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How is this a handout? They bid for a contract and won it vs competitors.
I’m hoping we get a source selection statement soon where they spell out why companies like Northrop and Blue didn’t win.
How is this a handout? They bid for a contract and won it vs competitors.
I’m hoping we get a source selection statement soon where they spell out why companies like Northrop and Blue didn’t win.
Copa Cabana
I think my next campaign needs a pawn shop that’ll consider buying anything but will seriously low-ball it if they can’t move it easily. And maybe need to talk to an expert they know.
And neither will we
Only if the Polish trucker convoy lets you through
Ok but honorary planet vs king of the dwarf planets?
They know they can get away with it and almost nobody will take them to small claims court.
Yup, I’m at the point where I gave up on cleaning at all because I get screwed every single time.
Calum makes great videos! I love his stuff
Eh. Mine freaks out and fails half the time I try to go full screen. And the frame rate seems like it gets awful randomly.
I’m moving and starting over with a lot of my computer / AV setup. I had Plex awhile ago but haven’t run a media server in at least a few years. Should I go with Jellyfin or Emby? Or something else? I guess the main limitation is streaming to a smart TV.
Will you feel just as smug about your moral high ground if you don’t vote and Trump wins and makes all that and much more worse?
It’s a fucked system, but it’s the one we have right now. Not voting for the lesser of two evils means you’re ok with the even worse guy winning.
NASA paid for it, and ITAR restrictions mean they’re probably pretty dang American.
They were already trying to ruin it with Tidal exclusive albums
I switched to AntennaPod for podcasts because of this. It’s also just a better experience - it auto downloads new episodes and deletes them after playing.
I couldn’t find any kind of history of tech bubbles that wasn’t pro-bubble. Going backwards: “AI”, VR, Blockchain/Crypto, …, Dot Com bubble? I feel like there have to be more examples in there that I’m missing.
Beancounters gonna beancount
Engineering is a cost center, they don’t make money!
I don’t think this is true anymore. The cost of a rideshare with SpaceX is super accessible. Companies can launch for <$1 million. This has been huge for a lot of companies trying to launch a proof of concept or one-off, and even for some operational constellations.
AstroForge thinks they can close the business case for asteroid mining. Their concept is to launch mining satellites to near-Earth M-type asteroids to mine platinum group metals. These would go on 2 year missions to bring back $100 million+ in metal at a time. With launch and satellite costs dropping, it might just work. Their forge demo sat has been struggling but moving forward. Their asteroid flyby demo sat should launch later this year.
Redwire 3d printed a meniscus in space last year. That’ll take awhile to get worthwhile scale and cost, but it’s another interesting avenue.
Varda hit regulatory trouble, but their orbital drug manufacturing demo did its job.
I brought up Northrop because I’m guessing they bid a Cygnus derived deorbit vehicle.