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Really Pants posted:Why did they cover the shuttle's thrusters? Did they interfere with airflow over the jet's tail? The engines are actually removed prior to transport. They are removed after landing and sent to a different facility to be refurbished and tested, then sent back to the vehicle integration facility to be installed in another shuttle for a new mission. Rockeydyne built 46 of them over the span of the shuttle program.
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Buttonhead posted:That's the Enterprise. It never had main engines installed. Negative, that photo is of the Endeavour, and I should know because I took it myself.
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StandardVC10 posted:Negative, that photo is of the Endeavour, and I should know because I took it myself. GIVE IT BACK THE
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StandardVC10 posted:This was how they dropped it off: A little more badass.
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Holy poo poo! It must have been pretty hairy to get that 474 out from under the shuttle considering it glides like a shoe. I'm guessing the pilot had to nose down more than a 747 ever had to before and stomp all over the rudder to get clear.
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Pretty good video of a live newscast during a separation test. Skip to about 4:30 if you don't want to watch it all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-YNcwc1ZME Seems like the shuttle actually gets a decent amount of lift once it's separated from the 747.
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Really Pants posted:Why did they cover the shuttle's thrusters? Did they interfere with airflow over the jet's tail? The fairing served two purposes. It did reduce the amount of disturbed air hitting the SCA's rudder, but it also reduced the amount of extra drag the 747 incurred from hauling the orbiter around. Stock, the 747's used to haul the shuttle had a range of about 5,500 miles, but the added drag from the orbiter (and the fact that it forced the SCA's to fly no higher than 15,000ft) meant that the range dropped to about 1,000 miles with an orbiter attached, and the fairing kept that from being even lower. There were only two of those fairings built, and they were carried inside the 747's and then assembled and attached to the orbiter before transport.
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Dead Blue Sky posted:
This is extraordinary. Just a day in the office vibe, the most bad-rear end office there ever was.
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Dead Blue Sky posted:Later on that day he told me a little about bombing raids. After a German fighter ran out of ammo, the German pilot would fly up along side my grandfather's B-17, they'd salute each other and go their separate ways. Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler
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The Twinkie Czar posted:A little more badass. For those of you too young to remember the Apollo program I assure you that the shuttle's first flight from the back of the 747 was the coolest goddamn thing and made it feel like the space age was back in full swing. For a little while at least.  Moving on... there are people riding the top of this goddamn thing and they are going to walk on the loving moon. 
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Anything Apollo is badass. Here's a 2K res copy of a shot from Apollo 17, scanned from the original 2" Hasselblad negative. Astronaut Gene Cernan poses with the flag. Most people haven't seen more than a handful of the thousands of lunar surface photos. There's plenty more of these sweet hi-res pics at https://www.apolloarchive.com. Click for big, download for huge is recommended. 
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I would argue that the Apollo program was the single finest moment in human history, one we are yet to surpass.(The space program in general I have a lot of love for, but Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo get special attention because they were truly doing whats never been done before.) In The Shadow of the Moon is probably one of the best documentaries I've seen about it. and here it is ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-ditEyvRbM I love Gemini capsule. It was the first legitimate spacecraft with a main engine and maneuvering thrusters. But Gemini 7 gets the goat for me. Gemini 6a and 7 were to rendezvous, fly in formation, then dock with each other. For a little while there we had a space squadron. 
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I've always loved Apollo, but the earlier space program's are the things I enjoy the most. I mean, we're talking about sending men into space when there was a real fear that they'd go totally loving insane, with no technology (by today's standards) no safety net and balls of steel. Gagarin has always been a personal hero, but they are all incredible
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For as badass as apollo was though, the Russian program was doubly insane. But we only have small glimpses into it due to Stalin's f'n revisionist history. Search for "lost cosmonaut" and weird stuff comes cropping up. Problem is its all hearsay. The most eerie story is from the Judica-Cordiglia brothers. The Judica-Cordiglia brothers are two Italian amateur radio operators who made audio recordings during the early days of the space race. Being the hot button issue of the day, they tried to listen in on the Russian space program missions. What they got was a lot of unaccounted for ( unacknowledged by the CCCP) transmissions. These SOS Morse code signals, and pilots radioing distress as they loose control and get thrown into space. Of coarse it can be all bullshit. But I find it so interesting that I want to believe. Now back to things that stand on reality firmly. I love Russian rocket design. They always have had a sleekness that seems out of a buck rogers comic. R7  N1  When the N1 expoded on the pad in...1969? It was the largest, non-nuclear, man made explosion.
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Sentmassen posted:The most eerie story is from the Judica-Cordiglia brothers. The Judica-Cordiglia brothers are two Italian amateur radio operators who made audio recordings during the early days of the space race. Being the hot button issue of the day, they tried to listen in on the Russian space program missions. What they got was a lot of unaccounted for ( unacknowledged by the CCCP) transmissions. These SOS Morse code signals, and pilots radioing distress as they loose control and get thrown into space. This stuff's been pretty thoroughly debunked over the 50 years or so they've been around, mostly because the 'cosmonauts' in them speak horribly bad russian and don't follow any sort of protocol that the actual cosmonauts used. I think there's more stuff that speaks to it all being fake, but I can't recall it off-hand. It's been a long while since I read about them, but the longevity of the whole thing speaks to how great a tale it is. It captures the imagination very easily, you can just imagine some poor russian guy drifting into space as some weird british glamrocker sings in his head.
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From what I have read, the other big debunking point is that the Russian spacecraft of the early to mid '60s (when the recordings were supposedly made) didn't have enough power and/or fuel to actually reach escape velocity. It wasn't until five to ten years later.
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EdibleBodyParts posted:From what I have read, the other big debunking point is that the Russian spacecraft of the early to mid '60s (when the recordings were supposedly made) didn't have enough power and/or fuel to actually reach escape velocity. It wasn't until five to ten years later. You don't need to reach escape velocity to engage in a ballistic trajectory. Quite the opposite in fact. Reaching escape velocity means no matter how long you wait, you will never return to your point of origin. Orbit... isn't that at all.
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VanSandman posted:You don't need to reach escape velocity to engage in a ballistic trajectory. Quite the opposite in fact. Reaching escape velocity means no matter how long you wait, you will never return to your point of origin. Orbit... isn't that at all. Yes, but several of the supposed communications they recorded are cosmonauts drifting off into empty space until the guys with the radio couldn't hear them anymore. To have that happen, you'd need escape velocity.
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Or a very eccentric orbit that'll come back haunted in a hundred years.
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EdibleBodyParts posted:Yes, but several of the supposed communications they recorded are cosmonauts drifting off into empty space until the guys with the radio couldn't hear them anymore. To have that happen, you'd need escape velocity. You wouldn't need escape velocity, think of driving out of the range of a radio station. They would only have to go far enough for the signal to fade, by the time they came back in range they'd be dead.
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 Apparently there's paladins in Kiev. Edit: pretty much all the photos in this set are badass http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/02/kiev-truce-shattered-dozens-killed/100685/ Casu Marzu has a new favorite as of 22:00 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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While not an image, if you dig a bit on this site, you can find the 16mm onboard film reels of the Apollo missions... http://www.dvidshub.net/video/176425/apollo-11-16mm-onboard-film#.Uwe_0fldVzo silent, but over an hour of footage SatanX has a new favorite as of 22:16 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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The earnestness in his eyes tells you that he feels everything he is trying to do in this shot. Bad-rear end to the max.
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DrBouvenstein posted:Not only is Skeleton the bad-assiest of sports (Headfirst luge? Are you INSANE?!) but the uniforms and helmets kick rear end, too. Those are some bad rear end uniforms. Makes me think they are some enemy group from a future Metal Gear Solid game.
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Dead Blue Sky posted:After a German fighter ran out of ammo, the German pilot would fly up along side my grandfather's B-17, they'd salute each other and go their separate ways. I hope it's not too late to mention it, but when I read that story instantly reminded me of this equally badass CG short film. Of course, your grandpa earns extra mad props for actually being real, but I'm sure the reality of being in a dogfight during world war 2 would have been very similar. http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6M03mXuw9pY
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Mr Tumbles posted:I hope it's not too late to mention it, but when I read that story instantly reminded me of this equally badass CG short film. Of course, your grandpa earns extra mad props for actually being real, but I'm sure the reality of being in a dogfight during world war 2 would have been very similar. Paths of Hate is amazingly good. I posted it a while ago here but well worth another watch (I just did)
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Help me out here. I know that's Billy Nye, but who's in the photo?
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Hydrolith posted:Help me out here. I know that's Billy Nye, but who's in the photo? Jay-Z
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A goon posted:Help me out here. I know that's Billy Nye, but who's in the photo?
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Casu Marzu posted:Edit: pretty much all the photos in this set are badass http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/02/kiev-truce-shattered-dozens-killed/100685/ Wouldn't say the numerous photos of corpses and people burning alive are "badass"  
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Eh yo I know a lot of you guys here are history buffs so I suggest you listen to this guys podcast if you haven't already - Hardcore History. Dan Carlin talks about a lot of truly badass and awesome periods, points, and places in history. I suggest you start with The Wrath of the Khans (all about Genghis Khan and his rise and fall) and then listen to everything else. http://www.dancarlin.com//disp.php?page=hharchive
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The only Hardcore History I've listened to is his podcast on the morality of civilian bombing, and the atomic bomb. It's called Logical Insanity, it's two and a half hours long, and it's fascinating. Really, really good. I'd love to have the time to listen to more of his stuff!
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Dear Prudence posted:Eh yo I know a lot of you guys here are history buffs so I suggest you listen to this guys podcast if you haven't already - Hardcore History. Dan Carlin talks about a lot of truly badass and awesome periods, points, and places in history. I suggest you start with The Wrath of the Khans (all about Genghis Khan and his rise and fall) and then listen to everything else. Yep; the whole Wrath of the Khans series was amazing. I've listened to it countless times even as long as it is. I could listen to Carlin forever.
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What is he standing on, and why is it there? As in, what function does it serve? I've never seen that part on a boat before. It looks like it's in some other pictures of the boat, but not discolored. Joke answer: boat penis.
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