One could design a vehicle that didn't need to power down, but you would have to have to build it stronger. Stronger in this case means more massive. That extra mass takes away from the payload that can be delivered to orbit. The math works out that powering down a little so the vehicle goes slower when the air still matters lets you put more total mass on orbit.
here you go
From Curiosity's landing.
Dig Once doesn't require fiber installation, but "ready-made buried conduit" for future installs which may be fiber.
(accidentally modded "offtopic" so posting to undo that)
Did the same thing at a company picnic years ago.... My wad of paper went further than any plane and people cried foul. I didn't fight the semantics, didn't really care that I was DQ'd, I knew my "airplane" went further than anyone's and that was good enough.
Likewise, but I also sync calendar using Lightning for Thunderbird with "Google Contacts" add-on and sync contacts (with gmai set up for this purpose) using "Provider for Google Calendar" add-on. On the Blackberry, like you, it is Google sync which syncs both the calendar and contacts.
Works well and glad I could finally ditch Outlook at work. We don't use Exchange.
Add-on links:
Provider for Google calendar: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4631
Google Contacts: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7307
Keep your boss's boss off your boss's back.
