Saturn I flights still had them) or the Shuttle - everything was monitored from ~ 3 miles away. At the Cape the Range Safety Officer looks at computer screens at the Range Operations Control Center at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (probably 10 or 15 miles from the NASA launch sites on Merritt Island), and I am pretty sure similar practices are followed at Wallops.

Thanks for clearing that up.

I heard on twitter that this was not the crowdfunding satellite, but an early test, so your investment may be OK.

The loss includes the first satellite for Planetary Resources, the Arkyd, an orbiting telescope intended to hunt for asteroids.

Seeps and uncontrolled weeks-long pressure-driven explosion of oil are not the same thing.

Yeah, seeps are basically forever, but weeks-long pressure driven explosions are over in...weeks.

More over, some people are genuinely competent at things.

But not at everything.

Everyone has some amount of incompetence in some field. And the smarter (or more competent) they are, the more likely they are to believe that their field of competence extends to other things....

I know what happens when you channel the phasers directly into the main engines! It's not pretty!

I remember it being quite pretty, and at the time wormhole effect was one of the first film visual effects created by scanning laser.

Also, beeeellllllaaaaaayyyy thhaaatt phaaaassseer ooooordderrr.

They add 3% to all prices, give you a 0.5% kickback and you're so happy for the money you "saved" that you act as their pro bono salesman too.

There's really no "playing" involved. If you are consumer, credit cards are simply better than store loyalty programs, on the merits.

BankAxept is better than credit cards, but Americans don't have BankAxept. Scandinavians have BankAxept, because the company that clears effectively every financial transaction in northern Europe, Nets Group, is a tolerated monopoly with a protected market, and banking regulations in Denmark clearly delineate transactions fees to be paid by the consumer.

They can always go bankrupt and come back under the same name.

IANAL and all that, and the fool that has himself as a client is nothing compared to the fool who takes legal advice from Slashdot.

Voters tend to be the elderly who have plenty of time on their hands and an inclination to follow politics. Elderly voters are much less likely to own those dang new-fangled cell-phones than trendy teenage non-voters. By conducting a census by counting cellphones, you end up ignoring politically active voters and counting politically oblivious non-voters.

Alas for your theory, but we use the census to count people who CAN vote, not people who DO vote. Yes, those politically oblvious non-voters still get representation proportional to their numbers, even if they never vote.

It's even worse if you're a woman holding those heretical beliefs. I've seen these people send a woman's information (name/address/the works) to her rapist in revenge.

There's a difference between a well established figure of speech that's nothing but emphasis and making an actual claim that is in no way hyperbole and is very much believed by a great many people.

That actually puts any argument into the realm of extreme misogyny. Anyone decrying those politicians is saying women are too stupid or weak to vote for the "right" candidates according to that person.

I'm not, but I'm saying that's how other people would do that.

Don't look out of the window much I see.