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Space and Science BS Thread

Discussion in 'Off-Topic Discussion' started by Monster Coma, Oct 29, 2013.

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  1. Dec 19, 2020 at 2:33 PM
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  5. Dec 22, 2020 at 7:16 AM
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    That's wild. When I was working in the letter agencies, we had a chance to go tour the NRO HQ, and most of us went "...who?"

    Coolest tour I've been on to date.
     
    Gunshot-6A, Dec 22, 2020
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    Russian pride at it's finest. Bragging about surviving in the cold sub-artic winter. Go to Russia, first thing they complain about is the cold :rofl:
     
    Gunshot-6A, Dec 22, 2020
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    ....

    Replace "Russia" with "Maine" and you got Maine.
     
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    I'm from Seattle. We don't shut up about how much it rains...yet we choose to live there.
     
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  9. Dec 22, 2020 at 7:43 AM
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    It might still be in the SpaceX broadcast of the launch. I think it was 15 or so minutes before liftoff.

    Adding to this was the secrecy and stopped coverage upon second stage separation “at the request of our customer”. :spy:
     
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  10. Dec 22, 2020 at 8:28 AM
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    Because the sub artic is warmer than mars? It's actually very rare that russia even mentions the spacex name. They really don't like them.
     
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  11. Dec 22, 2020 at 8:51 AM
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    Yeah, Rogozin’s gonna find himself looking for discarded boosters out there soon enough.
     
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    These governments and companies need to start. After nearly a decade of proving it's possible to recover boosters, spacex is still the only one doing it. You'd think them undercutting other launch providers by 500% would have been enough motivation for others to at least try.
     
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    It's a joke that Russia moved their launches so far North. I get that they don't want to be at the mercy, even though it's kind of not a big deal, of one of their allies for launches. Moving that far north though makes zero sense. Near Sochi there's a desert with literally nothing in it and they could drop the 1st stages over the Caspian and the 2nd over the Arial Hot Mess. Everything there revolves around Moscow I guess, they have to have to rockets close and dropping stages into random forested terrain lol.
     
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    I’d ask but figured you’d have to kill me if you told me :rofl:
     
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    There's probably some madman with a 80k line excel sheet orchestrating the whole thing. :laughing:
     
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    :rofl: I remember we used to make the 777 wing attachment assemblies, and our inventory turns would change by a full turn every time we delivered a pair.

    Can only imagine for rockets.
     
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    Changes one date ... excel spends the next five minutes spinning.
     
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