Never knew about that mission. Also to the point of OP’s topic, there was a lander planned but it got cut due to budget constraints. And probably because of the environment also mentioned by someone, it was only planned to operate a week.

A rover that could stay in the terminator region might survive longer, but that would likely have to be very automated since Mars rovers guided by humans aren’t necessarily that fast due to the time for communications.

I agree it can be used fallaciously, often found in the business world. My point was to include both good and bad honestly and not hide it, and people won’t shut down if they get the good first. It also depends on the subject - if they’re on the right track and your suggestion leads to better results, that’s not as negative as telling someone they’re doing something incorrectly and offering a different way.

In the end, how you say things is just as important as what is said.

On constructive criticism - definitely rule one is make sure that it’s invited first, but second, the best way to “sweeten” a critique and make it more appealing is to put it between compliments. Don’t have a bare remark about the problems or suggestions, tell them what you like first, then how they might change things, and then close with something else positive or simply thanking them for sharing it. Even if someone says they want to hear what people think, it’s normal to be defensive, so help lower that reaction first, and then leave them feeling appreciated even though you pointed out issues you saw.

That is not much. That’s less than their increase of net earnings from last year.

NASA wanted to do a lot more after Apollo but was told absolutely no way by Congress. The shuttles we got were a leftover fragment of the grand plan that would definitely have gotten us into the category of a spacefaring civilization. Assuming all went well, of course. It’s possible we would have had Challenger/Columbia level disasters even if the money was there. Ad astra per aspera.

My system isn’t even that old (maybe 4 years) and the first few times I got that very annoying popup that I should try to upgrade it told me in vague terms that I couldn’t. So be it, everything runs fine now. I have backups of everything, so if WIn10 doesn’t continue to work as simply unsupported one day I’ll look for ways to “fix” it like someone mentioned with a 3rd party, or go to Linux and adapt to it. Anyone who has ever had a drive failure knows that the solution is to use a recovery USB which will be a portable Linux, so it will be just another version of that.

Maybe we should put money into inventing time travel so we can go back and see how they did it before.

Yuge Depression. Like sinkhole levels.

Don’t Look Up

Big bada boom.

It’s fine, it’s fine. Next week will see such tremendous growth and everyone will be begging to trade with the US again. You’ll see.

Between the 401k, the future of social security, and the cost of everything going up, retirement is looking great now. Yay.

El Salvador President: “I’ve been trying to call YOU about this screw up!”

Just like before with Trudeau. “Dude, pick up your phone!”

As I just commented, he isn’t doing it alone, he’s got yes men all around who are helping and are just as responsible for the disasters.

And not to elevate GWB, but he did listen to people around him and make choices based on their guidance (good and bad). The early stages of a pandemic response team was started because he read a book on the dangers of pandemics, asked someone to confirm if it was factual, and then set things in motion, later developed more by Obama. Guess who disabled it? Think he asked anyone if it was probably a good thing to leave in place?

Ignorance is part of it, but the real problem is that he doesn’t allow anyone to advise him, and surrounds himself with people who are all about agreeing with him to benefit themselves. I have no doubt that someone in the circle at some point mentioned tariffs, and he took off with his idea of what that was without anyone correcting him.

searching Walmart website

Not yet.

The real market if this does hit actual shelves is whoever creates adapters for existing products.

Hopefully they remember that when the time comes to make choices.

That parallels how he reacted when given a softball question about what he would say to scared US citizens in light of a growing pandemic. He avoided being Presidential and a leader and attacked the reporter for asking a nasty question. Personal attacks is all he knows, should have stayed in the wrestling business.

No bad weather either! This whole farce of having FEMA help people after the fact was some liberal hoax. Just prevent the weather and problem solved. You’re welcome!

Correct. You’d also get just a point or two lost because of it. If your place failed, it wasn’t just because of this peach. This was probably the least of the problems they found.