It looks like they are still selling almost 7000 copies per week !

https://gamalytic.com/game/427520

When the winter looks like that I can understand the metal.

Bringing back mammoths could have a sizable positive impact on arctic ecosystem AND climate change.

It sounds like a far fetched idea but this article is talking in details about this theory.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-bringing-back-mammoths-stop-climate-change-180969072/

And Midtown Madness 2

Fairphone is minimum 8 years.

I would look into the Surfaces, you can find a cheap second hand one and install Linux on it.

I would add: do these steps in this specific order.

I think apple used to be a generic term for fruits.

It is especially apparent for exotic fruits, for example here is a list of fruits from the Caribbean, none of then are related to the European apple:

• golden apple
• wax apple/rose apple
• pineapple
• sugar apple
• custard apple

The agreement between Roscosmos and NASA still exist. Each Soyuz mission to the ISS is carrying an American astronaut and each NASA mission is carrying a Russian cosmonaut.

The next mission with the Dragon was supposed to carry 4 astronauts, 3 Americans and 1 Russian. Now the capsule will only carry two astronaut to leave space for the rescue so only 1 American astronaut and 1 Russian will go up on the Crew-9 mission.

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Palm leaves ?

Of course I would, I did it 6 months ago.

I’ve assembled a bed from Emma (German brand) that took me 3 days to assemble.

It was awful. It did not have instructions In it, just a QR code that redirect on a websitz with ALL the manuals. Then when you find your bed you have to naviagte between 10 different versions depending of the options you have, they all look similar but have different assembly.

Then when you finally assembled your first corner, you think it will be easy for the other 3 but no, they used a totally different assembly method for the next corner for no reason.

Instead of the 40 identical length dowel pins I had 50 pins in 3 different sizes, knowing that the longest don’t fit in all holes so if you only use the shorts one at the end you are stuck with the long one you can’t use.

…

This was pure garbage, IKEA on the other is so satisfying to assemble.

It’s because plastic is do durable that 91% of the plastic ever produced is still in use, right ?

Right ???

Yes, and make sure that the background in dark mode is really black.

On some apps you have “Dark mode” and “Amoled Dark”. Make sure to pick the amoled dark.

For me it made a huge difference in battery life.

I lived for two years in Cameroon when I was a kid (around 4-5 years old), we were regularly spending time with another family who had kids and the same age.

Fast forward 15 years later, I’m 19 entering university in a totally new city in France. The first day every student is sitting in the amphitheater and they call the name of every student.

When they call the last name of the person close to me I recognize the name so I use it as an ice breaker to start a conversation saying that I knew a family with his name in Cameroon when I was a kid … He says that yeah he lived in Cameroon as a kid at the same time as I did, so here we go we found each other again 15 years later !

Nope, definitely not.

I did not read the name of the community before posting.

I’m using Google camera app on my galaxy S10. It’s the app that is used in the google pixel but ported for different phones.

It seems like there is disagreement within NASA whether it is safe for the astronauts to return on Starliner or not.

Boeing engineers did test on the ground to try to replicate the issue that is occuring on the thrusters. They found thqt the issue isndue to a Teflon seals bulging but they don’t understand precisely why is the seal buldging and when it occurs.

However they feel confident enough that the problem would not happen on the way back to earth. Some people are NASA are not as confident as they are and would like to know the precise cause of the bulging.

About the software: there is a capability in the software for the capsule to undock autonomously.

However it would means resurrecting parameters that have not been used and updated since 2022, there is some reconfiguration needed and testing to make sure it still does what is needed despite the different hardware and software change that happened since then.

It is really not looking good for Boeing right now and I don’t know if the Starliner program will survive this accident.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-official-acknowledges-internal-disagreement-on-safety-of-starliner-return/2/

Not anymore, it was designed for 7 people in 2 seat rows using propulsive landing.

During development they switched to parachute instead of propulsive landing, since parachute can be rougher they had to lean the seat more back for the astronauts to be able to handle more G’s.

In this lean back position there is not enough space for a second row of seats anymore

The fact that NASA has been considering the option to use the Dragon capsule to bring them back shows that there is some concerns.