Author Topic: The CRS-2/SpX-2 "Junk in the Trunk" Party Thread (Read 159465 times)

Jim · « **Reply #460 on:** 03/10/2013 06:10 pm »

Quote from: Robotbeat on 03/10/2013 04:39 pm

Quote from: Jim on 03/10/2013 04:26 pm
Nobody follows spacecraft after launch except for a select few
Well that'd be us.

I think we need to start with a cubesat thread before we talk about a whole forum section.

Jim · « **Reply #461 on:** 03/10/2013 06:11 pm »

Quote from: Robotbeat on 03/10/2013 04:39 pm

Quote from: Jim on 03/10/2013 04:26 pm
Nobody follows spacecraft after launch except for a select few
Well that'd be us.

Meant a select few missions

mlindner · « **Reply #462 on:** 03/10/2013 07:04 pm »

This is really only appropriate for the party thread despite being not directly CRS-2 related.

Rap done by SaulPaul for Elon Musk after his SXSW keynote.

Jason1701 · « **Reply #463 on:** 03/10/2013 07:26 pm »

What a great video. It even misspelled Broder's name.

dcporter · « **Reply #464 on:** 03/11/2013 03:25 am »

Quote from: oiorionsbelt on 03/09/2013 11:32 pm

Quote from: dcporter on 03/09/2013 05:22 pm
Best kind of mission updates... infrequent and boring.
Grasshopper updates.....the best cure for infrequent and boring mission updates.

Indeed.

(In case it wasn't obvious, my point was that I'm thrilled at the apparently uneventful period.)

Comga · « **Reply #465 on:** 03/13/2013 04:27 am »

Quote from: woods170 on 03/10/2013 03:23 pm

Quote from: mr. mark on 03/09/2013 04:32 am
Video of CRS-2/SPX-2 launch with inspirational soundtrack and footage.

Not trying to spoil the party here, but I find the footage of the now disfunct shuttle launchpad in the video anything but inspirational.

I wholeheartedly agree.

And if you had to find two seconds of footage of Gwynne Shotwell, could you find any worse? (Who are those other talking heads?)

As an aside, the still from the video shows the NASA "Worm" logo and a SpaceX worm logo.

Who at SpaceX will play Dan Goldin and chase down and destroy these contraband logos?

QuantumG · « **Reply #466 on:** 03/13/2013 04:32 am »

Quote from: Comga on 03/13/2013 04:27 am

As an aside, the still from the video shows the NASA "Worm" logo and a SpaceX worm logo. Who at SpaceX will play Dan Goldin and chase down and destroy these contraband logos?

Worm > Meatball. Forever.

Lar · « **Reply #467 on:** 03/13/2013 05:18 am »

Quote from: QuantumG on 03/13/2013 04:32 am

Quote from: Comga on 03/13/2013 04:27 am
As an aside, the still from the video shows the NASA "Worm" logo and a SpaceX worm logo. Who at SpaceX will play Dan Goldin and chase down and destroy these contraband logos?

Worm > Meatball. Forever.

Tell that to NYC and Pennsy fans [1] ... we all HATED the Penn Central "worms in love" logo

1 - I'm not saying which I was... but Tuscan Red looks WAY better than gray. Draw your own conclusions.

spectre9 · « **Reply #468 on:** 03/13/2013 09:08 pm »

The lovely ladies of SpaceX.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/310127853519921152/photo/1

Sorta makes me wonder how many are engineers.

Some good quality at the front right

Lars_J · « **Reply #469 on:** 03/13/2013 09:15 pm »

Quote from: spectre9 on 03/13/2013 09:08 pm

The lovely ladies of SpaceX.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/310127853519921152/photo/1

Sorta makes me wonder how many are engineers.

That is the larger group of women at SpaceX - They made a separate picture of just the women engineers - you can see that here:

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/304699525635907584/photo/1

spectre9 · « **Reply #470 on:** 03/13/2013 09:37 pm »

Thanks for answering my question so promptly Lars_J. You're a champ

Chris Bergin · « **Reply #471 on:** 03/14/2013 01:47 am »

I suppose goggling over women does happen at parties, but unlike real life parties, the women in that photo can't give you a slap across the face for it.

So let's not, yeah? Thread trimmed.

dcporter · « **Reply #472 on:** 03/14/2013 02:21 pm »

The only solution is to get some women in here to ogle the men and even it out, and then let them all go back to, y'know, working hard at sending humans into space.

Hooray for STEM women btw!

Robotbeat · « **Reply #473 on:** 03/16/2013 03:02 am »

Quote from: dcporter on 03/14/2013 02:21 pm

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Hooray for STEM women btw!

Agreed!

Perhaps part of the reason there aren't more women in STEM is because they have to put up with our BS. We could probably improve the situation by just using a little common courtesy and not immediately jump to rating them on attractiveness.....

Okay, PSA over. But I really think we need more women in STEM; being male-dominated (not as bad in math, actually) means that much of the solution space for technical/engineering/scientific problems is only partially explored. Another perspective can only help.

Lar · « **Reply #474 on:** 03/17/2013 10:09 pm »

Quote from: Chris Bergin on 03/14/2013 12:52 am

Took 14 posts before someone bothered to report a bunch of non updates in the update thread. Those posts - and this one - are now in the right thread.

Unbelievable. It's like herding cats on here. No, that's not a cue for someone to post that video.

I should be writing articles at 2am in the morning, not frakking about with SpaceX threads.

Thread title. Read it. Post on the relevant thread. It's not that hard, and you're not a bunch of simpletons (), so work it out, self moderate and stop tempting me from making the SpaceX sections read only for all but L2 members.

OK then! How long before SpaceX produces a promotional "this is how we herd cats IN SPAAAAAACE!!!!" vid

Lars_J · « **Reply #475 on:** 03/19/2013 04:13 am »

Amusing!

This is a laid-back interview in the "Metaphysical Milkshake" series.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns0IHCj2q-E&feature=youtu.be&a

mlindner · « **Reply #476 on:** 03/19/2013 04:23 am »

Quote from: Lars_J on 03/19/2013 04:13 am

Amusing! This is a laid-back interview in the "Metaphysical Milkshake" series.

ROFL! I teared up laughing watching that. How the heck did that guy get Elon on his show??

Edit: I wonder if Elon actually gave him a Tesla? lol.

QuantumG · « **Reply #477 on:** 03/19/2013 05:13 am »

Quote from: mlindner on 03/19/2013 04:23 am

ROFL! I teared up laughing watching that. How the heck did that guy get Elon on his show??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainn_Wilson

DavidH · « **Reply #478 on:** 03/19/2013 04:42 pm »

I just received a notice of this TED talk and the Youtube date says today.
Is this new?

mlindner · « **Reply #479 on:** 03/19/2013 05:20 pm »

Quote from: DavidH on 03/19/2013 04:42 pm

I just received a notice of this TED talk and the Youtube date says today.
Is this new?

http://conferences.ted.com/TED2013/program/schedule.php

The video is new but the talk was done on February 27th.

Edit: also you should post this on the relevant thread. http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=31163.0