Both Koch bros. get to fight over the xbox controller on live stream.

Thought we couldn’t dump raw sewage in the ocean

I worry they’ll get their dreams crushed.

Swimmingly, indeed.

Controlled by a Nintendo switch controller with stick drift

Second hand, “vintage” carbon fiber.

If Elon designs it, will be made out of stainless steel that rusts in seawater

Oh boy, can it!

I am here for that comment, thanks!

Does that mean she’s not coming on then?

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It does raise a ton of questions, though. If 24th-century medical science can easily revive a person who’d been frozen with primitive 20th-century cryonics, why did they ever “give up” on people dying of things in sickbay? Stick them in the freezer and ship them to a better facility on a starbase. Have emergency freezers in shuttles or escape pods would also make sense.

There was Kahn and company on TOS, the '37s on Voyager, and geetarist, businessman with boneitis and random sad housewife on TNG.

Don’t know about TOS, but TNG did country singer, asshole businessman, and woman. It was still the wacky seasons so it had that feel.

I bet I could beat that.

The fact that you know his name tells me he’s not.

My ex hated that about me too. She absolutely despised it. When we got together I thought she was like that too, but she was mirroring my attitudes about things.

By the end she was saying “law of attraction” and reading tarot cards.

I remember when they found it in my alphabet soup!

Actually they didn’t find the plane. Just a rusty old truck.

Elon Musk, if you happen to read this, I believe you’re the only one that can go down there. You’re so brave and amazing, nobody else could handle such pressures.

I’d bet you could even go down there alone and do excellent work. We all believe in you. Go. Seriously, do it.

We need to send at least two. You can’t just trust the words of one billionaire. We should probably send at least 3 just to be on the safe side.

This MTF specializes in being rescued by a subsequent, cooler MTF lol

If it’s true that the bones found on Gardner Island “are almost certainly” from Earhart and/or Noonan, I find it highly unlikely that they could have landed at Gardner, and then the plane be swept all the way from there to Howland, while remaining so intact the whole way.

Keep in mind that the scientists who claim the bones are hers simply performed updated forensic osteology methods against the bone measurements and body measurements extrapolated from physical records and photographs. They said:

The bones are consistent with Earhart in all respects we know or can reasonably infer. Her height is entirely consistent with the bones. The skull measurements are at least suggestive of female. But most convincing is the similarity of the bone lengths to the reconstructed lengths of Earhart’s bones. Likelihood ratios of 84–154 would not qualify as a positive identification by the criteria of modern forensic practice, where likelihood ratios are often millions or more. They do qualify as what is often called the preponderance of the evidence, that is, it is more likely than not the Nikumaroro bones were (or are, if they still exist) those of Amelia Earhart. If the bones do not belong to Amelia Earhart, then they are from someone very similar to her. And, as we have seen, a random individual has a very low probability of possessing that degree of similarity.

This is certainly a good estimate, and the methodology tracks, but a) the actual bones cannot be measured/studied further, b) it’s possible the bones were from a female of her same size, c) no other corroborating evidence is possible. They did a DNA analysis of some bones they found in the Tarawa archives in 2019(ish) which they thought might be the long lost bones, but tests concluded that they were not. So in this case I think it’s safe to say these bones have a high probability of being hers, but not to extrapolate that because those bones were hers, other theories must be ruled out. It’s suggestive that the bones were hers, but not proof that any other hypothesis should be confirmed or rejected.

I think the implication is the appearance of doing it for a good reason, rather than the timing implying that they want to pull out right now to get theirs at the expense of anyone still left in.

The stock market doesn’t create money from nothing, it’s people with good timing taking money from people with bad timing. When someone cashes out, it slightly hurts all other holders and the company itself. The bigger the cash out, the more it hits the rest. A big enough cash out can also trigger more people to do the same.

Basically, getting rich on the stock market, just like almost every other way of getting rich, comes at the expense of other people. It’s just a bit easier to handle since you’ll likely never meet or even hear about the people you hurt. So it’s easier for people to stomache, or pretend it isn’t their problem.

You are right!

Might be a good sector for Boeing to go into. Clearly the whole concept of up isn’t working out for them, maybe the other direction would be better.

No, it said, “Gillespie’s organization, the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery, has also claimed that it found forensic evidence, including bones on the island, that were likely Earhart’s.” That’s an entirely different group than Deep Sea Vision, who conducted the deep sea exploration that’s highlighted by the article.

And the study that made the claim back in 2018 said the bones, “have more similarity to Earhart than to 99 percent of individuals in a large reference sample.” That was based on documented measurements of the bones, rather than the bones themselves, which have long since been lost. “Most certainly”, in this case, should be taken with a huge grain of salt.