Wheany posted:

what if you put a treadmill on top of the plane, then put a rocket on top of that?

haveblue posted:

despite the dick waving in the aerospace industry and this thread, the sr-71 was consistently tracked and locked onto by radars and fighters operated by sweden of all places

there's an sr-71 (actually an a-12) at the intrepid, it's just as cool as you think up close

Kashmir Hill posted:

I soon discovered that the only thing worse than getting a bad night’s sleep is to subsequently get a report from my bed telling me I got a low score and “missed my sleep goal.”

Jabor posted:

zeppelin launch

you probably only need like two or three hindenburgs

lancemantis posted:

Schadenboner posted:

What's Afrikaans for backpfeifengesicht?

lancemantis posted:

Rex-Goliath posted:

i'm the guy making $18/hr shoveling dirt in the 1980s

Schadenboner posted:

That's like 35 or 36 bucks today.

Probably a union gig at that rate?

silence_kit posted:

I’m unfamiliar with the history here, but I feel like Notorious b.s.d.’s point regarding there not being enough computing horsepower to solve Maxwell’s equations numerically back then is relevant. I suspect that to actually be able to do a careful design of an aircraft’s shape to reduce radar cross-section, numerical solution of Maxwell’s equations is required.

Rex-Goliath posted:

or maybe he was getting paid that much to shovel dirt because he was just that smart and good at it

Bhodi posted:

behind every successful person who's beat the odds is also a parent who gave them startup capital, rely on it

JawnV6 posted:

uh, it says pretty clearly up there that ol' musky's father took him to work AND made him do Real Work, eight quality hours indelibly marking his soul with empathy for the common man

Wheany posted:

what if you put a treadmill on top of the plane, then put a rocket on top of that?

President Beep posted:

god dammit. what have you done?!

lancemantis posted:

cool startup feel posted:

remember that time he used his wife as a breeding sow and then divorced her for a younger woman?

quote:

As we danced at our wedding reception, Elon told me, "I am the alpha in this relationship." I shrugged it off, just as I would later shrug off signing the postnuptial agreement, but as time went on, I learned that he was serious. He had grown up in the male-dominated culture of South Africa, and the will to compete and dominate that made him so successful in business did not magically shut off when he came home. This, and the vast economic imbalance between us, meant that in the months following our wedding, a certain dynamic began to take hold. Elon's judgment overruled mine, and he was constantly remarking on the ways he found me lacking. "I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee."

"If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you."

...

I barely recognized myself. I had turned into a trophy wife — and I sucked at it. I wasn't detail-oriented enough to maintain a perfect house or be a perfect hostess. I could no longer hide my boredom when the men talked and the women smiled and listened. I wasn't interested in Botox or makeup or reducing the appearance of the scars from my C-sections. And no matter how many highlights I got, Elon pushed me to be blonder. "Go platinum," he kept saying, and I kept refusing.

...

Not long after the accident, I sat on our bed with my knees pulled up to my chest and tears in my eyes. I told Elon, in a soft voice that was nonetheless filled with conviction, that I needed our life to change. I didn't want to be a sideline player in the multimillion-dollar spectacle of my husband's life. I wanted equality. I wanted partnership. I wanted to love and be loved, the way we had before he made all his millions.

Elon agreed to enter counseling, but he was running two companies and carrying a planet of stress. One month and three sessions later, he gave me an ultimatum: Either we fix this marriage today or I will divorce you tomorrow, by which I understood he meant, Our status quo works for me, so it should work for you. He filed for divorce the next morning.

cool startup feel posted:

remember that time he used his wife as a breeding sow and then divorced her for a younger woman?

President Beep posted:

god dammit. what have you done?!

President Beep posted:

god dammit. what have you done?!

President Beep posted:

ive got a crazy idea—and I’m just spitballing here—but what if we launched a rocket from another rocket?????

Schadenboner posted:

Im the apparent active participation of his parents in the apartheid system (as evidenced by the absence of even the most perfunctory mention of his parent's (even rhetorical) opposition to it).

Sagebrush posted:

a white businessman married to a white model in south africa in the 1970s and 80s, supporters of apartheid?? do you really think so?

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

it's in the timeline


this lets the rocket achieve a speed of (0.99999...)*c, which is the fastest speed possible since nothing can travel at 1*c

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

it's in the timeline


this lets the rocket achieve a speed of (0.99999...)*c, which is the fastest speed possible since nothing can travel at 1*c

fishmech posted:

im the bragging that a ticket to mars will only cost a mere half million dollars before lone skum dies

Endless Mike posted:

i'm the tough childhood of having two loving parents, albeit divorced, who make good money and provide me with everything

Sagebrush posted:

a white businessman married to a white model in south africa in the 1970s and 80s, supporters of apartheid?? do you really think so?

Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:

say what you will about peter thiel, but it takes a true commitment to libertarian ideals to grind down your fangs and consensually purchase your blood meals from college boys on the open market