Space X Doing it Again

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Space X Doing it Again

Postby kham » Wed Jul 20, 2016 5:17 am

It's a mark of how jaded -and sad - our culture is , that one of the twitter memes was #boring. Whoever did that, you suck. And should report for conversion to Soylent Yellow :twisted: for you serve no purpose to mankind

At any rate, they successfully launched another, and landed the booster safely. The Dragon Cargo Ship is presently formated with the station at 30m and will be capture within the hour. NASA tv has it on. My only complaint with them, is they really should stop treating the viewers as imbecilic morons. Yeah, I know a great number are.... but if you watching the feed, you likely know a bit about the subject. And really? Telling me the station is orbiting the planet earth? Gee. I didn't think it was orbiting fucking Venus.... :P

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Postby kham » Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:04 am

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Re: Space X Doing it Again

Postby sixgunzloaded » Wed Jul 20, 2016 6:07 am

kham wrote:It's a mark of how jaded -and sad - our culture is , that one of the twitter memes was #boring. Whoever did that, you suck. And should report for conversion to Soylent Yellow :twisted: for you serve no purpose to mankind


LMAO I doubt he/she has any nutritional value. :lol:

kham wrote:Gee. I didn't think it was orbiting fucking Venus.... :P


:o I thought it was orbiting Vulcan..! :P

But yeah, I think NASA tv sort of assumes that it's mostly school kids watching and presents on that level. They need to hire a regular, dedicated and enthusiastic public relations type, too. I nominate my brother-in-law. He's taught me more about this stuff than NASA tv has. :lol: :D
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Re: Space X Doing it Again

Postby H8ms2014 » Wed Jul 20, 2016 10:33 am

Interweb trolls breed like Aussie Rabbits. Hopefully they all download Pokemon Go and walk into a volcano, off a cliff, or into a Meat Processing plant to be made into cheap hotdogs

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H8ms2014 wrote:Interweb trolls breed like Aussie Rabbits. Hopefully they all download Pokemon Go and walk into a volcano, off a cliff, or into a Meat Processing plant to be made into cheap hotdogs


:D :D :D

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Re: Space X Doing it Again

Postby Duncan Edwards » Wed Jul 20, 2016 1:18 pm

Since Elon Musk says this is likely the booster they will use for a reflight in a couple of months it will be interesting to get the reaction then. Most people don't get it at all. Based on the people ahead of me in line at a state office this morning I'd say many couldn't be made to understand it at all.

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Re: Space X Doing it Again

Postby kham » Wed Jul 20, 2016 4:22 pm

I think they forget that a large percentage of the watchers know the terminology , and CAN do some of the math in our heads. And we don't need to be told - repeatedly... that 10m is 30 feet. Which it isn't , its 33 and a bit.... And that a delta-v on the Dragon of 0.001 m/s (or 1mm/s) on it's Z-Axis is not stationary, so we arent surprised when the vehicle is now 10.65 m instead of staying at 10m

Give it a chance. It's called learning :P

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Science is cool! :D

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Re: Space X Doing it Again

Postby Boggy Man » Thu Jul 21, 2016 12:54 am

H8ms2014 wrote:Interweb trolls breed like Aussie Rabbits. Hopefully they all download Pokemon Go and walk into a volcano, off a cliff, or into a Meat Processing plant to be made into cheap hotdogs


Or step on a landmine. In Bosnia, people are walking through minefields to catch the creatures:

http://www.cnet.com/news/the-latest-pokemon-go-hazard-minefields/
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Re: Space X Doing it Again

Postby nachtjaeger » Thu Jul 21, 2016 7:56 pm

"People who love laws and sausages shouldn't watch either one being made." :mrgreen:

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