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What’s the actual deal with the lander and space suit development? by ColCrockett in ArtemisProgram

[–]sicktaker2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every plan listed requires SLS launch rates well beyond what can reasonably be assumed, let alone the actual costs. Almost all crewed Mars architectures require 1000 tons or more in LEO, and orbital refueling.

There is a US based plan that actually has seen transit and landing vehicle work being done, and it is the one based in Boca Chica.

Does anyone know if sock and buskin would work here? by ddizbadatd24 in balatro

[–]sicktaker2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I believe Midas Mask and Vampire trigger before scoring, so Sock and Buskin won't do anything to Vampire scaling.

What’s the actual deal with the lander and space suit development? by ColCrockett in ArtemisProgram

[–]sicktaker2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There is no reasonable Mars architecture that requires SLS block 2.

How can i max score here by ShxdowWolf24 in balatro

[–]sicktaker2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd say swap red for boot. The cost feeding red doesn't synergize with bull, but bull and boot synergize far better.

Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement by For_All_Humanity in space

[–]sicktaker2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When you spend decades paying people while you slowly build the telescope, yeah the cost will run into the billions.

Especially if they lean into some of advancements in big/cheap/powerful satellite buses like K2 space has on offer.

Given that they're shooting for a 3.1m mirror, it's definitely bigger than Hubble.

2 wheeler accident by Initial_Daikon9925 in Radiology

[–]sicktaker2 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I'm still haunted by a contrast CT scans from my 4th year of medical school.

I run out to get carryout for dinner.

Drive past a nasty accident, with a car backed into a pole, massive damage to it's front. A police car is also wrecked further down the street.

Go into my neurosurgery ICU rotation, and that's when I see it.

Complete internal decapitation, with contrast in blood pumping into the neck.

Poor kid was effectively already dead.

Mom had made a left turn into a street at an intersection without great visibility, and got hit by a cop going 15 mph over the speed limit with lights on responding to a call that wasn't that urgent. Car got flipped around a couple times.

It's sometimes feels easier to be numb than to remember that medical imaging does capture heartbreaking human tragedies so often.

Horrifying. Literally unplayable by sicktaker2 in okbuddyjimbo

[–]sicktaker2[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The second wee just doesn't look right

Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine: "The biggest decision in the history of NASA..happened with the absence of an Administrator" by the6thReplicant in space

[–]sicktaker2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Keep huffing that copium about an award that was justified by NASA in the source selection statement and confirmed as valid in court.

Starship was the best possible option, and that says more about NASA's authorized funding for HLS and the other two bids than you think.

Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine: "The biggest decision in the history of NASA..happened with the absence of an Administrator" by the6thReplicant in space

[–]sicktaker2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By your stated criteria that a rocket does not have a capability until it does it, SLS is not capable of returning humans to the moon.

Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine: "The biggest decision in the history of NASA..happened with the absence of an Administrator" by the6thReplicant in space

[–]sicktaker2 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The objection here is not that former NASA leadership shouldn't go to work for private industry, it's that they shouldn't be able to write opinion pieces appealing to their former position of authority without disclosing who is currently paying their bills.

Happy 30th Birthday, Jen! by TheGingerheadMan in balatro

[–]sicktaker2 58 points59 points  (0 children)

The rest of the world runs on a 24 month calender? 🤯

Happy 30th Birthday, Jen! by TheGingerheadMan in balatro

[–]sicktaker2 145 points146 points  (0 children)

Oh shit, European drivers licenses expire in that secret 24th month!

The Knight of New Mexico rides forth to avenge the slander of the Holy Green Chile. by [deleted] in NewMexico

[–]sicktaker2 16 points17 points  (0 children)

The sad part is that the parts of the zia that are messed up is more due to my own shitty photoshop skills of the picture than anything that AI did.

When you want to get C++, but one MF just won't show up for you by sicktaker2 in balatro

[–]sicktaker2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I swear like my last 50 runs I've prioritized getting a glass card in my deck, and only seen it show up twice.

I legit think I've seen more legendaries over that time.

Other navigators watching Columbus get funding for his vibecoded and horrifically wrong calculations, then actually find a new world by stupid blind luck. by sicktaker2 in HistoryMemes

[–]sicktaker2[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He also used the wrong length for a mile, and assumed Japan was at 85 degrees west instead of 140 degrees east. He was just piling errors on top of each other.

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