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20 chats and only one had a reporter!

At a 95% Mike Waltz still cruises home with an A for that maneuver.

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I agree!

And of course as I'm biking home after saying that I pop a tire, lol.

I'll also note for completeness that the warped front wheel was mostly rideable, if a bit rough, until I got my brakes done at a shop at 1500 miles. The rotor made a lot of noise with the new pads and rapidly exacerbated the wobbliness of the wheel. The guy said he sanded down the rotor, which may have contributed to the rapid deterioration. From then on I committed to working on my bike myself. With the new wheel I've gotten up to 6000km with no wobbliness.

Ride1Up is definitely the bargain bin bike, at least compared to other American-based brands.

It's a cheap build-your-own kit that comes disassembled and with a good manual.

I got mine because I love DIY stuff, especially when it saves money. I know the bike better from working on it, and I've had a lot of fun tinkering.

And hey, it's holding up better than the even-cheaper e-bike that my neighbor ordered from China.

That said, this "warranty on defects" doesn't include shipping damage, as my bike's box arrived dented and the front wheel slightly warped. I ended up needing to buy a new wheel for $80. They did replace the gear shifter that arrived broken.

6000 km in and the rest of the bike has held up very well! I've only had to replace brakes and chains from normal usage in the ice and salt of winter commuting.

The warranty and the shipping are my only complaints, but then again I know I chose the cheapest option that had the features I needed.

The result is a clinging, charcoal-like dust that coats spacesuits, lenses, gaskets, and other equipment. This has been a problem ever since the first lunar landing missions in the 1960s when the Apollo astronauts would return to the Lunar Module looking like coal miners as the dust got everywhere, interfering with equipment, wearing down components, and not doing the Neil Armstrong et al's lungs any good either.

Maybe this tech can end up helping to improve air quality once it makes its way back to Earth.

Articles reporting territorial gains/losses ought to include a map to make it clear how large the changes are relative to the amount of land Russia has stolen.

Starliner had flown to within a stone's throw of the space station, a safe harbor, if only they could reach it. But already, the failure of so many thrusters violated the mission's flight rules. In such an instance, they were supposed to turn around and come back to Earth. Approaching the station was deemed too risky for Wilmore and Williams, aboard Starliner, as well as for the astronauts on the $100 billion space station.
But what if it was not safe to come home, either?
"I don't know that we can come back to Earth at that point," Wilmore said in an interview. "I don't know if we can. And matter of fact, I'm thinking we probably can't."

The spacecraft is falling apart.

Do you trust Boeing by following protocol and risk burning up in the atmosphere? Or do you trust your skills as a pilot and try your best to finish docking with limited thruster control?

That's why Air Traffic Control only gives suggestions. All decisions made are up to the Pilot In Command. Automated spaceflight would have followed procedure and returned to Earth.

what appears to be a talk show

That's a generous description of the Eric Andre show.

Save Our Sciences

I learned the hard way this winter to store my bike indoors instead of in my barn so that the ice can melt between uses. I don't think I'll go through parts as quickly next year now that I've got a better game plan.

Last winter was so much easier because we didn't have stretches of months at a time below freezing, and weeks at a time below saline freezing.

Make sure to melt all that off and regrease the chain before rust sets in!

I went through two chains and a set of rotors this winter due to ice and salt.

Thank you.

Ok, but what if we leave the minerals in the ground and preserve the world's most fertile and productive agricultural land instead of poisoning it with mining runoff?

https://hir.harvard.edu/not-so-green-technology-the-complicated-legacy-of-rare-earth-mining/

https://earth.org/rare-earth-mining-has-devastated-chinas-environment/

https://climatecosmos.com/climate-science/the-impact-of-rare-earth-mining-on-the-environment/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-022-00286-6

Chernobyl was bad enough... It's like they want humanity to starve.