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You are to expect that, whatever failures arise, they do so progressively in later stages of flight with greater successes back in the earlier stages of flight. This continuously as the progress is eventually achieved throughout the whole mission. Instead, SpaceX seems to be going backwards...

Trump voters, circa 2025

Tren/Comboio Celta Porto-Vigo, booked with Renfe: https://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en/how-to-travel/celta-train The Celta departs from Vigo-Guixar, which is a different station downhill from Vigo-Urzáiz. The departure times are 08:58 and 19:56. Packages with boat and train are sold by travel...

Renfe scrapped their Talgo Tren Hotel trains, or modified them for use with the Avril locomotives for use in long-haul services. Of the four U-Hansa couchettes that CP - Comboios de Portugal had, only two remain. They haven't run since 2010. The old Renfe Estrella coaches (8.000, 9.600 and...

Both Portugal and Spain don't subsidise cross-border links. Either they are profitable enough to be worth doing, or they don't exist. In Portugal, at least, that seems to be shifting, as the Portuguese Government as since noticed (finally) that their access to France is being gate kept by the...

No. The document references the National Railway Plan and the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), and is quite specific on what they think is a priority. The plan for privatisation is only targeted towards passenger operation and passenger station management. Infrastructure and traffic...

This week, the new Portuguese Government is discussing its brand-new executive plan in parliament, with more details regarding how railways will be developed over the next four years. Namely, the continued interest in promoting competition in the operation of passenger railway services. This...

Americans don't know how to do a proper military parade. In France they go all out, even going as far as BOOING the president! :lol:

So far... not much. Russia has its hands so tied with Ukraine that they had to resort to North Korean soldiers and Iranian weapons just to get its act together. Despite the fact that the Iranian–Russian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership was signed just days before Trump took office...

There is wood, cement and sand to Irivo, plus wood and containers to São Martinho do Campo.

The busiest part in terms of freight services is between Vila Nova de Gaia - Devesas and Contumil. Mostly Euro 4000 and Europrinters, but occasionally, the ex-MLW No. 1964 is around.

The issue is that generative systems (like large language models) use a pornographic amount of energy to train and work. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj5ll89dy2mo

I would say that Elon Musk is the one in the most fragile position here. Donald Trump can, in a couple of executive orders, shut down the viability of both Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. The use of drugs is also a great liability that Elon Musk has under the eyes of the Republican Party. Then this...

Lockheed Martin has a solution kept under very closed doors:

The Poles and Germans have used their own solution for exactly this use case. It's called Rafil Type V, SUW2000 or PolSUW.

The Minister for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, said that the losses of power that preceded the blackout, of 2,2 Gigawatts over the course of 22 seconds, began in substations in the provinces of Granada, Badajoz and Seville, in that order...

The Portuguese national railway company CP - Comboios de Portugal is technically a manufacturer of rolling stock, historically having made vehicles from parts of other vehicles, or entirely from scratch. The company will also manufacture brand new coaches this decade. Some of the hardware is...

One. Probably myth.

Some forms of oil and gas extraction are considerably more expensive, and require high oil prices to break even. The easy oil is pretty much gone. More than half of US oil and gas is extracted through fracking, which is one of the most expensive technics. Trump's "Drill Baby, Drill" if taken...

We went from "alternative facts" to "hostile and political". At least the previous White House Press Secretary was funny to watch. This one is just infuriating, like pretty much everyone else on Trump's second term's government.