@manwich

@stef-schrader I'm really not sure anyone can roast @David-Tracy harder than he roasted himself when he showed us the conditions at his house...

I Just Came Home to a Junkyard

Specifically, our intrepid space helicopter's 26th flight got images of the wreckage of the backshell that protected Perseverance, Ingenuity, and the sky crane during entry into Mars' atmosphere, as well as the parachute that slowed the initial descent:

Back on Earth:

Obviously most of it has been destroyed, but NASA is eagerly examining the wreckage imagery to see if the damage and scorching matches what their models predicted, so that future missions can benefit from a more accurate understanding of entering into Mars' atmosphere.

NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter

This article doesn't say (unless I'm too tired and missed it), but the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the parachute and backshell from orbit not long after Perseverance's landing last year, so NASA knew where to send Ingenuity to get a look:

I'm surprised it fell so close to the landing spot, but I guess that's Mars' thin atmosphere at work.

@mustangchris66 said in Lifted work trucks are dumb:

This just looks annoying to use as the tool it's suppose to be.

I'd guess the tool is usually behind the wheel.

@hammerheadfistpunch said in Old man does 4 wheel burnout:

Thats a 9000+ lbs Truck!

I hope it's not too political to say that 9000lb vehicles should require training and a license endorsement, and quite possibly shouldn't even be available for non-commercial purposes and that vehicle safety rules should focus more on pedestrian/cyclist/other vehicle safety rather than on occupant safety.

@ranwhenparked

@Dr-Zoidberg said in Imagine having someone love you so much, that they wanted to make a terrible decision just to make you happy.:

an ancient platform with a dinosaur yet sonorous Yamaha-designed DOHC V8 that revs to 7,200 rpm is just not in the cards

You say that, and yet there's a more affordable car that matches those requirements nearly perfectly:

@ranwhenparked Seriously, there are cheaper ways to do this:

@hillrat Obviously a Dodge Shadowfax

Texas, the world's earliest battleship afloat was towed from its berth at the San Jacinto battlefield site near Houston to a drydock in Galveston yesterday:

The dreadnaught battleship, which was commissioned in 1914 and fought in both world wars, took to the open water for the first time since 1988 to undergo a $35M refit to keep the shift afloat after it has been repeatedly stricken by leaks in recent years.

The state of Texas, which is providing most of the repair funding conditioned the money on the ship not returning to San Jacinto. Instead it will move to an as yet undecided location on the Texas coast (it is expected to end up staying in Galveston) where it will hopefully draw more visitors, allowing the battleship museum to better support its own maintenance costs.

Texas has been closed to the public for the last three years while the ship was prepared for the 40 mile journey to Galveston

The transport operation, which was somewhat risky for a ship already in poor condition was said to go off perfectly without the need to implement any of their planned contingencies if there were issues while towing it through the bay.

Repairs are expected to take two years, after which Texas will be towed to its new home.

@tae Few "Compact" spaces are really compact. For the most part it works out to "don't park your giant pickup here".

@pyroholtz Whatever, I don't care what the Aussies say, I'm going to do my own electrical work if I want to! Also due to some stupid issues getting a prescription refilled, I definitely ate medicine that was out of date this summer, but fortunately that got resolved.

@HFV Mine is done except for visually doing the coffin (right now I have a brown box). I might change the wheels/taillights which aren't quite right (though taillights are always such a pain I will probably leave those). But mechanically, I think it is set, and should be quite competitive, though I expect to score very poorly on the cargo volume category.

I did have a version that was 3.5+s faster to 60 and similarly as good, but the engine was clipping through the hood so I decided to abandon that.

@Fish-McSticks Meanwhile, in India less than a decade ago, someone thought this was a good idea:

@ttyymmnn Google has had wireless charging on the Pixel since the Pixel 3 I think. Still behind some other players, but it's nothing new there. The midrange Pixel 'a' devices don't get it though (which is dumb, but despite being cheap, wireless charging is somehow considered a high-end only feature).

@HammerheadFistpunch's mistake was not realizing that the 'a' devices tend to come out roughly half a year after the high-end ones, so there probably will be a Pixel 7a that doesn't support wireless charging, but don't expect it before next summer. The Pixel 6a is still pretty new (and a decent deal as it's currently on sale for $350, I think at Amazon).

@SamV8 My S10 is all glass, and presumably similarly slippery and I was able to use it for two and a half years without breaking it (unfortunately I can't buy OEM quality back glass, so I've now broken it three more times over the past year). I do miss the days when soft touch plastic was considered an acceptable material for a high-end phone. The cases add too much bulk though, and work very poorly with screens with curved edges. Better to just build the phone better in the first place.

@ash78 I got a GT Outpost Trail in '94 (I think?) and those rapid-fire indexed shifters were a revelation compared to the friction shifters on my 10-speed Huffy. Also much nicer than the grip shifters, though at least those were indexed as well.

@HFV I assume having to use your legs as suspension was deemed acceptable, since after all, that was already the case on hardtail mountain bikes. The rear suspension would still help you keep the rear wheel on the trail, which provides a benefit.

@SamV8 I can't stand cases. Don't see myself using one here.

@HammerheadFistpunch I'm pretty tempted, though I'd like to see how tall that camera bump is. Seemed much too much on the Pixel 6. In that pic, it looks better on the 7 Pro, but I'm not sure I want to spend that much.

On the other hand, they say they'll give me $260 for my cracked S10 which seems pretty solid.

Chief complain at the moment is that charging $100 to add $20 worth of storage is pretty obscene. I don't think the 128GB size would work for me though, I have 200GB used on my phone right now, and while I could get rid of some, it's pretty annoying when storage is (at least in a competitive marketplace) so cheap.