Space and Science BS Thread

You buy something from Boeing and that’s the last anyone sees of your money.

 

I've worked with a couple ex Boeing employees. They said it was the easiest job ever... No stress, no rushing to get things done, no yelling when you fuck up. Just get in and try not to get noticed for 30 years so you can collect a pension.

 

This has to be a record..

https://twitter.com/nasa/status/1468344039263068164?s=21

 

MOOSE

 

Didn’t think the Russians were into badminton

https://twitter.com/roscosmos/status/1468591134813442051?s=21

 

This is why I like NASA outsourcing rockets. It will allow them to focus on smaller projects and actually finish them.

 

Yup, and like you I'd love to share some pictures but don't want to lose my job or worse. I got some somewhere of some rocket engine bells I made for SpaceX and ULA. But that whole itar thing is enough to scare me a lil

 

https://twitter.com/katlinegrey/status/1468609861810278406?s=21
Yeah, that’s her in the helmet…


That was quick:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Crew-5

 

Can’t help it. # hottynaut

 

Can we say stuff like that out in the open anymore?

 

Hottynaut yes, fuglynaut no. Nor comments on her engineering spaces.

 

To take the moving map relation to old James Bond movies a bit further: Keyhole, later bought and renamed to Google Maps, was funded by IQT (the CIA venture capital arm). The Q in IQT calls upon Q of the James Bond movies as the arm has similar goals. The IQT DC tech demonstrator bldg. had a big Google-like map you could drag with your hand back when this was still a big deal, and was a point of pride for them. All public info.

 

"The target is a thermal exhaust port ..."

 

Remarkable:

https://twitter.com/_rykllan/status/1468952118111322113?s=21

 

Am I alone in thinking that kind of talk is disrespectful and not ok?

 

I can appreciate that. I’m ambivalent about it all. I think there’s more parity overall

 

Yes, yes you are.

 

No but you’ll hear similar chatter regardless of orientation. That particular “off topic” will never go away. If it does we’re done for. Often what makes something appropriate or not has nothing to do with “what” is said but to whom and where. Now back to spaceship docking methods.