That SpaceX is even disrupting the culture of the spaceflight community is telling.Thanks for the great opening post and NSF site entirety, Chris -- and patient, patient mods, too!!!Grab a towel; let's go...
Quote from: AncientU on 09/07/2014 11:25 pmThat SpaceX is even disrupting the culture of the spaceflight community is telling.Thanks for the great opening post and NSF site entirety, Chris -- and patient, patient mods, too!!!Grab a towel; let's go...It just oc-curd to me that this was a well-hidden cheesy pun! Well done sir
It's threads like this where the only-like-posts-every-120-seconds restriction annoys the Shinjuku noodles out of me.
Quote from: WindyCity on 09/07/2014 11:38 pmI'm not an engineer, but I've been a fan of human spaceflight since I was a boy during the early days of Project Mercury. I watched all the launches on live black-and-white television. The decades since Apollo have been an ordeal of frustration and disappointment for me, despite the many extraordinary scientific achievements in space exploration using probes and robotic technology. The ISS has been an expensive underachiever, and the Shuttle failed to live up to the promise of reusability and low-cost access to space. In forty years, humankind hasn't gone anywhere beyond LEO! That's not what I and many people in my generation imagined would happen. Now comes SpaceX, and the dream has come alive again. I am absolutely addicted to this site. It's a privilege for a non-technical person such as myself to listen in to what informed technologists and space industry insiders are thinking and talking about, especially as pertains to the brilliant plans of Elon Musk and his team of creative designers, engineers, technicians, and administrators. I just hope I'm around to see the BFR blast off, carrying the first crew on the MCT to the Red Planet. What a day that will be! Ad Astra!Just about exactly what he said.
I'm not an engineer, but I've been a fan of human spaceflight since I was a boy during the early days of Project Mercury. I watched all the launches on live black-and-white television. The decades since Apollo have been an ordeal of frustration and disappointment for me, despite the many extraordinary scientific achievements in space exploration using probes and robotic technology. The ISS has been an expensive underachiever, and the Shuttle failed to live up to the promise of reusability and low-cost access to space. In forty years, humankind hasn't gone anywhere beyond LEO! That's not what I and many people in my generation imagined would happen. Now comes SpaceX, and the dream has come alive again. I am absolutely addicted to this site. It's a privilege for a non-technical person such as myself to listen in to what informed technologists and space industry insiders are thinking and talking about, especially as pertains to the brilliant plans of Elon Musk and his team of creative designers, engineers, technicians, and administrators. I just hope I'm around to see the BFR blast off, carrying the first crew on the MCT to the Red Planet. What a day that will be! Ad Astra!
The above message is for everyone, but also for those who don't like these Party Threads.
Quote from: mr. mark on 09/07/2014 06:32 pmAre they still going through with launching the rats/mice on this mission?First SpaceX flys a Dragon with a Cheese wheel and no mice, then they fly a Dragon with 40 mice and no cheese wheel. Can't we have a little bit of coordination here?
Are they still going through with launching the rats/mice on this mission?
Quote from: Antares on 09/08/2014 01:05 amIt's threads like this where the only-like-posts-every-120-seconds restriction annoys the Shinjuku noodles out of me.Alright, since Antares brought it up... (and this is a party thread, so nothings really OT, right?)The 120s rule is obnoxious, and several of us seem to agree. If it were to be changed, what might a sensible new value/rule be?I'll start...A) 3 likes per 120s in a given thread (if possible)B) 1 like every 30s globally
Cheese will have to wait. Elon is on a ramen pilgrimage.
Signed up just to say I love NSF & forums Keep up the good work!
Quote from: butters on 09/08/2014 12:09 amCheese will have to wait. Elon is on a ramen pilgrimage.Elon is a secret FSM worshipper?
Anyone else want to play, guess the launch date?I going to pick Sep 29.