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This is lovely. A man who saved millions of lives, but was then arrested for being gay and forced into conversation therapy which caused him to commit suicide. You would think people would universally celebrate this move to have him on the note. But no. She is a published author, by the way.

Ryan Greggs . Beginning to think I'm not going to be arsed with this fifa. Playing F1 the last few weeks has reminded me what it's like to actually have fun playing a game.

Leaky component led to SpaceX explosion A leaky component may have been to blame for the dramatic explosion of a SpaceX capsule during testing in April. No one was hurt in the ground test at Cape Canaveral in Florida, but the failure was a setback in the company's efforts to send astronauts to the International Space Station. Currently, the US buys seats for its astronauts on the Russian Soyuz rocket. Nasa is planning to hand over the transport of astronauts to and from the ISS to Elon Musk's SpaceX and Boeing. It's doing this under something called the Commercial Crew Programme. The preliminary findings of the SpaceX analysis suggest that the leaking component allowed a small amount of nitrogen tetroxide (NTO), which is used as a liquid oxidiser in spacecraft engines, to enter high-pressure tubes meant for helium. On 20 April at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, engineers were conducting something called a static fire engine test, where the spacecraft is secured to the ground and its engines are fired at full thrust. SpaceX was checking the vehicle's propulsion systems prior to a planned test of the in-flight emergency abort system. A small amount of NTO was driven at high speed through a helium check valve (one that allows gas to flow in just one direction) made from titanium during initialisation of the launch escape system - which is designed to blast the crew free in the event of a rocket failure. This led to structural failure within the valve. In a statement, the company said: "The failure of the titanium component in a high-pressure NTO environment was sufficient to cause ignition of the check valve and led to an explosion." It added: "The reaction between titanium and NTO at high pressure was not expected." As a result of the explosion, SpaceX has already taken several actions, including the use of components called burst disks instead of check valves. The burst disks seal completely until opened by high pressure. The company believes this will prevent any liquid propellant entering the gaseous pressurisation system. In an interview with the C-SPAN television network on 12 July, Nasa administrator Jim Bridenstine, said: "This was a test. This is why we test. Ultimately, we find out what went wrong, we make adjustments and we move forward. That's what Nasa has always done, that's what we expect our commercial crew partners to do. They are doing it." SpaceX has been criticised for a perceived lack of openness in the wake of the explosion. Jim Bridenstine said there was now a new procedure in place in the event that something similar happens again. "Within a couple of hours, we're going to do a press conference and get as much information out to the public as soon as possible," he explained. The company has had to rearrange its spacecraft assignments as a result of the test failure, in order to stay on track for its Commercial Crew Programme flights. The Crew Dragon originally assigned to SpaceX's demonstration mission to the ISS (known as Demo-2) will carry out the company's in-flight abort test. The spacecraft originally assigned to the first operational mission (known as Crew-1) will launch on Demo-2. Demo-2 will ferry Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the ISS for the first crewed test flight of the vehicle. It would mark the first time US astronauts have launched to space from American soil since the last flight of the space shuttle in July 2011. The plan had been to launch the mission at the end of this year. But officials currently won't commit to whether that goal can be achieved. Jim Bridenstine told C-SPAN: "I don't want to comment on whether or not we will get that flight complete this year," adding: "We need to do it as soon as possible." It is expected to be followed by the first crewed flight of Boeing's spacecraft, the CST-100 Starliner. Astronauts Michael Fincke, Christopher Ferguson and Nicole Aunapu Mann will fly on the first crewed test of the Starliner. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-49005026

Barça activate their right to buy-back Marc Cucurella at a €2m penalty. Marc was sold for €2m to Eibar in June last year with the clause that Barcelona could bring him back within a 3 year time-span. I bet you’re happy mate! @The Rebel CRS

This is so sad but so true. It doesn't just go for the UK either even though I think it's definitely worse here than elsewhere.

The comments on this thread Classic Englishness. Always choose the negatives over the positives. Anyway, we are jammy, jammy fucks. We had so many level's of luck our way. You will never see that Stokes deflection ever again. It was a moment, like Aguero winning the PL title for City in like the last second of the season. And to win on boundaries is like winning a World Cup in Football on corners. Pretty ridiculous really. If anything, they should have just said as England won the group game between them, that would be the differential. But you know what? We've been so unlucky across all form's of Sport that when we do get the rub of the green, we should take it. You have to. All the best sides sometimes need a bit of luck to win, it can't be all purely on skill and ability. We deserve to win it to be frank. The journey this team has been on and given we've been spanking teams out the park on a regular basis for the last three years in this format, we deserve to have something to show for it. I cannot remember many big Sporting tournament's where we have come in as favourites and despite the added pressure (And I still don't think we really truly ever reached our very best level in most the games), we still had enough. Feel terrible for NZ, they have won a lot of friends along the way though and were worthy final opponent's. Now to smash the Aussies in the Ashes. We need to use this momentum and crush them into the ground, no mercy (Sorry @Toinho, love you really)

Can't get enough of them either. Top notch basslines and unreal restraint from the drums and guitar. You can tell they're real technicians, but their focus is entirely on the music.

What the hell has the Cricket World Cup or Cricket got to do with Brexit or the EU? Or is he trying to get the Daily Mail, Express, The Sun and The Telegraph to add Cricket to another of the reasons why the EU have made us slaves!?!

Lol do you just suck on lemons in your spare time to be that bitter

Jesus Christ

Insects but okay. Always find the work of ants as a colony pretty surreal.