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Get a prepaid SIM sometime and try your "replacement" procedure. First problem you will encounter is supplying proof that you purchased the SIM 2 or 3 years after you paid cash at a Big Box store with the phone number not recorded at the time of sale (you discover your phone number by opening...

Docking collars currently have design standards. Every SpaceX craft that docks with ISS has to use a NASA compatible docking collar. Why should SpaceX reinvent the wheel when they fully expect to fly NASA missions and interact with NASA spacecraft built by others in the future. If the...

Consumer Reports flies under the radar, but they still maintain a defiant independence and refuse to sell their reputation. Limited access without a paid membership. CR is supported by their members, not advertising or sponsors. https://www.consumerreports.org/

Quite profitably too. Which is why paid sponsorships are so popular🐶

First party is the root domain owner. Their reputation is used in judging relevance. Third party is the publisher who paid the first party site for use of their domain reputation to boost the search ranking of their product (especially useful when the product is unrelated to the first party's...

It's basically an almost universal rise and fall of search engines. C4 did much the same. In the beginning they were the best at returning relevant results. Then they tuned for best income, which combined with SEO just made the search worthless. That was the period when Google got started...

If your brand is irrelevant to the product you are peddling, why should your product get a boost because your brand is respected? Apple could really boost the rank of C64 (Personal Computer) results in a generic PC search. Does that mean that the C64 pages published by Apple are more relevant...

They are subject to change as the design of Starship V2 is refined and transitions to V3😂 The final SSv2 will not be the same design or payload as the first SSv2🐶 (This one was a SSv1.5, SSv2 body on SSv1 engines)

77km/hr 77000m/3600sec 21.3888... m/s Are you really sure you're incapable of converting km/hr to m/s (xkm=x1000m, hr=3600s -- xkm/hr=x1000m/hr3600) I can understand the extra step of multiplying 48 by 1.60934 stopping you though ... That is really advanced stuff /s

The reason supermarket bananas are limited to red, a single plantain, and Cavendish is marketing, pure and simple. It costs more to distribute multiple varieties, so Cavendish is standard, red and the one commercial plantain are rarely seen and the thousands of others are sold in local markets...

Call it the the Trump exclusion principle. Anything or anyone who attracts more media attention (or even comes close) will be -- Fired!™

tf=ton feet?

"Natural bananas range from finger sized to several kilos in weight. The supermarket banana is one specific cultivar that was selected for blight resistance and similarity to the supermarket banana it replaced. The Gros Michel banana is far superior to the Cavendish and was the preferred...

SpaceX wasn't the first to try. There is a history of attempted reusable spacecraft. Most failed when the money ran out before they fielded commercial vehicles. SpaceX is the first to succeed in actually flying missions on used rockets and also the first to successfully enter the consumer...

Separately they are "Starship" (2nd stage, SS) and "Super Heavy Booster" (1st stage, SH). When combined for launch they are Starship (2 stage rocket, SS, SS/SH) Easy to remember. If it's in orbit, then it is just the 2nd stage. If it's ready to launch, it is the SS/SH configuration of...

That's the way it has been working for decades -- minus the NASCAR style sponsor badges as Congress Critters still maintain the pretense that they work for their constituents, not their sponsors (called "registered lobbyists" to comply with legal requirements🐶

Not to mention that "refueling" for the next flight meant months in the shop as parts were replaced and hardware upgrades were installed. Musk changed the paradigm from "rebuild and fly again" to "refuel and fly again"🐶

Given that Musk has conflicting priorities, expect DOGE to cancel SLS and similar make work projects and continue funding for the actual mission of NASA ... Cutting edge aero and space R&D that does not have short term commercial applications. It is in his own best interests to see NASA...

Just experimented with Bing CoPilot web version. Adding "check the list for letter e and remove any word that uses e" did not work, but "check the words letter by letter for letter e and remove any word that uses e" did work. Changing letter e to letter i in the prompt that worked gave me a...

For a bit of fun try asking someone to define the verb "set" as used in English" It is near the top of the list of words are sorted according to the number of unique definitions that share the identical spelling and pronunciation🐶 «The word with the most meanings in English is the verb 'set'...