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    SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster

    good to know. the ones that didn't got a lot of press.
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    SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster

    I look at the photo at the top of the article and don't seem to recall any super heavy booster launch where all of the rockets in the booster fired.
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    What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

    So Elon now has another government contract. Add this to replacing NOAA satellites and it makes one wonder how many people did DOGE fire in order to get enough budget to pay for all of this?
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    What is space war-fighting? The Space Force’s top general has some thoughts.

    So, how will reliable satellite destruction capability avoid crippling or ending all present and/or future orbital capabilities thanks to uncontrolled debris? Is this the latest version of Nuclear deterrence?
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    “A sicker America”: Senate confirms Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary

    If we keep strict records of the spread of infectious diseases over the next four years , it may well be the only piece of actual science to emerge from the Trump administration.
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    Trump directs the Pentagon to come up with a plan for space-based weapons

    So Trump now wants Jewish Space Lasers, just not Jewish. It's hard to imagine that they haven't been researching exactly what tech would actually do all of these things for the last twenty years, but Trump wants his name on the project so that he can get the credit for an additional round of...
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    Trump announces $500B “Stargate” AI infrastructure project with AGI aims

    Rather, this is not the kind of infrastructure the government should be handing out grants for. If the past two decades have shown anything, they've proven that Tech bros can raise all the money they need from each other and those with disposable income. The government should be working on...
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    Meta kills diversity programs, claiming DEI has become “too charged”

    I never figured anyone with that much money and power would be such a suckup.
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    Elon Musk: “We’re going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction.”

    He only chose that because he couldn't spell Caligula.
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    Celebrate Halloween with 20 of our favorite horror comedies

    Wasn't that a Leslie Nielson joke in The Naked Gun?
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    Celebrate Halloween with 20 of our favorite horror comedies

    I have a half-hour radio version with the original broadway cast, including Boris Karloff. The internet rocks.
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    Celebrate Halloween with 20 of our favorite horror comedies

    For the more old fashioned folk out there (like me), watch Arsenic and Old Lace. Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) just wants to get married, until unfortunately learns that the lovable, elderly Aunts who raised him have spent the past few years killing people and burying them in their basement...
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    FCC Republican opposes regulation of data caps with analogy to coffee refills

    The people who started this discussion were explaining about how they couldn't afford enough bandwidth to handle work, life, and school, not a recreational afternoon latte. Change his metaphor to gasoline and let him argue that those who can't afford gas should drive less, work less, go to...
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    Mark Zuckerberg regrets not pushing back on Biden’s COVID “pressure” campaign

    I don't think I've ever agreed with a single decision Zuckerberg has made since... well, ever.
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    Amid summer COVID surge, FDA reportedly poised to approve updated shots

    Keep in mind that the vaccine not only reduces the chance of catching COVID, it minimizes the length and impact if you do still manage to catch it. I get vaccinated regularly, not out of fear for myself, but in an effort to reduce the chance of spreading it to my parents, who are both in their...
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    TV industry’s ads, tracking obsession is turning your living room into a store

    It's funny to read articles complaining about the new "invasion" of advertisers on TV, when the original live TV programs from nearly a century ago were famously sponsored by companies, had announcers reading sales pitches throughout the program, and even featured commercial intermissions of...
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    Elon Musk declares “it is war” on ad industry as X sues over “illegal boycott”

    There's a guy in my area that sells kangaroo scat, which he gets from a wildlife rescue. apparently, he believes it make miraculous fertilizer.
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    Here’s what the electric Dodge Charger’s “Fratzonic exhaust” sounds like

    I have too many blind friends who walk in town to believe EV's should be entirely silent, but the noises they make should be tactful and quiet. If we're lucky, someday, kids won't even recognize vroom-vroom noises, just like most don't actually recognize a dial tone now.
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    Here’s what the electric Dodge Charger’s “Fratzonic exhaust” sounds like

    You realize that they could make the car make that noise while parked in your driveway, including the doppler effect. Why the hell can't they make the car feed the noise only to the interior so the driver can "feel" it while keeping the outside noise to a bare minimum? Must we all suffer for...