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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I remember doing the bear grills one, and one of the choices was to jump over a ravine, or walk over it using a fallen tree as a bridge.

    Being the hiker I am, the obvious choice of walk around it being missing kind of annoyed me, but I chose the tree option.

    Bear died.

    So I got to go back and pick the jump over option, which was apparently the right one.

    Who the fuck does running jumps over a 15 foot deep ravine.

    I never bothered with the choose your own adventure things again. When the correct choice is just not available and the next logical choice just means an instant loss, you don’t have a very fun game


  • If you’re a government, you can pretty much put anything in a rocket fairing and call it a reconnaissance satellite.

    The only warning that actually has to be given is that a rocket is being launched, so you don’t accidentally trigger WW3 by setting off launch detection satellites without warning. After it’s in space, no one can really tell what was in the fairing. Could be a spy satellite, could be navigation. Could just be a box with a bunch of little rockets in it, designed to slam into whatever you want at ridiculous speed.

    But it’s way more likely that this was just Boeing having a tiny leak in a propellant tank, or a bad thruster and as soon as the concentration of propellant and oxidizer got high enough, it triggered a detonation. They certainly have a history of not leak testing their shit: airplanes falling apart, space capsules with leaky thrusters, and now a blown up satellite point more towards incompetence than malice.