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!
Lambourne
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We're basically in another Space Race to put a man* on the moon by 2030, will it be China or SpaceX?
*I could see China sending a woman just to dunk on the west. It's not important to them but they know it's important to the west. Cultural victory and all that.
*I could see China sending a woman just to dunk on the west. It's not important to them but they know it's important to the west. Cultural victory and all that.
Aaron
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One had an agency full of straight, white guys where were hired based on meritocracy. The other is an agency filled with diversity hires to look good.
I recently read James A. Mitchner's Space. It is a long, historical novel about the US Space program right from the Nazis testing V2s in Germany through to the moon landings and beyond. One theme of the book is "why are their no blacks in the photos?" and the subsequent hunt for some black people "to make the pictures look more representative of America". And this is Mitchner here, a life long Democrat and lover of diversity, yet even in his books you can see it was all about looks and not competency.
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Sanrith Descartes
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Wild that the failures are now more remarkable than the successes.
www.theverge.com
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster ‘tipped over’ into the ocean during landing
SpaceX canceled its second planned launch.
www.theverge.com
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Sanrith Descartes
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Elon should tell the gubmint to go get those stranded astronauts themselves. And stop sending up resupply missions to the ISS.
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Big Phoenix
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Gravel
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Makes you wonder if anyone will be willing to fly a Boeing spacecraft ever again. I'm sure someone will, but holy fuck I don't even want to fly a Boeing plane much less get marooned in space because of their dumb shit.
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Sanrith Descartes
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I'm not willing to fly a Boeing aircraft anymore. We took a longer flight to/from Vancouver just to fly an Airbus 321 both ways.
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Palum
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The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit strange noises
“I don’t know what’s making it.”…
arstechnica.com
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Ukerric
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Starliner: The gift that keeps on giving.The Starliner spacecraft has started to emit strange noises
“I don’t know what’s making it.”…
Best comment: "Dead smoke detector battery."
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Kiroy
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This is a crazy mission - they gonna be streaming the whole shabang? Seems like a type of mission a lot of things could go wrong.
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My understanding is the whole thing will be streamed. The man guy has already been up in a dragon before. He's cool AF, flies a Mig-29 that he owns.
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Kiroy
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Palum
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Big lols if true
futurism.com
Retired NASA Engineer Warns Boeing's Starliner Could Lose Control During Return and Crash in Populated Area
retired NASA Johnson Space Center engineer Don Nelson warned that Boeing's plagued Starliner spacecraft could crash in a populated area.
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