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Engineer, ISS, Space Shuttles, nuke electrician, newest docent at the Galveston Naval Museum; trying to figure out where I'm wrong, and to fix it.

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Thanks for keeping us up to date folks. Keep up the good work, I certainly appreciate it.

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Ooh, I really like that last line, and may have to try to use it "puts up for sale to anyone who is rich enough to bribe parasites with the pleasures of luxury."

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Wow, some of those are just mindblowing. Like literally can't comprehend the forces and masses involved. Thanks again for doing this!

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Steam is still definitely the most sexy form of motive energy.

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Great! Been anxiously checking the blog for days now. Thanks Kyle!

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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it feels like a somewhat unpopular view these days but integration is an unalloyed good and should be pursued as vigorously as possible

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Akshat Rathi's avatar Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social
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Is climate change a threat? Yes Can climate change be an opportunity? Yes Will things get worse as we heat up the planet? Yes Can things get better despite heating the planet? Yes Will leaders never take all the steps we must to act? Yes Can we make leaders do lot more? Yes

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Generic User 258's avatar Generic User 258 @genericuser258.bsky.social
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Wow. Looks like Phill Plait got the same thing

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lolll, yes Roger, you sure have us pegged. I mean sure, obviously we aren't the target of this, but damn. It's just so dumb

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Ooh, I hope we get some interesting video of that. Have we used any sinkex targets as large since America?

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May want to check your cover photo. That's FGB (Zarya) docked to Node 1, not the Service Module (Zvezda) as the caption states.

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Marisa Kabas's avatar Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Holy shit: When Will Lewis was newly-hired Publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, he offered NPR media reporter David Folkenflik an exclusive story about the paper's future in exchange for him killing a story about Lewis' involvement in covering up criminal activity at Rupert Murdoch's tabloids.

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Generic User 258's avatar Generic User 258 @genericuser258.bsky.social
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I've always liked the Alvaro de Bezans. Like little mini-Burkes.

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My heart jumped a bit as soon as those solids lit, there have been so many times we never got here but this time we were going!

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Teams polled go, less than five minutes to go!

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Less than an hour until the next Starliner launch attempt. Fingers crossed this one actually goes up!

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I mean, one of them has GOT to be the poo emoji, right?

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A dynamite gun would be the perfect steampunk airship weapon. Right time period, and even the name feels steampunky

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It's a good book. Thankful it didn't come to pass for real. Hopeful that we don't let it come to pass for real

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They're trying so hard to find something actually useful for their AI toys to do; they're just throwing random ideas out there hoping something will stick

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Bret Devereaux's avatar Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social
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I don't know if he's on here but in case he isn't, Nathan Goldwag wrote a blog essay on "The Moral Economy of the Shire" looking at how a society can function based on custom & clientalism rather than the state and you should read it, it's fantastic.

nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...

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Looks like they're not going to try to launch Starliner tomorrow, but delay at least a few more days. June 5/6 look like the next opportunities.

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Make sure to not just focus on Europe completely, please include the middle east, the Caribbean, and India get their episodes.

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Alas, hopefully tomorrow's launch attempt goes smoother

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*sigh, another Starliner scrub. Still not entirely clear to me what the cause was, but it seems like it probabaly wasn't the spacecraft, but an Atlas rocket or ground support equipment issues. I expect they'll try to turn around for another launch attempt tomorrow.

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Any indications of what launched the Kalibrs? Surface or submarine?

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Mike the Mad Biologist's avatar Mike the Mad Biologist @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social
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One of the things science bloggers & communicators were discussing (and figured out) ~15 years ago (and there's research to support this) is you don't win arguments with facts, but with *narratives*. It's frustrating to see political professionals not get this, when we nerds did so long ago.

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Yup, looks like a targe...er I mean Spanish Ship Juan Carlos I.

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Well, I think I'm just going to bake some cookies. The world is feeling a little less crappy tonight.

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I just learned the other day that ABBA first became big after they won Eurovision in 1974 with their song Waterloo.

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