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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    
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Schadenboner posted:Is the planet on which this simulation is hosted round or flat? well a lot of them think that the real other planets out there (not the fake ones you see inside the set/simulation!!) are round, some think everything's on a flat plane etc
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:if only they had new defense projects are the clean-slate no-baggage from-the-ground-up rewrites of the MIC
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https://twitter.com/ByRosenberg/status/961332364558266368 lmao also big lols at the pearl clutching about grade separating rail crossings (that are going to eventually be straightup required for that leg of the high speed rail line): For David Shen, grade separation was a cause of concern. He was one of several who asked the council to remove eminent domain from consideration when designing a new alignment for the rail corridor. "If eminent domain is triggered, it's likely the option chosen will be highly disruptive in neighborhoods during construction and the result will turn local roads into thoroughfares and will exacerbate traffic through our neighborhoods," Shen said.
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Sagebrush posted:the latter. horrible nerds that actually sounds like a great feature both ways. if someone didn't message me back i wouldn't want to continue to see them in search results anyway. 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. dang yeah you really could do a Pentagon Wars style film about the Space Shuttle, right down to the mass/size problems and the feature creep air force general all  "we want the vehicle to be able to take off, do a single polar orbit, and then land back at the same place it took off from" "but... sir, we'll need to put huge wings on the orbiter in order to do that. it'll eat a huge chunk out of the payload capacity!" "we're thinkin', maybe we could hang one o' them keyhole sats out the barn door, take a picture of some russkie naval yard, and get the film back in hours! hell! one of the boys even suggested we could snatch a russkie spy job and see what the hell they been lookin' at!" "we just wanted a space truck so congress would let us keep going to space  " "shoot, son, nobody's sayin' you can't go to space! just, you know, make it a little bigger or somethin'. what in tarnation you spendin' all that money for anyhow?"with bonus scenes of the OMB literally advocating for setting NASA's budget at a permanent fixed dollar amount and letting inflation strangle the agency (what the hell happened to the smiley where the guy in a cowboy hat was chomping a cigar?)
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that actually sounds like a great feature both ways. if someone didn't message me back i wouldn't want to continue to see them in search results anyway. for whatever reason that reminded me that the SR-71 was a thing, and it was one of the coolest of things
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:that actually sounds like a great feature both ways. if someone didn't message me back i wouldn't want to continue to see them in search results anyway.  ?
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:for whatever reason that reminded me that the SR-71 was a thing, and it was one of the coolest of things crossposting from the hn thread 2 make u mad: Enderzero posted:jpitz 6 hours ago [-]
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:for whatever reason that reminded me that the SR-71 was a thing, and it was one of the coolest of things the sr-71 had static requirements for the entire project and it was also top secret so minimal outside interference
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lol what do they think is the fog coming off a waiting rocket? fun smoke?
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haveblue posted:the sr-71 had static requirements for the entire project and it was also top secret so minimal outside interference Major Kong on the SR-71. Pro-loving-click.
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Schadenboner posted:Major Kong on the SR-71. Pro-loving-click. yeah I read ben rich's book on skunk works, it was really cool
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Yeah, dang, how the gently caress did i not see that in the smilies list
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crabrock posted:lol what do they think is the fog coming off a waiting rocket? fun smoke? it's the smokescreen it emits so that big government can't pinpoint its location
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ate all the Oreos posted:it's the smokescreen it emits so that big government can't pinpoint its location ...within the government-owned launch pad on the government-owned air force station it's being launched from?
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haveblue posted:yeah I read ben rich's book on skunk works, it was really cool Yeah, but read Major Kong anyways. 
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ate all the Oreos posted:crossposting from the hn thread 2 make u mad: i wonder if the awful nerds would be lined up behind musk the same way if he had been a handsome, happily married catch of a man instead of a weird goon who drove his wife away with autistic logic and later creepily fixated on a hollywood actress half his age
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poo poo i have heard today multiple times "if anybody can do it, how come no private company but SpaceX has launched a payload to space?" to which my reply of "it gets done all the time, regularly, by a dozen different private companies, this is nothing new. who do you think has been launching all those telecom satellites?" is met with "yeah, well it's still really cool and made me excited and blah blah blah" and then some poo poo about steve jobs and how they're the same and i want to die Just-In-Timeberlake fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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don't they fantasize him as iron man? like, broken, but handsome
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the sr71 owns because it does everything the opposite of how other planes work - the fuel is specially formulated not to burn - the skin is not smooth, but zigzag rough like cardboard - to conserve gas, fly it as fast as possible - the airframe gets stronger with wear and use just an amazing bit of engineering, all done with slide rules in the early 1960s they still really dont know what the maximum speed was on those things. every pilot had a personal max speed but they all think they could have gotten another 20 or 50 or 75 km/hr out of the thing if they had to. same with max altitude
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FMguru posted:the sr71 owns because it does everything the opposite of how other planes work yeah, that's my fave part they were like "let's put these chines because it'll reduce the radar back scatter" and it was a pleasant surprise when it improved lift and aerodynamic performance
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FMguru posted:they still really dont know what the maximum speed was on those things. every pilot had a personal max speed but they all think they could have gotten another 20 or 50 or 75 km/hr out of the thing if they had to. same with max altitude yeh. the engines were ramjets, which use the aircraft's forward motion to compress the intake charge, so the upper limit on its speed is "the intake cones/wing leading edges/cockpit windows just melted" rather than anything to do with the plane running out of power
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infernal machines posted:don't they fantasize him as iron man? like, broken, but handsome i'm fairly certain they do
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he's not ugly but he's not robert downey jr. either. also he's had work done. [img-that-pic-with-him-and-peter-thiel-where-he's-balding-at-25-or-whatever]
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The_Franz posted:nothing like a marketing team that takes cues from 90s slacker cinema almost 20 years too late Any bets on Dell bringing back the "Dude, you're getting a Dell!" slogan?
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i see your best sr-71 story and raise you the other best sr-71 story e: gonna quote the meat of it because everyone needs to read it quote:We got a little lower, and I pulled the throttles back from 325 knots we were at. With the gear up, anything under 275 was just uncomfortable. Walt said we were practically over the field-yet; there was nothing in my windscreen. I banked the jet and started a gentle circling maneuver in hopes of picking up anything that looked like a field. Meanwhile, below, the cadet commander had taken the cadets up on the catwalk of the tower in order to get a prime view of the fly-past. It was a quiet, still day with no wind and partial gray overcast. Walter continued to give me indications that the field should be below us but in the overcast and haze, I couldn’t see it. The longer we continued to peer out the window and circle, the slower we got. With our power back, the awaiting cadets heard nothing. I must have had good instructors in my flying career, as something told me I better cross-check the gauges. As I noticed the airspeed indicator slide below 160 knots, my heart stopped and my adrenalin-filled left hand pushed two throttles full forward. At this point we weren’t really flying, but were falling in a slight bank. Just at the moment that both afterburners lit with a thunderous roar of flame (and what a joyous feeling that was) the aircraft fell into full view of the shocked observers on the tower. Shattering the still quiet of that morning, they now had 107 feet of fire-breathing titanium in their face as the plane levelled and accelerated, in full burner, on the tower side of the infield, closer than expected, maintaining what could only be described as some sort of ultimate knife-edge pass. Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 22:48 on Feb 7, 2018 |
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:poo poo i have heard today multiple times Elon musk is extremely Steve Jobs. Unfortunately he hasn't yet died of outright hubris like stebbe did
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Munkeymon posted:I think the official explanation for why the core landed so hard was that it ran out of fuel on the way down. doesn't that mean it leaked more than expected or did they miscalculate the fuel required? well I guess one implies the othet riding the edge between "we are too heavy" and "we may need a bit of extra fuel in case a crosswind nudges us this way or that" basically
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Munkeymon posted:I think the official explanation for why the core landed so hard was that it ran out of fuel on the way down. doesn't that mean it leaked more than expected or did they miscalculate the fuel required? well I guess one implies the othet they also miscalculated the cargo orbit and it's projected to waaaay overshoot, so what do you think?
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we were headed to intersect mars' orbit, but now it looks like we'll nearly be in the asteroid belt, whatever, lol - a very competent and reliable rocket launching company
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Munkeymon posted:I think the official explanation for why the core landed so hard was that it ran out of fuel on the way down. doesn't that mean it leaked more than expected or did they miscalculate the fuel required? well I guess one implies the othet the amount of fuel you actually use during ascent can only be calculated to a best-guess, so you generally have a tiny bit more than you need, and the upper stages generally have a lot more than you need so if the first stage fucks up and shuts down early you can burn the second stage longer and still reach orbit. idk how the hell any of this works with the falcon 9 / heavy though, since landing the thing is, as far as i know, still a secondary "nice to have" feature that comes after all payload considerations
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