Jeff Greason

@jeff_foust 1/ I'm going to take a moment on this one, because this argument is ... wrong. During the Augustine Commission we had an actual study done. The argument is wrong because in a multiple launch architecture most of the launches are just propellant tanks and you have spares!

@kat_maryb You run and you run to catch up with the Sun, but it's sinking; racing around to come up behind you again.

On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair

@DavidFischer I did but it just *inhaled* quarters, so not often.

Be honest: who is old enough to say they played this game?

@space_stations @Fat_Electrician I think often about the first humans to reach Australia, when very simple rock and stick tools and twine were the state of human technology, finding themselves in a land where the plants and animals were all unfamiliar.

@JeffGreason @Fat_Electrician It is, if you have a house there ;)

I’m fascinated by people that think it’s deep and profound to point out you have to work for your own survival like it’s some man-made moral injustice and not the default setting of all life ever.

@Truthful_ast Yeah, I thought about responding, but I felt like it was bait. I am thinking the effort is better spent preparing an FAQ or set of short explainer videos that we can point people to.

How are people this incompetent? apparently to them it takes millions or years to reach Alpha Centauri???

@NoDMsPerfavore I better hang on to it. I might need it later.

BOAT IS SINKING AND THERE'S ONLY 1 LIFE JACKET- WHO ARE YOU SAVING?

@tonywendice1954 I don't like to play the "which is best" game. But I think they're both outstanding WW2 movies -- while being incredibly different from each other.

Unpopular take: Tora! Tora! Tora! is a better movie -- or at least a movie I like more -- than Patton. Both 1970 releases. I have never really warmed to Patton which is why I'm saving it for near the end of my WW2 watching. I'm hoping it will finally "click" for me.

@hollywoodscifi In _Mandalorian_ though, it totally worked in S1 and S2 with the helmet only coming off for two scenes where the import of the scene was all *because* he was taking the helmet off which, had been established, he never did. Again, look elsewhere for why audiences disengaged.

@JeffGreason Not really the same though. V for vendetta was her story, she was the empathetic one, same with Phantom of the Opera. In Dread, we saw the bottom of his face at least.

A friend brought up an interesting point about the Mandalorian and Grogu movie: "It's hard to get invested in a film, where 98% of it is a guy in a mask, you can't see his face or expression, and his voice is monotone." Do you agree?

@mcuban @dmweisberger Without the power of government behind them how would they do things like constrain the supply of doctors?

@dmweisberger So you think the conglomerates will just stand by passively ? They wouldn’t take advantage of the lack of regulations to do anything they could to stop all competitors ?

Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want. What do they do ? If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?

@mcuban Publish prices (and some measure of quality -- patient outcomes) and compete on price and quality. Like cosmetic and vision-correction procedures do.

@Ayussheth Life long putterer in labs/shops who is slowly reassembling my electronics shop for the first time in ages.

Thinking of starting a community for people who want to learn hardware, work in hardware, or just enjoy tinkering with things in general. Reply to the tweet if you want in.

I do think about it, and I have a very parsimonious view of what the proper role of the Federal government is. I happen to think that the purposes *for which NASA was chartered* are legitimate. But I recognize that a) this is hardly a 1:1 mapping with what NASA does and b) you can, if you assume Jefferson and Madison were too loose in their interpretation, argue that even highways, canals, and NASA are beyond the Constitution. I don't agree with b) but it is a defensible position.

@FullOfStarships @JeffGreason People aren't typically smart enough to understand how much unConstitutional government costs them. They think its a benefit when they see money coming in. They never think about how much was taken from them and spent elsewhere.

Curiosity poll: Is NASA Constitutional?

@fandompulse The mystery is why studios keep funding it. Don't they like money any more?

Paramount is developing a new Godfather sequel from a "woman's point of view." It's called "Connie," a feminist retelling of the Godfather events from Connie Corleone's perspective based on a novel of the same name. Why do feminists keep doing this kind of thing?

@MbarkCherguia Nothing at all. Leave them right there and let traffic continue.

What sould happen to climate activists who glue their hand to the road?

@travelingflying Yep, in a *tiny* theater where the theater owner came out and told the story of how he'd signed up to show the film before any of the publicity hit which is why it was playing in a theater so small, he had to stop halfway through to change reels.

Did someone here see Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope in theaters when it came out in 1977?

@kelly_ques Lennon

What is the first celebrity death you remember being affected by?

I recognize your point of view, and it's an interesting counterfactual to ask "what if Jefferson and Madison had refused to take certain measures because they needed Constitutional amendment". But they didn't, and yet while both, when out of office, sometimes argued otherwise, both, when in office, went right ahead. When you're talking about precedents that go back to Lewis & Clark I think you've got a pretty good case that "necessary and proper" has some stretch, since Congress has, in 250 years, not pushed back on such things.

@JeffGreason 10th Amendment says there are no gray areas ;)

@peterrhague And how that balance is best struck will be worked out in the hard school of experience.

@JeffGreason The Raptor 3s have some containment structures still.

After the B19 anomaly we are having discussions about uncontained engine failures again. Here is something relevant from an article I wrote before the first full stack flight in response to people making comparisons between the Soviet N-1 and the Superheavy booster. Yes, you want to contain any engine failures as best as possible. But ultimately for the objectives of SpaceX engine failures should not be happening. Imaging if each major airport suffered 1-2 engine explosions per day, but it was brushed off because all the planes had redundant engines, well designed cowlings contained the explosions, and the debris was always cleared up. This wouldn't be consider viable, would it? planetocracy.org/p/the-fate-of-…