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I can't wait for the free market which is not at all known for maximizing profit above all else including safety and functionality to take over the space race for the benefit of all. 
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Apr 9, 2016 00:44
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ryonguy posted:I can't wait for the free market which is not at all known for maximizing profit above all else including safety and functionality to take over the space race for the benefit of all. The free market will save any astronauts that explode.
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Apr 9, 2016 00:47
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Wrong gif, mate. That was last time. Earlier this morning: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/718561436201431040 ryonguy posted:I can't wait for the free market which is not at all known for maximizing profit above all else including safety and functionality to take over the space race for the benefit of all. There's nobody on the rocket, and nobody on the barge. Nobody is in danger there. Also, it's like the second or third time they'd attempted it. It's all still experimental, so even a crash landing gives them useful data they can use to fix the problem for next attempt. If and when they perfect the technology, it will make space flight muuuuuuuuch cheaper. It costs $60 million to make that rocket, and $200,000 to fuel it up. Even with refurbishment costs, that's tens of millions of dollars cheaper. It's like: imagine if airliners were single-use, and the price of your ticket included your share of the airplane which is going to get thrown away after. Obviously, air travel wouldn't be remotely affordable for the average person. That's how spaceflight works at the moment. I'd much rather have private companies build and run delivery spacecraft like the Dragon if it'll bring the cost of space travel down. After all, airline companies and aircraft manufacturers are private companies too, and air travel does ok. NASA and its meagre budget are far better spent on exploring space and doing space research than developing rockets.
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Apr 9, 2016 01:11
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Man, the graphics in Kerbal Space Program have come a long way.
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Apr 9, 2016 01:36
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ryonguy posted:I can't wait for the free market which is not at all known for maximizing profit above all else including safety and functionality to take over the space race for the benefit of all. Let me know when private space industry has killed as many people as the government programs. NASA alone has a death toll of over 20, counting only active tests and not astronauts in training. China and Russia are both up in the hundreds.
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Apr 9, 2016 02:54
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I can't wait for Elon Musk to privatize NASA
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Apr 9, 2016 03:02
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Phanatic posted:Let me know when private space industry has killed as many people as the government programs. NASA alone has a death toll of over 20, counting only active tests and not astronauts in training. China and Russia are both up in the hundreds. Well I've drat near died laughing a few times watching the rockets fall over and go boom, so do I count in that as a fraction or what?
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Apr 9, 2016 03:31
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Hyperlynx posted:NASA and its meagre budget are far better spent on exploring space and doing space research than developing rockets. Perhaps if it's budget wasn't meager, we wouldn't need to turn over vital portions of it over to private industry. Phanatic posted:Let me know when private space industry has killed as many people as the government programs. NASA alone has a death toll of over 20, counting only active tests and not astronauts in training. China and Russia are both up in the hundreds. How about I settle for the mining industry, or the oil drilling industry, or literally any other industry over the last fifty years if we're going to compare apples to apples? Because I only said private industry, not space industry, and lol if you think they're going to be any more ethical just because some technowank billionaires hate the idea of government so much they want everything to be privatized.
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Apr 9, 2016 03:35
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Phanatic posted:Let me know when private space industry has killed as many people as the government programs. NASA alone has a death toll of over 20, counting only active tests and not astronauts in training. China and Russia are both up in the hundreds.
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Apr 9, 2016 03:45
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Apr 9, 2016 04:10
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ryonguy posted:Perhaps if it's budget wasn't meager, we wouldn't need to turn over vital portions of it over to private industry. Who do you think built all NASA's rockets anyway?
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Apr 9, 2016 04:10
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Hyperlynx posted:Who do you think built all NASA's rockets anyway? I'm gong to assume you don't think that just because a private contractor is building tanks for the army that we should turn over control of the armored cavalry to them.
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Apr 9, 2016 04:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDsSrCFvz_A
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Apr 9, 2016 04:32
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Flagrant Abuse posted:Don't be disingenuous. NASA has been around a lot longer than private spaceflight has, so it's had longer in which to accumulate those deaths, and they were on the leading edge of when we were just starting to figure poo poo out, so of course they have a higher death toll, they didn't have a preexisting body of experience to draw on. I can guarantee you that if there had been a company like SpaceX back when we simply didn't know as much about rocketry and spaceflight as we do now, they would've had just as many if not more. (Apparently SpaceX has been really really bad at learning the lessons that NASA learned back before they went to the moon)
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Apr 9, 2016 04:34
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I liked the time when Orbital lost a rocket full of supplies and experiments for the ISS, because they decided to use refurbished engines from the 1960s Soviet N1 moon rocket that had (as I recall) been ordered scrapped due to manufacturing defects, but were instead left in a warehouse for decades until some venture capitalists started looking around to buy rocket engines for their space startups in the late 90s.
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Apr 9, 2016 05:14
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citybeatnik posted:I'm gong to assume you don't think that just because a private contractor is building tanks for the army that we should turn over control of the armored cavalry to them. That's a fair point, though I was mainly arguing against the notion of "they're going to do a lovely job just because they're a private company and so will cut corners to cut costs". This isn't really the place for the discussion, so I'll leave it at that.
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Apr 9, 2016 05:39
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A guy cheapshotted me during the opening glove tap in UFC 2. I don't like poor sports https://giant.gfycat.com/SaltyFortunateGalapagosmockingbird.webm
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Apr 9, 2016 09:13
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Holy poo poo Graphics getting pretty drat good.
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Apr 9, 2016 09:51
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Apr 9, 2016 10:43
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Turtlicious posted:Holy poo poo Graphics getting pretty drat good. Holy poo poo no kidding.
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Apr 9, 2016 17:49
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I like the idea of a beat up Zach Galifinakis simulator.
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Apr 9, 2016 18:31
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IncredibleIgloo posted:I like the idea of a beat up Zach Galifinakis simulator. I get the impression so would he.
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Apr 9, 2016 19:39
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NUTTED BUT SHE AINT SUCKIN
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Apr 9, 2016 20:51
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Professor of Cats posted:Holy poo poo no kidding. Yeah but can you wear them like a backpack? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X0H709cJkA&t=75s
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Apr 9, 2016 22:41
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The Hangover movies just get more and more abstract with every sequel.
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Apr 9, 2016 23:32
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Apr 10, 2016 00:28
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Puppa scrub If you were a fan of motorcross that would be an above average joke.
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Apr 10, 2016 00:53
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FAROOQ posted:Negative 26 people? Did nobody else see this? 
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Apr 10, 2016 01:11
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Apr 10, 2016 03:27
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Apr 10, 2016 06:52
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Oh god the cat scene from the robot son episode The Outer Limits.
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Apr 10, 2016 10:23
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Start any EDM song and this matches perfectly.
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Apr 10, 2016 15:58
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Stretch Marx posted:Start any EDM song and this matches perfectly. Sorry 'bout your lack of rhythm
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Apr 10, 2016 19:13
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ryonguy posted:I can't wait for the free market which is not at all known for maximizing profit above all else including safety and functionality to take over the space race for the benefit of all. Good thing the world's major airlines aren't run by private corporations. Imagine the death toll if they were!
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Apr 10, 2016 23:26
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Some of the Sheep posted:Good thing the world's major airlines aren't run by private corporations. Imagine the death toll if they were! 
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Apr 10, 2016 23:30
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poo poo can go wrong, but the overall safety record of the aviation industry is peerless.
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Apr 10, 2016 23:42
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Some of the Sheep posted:poo poo can go wrong, but the overall safety record of the aviation industry is peerless. 
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Apr 10, 2016 23:48
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Surely the military is responsible and flying safely https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182AepOJjMs 
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