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RamjetFDO

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  1. Yeah - was watching on TUDN in Spanish, but just signed up for the trial, logged in via the CBS Sports app on my Roku and watching now.  Stupid.

     

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  2. 4 minutes ago, Leeroy Jenkins said:

    Why do I have to watch this on TV in Spanish? Frustrating

    ... and all of the firstrowsports streams seem to not be working.  Anyone have something?

  3. Well that was a proper Charlie Fox in front of the Villa goal at the end to apparently give the Hammers the winner that is overturned for the second time this match by VAR. Someone needs to tell West Ham that they can't play the ball off their arms.

    But regardless...

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  4. 20 hours ago, horncyclist said:

    Isn't that their whole approach? 

    100%.  And as I agreed with @locodos above, it's working for them on their commercial space unmanned product line.

     

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    I don't think it's a "cavalier attitude," it's calculated risks and when people on board blowing things up is okay.

    Ah... here we go.  "Two things can be true at the same time".  

    It's ABSOLUTELY a cavalier attitude that has permeated everything that SpaceX does.  I know guys who work there that I trust, and they're very worried.  They see the social-media-driven generation making decisions based on public and fanboi positive comments rather than taking just a little bit longer and doing things right.  Do you think the technical oversight of not launching IFT-1 with flame trench deflectors was because of anything other than GO-fever and not wanting to be embarrassed on Twitter/X?  A total sense of "we know what we're doing, to hell with those old guys" hubris?

    Trust me on this one ... NASA's not immune either.  The Apollo guys didn't have this problem, because they were also pretty much the Mercury/Gemini guys.  On Shuttle, we had a transition where a lot of the Apollo guys were on the way out, but some were still there to try to pass along the culture and the mindset.  Challenger happened just as much because of the bad decisions, misdirected focus, and not applying basic cockpit resource management to the decision processes as due to the technical design flaw.  That was a slap in the face and we learned... until we didn't again with Columbia.  

    If you think that this culture of backwards-cap-wearing on console, fanboi-screaming adoration, and casually claiming "success" when failure is the real outcome won't come to bite SpaceX in the ass one day... you're misreading history.  There's nothing wrong with staring out by saying "hey, we're disappointed at the failure of the Heavy booster not performing on flyback and we're puzzled and more than a bit worried about what happened with Starship" and then going on to say, but we'll learn from what did go right, fix what went wrong, and those things won't happen again... but that's not even close to the public presentation that they're putting out there.

    The story, sadly, is unfolding in front of us unless something changes and soon.

    Again - I WANT them to succeed... but I see what's happening based on history and experience.

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  5. 1 hour ago, locodos said:

    I agree with your sentiment.  It's helpful to consider that other Aerospace Cos just lose that money without launching a thing. 

    They just burn that money in the waterfall design process.  Starliner?  When will it fly in production?  

    This is actually a very accurate comparison and I agree with you.  Good points.

    I'm just of the age and environment that if you launch something that done-did-blown-up, you didn't succeed... and you weren't celebrated for it.  NOW - having said that - yes, I get that I'm yelling at clouds here and "things are different old man".  SpaceX is doing fantastic things when they do actually succeed.  I just don't want them to fail when people are aboard because of the cavalier attitude they have now in these design/test flights.

    Much like sports and military training ... "train like you fight means you fight like you train".  It's an operational mindset that was burned into me that I don't think commercial space (in general, but SpaceX specifically since they're the most visible right now) has with their operational teams.  

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  6. I'm torn here -- 

    On one hand - FUCKING BRAVO SPACEX.  That was amazing.  A massive huge success getting the integrated vehicle off the pad, fully through stage one and powered staging, and sub-orbital flight.  Those plasma heating (compression, not "friction", you GenX SpaceX BratPack public affairs dipshits) video feed views were fantastic!

    On the other hand - I'm getting very tired of the "oh well, we lost another Starship" casualness.  You are eventually going to run out of taxpayer money (funneled through Elon).

     

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  7. Just saw Part 2 ... and don't think it's been mentioned here (and don't care if it has), but I got an "Empire Strikes Back" vibe from this in the same way, due to the (1) awesomeness of the movie, (2) very different feel/pacing from the first movie, and (3) kinda cliffhanger-y ending without a 100% resolution of the storyline making me yearn for Part 3.

    Now, if Denis ends up having Spice Ewoks in Part 3, I'm walking out.  YUB NUB!

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  8. 34 minutes ago, deft said:


    What’s your rig? I’m running an old xt8 dob with a standard manual movement dobsonian base. I bought 12x12” filter sheet and rednecked it with some cereal boxes and tape to fit over the opening of the tube. Need to try getting the chinesium cellphone to eyepiece adapter to work better tho

    Just got a Nikon Z6ii (replaced my old D5100), 24-120 f4 S lens, and a good solar filter ... put it on a sturdy tripod and remote shutter release.  ISO200, f/16, 1/500s.

     

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