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1. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   If Ed gets slapped with a stick, I’m in.

2. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   When he needed to cure his ST:D infection.

3. about 7 hours ago on Crankshaft

   While he’s on the floor, Pmm can walk on him. It won’t relieve the pain in his back, but it just might relieve the pain in her neck.

4. about 10 hours ago on Crankshaft

   More likely that Batty flipped Ahia red with his preachy and ultimately pointless Burnings™ arc.

5. about 15 hours ago on Crankshaft

   If you really don’t get the bear’s clever malapropism, you should brush up on your English.

6. about 15 hours ago on Crankshaft

   And that is a better Crankshaft-ism than anything Ed’s uttered in the last year.

7. about 15 hours ago on Crankshaft

   Ed has… reasons… for not letting anyone other than Pmm enter his bedroom.

8. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   BTW, you want a really interesting math problem, try to land a Falcon booster. When its tanks are near empty as it approaches landing, one engine at minimum throttle still makes too much thrust for it to hover—if it comes to a stop it will start rising again. So the entire way down it’s calculating how to bring velocity and altitude to zero at exactly the same time. I think this means it has to stay behind the curve the whole way down and then goose the throttle a little bit more just as the landing legs deploy. No wonder they call it a “suicide slam” landing…

9. 1 day ago on Non Sequitur

   Speed of zero, both vertical and horizontal… and elevation of zero. That last one is pretty important. Ask the designers of the Japanese “Hakuto-R” moon lander that came to a perfect halt and shut off its engines… three miles above the surface.

10. 1 day ago on Crankshaft

    They have turned to toxic black mold.