After a VAR check for mistaken identity, Miguel Almirón is shown a yellow card 🟨

Today feels like a good day to reshare this clip of Ariane Aerospace’s CEO calling SpaceX’s reusability plans “a dream”

If you want to hate America watch the news, if you want to love America drive across it. 🇺🇸

Uber now has a dark pattern now where they default-select a tip amount. With food delivery, it's still annoying but it's part of checkout so we're used to noticing it. With Uber, it happens after the ride... Which means that when you reopen your app much later for a new ride, you have to click continue to order a new one. So if you're in a rush, you tap continue without looking. I'm not very stingy about tipping in general, but I would like to be the one deciding if, and how much, I would like to tip. This was on a $11.35 ride. A 35% tip by default, presented in a way that could easily escape notice. Tipping culture is getting obnoxious.

Get ready for some Starship rambling One interesting thing about Starship I noticed is that they’re clearly aiming for a higher separation velocity, hence the heat shield the booster has on its aft Booster has been traditionally separating at 1400-50m/s, which is, horribly inefficient, and a death warrant for Ship’s PTO, and not to mention it’s worse than Falcon 9 RTLS What I think will happen is they’ll gun for 1600-50m/s for Flight 12, and until the booster manages to splashdown successfully they’ll keep doing that, and after that they’ll do 2-3 more flights at a 1600-50m/s separation But after that it’s gonna get wild. What they might do is take a reused booster and have it do 1800-50m/s separation this time: aiming splashdown again This will reduce the work that is required to be done by Ship by ~200m/s If that works, they’ll adopt that new flight profile, doing a few catches by separating at 1800-50m/s, oh and by then, the ship is already orbital: And everytime they increase the separation velocity by 200m/s the Starlink count to orbit on a single launch will incrementally be increasing 1600 -> 1800 -> 2000 -> 2200! -> 2400!!! I remember reading somewhere that SpaceX’s ultimate goal in Starship’s flight philosophy is that the end goal is reaching a 2400m/s separation, this is plausible because of the heat shield and all Though, 2400m/s would be essentially for empty Starships, for 100T payload carriers it may be 2200m/s, for Tanker/Depots it might be 2000m/s, the second stage just gets really heavy, but it’s better than Falcon 9, so I ain’t complaining Every time the separation velocity increases by ~12%, you may ask; why doesn’t they just go for 2400m/s straight away? or decrease the 200m/s jump count by doing 400m/s or whatever? Simply, every time tou add velocity to a system the kinetic energy increases by it’s square, in this case, every time the velocity increases by 12%, kinetic energy increases by 27% From 1400 -> 2400 its a 71% jump velocity-wise If we’re taling kinetic energy however, it’s a whopping 194% !!! This is why I think they’ll go staggered this way, hence, having to expend boosters from time to time And who knows, maybe Starship has a limit at like 2000m/s that warrants design alterations to maximize PTO We’ll have to wait and see.