bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
Rad to see soft landings for both ship & booster today. They are so far ahead of everyone else it’s laughable.
(Elon is still a wanker for now btw)
Starliner Test Flight
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(Elon is still a wanker for now btw)
///AMG
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Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
Most innovators are.
Rockefeller, Edison, Marconi, Bell, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Kellogg, DuPont, the Wrights, and the innumerable others were all wankers. But that goes with the territory. Invent something new or go a different way, and you have to be a bit of a wanker to keep the tossers and parasites at bay, keep people from stealing your s4!t or shutting you down because you're busting their hustle.
But one thing I will say they do over the current "innovators" like teh googlezboyes and Facebookkid, is they actually built stuff, heated/lit homes, cured diseases, fed people and did things that improved your fellow traveller's lot in life. That's way more that can be said for cheating the market, posing your relationship status or surfing the latest pr0n.
Musk's way gets us closer to getting off this rock, as a step to the stars, where we MUST go. If he's a bit of a tool, I'm OK with that, because he's in good company.
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
Pretty decent distance between wanker and say eccentric.
I like eccentric, prefer it way more than vanilla in fact. But once you tread into wanker territory you aren't devoid of well deserved criticism.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
And that's fine, but he's the one putting s4!t in orbit, and we're two people bitching on teh interwebz.
bike21
9-5 Ruins Lives
Ha. True. It's a love-hate thing with him at the moment. SpaceX is just about the coolest shizz ever and I'm glad there are very smart folks running the show behind the scenes.
ozone
Well-Known Member
Does the classic Boeing phrase now need to change to: “if it’s Boeing, I’m not going”
Link:
gizmodo.com
Link:
Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
Starliner teams detected a helium leak before launch, two more after liftoff, and now a fourth and fifth leak with the vehicle docked at the ISS. Oh my.
gizmodo.com
knot4u
Repeat Offender
One of those internet viral rumors started floating around about the ISS Commander getting hypoxic in a space suit yesterday, it was based on a "communication" between ground and the station that apparently was a practice exercise and somehow the audio was leaked and all of the folks aboard were sleeping and no one was in harms way. If you poke around a bit on the intertubes there are rumors of very unhappy people up there making life miserable for others. I'm sure none of it is true and everything's fine.
CFI A&P
Exploring the world one toilet at a time.
Does the classic Boeing phrase now need to change to: “if it’s Boeing, I’m not going”
Link:
Boeing's Starliner Now Has 5 Leaks While Parked Outside the ISS
Starliner teams detected a helium leak before launch, two more after liftoff, and now a fourth and fifth leak with the vehicle docked at the ISS. Oh my.
Richman
JC’s Resident Curmudgeon
That Flex stuff really does work pretty well, if used as directed. I saved myself a ton on coin resuscitating some leaky old gutters with a couple cans of the spray goop.
