knot4u
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The hair on my forearms was standing up straight as I watched it live, I'm old and not much gets a rise out of me, but the Falcon Heavy test flight did.
Falcon Heavy Launch
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Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
That video reminds me of building rockets out of paper towel and toilet paper tubes and using Estes engines. That was nearly the equivalent to kids today and their Tide pod challenge, but a hell of a lot more fun!
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
My great-grandparents went to a one room schoolhouse, literally in a horse and buggy (if they were lucky and didn't have to walk both ways uphill in the snow). My grandparents defeated Fascism and split the atom. My parents, for all of their many faults, destroyed for all educated people the notion of "race" as a meaningful arbiter of a person's worth, landed a human on the Moon, and returned him safely to Earth. And we are good with the iPhone? Let's adjust our sights a bit upwards, shall we?
Boris Badenov
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Plus I don't poop suds, and know that it's crucial to keep an aloe plant around. All kinds of advantages.
knot4u
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I'd never go to space. I applaud those that do, but I want no part of it. I'm not built to survive without the loving embrace of our blue jewel. I get nervous at high altitudes (46K-51K) not because I'm afraid of heights but because I'm fully aware of any number of things that might end my day in a rather abrupt manner. I hope we continue to evolve and explore, I'll leave it to the youngsters, I just got new pillows and I intend on giving them a thorough functional check.
Boris Badenov
Fortis Leader
Oyedeng, Well-walla! Sasa key?
Box hauler
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I was flying past Vegas when I noticed a fuzzy star moving in the sky. I watched it for about 10 minutes before it turned into this. So cool to watch it happen in person
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Lang Belta! Oye Beratna!
Boris Badenov
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Amen. I remember distinctly, in the way that one does in one's doddering old age, my sainted mother telling me (not very long after the Challenger explosion) that she (as a school teacher) would have taken Christa McAuliffe's place if there had been a 20% chance she wouldn't have been blowed up. We are curious primates. It may be our only redeeming feature, upon reflection.
knot4u
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That's a pretty bold thing to say for a man your age, and I think we are the same age (I'm 46). I couldn't do it.
Boris Badenov
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knot4u
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Maybe, but thus far I've been a reasonable facsimile of a Scandinavian descendant. Norway has some really cool heroes, bad ass heroes.Never had a bayonet gently to the back have you? You'd make a crap Russian.
NovemberEcho
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I feel like an idiot because after 6 Expanse books I can still barely understand any Belter =(
scooter2525
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Not the best pic but this was my perspective yesterday. Good times!
fast89pony
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Cool compilation of the twin landers and reactions
Stryker172
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I was flying past Vegas when I noticed a fuzzy star moving in the sky. I watched it for about 10 minutes before it turned into this. So cool to watch it happen in person
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Wow. Saw the same thing last night and had no idea what it was. Very cool.
We're within a year.
I've always been a science nerd and remember we grew up in a world of sci fi where we were most likely going to have a moon colony in the mid 1970's and be on Mars in the early 1980's and then we just… stopped.
My path is that I wanted to be an astronaut so I tried to get into one of the service academies in order to weasel my way into a pilot slot and then off to test pilot school, which was the path of a lot of other astronauts at the time.
The end of the cold war hit and everything innovative came to a halt. ROTC in college meant that I was going to end up shuffling paper and measuring margins where the only payoff would be a "Missileer" or "Navigator" slot so I veered away from that. "So I guess I'll be an airline pilot."
It's a lot of fun, but I've always wanted more and would jump at the opportunity. Basically my trajectory at the moment is that my eulogy will read "Flew value-oriented travelers to Atlanta with regularity, started a website and helped make a lot of pilots. Loved well-poured margaritas". I've love to add on "made it off the blue ball of Earth".
