What makes you say that?
I’m in no way here to defend blue orgin, but the capsule does apogee “just above 100km”. It’s pretty clear getting above the karman line was their main goal.
If we’re gonna throw shade we gotta be accurate. Lets make fun of them for being suborbital and for making the most phallic launch vehicle ever.
this might not be helpful as most folks rent - but my adhd brain hates double basin sinks, replacing mine with one big basin was one of the biggest improvements in my kitchen
I will procrastinate washing a big item like a sheet pan for a month with a double basin sink
Wow, great to see a government encouraging it instead of saying you can’t do it!
It is weird. Like if every house had 200 gallons of storage, that could add up to a small dam’s worth of storage at almost no cost to the government. It makes more sense to me to encourage houses to store it.
It really might come back around to blame capitalism - since like 90% of water is used for agriculture here maybe the downstream money makers are the ones yelling the loudest.
Oh boy - it’s a rabbit hole. As much as I like to blame capitalism for things, this one kind of stems earlier than that. Water rights and usage in the Western US is pretty fucked, and it’s only going to get worse with climate change.
I have some hot takes after reading Cadillac Desert and some other books on water rights. I’m going to lazily link to another comment where I wrote a tiny bit about this book. What’s fun is lots of river water allocations in the Western US were written in times of excess and aren’t even remotely accurate for normal times let alone times of drought. The Colorado River has only flowed through to the Pacific Ocean like once in decades (citation needed) and Mexico doesn’t even get their allotted share. It’s mouth to the Pacific is mostly a dry bed of dirt 🫠.
My house is in the watershed of the South Platte River, so Nebraska is the one who’d get mad if I put out a 3rd 55gal drum rain barrel. There’s a fun 100 year old compact that says Nebraska is allowed to seize land to build a canal to take their full allocation - a couple years ago Nebraska started to threaten to inact on their rights and Colorado’s just like ‘good fuckin luck’
We’re closer to playing out Mad Max in my lifetime than I’d like.
In an unprecedented deal, a private company purchased land in a tiny Arizona town – and sold its water rights to a suburb 200 miles away. Local residents fear the agreement has ‘opened Pandora’s box’ One of the biggest battles over Colorado River water is being staged in one of the west’s smallest rural enclaves. Tucked into the bends of the lower Colorado River, Cibola, Arizona [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/arizona], is a community of about 200 people. Maybe 300, if you count the weekenders who come to boat and hunt. Dusty shrublands run into sleepy residential streets, which run into neat fields of cotton and alfalfa. Nearly a decade ago, Greenstone Resource Partners LLC, a private company backed by global investors, bought almost 500 acres of agricultural land here in Cibola. In a first-of-its-kind deal, the company recently sold the water rights tied to the land to the town of Queen Creek, a suburb of Phoenix, for a $14m gross profit. More than 2,000 acre-feet of water from the Colorado River that was once used to irrigate farmland is now flowing, through a canal system, to the taps of homes more than 200 miles away. A Guardian investigation into the unprecedented water transfer, and how it took shape, reveals that Greenstone strategically purchased land and influence to advance the deal. The company was able to do so by exploiting the arcane water policies governing the Colorado River.
store the rainwater for use later.
And then there are even further rules on storing water in some places - in Colorado I’m only allowed ~100 gallons of rainwater collection storage because someone else owns the water rights to the land my house is on.
