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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 12, 2019 at 12:35 PM
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    End goal is pulling in the alphabet boys as well, thats just not in the cards right now this soon. Gonna take a few more years of logistics to work that nightmare out.

    No weapons in space ever, Article IV of the Outer Space Treaty says hell no to that.

    A good majority of space ops is support, but there are a handful of missions that can be considered "tip of the spear" if thats what you're into. Gotta join up to figure out though :anonymous:
     
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  2. Dec 12, 2019 at 12:52 PM
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    I want God Rods. I'd have dropped dozens on Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea already.

    And one or two smaller ones in traffic just because.
     
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    MIKE LIVES!!!

    TANSTAAFL, bitches!!
     
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    Gunshot-6A, Dec 12, 2019
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    You would have read those books. I should have guessed.













    nerd.
     
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    Starship Troopers is still my all-time favorite. I describe it as a treatise on moral and civic responsibility disguised as sci-fi. Stranger in a Strange Land is a close second. I've read about 30, and loved them all in one form or another.

    I also recommend David Brin's Uplift series. Really smart, funny, and extremely wide in scope and possible reality. Great stuff.
     
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  7. Dec 12, 2019 at 1:53 PM
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    I love the Starship Troopers movies, and finally realized that they were written by one of my favorite scifi authors. Whooo boy, are the books different! I wish we had gotten movies closer to the books.
     
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    I personally love how we all had to read "Ender's Game" in high school and now 3 of my classmates are MQ-9 pilots.

    As always, a relevant XKCD:

    "We live in a world where there are actual fleets of robot assassins patrolling the skies. At some point there, we left the present and entered the future."
    [​IMG]
     
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    The books didn't have young Denise Richards in it. :cool:
     
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    No, but it did have a couple of shower scenes.
     
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    I read a ton of sci fi as a kid and am working through much of them again. Some are as impressive as they once were (think Dune - the first one or two..) some aren't as impressive but I can still see how cool they were to a 13 year old me (think Gateway by Fredrick Pohl...).

    The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is sometime later this winter!! Good stuff! Classic.
     
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    Most space tech is dual use.
     
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    Tonight.
    https://www.space.com/spacex-jcsat-kacific-satellite-launch-webcast.html


    “The Falcon 9 booster that SpaceX is using to launch the JCSAT 18/Kacific 1 communications satellite most recently flew a cargo mission to the International Space Station on July 25, 2019.”

    Getting closer to the “rapid” part of the SpaceX business plan..

    Edit: Successful launch and landing of the first stage booster for the fourth time. Satellite successfully deployed.
     
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    Is this a really sciencey way of yelling "Wrong hole!"?
     
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    Can’t exactly say “WTF” in public, although a lot at Boeing are saying that in private.
     
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    It's a space station, not a black hole?
     
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