SpaceX launches space station resupply mission, lands rocket on drone ship
This of course wasn’t one of the Crew Dragons, but one of the Old Boring Dragons. But at least so far this one is working out.
This of course wasn’t one of the Crew Dragons, but one of the Old Boring Dragons. But at least so far this one is working out.
And then there’s this:
Don’t say I never gave ya nuthin’.
Behold:
Almost certainly the most powerful launch vehicle ever given serious consideration and actual design work was Boeing’s Large Multipurpose Launch Vehicle from 1968. Designed under contract to NASA,the LMLV was designed to be very modular, using a core vehicle that was a perfectly serviceable single stage to orbit launcher, with the option of adding upper stages and various numbers of strap-on solid rocket boosters. it was a large vehicle, seemingly in line with the Nova/Post-Saturn vehicles designed only five years before. But the LMLV was quite different in some respects: it was entirely expendable. With no need to even try to recover the core, no mass was expended on recovery systems, or strengthening the structure to withstand splashdown, or making sure the engines could survive many firings with minimal damage. Instead, every ounce was to be shaved off. The result was a vehicle of astounding launch capability.
The basic core was capable of putting a payload of one million pounds into a 100 nautical mile circular orbit. This equaled or exceeded the capability of the majority of the Nova/Post-Saturn designs,and did so without any augmentation. But it was designed for augmentation. up to twelve 260″ diameter solid rocket boosters could be added; without an upper stage, this configuration could orbit 3.5 million pounds.This would result in a vehicle weight 66,257,000 pounds at liftoff, with a takeoff thrust of 108 million pounds. This would be LOUD. But if ten 372″ boosters were used, the payload would increase to 4.2 million pounds. This was many times the payload of the Saturn V; the payloads intended for this vehicle were generally manned interplanetary (typically Mars) spacecraft and the millions of pounds of liquid hydrogen propellant that they needed.
Gentlemen, behold: grievance studies experts hold court on human exploration of Mars. It is every bit as awful as you might imagine. The banality of evil is on full display as they demonstrate their willingness and desire to kneecap humanity by demanding that space flight take into consideration their intersectioncl BS. if you watch nothing else here, make sure to check out the end when an audience member finally puts to the panel the obvious question: what exactly are the characteristics you want from the first generation of people sent to colonize Mars?
These idiots actually think the useless garbage they’ve decided to focus their lives around will actually survive first contact with the vacuum of space.
I have repeatedly brought up my concept for transcontinental pipelines to take water from where it’s excess to where it’s deficient. And does the government enact my entirely reasonable and in no way expensive plan? Nope. So this sort of thing keeps happening:
This just happened right across the Mississippi river from where I grew up. One of my all-time favorite used book stores is within a street or two of that mess. Bookstores and floods: not a good mix.
Not for other children, anyway.
Article includes photo of the numerous bite marks left on the kid. Best part of the article is the excuse-making by someone:
Lashawna Goulburne, the mother of the 2-year-old boy who bit Mila, told KGUN that day care staff did not call her after the incident.
“He’s not at fault here,” Goulburne said of her son. “He’s 2 and we pay. Not only me, but the other family. We pay for our children to be protected and be monitored and safe.”
Uh-huh. I can think of two people at fault:
1) Lil’ Dickens. Two may be young, but biting people like that is rare for two year olds.
2) Find yourself a mirror, lady. Maybe your baby-raising practices aren’t up to code.
One suspects that in 14 to 16 years or so, the biter here will get into the news once again when he is shot down in the street while assaulting someone with a cinderblock. And we’ll hear “Lashawna” yammering on about how he was a good kid who never hurt anybody, just a gentle soul and never mind those surveillance camera videos that showed him carrying out unspeakable horrors on that Korean grocer. Ground penetrating radar examinations of the families back yard will, I suspect, answer a lot of the neighborhoods questions about what happened to all the missing cats an dogs.
The British establishment is clearly freaked out by the candidacy of Carl Benjamin (“Sargon of Akkad”). Freaked out enough that they print not only smears, not only factually wrong smears, but factually wrong smears that are easily debunked and shown to be an intentional smear campaign. this is not even a matter of subjectivity… this would seem to be a slam-dunk case of libel.
I don’t know what British libel laws are like, but this seems like the sort of thing that, in a rational universe, would result in Sargon of Akkad owning the Daily Mail.