toast

I don't know. I don't think we should make excuses for Jupiter just because of its size. Pluto's doing the best it can. Could any of us do any better, so far out from the sun?

Exactly. That's also why Jupiter, which shares its orbit with thousands of asteroids, isn't a planet either.

I know. Nothing stresses me out more than weighing mice

Yeah. I was in Hawaii when 9/11 happened, and of course all flights at the time were canceled for days. It wasn't a bad place to be stuck for a little while, but even that short of a delay in returning did cause a few issues.

Far easier to create "Violence without Provocation" True Comics

Yikes, does that say a single stick solid booster for the first stage? Seems like it'd be a rough ride up.

I was wondering how the capsule was doing. After 20 missions, I guess they know what they're doing.

I don't remember if Northrop Grumman submitted a commercial crew proposal. Like SpaceX, they would have benefited from their supply mission experience.

Eventually, they became confident that they were working with new material from two fragmentary Euripides plays, Polyidus and Ino. Twenty-two of the lines were previously known in slightly varied versions, but “80 percent was brand-new stuff,” Gibert says.

This cleared up my first thought: how can you tell the lost writings of Euripides from the lost writings of Sophocles (or from the writings of playwrights that haven't survived at all). I mean, unless these are sizeable fragments, it might not be easy to tell even Aeschylus from Euripides

Yeah, and the estimate is for the update to take 4 weeks? Didn't Boeing do an inflight update on the landing software on OFT-1?

Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.

At first blush, this seems absurd. After all, Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test 2 mission in May 2022 was a fully automated test of the Starliner vehicle.

Just...unbelievable

Thanks for this post. I do wonder what prompted this. Is it related to ULA being up for sale? Is it directed at an individual who has caused issues in the past? Have news agencies complained? Could be anything. I just hope it gets enough pushback that other companies will shy away from moves like this

Rock, Paper, Scissors