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CNN is not a good place to get astronomy news. At best, if you see something there, try to find more about it at more serious astronomy news sites. ...

Yes, I’ve read analyses that there is room in the market for maybe two small rocket launcher companies, but probably not three, and perhaps just one....

Those would be very short notes. As I said above, I haven’t been near any human since my store visit and there isn’t a lot I can say about that...

His videos came up in my recommendation list some time ago, and I occasionally watch them. He talks positively about almost everything he eats, but...

Thanks. I’m feeling good so far, and the fever (without Tylenol) is 100.1F, so a definite decline from before. If it isn’t COVID-19, I’m curious...

To be sure, people have to learn different strategies when using social media, and many just haven’t. I am constantly astonished at the number of...

I’m trying to figure out how they could trace who gave it to me, given that I made a point of avoiding close contact, and there were a decent number...

Well, I think I have it. Symptoms, so far, are mild. I made the mistake of going to a store rather than having groceries delivered this time. I...

I would guess it is more about how much mass would be available in a fairly small volume to grow a black hole.

But what are they going to if China, Russia, India, or a company based outside of the US decides to land a rover next to an Apollo site, and have it...

Ouch! I haven’t heard of that before, but the symptoms sound like what I had when trying to wear contacts. The pebble under the eyelid feeling is...

By the way, how did the house cat knock you to the floor? I’ve been tripped by a cat, but not knocked down.

Heh. Rosie as in the Jetsons’ Rosie the Robot?

This is a case where they do make ‘em better than they used to. It’s almost embarrassing for NASA hardware to fail that quickly.

It would be nice if they explained what the breakthrough was supposed to be. Also, they haven’t had a test flight yet, which strikes me as important.

I knew exactly what scene that would be. I can mostly recite it from memory.

Ah, that’s too bad. She was 65, so not that old. JMS has talked about the “B5 curse” where a number of the main cast have died. Richard Biggs...

When I was a teenager we had some toy Pomeranians. One of them had a habit of eating things too big for her, so we tried to watch the size of food...

I’ll be interested to see. I can’t remember hearing Sanders ever say anything about space. If I had to guess from what I have heard from him in...

Because people like to talk about it. It’s far from the only subject where nothing solid can be said but people have pet positions and like to argue...

Oh, it was seen. It was even called a chicken and egg problem. I read arguments about it probably thirty years ago. One big issue was that per...

NASA made a recommendation. NASA doesn’t have the means yet to enforce it. Only if that is set forth in a future treaty and the various space...

Maybe because they look a bit like rocks? They are my coffee or Vegemite. ;) If someone puts them in a fruit salad, I won’t eat it, as it makes the...

I didn’t realize that Bridenstine was too young for the moon landings, but it makes sense, he looks fairly young. Without commenting on the rest of...

Oh! I wasn’t commenting on grammar, it was quoted and worked well enough. Besides, I rarely comment on grammar or spelling in posts anyway unless...

“what kind of computer you need”? They are supplying computers? At my job, pre-COVID-19, we had a telecommute policy for a while, but management...

Heh. I have all of B5 on DVD. I’ve been building PCs for 20 years. I took a break and I bought one prebuilt in 1995, it was the most expensive...

New generation wifi routers discussed here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/01/wi-fi-6e-arrives-at-ces-2021/ One looks like a rather...

Yes, I think about what it would have been like if back in the sixties they had used SLS-like development practices. They went from Mercury to...

Perhaps I missed it, but I don’t recall where you said it wasn’t meant to be about the universe. I specifically asked you if you were arguing...