Space and Science BS Thread

Doug and Bob are walking up now
live stream>>> https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

 

Looks like the NASA stream is the same content but slightly slower than the SpaceX stream. Not that that few seconds will matter that much.

 

I don't know why I'm so excited by this but I am. I still remember being in 4th grade when they dropped the Enterprise off of a 747 and what all that meant to us kids, then when the shuttle actually launched.

I really hope Elon doesn't step on his dick here.

 

Also very excited. I’ve got an alarm set to remind me to stop and turn on the launch.

 

Godspeed into space, Bob and Doug.

 

I got the launch streaming on my work computer. Having sat in the old Apollo capsule at Huntsville Space Museum, it's crazy how futuristic the Dragon capsule looks inside. Even the space suits are on point.

 

Streaming YouTube of SpaceX at work. Getting more exciting the closer we get to the final few minutes

 

Damn launch aborted for today Saturday?

 

Scrubbed! Dang it!

 

3:22PM EST SATURDAY MAY 30

Was really looking forward to this but I’m glad SpaceX is over-doing it on safety.

 

Well having a rocket get hit by "triggered lightening" is a bad day best case.

I think it was Apollo 12 that caused all the weather related focus. Got hit twice on the ascent by lightning triggered by it coming through the atmosphere and that's how we've become so sensitive to it since.

 

Scrub. Wx. Welp.

 

You'd think for an industry so sensitive to weather, particularly thunderstorms, we would have picked a place a lot different from Florida to shoot our rockets.

If we'd put it on the Texas coast, we'd have better weather, and if a rocket did fall, it'd hit Florida and hit only some methheads and gators.

 

Hence Boca Chica as the new site.

 

She sounds flilty

 

If you know anything about Brownsville, you'd know how correct you are

 

So true

 

And yet they went on to land on the moon.

Prolly wouldn’t happen like that in this day and age..