Got mine yesterday!

Not sure if /s, but just in case: The Gripen engine (the „power plant“) is built under license and derived from the General Electric F404 engine, which means that the US basically has a veto vote on who SAAB can sell the Gripen to. Replacing that engine with a european-built (be it Dassault or Airbus or whatever) alternative would make the Gripen a much better plane given the current state of affairs.

I also recently finished the Dark Tower and man… don‘t read the finale sitting in a crowded bus like I did, too many feels ._.

Not sure that link is working correctly?

… you do know that every subsequent book in the series longer than the previous one, right? ._.

The final book of the Dark Tower series! Been slowly working my way through them, and just started the seventh volume.

“One more turn of the path, and then we reach the clearing.”

Mass Effect Legendary Edition!

This is just so hilarious and sad at the same time. For some context, the Swiss military had (after a lengthy and expensive process) selected the Gripen to replace its fleet of aging F18s. That decision was then overturned by the Swiss voters via a referendum, causing the whole process to restart and finally, years later, selecting the F35… and now we are back at square one I guess.

Who is left at this point? Japan and maybe India?

This reminds me of that one subreddit, “science diagrams that look like shitposts“ or something like that?

I’m not sure how you got that impression - the eradication of smallpox may very well be one of the greatest successes of modern medicine. It’s a story about hope, and what we can achieve if we work together.

Apollo walked so Voyager could run

Very interesting read!

I’m not really into Matrix and not familiar with how it operates, but… over 14% of the yearly costs of the Foundation is the Executive Director salary, while server infrastructure in comparison is only 20%? And they need more money to run the home instance?

Have you read Livesuit? It‘s a short novella set in the same universe. Can highly recommend!

Mine as well, just absolute cinema all the way through!

I guess you don’t get the emotional impact as compared to having played the whole trilogy, but it was enough fun on its own that it made me come back to it all these years later!

Slowly making my way through the Mass Effect Legendary Edition after grabbing it during a Steam sale! I only played ME3 when I was a teenager, so it‘s really fun to finally get the full experience.

Making my way through The Dark Tower series, after reading and abandoning it halfway through as a teenager. Just started Song of Susannah, say thank ya.