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Comment Re:don't get your panties in a wad (Score 4, Informative) 38

JPL has been run by CalTech for 90 years because it's the CalTech rocketry club founded in 1936. Its services are some of the most productive investments of the US federal government.

You're looking at this as basic MIC M&A. If they wanted to cut the budget or be more efficient they could just rewrite the contract as they always do at renewal. This is a theft of expertise.

Comment Re:This is an entirely different level than CoViD (Score 1) 160

If Ebola catches on and goes viral globally it will be a very serious problem.

Fortunately, that's highly unlikely. There has never been a confirmed case of airborne transmission between humans. Most transmission is due to insufficient and unsanitary health care facilities, due to lack of funds.

Comment Re:Brilliant 4d chess! (Don cut WHO support) (Score 3, Informative) 160

Before I got the vax I signed a paper noting that it had a 93% percent Covid prevention rate in clinical trials.

I had already received three Pfizer shots when I came down with the virus (confirmed, with a test that came up positive in less than a minute). However, I am absolutely convinced that the severity of my case was so minimal (sleeping under a blanket on the couch in my clothes for 3-4 days) because of the enhanced response of my immune system, due to the vaccine.

Comment Re:Commercial programming languages are disappeari (Score 2) 33

What is SQL doing on the list? Everything else is a general purpose procedural language, and then they added in one domain specific query language?

It is kinda weird. On top of it not being a programming language, does any DB professional really use stock ANSI SQL? Doesn't every database have its own, unique extensions (PL/SQL maybe being the most famous example)?

Comment A beast of a rocket (Score 1) 46

124.4 meters (408.1 feet) tall, 9 meters wide, 5,500 metric tons at launch with a TWR of 1.6. Should leap off the pad and hit max Q in 45 seconds. These engines are grossly overpowered for the launch mass, which implies another stretch. And they're a work of art.

I have to go see one of these launches one day.

And they're not done. Raptor 4 is in the works. They really are going to Mars. The long dry spell of "boldly go" is coming to an end.

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