The Saturn V rocket stages were not reusable and were not designed for re-entry. Kinda an important distinction.

The temperature resistance requirement is due to being a reentry craft.

You're comparing test flights for SpaceX (of which most of them have been) to, what exactly?

SpaceX has a success rate of 25:1 vs 18:1 for NASA - if you include test flights for NASA. Which is a more accurate way to represent things.

You realize the Space Shuttle had little to no aluminum exposed, right? It was coated with all sorts of other things to thermally insulate it because it wouldn't survive reentry otherwise, and it needs an overhaul after every flight, too. It also has/had a very different mission objective and purpose than Starship.

Every single competitor to SpaceX has: a worse launch success rate (except ULA, which is using archaic disposable launch vehicles); a far lower launch volume; a far higher launch cost (about 2-4x for comparable payloads). None of them are capable of orbital launch.

I'm unclear as to whether you had an actual point.

You're off on this... Aluminum is largely unsuitable for spaceship construction due to its temperature sensitivity and the fact that it makes anything constructed of it unsuitable for thermal cycling. Aluminum, unlike stainless, becomes extremely brittle when it's thermally cycled. It's an almost 5-fold temperature difference (150C to 1500C). That's not a small difference.

It also has additional cost savings over any other forefront material (eg. CF or Ti5) - like 30x for similar capabilities. If cost was no object, inconel would be the clear winner in most regards, but since cost is a significant factor.. We've known (NASA has) since the 50s that SS would be the superior metal used for such things, and here we are.

There is, arguably, nobody else in the space/rocket industry doing what SpaceX is doing, so I'm not sure how you could even have that criticism.

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For some planes the Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) is quite a bit greater than the Maximum Landing Weight (MLW). These planes will (typically) have the ability to dump fuel to get down from MTOW to MLW more quickly if necessary.

Some planes, however, have a MLW that is not much (or perhaps any?) less than MTOW and don't have the ability to dump fuel - presumably in most cases enough fuel will have been burned by takeoff, climb, and going through checklists before landing (and perhaps circling a bit to use fuel) to get under MLW. For example, modern 737s don't have the ability to dump fuel.

An overweight landing isn't necessarily unsafe for the passengers and crew - but it can cause expensive damage the plane and, at a minimum, require time consuming maintenance checks taking the plane off the flight line (i.e. $).

Also, the Dreamliner's wings are known for being very flexible (by design) due to their use of composites. One can't directly compare the wing flexing of, say, a 747 with a not-dissimilar wingspan from the 787 but using "conventional" wing materials with that of a 787 with composite wings.

I've been doing the same for almost 20 years. The first one I made with light cardstock (leftover high grade 'artisinal' paper from wedding invitations that looked antique / unbleached), and I sewed up 3 mini-books with a sewing machine, which I then glued into a spine made out of cardboard from a cereal box. Then I made a 'cover' for it out of some scrap deerhide I'd bought from the 'junk' bin at Tandy leather for like $5 that sleeves over the cardboard.

Now, anytime I need a pocket notebook, I just make another insert, and I've got a stack of "used" notebooks on a shelf that someone, a descendant maybe, might be able to page through and see how banal my life is.

But then, I think I'm probably a bit different than the populace at large. People frequently ask me (even my wife), "how did you learn how to do this?" or similar... well, I didn't learn how to do this, I just did it... but I did learn how to do a dozen+ other things that lead me to having the skills to do this, and I'm using techniques and process I learned while figuring those things out to do this.

Ya know what? It's typically not Democrat states like CA which get called out for being overly conservative - and this absolutely is, verging on neophobic.

This is along the lines of conservatives wanting to ban the Internet because it allows people to communicate (this was a thing for a hot minute in the 90s).

Do that many people have such a problem with temporal permanency that they're not able to realize how rapidly things have changed over the past 5, 10, 25, 50 years? You can't hold back progress by banning it. Hell, there's nothing you can really hold back by banning it, and in many cases, banning it only makes it more prominent and more desirable.

In the specific case of AI, it's out of the bag. Anyone with enough computing power - something which becomes increasingly irrelevant as time passes - will be able to run any of the publicly available models, and anyone with enough money will be able to train them to do anything they want. Our governments (eg. groups like DARPA) have all started exploring how it can be used to kill, monitor, and control people in ways we can only now guess.

I fail to see what benefit the fearful approach provides here except feel-good placation of busybodies. Bad actors will do whatever they want, and the above-board businesses which weren't going to (intentionally) do anything that would be dangerous to their bottom dollar - and that's what keeps them (mostly) ethnical. It's just like every other time they try to ban or heavily regulate things, whether it's knives, emissions, drugs, guns, or porn: good people are unreasonably jeopardized and inconvenienced and the bad actors "cheat" (as do many/all major corporations on almost everything that impacts them) or outright ignore the system itself and operate in the black.

(Forgive me if this was autistic, I'm offensive. )

The biggest three issues I've experienced in years are:

1) different formulas and way of doing them than Excel, so there's compatibility issues.
2) The UI is hideous on Mac (and Windows, presumably) at this point.
3) It's very slow to start (on Mac and Linux, haven't used Windows in years).

It's my go-to when I need to do things that I can't do in google sheets/docs, at this point.

I sympathize with your situation - this used to be a hard scenario to deal with, and there are a couple things you can do to make an upgrade break... but I don't understand how, frankly. I've not had an install break that wasn't my own fault in years (eg. specifying an arbitrarily small /boot partition).

apt update && apt upgrade, update the sources.list to the next major release; apt update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y and.... wait. Accept all defaults (unless you know better).

This has been foolproof for years for me.

His slogan should be "Everyone's listening!", because it's going to be FBI, CIA, IRS, DHS, DOT, FHA but also the ruzzians and Chinese and Hegseth's wife.

The pay is fantastic, and as most of the Amazon employees working in an office are AWS employees working in "Sales", it's great for people who can babble and bullshit but with no real skills - particularly as their sales people don't work on quota and can do a very large number of things that contribute to looking busy but accomplish nothing. Even skilled people struggle to get anything done there due to their "gotta follow the rules" formulaic "success criteria" culture. This is partially why you end up with a lot of Indians working there.

Think of the worst parts of writing reports or doing homework in school - that's working at Amazon.

Let's not conflate things here.

It's trivial to click the "I've got a disability" box when applying for a job, and it doesn't necessarily mean you're disabled or have a disability, except per the definition of law.

Eg. things like alcoholism, prior or current, ADHD/autism, prior cancer, anxiety disorders, and/or being morbidly obese.

Also covered under the ADA, would be something like ripping a tendon or breaking a knee in a sporting activity and needing to (temporarily, albeit for more than several weeks) walk with a cane or need other special considerations.

I don't NOT have sympathy for a lot of these, but they're hardly a basis on which a person shouldn't be able to come to the office.

(That also doesn't change the fact that these RTO efforts are draconian and stupid, and 100% aren't being used for honest purposes by Amazon.)

Well, I think it is only possible to make this movie now, after a decade and a half of bullshit that has been pushed onto everyone by various pro trans, pro socialist or even pro Marxist movements.

Now that Trump is running (and likely ruining) the place, it is possible to come out with anything I think and who is going after Brooks, what are they going to do, cancel him? :)))

I think you just described humans. WE are the danger to this world, and provide no value to it :)

No one eats viruses but quite a lot of species depend on mosquitoes to survive, or eat the mosquito-eaters to survive.
You don't have to kill any mosquitoes, just replace them with a genetically modified version that is resistant to parasites?

Quite a lot of animals feed on insects, and then some carnivores might feed on them.
If you overfish sardines, anything bigger than a sardine may also suffer a population decline, as it is a staple food for lots of yummy fish and also marine mammals..