@PearsonArtPhoto "it's a small world" is more than just a ride at the 1964 World's Fair. Are you going to tell them?

Nah.

It's not a person I ever had much contact with, and I haven't for almost 10 years.

btw I like the plain white backdrop of your current video better than the one in the earlier videos, is that a result of the move as well?

Yes.

I have a room now where I can record. Was one of the positives to moving.

Homes are a bit cheaper in the Huntsville area than in the Washington DC area...

Yes I can imagine that!

I'm likely to add some stuff in the background eventually, but... Haven't got there yet.

That sounds fun :-)

I have a few thoughts, and some funds set aside from the sale of our last home, with that as the goal.

I have a question, I read the news constantly and have an abstract idea of what life is like in the US now, but no first-hand knowledge.

Are people really all walking around with masks all the time?

Did the Covid-19 situation make moving more difficult?

COVID-19 made a few things about moving challenging, mostly in building any kind of a social network after moving.

Masks, well, it depends on the spot, but the percentage of people wearing them varies quite a bit.

Well as a science-minded person I hope you are wearing one all the time!

The situation in the US was such a preventable disaster...

I do when in public unless I am exercising in an outdoor area where I expect to see almost no one.

Or if I'm working in an area totally by myself.

ya that sounds about right.

Anytime I'm in a store or at my job or something like that I wear a mask.

It must feel a little weird to move to a new place and then to have to avoid everyone, wow.

Yeah, a bit...

It drives my wife more crazy, but even I'm going a bit stir crazy...

Due to strict rules and a culture that respects authority, they shut it down very quickly here. Masks wearing was 100% for a few months, and still is in buses and trains, but mostly it's over now.

There are still alcohol dispensers for hands everywhere and I use them several times a day out of habit.

You probably can't convince your wife that Stack Exchange is a replacement :-)

oh, I guess you meant the mask-wearing, not the isolation

Rats Starship hop attempt #2 aborted as well. (Yesterday at T-0, they got the preburner running but no ignition.

Today a few minutes before abort.

Too bad.

Soon enough... The more issues they work out now the better it will fly for real when it is time :)

Will be nice to see a Starship fly again. It's been over a year I think.

Almost 1 year exactly. Only a 150m hop again is the current goal.

They need flaps/aerilons for 20K flight to control belly flop manuever.

So they need a nose cone, ad there are 4 or 5 of them already built in various forms.

Yeah, hopefully the bigger hop will happen soon!

Looks like a boat came into the exclusion zone so they had to abort.

Again?

Don't people have better things to do?

They need more help on the naval side.

Starship is far from needing that kind of support.

Crew Dragon, well, that was kind of embarrassing...

Asked a friend of mine who used to work for the Coast Guard. He told me that far out pretty much they can shoot them, but not ticket them.

They may be trying again... 6PM EST they repressurized (You can tell from the shape filling out).