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As I understand it, they WERE doing some methalox tests when I was at White Sands last year (for something completely unrelated). Or was it the year before? Anyway, the explosion that rattled the conference room we were in startled the dickens out of me but the folks who work there just...

"Urgent care on the Cape" for an Artemis launch is triggering some PTSD. At the Artemis I launch attempt on September 3, 2022 (which was, of course, scrubbed), I got the dubious opportunity to assist a spectator on the causeway who passed out. The night before, the friend I invited to attend...

As a volunteer EMT that runs my fair share of 9-1-1 calls, you have no idea how long I've been waiting for the right situation to say that.

Thinking about how I would react if I were the astronaut in question, at first I figured I'd have no issue with people knowing about my medical conditions (in most cases). But then I got to thinking that being that open might put pressure on other astronauts to be similarly open, even if they...

First responder that almost exclusively rides an ambulance here. As much as I personally hate electronic and flush door handles, I don't think they're a particularly big issue for us. Even on the ambulance I have a halligan so if I really need to get to you quickly, I can and I will. If I...

For others of us, "Baby Shark" is how we pace our CPR. "Staying' Alive" just doesn't do it for me, ya know?

That's not that far off from how it's done in Washington, DC (the District itself): https://meincmagazine.com/tech-policy/2018/11/how-i-changed-the-law-with-a-github-pull-request/

Personally, I've been defaulting to mailing physical letters more than I used to rather than interacting via web sites or phone trees. Scratch out a letter saying "cancel my account" or "I reject the proposed update to your terms of use agreement" or whatever and mail it off. Let them sort...

I work at NASA HQ. (Side note, I was actually at the NASA event referenced in the article back in 2011, fun times.) Several years ago I was chatting with a person who dealt with some of the mail and packages that come from the general public (essentially a security guy who screened the items)...

All good; no biggie. My inner Wikipedia editor didn't think you were being rude. It just took us a sec to get on the same page, and that's just as much a failure on my part to make my point clearly enough. I appreciate the discussion and the feedback. Always fun to engage both road nerd AND...

I am not assuming any such thing. It's why I qualified my last paragraph with "if it could otherwise be done safely and prudently". No, but Texas Transportation Code § 544.001 requires the Texas Transportation Commission to adopt a Texas MUTCD, § 544.002 authorizes the placement of such...

Not to take away from your greater point, but this is a common misconception about the single solid white line. In general, crossing a single solid white line it isn't prohibited; it is just discouraged. Citation: MUTCD § 3B.06 ¶ 06 (PDF): Where crossing the lane line markings is discouraged...

If you listen to it in context, it makes sense. Right before that iconic part of the speech, he asked a bunch of rhetorical questions: "But why, some say, the Moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does...

Every now and then, I regret my decision to read Ars Technica while eating lunch. This is one of those times.

In general, NASA centers in "red" states are more oriented toward engineering and operations, while NASA centers in "blue" states are more oriented toward science and research.

This is actually really well implemented in Qubes. Though it's been a while since I've used it, so maybe I'm masking painful memories.

One example that comes to mind was in SpaceX's Grasshopper days when Musk wrote: "Just continuing the great work of the DC-X project!"

This is the President's budget proposal for fiscal year 2026 which begins on October 1. The CR that ends next week has been funding fiscal year 2025, which we're nearly halfway through already.

Probably because it's a republished article from the Financial Times.

Link to the case, for those like me who are inclined to read the actual complaint: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69668109/chegg-inc-v-google-llc/ It would be nice if more news outlets would make an effort to do this (or at least give a case number).