Chris Birkinbine

Engineer, Scientist and Project Manager Builder, experimenter, rocketeer, science communicator and podcaster

[Chris Birkinbine @PhysicistChris]

How familiar are you with the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and its role in commercial spaceflight?

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[Chris Birkinbine @PhysicistChris]

@parched01 @janninereid1 With all due respect, you can't claim you're an independent not enamored by a leader to the point of giving them a free pass while also ending with "MAGA forever". Proclaiming support for anyone forever requires you to give them a free pass when they screw up. Think about it.

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@atensnut and those 4% are mostly just confused libertarians.

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@legacy411 Some people think it's a picket pounder, but that right there is a vintage 2006 US Army door-knocker-downer. Lol

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@teslaownersSV I just wanted to congratulate you on inventing the 57th version of the libertarian party.

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@SecDef Isn't spending time, money and effort renaming a ship because you don't like the politics of it the exact opposites taking politics out of ship naming? Legitimate question.

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@Skepticallefty Isn't paying for what you use as you go instead of charging everyone a "tax" sort of up your alley? I kid. Long time no chat ;)

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@1ALivesonX @BeckyBmiddle @HustleBitch_ @grok They do, and nothing on their radar predicted the storm. It was a freak happenstance of very rare factors occuring at once. That's what I've read, I'm not a meteorologist. *Shrugs*

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@matt_vanswol @elonmusk Why is "Neither" not an option?

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12 Democrats who would lose an unlosable election, written by those who brought you Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris. At this point I'm starting to believe the DNC doesn't want the Whitehouse.

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The 12 Democrats who make the most sense for 2028.

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@mbrushstocks @WallStreetApes Technically only 32.3% if voter eligible Americans voted for him.

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This takes a technical correctness to imply something is true which is not. The president is the only office in which all states participate at the same time -true, but: We use an electoral system not popular vote, with a first past the post voting system in most states, and..

You can win with only a small fraction of the nations support, which means the democratic will of the nation is often times not the same as presidential mandate. President Trump had 49.8% of the casted votes (less than half), and 32.3% of the total voting eligible population. He won because of our system, not because he represents the majority of the US, and that is an important distinction.

I'd be interested to see if he still would have won in a system that uses ranked choice voting and doesn't procedurally dismiss 3rd party candidates. I don't have a prediction I am just curious how it would have turned out.

[Chris Birkinbine @PhysicistChris]

@TimeCommandHQ Which means we are all already time travelers.

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@NSwilderness Sorry about that.

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@DrPhiltill My biggest concern is not knowing what I should, can, or can't share to a random email request from someone outside to gov. No one is trying to hide. We just don't want to break laws.

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@elonmusk The biggest source of waste in the government comes from legislation, regulations and policy related to contracts. Federal employees would actually be more than happy to help you fix this if you let us.

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@Matthewtravis08 I understand the sentiment. Ultimately, the more divided we are, the easier we fall. As a fed employee myself, please be there for them. Demonstrate the values we fight for instead of confirming for them what they already believed. How you treat them is about who you are not them

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@ShadowofEzra So I've watched this footage several times, and it seems clear to me that for whatever reason the right side rear landing gear collapsed on landing. Now I don't know if it was a hard landing or what, but somewhere someone should be looking at that.

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@RuttinBuckTX @ShadowofEzra People record this stuff all the time. You only saw this one because it caught an accident. You aren't seeing the thousands of others that get taken every week without issues. You can find hundreds of hours of that footage on YouTube.