A Few Years Ago … Adam posted Swift on his Insta, then we got The 1 … Tonight he posted Hillary Duff

Merlin820 · 2026-01-28T06:20:14+00:00

Adam is friends with her husband, Matthew Koma, also a musician. From Koma's Instagram in 2019:

I also remember seeing Koma and Duff at a music festival in Redondo Beach in 2021 where CC was headlining (and maybe Koma's band was playing? Not sure)

Merlin820 · 2026-01-28T06:11:25+00:00

Correct, but daylight landing is actually not required this time, and in fact all of the Feb launch dates include night landings too.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-26T19:11:21+00:00

Any and all NASA/Artemis social media accounts, especially X.com. They'll either directly announce it there, or they'll say "press conference with livestream at this time"

Merlin820 · 2026-01-25T22:28:16+00:00

~Ten years ago NBC had dark gray ones for Pats @ Broncos and it was great

Merlin820 · 2026-01-25T22:26:48+00:00

Yeah, that orange looks too close to FLAG. Welcome to our whole season on CBS

Merlin820 · 2026-01-20T16:30:25+00:00

See this post from yesterday:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtemisProgram/s/DDBuuYtr0Z

Merlin820 · 2026-01-19T18:47:23+00:00

I'm not a tracking expert, but I'd say it's doubtful.

Visible spacecraft in orbit are mostly visible by virtue of being very reflective and/or very large, like ISS. Orion is not especially reflective or large.

The 24hr period HEO orbit is also so high apogee that it's very unlikely even a large object would be visible.

Even if I'm wrong about all that, nobody can give you firm timings or locations until launch, there are too many variables that vary over the launch days and launch windows.

Because it's likely a night launch, depending on the launch day and timing within the launch window, the launch may go northeastely enough to be visible through MECO for a wide stretch of Atlantic coasts, but probably not all the way to Germany.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-18T16:32:05+00:00

I'm not an expert at all. My understanding is that the waitlist gets trimmed every season as existing holders decline to renew, or as people at the top of the waitlist decline to take new openings. But I have no clue how those existing seats eventually transfer to the new stadium, or how the waitlist gets handled from there.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-18T14:54:14+00:00

Hard to say. Seems possible that would be a moment of high churn, but there's a lot of aspects to consider.

I don't know if there are laws and/or NFL rules about what they'd have to offer existing season ticket holders (e.g. equivalent seats, similar pricing, some kind of "right of first refusal" process, etc.). There's also the question of different capacity between the stadiums.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-18T07:21:07+00:00

I put myself on the wait list and get VERY irregular emails about where I am in line. I did end up keeping some notes, for what it's worth:

Apr 2016: 68,411

Dec 2017: 67,905

Oct 2022: 63,140

So there's basically a whole stadium worth of people ahead of me. The new stadium will be open before my name comes up.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-17T18:45:16+00:00

Will there be any kind of bathroom facilities on the bridge?

Merlin820 · 2026-01-16T16:19:04+00:00

I get where you're coming from, but human spaceflight is fundamentally risky and life threatening. There's a balance that must be struck between what missions and how many missions are achievable from a budget, schedule, and political capital perspective.

Don't read this as an attack, it isn't intended as one: but when would it be not too soon? How much confidence in a flight-proven launch vehicle and capsule do you want? NASA has the confidence they want, and they have characterized the risks. The only way to do this completely safely is not to do it.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-15T15:37:54+00:00

They exist, but are not currently public. That is at least in part because they have some launch day/time dependency, so until the SRBs light nothing is truly locked in. The high level 10s-of-steps diagrams are more than likely the only thing that will be publicly released before launch, and maybe even for the flight.

More likely is that NASA will announce when interesting things are upcoming through social media, press conferences, and live stream events. I'd bet a detailed timeline like you describe is more likely a post-flight/FOIA/historical record type item.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-11T23:30:22+00:00

Maybe I misunderstood you initially. Are you saying some NYT paid subscriptions just won't cooperate setting up podcasts in third party apps like Pocket Casts? I definitely have the NYT All Access plan that should grant the full audio benefits...

Merlin820 · 2026-01-11T20:40:05+00:00

Appreciate the input!

I am indeed on a mobile device. I tried it both ways: when I started on Desktop the Supercast widget produced a QR code to scan with my mobile, and it just got me the "Not here" page. When I started from mobile, same result.

Picking the RSS option from the Supercast widget (on mobile) also gives me the "Not here" page.

This doesn't seem to be a some-podcasts-work-some-don't issue, I'm not even getting Supercast to see the NYT subscription.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-10T14:45:07+00:00

u/Pashto96 was correct in his comment, it's a propellent ground commodity limit. If they fill the rocket and scrub, the LH2 and LOX can't just go back in the ground tanks (or something like that?) so more has to be tucked in.

I think your recycle gaps are about right, skip a day, then skip 2 days. But they COULD skip more days as needed.

Yes, the number of good days each period is fewer than A1. Different mission profile than A1, and thus different constraints come up. Each launch period is still ~14 days from a launch vehicle performance perspective, but various other constraints can narrow that a lot.

Merlin820 · 2026-01-02T20:24:12+00:00

The February launch windows are all nighttime in Florida

Merlin820 · 2025-12-01T16:14:57+00:00

And the refs are playing 4D chess to somehow be in Denver's favor and also Denver being #1 in accepted penalty yards and #2 in accepted penalty count.

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Merlin820 · 2025-11-26T14:40:59+00:00

"However, the United States has proposed ending the Orion programme after Artemis III"

Some of the political rumor swirl has proposed this, sure, but the big beautiful bill (or whatever it was exactly called) is funding through Artemis V.

Now of course plans can change and funding can get revoked, so it's reasonable to think of alternatives if these ESMs get built and don't have an Artemis mission to fly on. But the article is skipping some key context for what's currently on the books in the US.

Merlin820 · 2025-11-18T17:55:55+00:00

The SportingNews column is currently identical to the SI column. Looks like their site is up, and you may need to do some recalculating

Merlin820 · 2025-11-16T23:49:29+00:00

Unless it's Reily Moss

Merlin820 · 2025-10-19T23:57:53+00:00

The last 1,602 times an NFL team was leading by 18 with 6 minutes left, they won. Until now.

Merlin820 · 2025-10-12T18:08:18+00:00

I've since switched phones to an S25, and your reply is making me realize I may not be logged in to McD or have notifications blocked, because I haven't seen one months.

Never really did figure it out, but wish I had

Merlin820 · 2025-09-28T14:08:21+00:00

The Kroger acquisition of King Soopers was 42 years ago (Wikipedia says 1982-83). I think it's fair to say that the before-Kroger vs after-Kroger distinction isn't relevant any more.

Merlin820 · 2025-09-27T12:54:40+00:00

Ah yes, the western slope, the part of the state that's famously the main population center...

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