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Thank you! This is why I have a very mixed opinion of Louis Rossmann. His heart seems to be in the right place, but he provides extremely slanted view of reality.

I had a hell of a time trying to find a pill planner that didn't start on Sunday. I was ready to 3D print one when I found one that's circular.

It would increase operational costs. The satellite lifetime is limited by propellant capacity (especially at the low altitudes where Starlink operates). Mercury thrusters would be …

Starship's engines burn methane.

The torch would, most likely, be for emergency methane venting. They had previously used a torch for burning gaseous methane during de-tanking, but have since switched to a condens…

All of those would need to get approval by the Texas DOE.

The pretreatment plant is for extracting pure methane from natural gas. That is in the document.

What it ignores is that to perform the maximum number of launches permitted under this new license will consume around 1% of the methane this would produce. This equipment will be …

His arguments don't make sense. This environmental study is being performed so that SpaceX can make five orbital launches per year from Boca Chica, but ESG Hound's numbers would be…

Not just complex specs. Some of them are proprietary.

It's because of this. Adobe hates us. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFA Further reading: https://eclecticlight.co/2019/06/18/pdf-without-adobe-23-the...

Unsigned disk images.

There are already good solutions to this issue. In particular, simply placing the app package in a zip file, then checking to see if it's installed correctly when opened.

If there isn't a backup, it should at least notify the user of the error. But the OS would know about backups, since it has a built-in backup system. Also, I wouldn't be surprised …

That is little different from a flat-out lie.

> There is not really a UX flow apart from telling the user to recover the file from backup. There absolutely is, since that could be performed automatically. Inform the user about…

The downloads page has links to snapshots of the source. Edit: Though I suppose the tools are only provided as binaries.

Don't spread bullshit.

Not quite reversal since it doesn't negate the vertical motion, but yeah. Definitely the most significant of the three burns. Though it's not quite that simple. Based on the trajec…

The third burn here is also a suicide burn. The first one is to change its path and the second is to prevent it from falling too fast.

Compare the amount of force it takes to crush an aluminum can from the sides vs. from the top and bottom. A rocket is the same basic shape and material.

There are a total of three burns: 1. Alter the path so the parabolic arc goes back to the launch site. 2. Braking burn during descent to minimize atmospheric stress. 3. Landing bur…

It would require significantly more fuel to get the stage to even the Gulf coast of Florida (much less the Atlantic coast) than it would take to return to Brownsville. Additionally…

Nor is it for Falcon 9. They're launching them as fast as they can build them, and have a significant payload backlog.

> In other words, it will make the whole thing a search field, with some smart url-friendly behaviors, so that most of the time when you enter a url it will take you to that url. I…