A short while ago it was proposed that blasting a bazillion bits of iron oxide dust into Mars atmosphere would raise the temperature, a step on the way to terraforming that planet.
But doing the same thing here except with diamond would apparently cool the Earth instead?

I would have imagined 25 to 50 percent. Seems they are getting off pretty darn lightly to me.

. . . How does it feel?
To be on your own?
With no direction home?

.n/t

I can put my hand on the center console and turn the AC on, change the air vent outlet/demist, fan air speed and air temp without having to take my eyes off the road.
Aren't all cars this way?

Looking at a photos of the IM-1 inside the fairing it seems the pads were quite small, and sharp edged. Perhaps the notion of having 6 legs led to a false sense of security in tipping, but if the pad's small has little of a raised edge it could well dig in with a bit of horizontal drift.
But of course it's so easy to argue about this now. They did very very well and I would not be surprised if their next one in a few months had redesigned pads.

..when applicable. Less water used == less to be atomised.
* On cisterns that have this feature

You can say that you're leading me on
But it's just what I want you to do
Don't you realize how hopelessly I'm lost
That's why I'm following you

Yep, I think this language is aptly named.

...from the guy who had to ask Twitter for suggestions on what to do with his money.

Much like the Daleks ambition to take over the world was stopped by the first flight of stairs, Blue Origin's ambition to get to Mars may be thwarted by their inability to get to orbit.

From a comment on a recent article on Hackaday (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhackaday.com%2F2023%2F07%2F26%2Fchatgpt-the-worst-summer-intern-ever%2F) here's how poorly ChatGPT understands OpenSCAD.
The line in question:

hole_radius = 1/16; // 1/8 inch hole radius

Firstly as OpenSCAD is by default Metric there was no scaling set (by defining an inch as 25.4).
ChatGPT failed to come up with the definition itself so that's 1/16 of a millimetre, not inch.

Then there's the comment that conflicts with the code. The diameter of the result of hole_radius = 1/16 will be 1/8 (mm) not radius as stated

I believe it does better with more mainstream languages but with OpenSCAD it still has some way to go.

2019 Commonwealth Games, Gold Coast, Australia. I attended one of the daytime sporting events with my family, us having purchased tickets months beforehand.

The security presence was, let me put it, full-on.

Inside the arena, there were guys with large TV cameras on their shoulders, with telephoto lenses and a little multi-GHz wire globe antenna on top. Standing on the walkways. No sound man, just the single person.

They weren't labeled as representing any organisation or with a TV network logo as far as I could see.

One of them trained their lens on me (or perhaps the seating row behind me?) from a distance away, for a little while. So I nonchalantly stared back and pretended to pick my nose.

...it just took a while for the information to get through.

And will "fixed" code become DNA-like with inclusive large regions of seemingly unimportant material?

...and also hail, which seems to be universally compared to golf balls.
Which begs the question as to how hail was measured before golf was invented.