Probably because the craft that were just in orbit could be considered “in flight” for their entire duration.

Aircraft in flight are considered under the jurisdiction of the country they took off from. So if the spacecraft started in Florida, landed in international waters, and was recovered by a US vehicle, then the astronauts never technically left the jurisdiction of the United States.

But because Apollo 11 did land somewhere, it could be argued they ended the first flight and began a second one when they took off. Due to this, they had left US jurisdiction as they landed and left the vehicle. This means they left the country, and need to go through immigration.

It’s also a piece of the official paper trail that helps to prove to other nations that the US did land on the moon, and that placing the flag in the moon was symbolic and not an attempt to annex the moon. If Apollo 11 had claimed the moon as US territory, then they wouldn’t have needed to fill out immigration papers.

My favorite is when there’s like 10 pixels of a bicycle wheel in one of the frames.

Does that count? It seems to be 50/50 if it does.

I can handle spice.

My issue with most super hot food is that it tastes like absolute shit.

Everything above a habanero starts to taste more and more like eating mace.

Nah, I’m an adult, I like things that I like and don’t waste time on things that I don’t.

Watched like 5 episodes and gave up on the piss poor plots and 2d companions.

If you enjoyed it, good for you. But I am always confused by people like you who feel the need to defend the virtue of a show just because someone on the internet disagrees with the quality of content you enjoy.

I didn’t like it, you did. I have watched 5 hours of a show and decided it wasn’t worth my time, you telling me otherwise isn’t going to really change my mind. I have better ways to entertain myself than wasting time on a show I know isn’t for me.

The difference is the reason they were “just there”

13s companions were literally just sitting around when she literally fell into their laps.

All the other companions of the modern show have had a compelling stories for how the doctor found them. These people were literally just milling about like they were waiting for someone to fall through the roof and change their lives.

4 is definitely unreasonable for a show known for its character arcs. How am I supposed to connect with any of these characters when they’ll get an average of a couple minutes of dialogue per episode.

Considering most of the other docs had like 1 or 2, yeah.

They were also just kinda… there.

Like sure that’s how the doctor originally met rose until the did the whole bad wolf plotline, but all the other companions had a compelling reason to be his companion. Martha was also a doctor who was there when her hospital got stolen by alien cops. Donna was gonna marry a guy who was involved in a plot to destroy the earth. Amy was at the center of a crack in the timeline, and Rory just happened to tag along for a lot of it. Even Clara was involved in a plot to kill the doctor.

I really didn’t care for the Jodie Whittaker doctor.

Which is a shame because she is an amazing actor. But the new show runner really fucked over the stories. There were so many companions that I really didn’t give a shit about any of them because I never knew them beyond “woman”, and “one of those guys”

Maybe I’ll give it another go now that the season is over and I can see some tennant after. But I’m really not feeling this show runner, the stories were dull and the villains didn’t feel very convincing, even for doctor who, where the greatest villains of all are trash cans with egg beaters glued to them.

Who controls the streetlight blockchain in your idea? You think the government is going to responsibly manage a system that is large enough to be impractical to alter? My local government is barely responsibly enough to manage basic utility maintenance, we’ve had 3 water main bursts in a month and it hasn’t even been below freezing that whole time.

I can’t believe a human being living in the world doesn’t see that any implementation of a secure blockchain requires massive funding for infrastructure. That money comes from 1 of 2 places, illegal enterprises that maintain control for security and manipulation, and legal corporations that will maintain control for financial security and manipulation. Modern governments don’t run projects like this anymore, they contract them out to corporations.

Keep in mind that the only practical use of blockchain that anyone has found so far, has been as a currency that requires no ID. The most famous use of these currencies was by John Mccaffee, who used crypto currencies to help him evade authorities for nearly a decade. So I don’t have much faith in a technology that has only shown a benefit to criminals with so much money that cash becomes impractical. Nor do I have to remind you that wealthy private individuals have been able to manipulate crypto markets with hilarious ease, like how Musk pumped and dumped Doge Coin years ago with a single tweet and most likely made millions in private, untraceable money.

Just because something sounds cool on paper, and makes it seem like it skirts governments and corporations, doesn’t mean it works in practice. Large entities inherently have more resources, and are primed to steal new technologies for their own use, especially when implementing that technology requires huge funding for infrastructure.

How does adding more computers, more points of failure, make infrastructure less prone to exploitation?

my best friend works directly for a military contractor, I don’t need to play 6 degrees.

There’s three things you don’t mess with.

US and oil.

US and their boats.

And the US and an excuse to pump more money into the military industrial complex that masquerades as our Economy.

You should also avoid bears in general.

I thought I was being followed once, ended up making 2 laps around my neighborhood only for the red and blues to turn on behind me.

Pulled up under a streetlight in front of a neighbors house just in case. Turned out it was an unmarked cop car that pulled me over because I was “driving suspiciously” they didn’t like my explanation that they were “following suspiciously”

Still didn’t get shot, so that’s nice I guess. But fuck that cop, I had my wife in the car with me.

Congratulations, you’ve just earned a stoning by the town mob.

Unless you can make an electric motor that goes with your electric generator, you’ll just be killed as a witch for making a device that hurts people with invisible energy.

Also, good luck not just getting brutally murdered for being a weird person that doesn’t speak the language and is dressed funny. For like half of human history, even describing a magnet would be nearly impossible, let alone finding enough magnets of similar size and strength, and having enough money to purchase those rare items and thinly drawn copper.

If a guy came up to you today, dressed funny and talking in broken Spanglish or something asked you for a small loan so he could buy some deuterium and promethium to make a fusion-tap-quark drive so he can advance humanity, you’d probably run away. A thousand years ago you’d probably just have been stabbed on general principles.

I’m friends with plenty of alcoholics and none of them listen to folk or country music.

They’re the “metal and whiskey makes the misery more fun” kind of people.

Except he’s not going to send the ultra wealthy first. He’s going to send upper middle class engineers middle class trades people to set up the base.

His robot has shown the ability to…pick up and drop objects in a controlled environment. So people are going to need to go to set up the suicide domes.

There’s many exciting opportunities to die horribly on the way to mars.

Exploding in the lower atmosphere due to the rocket having to red line its engines to get the thing to orbit and starship having absolutely no tested abort system.

Suffocating in a steel tube because the life support system was built using “move fast and break things” techniques, unlike nasa who designs with “there’s no second chances” as a philosophy.

Elon’s car, launched on the first falcon heavy, was supposed to be orbiting mars, but they fucked up somewhere and it’s now orbiting the sun in deep space. So getting trapped on a vessel doomed to orbit the sun for decades due to incompetence is also a uniquely horrifying way to die. Trip is supposed to take 6 to 8 months, but after that, supplies will run out.

Keeping humans in tight spaces for months is a regular problem in submarine corps and space flight. Administrations meticulously select their candidates so they don’t go batshit and try to murder each other. Elon will no doubt ignore this entirely. So a mundane death via mutiny or surprise spree killings is exciting.

Starship has no plans for radiation shielding. So constant exposure to solar radiation or acute exposure during a solar storm is a great way to accumulate dangerous doses of radiation that will kill you in a few years.

6 months of micro gravity will deplete a lot of bones mass, especially if crews aren’t drilled on regular exercise techniques to slow it down. So it’s entirely possible the entire crew makes it down to the mars surface and breaks their legs trying to walk around.

Speaking of making down to the surface. Starship lands on its engines. Engines that are powered by incredibly precisely machines turbo pumps that provide the pressure for the combustion chamber. No one has tested what happens to these pumps, or the lubricants in them, when they’ve been sitting in space for months. Will the engines even fire while you’re screaming through the thin Martian atmosphere at 12 kilometers per second?

If they make it down and don’t break their legs on a rock. They now have to build and live in domes that haven’t even been designed yet. Mars is very radioactive compared to earth, and radiation sickness on missions is a real concern. Living in a dome is silly, as it’s not going to block enough rads to keep people safe. So more than likely, the crew will move from the small tube of the starship, to a bigger tube of an old lava tube. See above about humans going batshit when in confined spaces for extended periods.

These are just the ways to die that I could think of Off the top of my head. I’m sure if this mission happens, Elon will “discover” “new” challenges that will unfortunately kill the entire crew.

Or ask your parent/legal guardian if you’re finally old enough to use the stove like a big kid.

Gonna take like 30 minutes to melt the cheese on a decent grilled cheese with the method you describe. Just use a stove or hotplate like a normal human being.

I can’t imagine companies are willing to pay enough to offset the ridiculous electricity and maintenance cost on that many lights.

There’s no combustion in a wind turbine either, so why do they need changes more frequently?

Microsoft has a terrible track record with hardware.

About the only hardware they’ve ever sold that didn’t crap the bed was the Xbox, Xbox one, and Xbox series whatever the fuck.

The 360 would cook itself, instead of fixing it, they added red LEDs to tell you it was fucked. The windows phones were unresponsive and unimpressive garbage, and every tablet they’ve made has been mired in various hardware and screen issues.

It’s almost like a software company that has a business model that depends on selling people regular updates, can’t get its head around the idea that hardware should just work for the task it’s designed to do. They want you to buy a new tablet every year or two, because it makes them money. They don’t really care if the battery is going to cook itself in 5 years, when the plan is you’ll buy a new device in 2 years, because you really need to edit PowerPoint™ presentations while on the train and with a touchscreen.

Calling chatGPT an other is a level of tech worship I’ve never seen before.

It has no capacity for understanding or thought. It’s a fancy predictive text generator. Yes it’s cool, but at the end of the day it does the same thing as my phone’s keyboard, just for longer and with better grammar.