Big Phoenix
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I want the drugs Shatner has been taking.that dude is 90.
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The Astronomy Thread
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Big Phoenix
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A retarded beyond washed up actor like that gaining relevance over the years is one of the many signs social media is on the level of malaria for worst things humanity has had to endure.
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Chukzombi
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It amazes me that somebody like him, whose parents were locked in an internment camp by FDR during ww2 because of their ethnicity would turn into such a leftwing shill.
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Big Phoenix
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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It's been pushed back so many times I'll be really surprised if they get a launch in 2022 at all.
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Blue Origin has plans for all the vehicles that don't actually exist yet.
www.theverge.com
Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef
The company is teaming up with Sierra Space for the job.
www.theverge.com
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Sludig
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Seemed like the thread to bitch. Ordered wife a telescope like she's wanted for ages. Ordered in August, back ordered everywhere. Watched the anticipated date get moved back slowly to maybe beginning of December.
No hair off my back other than they havnt billed until it ships so I'm just waiting to get hit with a one grand charge suddenly at any time.
No hair off my back other than they havnt billed until it ships so I'm just waiting to get hit with a one grand charge suddenly at any time.
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Mudcrush Durtfeet
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I'm sure they have plans to use these plans to sue SpaceX and Nasa.Blue Origin has plans for all the vehicles that don't actually exist yet.
Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef
The company is teaming up with Sierra Space for the job.
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He's mad that he didn't come to his gay wedding. Shatner has said Takei was basically an asshole who never even tried to be friendly with him when they were making Star Trek, so he was pissed that he was even invited in the first place.
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Oblio
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Back before Stern turned into a total bitch and Artie was still on the show. They would have George Takei sit in for a few days at a time, I have to say he was pretty funny and was willing to make jokes at his own expense. Guess he followed Stern down the Bitch Trail.
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BrutulTM
Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun.
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Arative
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94% of the universe's galaxies are permanently beyond our reach
Even if we left today, at the speed of light, we'd never catch up to these unreachable galaxies as dark energy expands the universe.
bigthink.com
meStevo
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NASA wants to buy SLS rockets at half price, fly them into the 2050s
The agency wants the rocket to become a “sustainable and affordable system.”…
arstechnica.com
NASA has asked the US aerospace industry how it would go about "maximizing the long-term efficiency and sustainability" of the Space Launch System rocket and its associated ground systems.
In its request NASA says it would like to fly the SLS rocket for "30 years or more" as a national capability. Moreover, the agency wants the rocket to become a "sustainable and affordable system for moving humans and large cargo payloads to cislunar and deep-space destinations."
How does one make a system that has been anything but affordable and sustainable into something that is affordable and sustainable? NASA says it wants to transition ownership of rocket production and ground services to the private industry. In return, this private contractor should build and launch the SLS at a substantial savings of 50 percent or more off of the current industry "baseline per flight cost."
Notably, NASA has never publicly stated this baseline flight cost. Ars asked the NASA communications office on Tuesday for this figure, but as of Wednesday morning there has been no response. In 2019, the White House Office of Management and Budget estimated the cost of one SLS launch a year at "over $2 billion." Subsequently NASA did not deny that figure, but it has not been transparent with taxpayers about the rocket's expected costs.
Anyway, NASA now proposes to cut this cost—whatever it is—in half. And it seeks to fly the Space Launch System rocket well into the middle of the 21st century.
This may be theoretically possible, although the agency's history with the large rocket has been shown to be full of wildly over-optimistic assumptions. When the SLS rocket was conceived in 2010 and formally announced in 2011, it was supposed to be launched by the end of 2016 and developed for $10 billion.
Among the rocket's chief architects was then-Florida Senator Bill Nelson, who steered billions of dollars to Kennedy Space Center in his home state for upgraded ground systems equipment to support the rocket. Back in 2011, he proudly said the rocket would be delivered on time and on budget.
“This rocket is coming in at the cost of... not only what we estimated in the NASA Authorization act, but less,” Nelson said at the time. “The cost of the rocket over a five- to six-year period in the NASA authorization bill was to be no more than $11.5 billion. This costs $10 billion for the rocket.” Later, he went further, saying, "If we can't do a rocket for $11.5 billion, we ought to close up shop."
After more than 10 years, and more than $30 billion spent on the rocket and its ground systems, NASA has not closed up shop. Rather, Nelson has ascended to become the space agency's administrator.
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