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New comment by ericcumbee in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

ericcumbee — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:44:04 +0000

Property Tax revenue, and they are not a drain on services like schools, roads, fire department, police department etc.

I'm watching this debate in a town that i am from and where I live. Our choices are pretty much be swallowed up by growth from neighboring cities and become a bed room community or solar farms and data centers.

The downside with becoming a bedroom community is you risk creating a negative tax base. where the cost of providing services is more than the properties bring with property taxes. I don't know what the right answer is.

New comment by ericcumbee in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

ericcumbee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 22:38:55 +0000

drop the second F in FIFA and change Infantino to Mohammed Ben Sulayem and it sounds familiar.

New comment by ericcumbee in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

ericcumbee — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:23:29 +0000

It’s not inconceivable that it was on those chat logs alone. In the us the jury instructions read something to the effect of “this is what beyond a reasonable doubt means. It is up to you to determine if the prosecution has met that burden and you choose to apply as much or little weight to any piece of evidence or testimony as you see fit”

New comment by ericcumbee in "Ferrari Luce"

ericcumbee — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:06:34 +0000

I'm not an expert on automotive or any type of design for that matter. But I have an appreciation for cars and especially racing cars. I can look at Ferraris of every era and even though the design language has changed. I can tell you that is a Ferrari. There is a common thread that runs through all of those cars that makes them a Ferrari. I just don't see that with the Luce. It looks like they threw a couple "Ferrari" styling cues on it, but that is it.

New comment by ericcumbee in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

ericcumbee — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:15:14 +0000

I have a hard time saying that its stalled. For one we don't really have the hard data to quantify the V3s vs V2s actual performance. On their first flight we lost one on the booster and one on the ship. I don't know that the boostback burn problems are related to the engine themselves given that they had multiple failures and a premature cutoff. That feels like thats a problem upstream of the Raptor.

New comment by ericcumbee in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

ericcumbee — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:55:16 +0000

V2 they were bring them up in groups. V3 they start them all up at once.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

ericcumbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:34:36 +0000

the scammers steal channels, rename them and run those until google shuts them down. which they typically do but its swatting flies.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

ericcumbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:33:41 +0000

they Typically put out a hype video before each flight at least the last several.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Starship's Twelfth Flight Test"

ericcumbee — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:32:37 +0000

the real question is what is our probability of Launch Commit Criteria Violation at T-0. i've seen them be no go at t-10 with a 10% chance of go and watched it lift off on time.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

ericcumbee — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:05:15 +0000

No Kimi You will not have the drink.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Improving ICU handovers by learning from Scuderia Ferrari F1 team"

ericcumbee — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:32:06 +0000

Pit stops aren't Ferrari's problem. its race Strategy.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

ericcumbee — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:05:05 +0000

There are easier cheaper ways of destroying a satellite than sending a space shuttle. We would have only sent a space shuttle to capture it for intelligence purposes.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

ericcumbee — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:13:50 +0000

The D5 has flight heritage to use the industry term.

New comment by ericcumbee in "I'd tell you a UDP joke…"

ericcumbee — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 03:33:25 +0000

An SQL Query walks into a bar and sees two table....he says "Mind if I join you?"

New comment by ericcumbee in "New Glenn Update"

ericcumbee — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:29:28 +0000

I believe that a larger fairing and vertical integration capability for Falcon is in the works as a result of the last round of the National Security Launch Contracts that SpaceX won.

New comment by ericcumbee in "Show HN: ISS in Real Time – 25 Years Aboard the International Space Station"

ericcumbee — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 01:22:41 +0000

hard to believe its been 25 years. I remember watching CSPAN at my grandmothers on a friday night watching the live coverage of STS-88 Mating the Russian Zarya Module to the US Unity node.

New comment by ericcumbee in "SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight"

ericcumbee — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:45:49 +0000

I'm pretty NASA signed the deal knowing full well that they were taking a big risk. The chances of Starship HLS being a Long Poll item for Artemis III were high. They chose Starship HLS knowing that it had a long and risky critical path.

And In fairness to NASA....and I may not have all of these details correct, but they didnt have many choices. the NASA Reauthorization Act required them to select two different landers for HLS, but the budget only funded one and under funded them at that. Starship was all that they could afford. Congress has since gone back and funded a second one.

New comment by ericcumbee in "SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight"

ericcumbee — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:43:42 +0000

Or just more people being exposed to the blue marble effect the better.

New comment by ericcumbee in "SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight"

ericcumbee — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:33:10 +0000

that goes way back to the early days of spacex. its a jab at ULA that was getting their engines from Russia. and at Russia itself because Musk felt screwed when he tried to buy a couple ICBMS for his original mars idea.

New comment by ericcumbee in "SpaceX launches Starship megarocket on 11th test flight"

ericcumbee — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 04:27:03 +0000

the people that hate musk are going to find something wrong with it "The Ship blew up on landing" and the musk lovers will do the opposite when things actually go wrong.