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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:its loving awesome a private company can launch and land rockets a private company funded primarily (>50%) by nasa, using nasa's launch facilities and infrastructure but yeah Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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also the decades if not centuries of government funded r&d that all of this builds upon
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musk learned like thiel that the best grift of them all is the MIC
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my favorite part was after the launch when they thanked the eastern range for something like "helping out" or "consulting with us" yeah that's it, not "control access to the area, provide backup redundant telemetry systems and make sure your rocket doesn't kill anyone," they were just our fun consultant friends!
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well yeah that might detract from the image that he’s running a fully functioning private space enterprise rather than an MIC leech building the fiery parts with former NASA personnel/contractors and facilities
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eschaton posted:the shuttle was basically the Bradley but space, except imagine if work on the Bradley halted all other military ground vehicle development so no tanks, hum-vees, etc. if only they had yes the Bradley was a mess but so was every contemporary. humvees are almost impossibly fragile and their frames rust out even in desert conditions. m1 Abrams have to be deployed with 2 or 3 spare turbine engines because they fail constantly and are not field repairable. ironically the revised Bradleys have proven to be a godsend because the m1is so useless as a tank. its exhaust is so hot it cannot be used in infantry support. it’s too heavy to cross bridges. it’s too wide to enter urban areas. it has so little fuel range that it cannot pursue other tanks in short just about every dollar spent on military development programs is a dollar wasted maybe the jsf/f35 fiasco saved us from having three or four individual fiascos — Edit: it’s not just ground vehicles, or planes. it’s boats, subs, tanks, satellites, ships, jets, guns, spaceships. we cannot seem to develop ANY new weapons system successfully and it is getting really expensive to fail in new and hilarious ways Notorious b.s.d. fucked around with this message at 06:58 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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lancemantis posted:well yeah that might detract from the image that he’s running a fully functioning private space enterprise rather than an MIC leech building the fiery parts with former NASA personnel/contractors and facilities a huge part of his value-add is not having to go through congressional idiot bullshit, tbh that is a genuine value-add. i would rather work under insane megalomaniac than congress
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ate all the Oreos posted:my favorite part was after the launch when they thanked the eastern range for something like "helping out" or "consulting with us" what a weird thing to nitpick
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dc3k posted:what a weird thing to nitpick it was literally like the only mention they had of anyone that was not spacex after the launch so it kinda stuck out 
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bob dobbs is dead posted:a huge part of his value-add is not having to go through congressional idiot bullshit, tbh from what i've heard from people who actually work(ed) there the culture is super, super awful, like every gross terrible silicon valley thing condensed and crystalized. iirc there was someone in another thread who mentioned a friend who was really excited to work at spacex, bought into the whole promise of going to mars and loved everything and took the job thinking he was making a difference for humanity, then quit after 6 months because the place was just so terrible not that working in constant suspense waiting for congress to inevitably cut your budget and lay you off is any better but like, idk if either is a particularly good choice?
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yeah, we had a lotta peeps when i was at the ex-space peeps company going from spacex to "anywhere else, please, god" but they can make deec sourcing decisions, stay the gently caress away from alabama and mississippi for buying or doing anything. DoD? nah
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bob dobbs is dead posted:a huge part of his value-add is not having to go through congressional idiot bullshit, tbh working under congress is basically just working for 535 insane megalomaniacs at the same time
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eschaton posted:erdogan probably considers it quite relevant today nah, he’s totally modern, like ataturk.
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so this is a thing now 
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thank god that elon musk was able to take the first picture that has ever been taken from orbit
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CommunistPancake posted:working under congress is basically just working for 535 insane megalomaniacs at the same time from what i've heard from my dad lately they mostly cancel each other out when it comes to NASA since nobody in congress actually gives much of a gently caress, and you wind up just plodding aimlessly along at a glacial pace. everyone at all levels of the org really hates this but the people that hate it most of all seem to be the younger employees, and they've been bleeding young talent real bad, so that'll be fun to deal with in a decade or two
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Sagebrush posted:so this is a thing now i refuse to believe flat earthers are actually a thing in tyool2018 (or at least >2 people) and not a lolironic 4chan gimmick
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Xaris posted:i refuse to believe flat earthers are actually a thing in tyool2018 (or at least >2 people) and not a lolironic 4chan gimmick it's one of those things that started as ironic and then a bunch of unstable people gravitated towards it not realizing it was a joke and some of the original ironic memelords started actually believing it and it became a real thing
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i can wrap my head around people believing a lot of dumb poo poo like jesus created all humans q.e.d. or even hollow earth and reptilian people, or chemtrails, or vaccine autism, or whatever, but my brain cannot process someone believing flatearth. its just one big blank going ok no way but what about x, and y, and z, how.. how could they evne think that? aaaaaaa
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Xaris posted:i can wrap my head around people believing a lot of dumb poo poo like jesus created all humans q.e.d. or even hollow earth and reptilian people, or chemtrails, or vaccine autism, or whatever, but my brain cannot process someone believing flatearth. its just one big blank going ok no way but what about x, and y, and z, how.. how could they evne think that? aaaaaaa fourth reich hitler has dispatched reptile saucers from his underground antarctic bases to deliver you some reeducation 
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Bulgakov posted:
i think you’ll find that the order was actually put in by secret president-for-life obama’s deep state cultural jihadis.
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back on more tech bubbly type stuff, my new vacuum cleaner has wifi. i can’t wait to annoy my roommate by turning it on every 5 minutes when I’m on vacation the weird thing is instead of sharing my wifi credentials with some bluetooth thing, the vacuum creates its own wifi hotspot that you connect to to start the setup and then it shuts it down and connects to your home network after. i wonder what kind of neat security issues that could cause dc3k fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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why would you buy that and not a good+cheap $120 shark navigator?? also why the gently caress would a vacuum cleaner need internet connection unless its a roomba e: oh it is a roomba, ehhhhhhh. i was picturing an standard upright vacuum cleaner with IoT poo poo to turn it on and going huh what the hell Xaris fucked around with this message at 08:46 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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it's called a neato botvac. it's like a roomba but instead of being round it's shaped like the letter D
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ate all the Oreos posted:it's one of those things that started as ironic and then a bunch of unstable people gravitated towards it not realizing it was a joke and some of the original ironic memelords started actually believing it and it became a real thing recently it’s become more of an explicitly christian conspiracy theory (or rather that the conspiracy itself is supposed to be antichristian) that tangled up their desire to be persecuted w/ more antiscience from a fun new angle this is my fav new one tho: 
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high on their own supply of lunacy
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Bulgakov posted:high on their own supply of lunacy actually they don't believe in the moon
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:recently it’s become more of an explicitly christian conspiracy theory (or rather that the conspiracy itself is supposed to be antichristian) that tangled up their desire to be persecuted w/ more antiscience from a fun new angle next level: the great ice plane earth theory.
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Xaris posted:i can wrap my head around people believing a lot of dumb poo poo like jesus created all humans q.e.d. or even hollow earth and reptilian people, or chemtrails, or vaccine autism, or whatever, but my brain cannot process someone believing flatearth. its just one big blank going ok no way but what about x, and y, and z, how.. how could they evne think that? aaaaaaa the reptilian conspiracy became much more believable when it turned out that David Icke was right about the massive number of pedophiles at the highest levels of British society
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the biggest mystery is about how conspiracy folks, even if unemployed, produce so many hours/days/years worth of youtube content
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:recently it’s become more of an explicitly christian conspiracy theory (or rather that the conspiracy itself is supposed to be antichristian) that tangled up their desire to be persecuted w/ more antiscience from a fun new angle
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:recently it’s become more of an explicitly christian conspiracy theory (or rather that the conspiracy itself is supposed to be antichristian) that tangled up their desire to be persecuted w/ more antiscience from a fun new angle i wonder what the ice ball earthers think of global warming
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:i wonder what the ice ball earthers think of global warming your first problem begins with the definition of thinking
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President Beep posted:deep state cultural jihadi Mods!
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mrmcd posted:Oh, huh. Well at least one review suggests they might be typical Ikea garbage so maybe that explains the reduced cost. from way back, but while the app was a garbage fire, the ikea bulbs support homekit these days, apparently with much better results. not that i've tried them out myself, but seems a good try
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CommunistPancake posted:working under congress is basically just working for 535 insane megalomaniacs at the same time its not just the current congress, its also compounding bad policies from every previous congress. the end result is terrible management in every government agency and that leads to employees that don't give a poo poo because the organization litterrally prevents anyone from giving a poo poo.
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Shaggar posted:its not just the current congress, its also compounding bad policies from every previous congress. the end result is terrible management in every government agency and that leads to employees that don't give a poo poo because the organization litterrally prevents anyone from giving a poo poo. idk i'd say everyone i've ever met who works at NASA gives very much of a poo poo, they just can't do anything about it but spin wheels and find little side things to do that don't need upper management approval
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Xaris posted:i can wrap my head around people believing a lot of dumb poo poo like jesus created all humans q.e.d. or even hollow earth and reptilian people, or chemtrails, or vaccine autism, or whatever, but my brain cannot process someone believing flatearth. its just one big blank going ok no way but what about x, and y, and z, how.. how could they evne think that? aaaaaaa you misunderstand, most of the modern flat earthers think the earth is a simulation or a giant movie set truman show sort of thing being run or created by some sort of beyond human civilization or powers.
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