No because it just landed perfectly fine as even NASA mission leads figured would be the case.

Hasn’t made it to re-entry burn yet. That’s scheduled for about 40 minutes from now. Is supposed to land around 10 pm New Mexico time. Or about 2 hours from now.

In very small numbers. Car recycling/scrapping is a huge industry in developed nations. One that the big manufacturers support for a couple reasons. Main one being to maintain artificial price flooring. If used cars are expensive and harder to come by, people give in and buy new. The manufacturers knew this. But it didn’t occur for them to actively engage in such practices until Cash for Clunkers happened in the US.

Also, low income countries already get their cars from manufacturers people in western nations have never heard of. China, India, and even Iran export new cars to these nations. Options that would be easier to obtain and maintain than something like a 20 year old GM SUV never sold directly in that market.

The author’s guess at potential future concerns doesn’t seem reflective of reality around car ownership economics. Plus China is already getting new EVs to some of these markets at artificially low costs.

Not really. EC path is still a toss up right now.

Ah another company admitting to only starting their program to avoid lawsuits. It’s not too surprising because many companies didn’t really commit to whatever program they claimed to start.

Unfortunately that plays well to a lot of stupid people. And in swing states there are enough of them that he can still get another EC win while losing the popular vote by a lot.

Oh such great accomplishments like using his money to hire actually talented engineers then take all the credit same as Edison.

2 suits and 2 seats are coming up on Crew 9 in about a month.

State of journalism these days unfortunately. I’ve learned more about all this by simply reading and listening to the NASA briefs myself. Which you’d think the guy who writes all the Ars articles about space stuff would also do being their job and all.

I don’t know why anyone would think that of Boeing. They did fuck all for space until acquiring McDonnell Douglas and parts of Rockwell in like 1997. Then they spun most of that off into ULA with Lockheed precisely because they didn’t know what to do with it. Lockheed people have even run ULA for it’s entire existence.

The part of Boeing behind Starliner isn’t all that old. It’s certainly younger and seemingly less talented than ULA.

Setup to a joke about roasting pigs I’m not finding the words for.

Also helps when you don’t blast an entire generation with lead exposure.

Yep. Thanks to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAS2R38

Essentially researchers have figured out some of us got a double dose of the ability to taste bitterness. We’re not just being babies when it comes to not eating some vegetables. They literally do taste vile to us. I don’t like coffee, dark chocolate, beer or wine either.

Hell just the smell of broccoli or brussel sprouts makes me gag.

It’s not. For sure. Actually getting kind of creepy with projecting his attachments onto them with every post about the mission.

They’ve each done longer missions on ISS than their current stay. Suni once held the record among female astronauts.

I’d make that deal for cruciferous vegetables specifically. I’m one of the people for which they taste absolutely disgusting regardless of preparation or attempts to mask the flavor.

But you can’t have my peppers. Love me some spicy food.

Won’t go to China and be a puppet they can parade around.

Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Cuba would suck for lifestyle and stability.

Brazil has a chance of maybe later changing their minds and wanting them gone.

What an amazing list of allies to turn to. And after all of them thinking Venezuela is the best bet for not ending up like Gaddafi.

I’d rather this become terms for jailing him now. Sounds like a potential flight risk ahead of sentencing for his 34 felony counts.

Pumped for lacrosse being in finally. It’s a sport I think could go much more international than it is now.

It was the local event Paris got to pick out. It won’t be back thankfully.

For 2028 we’re getting flag football (kinda meh on) and Lacrosse (will be awesome) as the local choice sports. Much better options thankfully.