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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Jan 21, 2018 - 10:42am PT
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Please give an example of a business decision where the market didn’t determine the soundness of the decision.
I can’t think of one. Unless it resulted in an environmental disaster.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Jan 21, 2018 - 10:54am PT
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Because it sounded silly. Redundant. I thought we must have missed the point of being that wordy.
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tooth
Trad climber
B.C.
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Jan 21, 2018 - 11:02am PT
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Just a better reflection of you, not the issue at hand.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Jan 27, 2018 - 07:24pm PT
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WTF a bunch of civis do with flamethrowers?
hunting and self defense. just remember "all it takes to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a flame thrower"
Seriously cuts down on time spent cutting trails and cleaning new routes.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Sales closed on the flamethrowers, they hit 10 million dollars in orders
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monolith
climber
state of being
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To state the obvious, these are not real flamethrowers, the kind you see in war that put burning liquid on a target. More like the carnival kind that shoot out a flame only.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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More like a giant butane torch on steroids.
20,000 people said " gotta have me one of those!"
I heard they are sending out a complimentary fire extinguisher with each one.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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They are already selling for almost triple the sale price
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Hula Hoops for psychopaths.
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Lennox
climber
in the land of the blind
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Holy Shit!
I just watched the two Falcon Heavy boosters land simultaneously.
“It’s like science fiction.”
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone
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OMG. Synchronized swimming isn’t as precise as those landing boosters.
F’ing UNREAL.
A Tesla in space. Yippppeeee
Susan
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Yeah, and watching that launch was cool.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Maybe the core and "of course I still love you" had a spat?
2 out of 3 ain't bad...
Great launch!
Yeah, simul landings on the ground by the boosters...wow...
I used to support LC-40 just down the beach...pretty neat to see SpaceX gettin' 'er done.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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I haven't been following this stuff, and was pretty blown away by the boosters landing. The amount of engineering that goes into something like this is utterly dumbfounding. So much knowledge of gases and thermodynamics and material properties at unusual temperatures and pressures, coordination/timing of control signals, aerodynamics, materials manufacturing and precision measurements and tolerances... How committing it is to just create test environments for each of the components that go into this system, and then envisioning how they will all work together and interact with each other....
It is humbling to think about my personal accomplishments and how small they are in the context of something like this.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Did they nail the landing with the main booster?
TV News cut to advertisement right as it was coming in.
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Brian in SLC
Social climber
Salt Lake City, UT
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Their live feed of the core was cut...
The video feed of the launch control folks have a voice that says, "center core landing burn has start up"...followed by "we lost the center core" about 9 seconds later.
I think it splashed into the ocean.
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stevep
Boulder climber
Salt Lake, UT
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The launch and 2 of the 3 boosters are an amazingly impressive achievement. Nothing this powerful has flown since the Apollo program shut down in '74.
If they can get a few more these to work, they might put the SLS out of business, and a Mars trip might actually start looking possible.
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Sadly no; from theverge.com:
Though the Falcon Heavy’s outer cores successfully landed after launch this afternoon, the middle core of SpaceX’s huge rocket missed the drone ship where it was supposed to land, a source tells The Verge. SpaceX later confirmed The Verge’s reporting in a press conference.
The center core was only able to relight one of the three engines necessary to land, and so it hit the water at 300 miles per hour. Two engines on the drone ship were taken out when it crashed, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a press call after the rocket launch.
But truly amazing; it's well worth watching the videos. Seeing those two boosters landing together......
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