GreyEyedGhost

This is about rocket launches, not satellites.

...SpaceX is part of the program to get back to the moon.

*Probably typed on a smartphone, one of the most technology-dense products ever created by humanity, currently used by over half of humanity.

Tell that to a bronze age engineer, and they will probably respond that those two are closer to each other than they are to his best efforts. And he would probably be right.

Or an r in wash. Warsh, or Warshington.

It's generally only l before m, and b after m. So no l sound in salmon or calm, but there is in solve. Oddly, there's no l sound in salve. Likewise, there is no trailing b sound in bomb, dumb, or lamb. Of course, it's important to remember this is English, where the exceptions outnumber the rules, which is expected when you mash three languages together with a sprinkling of the rest of the languages.

Old people have been saying this since I was a kid, and I'm old now. Our perception of time appears to be weighted inversely with how much we've experienced, so summer feels like forever for a preteen, but two years is a blink of an eye to someone in their 50s. Couple that with no significant events or milestones for months or years, and your perception of time is further distorted. And now all those old people, like me, can talk to a million people online about it, so it appears more prevalent than it was before, when old people couldn't or weren't communicating with strangers half a world away on a daily basis.

Yeah, this reads like, "I suck at this skill, so this skill must be useless and the people who do use it are wrong."

And you don't perhaps think your attitude is guided by your feelings? Why should others around you have to be the toilet where you deal with your feelings by having such a negative attitude? Or perhaps none of us are sufficient to do this on our own, and sometimes we rely on those close to us to get us through the parts we find difficult.

The fact you liken emotions to a waste product, and not an equally vital part of the entire process, says it all.

Holy shit, it's almost like men and women sometimes have different motivations! Maybe the problem isn't the event, but how she feels about it. And maybe the solution is to let her get it off her chest instead of suppressing it. I know, us guys generally don't like to deal with our feelings, but that doesn't mean they don't exist, or that it wouldn't be healthier if we did.

small thing to get hung up on

The thong, right?

While I get that it's not a small feat, and an unusual finale for space flight, this isn't much higher than some skydiving packages you can book today. Still pretty ballsy for back then.