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There's plenty of money to go around and really the only meaningful competition between the two regards the lunar lander and even as presented there's a lot of doubts.   At minimum the New Glenn's are needed to deliver rovers to the moon for use on any lunar landings, they were awarded $188M to do that this week.... Artemis's goal isn't just to go to the moon and back like Apollo.  If all of these systems aren't working then there's no point.   Artemis III is going to test out lunar landers in low earth orbit, allegedly next year.  I doubt it.

Martina McBride is playing our local homecoming festival this summer.  Good for her.

deja vu all over again?

shrugs

**** them.  They aren't just on the other side of my politics.  They are evil people.  The most evil people to have ever held office in our 250 years.  they all deserve pain and suffering and a lot of it.

I think Artemis II is going to be our peak in our lifetime. That’s why I enjoyed it so much as a space geek. Finally… I got to look at the moon that morning and get to say “there’s people up there”

Maybe the Chinese beat us back to it.  
 

That…. Sucks.  

5 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

Maybe it’s just what gets fed to me but I see lots of anecdotal stories on there being second thoughts on corporate AI use.  You are basically putting your “employees” in a subscription model.  Instead of buying DVDs of your favorite movies just subscribe to streaming. Then we will keep jacking up the price and play around with “licensing” until you get pissed off and miss your DVDs which were yours.  
 I saw my companies license fees on our models. Some were minuscule but the more complex tools were not. Of course the die is cast. 

With regard to the senate flipping are we sure MI stays blue?  Al- Sayed is a lightning rod and can split the D vote because he and his supporters thinks anybody who is nice to a Jewish person is a Zionist.  If he’s the nominee will he keep pro Israel Democrats?  If he isn’t will he support Stevens?  Doubt it. 
 

That’s horrible news. His son found him?  Despite the public bluster I always got the impression he was well regarded among the players.  I remember reading in a book when McCarty opened up with his struggles that Claude slated up to him and said he’s fought it too and would be willing to talk and help him. 

40 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

So Texas is just about the cruelest state for low income health care, its big cities have higher murder rates than NYC, its tax system is more regressive for the bottom 50% of earners than the national average, and life expectancy is lagging the rest of the country.

Yup, sounds exactly like the vision of paradise the GOP has been trying to build, why should they even think about changing course?

Reminds me of the famous LBJ quote, which I'll paraphrase from the language of the day... "If you can convince the poorest white man that he's better than the best black man, you can pick his pocket.  Give him someone to always look down on and you can rob him blind"

He's gonna win.  Who are we kiddin'?

I'm not a fearful flyer but that 6-7 seconds from touchdown to going "fast" vs "very fast we could still flip over" gets me every time.  

Couldn’t they, or do they, have cameras on the foul poles that can clearly measure when a ball goes over or either side when it’s hit so high?  I’m not implying their call was wrong but I’d feel better if technology made that decision since it’s available. 

13 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

This proves it. The so called "rich' New Yorker is definitely trailer trash

 

 

redneck trash

22 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

Killing democracy with darkness....

 

those will not hold up in court.

Seems like it would be easy to get people in that  activity. Like any random “massage” place has to be a front for this, right?   You tell me that next to a dollar general and check cashing place is where you can just go in and get an above board massage? 

The end of Colbert’s show was great. Goose bump inducing 
 

then this last night.  He did joke about it during his last monologue. 

He slowed down physically, and visually in terms of performance, but I am not convinced he couldn't do the job.  The mind is what matters and I wasn't there and I don't trust the media or staff members to give us an honest account.

But politically that stuff does matter and difficult conversations should have been had earlier.

On this date Apollo 10 came within 9 miles of the lunar surface and about 150 miles from the site of the Apollo 11 lunar landing.  There were always rumors that they put less fuel in it to prevent them from landing but that's not true.  First off, these were military guys who would not disobey an order.  Second, they had plenty of things to test out that needed to work before a landing could take place.

They came close to crashing.  A switch setting was flipped by one crew member, and the other didn't realize it, so they switched it back.  That tricked the craft from thinking an abort was taking place.  They came within a few seconds of crashing into the surface.  They begun to spin wildly above the surface.  A bad word was said, which was a scandal.

This is the only flown Lunar Module that's possibly still intact.  Previous versions were crashed into the moon, Apollo 13's burned up in Earth's atmosphere.  Snoopy, the name of Apollo 10's was jettisonned into orbit and a few years ago a team said with 98% confidence they found it orbiting the sun. 

Democrats get held to normal standards and the GOP can be bat**** crazy.

It's like siblings.  The oldest one gets all the good grades, does charity work, well behaved.  The youngest is a screwup but plays football and makes people laugh and gets girls so everybody gives them a pass.

We just watched the movie Parenthood again last week and the dems are Steve Martin and the GOP is Tom Hulce.

Always given a break, never has to be accountable.

She kind of tore him up at a discussion held not far from my house earlier this week. I  wish I had known it was going on but it was a UAW hall so maybe attendance was restricted.

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

But that's not how it works in MLB The Show!

too many people think athletics and performance is all about you and what you've done or not done. "I just didn't work hard enough man..."  

"You are weak!  You didn't prepare!"

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Sometimes the pitch you think is right isn't actually right because the pitcher masks it effectively enough to make it look like one type of pitch when it's really another, and then it's too late.

Hitting is hard. Hitting at the major league level is major league hard.

I like to tell people "The other team wants to win too... and they're good players"

I was painting some planters in the garage and listening to Dan and Dan. First time I've listened extensively to them this year.  Right before McKinstry got picked off Dickerson was saying how he's able to get a big lead right now..

I never knew it until about a week ago.