Well done, Hungary, and thanks for humiliating JD Vance again!
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@mike_malaska I guess not... over time I've been losing patience with some of the bad justifications that lead to bad prioritizations. But I do like this side quest we are on...!
Daniel PomarèdeHappy astronauts back from the Moon
https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/artemis-ii-splashdown-and-return/
@mike_malaska I'm deeply skeptical of all the "race" language. If there are geopolitical rewards to claiming to be first to land astronauts, then the US could approach this just with PR. "Congrats on catching up to where we were 50 years ago!"
Otoh, if the race is to establish infrastructure, then the Artemis architecture is not the right solution to the problem -- and even less so after the reswizzling!
I'm left feeling that the US just doesn't know what it wants in space.
Zach Weinersmith
@ZachWeinersmith It's ALSO also exactly the same approach everywhere else that can make NASA seem slow and over-cautious. Like the Mars rover that is "supposed" to last 90 days and instead keeps going for almost a decade!
@ZachWeinersmith And I would bet that SpaceX is barely considering issues like this in any discussion of Mars or Moon bases! At least NASA treated it like a serious problem to solve.
Put another way... it's a great story because of the funny moment with Ride and Sullivan checking the kit. But I think NASA essentially acted right here. They had to create a new kit. They involved Dr. Seddon. They, as in every bodily function, considered maximum need, then added extra. And then they asked the women for feedback. The funny part is the kind of comedy of errors that leads up to the infamous 100 tampons, but the procedure was appropriate.
RE: https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/116374175445745977
Fun thing I learned from @ZachWeinersmith's A City on Mars: this event was more about NASA's propensity to stack worst cases on top of worst cases. "Well, we'd *better* make sure you have enough, so what's the most number of tampons you've ever used per day? Times...what's the longest your period has ever lasted? And we'd better double that just to be sure."
Sounds ridiculous in this context, but it's typical space engineering process in most other areas.
Paul ReinheimerNot a bad day to read up on Stanislav Petrov, for no particular reason.
