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Will you be using a controller or a wheel?

Starship SN15 nailed the landing! There was a small post-landing fire (methane leak?), but they managed to extinguish it quickly.

Not a fan of Marvel at all, but I love Loki! This looks good...

Yeah, a bit hard to vote Bode out given that the member meeting can't take place due to covid restrictions, and digital meeting is not an option. We're still due last year's annual meeting which has been delayed and delayed again. And even then, I believe 2 thirds of votes are needed to vote anyone from the Aufsichtsrat out; and given lack of options to replace him (Wontorra? Don't think so...), I don't think anything will happen. Unless we do get relegated, then I can see some changes incoming.

Hopefully it's just namedropping... Don't want Labbadia on a long-term basis. He's a good solution for the end of the season and relegation battle, but very underwhelming otherwise. Terzic...no thanks. Werner, Leitl, Schultz are hard to judge. Could be an interesting option, especially Werner. Think they are only being named because their current clubs are doing well in the 2. Liga.

A very special message from Mars!

For learning exposure triangle, I'd probably focus on each element separately. E.g. shooting portraits (or any other topic where the foreground is very distinctive from the background) for learning aperture, any kind of motion for learning shutter speed, low light conditions for learning ISO. Then combine it all by experimenting in aperture or shutter priority modes, or manual once they're comfortable with it.

Move them to the UK politics thread... so the rest of us outside of the UK don't have to suffer reading it

I thought reading and posting about corona was tiresome, but this is even worse.

Mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it's clearly not working with Kohfeldt, on the other hand, I'm honestly afraid to see who will be the next head coach.

Great addition, they will definitely need his experience and goal scoring in the 2. Liga.

China's Space Agency has successfully launched Tianhe, the core module of the new Tiangong space station, into orbit Once finalised (scheduled for 2022), the station will feature 14 internal experiment racks and more than 50 external docking points for instruments designed to gather data in the space environment. Images of the interior have been released:

It was between 4 companies per se, but Boeing's proposal was deemed to be so stupid that it was not even taken into consideration Dynetics - who I was hoping would win, as I like the company and their lander design was cool - were unfortunately unable to offer a budget-friendly proposal and had several serious design drawbacks, but most importantly, their lander essentially didn't have any payload capacity (negative mass allocation ). They are also challenging NASA's decision, which probably is a more or less standard procedure that rarely changes anything. It will all be likely delayed one way or another though, as I don't think SLS is going to be ready in time.

Relax, it's not a Death Star

I don't like any of them either, but you have to admit that SpaceX is a very well organised and run engineering company that finds and employs very talented people and gives them responsibility and freedom to do things. I believe that private sector in general is the future of spaceflight, as government agencies like NASA are sadly heavily dependent on politicians and thus face obstacles and limitations that private companies don't. In an ideal scenario, NASA should do the exploratory science and technology development, then hand the lessons learned to private industry to commercialise it and make it more affordable in a long run. With more and more countries (both government agencies and private sector) getting into space, this will hopefully be the golden age of space exploration again. As for Bezos/Blue Origin protesting NASA's lunar lander contract decision, I don't think they have any grounds for it. SpaceX's proposal was most capable, safest, most in line with NASA's future plans, and, most importantly, cheapest. Hopefully all this legal nonsense won't delay Artemis for longer.

With the difference being, one actually builds things that fly while the other can't even launch anything into orbit

Exciting, hopefully all goes well...

Looks like a mix of a crocodile and Scrat from Ice Age The males look even weirder, as they have a weird bump at the end of that long snout! They use it to make buzzing sounds to attract females, and they also keep harems of female gharials They are also extremely docile and not dangerous to humans at all Probably one of the reasons why they are also critically endangered and will probably become extinct in our lifetime...

Not the gharials, apparently! They feed almost exclusively on fish and small crustaceans

Whoa, how cool is this??? A Gharial crocodile carrying his hatchlings. Click on the pic to see it full size!

I agree that Baumann's squad planning is by far a bigger culprit for our situation, but I also think that while pretty poor and lacking in several positions, the squad is still good enough NOT to be fighting against relegation for two years in a row. Yes, you can't blame Kohfeldt for Sargent's lack of finishing or Eggestein's misplaced passes etc., but what I do fail to see is any recognisable philosophy and strategy on the pitch; there doesn't seem to be any ideas and match plan at all - all I've seen in our recent matches is just long balls being hoofed forward mindlessly - and this is surely responsibility of the head coach? Just as he's responsible for choosing to continue with the 5 at the back although is clearly not working, or with playing Sargent as #10, or generally allowing underperforming players to remain in the starting XI every matchday. I actually think Kohfeldt is not a bad manager who would likely do well with a squad of higher quality, but in our current situation he's just not pulling it off. Also looking forward, if we do manage to stay up again, after all, what will change? Likely, nothing at all. With no financial resources and no players in the club to sell for a substantial transfer fee, I can't see us strengthening the squad during the summer, so it's likely that next season the quality of the players at Kohfeldt's disposal will be more or less the same, so it's probably just delaying the inevitable. That said, I can absolutely understand the board allowing him to continue. First of all, there's hardly any alternative on the market that we could afford (while paying Kohfeldt too), and with 3 matchdays left, it's impossible to say if that would even make any difference. Could have been worth a try though.

I hope so too, but I have little hope.

I honestly think we can't even afford to sack him.

Kohfeldt stays.

The decision has been made and will be made public soon.