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This place was 10 minutes from me. It's closed now, but actually wasn't bad. Unrelated:

In the long run they save money by not over-engineering everything and rapidly building economic scale in the production pipeline. By running tests where total equipment loss is a real possibility you learn exactly where the minimum viable thresholds are. If you design such that you never blow...

That's fucking wild. The scale is deceiving. Those are stairwells inside the towers.

True, but gravity is ~1/3 on Mars and 1/6 on the Moon. They won't need nearly as much thrust. A pad is likely to suffice there.

I'm perpetually 770-800 despite having no debt outside mortgage and perfect history. Apparently I don't have enough credit cards, since we only use one and pay it every month. I imagine my utilization is high since we put everything possible on the card for rewards and haven't bothered upping...

Though the bar for legal malpractice is pretty high. Set by lawyers, oddly enough.

Yes. This isn't enough information to identify cases. Typically you'd have case numbers, year, etc. To the extent that "Generic Name vs State" returns anything to do with Florida they seem to be drug cases. https://www.scribbr.com/apa-examples/court-case/

I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express, but none of those case citations is real.

It's almost certainly easier to correct factual errors than to wordsmith something written by your grad student who is only half literate in English.

A bit more insider info: "It looks like the rocket blasted massive quantities of dirt and concrete up into the sky when it throttled up for liftoff. It is likely that some of this hit the rocket and caused damage of several kinds. The engines seemed relatively healthy for a while, and the...

From comments on that twitter thread: Car's owner was an idiot for leaving it that close.

Self-destruct was called by the range safety officer once it was very clear they couldn't regain control.

My cousin who wrote the engine control software says, "I have never seen anything like that before! I'll let you know more when I know what happened, but for now all I know is that my software got one heck of a workout, and we set the all time record for most end to end flips before kaboom!"

It may take a couple years, but moderate amounts of skin stretch does tighten up with good diet and exercise. YMMV if Mrs. Nirgon had a serious case. The scar varies a lot and may fade over a longer timeframe.

Welp. I've arrived at the stage of life where I'm excited about a sink. I cut an opening into my countertop to take a 33'' farmhouse sink. Polishing the granite edges was a major PITA, but worth it. This thing is fucking great, best improvement ever. (Yes, this pic is before I hooked up the...

Paywall.

Interesting point, which led me to some googling. According to the document below, the noise level at the beach is expected to be 140+ decibels, which is more than loud enough to cause immediate aural injury...

My 8 year old daughter was taking shower today while the rest of the family was in the kitchen. From two rooms away we all hear a thunderous, prolonged fart followed by, "Oh noooo! It's a smelly one and I'm traaaaaaapped!" Lol.

FTFY

It sounds like they arranged the music on kazoos.

The bigger problem is going to be distinguishing scientifically valid ideas, dangerous or otherwise, from the torrents of sciency-sounding bullshit this will produce.

Nate will go in to fuck him up, not just collect a check.

This is why I'm going out on my own terms at the first sign of senility/dementia or terminal disease. My mother died early of cancer and fought to the bitter end at severe cost to everyone's quality of life (not that I hold it against her). I refuse to make my family deal with this.

AFAIK the bellyflop is the soft landing. They'd rather risk the hardware than people/assets at the landing site on this attempt. This particular version of Starship is already a couple design generations old.

A new one is almost $1100 these days. Used ones around me are listed for $900+, lol.