They? Gloating is unseemly. Nobody though Trump would start a war.
Certainly back in 2016, a small consolation over his win was that a new war less likely than under Clinton, who was something of a Hawk.

But back in the old days, when the US was a democracy, they would have needed support from Congress to start a major war.

I've been wondering for many years before the first traffic camera appeared, why the toll-roads aren't enforcing the speed limits automatically. The time you enter and exit the highway is recorded down to a second. The distance between these two points is known — your average speed could be computed on the spot even with the early 90-ies technology...

The polite police officers would be standing right behind the toll-booths issuing tickets without the drama of hiding in the bushes, then chasing you at highway speeds...

And, yeah, you could lower it by stopping at a rest area — but it'd still be a tremendous disincentive to speed.

I was and continue to hope, that such universal enforcement, affecting all voters, would cause the limits to go up to reasonable figures — or even be abolished completely...

I've run into these people, they're the worst

When have you last checked your compiler's output?

I have to stop you there. The RS-25 rockets on the SLS were indeed being re-used, after they flew on the Shuttle. They were designed for re-use, and incredibly expensive. So it is something of a "crime" to dump them in the ocean. But yes, NASA's attempts to save money by re-using the Shuttle orbiter and boosters were ultimately a failure.

The billions spent on the SLS program since the end of the shuttle program have an opportunity cost. And it was apparent a while back that the SLS was a dead end, and the cost as unsustainable as the Apollo program. Rockets like Starship and New Glenn are the future. Falcon and Falcon heavy are the present.
The Artemis 2 mission could have been done using Falcon Heavy at a fraction of the cost. Or wait a bit and use Starship. We'll be waiting for Starship lunar lander anyway.
 

Pardon? Have you not seen the barge landings? SpaceX have chosen a "return to launch site" profile for Starship booster, as the most economical, but it is not a requirement. And it won't stop them putting 100-200 ton to LEO. Full re-use of the upper stage might be a long way off, but just re-using the booster is a huge gain.

Seems reasonable. In Australia you get a ticket for a momentary 2mph over. And the fine can be over us$200, depending on state. It is higher in the states with the most financial problems.

This is plausible, but the first I've heard of it. Citation? Normal TLI is not far short of escape velocity. A bit like Starship being not quite LEO.
My sources said if not for the gravity assist they would go past, and take a few more days to return to earth.

Though I'd still quibble than in a 3-body sense, they are not leaving orbit. We'll need to wait for a Mars Mission for that.

Well, by "spaceship" I meant designed for human occupancy, so excluding all the science probes, including those that have left solar orbit.
I guess I should have counted the Tesla :-) So long and thanks for all the fish.

I can expect some random science reporter to make this mistake, but bugger me, a senior NASA executive?
It shows politics are far more important than any knowledge of science at NASA today.

Not only is Orion not leaving Earth Orbit (where the fuck do they think the moon is?) , it is not even entering lunar orbit. Orion's apogee has been pushed up for one orbit, but it's perigee is right down here.

There is one spaceship that really did leave Earth orbit, the lunar module "Snoopy" from Apollo 10:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Literally everything I've tried to use AI for has had mistakes, even simple requests. Occasionally it can really amaze you with something but in general its best quality is as a google replacement or allowing someone who doesn't program to program something very simple that doesn't matter if it breaks.

"Capacity" is extremely important for generating headlines. Less so for generating electricity.

But the numbers for actual generation of electricity from renewables are still impressive. Globally is is around 34%. Not bad!
I'll take a real 34% over a hyped 50% any day. The growth in solar over the last ten years has been amazing. And now be are building the batteries needed to push the numbers higher.

The insurance companies must be glad that Everest is in Nepal and not in Minnesota.

This combined with the fact Microsoft wants to get away from PWA's, can Microsoft finally just return the business version of Outlook back to normal and stop using the "New Outlook."

Apollo 8 did ten orbits of the moon. It did not need a free return. But the SLS lacks the delta V for that to be possible.

I think he is talking about the actual training of the model, not the inference sessions. LLMs are trained on a LOT of open-source code.
The big models have read countless terrabytes of copyrighted code (Including GPL) in training. So if you ever ask AI to write a clone of GNU software, it might be legal, but can never be truly clean-room.