What I’ve noticed on two Samsung phones, my dad’s and my wife’s aunt’s, is that the Samsung messaging app silently fails and some messages don’t get sent or received. I’m not sure if it has anything to do with the OS of the user on the other end, but in my dad’s case he wasn’t getting messages from my mom who has an iPhone. Switching them to the Google Messages app solved the problem.

Hashtags good.

“Ars on your side!”

Why can’t it stay liquid?

Well, the water is necessary for for life support and needs to be sourced somehow anyway. It kind of sets a minimum crew and passenger capacity if you want to make the most use of your shielding water.

Water doesn’t have to be a liquid, but don’t actual spacecraft typically contain liquids during wall of those cases? What do you mean?

I don’t think it works that way. The water slows down the neutrons so that when and if they get to you they don’t have enough energy to hurt you. The radiation doesn’t contaminate the water any more than a microwave oven does.

Since the astronauts need water to survive, why not line the spaceship with reservoirs of it to provide the shielding? Or does water not block space radiation well enough?

It’s not a keffiyeh print. It’s Lala Berlin’s “Heritage” print. Not sure how I feel about them not acknowledging the obvious inspiration on their website, but I guess that’s fashion. Anyway, keffiyehs are not anti-Semitic and anyone who thinks so needs to have their head checked.

Did the USA burn through international sympathy as quickly after 9/11?

I’ve heard that there’s a lot of sympathy for the Palestinian cause in Italy, so that might be part of it as well.

Trying again doesn’t necessarily mean trying again right away.

They could have tried again with another booster and landing pad.

Does defending Israel include extending equal rights to Palestinians and allowing the right of return for refugees and their descendants? Netanyahu or not, I don’t think an apartheid state should be defended, especially with resources that could instead be used to help with domestic issues in the US.