Space and Science BS Thread

Rumor no more. LZ1 Friday though.

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/2404

 

You are correct. The guy that told me said Friday, I looked it up and it still said Thursday so I wrote that.

 

Never trust ‘the guy’. Always trust the Internet




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https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1406285400629559306?s=21


Who here remembers?

 

Looks wrong, so very wrong:

https://twitter.com/stem_feed/status/1406262638473064448?s=21

 

WHERE'S THE TUNDRA? THAT WAS A LIE

.. er I mean..

 

It was quite a show. They took a politically correct route instead of the most direct and easiest.

Watching it fly in on the back of the 747 was fun. It took an unscheduled detour and flew over my house twice.

 

Cool. Did you get any pics?

 

Sadly no. I was working and had hoped to get photos over downtown L A. Timing was bad. I actually gave up. Then when it went over the first time it was too far away by the time I git my camera. I only heard about the second time on the news moments before it happened.

I do have some of the ground moves. It took days. But it was a zoo and they aren’t very good.

 

The wife was working on the hill above West LA College, when they flew over she could see the pilot's faces.
If you're in the area, go see it at the California Science Center

 

I watched a U2 get partially disassembled in 2008 because some fuckwit forgot that he stuffed a socket extension into the thin pen pocket on his ABU pants.

In 120 degree heat.

His teammates were not happy with him.

 

I love hearing stories like this. Better this than hearing it clinking around first time the pilot banked hard.

 

The U2 maintainers were a mix of retired MX pros come back as contractors and young GIs. The old guys were always clean, and their gear always perfectly maintained.

The young guys RUINED three of my T.O. laptops (touch screen Toughbooks) with SCREWDRIVERS because they were too lazy to clean their fucking hands when scrolling though the digital T.O.s.

These modern tablets are awesome for MX folks - they can order parts while STANDING INSIDE THE ENGINE BAY!! (which, if you're a maintainer, is cool as shit), but only if they have enough requisite brain cells to rub together to generate heat. Otherwise, they're 50/50 on picking the right size screwdriver.

I've heard it said that half of all maintainers are the reason the other half can't find shit.

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/jef...titions-return-earth-space-blue-origin-2021-6

 

A buddy of mine is a supervisor at Coronado working on jets. Apparently a few years back someone forgot a bucking bar in a jet. They found it when the jet went supersonic... He says the pilot had to eject and that the employee was not fired. That said, I've been in his shop recently and it is the cleanest shop I've ever stepped foot in.

 

Got Oceanfront property?

https://arstechnica.com/science/202...oding-in-the-us-likely-to-get-worse-suddenly/

 

I hear Orlando’s beaches will be nice.

 

This is all true. NASA has spent millions recently bringing in sand and trying to ensure that their launch pads aren't comprimised in the future. I know 39B had a storm surge come up over the beachhead. The studies they've done show something near a 40% chance that at least 1 of pads 36-41 suffer a catastrophic flood in the next 100 years.

In 50 years Nasa might be paying the Mormon church to launch from their property. Mormons famously own hundreds of thousands of acres between the beach and Orlando.

 

Now I live on a hilltop at the beach at a listed 143'. If you dig down through my lawn you will find topsoil, then adobe and about 18" below the top of the adobe you hit sedimentary rock. I know it is at least 11.5 feet deep (that's how far down the plumbers needed to jackhammer to install a new sewer line). So that tells me that at some point in the fairly recent (geologically speaking) past my property was under water. Now I've seen various calculations based on the density of the sedimentary rock as to how far under water it was. But it's safe to say that long, long before man was even a glimmer in the eye of evolution the seas were higher. The earth was warmer. In other words all you climate panic prone folks, it ain't nothing new, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the existence of man. And here's another revelation for you. YOU CAN'T STOP IT.