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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #660 on: 06/11/2017 08:25 pm »
That and space liners would never fly with an empty flight like that.

Space liners of the future will be navigated by computers rather than by two pilots as in Kubrick's vision.
That's right!

And video payphones.....


I mean video calls, ok.  But they missed the whole phone-in-your- pocket thing..
They missed the computer a few orders of magnitude faster than HAL in your pocket...

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #661 on: 06/11/2017 08:25 pm »
I mean video calls, ok.  But they missed the whole phone-in-your- pocket thing..
Star Trek previewed the flip-phone just a year or two earlier.  Now they're passe...
Following the space program since before Apollo 8.

Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #662 on: 06/11/2017 08:47 pm »
Star Trek previewed the flip-phone just a year or two earlier.  Now they're passe...

We still don't have transporters or warp drives yet. And we haven't yet sent a crewed mission to Jupiter.

Plenty of things left to aspire to.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #663 on: 06/11/2017 09:46 pm »
Musk said it would be something crazy. If not cheese related, it is likely Pythonesque.

"Nooobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"
Wouldn't that require a crew Dragon capsule? I thought we had ruled out the dragon-on-FH-demo idea because it needs a fairing for qualifying the flight for the AF.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #664 on: 06/11/2017 09:49 pm »
I mean video calls, ok.  But they missed the whole phone-in-your- pocket thing..
Star Trek previewed the flip-phone just a year or two earlier.  Now they're passe...
Yes, but now we've moved on to the TNG-inspired smartphones and tablets based on the P.A.D.D.  Trek has shaped so much of our technological present and continues to do so.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #665 on: 06/12/2017 01:12 am »
2001 had ipads first


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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #666 on: 06/12/2017 03:09 am »
actually this one is better


Oh dear.. I had hoped to do something productive today, but now you are *forcing* me to watch this masterpiece again.

The mindboggling thing is, this movie is old. *ancient* even. It is actually 2 months older than I am!
And still it is a more accurate portrayal of spaceflight than any of the modern movies. Gravity, anyone? How about some Interstellar gravity?

The only bit that seems inaccurate is the idea of attempting to walk upright in zero g. Up to this point everyone just flies around and doesn't bother wearing shoes. Maybe ITS can "fix" that by enforcing corridors to walk and inventing "grip shoes" that work as God and Kubrick intended.
That and space liners would never fly with an empty flight like that. They'd have it overbooked ten ways to Sunday with a survival of the fittest scrum in the loading area.
Ooh, I bet networks would pay decent money for footage of a good pre-boarding scrum, especially if some people bought bodyguard partners to increase their chances.
All aboard the HSF hype train!  Choo Choo!

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #667 on: 06/12/2017 09:47 am »
Okay, that's 55 seconds that I will never get back....
Isn't that the very definition of of a party thread?
That would be a mighty short party.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #668 on: 06/13/2017 02:35 am »


Must said it would be something crazy. If not cheese related, it is likely Pythonesque.

"Fetchez le vache!"
Musk said they want to try getting the upper stage back, so no GEO insertion or escape trajectory burns. They could do a GTO or even lunar free return and get the stage back at perigee, depending how long it can last on orbit and whether it can do deep space nav and comms.

They could send an inflatable or other model of a cow - though, how much does a dead cow mass? - on a lunar free return. That way, a cow really would have jumped over the moon. (They might even be able to fit on a (model) cat, a fiddle, a small (model) dog, a dish and a spoon for the sake of completeness.) :)

Is the cow spherical?

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #669 on: 06/13/2017 02:41 am »
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Is the cow spherical?

I'm considering.....

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #670 on: 06/13/2017 04:30 pm »
Had to pop in, very tired (but happy) after a different kind of party:


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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #671 on: 06/13/2017 06:44 pm »
I really think that people need to take some sort of chill pill about this matter. If the X-37B could not fit, comfortably and with safety margin, inside the Falcon-9's PLF, then this launch would not be happening.

My personal nightmare, arrived at by splicing several recent NSF conversations and my own sleep-deprived imagination:

Calipers, specially crafted in a secret laboratory from ice IX, and secretly in the employ of SPECTRE, stow away inside the payload fairing on the OTV-5 flight...

Then, after achieving orbit, the precision instrument single-calipered-ly seizes control of the X-37B, in an attempt to hold the world hostage for *pinkie finger to lips* ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #672 on: 06/13/2017 11:37 pm »
Saddened that they don't seem to appreciate talking about lunch in the discussion threads? Oh well, time to grab some rocket fuel and hunker down for tonight's attempt at lunch. Sixth times a charm I guess.
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #673 on: 06/14/2017 12:40 am »
Saddened that they don't seem to appreciate talking about lunch in the discussion threads? Oh well, time to grab some rocket fuel and hunker down for tonight's attempt at lunch. Sixth times a charm I guess.
This is strictly a re-lunch thread. If you aren't skiving out to take a personal lunch after a company/employer lunch so you can watch a launch, this thread isn't for you.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #674 on: 06/14/2017 03:41 am »
Saddened that they don't seem to appreciate talking about lunch in the discussion threads? Oh well, time to grab some rocket fuel and hunker down for tonight's attempt at lunch. Sixth times a charm I guess.
This is strictly a re-lunch thread. If you aren't skiving out to take a personal lunch after a company/employer lunch so you can watch a launch, this thread isn't for you.

Sometimes I have a serious failure to lunch.  I get piled up with projects, and my lunch window is missed.  Of course I typically will try to catch a launch at lunch, if there is one...
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #675 on: 06/14/2017 03:46 am »
Saddened that they don't seem to appreciate talking about lunch in the discussion threads? Oh well, time to grab some rocket fuel and hunker down for tonight's attempt at lunch. Sixth times a charm I guess.
This is strictly a re-lunch thread. If you aren't skiving out to take a personal lunch after a company/employer lunch so you can watch a launch, this thread isn't for you.

Sometimes I have a serious failure to lunch.  I get piled up with projects, and my lunch window is missed.  Of course I typically will try to catch a launch at lunch, if there is one...
Yes, I agree. One should generally maintain an even ratio between scrubbed lunches and rapid re-lunches in order to maintain general sanity and continued gainful employment.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #676 on: 06/15/2017 10:53 am »
"June 15: NICER executes initial pointing control test and detector initial checkout."

It's amazing that they let us put MLRS on the ISS, and ironic that they called it NICER.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #677 on: 06/15/2017 12:47 pm »
Had to pop in, very tired (but happy) after a different kind of party:



Congrats!  8)

As was one of the responses when I got over excited and posted off topic on our Twitter feed...

https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/866280162366820352

"GO SPORTS!" ;D

(And we won that game 3-2, so a good day was had by all) :)
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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #678 on: 06/15/2017 02:27 pm »
They missed the computer a few orders of magnitude faster than HAL in your pocket...

Are they though?  We don't really know how many teraflops (or whatever) HAL is capable of.  Is my phone faster by raw speed?  Maybe.  But have you tried having a conversation with Siri?  Computers aren't anywhere close to HAL.

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Re: Launch, Land, and Relaunch Party Thread
« Reply #679 on: 06/15/2017 07:43 pm »
They missed the computer a few orders of magnitude faster than HAL in your pocket...

Are they though?  We don't really know how many teraflops (or whatever) HAL is capable of.  Is my phone faster by raw speed?  Maybe.  But have you tried having a conversation with Siri?  Computers aren't anywhere close to HAL.

They should create a mod for Siri that sounds like HAL.  (*)  < big red eye.

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