With the exception of the recent Starliner fiasco, there are never more people on board the station than there are seats on the visiting spacecraft. In the event of a catastrophe, the Soyuz and Dragons function as lifeboats. To leave the station, you need to be able to close the station hatch from the spacecraft side. If you didn’t, the entire station would depressurize in your face when you undocked, which could cause a navigational hazard for the escaping ship.

Therefore, it must be possible to crank the station hatch shut from the visiting vehicle side, and, it stands to reason, the reverse is true.

This is a photo of the space-facing side of Shuttle / Dragon docking port on the station. The middle is a target to assist pilots in manually flying into the port straight and level. It was needed for the shuttle, newer spacecraft have automatic guidance. At 12 o’clock is a handle to help pull the hatch shut. (To open, you push the hatch in.) At 6 o’clock I believe is a socket you can put a crank into to seal or unseal the hatch. At 10:30 is a pressure equalization valve.

Both of those mice have weights you can add or remove to your liking. Maybe you took a few out of the old mouse so it was lighter?

“Not right now, Lumbergh, I’m kinda busy. In fact, look, I’m gonna have to ask you to just go ahead and come back another time. I got a meeting with the Bobs in a couple of minutes.”

Terry Pratchett wrote, “Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?” but I don’t think he had data brokers in mind when he wrote it in 2004.

Shortesy is a spin off of Letterkenny. Great show, so long as you’re comfortable with some blue comedy.

The man’s a real estate mogul, work from home is a threat to his commercial property values.

Man, the headline is really leaving a critical criterion out to get more clicks, isn’t it? (I’m blaming Newsweek for this, not OP.)

He doesn’t even know how a Prime Minister gets the job, does he? (You’re elected to the House of Commons in your riding (district), you’re the head of your political party, and your party either wins a majority in the House or a wins plurality and you’re able to form a ruling coalition with another party.)

A virus that kills its host looses a vector to spread. It’s an evolutionary advantage to not kill your host, just leach off them to spread. Look at how well the common cold does.

The only reason I used the spoiler tag is explaining the joke ruins the joke.

Muppet Gul Madred: No. There are five.

Still eight engines, though, huh? I guess they couldn’t just the additional work needed to move to four. It’d be more fuel efficient to move to four big engines instead of eight smaller ones, but it’d require strengthening the wing and doing something to increase the steering forces. If you loose an engine when you only have four engines, you loose twice as much thrust as you would have in an eight engine layout, so the remaining three need to work harder, and you have more unbalanced thrust then you would have with 7/8, especially if you loose one of the outboard engines.

I am glad Colm Meaney was willing to do the technobabble heavy role, I know that can turn some actors off, but I can’t imagine DS9 without the Chief.

The P90’s barrel wouldn’t be much longer than a pistol’s.

It’s going to be interesting for anyone in New Jersey who gets a new drone for Christmas.

Instructions unclear, installed explosive rocks.

Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile.

The fact our voting system kind of forces people to coalesce into two parties is causing friction in both at this point. You’ve got Pelosi’s old guard Dems infighting with the younger Progressives, and on the other side of the aisle there’s the MAGAs trying to force anyone unwilling to toe Herr Trump’s line out of the GOP.

It used to be cost competitive with cable, but I don’t think it has much advantage there anymore.

They did a remake on the 3DS, but I’d love one for the Switch or Switch 2. Rationalize the controls for modern gamepads (two joysticks, but only 4 face buttons), update the graphics, but keep the gameplay. Nintendo being Nintendo, they’ll feel obligated to add Amiibo integration, but at least that’s always optional.