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Announced his retirement yesterday on Instagram with a video of his best DCFC moments, felt bad for him he could have had a great career.

Bless them. They’ve got dance moves and everything. 

? Leeds, Leeds are falling apart again! ?

And now you’re going to believe me, 
And now you’re going to believe me,
And now you’re going to belieeeeeve me
The Leeds are going down!

Can’t believe she’s 57, that’s insane. I definitely would. 

Me and my wife still call her Chun Li. 

Hodgson quoted as saying to Klopp ‘best team lost’ , top man ?

Worth watching Agents ofShield just for her

He should probably try to experience more of the world.

What I’d say to someone trying to steal my toilet. 

The well known burn out of his teams is yet to take effect, lockdown saved them from it last season, but won't this.

The future is definitely "on-orbit manufacturing and assembly". What you need is the infrastructure to be able to use the raw materials available to us in space (so you're not carrying everything up from Earth's gravity well) and an automated industrial/manufacturing process. If Starship works it's big enough to be able to create this infrastructure, so in a way it might be the last big chemical rocket we need. 
Lightweight shielding is currently required because everything needs to be as light as possible when you're carrying it up from Earth, so the Whipple Bumper is the current mainstay, using layers of aluminium foil that are surprisingly effective at slowing down projectiles such as micrometeorites. There's a list of shielding techniques at https://hvit.jsc.nasa.gov/shield-development/
If you're building in space you don't necessarily have the same mass constraints if the final structure is to be stationary. But if you're moving it somewhere then the mass is still an important factor. So space stations would likely have more solid shielding whereas spaceships will be more lightweight to be able to whizz around.
In the future I hope for giant spaceships built in space that criss-cross the solar system but never land anywhere, and then we have smaller vehicles to ascend from and descend to planetary bodies. Earth is the most massive body we'll probably want to land and take off from. Starship is designed to take off on its own from Mars (single stage to orbit) for the trip home, but requires the giant Super Heavy booster to be able to reach orbit from Earth. Also Starship's Raptor engines are a brand new type that use methane and oxygen for fuel, on the premise that you can manufacture both fairly easily on Mars or anywhere in the solar system for that matter. 

Am I right in thinking of you could build a ship in space and launch it from a space station / moon base, it wouldn’t need to be able to withstand any atmospheric pressure?
but then how do space ships shield against little meteors and things? They must be hitting it like bullets all the time, but I imagine it has to be as light as possible, so doesn’t want to be covered in armour plating. 

Maybe he’s improved a bit. And if he’s playing darth Vader all he really has to do is stand up straight and look menacing. 
not to disrespect David Prowse, but it wasn’t the most difficult acting gig in the world. 

Where am I going to find time to watch all these?!

Where am I going to find time to watch all these?!

First flight was amazing. It all lasted just a little under 7 minutes.
The first 4:45 is a vertical ascent, first on all 3 engines, then down to 2, and then a single 1. The engines cut off and the ship coasts upward a little longer and turns horizontal, preparing to "belly flop" back to Earth, falling with style, until it approaches the ground when it relights its engines and turns vertical again, ending with a controlled upright landing. Quite how any Humans onboard (and ultimately it's meant to hold 100 of us) cope with the changing orientation is yet to be seen.
Well worth watching the full video. Including the dramatic finale!
 

I’m torn, cos QPR have been in my top 3 for a while.  

That’s why I have a top 27 ?

Finally we're underway. The test flight will be in the next hour unless there's a problem. The flaps have been extended and fuelling has begun. Also, the NASA high-altitude tracking plane has taken off from Florida and is heading to Texas to monitor the flight, hoping the Starship doesn't explode before it reaches high altitude. It may well!
The SpaceX feed still isn't live, but there's commentary on NASA Spaceflight. I'll see if I can get it to embed this time:
 

Ah but that’s the beauty of it, who is actually the ‘good guy’? Mando is a bounty hunter who has shown he will hunt anyone for a price, although his morals can get in the way.
The rebels just get in the way. Not your traditional goodies. Mando is going to rely on people working outside of the law to help him achieve his good deed. Makes for a more compelling series. 

Assembled my Razer Crest

What’s so frustrating is that it’s so easily fixable. It’s what’s really putting me off football at the minute (that and Derby’s dire form).
Put a tag in the back of every player’s shirt (they’re all se aired up already for post match analytics). 
Then there’s none if this toenail, armpit offside nonsense. If the tag registers as offside, you’re offside. If you’re lucky enough to be in a position where your foot is a foot offside, but your tag is still inside, then that’s the rub of the green. 
similar to goal line technology, you can have the linos flag buzz whenever someone is offside, then the lino can raise his flag, and the ref can decide when the ball was played, or if they’re interfering. So you don’t loose the human decision making element. 
it’s really not that difficult. And I can’t believe no one at FIFA has worked it out. 

They’ve got to hold up their end though and not get relegated to league 2. 

The 15km test flight (the reason I finally got round to starting this thread) has actually been put back to "no earlier than Wednesday", and potentially a little further into December. That's with the 8th prototype, called SN8 (SN = serial number). But what's brilliant is the backlog of prototypes, each better than the last, which is building up on site. For example, here's the completed SN9 in the hangar (called the High Bay):
Sometimes the improvements are incremental, sometimes they're a step change. The latest prototype being worked on is SN15, and Elon says this will be a major improvement on the previous versions.