Launches just after sunset or just before sunrise are always a treat. The sunlight catches the expanding exhaust gases from the main engines and thrusters, and lights up the gases while the sky is still dark to us. They're often called a "space jellyfish".
We really ought to watch Dr. Strangelove on the hextube sometime.
🎶 We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when! 🎶
I understand the urge to use insults against those who deserve them. But it's helpful when discussing news for the reader to understand what you're talking about. Maybe we can all talk like adults so that people aren't reading posts in confusion, wondering what the fuck a "diaper fart" is referring to.
Honestly Biden is a contender for worst American politician in history. His entire adult life has been him delivering pain to the American working class in the service of his Wall Street masters. His presidency is just a small part of his crimes.
The project plans to send up 15,000 satellites by 2030.
Yeah, that's this project. I wish them luck, but they'll need something like 300 to 400 launches (depending on exact inclinations, more polar launches means more launches required) to complete that constellation. 60 to 80 launches per year is extremely expensive without at least reusable first stages. I don't think they can make it work with just disposable Long March 6A rockets unless they start assembly-lining the 6A production. They'd also need to build more 6A towers at Taiyuan, or add 6A facilities and towers to the other spaceports, or both.
I'm still annoyed that I have him to thank for legal cannabis.
It's the end of a Bolsonera.
If I were a policymaker in the Russian government, I'd float the idea of sending four more of these ballistic missiles. Land one precisely 50Km north, south, east, and west of the US embassy.
Why would the Russian government want to remove the current Ukrainian leadership? They're completely predictable. That's a nice trait to have in an adversary.
Never has the phrase "the medium is the message" been so appropriate.
The newly-elected premier Susan Holt of New Brunswick, Canada has followed through on a post-election promise. There's now a rent cap on all residential housing, 3% maximum increase at a time, only one increase allowed in a 12 month period. The law takes effect February 1st. It also requires a six-month notice of an increase, so even though it's not legally in effect yet, it's effectively in effect.
Prior to this it was basically open season on renters. There were no rent caps whatsoever. The legislation has a lot of other tenant-friendly changes. To use that overused phrase, I'm cautiously optimistic about the new premier. She may be the mildest of mild socdems at best, but so far so good compared to her electoral opponent who was basically New Brunswick's own De Santis with many of the same views.
They were even throbbing from root to tip, so to speak.
This is day #2 of this game for me. I am eager to find more weirdness in the stars.
This is the lesser-known companion Playstation game to the classic anime Serial Experiments Lain. There's a downloadable version as well. The bottom of this page has the chart of keyboard controls.
Also, the gameplay is highly unconventional. It's not like a regular visual novel. It has a totally different style and purpose and interface than Disco Elysium, but it takes the same sort of patience and open mindedness.
As we all know, by the year 2360, Earth had reached a level of development in which commerce as we know it had fundamentally changed. It was a post-scarcity paradise. Individuals instead challenged themselves to purposes that benefited others.
So my question to my comrades is this: what sort of Soviet-style awards would our crew have? Obviously Picard would have a Hero of the Federation or two. And Dr. Crusher would have a People's Doctor of the Federation.
"Conventionalized ICBMs" wasn't on my 2024 bingo card of horror, but here we are.