The wings are crazy ! They look way too flimsy for what they do.

Next time you see an airplane, imagine a crane picking it up by the wings, around the middle of the wing length, and then start shaking it up.

It does not look like the wing will be able to hold that much weight.

Torture and money will give you a ton of information but not reliable information.

Because in the first case the person will say anything to make you stop and in the second case the person will say anything to make you continue.

Imagine you want to build a cabin in a very remote place in Alaska.

Getting there is quite difficult, you did it a few times in the 60’s but the path is so bad that you had to throw the truck away each time (around $45,000 per trip, for the truck + gas)

You are still planning to build your cabin but having to buy a new truck for each trip is not great, plus the fact that only one company can make this SLS truck so you can’t get more than once a year.

Building a cabin in these circumstances is close to impossible.

Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused. The trip from the hardware store to the build site now only costs you around $100 for the gas plus truck expenses AND you can now do the trip to the hardware store multiple times a day !

Now building the cabin becomes way more accessible.

Replace the Alaskan cabin with a scientific base on the moon or Mars and multiply the amounts by 100,000 and you have an approximation of the situation

It reached the altitude of 96km, not space but not far either.

Caramelized apple ice cream is amazing !

Don’t forget Serge Gainsbourg

I got the case once: someone was selling potatoes door to door from a weird van.

We got a few robberies in the village a bit later and the police told us that the people were actually checking all houses to see who was here or not and which houses were worth it.

Fairphone is minimum 8 years.

Ripe mango juice is meeh but green mango juice is amazing. Not too sweet and slightly sour make it a perfect drink.

Palm leaves ?

For 3D printers I think prusa is the bramd that can be trusted with quality.

They are expensive but made in Europe and very reliable out of the box. I’ve been printing tons of parts for the renovation of my house and tools organization with no issues. I just start the print and come back once it done. Now I even do it remotely from work.

Compared to my brother who had a Ender 3, tinkered quite a lot with it but was constantly baby sitting the prints and eventually just gave up on it.

Opinel is amazing too for knives. Their pocket knives are cheap, sharp and easy to sharpen and durable.

The first two prototypes looked like what traditional rocket engine looks like.

For example:

The RS-25 engine that equipped the space shuttle and now the SLS launcher

The Vulcain 2.1 that is on the Ariane 6

SpaceX put a lot of work on refining the engine, they also already produced more than 600 engines ! It’s a crazy amount !

I love my steel bike, it’s great on the road, on gravel or for a quick grocery shop.

I’m not gonna win any competition with it but it is honestly such a fun bike.

And with care it should last forever.

A scoop of vanilla ice cream with chartreuse poured on top.

At least 4-7 times a week. I have not read anything about an upper limit so go for it.

Ejaculation lower the risk of prostate cancer, so masturbation should probably be medically advised to all men.

4-7 times a week is a good number according this study

“Mangez le si vous voulez” (Eat him of you wish)

A book relating events that happened in 1870 in a French village. From a misunderstanding one guy is beaten, released, tortured and ultimately burned alive with people bridging toast to collect the fat that was dripping from the fire.

All the events happened in a single day that goes from mundane to horror.

“Do what you are passionate about”/" Choose a job that you love …" and

“Turning a hobby into a job”

is two different things for me.

For me anyone should try to find a job they are passionate about if it’s a possibility.

I love Space, when I started my engineering degree I did everything I could to orient my career toward aerospace and I loved it. I worked as an aerospace manufacturing engineer and I was good at it because I loved that.

I also love cooking but clearly I’m glad I did not tried to become a chef, I’m very happy that it stayed a hobby.