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Sort of, Little Bush green lit Constellation in 2004 which was later cancelled by Obama in 2010. Trump's NASA group brought it back in 2017 under the Artemis title. We used a lot of Constellation tooling to build the Artemis core boosters, as it was basically a copy of the Constellation Ares V. Bush's original timeline had us landing on...

The solid boosters right? I worked on the SLS core booster for Boeing Space and Defense back around 2017. It was painfully understaffed back then, you can see how Boeing wasted billions on the development. Then the first government shutdown over the border wall happened and we didn't get paid for several weeks, I decided working on direct government programs...

They only have the capsule and that's it. Artemis is using a legacy upper stage that isn't very powerful and only designed to take up capsule. The Saturn V while having less thrust had a much more efficient upper stage and could carry 50 more tons to low Earth orbit, which included the command module and lunar lander. The idea...

Of all the ridiculous shit to come out the last few days this is the most concerning to me. A single company compiling all your private data from every government agency together into a single database. I'm sure that will include all your social media activity too since they just partnered with Meta. True big brother stuff.

The short answer is most people would move with that kind of job, it wouldn't mean much for the locals other than exploding their local home values even more. SpaceX has very high bar for hiring standards especially for engineering.

Langston's crash was a lot less interesting than a nac-nac though. He tried a one-hander and missed the grip on the landing. Fumbled with it and finally crashed in the corner, handing the first ever main event win to Travis Preston on a Husky.

I think Barry Carsten held the record in both classes until Billy made it in Saturday. He raced the 125 East back in 2003 and did a one-off race in the premier 250 class at Daytona. He was 36 at the time I believe.

All I gotta say is the Repubs are lucky the Electoral College exists. The last Republican candidate to win the simple majority vote was Regan. Bush did win the popular vote on his reelection campaign but that one doesn't count since he lost the first go around against Gore. Now days the gap between the two is bigger than ever...

Found that more or less true. It would be difficult for a points scoring pro to beat a local guy on his home track. The pro tracks and race lengths are the big separator.

This is nothing but a giant eye roll situation, impeachment always is. Amazingly most of the country STILL doesn’t understand what is actually needed to get a sitting President out of office via the impeachment process. Even if it actually comes to an impeachment trial like it did with Trump (which it won’t since Dems have the tie breaker in...

Here’s the problem with conspiracy theories, they almost always exist to explain a massive knowledge gap in a person’s understanding of how complex systems operate. This ain’t the movies, you don’t sit the Chinese version of Hugh Jackman in front of a computer with 6 screens and take over a jet mid flight via a balloon uplink bounced off Starlink...

I've owned 3 KTM based bikes and never once even replaced a clutch, never mind have one slipping when I picked it up. That sounds like something wasn't put together right from the beginning.

Just like stick and ball sports maybe 1% of the population eventually has the speed to make a 40 man gate. Of course, maybe .10 become factory riders. As a young guy I was decent, had multiple top 10 finishes at Loretta's. But when you lined me up against Travis Pastrana there was no amount of practice, dedication, or anything...

As a union member I would of course disagree. For me the good has outweighed the bad by a long way. The union is firmly planted between me and company minded assholes, of which there are many. Everyone in management is out for the company because their yearly bonus depends on it. With the union they can't randomly fire anyone...

As someone who has gone through union negotiations you know they ask for the moon and settle somewhere in the middle. You can ask for 32 hour work weeks and kitchen sink but it's very unlikely to happen. But the press loves to run with it to make union employees look greedy. The pay raises only bring them in line...

No way. That it wasn't legal at AMA sanctioned events might have swayed a handful of sales at best. Alta was always hemorrhaging money, they never had their head above water financially at any point.

Can you even get 40 guys who own Altas and Vargs to try and qualify? Probably have to include Freerides and modified Surrons to get a full gate.

No. Taken from the MX Sports Loretta's rule book.

I think the current US political climate is a joke myself. The right wants to use The Handmaid's Tale as a political playbook and the left is so dissolved in spending money and identity politics it has no real direction. But show me how the current conservative party is for the current working class. They openly want to cut every...

According to who? Your generic assumptions based off your own bias? This echoes what the left has been saying for a long time, the system is rigged against you and the rich just get richer. Before this song the generic response I've heard from the right to any complaint about the systems at work against us in the US was...