https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emoji

No mention of Greek or Egyptian. Every entry starts with “borrowed from Japanese”.

Sniff finally has a good idea. Cutting out a greedy middle-man.

More like “becoming the greedy middle-man” :)

I believe the root of the word is Japanese, not Greek, so there would be no distinction between singular and plural forms. One emoji, two emoji.

Paging @Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world

That’s because the stock image Wired used is of a Long March 5, not Long March 9.

Ah shoot, sorry about that! I’ve fixed it now :)

Yep, this reads just fine left-to-right.

Starbase activities (2024-11-05):

• Nov 4th cryo delivery tally.
• Overnight, four new curved work platforms are delivered to Megabay 2. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3)
• Transfer tube spotted in Megabay 2, likely for S34. (ViX)
• Starkitty is sighted :)
• Pad B: CC8800-1 disassembly continues. (ViX 1, ViX 2, ViX 3, ViX 4, NSF)
• Flame trench construction continues. (ViX)

McGregor:

• A Raptor 3 undergoes an RUD on the vertical test stand. (_jaykeeganN_ / NSF)

Other:

• mcrs987 notes that one of the aluminum-coated tiles on IFT-5 was glowing/melting. (Tweet 1, tweet 2)

Nominal liftoff, Max-Q, MECO, fairing separation, battery hotswap, SECO, and payload deployment (Beck).

There’s still variants of Berger’s law to contend with, but they’ve definitely kept up an impressive development pace with Neutron.