New York Times reported that no sounds of power tools were heard, and it appeared that the lettering was simply removed by hand.

Yes. Those dark spots are plains of actually darker rocks, specifically basalts. That generally means that those are dried out lava fields.

To be clear to everyone here: The primary reason why Artemis 3 is not landing is because the billionaire-run Human Landing System contractors are not performing to schedule. The landers are just not ready.

In this test, Artemis 3 will dock with a starship in Earth orbit, but the starship will not even have a cabin interior fitted.

Artemis 3 is going ahead with no landing either. Orbital test only.

I think the numbers were proportional, or at least proportionate, back in May of 2022 when this was created.

Oh! To recall the carefree days when the special 3-day military operation was only around 90 days old.

I’ve been told a fun thing to do in Rome is to walk up to one of the tourist trap restaurants that has a tout at the door. Those guys know like 5 or 6 different languages, and they try to lure unsuspecting tourists to sit down at their restaurant. Anyhow, the play is to walk up to one of these touts and to start speaking Classical Latin at them. Latin is close enough to several Romance languages they do know that it seems familiar, but it’s not quite intelligible. And it’s really confusing to them to figure out which one you are speaking.

Of course it helps if you’re conversational in Latin.

In any case, whatever the scheme is, it should be voted upon by our Congressional representatives in Congress and enacted by Congress, and signed into law by the President. That is how the H1-B visa was created in the first place, and that is how taxes are raised in this country: with representation.

imagine they reclaim all the territory except the Gadsden purchase, which becomes an exclave.

It’s pretty common for natural gas electric plants to use Brayton cycle turbines, which is the same thermodynamic cycle that the turbojet engines on airplanes use. But you can optimize the designs on the ground for efficiency (and zero thrust) instead of thrust-to-weight.

It’s also common to use “combined cycle” technology which mashes the Brayton cycle engine together with an older-style steam loop for extra efficiency.

After reading the article, I think they’re just saying they installed some miniaturized natural gas plants. I don’t think they’re literally running aircraft engines on the ground.

Most systems I use will keep a sudo authentication session open for several minutes, so you don’t have to repeatedly enter your password on every single command.

-I think the poop bags were mainly stowed into lockers on the sides of the descent module. They’re not just piled up on the ground.-

Looking at you, China.

Near 0 federal public land. Texas has a lot of state land, and the Land Commissioner is a powerful statewide elected office.

This situation is a result of the terms of the 1845 accession when the Republic of Texas entered the Union.

That’s what a district court judge will do when they know their work is going to be heavily scrutinized on appeal. They’re mainly writing to persuade appellate judges because nobody likes getting reversed and overruled.

See, Dark Brandon would not pass up a good opportunity for ice cream.

Okay. But did it have one of those steam whistles, like on the old railroad? I feel like it would have done better on the market with a nice choo choo.

I should add, now that Abrego actually has a court ruling finding vindictive prosecution, he should be eligible to collect from the $1.776 billion compensation fund.

Todd Blanche played a key role, and the defense tried to get him to testify to establish vindictiveness. And he’s still around.

In the end, though, DOJ turtled up, which meant they didn’t do much to rebut the presumption of vindictiveness. So, case dismissed for vindictive prosecution.

There was at least one “AI” company that was caught passing off the cheap overseas labor as AI.

The top secret information is held in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facilities (SCIFs), within the pentagon and elsewhere. The security standards for the SCIFs are comprehensive. It is nigh impossible to accidentally end up in one.

The Pentagon itself is ginormous. It controls an upcoming defense budget of 1,500 billion dollars, far more than what can reasonably be kept secret or top secret. 24,000 people work there. And it has its own dedicated metro station. So most of it is not, in fact, classified.