Author Topic: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread  (Read 278888 times)

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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #640 on: 04/30/2014 10:52 am »
It will be coming in closer to the shore.

"It's OK, I can backstroke in from here".

It has legs, after all.

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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #641 on: 04/30/2014 11:44 am »
Boys all around the world are currently thanking Elon Musk and SpaceX. This is why.


"Go clean your room!"
"Aargh...FINE"


<A week later>

"What are you doing?"
"YOU told me to clean my room!"
"..it takes you a week?"
"If it wasn't THAT dirty, and didn't need THAT much cleaning, you wouldn't be THAT irritated now would you?"
"Alright alright.. fine... finish it up"


<Days later...>


"I thought I told you to clean your room!"
"It is clean!"
"By what standard?"
"By SpaceX standards. By wildly successful CEO standards. By Elon Musk standards."
"Wha..."

<Boy opens SpaceX.com on his laptop, and points to RAW and CLEANED up versions of CRS-3 Booster Splashdown.>

EDIT: Crowdsourcing corollary

"I don't care. That's not clean"
"Fine then... I dare anyone to clean it up more... In addition to forever earning your praise, I'll even give them my allowance.."
« Last Edit: 04/30/2014 11:47 am by AJA »

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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #642 on: 04/30/2014 11:50 am »

"Return to sender"
"Return to Me"

Either one of those is very cool but I'll confess to a bit of bias.  8)
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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #643 on: 05/01/2014 03:46 pm »
Ok (and this is probably a bad idea but...)

Whoever posts the most outlandish but yet still physically possible suggestion will be gifted with a 10 USD credit at my BrickLink store... my judgment final and I'll PM the winner.

Edit: for those curious, here's the link. At least one clever person found it already without help.. http://www.bricklink.com/store.asp?p=lar  I guess having the ID "lar" was kind of a giveaway? :)

And... we have our winner. Go4mars with...


Gass challenges Musk to a boxing match.  Musk counter-proposes chess-boxing.  Gas counter-proposes Chess-boxing on roller-skates.  Musk accepts.  If Musk wins, ULA will hire SpaceX to develop RD 180 replacement.  If Gass wins, Musk never again implies monopoly, or points out the billion dollar annual subsidy.  Highest pay-per-view sales ever, not counting the higher-stakes re-match where they select each others costumes first.


There were a lot of REALLY great suggestions including a fair few I'd really like to see come to pass[1]...

1 - this isn't one of them (shudder) but it's clearly very outlandish.
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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #644 on: 05/01/2014 04:45 pm »
How about "Baby Come Back" by Player (1970)?


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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #645 on: 05/01/2014 08:02 pm »
Got to share this, but I just received an e-mail from a journalist (not a space beat reporter, mass media) who's clearly watching this thread.....

>----- Original Message -----

Traditional media always says print first - retract later. Just get the headline. Today's 15 minute news cycle only made that worse. This guy doesn't understand that we here are not motivated by tabloid journalism but actually learning the truth. Treating our sources as friends and not hosts for our parasitic behaviors will keep them as sources who can trust us as well as we can trust them.

That's why traditional news is all about what clothes someone had on last night etc.  No real news......and they don't check any sources anymore.   Blogs are factual  :(
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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #646 on: 05/01/2014 08:05 pm »
'That's why traditional news is all about what clothes someone had on last night etc.  No real news......and they don't check any sources anymore.   Blogs are factual  :(

Blogs are factual? Ha! :D

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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #647 on: 05/02/2014 03:05 am »
That's why traditional news is all about what clothes someone had on last night etc.  No real news......and they don't check any sources anymore.   Blogs are factual  :(

If this is the party thread, someone must have spiked the brownies.
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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #648 on: 05/02/2014 05:55 am »
can someone please explain to me why spacex still hasn't released the footage they got from their airplane? Why are they being so secretive about it? I mean seeing is believing so why not just release the footage and prove to everyone in the world they really accomplished such an unprecedented feat?

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Re: The CRS-3/SpX-3 - Dragon, Suit Up! - Party Thread
« Reply #649 on: 05/02/2014 05:58 am »
can someone please explain to me why spacex still hasn't released the footage they got from their airplane? Why are they being so secretive about it? I mean seeing is believing so why not just release the footage and prove to everyone in the world they really accomplished such an unprecedented feat?

Weather was terribad. There is no indication that the plane had a visual on the stage. It was there to receive telemetry.

(and in previous case, with CASSIOPE, they opted not to release the footage because the stage went poo-poo due to aerodynamic torque spinning it up)

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