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RamjetFDO

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  1. RamjetFDO

    Austin FC

    Yup. The Little Pea takes advantage of a noticeably absent Austin defense. 1-nil in the 54th.
  2. RamjetFDO

    Austin FC

    You're not missing anything. LA is making us look stupid. Scoreless at the half...
  3. RamjetFDO

    Austin FC

    Great. Stuver down, holding his leg. Hopefully, it's just a cramp, but fuuuuuuuuuu.....
  4. RamjetFDO

    Austin FC

    I can see why Galaxy are at the bottom of the table... yeesh.
  5. Not gonna lie, this asshole scared the crap out of little me.
  6. Simple answer: hubris. Elon didn't want flame trenches. NASA and pretty much everyone who's ever launched rockets knows you need to deflect that energy somewhere. Elon wants to do it differently, even when in this case there was pretty reasonable science behind it and not just "old fuddy-duddy ways of thinking." No flame trench or deflectors = a lot of energy that didn't have somewhere easier to go than destruction of the launchpad and the massive crater underneath it that ended up flinging dirt, sand, and other debris for literally miles away (i.e., Brownsville). I would bet the FAA will make that a requirement above certain thrust levels going forward.
  7. The announcers just said something that really locks in the difference for me -- LOCAL PRIDE. Pre-RR/RM ownership and when the club was on hard times, they just said that the local fans/townspeople would bring in "bags of cash" to pay the players when the owners couldn't make payroll. Try to find any professional league in the US that would do that...
  8. I want to buy all of you a round of Wrexham Lager!
  9. CHAMPIONS!
  10. I love hate love hate love this game.
  11. SUPER PAUL MULLIN WITH A BRACE!!! 3-1 in the 71st!
  12. That was AWFULLY close to have thrown that flag up that fast.
  13. Yellow card to me.
  14. SUPER PAUL MULLIN!!!! 2-1 in the 52nd!!!
  15. Tozer's throws are fantastic ... he can do the high looping throw and the laser rope.
  16. Gotta play to the Netflix audience.
  17. Great episode so far.
  18. Foster got lucky there.
  19. BOOM! LEE! EVEN in the 14th!
  20. Well that sucked ... and will be a dramatic moment in Season 2.
  21. After a shitty second half performance that saw Villa down by a goal... they finally woke up and leveled in the 87th. Should be substantial added time for a few injury stoppages.
  22. What the actual fuck am I being referenced for here?
  23. No argument from me.
  24. I wouldn't say I'm looking forward to it, Bob. (Edit: I'm in agreement with most of what you wrote - my commentary isn't aimed at you! ) But yes... there have been an awful lot of bad takes and fanboi excuse-making across the Interwebbes. I watched this morning with eager anticipation and hope for success. First off, the goals of successful launch, staging, booster flyback to a hard water landing, and an almost-once-around flight of Starship were not "stretch goals", they were actually reasonable mission objectives based on the evolutionary use of previously-used technologies. If they weren't the planned goals, the prelaunch language would have been much different. Anything less was less than success. Second... yes, I'm old school... but I have the experience to back it up. If the Launch/Mission Control team takes an "unserious" approach to this very serious endeavor, then at some point, that will be reflected in an "unserious" result. I can't imagine what the response would have been if I came on console with an old band tour t-shirt and a backward cap. Finally... the SpaceX PAO/ broadcast team continues to be an absolute embarrassment. But, and I want to make this very clear, what SpaceX has done, is doing, and will do is revolutionary and is changing spaceflight forever. But what happened today is by no reasonable definition "a success." Yes, SpaceX will learn and launch again and they will be successful. They've proven the ability to do this. I'm excited to see the future, but let's not get so far ahead of ourselves that SpaceX hubris and self-adoration from the legions of social media influencers ends up with some serious disaster. Get off my lawn.
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