Stories told with words only are superior to manga because they expose you to several orders of magnitude more words, and in more contexts.
The exposure to words is valuable in itself: reading is a skill that requires training.
The additional contexts familiarize you with the use of words beyond dialog. A description of e.g. a landscape requires processing that a picture of a landscape doesn't.

That does not seem to be correct. The USA has two 50,000 ton presses in operation, plus two 35,000 ton presses.

Isar Aerospace, a commercial company, is planning to launch from Kourou as well as Andoya. Germany has little to do with the Andoya launch site: Andoya is owned by the Norwegian government, with a small share owned by Kongsberg, a missile company.

Nobody's going to use Western Europe for launching rockets into any orbit other than polar ones: for most orbits, there is no path from any site in Western Europe that does not go over land for at least some of its launch trajectory. Spain comes closest, but even there you have the chance that discarded first stages will crash on e.g. Italian territory.

People doing 4-hour jobs that could easily be automated isn't nonsense, it's daily practice in many companies. Source: I work for a company that does this. Specifically, they employ people to manually copy financial data from one system to another. Last time I checked, they had 4 FTE doing this.

How do I parse this? Panic passes, Trump tarriff back to a playdate for customers?

Starship as it is planned now has one major drawback for scientific launches: SpaceX is planning to standardize on flatpack satellites (like Starlink), fitting its starships with a dispenser for those, instead of a general payload adapter of the type seen in all rockets until now. The flatpack form factor is not a good fit for astronomical satellites.

I purchased their Fairbuds as my first BT headphones. They were a big disappointment: switching between devices was a hassle, charging was unreliable, but the biggest problem was that if they ran out of battery or otherwise switched off, they would play a blast of noise at full volume, i.e. much louder than the music I was playing. I found that unacceptable so I stopped using them after that had happened 3 times in 3 days.

That's because in the Netherlands, we now have massive excess generation during sunny hours. It makes no sense to incentivize that excess.

No, the difference between a refrigerator and and air conditioner is two orders of magnitude in energy use. An AC tends to use more power than the rest of the house combined.

Thirty years ago, in the area where I live (.nl) there was basically no need for air conditioning: temperatures high enough that you can't function without AC were a once-a-decade occurrence, so installing it was seen as wasteful.

Today, there still is resistance to installing AC units, with the argument that they exacerbate the problem, both by making the outdoors hotter and by using lots of power which increases CO2 emissions. But debilitating temperatures are becoming commonplace, so we increasingly have no alternative to installing AC.

during assembly, they could power the instruments via the attachment point for the RTG: the RTG would be installed last. So there was no need for an auxiliary power receptacle.

Find the documentary 'It's quieter in the twilight'. And Scott Manley's deep dive on the recent Voyager 1 memory issue.

Remember, it's in *space*. It has no rudder. The only way to change its trajectory is with a rocket engine. If you want to stop it moving away from Earth, you have to thrust towards the sun until that 17 km/s is reduced to zero. If you tried to make an arc by thrusting at 90deg to its current vector, you're just *adding* momentum in that direction and not reducing momentum in the outward direction.

Even with Starship that would be a titanic undertaking. The Voyagers are moving away from us at 17 km/s. When you get to the Voyagers, you have to slow them down from 17 km/s to 0, and then accelerate in the opposite direction. You'd have to arrive at Voyager with thousands of tons of fuel.

The movies get it right: you do freeze quickly. Not because space is cold, but because the vacuum allows rapid evaporation of all bodily fluids. That evaporation draws a lot of heat from the body, causing it to freeze.

The Mars rovers (and various spacecraft) have had plenty of mechanical issues, for which having an identical system on Earth has been useful to essential to figuring out a solution.