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Bill Nelson is a stooge for the SLS boondoggle. If he becomes the NASA administrator, I'm willing to bet he drastically cuts back on commercial launch services and pours more money (on top of the $20+ billion) into SLS, which is a cool rocket, but it's incredibly backwards thinking and ultra expensive.

Your math doesn't check out. $400,000 per year in salary over 4 years is $1.6 million. $1.6 million (which he donated, libcuck) is more than $1.6 billion which he made at his properties. Go cry somewhere else. MAGA

Super cool! It will be interesting to see who else is picked for the 2 remaining seats on this flight.

It will likely break it's wheels before it ever actually completely fails. With plutonium as a power source, it should have usable levels of electrical power for at least another 10 years.

Image taken from the rover's jetpack as the rover descends on cables to the planet surface. Note the dust being kicked up from the rocket exhaust. After the rover has confirmed it is on solid ground, it cuts the cables to the jetpack, and the jetpack flies away until it expends all of it's remaining fuel, and then crash lands off in the distance. This image was released at today's press conference, and they hope to download more high res photos, and maybe video and audio as well over the weekend.

Now watch as our carbon output goes up, instead of down like it has for the last few years.

To be clear, they are only collecting samples on this mission. This rover has no capability of returning them. The plan is to collect dozens of samples in hermetically sealed vials over the next few years, then the rover will shit them out in an area easily accessible by a future rover. That rover will then collect them, transport them to a small rocket, and that rocket will return the samples to Earth.

Touchdown confirmed!

Schrodinger's Bob Dole

NASA/JPL Eyes EYES.NASA.GOV Interactive map showing you Perseverance's current location and status. As of 9:16 AM Pacific, it's about 20,000 miles away from Mars, and is accelerating as it falls into Mar's gravity well. It is currently travelling around 6500 MPH, but will enter the atmosphere around 12,000 MPH.

I assumed he was already gone.

There were other shots that weren't fun. On the ship, we had to get the smallpox vaccine, which creates a nice blister, eventually scabbing over, and then leaves a scar on your arm to remind you of your sacrifice.

He didn't invent talk radio, I agree. But he did make it into a hugely viable platform, especially for politics. Whether it was a good or bad thing for society, he was good at his craft, and his millions of loyal listeners were proof of that.

There will be lots of internet (and probably television) coverage of this mission today. See here for NASA's streams. This is a notable mission because it's based on the same platform as the 2012 Curiosity Rover, but with many upgrades, including a deployable helicopter, sample collection (for eventual return to Earth), a tech demo to make breathable oxygen from the CO2 atmosphere, and more instrumentation to search for signs of life. This is a high stakes mission that has a reasonable chance of failure, so temper your expectations. Since Mars is currently ~130 million miles away from Earth, there is a considerable time delay between the two planets, so any data we get actually happened about 11 minutes prior. Also the data transfer rate will be very limited, so there will be very few pictures seen today. Within a few days, they hope to have full motion video (with sound) of the entry, descent, and landing.

That mixer probably doesn't consume any phantom energy - it looks like it's a 100% AC device. Stuff that uses a transformer (wall warts) or ac/dc converters, like your phone charger, will consume small amounts of power while plugged in though.

Positive news concerning the passing of my father-in-law: We found that he had an active life insurance policy through Mutual of Omaha. It wasn't much, but it should cover all of our costs for cremation, cleaning out his house, and other costs. When my wife found out the policy was active, she told me she cried (with happiness) because her dad actually did something responsible - which she felt was lacking throughout his life. We also found a buyer for his 2000 Mercedes. A friend of his from the VFW is going to buy it for almost the same price he paid for it back in October. The same guy is also interested in buying (and eventually living on) his sailboat. We don't expect to get very much for selling the boat, as it needs a lot of work. I think I mentioned before, but because of COVID, there is a huge backlog of cremations in Southern California, so my father in law won't be able to be cremated for about another month. We intend to hold a small service, socially distanced, this summer in San Diego, and then spread his ashes at sea.

I'm fine with privately operated/owned power plants (with appropriate regulation), but it's probably best that the grid be owned by the government.

AVE needs to defect to America. Keep your dick in a vise!

The worst shot I ever got was the "peanut butter shot" in boot camp. It felt like they literally injected thick peanut butter into your asscheek. Hurt for days. Why the Most Dreaded Injection is Called the 'Peanut Butter' Shot WWW.MILITARY.COM The "peanut butter" shot, in the military, is a slang term for the famous bicillin vaccination every recruit receives unless they have an allergy.

Dam and drain the Mediterranean! Atlantropa - Wikipedia EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

A sex guru you say?

Yeah Ramsey is speaking out of both sides of his mouth here. I listen to him occasionally, and he does give sound financial advice much of the time. But his statement on Fox News is idiotic.

So are the Impeachment managers going to call witnesses? Seems like a waste of good PR if they don't, even if it's guaranteed that Trump is ultimately acquitted.

We made great progress yesterday. We junked two of his non-operating cars. We should get a couple hundred dollars for them. When we went to go pick up his Mercedes from the marina, we found that the key didn't work, because it got soaked with saltwater when he fell into the harbor. We were able to find a locksmith who specializes in reprogramming Mercedes keys and was able to make it work again. The remote alarm doesn't work on the key anymore, but at least we can start the car. We then drove it over to a detailer to have it cleaned so we can eventually sell it. One of my FIL's friends will let us store the car at her house until we can sell it, which won't be for another month. We also went back over to his house and started going through his things. Hoarders... Ugh... He had newspapers from 10 years ago in his house, along with bills from 20, 30 years ago. We found some random receipts and other stuff from the 1980s. None of it had sentimental value, but he was just the type of person who kept everything. We tried our best to go through most of this paperwork and found important bills and bank statements. We sat aside some stuff that we'll sell/donate on Friday. My wife decided to only keep a few pictures, letters, a fedora (he loved fedoras and had probably 2 dozen of them, a Hawaiian shirt, and We hired a guy to clean out the house today of all of the remaining junk. I'm sure (and we are fine with) him selling anything that we didn't want to deal with, like the entertainment stand and the couch. Tomorrow will have professional cleaners come in and clean the house from floor to ceiling. It's pretty bad. The landlords have been very nice, and they've indicated that we'll get the rest of this month's rent back along with the deposit, which will more than offset the costs of cleaning out the junk and cleaning the house. Still need to figure out what to do with the boat, and figure out where his storage units are. We couldn't find any bills or paperwork for his storage units. So that stuff may end up just going to auction. Who knows - maybe we'll see his stuff on storage wars someday. That would be interesting.