I mean, sure hindsight is 20/20.

But Columbia would have never happened if Congress hadn’t pulled funding for the titanium heat shield they wanted.

Cons: Expensive vehicles means we still don’t have Medicare for All.

Cons:

Trading with “the enemy” used to be considered treasonous.

Cons:

It HAS to be made out of prohibitively expensive and difficult to acquire titanium.

Not a rocket scientist so I can’t say.

But I’m betting a room full of them and NASA engineers thought through all of their options based on the criteria and current tech.

Ok, buddy, if you say so.

Correct.

Mea culpa, you’re right. I was misremembering.

So with the original titanium heat shield the Columbia crew wouldn’t have died such gruesome deaths. All because Congress was cheap.

Again, completely agree.

But like the A10, sometimes tech just passes you by.

And swing wings are like biplanes. Old obsolete tech.

Except the US doesn’t have a cheap, easily available source of titanium.

The stuff we used for the SR-71 and F-14 had to be gotten surreptitiously from the Russians.

That’s why the Space Shuttle didn’t have the titanium heat shield it was designed with and had to rely on the newly invented, much more delicate, ceramic heat shields. Which, it can be argued, resulted in the all of the deaths of the Challenger crew.

While I agree they look cool, they’re an engineering nightmare and absolutely require titanium to build and that shit is too expensive for very little benefit.

The point of a variable wing was to increase the effective flight envelope and there’s no point now that the same thing can be done with modern avionics and materials.

Sorry.

Dems: snatching defeat from the jaws of victory since 2000!

Reiterating that split days off suck. I didn’t mind having non-weekend consecutive days off, but weekends were much better.

Personally I’d take Thursday/Friday off if it’s possible because things still happen socially on those days. If that matters to you.

You could always talk to a graphic designer who specializes in font design.

Or if you want to drop down that rabbit hole, there’s font creation software that’ll let you make whatever you want.

Find something close and edit it in that to get what you want. It’s been forever since I did this so I don’t even know what apps are available these days to recommend.

Then 3d print it at your local library.

Pretty sure you could get a useful product with a high quality chrome rattlecan.

Fonts are protected in the US, but most don’t care if it isn’t being used for profit.

It’s just the “if those kids could read they’d be so mad” meme in another format.