Yeah well, we can't all be a person who doesn't understand how things work. Kudos to you for being simple minded!

" The Kathmandu Post"

Ah we don't to pay for journalism, says a planet of suckers

I'm too old for the draft. But I'm scared what it might do to the younger generation. It certainly had a negative impact on the generation that raised me. I had many public school teachers and coaches in the 80's and 90's that were unhinged Vietnam vets.

Tariffs and fuel surcharges. So nice that big corporations aren't the ones burdened by what is obviously another tax on the consumer.

I agree it is a human on human phenomenon, but that isn't the narrative today. When someone gets too caught up in the "It's overwhelmingly men!" narrative, I direct them to the Oxygen Channel's show "Snapped" It's about women who kill their boyfriends, husbands, parents, children, and sometimes others. All true stories, and it has been on many years. They haven't run out of violent women yet.

As well as any man admitting that his wife abuses him is going to be ridiculed. I've come to the conclusion that many women actually enjoy males being hurt by women as some sort of justified action.

Personal experience - A few years ago, my wife went in for rotator cuff surgery. One of the nurses was hell bent on trying to get her to admit that I physically abused her. After the third visit, before surgery - which was starting to feel like an interrogation, she was getting pretty upset. The wife called her surgeon, and told him "My husband has never hit me, never grabbed me nor ever or even yelled at me. Why the nurse keeps pressing, I don't know - and it doesn't even look like he did anything. Keep that nurse away from me, or there will be repercussions." She told me about it, and I said "this is bullshit, in an era of "believe all women" The nurse could have easily ruined me, so the wife filed a complaint against the nurse. A bit of a sticky wicket, where when you have a mandate of believe all women, and they say two opposite things.

But the Nurse was following a popular narrative. That only men abuse women, it doesn't happen the other way around, and in fact, the narrative is more important than the truth. I would have just been justified collateral damage. That no one other than men who have been ruined.

Re-useable engines are not the panacea people might think. The process of refurbing them is kind of a mixed blessing. We must remember that NASA refurbed the space Shuttle's main engines and solid Boosters.

There is also an elephant in the room - If you are going to have the candles land back at the launch site - it imposes severe restrictions on the launch envelope. Less severe if you land them on a barge, but even then, the landing site for the stage one engines controls the launch envelope and where the orbit ends up.

The reason the shuttle's main engines were refurbished is that the engines came back with the shuttle. The solid Boosters could be retrieved without too much damage from the salt water.

And if your going to have balls to the wall rockets like the Saturn V and Artemis, Launch envelope and power takes priority over landing the first stage. And there is a big reason that Spacex does not land the second stage. Because of the reasons I noted.

It would be great if the reusable concept was just like driving the car home, stopping for gas and doing it again. The biggest proponents act like that is teh case with Rockets - it is not, because they are not taking orbital mechanics into any account.

Starship better? It is still constrained by the launch envelope, and suffered from a different problem. The entire launch stack goes along for the ride. All that weight, and the entire stack must survive re-entry.

I always wondered, Spacex must have a complete launching facility on Mars, a method of producing Methane, as well as a complete engine refurb and replacement facility, and the means of powering them. And where are the first ships going to land - who builds the complete facility for the arrival of StarShips and the colonists? Now perhaps my spidey senses are 100 percent wrong. Perhaps Artemis will fail miserably, and Starship will lead humanity to new and better heights, and NASA will be shut down, and Spacex will have us all on Mars, living our best lives. Not holding my breath for what only exists in the mind of the fans, along with a big rocket that doesn't work.

I won't hold my breath.

Your country voted in Trump so you don't really get to be on a high horse about the quality of American voters.

Well no more than usual. The problem is that he couldn't even stick to a simple message. About half the speech was about how the war is ending and they're bringing peace and the other half the speech was about killing every single person in Iran.

I found out that the reason Joe Biden looked so rough is because he stutters and when you saw him doing those long pauses that was him having to pause to get his stutter under control before he spoke. In his old age it came back after he had gotten it under control for a long time.

So all that crap about sleepy Joe was literally just a man with a mild speech impediment struggling with it. Of course none of that was reported by the news media...

Meanwhile Trump was talking about a bill he wanted to pass and mid sentence started to talk about a imaginary person named Bill. This is a real thing that happened. Never mind the bizarre post he just made about Jasmine Crockett being related to Davy Crockett.

Well, are you? Come on who's tired of winning?

Trump lowered military recruitment standards which is the first step towards a draft.

Well - it's a really big rocket!

Oh, that's pretty neat. Microsoft is definitely the right level to address this at - they already have permission to enumerate the HW, own the hardware and software infra to tackle this, enjoy economy of scale other players are not privvy too, and can deliver a solution in a vendor agnostic way. Thanks for the heads up. It's the right thing to happen.

Of course there are. Tragedy of the commons. My point is that no single entity is likely to absorb the costs unless they're already enjoying economy of scale advantages and there are business experience/optic benefits to doing so. The poster above you pointed out that Microsoft seems to be addressing this, which makes a lot more sense to me than doing it at the 3d HW vendor level.

Allow me to be blunt. No one who matters gives an actual fuck about Miller. I'm surprised that this subject is taken over the story now. Like Koch's vagina and Glover's skin color mean one thing. She's obviously been in space often enough to prove her bona fides, and no one wants the ship pilot chosen on any criteria other than competence.

They are Astronauts, they are top notch competent, both in skills and temperament. The jobs they perform will not allow them to be anything other than top notch.

Now, is it possible that someone in a meeting said "Why don't we get a good mix on this crew - sure - it would be folly to believe there are no racist or sexist people at NASA.

And there are a lot of racist and sexist people who are orgasming because of the mix for race and sex, just as there are people who call it DEI.

But it doesn't matter.

You are correct. The problem is that therapist and sexist people who have checkboxes for race and sex are the ones who are racist and sexist, and consider race and sex as the most important criteria. They ae just as racist and sexist as those who call the astronauts DEI hires.

Make no mistake, one does not become a NASA Astronaut unless they are exceptionally and undeniably on the extreme end of competence.