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SpaceX's bid price was $680 million. The source selection statement did not reveal a price for Northrop's bid other than saying it was "significantly higher." Based on NASA's budget request, Northrop's bid was likely approximately twice as high.

But SpaceX did not just win on price. Its "mission suitability" score, effectively its technical ability to design, develop, and fly a vehicle capable of deorbiting the space station, was 822, compared to Northrop's score of 589. SpaceX's approach had one weakness, compared to seven weaknesses in Northrop's bid, according to NASA evaluators.

Finally, the selection was also based on past performance by the contractors. SpaceX's performance was rated as "very high," given how it has delivered with the Cargo and Crew Dragon spacecraft and its Falcon 9 rocket. Northrop's performance on Cygnus and its various rockets was given a "moderate" rating. Overall, the NASA evaluators expressed a "very high level" of confidence in SpaceX being able to complete the mission, whereas a "moderate level" of confidence was expressed in Northrop.

Yeah, not seeing the problem here.

In short, only one company—SpaceX—is thriving in NASA's commercial space ecosystem.

That is not a great position for the space agency to find itself in, so there are plenty of questions for NASA and policymakers. Do they cave to traditional space contractors and go back to cost-plus contracts for most services? (Slow and expensive.) Do they turn over many of their spaceflight functions to SpaceX? (Not desirable or politically practical.) Do they continue to hope and wait for other companies to make the next step? (The early returns are not great.)

As compared to the past, when NASA was doing all 3 at once?

Direct quote from the article:

“That being said, I am happy to give up my right to vote as a trade for a significantly better quality of life. It’s cleaner, it’s safer. There’s more opportunity in mobility,” she said.

“There’s no one on this planet who could be that bad of a person that we need to assassinate just to keep them out of the presidency,” Christian said. “How radical the American culture and society is getting in its entirety is making me go, ‘I really need to get out of here.’”

Christian and Salah said they won’t be voting, and Do said she is still learning about the process for voting abroad right now.

“I think American politics is a joke,” Salah said. “I think we’re seeing that no matter which party is in power, no matter which face it is, it’s kind of the same system.”

Oh great, you've speedrunned the crazy republican playbook

Who's outraged, besides the war criminals?

Problem in this case is the specification is vague on what the 'correct' thing to display is.

So that you can use your 4th hour on the medical bay attendant before getting treatment

Yeah, goblins or orcs would have been a better choice for this comic

They help you focus on what's important

As usual, all nuance is lost on some people who insist on a world of blacks and whites

Without any way to indicate tone or context, OPs intent can be validly interpreted in many ways. More so considering how many people post serious takes which are totally inaccurate. For example, the annual wave of posts about how the Year Of The Linux Desktop is coming.

Or just plain pure nitrogen. Not the way they incompetently did it a while back where the prisoner suffocated due to his own exhaled CO2, but pure nitrogen while venting his exhalations.

As somebody who's used swamp coolers a lot, there's no way those usage numbers are accurate

Must have a heavy burden to bear

Jesus does not approve of this comment

Hey, nice tits!

I can't tell if that's worse for guys or gals

According to the report, the capsaicin levels were calculated based on the Scoville scale information disclosed on Danish retail websites selling the noodles, rather than the noodles themselves, as no specific measurements of capsaicin or total capsaicin content are provided by the manufacturer.

False advertising by the Danish themselves.

According to the report, the capsaicin levels were calculated based on the Scoville scale information disclosed on Danish retail websites selling the noodles, rather than the noodles themselves, as no specific measurements of capsaicin or total capsaicin content are provided by the manufacturer.

False advertising by the Danish themselves.

Are you recommending a descent into anarchism, then?

Also consider the low voter turnout.

Isn't that an argument for blaming them? Their govt is ducked and they can't be bothered to vote

There's a difference between bombing somebody and not serving somebody