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- shapesalad4
- This guy's great. I really want to see what he could do with some *proper* rocket engines, scaled up.Nairn
- that's so cool_niko
- Just watched this vid now - he's totally, right about democratisation of his industry, but the iterative software/3d printing/etc applies to so much more too.Nairn
- Inspiring.
His YT channel:
https://www.youtube.…Nairn - Fucking errant comma.Nairn
- nice hobby.utopian
- If you could buy a 'toy' rocket that took off and landed exactly like spacex, how much would you be willing to pay? He's gonna make $$$$$$$$'s once he nails it.shapesalad
- Bluejam1
- haha, is this in response to https://www.qbn.com/… by any chance? if so, I thought the exact-sameNairn
- yeah, and watching/reading way too much on the American riots ... fucked up situationBluejam
- yeah, tis a bit. quite curious to see how this all pans out - feels a bit different this time.Nairn
- What a time to be alive, an African-American sends astronauts into space.shaft
- give me my gov't check and don't put whitey on the moon.hotroddy
- and let me rap about ithotroddy
- let me take human progress for granted with whitey on the moonhotroddy
- and let me rap about ithotroddy
- i would rather live in a grass hut than have whitey on the moonhotroddy
- and let me rap about ithotroddy
- i would rather have no cell phone coverage than have have whitey on the moonhotroddy
- and let me rap about ithotroddy
- as long as whiteys fucked i will agree to whitey on the moonhotroddy
- and let me rap about ithotroddy
- america will pay with whitey on the moonhotroddy
- as long as i can rap about ithotroddy
- with whitey on the moonhotroddy
- shapesalad2
May have been posted before....
but... fucking hell that thing is LOUD! Love it.
Starts at 3:15
- _niko1
watching now, my kid's so interested in space and space flight but i can't bear to have him watch this with me in case something happens :(
probably why there is such a disinterest in such a momentous event, parents trying to protect their kids.
I'll never forget how i felt during challenger and I didn't even see it live.
Godspeed brave voyagers to the cosmos!
- I'm conflicted in watching it live with my 2 young boys for the same reason.
I remember watching the challenger explode live at school. It was pretty heavy...fooler - because one of our teachers was in the Teacher in Space project.fooler
- just rewind the feed a few minutes and monitor on the phone.uan
- ended up watchig it with him, glad i did, I explained to him that things could go wrong and we lost astronauts in the past so to be prepared. he loved it_niko
- ^ Good you shared it with him. I remember watching the shuttle take-offs at school for years. Even with the tragedy, it was inspiring.formed
- It's something you can share with him forever and could be the first in an impressive move to space.formed
- I'm conflicted in watching it live with my 2 young boys for the same reason.
- sea_sea7
Why tf is Trump taking credit and talking like a little bitch on a pulpit. fml he's such a gawdam embarrassment.
- iam so tired of him and iam not living the USBennn
- i loved the fist pump for elon musk :)
C Y B E R B R O Srenderedred - His mic had that dictator on a pedestal reverb.sea_sea
- His tone tho wtfff LMAOsea_sea
- oh yes, the reverb was epic!renderedred
- rocket launch requires the presidents signature, so thats why lolsted
- A signature that looks like a bunch of Klansmen masturbating in a corn field.garbage
- ^ lolyuekit
- spot on @garbagerenderedred
- lolneverscared
- haha, love it!formed
- utopian1
- They promised worm logo.
I see no worm logo.Continuity - they put it on the teslas that drove the dudes to the rocket.uan
- They promised worm logo.
- utopian1
- fuckin' grimes left cooker on the stove again!sted
- Fail. Fail again. Fail better...grafician
- Well, we’re still trying to get to space with 1940’s nazi technology..._niko
- That's also where all our successful rocket technology comes from, dummy.cannonball1978
- we need rockets to escape earth's gravity, no other means of propulsion can do that - for nowgrafician
- until we get a space elevatorhotroddy
- @hot watch Ad Astra for a nice example of thatgrafician
- yeah, that was a cool scenehotroddy
- Poor Goddard, Nazis get all the creditNairn
- Lol my point exactly, there are tons of other theoretical possibilities, a lot cheaper and less dangerous.https://en..._niko
- https://en.m.wikiped…_niko
- Where’s our quantum drives dammit! Lol_niko
- kabooomneverscared
- I believe we'll need/have some sort of EM mass driver fairly 'soon', if only to shoot water into orbit. Water = fuel, hydration, food crops, radiation shieldingNairn
- The prob with non-rocket space systems now is the scale and cost of thusfar unproven tech. They'll make more economic sense if a more developedNairn
- ...space based economy arises - the sort of thing Bezos, to his credit, is envisaging (over Musk's Mars obsession)Nairn
- This happened a couple of years back..
https://www.bloomber…Nairn - And whilst we're 'still using 40s tech to send rockets into space', the current game-changer is Musk's using 21st C tech to get rockets BACK from space :)Nairn
- The problem with mass drivers after proving their viability is that they're essentially weapons platforms with inter-continental reach..Nairn
- also, lol@stedNairn
- NBQ000
Seems like such a big deal because Nasa forgot how to put humans into space?
- The USA forgot to invest in America's mission into space, not NASA. By cutting and cutting space budgets, the US invested in creating wars all around the world.utopian
- Tru3 d4tNBQ00
- more like it took private ingenuity to figure out how to do it a fraction of the cost.hotroddy
- hotroddy is right. NASA was underfunded unlike a larger private companymonospaced
- Obama’s fault. I mean imagine having the gall to use govt money to repair the country after the GFC and not pump into NASA...damn Kenyan.BusterBoy
- that same narrow minded argument was popular during the apollo missions. But you take that progress for grantedhotroddy
- not to mention you'd be feeling pretty disconnected from the world downunder without those satelights in orbit!hotroddy
- What.are you all talking about? Aren't people going to the ISS on a pretty regular basis?nb
- from russiahotroddy
- yeah right elon musk is such a genius. my dying ass. if not for gwynne shotwell and all the cia/military money underwriting space x they'd have folded years agojonny_quest_lives
- "private ingenuity" not so private when uncle same is your silent partnerjonny_quest_lives
- caterpus0
Why?
- Why...caterpus
- An error occurred. Please try again later.helloeatbreathedrive
- grafician0
- Scrubbed...because Florida!utopian
- OF COURSE I STILL LOVE YOUautoflavour
- inv2
- There is even a flat earth optioninv
- my computer not liking thismilfhunter
- haha, i wasted a couple of tens of minutes on this earlier today before realising Yes, I actually Do have to go to Work :)Nairn
- reminded me how difficult the docking maneuver was in Elite.uan
- Crashed the ISS a few times...grafician
- This "game" is highly addictive!grafician
- success! I did it. not bad for 2nd go.shapesalad
- 3 attempts and I died each time.. guess I'm never going to dock at the ISS everautoflavour
- grafician0
X as of May 27 4:00 PM ET
8.53 ^0.53 6.63%- Anybody catch the black gimp outfits putting the astronauts in the capsule??robotron3k
- fooler2
T minus 58 minutes to launch
- Go for launch confirmed! This is very exciting! That craft and those costumes looking great!grafician
- super excitingzaq
- Is this the silver thing??robotron3k
- I can't imagine what goes through the pilot's mind nowzaq
- ^or Elon'sgrafician
- NASA laptops??robotron3k
- the cockpit looks like a slick sci fi movie and not the real thingfooler
- ^evolution of the cockpit https://twitter.com/…grafician
- scrubKrassy
- inv1
Scrub!
- Krassy0
"NASA estimated there's a 1-in-276 chance the flight could be fatal and a 1-in-60 chance that some problem would cause the mission to fail (but not kill the crew)."