Cheap is better in a way?
i see where your coming from.
the return of “man” to planet earth does seem to have made a step backwards.
but this isn’t the same organisation - it isn’t as if Boeing have gone from the 787 and released a bi-plane and claim it is progress.
Space X are doing this for the first time, and as paracetamol has said, done so safely using a simple system which was first used
they are taking baby steps and i predict will in time use the “shuttle” based model
(Nasa formed in 1958 - 62 years, SpaceX formed in 2002, 18 years
The first Shuttle launch was in 1981, when Nasa had been operation 23 years by then…I am not suggest SpaceX will have it cracked in 5 years time just highlighting SpaceX are still new to the game)
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In all fairness returning boosters (and fairings now I think) for re-use in the way SpaceX have been doing is pretty damn revolutionary.
If that means they use a more traditional way of returning capsules so be it.
My understanding is that eventually they intend to reuse the returned capsules for manned flights which would be another first.
It’s probably easier and cheaper to get the shielding for re-entry right for capsules.
I’m still hoping for a TB3 type craft.
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On the news earlier I saw an interview with a pub owner (I think) declaring that pubs/bars are “the home of responsible socialising” or something along those lines.
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Ahhh!!! Mr Fuller towing the “we’re a responsible brewery” line. At least he has marginally more credibility than it falling from the mouth of Mr Wetherspoon.
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I wish it was Coors, because I have some very good jokes about how bad they are.
…when someone completely mis-reads something and makes themselves look like a complete fool, then tries to blame it on being up at 0300 to start work at 0400…
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Working from a different office today - one which employed somebody to print and display emails and any information which came through about events - professional and social. They always made the case for the importance and value of said noticeboards and were the first to shout that they needed to be expanded to incorporate more information. They were militant poster worshippers.
So I’m sat facing this massive noticeboard of wall planners, various posters and countless emails. But I look closer and notice that everything stops in March. Nothing has been updated.
And, weirdly, the world hasn’t actually ended.
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Today, I will be mostly LOLing that the advert for Deputy OC JLs only lists the Child protection course as ‘desirable’, rather than ‘Essential’ 
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Don’t apply. The Dep OC JL job is cursed. It’s like being the Hogwarts Defence against the Dark Arts teacher.
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You can’t leave it there, more detail please haha
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Well there was one guy, ex regular Raf Regiment Sqn Ldr or Wing Commander, but got him as the Dep OC. (This was years ago now.)
He was an utter idiot. Treated everyone with contempt, we were manning the gate on camp, and he would only put NCOs on the guard roster as it wasn’t a job for officers. Whereas normally we all take it in turns to spend down shifts manning the gate, one of the SNCOs went home early because of him, because he kept putting staff playing enemy on guard, so they got like no sleep and when the rest of the commissioned officers agreed to do guard (As we always did) he wouldn’t. We were all knackered from day one because of other issues, and he was the only guy who didn’t do a single night shift (it’s sleeping guard btw).
We then always have to arrange for another unit to cover guard on the night of grad dinner, so that everyone can go to the dinner at Honington, his job was to sweet talk the other unit on base to cover that night for us, but he did such a bad job they flat out refused, and it took one of the other officers a lot of time to make up for it and talk them back around.
We then had a meet and greet with the Air Cmdre, as is common at Test, but he took over the running of the whole thing and carefully choreographed which staff she could meet, (the ones he liked) and the rest of us were told to be invisible in the Sgts Mess and got reamed if we were seen by her. He then took over the spiel he gave to her despite the fact he’d only been with us a few months, and only managed to attend one training weekend before test. So was talking utter rubbish.
He was the worst, but others just don’t last, they never lasted more than a year and were usually totally ineffectual.
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Any chance of a name by PM?
There was an article in the DT yesterday which intimated that the 2 weeks after the clocks go back there are more accidents on the road as people get caught out. What on earth by?
You do have to wonder, nowadays.
I think the only clock that I have that doesn’t change itself is the Oven… so that stays on Z all year round 
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This isn’t new. I’d heard it before so tried to find the article you mentioned…
The Times ran the story back in 2011 as well, and other outlets have across multiple years - and that’s just from the first few results of one search phrase.
I’ve not seen it before. it cited “research” over the last 5 years and something in Nov/Dec 2019.
Doesn’t matter when it was reported though, it’s still nuts.
Seems to me that there’s an element of correlation/causation. Darker, colder, wetter, etc.
The clock change emphasises the change of conditions causing the spike.