That’s not a very good reason or justification to delay.

If that worries the justice system, then Trump can never be sentenced. He has cult followers for life.

Fuck this noise. His ass should be in a holding pen awaiting his sentencing. Then maybe he’d want to do it a little sooner. Unfortunately, we continue to keep handling him with the softest, fluffiest, Downy fresh kid gloves.

The U.S. Constitution uses but does not define the phrase “natural born Citizen” and various opinions have been offered over time regarding its exact meaning.

Don’t be too sure. This particular SC might allow Elon to run because…reasons. And by reasons, I mean free chartered flights anywhere in the world, brand new RVs, and paying rent for justices’ mamas.

I was thinking outside; external module. Apollo could “store” external modules for launch in the fairing, then dock with them in space (ie, moon lander/moon ascent). That’s enormously complex of course though.

Yes, but Gemini and Apollo were 50+ years ago. Airlocks are likely safer for everyone since ISS and shuttle spacewalks all used them. I think the ISS one also allows prebreathing in the hours before spacewalks to minimize chances of the bends.

And good point about hardening the electronics and equipment. That has to be a requirement regardless I guess since a depressurization could happen on any flight. But depressurizing then repressurizing them during flight increases the risk of something happening compared to not doing it.

So who on the crew will perform the spacewalk?

“We’d say all four of us are doing it — there’s no airlock and it’s being vented down to vacuum” inside the spacecraft, Isaacman said.

Interesting choice. Some sort of airlock module attached to the hatch seems like a better idea, but maybe that isn’t possible. Hope those EVA suits work well since there’s a 4x chance for failure with all 4 of them facing the harshness of space. Same goes for the internal capsule controls/modules/computers.

Promise him Secretary of State if he stays in the race until election day, keeps on message (stupid conservative arguments), and works swing states hard. Then…just don’t give him State. Or anything.

I mean, if this is what you believe, you can still invest in bonds in a 401k or brokerage account. Even if I believed this about stocks crashing, I still wouldn’t put any $ in an annuity.

Also, predicting the stock market and making huge decisions based on that tends to not go well.

Similar, yeah. More modern construction and side-by-side seating instead of tandem. But otherwise, similar size and weight.

Good to know; first time I’ve come across this website.

Ha, why was this downvoted? Sketchy website “reports” proprietary Chinese research firm’s accomplishment by rehashing the firm’s press release about an unbelievable claim with no other evidence. This got more red flags than the beach before a hurricane.

At best, this is something they actually did approximate in some kind of lab setting that might be years and years away from being some kind of marketable product.

The (translated) press release even has a stench all on its own:

It is expected to fundamentally solve the battery life and safety anxiety of traditional lithium-ion batteries.

N=1 case study from a radically biased individual or multiple rigorous studies by people who understand public health. I just don’t know what to believe!

Was driving by Fort Walker the other day and they did a great job on all the exit signs, boundary markers, and what not. Didn’t see a single “AP Hill” anywhere. Naming Army installations after quite literal traitors is absolutely insane.

Right? It’s like the career criminal doing one more robbery. They tell themselves it’ll be the last time they do it because they know it’s wrong. Except it’s not the last time. They’ll do another later on and call that one the last time. And again and again.

Biggs grew emotional as he talked about his daughter, swearing on her life that he intended Jan. 6 to be his last event with the Proud Boys.

“I’m done with it. I’m sick and tired of left versus right,” Biggs said. The only group he wants to be affiliated with, he said, is his daughter’s PTA.

He’s an asshole. And he is sorry; sorry that he got caught. He’s sick of it now, but wasn’t then. He makes no statement about the victims of his violence. He makes no statements about the millions of nameless victims whose votes he wanted overturned.

Even if he had said he regretted acting on Trump’s lies, it wouldn’t mean a thing. He is just upset he got caught and punished. He’s an asshole.

This guy used violence and terrorism because he didn’t want my vote to count simply because he didn’t like the way I voted. Fuck this asshole. I hope he commits more felonies in prison and gets more time tacked on. 17 years isn’t enough for this fascist asshole.

In 2016, aerospace giant Northrop Grumman invited me and 14 other professors and NASA scientists—all experts on exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life—to Los Angeles to answer one question: What will exoplanet space telescopes look like in 50 years?

In our discussions, we realized that a major bottleneck preventing the construction of more powerful telescopes is the challenge of making larger mirrors and getting them into orbit. To bypass this bottleneck, a few of us came up with the idea of revisiting an old technology called diffractive lenses.

Color me skeptical of this story. The author no doubt believes it.

But the fact that this was organized and sponsored by NG makes me skeptical of this take. Maybe it’s less scientists innovating and inventing and more an NSA/NRO-approved, NG-led, soft disclosure of technology that already exists. The scientists are likely reinventing the wheel after getting a nugget of an idea seeded by NG.

Civilian optical space telescopes lag far behind spy ones. Literally decades.

KH-11 is much, much older than Hubble.

Some improved KH-11s were deemed unnecessary or out-of-date and gifted to NASA. Never flown, still in a warehouse somewhere.

I have strong suspicions that Webb’s folding mirror system wasn’t exactly new and novel either. Probably just a refinment of something NRO and Ball Aerospace worked out many years prior. No hard evidence for that, however.

Anyway, long-winded way of saying there’s a decent chance these guys are trying to figure out something that’s already floating around up there and maybe already 5-10 years old or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches#Launch_history?wprov=sfla1