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If I wanted to see how my family and friends were doing then I called them on the phone. If I wanted to learn about a new restaurant then I read the...

Why not just ask her? Grant Hutchison

Ok, here is something I plainy don't understand. My neighbor shovels the snow on her lawn. It seems to me that she has divided the lawn into...

Space Launch System Failed To Perform Fixed it for ya.

Well Lionel offers this in O Gauge: :) http://www.lionel.com/products/plug-expand-play-wile-e-coyote-roadrunner-ambush-shack-6-84769/

I expect them to waive the 12 month limit on the SRBs, like they did the redundancy requirements for the Orion's power supply system, but I doubt...

I was there! But I don't blame Douglas, they suffered the same fate first. It was McDonnell, as influenced by GE's Jack Welch.

Oh, there'$ a rea$on....

reading an article over at Ars Technica and it pointed out that the SLS' most ardent advocate is on their way out: ...

Something else that will potentially impact space policy under Biden is the departure of Richard Shelby as Chair of the Appropriations committee....

"fox" ;)

I noticed that I got stuck at a certain level of knowledge/skill much more than today. Things like programming. If it wasn't in my book, it was...

What I really think of Boeing's management would get me banned. That said, what we call "Boeing" is actually McDonnell Douglas in drag. Boeing as...

Morgan Stanley has predicted the "space economy" will be worth over $1 trillion by 2040, and some analysts think their estimate is way too low...

That’s right but the difference is risk. Especially when the first to consider a daring innovation is not spending a personal budget. To embark on a...

Once I had to stop for peacocks walking across the street not too far from my house. Sometimes I hear them calling too. I’m also reminded of a...

Gravitational wave detection gives us a new window to study physics and astronomical events. Both the detection and imaging confirmed some fairly...

Wouldn’t have happened. They had to see it before they could accept it. Heck, I remember reading comments from European “experts” that were saying...

A couple of days ago we had our first shark attack in the Swan River for 50 years. The swimmer was seriously injured but happily he is recovering....

OK that doesn't sound good. I had to mute the video while I watched it, and somewhere between "grass in control" and "ho shutdown" I figured that the...

Swapped out yesterday. They'll likely do another static fire then fly. StarLink gets an Aussie 5G allocation ...

The SLS Green Run burn aborted after 67.7 seconds. Cause: a Major Component Failure (MCF) of engine #4. A FID (Failure ID) from #4 hit the...

That's really nice! How about one that's an accurate representation of my favorite planet, The Sun? Man. I'd show it to my friends, and they'd...

There seems to be some effort in here to try to find a way to take a music genre's name too literally. "Rock" and "rock & roll" don't require...

It seems to be getting better. Watched the first two episodes of WandaVision. I like it. It's interesting on several levels. And it's...

Chicago area forecast has called for snow each evening for the past week and into next week. So I went out and bought some salt 4 days ago. I think I...

I'm originally from Montana, so "Kai-oat"!

Here’s an article on five ways to pronounce coyote: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/how-to-pronounce-coyote I pronounce it...

"How Joe Biden can galvanize space diplomacy" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/15/how-joe-biden-can-galvanize-space-diplomacy-459331

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