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No disrespect to the artist, but why are the two charm quarks different colors?

I've been fully vaxed since late March, and am grateful to feel protected against these variants (so far). Now that mask restrictions have been relaxed, most people I see in my travels in the DFW area are unmasked. As it turns out, only ~60% are vaccinated, so I expect a surge of cases here...

Agreed. I've lived in the DFW metroplex for 25 years, and we have always set our thermostat at 82 in the summer to conserve, save money, etc. We run ceiling fans, dress lightly, and don't do jumping jacks. It takes a few days to acclimate, and we're fine. I know some folks are heat-intolerant...

Texas is an at-will employment state, so good luck with that suit. Of all people, at all times, I would expect these folks to get the vax. Shame on them.

Assuming for the sake of argument that the science is valuable, couldn't the sensor test be done on the vomit comet (albeit in 30s increments)? And the fluid experiment could hitch a ride to the space station and get far more than 4 minutes to muck with. Don't get me wrong, the craft is...

Count me among them...I had to look it up, and I've been on the internet since its inception. However, I am thankfully only a very light user of social media, where such terms are used extensively. The acrimony of this chain confirms my desire to remain largely distant from social media.

I received my second Pfizer jab two days ago. I did/do not feel the sense of unbridled joy some have reported, but I have experienced a notable reduction of my background COVID anxiety as I am already much less likely to contract COVID and/or pass it along to my immediate family. In two weeks I...

Great link, thanks.

So, sorry if this has been asked...but what’s with the continuous fire in the engine? Is there not a fire suppression system, or at least ability to cut the fuel flow? Or is the fire burning off residual fuel after cutting off the flow? I’m certainly glad the engine bits went the right way...

Wow, she was great in "Shakespeare in Love":..a warning not to fall in love with beauty.

Who knew drone downwash was so strong?

All tools reach the end of their lives, and we will all mourn when Hubble goes dark as well. But if we can afford to spend $8B replacing Hubble with Webb, I suggest we can afford to replace Arecibo and create an endowment for another 50 years of operation.

Right, time to start charging more for "proven" Falcon first stages!

Trump destroys everything he touches. We can't afford another four years of this kind of "leadership". For God's sake vote!

Ignore the critics--I think it's brilliant.

Old in dog years? ;-)

Great, now not only am I stuck at home working, but I can't even trust my takeout salad. Looking forward to 2021!

This sounds exactly like what my piano teach taught me.

So the delay certainly sucks, but this is what the wet dress rehearsal is for. My concern is whether the launch window is long enough to work through any more snafus they haven't hit yet. Perhaps the integration/test schedule should be a tad longer when the consequences of missing the window are...

Maybe these conclusions are more data-based rather than anecdotal? Unfortunately there's a pretty large dataset of morbidity and death to work with now.