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by russdill 2y ago
NASA answered a number of direct questions on this during the crew-10 pressers. So they were asked directly. The problem is the Musk claim is that he took the offer directly to the White House, bypassing NASA. From the crew-10 pressers, NAS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Pettit
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Another member of Expedition 72 was 7 years Wilmore's senior.
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How long exactly do you think NASA astronauts typically spend on the ISS?
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Because NASA had planned on the contingency of them joining the next expedition and returning with Crew-9. The astronauts trained for this possibility and NASA prepared for it. Even going as far as to include EVA suit components with the re
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It touched down with a large horizontal velocity component
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Out of all the things SBF has done, who he chooses to interview with is so so so far down there.
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I think what people are intuitively asking is not what would neutron stars at their current stage of stellar evolution look like. It's, if you could look at it what would it look like. Far in the future once neutron stars have cooled,
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Settings like "Bake", "Roast", etc are quite frustrating. They do have meanings, but pretty much no user knows what they mean. A selector that lets the user choose which heating elements they want to use might be usefu
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by russdill 2y ago
I get what the author is getting at, but I really think this is a poor comparison. Selecting a gear on a bike gives immediate feedback. Selecting a power level and cook time on a microwave...does not. Not needing to remember a formula for f
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"The 23-year-old woman who wants to end her life is paraplegic due to injuries suffered when she tried to take her own life in 2022."
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Most of the people I talk to seem to have one thing they are holding on to as the thing they'll get out of their vote. Like "he's going to eliminate the income taxes I pay on my social security" etc The thing is almost n
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On 6502 they are both 2 cycles. On the vast majority of processors I'm aware of, "simple" alu operarations don't vary in execution time
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For most assembly, I'm not sure how this has an advantage over two adds.
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The question would be why isn't it 4x - 1x?
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Pretty sure for electric aircraft to do anything useful at supersonic speeds you'd need beamed energy. Which would be a pretty cool technology
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The thinner the air, the more efficient your flight can be, but I never saw this as a temperature problem. My understanding is that there just isn't enough oxygen. Maybe there's an issue with the amount of heating that occurs when
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It is toxic, but fortunately has a rather short half life compared to many other environmental toxins. Other than burning lithium ion battery plants, the other major source is burning coal.
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They legally have all the branches. They can use Congress to cut programs they don't want
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Government employee payroll makes up a tiny fraction of the budget. It's actually a horrible place to start.
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Just that it appears that they did not reach out to the UK government when this happened as they may have been unaware that Turks and Caicos are a British Overseas Territory.
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As interesting change to their updates page: "SpaceX reached out immediately to the government of Turks and Caicos and the United Kingdom to coordinate recovery and cleanup efforts." to "SpaceX reached out immediately to the
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This generation of starship is literally called V2
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It's already been a thing for quite some time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Inspector_General_(U... They are independent of the things they review, they find inefficiency, overspending, fraud, and embez
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Still hilarious (or sad?) to me that the use of this product has been famously misinterpreted as literally bleaching or acid washing and it is "very expensive"
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Also they do a heck of a lot more than retirement benefits. And really, it could actually be a survivor benefit and the deceased person could have been born 150 years ago and the survivor still living.
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The deal says that if they have no legal standing to make any challenges once signing. If they decide to not pay them, they have signed away any legal remedy
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Really working as fast as possible before public perception manages to catch up.
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Part of this is a crusade though. There's very much a desire to rip out anything that is considered "woke" or "DEI". But the rest of it is just burning things down for the sake of burning things down.
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There's a teaching method called "handwriting without tears". The title is almost certainly a play on that.

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