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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 29, 2015 - 04:08pm PT
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Do none of you complainers ever use GPS?
Yes! Cause the wife makes me! That sh!t sucks and it's expensive!
It's way more fun gettin' lost for free!
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Alex Baker
climber
Portland
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Jun 29, 2015 - 08:27pm PT
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I think SpaceX and NASA are doing some of the most rad things humans have ever done. They are enabling the cutting edge of modern exploration, and broadening the human experience immensely.
I was very fortunate to have a quick conversation with an astronaut who visited my college. He said he thinks "adventure starts when your intuition no longer applies". Those guys are having some real adventures.
AB
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okie
Trad climber
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Jun 29, 2015 - 11:25pm PT
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Yeah, ask Werner, after all he's Hitler's rocket man and the father of our space program...wait, maybe that was another Braun?
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jun 30, 2015 - 12:19am PT
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The fools only got some stoopid fake orange juice out of it called Tang after spending trillions.
For the materially conditioned earthlings there's no escape from planet earth by their materially conditioned earthling bodies
Aw, Werner, that's not so! We got the space pen and freeze dried ice cream, too.
Yum!
But that cell phone you use wouldn't be around if it wasn't for the integrated circuit, which was first viably developed for Apollo mission computers.
And it's easy for a duck to lecture humans on escaping the bonds of Earth.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 30, 2015 - 07:56am PT
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And GPS wasn't invented by or for the space business it was invented by the US Air Force
so they could bomb yer ass within millimeters. All that other shizz woulda been invented
anyway by somebody trying to make an honest buck.
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Lorenzo
Trad climber
Portland Oregon
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Jun 30, 2015 - 10:44am PT
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All that other shizz woulda been invented
anyway by somebody trying to make an honest buck.
No way freeze dried ice cream would have been invented otherwise.
The other stuff? It would have been invented, but not in time to be useful in your lifetime.
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jun 30, 2015 - 11:33am PT
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And GPS wasn't invented by or for the space business
I guess.. but it sure wouldn't exist without a space program.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jun 30, 2015 - 11:41am PT
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There will be a simple engineering solution to this problem; "all it takes is time and money." Ceramic paddles to stir the LOX? Certainly NOT flammable!
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jun 30, 2015 - 11:49am PT
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For those thinking it was similar to zero g issues on Apollo 13...
Uhm this was during launch right after breaking the sound barrier.. pretty much the highest g part of the flight.. one of the most dangerous parts of any orbital flight..
Plus it was not the stratification of O2 in the tanks that caused a problem on Apollo 13.. it was a short in the wiring
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Jun 30, 2015 - 11:50am PT
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^^^^^^
Correct analysis.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Dec 22, 2015 - 08:21am PT
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We are going to Mars with rockets blowing up still?
looks like were going to MARS
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Gary
Social climber
Where in the hell is Major Kong?
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Dec 22, 2015 - 09:31am PT
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I liked all the people cheering and high fiveing at liftoff. We launched a sattelite! How amazing!
Welcome to 1959.
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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Dec 22, 2015 - 09:59am PT
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I liked all the people cheering and high fiveing at liftoff. We launched a sattelite! How amazing!
Welcome to 1959.
Still effing hard despite many technological advances. We have however gone from it taking a nation-state level effort to launch a basketball into orbit to having multiple private companies being able to pull it off and relatively cheaply (by comparison) and with the prospect of some re-usability we might see another halving of the launch cost.
My guess is you roll your eyes every time some one summits El Cap?
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overwatch
climber
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:08am PT
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Wasn't there some sketchy fire at NASA that destroyed key docs for building the Apollo rockets or is that conspiracy myth? I probably read it on here from Klimmer
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:10am PT
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Of course the moon landing was fake.. Fortunately our friends the Soviets had no interest in embarrassing us by revealing the easily proven lie. Infact they were such amazing allies that they unnecessarily took on the embarrassment of losing the race and congratulated our fake landing publicly in their own newspapers.
How cool is that!
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:16am PT
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The Red Planet.
Does that mean it is full of Republicans?
Or commies?
And the moon landing was not fake, I watched it on TV.
And the Russians confirmed that the moon rocks were not from this world.
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
Cali
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:20am PT
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The point was that the rocket landed dead on the spot it was supposed to and stayed upright. Refill it with fluids and send it off again. That is why this launch was special.
And if we don't get out into space in the next 50 years we won't have enough energy left on this planet to ever get off it. Then the slow decline really sets in.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:26am PT
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Gnome.
The Animals.
We Gotta Get Out Of This Place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJVpihgwE18
EDIT
When I was nine and an altar boy I wanted to be the first American Pope, then I woke up.
When I was ten I wanted to be an astronaut.
Now, I just want to find cures for dementia and cancer.
And the cutest kitten you could imagine (aren't they all) is climbing over my keyboard.
And the lovely puppy is barking, "Forget about space, get me to the beach."
And the love of my life is in a nursing home.
I know about the implications of space, the benefits, the downsides. Yes it was pretty good that the "Rocket" landed, and Musk is sitting in his accolades.
But how does it really help humanity? I suppose in some ways it can.
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MikeMc
Social climber
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:30am PT
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This is one of the big deals about last nights launch/landing;
"The Falcon 9 rocket costs about $16 million to build … but the cost of the propellant, which is mostly oxygen and a gas, is only about $200,000," Musk said. "So that means that the potential cost reduction in the long term is probably in excess of a factor of a hundred."
Good article here: http://www.space.com/31444-spacex-falcon-rocket-landing-epic-photos.html
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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Dec 22, 2015 - 10:47am PT
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Pretty amazing!!! I've been trying to find a trace of the trajectory but haven't had any luck. Has anyone seen one? There is quite a horizontal component and there must have been quite a big burn to reverse course back toward Canaveral.
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