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by rory096 8y ago
I agree with your interpretation of the tape audio, but the 'ballistic trajectory' statements from Roscosmos/NASA tell us that it was not rocket-powered. Indications are that the anomaly happened at booster sep, which is a fe
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Orion has also done a pad abort test, for what it's worth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j68mszdhTmY
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Planned (nominal). See here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIxkVAXPYPc&t=134
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This is false. LES tower jettison was prior to the failure today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIxkVAXPYPc&t=134
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Suppose you'll have to say the same about the Russian space official who said as much to the AP. >11:02Z: BREAKING: Senior official says Russia suspending manned space launches pending investigation into rocket failure. https:&#x2F
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by rory096 8y ago
Their Soyuz capsule is the one with a drilled hole in it, though there's no indication that will affect descent. https://spacenews.com/nasa-plays-down-soyuz-investigation-co...
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Worth noting: launch escape tower was jettisoned nominally moments before the failure. Escape was via the capsule separation mechanism followed by ballistic then parachute descent. If the booster had exploded, the crew would have been in ex
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by rory096 8y ago
For years they were a scrappy independent company slowly getting FAA/NHTSA approvals and variances but without major financial resources — I recall they were one of the early participants in Wefunder back in 2014. (To this day, at leas
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by rory096 8y ago
Agreed. Didn't mean to suggest that's what you were saying, just to address the general point.
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The author is vice president of the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. He's an economist, not a political appointee, and this is a presentation of findings, not an opinion piece.
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I think it's overstating the case to say there's "no there there" in income stagnation - other and more recent data point to alarming trends in total individual compensation and in overall inequality. But it's impor
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Required reading for any discussion on median household income. Note in particular compositional effects - household size and mix have changed over time. https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications/the-region/whe
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Relevant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf
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$20 million. Musk pays the other half personally.
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Per Google Translate, the second to last paragraph reads: >If someone has just been logged out, >it’s just being logged out. >Don’t worry.
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by rory096 8y ago
Could take years, per the article. >Since Musk so far has chosen to fight this, it could take years to reach an outcome, said Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi in a note Friday.
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by rory096 8y ago
Tesla's board has 9 directors. Barring Musk from the chairmanship doesn't preclude putting a loyalist in to replace him. I don't see how 2/9 non-chairman directors being independent creates a drastic about-face in compan
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by rory096 8y ago
Gwynne Shotwell is President/COO of SpaceX. Musk is CEO.
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by rory096 8y ago
More directly: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/democracy-post/wp/2018/0... (note that "tens of thousands of cameras throughout Xinjiang" is an error — that's tens of thousands in one
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The Apollo astronauts were also trained quite extensively in geology. Highly recommend the Apollo 12 episode of From the Earth to the Moon for a great look at that.
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Last year I waited on hold for 45 minutes. When I reached the representative, she said she could only help me with generic questions rather than account-specific ones because her computer system was down. I asked when they expected the issu
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What sudden divergence? https://i.imgur.com/WZaIpjL.png
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>this other measure of unemployment is much higher than the standard measure shows that the economy is not healthy No it doesn't. Aside from it being a nonsensical measure of 'health', the overall 'employment rate&#x2
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>whereas the measure given in the article shows that the official unemployment rate for men 25-55 is just 1/3 of the "true" unemployment rate that includes disaffected workers. This is significant. Using that as the "
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>Discouraged workers are a subset of persons marginally attached to the labor force. The marginally attached are those persons not in the labor force who want and are available for work, and who have looked for a job sometime in the prio
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>Not to mention a multibillion dollar, unnecessary tunnel linking O'Hare with downtown which will almost certainly cost multiples higher than Elon Musk and Rahm Emanuel claim. We'd rather spend money on vaporware than build som
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by rory096 8y ago
They refer to "the relatively new solid bulk cargo bauxite". Surely bauxite shipping is as old as the advent of electrolysis (Hall–Héroult + Bayer processes)?
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Not for constitutionally protected speech (under the limitations on student speech set by Tinker's "substantial disruption" test, Fraser's "indecent" limitation, and similar jurisprudence). https://e
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Also the reasoning used to lower the voting age at the same time, with the 26th Amendment.
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I just mean their social media presences, not the companies themselves! Aside from the core group of us space enthusiasts who've been around no matter who's doing what, much of the new blood & energy has come from people who s

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