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[–] page@discuss.online -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You do remember that they signed a contract with NASA to have a lunar lander ready this year, right? A lander that requires more than a few launches and reuse of both the first stage and tanker Starships?

These launches are less about iteration than they are marketing. They are burning money and need to maintain interest in their magic Starship. They need just as many years as NASA and they need NASA's money. The difference is, SpaceX have not demonstrated they can achieve their technical goals and they gloss over all the challenges while at the same time they waste money and Raptor engines on these publicity flights.

Remember, Falcon 9 was earning them money while they experimented with landing. And they hyped up its capabilities and cost before eventually under delivering. Starship will be different in that it may not even male them money.

[–] page@discuss.online 19 points 1 year ago

I'm tired all the time and there's almost always something else I should be doing. Plus, so many games feel like just more work instead of fun.

[–] page@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago

Secession is illegal

[–] page@discuss.online 14 points 1 year ago

"Ah boy, I'm just so tired of all these star wars."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWxiTPQv0ME

[–] page@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just returned home from Graceland and didn't realize that!

[–] page@discuss.online 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't get it. Men go around for years carrying Yeti tumblers and no one bats an eye. Women start carrying a similar cup with a handle and everyone acts weird.

 
[–] page@discuss.online 1 points 1 year ago

It's easy and fun

[–] page@discuss.online 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to say the same thing. Pretty much all the games I was playing at the time worked on Linux 10 years ago, Portal 2, Civ 5 , Kerbal Space program. There were others I've forgotten too.

[–] page@discuss.online 76 points 2 years ago (11 children)

As a geologist who works in the Appalachians... They're cool af.

Nothing is more surreal than being a geologist. Just today I was standing on a dirt road in the middle of farmers field. Looking at the ground is an innocuous little outcrop of boring looking rocks. But those rocks erupted at the bottom of a back arc basin off the coast of Laurentia, was buried by ocean sediment for ages, had an entire ISLAND of rock thrust onto it, and then buried 10s of kilometers deep. The history one rock can tell is amazing.

[–] page@discuss.online 2 points 2 years ago

I tried Mapquest recently for the first time in 18 years. It was astonishing just how terrible their app and directions were.

I would gladly pay a few dollars a month for an alternative to Google Maps or Waze, but it's like no company even wants to try and compete with Google and Apple maps.

[–] page@discuss.online 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't having a job lined up a prerequisite for immigration in most countries?

 
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