⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

The best way to think of SLS is as a balding guy with a mullet: there are fireworks down below that are meant to distract you from a sad situation up top.

For eight minutes SLS roars into the sky on a pillar of fire. And then, like a cork popping out of a bottle, the tiny ICPS emerges and drifts vaguely moonwards on a wisp of flame.

[It is] a first in space flight, [a] rocket that is at the same time more powerful and less capable than the Saturn V.

It's wild that you can just do anything. Date the wrong person, choose the wrong career. You can go outside and start eating dirt if you want, and the universe lets you. Not even a pop up like "Are you sure?"

Breakdown of the lego coliseum begins... I'll keep you updated.

#lego

While working, I like to listen to mundane voice recordings of old NASA missions. Makes me feel like I'm working on an important space mission rather than marketing.

BOOM!

What an episode!! Another classic Moffat #DoctorWho

Discuss it here:

https://forum.tardis.guide/t/episode-discussion-boom/1938?u=shauny

@pvonhellermannn @kim_harding Contrast with how, say, economists are quoted. The economy is always rebounding or suffering or all the other verbs, but folks don't "believe" that stuff, it *is*. We only delve into feelings and beliefs when it's economically uncomfortable, like for pandemics, climate change, housing, poverty, racism. Those are all "felt" by someone, whereas profit is meant to be *real*.

I eventually did get the program to run but only by intentionally installing it wrong

Blog post summing up my investigations this week into SNCF's decision to stop selling most international train tickets

“SNCF is stopping sales of most international tickets – a decision rooted in incompetence, and communicated with malevolence”
https://jonworth.eu/sncf-is-stopping-sales-of-most-international-tickets-a-decision-rooted-in-incompetence-and-communicated-with-malevolence/

So, that was Moffat’s first episode of this series of #DoctorWho… personally I thought it was better than the last two. Could tell the twist from like 3 minutes into the story, but the way they resolved the main dilemma was neat enough.

Didn’t realise the number of references to other parts of the Whoniverse til later though. Apparently these marines are from the Kovarian branch of the church? And the Doctor destroyed that company in a comic sometime ago?