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For comparison sake there was a 3 second delay to the moon during the lunar missions. The last photo Voyager sent to us was the "Pale Blue Dot". That's us. I've read that Carl Sagan told them to take that photo. It traveled 13 years to get that and has traveled 35 since.

Duggan is a grifter.

Couldn’t listen today. Someone in China doesn’t understand it’s thanksgiving week and also that just because your calendar is free it doesn’t mean you aren’t busy.

I saw a blip about CNBC complaining that we were "Hoarding our phones" longer than usual and that's bad. It was a picture of a story, not a link, so I have no idea if it's what they said. But I know it's what they are thinking. The average length of time people keep their phones is 27 months. That's absurd. I've had 2 in 10 years and this one now is still going strong. We've just accepted hundreds of dollars a month in fees to entertain ourselves. I'm guilty of it. Plus overpaying for things like DoorDash. Someone was complaining on FB about the cost of his Subway being so high. I checked online near him and he paid 40% more because he had it delivered.

I just watched a video last night talking about how it's not about the fuel to "get" there or to "go that way" but to be able to brake so that you can get into it's orbit, then to land. It takes fuel to stop! Going to the moon they went out on a free return trajectory so that if anything went wrong they would just whip around and come back with no requirement to change anything on their end. Ironically Apollo 13 was the first one to NOT do that, one of the burns they had to do was to get back on that trajectory. The landing site they wanted wouldn't have worked on a free return path because the sun and it's shadows had to be favorable or else couldn't keep the perspective on mountains and boulders while trying to land.

It was one reason why management at NASA didn't push too hard for more funding. As much fun and cool it was to land on the moon, it was very costly and they knew it was just a matter of time before someone died doing it, let alone failed like Apollo 13. Every mission had severe points that could have been a disaster. I could list them all right now. We just need to see what happened with the Shuttle program. It's statistics. I've watched videos describing how a Mars misssion would work and there's still issues with fuel and weight. For scale purposes... a standard schoolroom globe. The moon is a volleyball. The space station is currently about a cm above the globe. The volleyball moon is 17 feet away. Mars is a few miles away. (the distance to Mars is not absolute as we are in different size orbits around the sun and there's advantages/disadvantages to picking the right time to go).

Prices reflect what people are willing to pay. Baseball is still a cheap option, especially relative to the other 3 pro sports.

SpaceX is tasked with the lander for Artemis III but NASA recently opened up the option for someone else to do it. Artemis II, which will go around the moon in a free return trajectory rather than Lunar Orbit, doesn't involve SpaceX. I would not bet $500 of my own money that we land on Artemis III. That's what makes me laugh about the "We can land a man on the moon but we can't...." trope. It was extremely costly and took 400,000 people to do that. In 1966 NASA was 4.4% of the budget. In 1968 before we flew a manned Apollo mission, they already cut productions of the Saturn V rockets, 15 total. 2 were kept for Museums and 1 was used for Skylab, 2 were unmanned. If JFK didn't die when he did there's some that think we never would have even done it. The drive to do it came from him issuing the charge and then getting assassinated. Congress couldn't wait to pull funding from Apollo. And we're finding out it's not that easy even with modern technology. We're never going to Mars. I don't see it. Check... maybe someone will attempt to go, but they won't land.

Why is Captain in quotes? Mark Kelly > Pete Hegseth

I saw a reel that pointed out that Cheap Trick was offered either The Flame or Look Away. "Pick one of these, the other I'm going to give to Chicago" was the direction. I was 15 at the time and spent many nights at the skating rink the summer of '88 hearing that over and over again. Thanks for the suggestion. I am going to try that now.

If you had to pick the best Tiger moment from 2016-2020.... it would be his HR off Chris Sale.

A friend of mine does a foo fighters tribute band and at one show they also had a cheap trick band. When I watched I was surprised tnat I only knew one or two songs (they didn’t play The flame). I wonder if my lack of interest and knowledge is an age thing. I am 52. Did I miss them by just a few years? Like if I was 55 I would care? I like exploring things like that. The cutoff point.

They’re gonna take that down.

“Homeless vets” is the new “moon landing”. Just the lazy reference used to complain about something totally unrelated. “We can land a man on the moon but we can’t….”

I agree with you which is why I picked sixth for a number. Just enough of a drop, for whatever reason, to say “well, maybe he peaked and he’s not the pitcher he once was”.

I looked up the previous sixth place winners. In 2024 it was the Logans, Webb and Gilbert. In 2023 it was the Zachs, Eflin and Wheeler.

total clown show

ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I'd be so embarsassed to be a Trump voter.

Mercury's death hit hard. I remember exactly where I was. In front of my then girlfriend's house, it was dark out, and I had just parked my car. THe DJ on WRIF announced it and, to show the difference in times, had to throw out something like "and forget for a moment how he got it...." Or it was "how he died..." Either way. There was definitely some kind of shame qualifier rather than "This sucks, this guy was awesome...." THe tribute concert rocked.

I may or may not have made that joke over the years with my wife when we watched him play

This summer we noticed our rental didn't have a TV in the room our son was going to sleep in. I confirmed with the owner that was the case. So we packed a flat screen in the suitcase with bubble wrap. We have 4 TV's in our basement not being used. It was small, about the size of a large laptop. But it worked

Texas purists insist that chili does not have beans and I wholeheartedly agree with them... and I use the Carrol Shelby mix as well.