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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • Yes, but it’s essentially incremental engineering, made possible by ginormous funding, including NASA money, and a private company doing things that NASA can-t politically afford.

    NASA spent about 50 Billion today-dollars developing (not launching) the shuttle program and that went to private contractors (Boeing, Lockheed, United Space, etc.) Starship has a long way to go to hit those numbers.

    I really don’t find anything SpaceX is doing revolutionary

    Really? Nothing? Many people said what Falcon 9 now does on a regular basis could not be done. No one was even trying. The closest plans were still going to land horizontally and went nowhere. Now, you have to explain why you’re not landing your booster, and what your plans are to fix that going forward: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2024/09/11/china-wants-to-replace-jeff-bezos-as-musks-greatest-space-threat/

    They quite literally revolutionized the space industry in terms of the cost to launch to orbit.

    Imagine NASA crashing 4 Shuttles before getting landing right. There’d be no NASA by now.

    Yet another way they’ve revolutionized the industry. Almost everyone is doing expendable tests now so that they can move forward quickly. Columbia started construction in 1975, launched for the first time in 1981. When they launched it, it was a fully decked out space shuttle and they put the whole thing on the line - including two astronauts. Imagine NASA trying to do that now. They’d be grounded so hard they’d be jealous of Mankind having a table to land on.



  • I’ve been playing Broforce with my buddy recently. Lots of shooting and blowing shit up platformer but pretty funny if you’re into the classic action movies like Rambo, Commando, etc.

    Gears of War if you want to branch into 3rd person cover shooter. (Gears 5 is the only one on steam I think.)

    The Lego games usually have couch co-op I think and I’ve enjoyed those a lot with younger people.








  • I agree, mostly, but…

    1. We wash our eggs in Canada and the USA (and a few other places) for more than just salmonella. It’s mostly salmonella, but there are other bacterium and stuff that can be on the outside of the eggs after they roll around in chicken shit (hyperbolicly). The washing removes the protective bloom so we then have to refrigerate our eggs. In countries that don’t do this, you should still wash your eggs right before using them and your hands after handling them.

    2. The extent of this particular recall indicates something happened in the packaging process that wouldn’t necessarily have been solved by vaccines. It seems like something got contaminated and then contaminated the eggs post washing. Vaccines would probably reduce the risk of having any contaminated surfaces (since there would be less chance of salmonella being brought in) but we don’t know the source of the contamination at this point.

    3. You still get salmonella outbreaks and illness (from eggs and meat) in Europe. The vaccine isn’t 100% effective, there can be new strains, mishandled products, or even specific farms that get an infection and introduce it into the system. So just keep in mind that while the strategies are different both have been effective in reducing the amount of downstream illness (though it is slightly better in Europe, I believe).