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I suppose SpaceX expected that any water ice formed in the LOX tank would not be a problem, because it's less dense than LOX and therefore should float away from the downcomer inlet(s)? So I wonder how is ice causing trouble? Hmm... how dense can water ice/LOX or water ice/O2 clathrates be?

V1 and V2 were intended to kill people and destroy things. SH/SS do so only by accident. It makes a difference.

Take heart: They will still be here after Musk is gone.

Good times. One nit: The Institute styles itself "Caltech", not "Cal Tech". It's a common error.

And once again the good die young. I like to think that Chris Knight's alma mater is the same Pacific Tech seen in 1953's The War of the Worlds. (And, BTW: We love you Jordan! Nerdy girls rule!)

Problem resolved, or nearly so. In case it helps someone else with the same problem: something was corrupt in my account on the SSA.gov side, so they destroyed my account. Now at least SSA.gov recognizes me via login.gov, but I must create a new MySocialSecurity account. This requires either...

Yes, thank you. I did that about a year ago and it did work for some months. Now it doesn't. ssa.gov insists the problem is on the login.gov side even though I do log in successfully at login.gov and can review my account settings there, and then get to the point of accepting the Terms &...

I would love to, if only I could login at SSA.gov. They haven't figured out yet why I can't. Oh, and, if you call them they say that they no longer snail mail statements. Lovely. Trump, Musk, their worshipers, and all government-defunding Republicans should eat shit and die.

Any bets on whether the DOGEbags "lose" everyone's entire SSA account history?

I was told the above by an SSA agent after previous failed attempts to login. SSA today said that a credit check is only required when creating an account, and that subsequent login attempts do not perform a credit check during authentication. (Maddeningly this does not explain why I still now...

Don't like it? Wanna start fixing it? Then vote Democrat for every office in every election. Nothing else will make any difference. The time for political dilettantism ended in 2016.

There are no previous/existing ExoMars landers, true? This would be the first one that actually gets built? Other than the putative Russian Little Cossack lander.

Note that if you want to login at SSA to print your account history etc. you must lift any credit freeze you might have at Experian. A credit check is part of SSA's current verification process.

Why leave their next victim/medical company nameless? Some of us might want to avoid doing business with them.

Musk has determined that he will never be God-Emperor of Mars, so he's taking the United States as a consolation prize, and is now converting it into a dry and airless waste.

They had hoped that we would learn from their example. Oh well. --- History teaches us that nobody ever learns from history.

Expiration dates for birth certificates.

They'll blame Sleepy Joe Biden, Crooked Hillary, and That Awful Negro. Oh, and Nancy Pelosi.

Well, as long as they don't shut off the old system until the new one is working... --- Musk's current operating principle: Move Fast, Break Stuff, Don't Bother Fixing It (That's Somebody Else's Problem)

Titanium-gold alloy, of course; Iron Dome Man's suit. The perfect cosplay for Leon Muks.