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Davethulhu posted:https://twitter.com/BadAstronomer/status/1336806003778662404 lol 
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i meant to watch it but was unable to due to a meeting but it looks like elon's toilet tube and tinfoil spaceship performed exactly as i'd anticipated  i hope this doesn't put a damper on the falcon/dragon programs, which are real rockets made by real engineers while elon is distracted
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that video is so hard to watch. it's 2 nerds screeching about how amaaaaazing this is, look at the trail!!!! wow the tracking!! and offering no actual info about anything. i miss when the adults at nasa could actually commentate useful information rather than go on like they're the first ones to see the new funko pop
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:it was going quite well until it exploded
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HAIL eSATA-n posted:that video is so hard to watch. it's 2 nerds screeching about how amaaaaazing this is, look at the trail!!!! wow the tracking!! and offering no actual info about anything. i miss when the adults at nasa could actually commentate useful information rather than go on like they're the first ones to see the new funko pop yeah the new flunko plop
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one of the engines died on the way up and another one didn’t reignite coming down. it was like a billionaires model rocket
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i mean, it does look like an oversized estes kit
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TK-42-1 posted:one of the engines died on the way up and another one didn’t reignite coming down. it was like a billionaires model rocket i have only lost model rockets when i put the really big engines in and didn't adjust for wind properly. i should go shoot those off some more in the spring also fun: putting in too small engines is hilarious and you will likely lose an eye if you do it too many times
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Man I remember launching rockets as a kid for 4H and stuff I always wanted to do bigger ones but Nebraska killed all childhood ambition
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Dec 10, 2020 08:06
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I hope Elon takes his dumbass toy rocket into space and it explodes with him in it. ( In minecraft.)
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Arcteryx Anarchist posted:Man I remember launching rockets as a kid for 4H and stuff We used to have a summer camp program at UWM called "College for kids" and they had model rocketry and at the end you would go to the county grounds (now it's Medical College or something probably) and set off rockets and calculate how high they went with a little sextant thing we made in class. Chutes and everything. 
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I used to be really into space and then I went to literal space camp and had an 11 year old oh poo poo mind blown moment when realized the whole thing was an excuse to build and improve weapons and quickly lost interest not sure if it was the side by side displays of both rockets and icbms [spoiler: they're identical], meeting an actual german operation paperclip scientist or the giant "here comes the awesome strategic defense intiative" rah rah exhibit at the museum [it was the '80s]
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qirex posted:I used to be really into space and then I went to literal space camp and had an 11 year old oh poo poo mind blown moment when realized the whole thing was an excuse to build and improve weapons and quickly lost interest Loser. Git in with the MIC. My colleague went to a metrology conference and brought back a NASA tote for me (very cool) and a pair of Raytheon sunglasses (very not cool)
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refleks posted:My colleague went to a metrology conference and brought back a NASA tote for me (very cool) and a pair of Raytheon sunglasses (very not cool)
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refleks posted:Loser. Git in with the MIC. sitting on someone's desk in an office at the haleakala observatory was the official sdi sportswear catalog and I still regret not stealing it
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qirex posted:sitting on someone's desk in an office at the haleakala observatory was the official sdi sportswear catalog and I still regret not stealing it i have no idea what that means, but cool
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Twat McTwatterson posted:why does everyone hate elon musk? usually I don't buy into the internet dogpiling echo chamber of hate for people, but it seems especially vile for musk. gently caress him why? 
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refleks posted:i have no idea what that means, but cool strategic defense initiative sportswear catalog like a catalog for SDI branded sweatpants presumably infernal machines fucked around with this message at 15:47 on Dec 10, 2020 |
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Dec 10, 2020 15:40
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you do not, under any circumstances, have to give it to him
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qirex posted:sitting on someone's desk in an office at the haleakala observatory was the official sdi sportswear catalog and I still regret not stealing it
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infernal machines posted:strategic defense initiative sportswear catalog Ha, nice try. im not falling for that. what, was it next to Mulders poster? Was Skinner sitting at the desk doubting Scully's report?
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refleks posted:Ha, nice try. im not falling for that. it was a real thing, the cover was a blonde lady with a perm [again, it was the '80s] wearing a sdi baseball hat holding an sdi mug
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infernal machines posted:strategic defense initiative sportswear catalog They love this poo poo Hell I wish I had some swag but it always feels over the top I’ll stick with trinkets
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Dec 10, 2020 19:42
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Please let something about Grimes smelling like a roll of nickels get produced in response to this subpoena https://twitter.com/PlainSite/status/1337100989216686083?s=20
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MomJeans420 posted:Please let something about Grimes smelling like a roll of nickels get produced in response to this subpoena i assume this is for her message history etc from that time, so yeah, it would include that lol
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Schadenboner posted:We used to have a summer camp program at UWM called "College for kids" and they had model rocketry and at the end you would go to the county grounds (now it's Medical College or something probably) and set off rockets and calculate how high they went with a little sextant thing we made in class. Nimby parents nowadays don't want their kids to get a science-based sextant education.
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bicievino posted:Nimby parents nowadays don't want their kids to get a science-based sextant education.
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bicievino posted:Nimby parents nowadays don't want their kids to get a science-based sextant education. what is it with goons and sextants? 
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I used to be big into space exploration but now it just see,s to me that it makes no loving sense. Are we really going to be saved by burning up thousands of tons of fuel, using up thousands of man-hours of some of the biggest brains on the planet so that maybe some of us will get to go Mars? Like when you criticize space stuff you get in return talking points about how it made technology better. Isn't that just accelerationism though? The planet is already blowing up, how can more of the thing that got us here help? Another thing people say is "you can develop space stuff AND help people on Earth, it's possible to do both  ". I get it's possible to do many things at once, but the scale here is way off the charts. Like the money and time and resources that get used up in what seems like little more than vanity projects COULD actually do some good here on Earth. Those resources are being diverted. Add to that privatisation of the space industry, wasted tax payers dollars, increased militarization... Am I being dense or is going this route for humanity loving insane?
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exploring mars in the service of science is cool and good. going to mars to try and colonize it is stupid as poo poo and 1000% a vanity project for super wealthy dumbshits like elon musk. it will solve no problems for anyone, except if the rocket explodes and takes musk with it. "oh but we will terraform mars so that the human race doesn't die out if earth becomes uninhabitable" hey have you loving geniuses considered terraforming earth to be indefinitely habitable instead? it's 99.9999% of the way there already gently caress
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we'll be able to make the acrtic and the sahara habitable before we can live on mars, which is good because we'll probably need to beyond that, whitey's on the moon
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