Quote from: Norm38 on 06/15/2017 02:27 pmQuote from: yokem55 on 06/11/2017 08:25 pmThey 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.
Quote from: yokem55 on 06/11/2017 08:25 pmThey 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 missed the computer a few orders of magnitude faster than HAL in your pocket...
Quote from: yokem55 on 06/14/2017 12:40 amQuote from: kevin-rf on 06/13/2017 11:37 pmSaddened 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...
Quote from: kevin-rf on 06/13/2017 11:37 pmSaddened 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.
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.
Looks a bit more tidy now:
QuoteLooks a bit more tidy now:If it looks tidy, we aren't partying hard enough!
Downer alert!!!!
Quote from: CuddlyRocket on 06/13/2017 01:37 amQuote from: Herb Schaltegger on 06/11/2017 05:10 pmQuote from: Jcc on 06/11/2017 03:24 pmMust said it would be something crazy. If not cheese related, it is likely Pythonesque."Fetchez le vache!"Quote from: envy887 on 06/12/2017 04:42 pmMusk 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?
Quote from: Herb Schaltegger on 06/11/2017 05:10 pmQuote from: Jcc on 06/11/2017 03:24 pmMust said it would be something crazy. If not cheese related, it is likely Pythonesque."Fetchez le vache!"Quote from: envy887 on 06/12/2017 04:42 pmMusk 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.)
Quote from: Jcc on 06/11/2017 03:24 pmMust said it would be something crazy. If not cheese related, it is likely Pythonesque."Fetchez le vache!"
Must said it would be something crazy. If not cheese related, it is likely Pythonesque.
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.
...I've made this thread sticky....not because it's a flagship thread - it certainly isn't one of those!
Quote from: AncientU on 06/17/2017 06:12 pmDowner alert!!!!Not really... Have you ever bedn to one of their actual celebration parties? They get pretty wild!Or, to paraphrase how the British aristocracy would put it,"So uncivilized and untidy..."
PS per a report to mod (correctly done), I've made this thread sticky....not because it's a flagship thread - it certainly isn't one of those! - but I agree that seeing it bumping up and down page 1 of this section is a bit distracting.No posts or threads were harmed in the making of this mov...e Looks a bit more tidy now:
That moment when the party thread is no longer at the top of the sticky notes. Must restore balance to the sticky notes!
I don't know what the Russians have in their minds, but apparently they are scheduling right now the launch of the YouCanKnowWhatThatIsButIWillHaveToShootYou satellite (I've no idea how to spell that in Cyrillic) with the 3rd infamously NK-33 powered Soyuz-2.1v at T-5:21 of the count of Bulgariasat-1, if everything holds on for the next 98 hours.Does anybody here knows what does that meant?