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Second stage - not so bad - in many cases just fire the remaining engines longer to obtain the necessary delta-V.
On the ground, however you really should have all the engines firing.
To wit: ...

I am glad I got to meet him at an EBS in Newport RI back in the day. He was a very interesting and likeable character.

FDIC covers deposits to $250K so those will be available on Monday. But what about the big depositors? What do they have to hedge against bank failure?
...

I use an Atomic stovetop espresso and cappuccino maker.

https://www.amazon.com/La-Sorrentina-Atomic-Espresso-Maker/dp/B0033AB9AO

https://a.co/d/hPJlbUp

The big advantage for me is that it...

It was 2 engines shy of the full 33.

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/02/starship-b7-static-fire/

I suspect there'll be another test fire before launch.

That and keeping track of the tower communications.

Twice in my travels I have experienced go-arounds. Once while landing in Halifax in 2009 aand once in London, UK in 2019. Both cases were...

It sounds like the Fedex crew saved the day.

Juan Brown was quite fired up about this - and for good reason.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvUOHa8n7aQ

In our travels we stopped at a restaurant in a small town in the northern part of Virginia to eat dinner. The first place had a lot of parking spaces and few cars parked. I thought - they ought to...

Times Square NYC Youtube channel put out a nice webcast of the music, people enjoying themselves and ball dropping. We enjoyed watching the last hour of it.
...

Juan Brown chimes in with some interesting stuff about Southwest. Two things of interest:
1) Southwest failed to invest in IT upgrades.
2) In Nashville (BNA) police were called to manage angry...

That looks like a show to enjoy. I hope the ash and dust doesn't affect the airplanes that are parked there.

I was on a plane waiting to take off on a Friday afternoon in Houston in 2000. While sitting there I looked out the window to see a 747 start it's takeoff roll. The wings were drooping down...

That would be a serious code violation, you'd think!!!???

Maybe a DIY gas installation.

If the nuclear plant loses cooling water it may go the fate of Fukushima or Chernobyl. Some of this will likely blow over into Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar. But Russia obviously seems to be pretty...

Two reasons not to blow up the dam near Kherson:
1) It would limit the supply of water to Crimea
2) It would deprive the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant of cooling water.

Denys Davidov - at the...

Operation Starskey on "shi". Targeting a different propagandist than #5935 but still...


https://youtu.be/tVMIH6Z1J38

Speeking of sailing - two Russian men fled across the Bering strait to a remote island of Alaska.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/10/06/russians-flee-alaska/

I did that once, and only once.

Epoxy or 3M-5200 fixes that .99 to 1 discrepancy permanently! :)

I'd look to use Tintype. For a while we had a Tintype studio in the Lowe Mill art center.

My reasons for going with the older technology instead of digital would be for some sort of technology...

What is the range on a motorized pig pushing through pressurized natural gas that isn't flowing?

i watched Scott Manley last night. It'll be interesting to see just how much the impact altered the orbital period but we won't know for a few weeks.

Question: how would the pig be moved hundreds of miles without gas product flowing to push it along?

Question: Inserting a pig requires special procedures at the point of insertion that would...

I remember Biden making that speech. I considered that all that would happen is the pipelien be shut down by turning valves, ending contracts and so forth. And that it could be easily restarted at...

Jamie, I hope you recover soon.

I'm watching Niki Proshin film live in St. Petersburg. There are demonstrations protesting against the mobilization going on right now.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdFZLhVAhTk

+1 for Uber. Friends landed in Atlanta a while back and needed to get to B'ham. After looking at the options Uber came out on top.

I have her on my "must watch" list. She's a brave young woman. So many Russians have moved to Georgia and Turkey that the apartment rents have skyrocketed. I hope Russians are able to turn their...

I was going to say - canards and an extra pointy nose.

3000 square km of territory taken back by Ukraine. Nice work!

That was a very long time indeed - going back to the days of President Truman!

Keeping that off the menu may be harder done than said.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=306wDjZ99Fo

She was a constant in an ever changing world for as long as I have been alive. I'm sad to see her go. I'm watching coverage on Youtube.

I wish King Charles III success.

RIP Queen Elizabeth.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/08/queen-elizabeth-ii/

In my mind she was an icon of stability in a turbulent world.

Obituary here:...

Solving these hard technical problems tends to spawn a new generation of engineers and scientists who can apply the knowledge gained to solving problems here on earth.

Two views on Gorbachev from Russians:

Baklykov Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgZUVeJL0Sw

Inside Russia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_lfH4iuxUc

One thing we also did while living in Italy was to take day trips to Rome and Naples to see a lot of the Roman ruins including Pompeii and Herculaeum and the earlier Paestum. We also visited Capri...

I lived in Italy from 1979 to 1981. We had no AC. We were in a coastal town so that mitigated the heat somewhat. We also had no telephone. We applied for one and was told it would be two years...

Stalin 2.0

I saw a youtube recently about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pqyaIiBlCY

The gallium can be easily recovered and reused indefinitely. But the aluminum actually turns to aluminum oxide....

I wonder if this has any relevance

https://davidicke.com/2022/08/29/pope-francis-instructs-vatican-entities-to-move-all-funds-to-vatican-bank-by-sept-30/

Around 2012 I developed several iPhone apps. Here's how I got into it.
1. I downloaded and installed XCode.
2. Picked any one of the online tutorials and worked my way through to get the basic...

Scrubbed for today. Stay tuned for Sept 2.

This mission and its follow-ons will
1) Continue the study of how humans can live in space. As a consequence we learn more about ourselves.

2)...

The video is evidently an opinion piece. I'll keep this in mind when watching Sky News.

Question for you: do you think the UK and European governments and heads of industry are managing the...

Greta Thunberg appears to have gone bust.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHZym4QG7UQ

How did this happen? Altercation over parking? One life gone, another ruined. Just tragic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q42Jctka1kA

To summarize they have plenty of potatoes but apparently have difficulty getting them to Tasty Period (which replaced McDonalds) to make fries.

What a beautiful dog. Best wishes for his recovery.

My cat Neptune took about $3k in January of 2020. He had stopped eating and was losing weight. His blood figures were all messed up. I...

Sounds like you had a nice trip.

In 2006 I took a trip to Vermont for a week. One of the days I went to Derby Line and crossed over into Stanstead. In that area numerous streets just casually...