From here in B-town. My friend called me up yesterday insinuating that I should be careful during the eclipse, since apparently CERN was going to run the Large Hadron Collider today around the same time as the occlusion, and that this could possibly cause an earthquake similar to the 1811 New...
I honestly didn't even know we had a new mayor until seeing this thread, that's how little of an impact the mayoral elections have here (the winner is always a D, of course). However, while reading a recent article about the thread subject, I was shocked to see she'd actually said something...
This Fox News article has a video of the purported incident. The car legitimately goes flying through the air, no wonder it exploded. Looked like a Hollywood stunt. I could believe the story that it was a couple of guys in a stolen car fleeing the fuzz, but wouldn't be surprised if drugs were...
Might have been propellant slosh in the tanks that caused some engines to crap themselves during the attempted boostback burn, then the AFTS blew it up when the computer noticed it wasn't following the correct course. They had similar problems with testing the flip maneuver with the upper stage...
I've read some rumors that the initial flip the rocket performed near the apogee of the flight was actually the attempted staging maneuver, but the hydraulic stage separation mechanism failed due to damage inflicted by flying debris at liftoff and thus the two stages remained together while...
Scrubbed due to an engine bleed issue, and now reading there may be a crack on a flange in the core stage. I've generally been of the mind that despite the enormous expenditure and constant delays, we should still try to get as much out of SLS/Orion as we can for the first few Artemis missions...
I definitely heard this phrase uttered by a group of middle school-aged kids on Saturday when I was working security at an IU Homecoming alumni event. Perhaps there's some hope for the younger generations?
I was actually one of the guards who did regular shifts at that place, between late 2018 and when the building was finally torn down in May of last year. When one of my co-workers told me roughly how much the city was paying my boss for that contract, I thought he must be joking. I'm still not...
Is choosing what ought and ought not to be acceptable to teach to impressionable young students in public schools truly a violation of the First Amendment? Would those people (presumably mostly people on the left) making such a claim object to teachers "discussing" Nazi racial theories or...
Somewhat amusing that SpaceX is launching their third crewed flight to the ISS while Boeing has yet to successfully dock even an uncrewed Starliner to the ISS once. Really starting to think that the other selection for the Commercial Crew Program should have ben the Dream Chaser all along.
Yep, that appears to be the cause of the malfunction; freeze-framing the video at the point he squeezes the shot off shows his left thumb is directly behind the back of the slide. It occurred to me that this a potential source of malfunctions on all autoloading pistols with rearward...
I watched the NASA press conference in which they unveiled that footage live yesterday; couldn't stop smiling while it was playing. I still have a hard time believing that sky-crane deployment maneuver for the rover works as well as it does, but this is the second time they've done it and now...
What's the usual price for Angel's Envy these days? I picked up a bottle a few days ago at my local Big Red for $43; that was supposedly a sale price. Not yet given it a try, but always heard it's high-tier bourbon. I think I remember seeing it closer to $80 around here several years ago.