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And an on target ocean landing for the ship

My farmer friend used his stimulus check to buy baby chickens.


He got his money for nothing and his chicks for free.

nstapundit had an article last week about firing data showing much higher rates of new graduates not able to cope with a workforce that doesn’t have nearly the same degree of explicit instruction as school and expects employees to figure shit out on their own. My experience in corporate America is ...

Who else was affected by the hurricane? Everyone ok? Mike?



We came through fine, amazingly we even still have power... had enough tornado warnings to last a few years though...

I have spent a lot of the last decade and a half dealing with regulatory oversight in the environmental industry. In the NJDEP, there's a LOT of people with a LOT of experience in the field and in the regulatory industry retiring now, and the people the state is hiring are young, fresh out of schoo...

They said I could be anything...





...so I became a disappointment.

Yeah, they actually don't seem as ugly in person. Lots of really interesting technology under the skin, but with a pretty dorky exterior. My son is obsessed with them though and declared he's going to buy one when he turns 16 (8 years from now) and wrap it in gold. We'll see about that :lol: Honestl...

It’s very good. There’s a few other similar works on Twitter. The Federation-Klingon Cold War one is very good. Finished this one (I am prone to binge-reading stuff like this) and yes it was very good. Of course the old "all humans are Doc Brown" thread-meme kept coming to mind as I was r...

Slightly off topic but have you heard of this fan created project: "We Have Engaged the Borg: The Oral History of the Battle of Wolf 359". Its covers the prelude, the battle, and the aftermath. Its good. https://www.wolf359project.com/ I know very little about Trek but so far it's a good ...

It's not military, but I really enjoyed the tour etc. at Hoover Dam... of course that was mumblemumble years ago...

Hmm. I suppose if one were to try and challenge Wickard this might be the time to do it; I'm not sure USSC would overturn it but it's probably more likely now than any time previously. I will cheer it on from that aspect. I used to brew a little but found the work and expense wasn't worth it. I also...

I have done a little zero-g simulator work ...wait. What?! 1. How did you get an opportunity to do that ? 2. Can you hook a brother up? :mrgreen: Are we really sure that they used different sized bolts/nuts/screws for stuff that would STAY in orbit versus stuff that would go up and come down? I am ...

I'd tell a joke about USPS package delivery, but you probably wouldn't get it.

Outbound

My musical talent is limited to pressing "play"... apparently that musical gene on my dad's side skipped me and went to my siblings instead. Dad tried to make me learn guitar at one point. I struggled for six weeks and hated every minute of it. He finally let me off the hook, afraid I'd br...

Looked it up, the first ones used the arm which is where I got it, they're using thrusters now. The original Dragon 1, the shuttle-carried MPLM, and the Cygnus cargo spacecraft are all grabbed by the arm and "berthed". Advantages are a simpler lighter mechanism (it doesn't have to absorb ...

As noted in this thread, pretty good movies are failing badly lately. I'd attribute that to a perfect storm, everyone knows they will be streaming soon , (And many people have no moral problems with pirating due to how much steaming services cost), inflation has made everything expensive and forced...

I listened to a podcast episode recently with those two guys... quite entertaining, including a couple of Dune references

What I'd like to know is why disk brakes are almost 27K each. That seems.... excessive. Belushi TD Bespoke parts for a limited production run. I'd bet they had no spares on hand and had quite possibly scrapped any tooling. I'd be the price quoted included the cost to manufacture new brake rotors ex...

I looked up a review on this car since I'm not a car guy...

Apparently it was a half-million-dollar supercar 20 years ago, 3500 ish total production run.