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Offline CJ

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #20 on: 03/24/2015 06:55 pm »
Breaking News about the CRX-6 launch! It's now one day closer than it was yesterday.

Surely, this is reason to party?

Musk is in full Doctor Evil mode. Check out his current twitter avatar.  :o

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Hrmmm... just the other day, a friend of mine was saying that, in his opinion, SpaceX might launch the BRF suborbitally from the Hawthorne plant where F9 is built, as way to get it to Brownsville or the Cape.   I was so sure he was wrong, my reply was that I thought it about as likely as Elon Musk using his Dr. Evil pic for his profile pic.  :o :o :o :-[

So, um, maybe they really will launch BFR from the SpaceX parking lot in Hawthorne?  I don't see how it's possible though; that much thrust would surely scorch the painted lines that denote the parking spaces.
Oh look!! Flying Teslas... ;D

Hrmmm... Flying cars. so that's what they're up to!

It makes sense... the SpaceX parking lots (seen from a sat photo) aren't large. Rather small, actually. The largest seems to be between the SpaceX and Tesla buildings, and it's about 150 feet wide. A BFR would fit there with ease, and they'd only need to move around a dozen cars for the duration of the launch. As deruch pointed out, there are covered parking spots, so having a BFR launch in a different part of the small parking lot would be no problem at all. 

However... Thanks to Deruch's observation;
But think of the gained efficiency of the solar panels on top of the covered parking spots. 

This would be a major plus!

I can't help but worry, though, that there might be city officials that could quibble. Therefor, SpaceX might need to disguise the BFRs and the launches to keep them from noticing. Maybe make the BFR look like a giant Bob's Big Boy statue? That'd tie in with the lunch theme too....

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #21 on: 03/24/2015 07:13 pm »
Breaking News about the CRX-6 launch! It's now one day closer than it was yesterday.

Surely, this is reason to party?

Yes.

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #22 on: 03/24/2015 07:23 pm »
Breaking News about the CRX-6 launch! It's now one day closer than it was yesterday.

Surely, this is reason to party?

Yes.

Wow that is funny. This picture was made on mathematical olimpics in Poland long long time ago. One of those guyz is Tomek Czajka (second from left) - he won world championships in programming (TopCoder?). And now best part:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Tomasz/Czajka
I am not sure if it is him or not but... Software Engineer at SpaceX

Edit: Yep that is him.
« Last Edit: 03/24/2015 07:44 pm by Maciej Olesinski »

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #23 on: 03/24/2015 07:31 pm »
Breaking News about the CRX-6 launch! It's now one day closer than it was yesterday.

Surely, this is reason to party?

Yes.

Wow that is funny. This picture was made on mathematical olimpics in Poland long long time ago. One of those guyz is Tomek Czajka - he won world championships in programming. And now best part:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Tomasz/Czajka
I am not sure if it is him or not but... Software Engineer at SpaceX

I would say so... We are obviously extremely late to this party, so lets catch up :)

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #24 on: 03/24/2015 07:41 pm »
Breaking News about the CRX-6 launch! It's now one day closer than it was yesterday.

Surely, this is reason to party?

Yes.

Wow that is funny. This picture was made on mathematical olimpics in Poland long long time ago. One of those guyz is Tomek Czajka (second from left) - he won world championships in programming (TopCoder?). And now best part:
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Tomasz/Czajka
I am not sure if it is him or not but... Software Engineer at SpaceX

Edit: Yep it is him.

WOW. That funniness was totally unintended.

This picture has circulated with the name of teekkaribileet.jpg here in Finland for ages.
Teekkari = M.Sc. student (in engineering)  (=nerd?)
and
bileet = party.

OMG the world is funny place.
« Last Edit: 03/24/2015 08:16 pm by mtakala24 »

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #25 on: 03/24/2015 08:36 pm »
A Polish article confirming that he was the one at Google and thus now doing Flight Software at SpaceX:
http://www.fakt.pl/tomasz-czajka,artykuly,443824,1.html

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #26 on: 03/24/2015 10:50 pm »
WOW. That funniness was totally unintended.

This picture has circulated with the name of teekkaribileet.jpg here in Finland for ages.
Teekkari = M.Sc. student (in engineering)  (=nerd?)
and
bileet = party.

OMG the world is funny place.

I recently saw it used to show the difference between nerds (top) and hipsters (bottom).
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #27 on: 03/24/2015 11:35 pm »
Breaking News about the CRX-6 launch! It's now one day closer than it was yesterday.

Surely, this is a reason to party.
Unless instead of getting one day closer, we keep cutting the time in half and will never reach T0!

Considering how the ground hog really worked us over this season I vote we break the curse by roasting the bugger in the flame trench!
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #28 on: 03/24/2015 11:47 pm »
Ground hogs are actually rather tasty, farmers used to pay us farm kids $4 a head to shoot them because they ruined crops. The bonus was taking them home so our moms could make dinner of them. Stew was  great, but I fear the trench may turn it into jerky.
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #29 on: 03/25/2015 11:09 am »
Musk is in full Doctor Evil mode. Check out his current twitter avatar.  :o

Musk's twitter page

At the time I checked out his Twitter page, this was his most recent post:

"Reading Look to Windward by Banks. He is an amazing writer. Pantheon level."

Looking at the list of Culture ships in Look to Windward, I see the following intriguing names:

Resistance Is Character-Forming
Poke It With A Stick
All The Same, I Saw It First
Zero Credibility
Awkward Customer
Thorough But... Unreliable
Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory
Conventional Wisdom
Fine Till You Came Along
I Blame The Parents
A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity
Experiencing A Significant Gravitas Shortfall

I don't know if there will be more than the two announced ASDS vessels built, but maybe once we start seeing F9 stages being reused multiple times (perhaps ultimately into the hundreds of launches?), they might also be given individual  names from the Culture series.

I think if they recover the core on this mission and send it to NM they should name it "A Momentary Lapse Of Sanity", or maybe "Another Fine Product From The Nonsense Factory".

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #30 on: 03/25/2015 11:17 am »
Breaking News about the CRX-6 launch! It's now one day closer than it was yesterday.

Surely, this is a reason to party.
Unless instead of getting one day closer, we keep cutting the time in half and will never reach T0!

Considering how the ground hog really worked us over this season I vote we break the curse by roasting the bugger in the flame trench!
Goes well with a Claret...
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #31 on: 03/26/2015 05:11 pm »
Ground hogs are actually rather tasty, farmers used to pay us farm kids $4 a head to shoot them because they ruined crops. The bonus was taking them home so our moms could make dinner of them. Stew was  great, but I fear the trench may turn it into jerky.

We used them for target practice back in the day. Grandmother was great at cooking them into something good. Amazing how I wouldn't think of that now.

I can't find a reasonable segue from ground hogs to payloads so I'll just throw this out there - I would think the BEAM payload almost rates it's own party thread. It's not getting a lot of mention. Am I missing something? (Not Unusual)
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #32 on: 03/26/2015 07:15 pm »
I think BEAM's going uphill on CRS-8?

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #33 on: 03/26/2015 09:41 pm »
I think BEAM's going uphill on CRS-8?

Sure is, yep.
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #34 on: 03/26/2015 10:13 pm »
BEAM me up Scotty! Or is it Merlin?
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #35 on: 03/26/2015 10:52 pm »
A round of Jim BEAM for everyone!! :)
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #36 on: 03/27/2015 12:46 am »
I think BEAM's going uphill on CRS-8?

Sure is, yep.

And I knew that. I was just (senior moment) testing all of you.
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #37 on: 03/27/2015 03:45 am »
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I recently saw it used to show the difference between nerds (top) and hipsters (bottom).

Wait...... that's all I need to become a hipster?  On second thought, I'd much rather learn to sing opera so I too can   
visit the ISS.   You go Sarah Brightman!  (Whole new meaning to space opera)

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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #38 on: 03/27/2015 04:41 am »
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I recently saw it used to show the difference between nerds (top) and hipsters (bottom).

Wait...... that's all I need to become a hipster?  On second thought, I'd much rather learn to sing opera so I too can   
visit the ISS.   You go Sarah Brightman!  (Whole new meaning to space opera)

Too bad Cdr. Hadfield isn't on the station any more.  Imagine the duets.
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Re: The CRS-6/SpX-6 There and Back Again Party Thread
« Reply #39 on: 03/27/2015 12:39 pm »
Oh Boy! Easter's almost here.  Guess what I want in my basket!

Bring the thunder!

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