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@Opcn @ArthurMacwaters Falcon9 launch - $75m Falcon Heavy launch - $150m Falcon Heavy payload (including crew) would double the shuttle for ~1/4 cost in today's $$. It's not close.

@auengineer @ArthurMacwaters Spaceshuttle launches ~65,000 lbs for $1b. Crew dragon launches ~13,000 for $250m. It is quite close.

Most people will probably miss that this chart is log scale Meaning it shows a 10,000X reduction in cost This is quite literally insane. Engineering is magic.

Not even close, the shuttle launches were around $1bn per launch while Falcon with crew top out around $250m. Add to that the massive difference in dollar value and it's even further apart. You can also compare NASA's payload rocket launches (ATLAS) to Falcon and again, it's not even close.

@ArthurMacwaters It's important to note that the shuttle was both cargo and people. As such the cost on a cargo basis was massively inflated. If you packed cargo into the manned dragon launches the cost per kilo would be on a par with the shuttle.

@MrFantastic_30 @ArthurMacwaters NASA has done some amazing things but the innovation sparked by SpaceX is a different level

@ArthurMacwaters lol, Henry Ford did this with the Model-T, I think Space X is great, but NASA engineers did the work but Space X made it cost efficient. Both were necessary to have this outcome. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

@RyanCFowler If Nate Oats is your coach, might want to stay away from discussing the character of any other coach...glass house and all

Nate Oats paid respect to Ole Miss head coach Chris Beard for a highly sportsmanlike gesture he made toward Charles Bediako prior to the game. It might be helpful for some members of the national media to watch this and reflect on some of the nasty things that have been said about Bediako. Salute to @CoachBeard Unlike the former Auburn coach, who has shown us his character over the last 24 hours. Credit: UA Athletics

@REDACTEDSpider Curious, how is this handled by Real ID? Any different?

Millions of married women could quite literally have their voting rights destroyed because of this.

@johnsonj42 Also related: driving 8 hrs and pay top $$$ to play a team from your area code

Isn’t this the truth!

@ReggieintheOC @ScottJenningsKY @davidaxelrod Misleading? So they save a few points in tax liability, they still have to pay the premium

@ScottJenningsKY @davidaxelrod This is pretty misleading. If they were going to expand and grow they’d be eligible for small group plans which are unaffected by the expiring subsidies.

Through family, I heard about a couple in WI who started a small business and were planning to expand. Now, with their ACA premiums TRIPLED due to congressional inaction, they've had to scrap plans to expand & grow. I'm sure that scenario is repeating itself all over the U.S.

@JulianC001 @TaraBull Love Springfield. Went with the Glock 42 for my CCW before I realized they had a 380 hellcat version

@auengineer @TaraBull Yes sir. Nice and small. Perfect for ankle carry. Which is my preferred method for church or any dress-up type occasion. 🇺🇸

Do you carry in church?

@JulianC001 @TaraBull Hellcat?

@TaraBull Yes. I carry everywhere. Train then carry. Stay ready. Sign of the times.

Pastor asks ChatGPT: "If you were the devil, what would you do?" "The answer that came back shook me."

Legendary Auburn sportswriter Phillip Marshall passes away. A friend and Auburn Legend! He loved the players and his job Glad he got to see our basketball program become competitive again! May his memory be a blessing 247sports.com/college/auburn…

This father is a LEGEND. He broke the cycle. Wait for it...

@TheJayHemingway @avesdb Appears they did remove him from the frontcourt list

@avesdb They didn’t remove it. You select two names first, click next, and then you will find his name and select two others along with his.

Am I crazy or did they remove his name from the voting

@BakerJanssen @coach_appling @willainsworthAL Outside of disciplinary scenarios, you are saying a publicly funded school can turn a kid away?

@coach_appling @willainsworthAL That’s not entirely correct. City schools do get to choose who stays and who goes.

Alabama High School Athletic Association President Heath Harmon and his board announced a new classification system last week that was obviously not properly thought out, and immediately upon reading the proposal, words like “unfair,” “unsportsmanlike,” “punitive,” and “mean-spirited” came to my mind. It opens a never-ending maze of issues and problems, and my phone, texts, and emails have been flooded with messages of concern from coaches, school administrators, and parents in both public schools and private schools alike. Alabama will soon be one of only eight states in the nation that does not allow public and private schools to compete against each other. I join countless others across the state in hopes that the AHSAA will reconsider its decision and adopt a plan that serves the interests of every school across the state, and not just the hand-picked few. First let me tell you about my background in school and sports and why I care so much about this issue because there are several misconceptions and misperceptions. I grew up in Boaz and attended public school there from kindergarten through tenth grade. I played three sports and was a student when the basketball program made it to the championship tournament and is still considered among the best teams in Boaz history. Three of our varsity players — Jeremy “Stick" Hays, Ramey Morrison, and Derrick Underwood — stood over 6 feet 5 inches tall, and that team, which feared no school whether public or private, finished in Final Four and lost to B.C. Rain. During my junior and senior years of high school, I attended Westbrook Christian School, and our quarterback was a once in a decade talent whose name may be familiar to you — Brodie Croyle. He led our school to a championship game but eventually lost to Billingsley High School. I have also coached youth baseball and basketball teams for more than a decade and have personally helped teach and trained hundreds of student athletes in summer sports programs. Our three children attended public school in Guntersville throughout their elementary years, but after COVID struck, my wife and I decided to move them to Whitesburg Christian Academy for its strong academics and its religious education. My point is that I have experienced both public and private schools as a student and as a parent, and I have a longstanding interest in youth sports and athletic competition, so the concerns I have about the AHSAA’s actions are well-informed and deeply felt. Whitesburg Christian Academy is currently filled to capacity with students in all of my children’s grades, and it does not recruit or admit students based upon their athletic prowess in any sport. Whitesburg, in all cases, places academics first and foremost. Nevertheless, though its players were very young, Whitesburg’s football team notched a 5-5 record last year and earned a spot in the playoffs before Mars Hill ended their run in a 70 - 14 rout. I will also note that Whitesburg lost its football game against Fyffe by a 62-21 score last season. The baseball team advanced to the Elite Eight, where it lost to a good Gordo team from Pickens County. That fact that they suffered these defeats offers irrefutable evidence that our private school did not have any unfair advantage over their public or private school opponents of the same size, and the same is true in 95% of the cases across the state. In essence, the AHSAA is punishing 95% of the state’s private schools for the 5% that people complain about when they win championships, and instead of fixing the competitive balance and multiplier issues that exist in all classifications, Harmon and his board simply decided that segregation was the best option.

@coach_appling @willainsworthAL This is great point. If the schools aren't using the "exact same rules" for all admissions, then it is not possible for it be 100% "fair".

@willainsworthAL My question to you is pretty simple. Do all the private schools take anyone that can afford to go to their school? Do they have the option to turn someone away? Are they selective? Has that happened? Public schools do not.

@CalvinCooley @TalkoftheTownFB They were doing pretty good against public schools

@TalkoftheTownFB Go ahead and give Mars Hill and St. Michael’s the private school championships.

All this does is make the public transfer schools even more powerful. And the big private schools will dominate their classifications. Nasty work

I'm confused. If we are talking about the CHOOSE act, aren't we specifically addressing a move involving a "failing school"? This would imply academics are the chief concern. If you want to move a child due to a failing school and receive financial compensation, why is immediate athletic eligibility a concern at all?

@DavidEzell2 @willainsworthAL @BucsRthebest First of all, never rely on ChatGPT, but the summary you posted says bona fide move requirements only arise through other requirements like “athletic eligibility.”

I’m confident that AHSAA Executive Director Heath Harmon and the governing board will be remembered for extinguishing the flame of competitiveness and abandoning any effort at simple fairness and good sportsmanship under their watch.  Rather than allowing CHOOSE act students to retain their eligibility, as the law requires, Harmon and the AHSAA have opted, instead, to segregate our public and private schools, which is punitive, wrong, and just plain hateful. The coaches participating in this boneheaded decision care only about winning championships, not about the high school athletes they are supposed to serve, the lessons about sportsmanship they are supposed to teach, and the simple respect and dignity that students and their parents deserve.

@wtucker83 @willainsworthAL They still can though, right? They just won't be competing against them for the state title

@willainsworthAL The totally F* the small private schools that just wanted to play teams closer by

@Ashbee1 @willainsworthAL So because some public schools might be doing something wrong and not getting caught/punished, we should assume all public schools have the same benefit?

@willainsworthAL Couldn’t agree more - the “public schools don’t recruit” crowd has their heads up their ass or are just willingly ignorant - both inexcusable - sad day for Alabama high school sports.

@andrewtsimonson @DavidEzell2 @AlecEtheredgeSC The problem with CBF in smaller individualized sports is that one good player can bump a team's classification right about the time that player graduates. Then the sport gets suffocated for 2 years, which for female sports is enough to kill the program completely.

@DavidEzell2 @AlecEtheredgeSC If we actually put competitive balance into place for private *and* public schools, this wouldn't be an issue. You want to make games closer? Don't let enrollment numbers be the sole determiner of classifications.

Sadly, I think we continue to ignore what the AHSAA is supposed to be about—the student athletes. We don't listen to them, we don't listen to the coaches and we don't listen to common sense. The state getting involved doesn't solve these issues either. We have to go back to putting the kids first and finding ways to see the most competitive and fair competitions possible.