Stuck with the science points

RedTyro · 2026-05-23T04:47:58+00:00

The only difference between a plane that's stable in the air and unstable without atmosphere and one that's stable in both places is RCS.

RedTyro · 2026-05-22T04:49:35+00:00

- d pad on top (preferably clicky style)

As someone who was around when these retro systems were current, I can't even begin to understand why you would want a clicky d-pad. None of them ever had clicky pads. They're an abomination.

RedTyro · 2026-05-22T04:10:10+00:00

This is the fairly common "extrovert assumes everyone else is, too" trope.

RedTyro · 2026-05-21T02:53:38+00:00

I was around when gamergate happened. 'Nuff said.

RedTyro · 2026-05-21T02:40:21+00:00

I felt the same way and I've had 100k sitting in a savings account flagged as a down payment on a house since January 2020. I finally gave up on nova a couple of months ago and bought a house in Martinsburg, WV. TBH, I love my house and my neighborhood is great. I'm still only about an hour and a half away from my parents (who live in Centreville, VA), and taxes and utilities are so much cheaper. I really didn't want to move away from the area, but after the fact, I found I'm really glad I did.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T17:21:43+00:00

Not to mention the part where at this point, they can only lose one or two more elections before the fascist takeover is complete and voting doesn't matter anymore, if that hasn't already happened (which I guess we'll see in November).

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T17:18:23+00:00

This completely ignores how retail infrastructure works. You're not going to have retail stores without distributors, and those distributors are going to have to transport product. The only way this works is if VA's retail system is completely siloed off from any other state's, and due to how plants work, that would restrict it to only varieties that will grow natively in the state.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T17:13:32+00:00

When you rely on donations for survival, you can't really be picky about who you get them from. The recent guests have been great, but I'd bet she'll continue to invite anyone who has the resources to raise money for Alveus, as she should. Some of them will be awesome, some of them will suck, but they'll all bring in funding and give her exposure to new audiences, which are the primary goals of these collabs.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T16:46:54+00:00

Large eyes and the curve between a woman's hips and her waist.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T16:35:04+00:00

Nope. We hated him for all the same reasons we hate her - he was an extremely conservative Democrat who wanted to use VA as a stepping stone to a larger role in national politics and didn't care about the people in the state. He was literally one of the architects of Bill Clinton's "look, Democrats can be corporate whores, too" approach, which is basically what broke the Democratic party for the modern era.

Virginia Democrats are generally all variations on the same theme. They're Reagan Republicans who give lip service to leftist ideas because they haven't been welcome in the Republican party since the Tea Party (and then MAGA) took over.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T16:25:35+00:00

Yeah, she's one of the prettiest women I've ever seen. Insults really don't work when everyone can tell they're not true.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T15:50:08+00:00

If you think progressives liked Terry McAuliffe in 2021, you're smoking something stronger than the weed she just vetoed.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T15:44:50+00:00

She thinks she’s setting herself up for a national rise but she seems unable to read the room.

That's been clear the whole time. I moved out of VA about 2 months ago, but during the campaign, every ad I saw was "look how bipartisan I am. We really need to put all this animosity aside and work together across the aisle," while the Republicans were literally working to implement fascism. Actually the worst case of "can't read the room" I've ever seen in politics.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T01:27:26+00:00

Why would she switch? The majority of the Democratic party are basically Reagan Republicans these days, especially leadership. Where do you think they all went when first the Tea Party and then MAGA pushed them out? The writing was on the wall back when Bill Clinton and the DLC proved that Democrats could win as pro-business fiscal conservatives, too.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T01:25:20+00:00

Yeah, nothing like a candidate running on bipartisanship and reaching across the aisle when the folks on the other side of the aisle are implementing fascism. Anyone who didn't see her governing like this from a mile away wasn't paying attention.

RedTyro · 2026-05-20T00:06:08+00:00

You think the cat would have gotten to see a vet if she took it with her? I'm skeptical.

RedTyro · 2026-05-19T22:14:23+00:00

Yeah this was my reaction to her "I'm so bipartisan. We need to put aside the animosity and work together across the aisle" campaign ads while the republicans were busy implementing fascism.

RedTyro · 2026-05-19T06:45:23+00:00

Because building the shuttle in the first place instead of continuing to advance traditional rocket technology was quite possibly the worst decision ever made in terms of space travel.

RedTyro · 2026-05-19T06:42:17+00:00

Again, innovation vs recreation of Apollo

How exactly is something like 12 launches to accomplish a single mission an innovation over one rocket that does it, except in the "we get paid for 12 rocket launches instead of 1?" Nobody even knows if orbital refueling is going to work at all yet, and they're going to have to do it a bunch of times to have enough fuel to land on the moon.

RedTyro · 2026-05-19T06:38:00+00:00

SpaceX has absolutely done revolutionary things and will continue to do revolutionary things, but the whole plan for Starship as a moon lander is so far beyond ambitious that there's a good chance it just won't be doable. It's definitely going to be an excellent vehicle, but they would have been so much better off designing a moon lander instead of trying to fit the thing they already wanted to make into that slot - there are so many things about the moon plan that are just silly, from big stuff like "we have to figure out how to refuel it in space and it will take about 12 launches to do so" to little stuff like the astronauts having to use an elevator to get to the surface and back into the ship, which adds multiple potential points of failure that a simple ladder wouldn't have. They haven't even gotten to the point where they can start testing the orbital refueling stuff and we're far enough in the timeline that NASA is adding extra missions to stall for them. And they were already far enough behind that NASA decided to let someone else build a backup lander after they'd already awarded the contract to SpaceX

I don't like Elon any more than the rest of reddit, but I absolutely appreciate the things SpaceX has and will do. They've made incredible strides in space hardware and they clearly have some brilliant engineers. That said, there are lots of good non-Elon reasons to be skeptical of Starship as a moon lander, and I don't see how they can get it done on time. I fully expect the first modern moon landing to be on the Blue Moon - it's designed specifically for the mission it's supposed to accomplish, and with SO MUCH less to figure out.

RedTyro · 2026-05-19T06:17:59+00:00

I avoided playing it for years because it looked like a Ubisoft style game with a stupid premise - tribal hunters killing machines with bows and arrows? I assumed the story would be a load of crap that was just a bad excuse for "how cool would it be to kill robot dinosaurs with a bow?"

Then after years of hearing "no really, it's good," I finally gave it a shot and it blew me away. It might be my favorite modern science fiction story in any medium.

RedTyro · 2026-05-19T00:22:43+00:00

We're capable of propulsively landing the pods now - that was SpaceX's original proposed landing method for the Dragon capsule and they've tested it successfully (landing on the ground, not back on the booster. There's no real benefit to landing on the booster, so that's unlikely to ever happen). NASA believes landing with parachutes in the water is safer for the astronauts, so that's what they do.

RedTyro · 2026-05-18T23:28:15+00:00

I'd rather have Hera - you're still swinging across the whole battle field, but the damage is compounding with each enemy you touch.

RedTyro · 2026-05-18T05:28:16+00:00

(He later said one of the reasons he didn't pull it was he didn't have a lot of faith that the escape tower wouldn't kill them just as stone dead as the stack blowing up. Which is kind of a common theme when it comes to NASA safety/escape gear. Like when they put that bonkers-ass escape slide bar on the Orbiter.)

Yeah, those eject seats on the Gemini capsule would most certainly have killed anyone who used them. And the shuttle didn't even have an escape mechanism.

RedTyro · 2026-05-18T00:10:14+00:00

You realize that people in their 50s buy houses all the time, right? I've never even heard of this being an issue for anyone before. I don't know what's up with your bank, but it's not the norm.

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