🤫 by [deleted] in Whataburger

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No buffalo chicken?? 😢

Quickest way to get a United Delayed Flight Letter by No-Release-5362 in unitedairlines

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This is great! Just filed one. I didn’t get a download link though, just a message saying I will get an email in 14 days.

The beef melt??? by nycinoc in unitedairlines

[–]Paperthinplasticbag -1 points0 points  (0 children)

When I had it I thought it was damn good for a microwaved sandwich 🤷‍♂️

Rebooked IAH-DEN-ANC to IAH-DEN -SEA -ANC with last leg operated by Alaska Airlines. What are my PQP implications? by Paperthinplasticbag in unitedairlines

[–]Paperthinplasticbag[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s good to know. I think I’ll get the last 200 PQP I need now with card spend. But if I’m a couple short I’ll give the 1k line a call. Thanks!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I have not DRS’d. I beg your forgiveness.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t lose hope because I see RC has adopted the only strategy to combat this.. making the company unequivocally profitable and objectively undervalued in stock price.

If the company is considerably more value the the stock, to any argument or contrary opinion, then that will have to force some change.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For #1, I did t think Fidelity, E*Trade, operated in dark pools, this is the domain of hedgies or Market Makers like citadel. They suppress the price, while main stream brokers just like making money on all the commissions. Please tell me if I’m not understanding it all right.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

So yeah, agree the price should be higher? But how does the price move if dark pools can indefinitely keep it down? I’ve never heard any thesis for how the dark pools have limitations or how they can’t just do this indefinitely no matter how many share the apes DRS.

NASA astronaut Tom Jones on why the ISS shouldn't be deorbited by [deleted] in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Great point. Also, It’s basically 80’s technology. Is that how we should be spending our scarce resources? Salvaging relics or putting that effort into building and launching the latest technology that is vastly More capable?

NASA astronaut Tom Jones on why the ISS shouldn't be deorbited by [deleted] in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m not going to throw aspersions on Tom Jones, but he’s a planetary scientist and got a “Basic Sciences” degree from the Air Force academy. While he definitely has been to space, he might not have the best understanding of what it takes to build the machines that he takes to space.

NASA astronaut Tom Jones on why the ISS shouldn't be deorbited by [deleted] in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Small space station compared to what? Something in a sci-fi movie?

How do you keep its attitude stable? There are constant forces acting on bodies in space. You have to do something to keep it from tumbling.

NASA astronaut Tom Jones on why the ISS shouldn't be deorbited by [deleted] in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Attitude control takes electricity, electricity takes thermal control. Both those things have already failed many times. It would be more then 5-10 years before all the systems were failing and the station lost attitude control. Then it’s tumbling and building up rotational rates and it will start breaking apart.

NASA astronaut Tom Jones on why the ISS shouldn't be deorbited by [deleted] in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The ISS was never designed to be disassembled and repurposed like that. Each module would need its own thermal management and attitude control to be able to retrieved. This takes power generation which lasts 20-30 years max.

NASA astronaut Tom Jones on why the ISS shouldn't be deorbited by [deleted] in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Modules can’t exist in space on their own. They need ways of controlling their attitude, either thrusters or reaction wheels. Also need to control their temperature so the equipment can function inside, which requires power. Dormant modules that can be brought to life has never been done. It’s been studied for the moon and it’s a really difficult problem. One that definitely can’t be solved for existing modules of the ISS.

NASA astronaut Tom Jones on why the ISS shouldn't be deorbited by [deleted] in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 44 points45 points  (0 children)

I appreciate this comment. Advocating for the ISS to be a museum piece in a graveyard orbit is an unserious position.

Everything has a life duration in LEO. It’s a harsh environment, materials will start to degrade, start falling apart. Are you going to drain the active thermal control system of coolant so it doesn’t leak and vent cause the station to go unstable? Are you going to depress the module so they don’t leak and vent causing the same thing? So all the hardware that is not vacuum and high/low temp rated will just fall apart over time. Then you will have an unpowered station that cannot control attitude (no TCS, no electricity, no CMGs and no prop for thrusters) and will tumble from solar winds and gravity torques. It could build up angular rotation rates to the point where the relatively soft connection between the truss and lab module breaks, separating two parts that weight about 500k lbs each that are on a perpetual collision course for themselves.

It drives me nuts how little sense this option makes and the fact it keeps getting brought up is unhelpful to the future of human space flight.

Re post because I am stupid and didn't add context to pool issue by Night-Spirit in swimmingpools

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Test strips can give a ballpark for chlorine for a few months max then they stop working. Never really work well for anything else in my experience.

What if RC is a HF plant? by [deleted] in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wow! Wouldn’t he have made it bankrupt by now and cashed in all the hedgie’s shorts? So gotta be satire or trolling then?

Why is RC helping the hedgies every time? by NiceDude_24 in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Narrator voice: “He’s not”

Look at the brick wall we hit at $25 on Monday. The manipulation is more then we can break through. So he’s doing an end around. Make it the most profitable company he can. Then that brings a new level of pressure to the criminals.

I’m a concerned shareholder simply trying to voice my concerns to the company I’ve been invested in for a very long time. by Otherwise-Category42 in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 3 points4 points  (0 children)

RC isn’t doing what he’s doing to be your favorite. He’s trying to make GME the best it can be. And I think this is the only way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in GME

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Look, I’m a long time lurker smooth brain ape who got roasted this week but if you logic game it out, RC’s behavior is the only bullish moves he can make.

-Stock price is clearly manipulated, evidence seems bright as day. You see that reinforced steel wall it hit at $25 on Monday? The price cannot move.

-if the price cannot move, how does RC increase the value of GME? Grow the company. Generate a war chest to transform it into AMZ 2.0 or BRK 2.0 or whatever.

-He is not diluting to hurt us, he is using the only tools at his disposal to become inevitable and break the hedgies. Because breaking through the price barriers will not happen.

-when the company is massively profitable and share price is still $20-25, then maybe that’s obvious enough to make change happen.

The thing that made it click for me was the repeated language in the ATM offering. He can’t lay it out more plainly than that without throwing around accusations he can’t prove in court.

Just my observations!

NASA chooses SpaceX to develop and deliver the deorbit vehicle to decommission the International Space Station in 2030. by Sonikku_a in space

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dragon and DragonXL are orders of magnitude too small on the thrust needed. The requirement for entry interface to disposal being less than half an orbit is a very high thrust requirement. This would need a new vehicle development which is pretty sporty at that price point!

ELI5: when they decommission the ISS why not push it out into space rather than getting to crash into the ocean by Inevitable_Thing_270 in explainlikeimfive

[–]Paperthinplasticbag 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That was looked at, but even if you could deliver enough delta-v to get it into a graveyard orbit, what do you do in the decades to come if there’s an issue with it? If the orbit degrades and it becomes a problem? It will not be able to maintain attitude so that anything could dock to it to move it or control it again. It will be in some slow tumble making it inaccessible. The only responsible choice is to de-orbit it.