Shakes cane, "when I was a boy", etc....

In Dutch, this has become the thing people do now as well. Being a Germanic sister language of German, Dutch also does/should not use the apostrophe in this sense, but people do it anyway. Then again, a language is a living thing, and in the end, it is what people speak and write. I can live with this.

Stolen directly from Reddit, but very true.

Yes, and no. Yes, if you work off the model where there is a universal "now", and light just happens to travel at some high speed. In that model, the explosion happened, and we are now just waiting for the light to finally arrive. However, the problem with that model is that there is no universal "now".

So no: The speed of light is not related to light. Light travels at that speed, but there is nothing about the properties of light that somehow determines that speed; other things, such as gravitational interactions, travel at that speed as well. That speed is not just some arbitrary speed limit, but rather the speed of causality, full stop. There is nothing at point A that can even influence point B in less time. This is what determines our past light cone, or rather, our past causality cone.

And to be clear: this star's bright light-up is not in our past light cone, and so, for us, it did not yet happen.

The fact that we nowadays have these launches and first-stage landings as a matter of course, with little mention outside of technically-minded news sources, is in fact a great achievement. This is exactly what space travel should become.

This is woman that Kerbal Space Program's "Valentina Kerman" is named after.

... that is a given. The comet is a nice addition though.

The full launch-to-orbit sequence has been posted on YouTube.

The domain list is on the GitHub site mentions by one of the others here. The domains, with and without www. prefix, resolve to just 13 addresses:

175.45.176.67, .68, .69, .71, .73, .74, .76, .77, .78, .79, .81, .93, and .91.

The whole of North Korea is on 1,280 IP addresses: 175.45.176.0/22, and 210.52.109.0/24.

It's all about delta-v, not about the occurence of said gasses on Earth.

Rockets work, whether we like it our not, according to the Tsiolkovsky rocket equation: the delta-v you can obtain it only logarithmic in your start mass / payload fraction, but linear in your exhaust velocity. That velocity is in ~3 km/s for chemical rockets, but 20-50 km/s for ion engines. That allows you to push a probe/ship from LEO into a transfer orbit using a massively lighter ship, which in turn allow you to launch that into orbit using a massively smaller launch vehicle.

In Switzerland (at least in my home Canton of Zurich), the children's way to school ("Schulweg") is pretty much sacred: Walking to school alone teaches the children to deal with the world around them, and it builds confidence. During the first year of Kindergarten you can bring them, but then they go alone.

When children live too far away from school, there is a bus service, but they make a point of letting the children off the bus some 1000ft from school, so that they still have their "Schulweg."

Dutch is the demonym for those from the Netherlands, and the adjective for things from there. Dutch is also the language spoken there, as well as in the northern part of Belgium (Flanders).

Right here.

Judging by images like these, today's business class is pretty much what economy class used to be in the 70s. Some argue that flying has become too cheap. I beg to disagree: flying in a humane manner has not become cheaper, it's just that you'd have to book business class nowadays.

... to what Tor already leaks, is the previous hop from which the exit traffic came, and possibly meta data on other tunnels relayed by (but not terminated at) the node. If the relayed connection is SSL/TLS encrypted, that encryption is end-to-end from the original client to the server; sniffing some exit-node memory does not help you there. If the related connection is in the plain, then, well, then sniffing the exit node's memory does not tell you any more than you already knew by looking at its plain-text traffic.

Now, Heartbleed is not completely harmless here: You may, if you're very lucky, be able to sniff the previous node name, but as Tor tunnels are longer than that, that does not help you much. Plus, tunnels endpoints tend to change every couple of minutes, making the cross section even smaller. Also, you may now be in a position to sniff data from nodes whose ISP network you do not control, allowing you to do network-wide attacks. That may in fact be the biggest problem.

...somehow did not make it into the summary:

Strandbeest is Dutch for Beach Animal.