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Oof, solid motor failures are a lot more energetic than liquid rocket failures. They’re basically just bombs that explode slowly in one direction. When they go wrong, they don’t tend to go wrong neatly and quietly.
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It’s frustrating that more people don’t read the papers which are the basis for pop-sci articles before “akshuly-ing” the author. I understand the tendency, because there is a LOT of cruft, but this is not an example. I mean look, the comment received over 30 likes, presumably by other people who didn’t bother to… Read more

Someone didn’t pick up after their dog?

I once had a dream about an Ariane V rocket. I told my husband about the dream, and now he absolutely will not let me live it down. :-) So now I will share it with you, because it’s funny. Read more

This Telescope does it for me. Read more

It’s oddly aggressive. The sort of change engineers would usually make after they’ve worked out most of the known failure modes. Read more

Hot-staging is an interesting late change to make. It addresses some potential problems, while also introducing new potential failure modes, so I don’t see it really as a risk-reduction move. especially this late in the game.  It feels more like addressing a perceived performance concern.
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The fact that they’re rolling out some substantial changes to Starship before the next launch makes me think we’ll probably get a schedule slip on it into early 2024 (I figured they might be able to get another launch before the end of 2023 if everything went well at the pad, but that wasn’t factoring in changes to… Read more

I try to make it immediately clear that this is a perfectly ordinary and harmless event, because I am similarly annoyed by headlines that intentionally leave that out. Read more

I deeply appreciate that headline addendum to make it NOT clickbait. I clicked on this article JUST to support that practice. Read more

As long as it’s *not* Hitler’s opening of the 1936 Olympics we’re good. Read more

I am completely baffled by your reaction here. Read more

Diversity at NASA was literally how we got there in the first place.  Read more

You just know Cruz got mad watching “Hidden Figures,” not because of the discrimination and injustice faced by Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Dorothy Vaughan, but because he bets they kept some mediocre white guy from getting a job. Read more

This is the correct take. The Warriors looked to be running out of steam in previous rounds. Their core players essentially added a sixth season’s worth of games in the process of their last five playoff runs. The Clippers and a completely dysfunctional Rockets team both took them to six games. There are no asterisks.… Read more

I pegged nanny—and that is how implicit bias works folks! If you do it, own up to it and hope it helps you be better in the future. Read more

Ping of the puck going off the post woulda been my number one. When I played I almost liked hitting the post as much as actually scoring. Read more

Yep - there’s no reason to criminalize mental illness. Let’s reserve the term “committed” for when people harm others. Read more

The language around suicide has changed, in large part as an effort to remove the attendant shame and guilt associated with the former phrasing. Suicide attempts used to be illegal, and saying someone “committed” suicide carries with it the connotation of criminal activity (i.e., “committed murder”). Suicide survivors… Read more