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Musk can say what he wants but it will be up to Congress to make the final decision. I don't see the ISS going anywhere before 2030 and I wouldn't be surprised it was still around after that. Even if NASA did exactly what Musk wants, it would mean the ISS would deorbit 3 years earlier and...

I thought the same thing when I ventured into a Starbucks because I was 'caffeine challenged' and dared to order a small black coffee. What is so hard about Small, Medium, Large? "Vento?" the barista replied. What? no, just a small cup of coffee, black. What the hell is Vento? What the hell...

Orbital sander with a few different grits will do the trick on new stuff. But no shortage of old cast iron at the antique shops, flea markets, and Goodwill. If you want a new, milled surface skillet out of the box, https://greatergoods.com/products/0500 (Chinese) or...

Blue Origin has a very nice facility in Huntsville and they have leased one of the big test stands at MSFC. MSFC is located inside Redstone Arsenal, an Army facility. NASA is allowed a set amount of real estate. If they want/need a new building, they have to give up or demolish an old...

What needs to happen is for the government to repeal the import duties on small trucks so we can get the two door small trucks the rest of the world loves. My 2003 Honda Element with the back seats out has more cargo space than a Maverick so if it ever dies, I'll probably go with a small...

There was a tax law like that in California many years ago; the rate that property taxes could go up year over year was limited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13

I'm willing to bet the company is purchasing their 'all natural blend of herbs and spices' from some company in China. Quality control is not a priority there for many things. I worked for a pharmaceutical company that tried to order some ciproflaxicin for some project. My boss didn't want...

Four pages of responses and not one call for a "Beth Mole Index"?:cool: disclosure: 5'8", 160lbs. 31" waist. BMI = 24.33 58 years old, white guy.

I think this is what is really going on; an exciting reason to get some boring research done. There are currently a lot of projects to extract minerals and water from regolith and to use regolith to create useful things like cement and bricks. Helium 3 is much more exotic than sulfur or...

I checked the article for information on the polymer used to hold the insulin and the glucose. A poly lysine backbone with pendant 4-fluorophenyl boronic acids. More information on poly lysines here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34519501/ with links to lots more drug delivery research...

NASA has the MMPACT project to manufacture lunar bricks to create landing pads on the moon. They are also looking at lunar cement made from water and regolith from the moon and as few ingredients from earth as possible. Some of the projects used microwave energy to melt or sinter the regolith...

The article did say this was a Politico/ Morning Consult poll; how many Republicans do you think took part? Also, in these kinds of polls, people often say they will do something then never get around to it. The fact the poll is over 50% is saying something, though. I got the shots, then...

I have one of these and I can easily keep it in my front pocket. I use the phone to do phone stuff; although the flashlight is useful and I sometimes take pictures for work stuff. It runs the Android OS. I only stopped using my Samsung fliphone when 3G died. New flip phones are either...

I used argon gas to keep my vac lines dry and also to purge reaction glassware and keep air and moisture out by keeping the system under a bit of pressure. I'd tape a balloon to the barrel of a luer-lock syringe, fill it with argon, put on the needle and stick the needle into the septum of the...

MSFC, the first NASA flight center, was created when the Army "donated" several buildings to the newly formed agency, NASA. The building I work in was built in the 1940's and used to make Redstone missiles. MSFC is inside the Redstone Arsenal and can only have a certain amount of building...

We do have this technology now; we've had it for many years. People have functionalized several biopolymers like polyethylene glycol (PEG) and attached drugs to them. Macugen was developed for macular degeneration using PEG many years ago. Same for the Hep-C drug Pegasys. Different...

Check out www.epa.gov/pfas for all the latest information regarding the regulation of PFAS. 3M announced in December 2022 they would stop production of PFAS products by 2025. They shut down a plant in Belgium after spending hundreds of millions of Euros to clean up the environment and settle...

NASA is studying ways to print "moon bricks" in order to create a landing pad not made of lunar dust/dirt. Regolith is very abrasive stuff and quite capable of damaging and destroying nearby objects if kicked up by a lunar lander...