Spaceflight news for the past decade has basically been a lot of 
. SpaceX's ownership consists entirely of shitheads, either the really famous one or various investment firms. But their scientists and engineers who are doing the actual work really do know what they're doing.
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"I've been a bad junior trading partner! Hit me with another usurious IMF loan, Uncle Sam!"
Didn't he talk about it mere weeks before it happened?
My opinion is that the only true spaceships ever built were the Apollo lunar landers. Everything else has either been uncrewed, a space station, or part aircraft.
In hindsight, maybe only a pope deeply aware of American culture can really handle Americans.
That would have been an incredibly tough sell on 1990s TV. I'm just happy that we got what we did, and that it was not depicted in some exploitative way.
I want my head embalmed and put in a Futurama-style head jar.
Well into adulthood, I told a lifelong childhood friend about my sister's engagement to a single dad of a middle-school girl. The friend asked if the girl was hot.
I just watched the first episode out of morbid curiosity. If it wasn't such an old series I would swear the script was made by an LLM. It's so painfully generic, yet another snoozefest where the women have zero agency and suffer horribly. I literally found myself getting distracted by an interesting cloud formation out of my living room window in the middle of a bloody action scene. It's not even "so bad it's good", it's too dull for that.
I'm no prude, I do greatly enjoy some pervy trash like Agent Aika or Godannar or the entire filmography of Andy Sidaris. But at least I have the good taste to want actual entertainment in my pervy trash, like Aika's slick action scenes and sci-fi concepts, or Godannar's cheerful panache, or Sidaris' surprisingly smart and funny scripts.
Because that's the real tragedy of the China-Europe relationship: there is a genuine and frankly almost touching desire for engagement and cooperation from the Chinese side and Europe is doing everything in its power to squander it.
I'm increasingly wondering if all the economic verbiage from European decisionmakers about China is simply cover for plain old-fashioned racism.
Sometimes a BOTW isn't terribly compelling.
This is not one of those times. This is one of the ones that will be remembered.
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Improvising the casings for solid-fuel rocket motors is certainly an... interesting notion.