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Shuttle Launch Success
mkosmo writes to tell us NASA is reporting that shuttle launch today was successful. This launch occurred despite the safety warnings from many top NASA officials.
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Yeah, but do Russian spaceships have heated seats, air conditioning, all-leather interior, a 16-speaker sound system and all-nozzle drive?
SRSLY.
Until today, I thought trolling/crapflooding was the most pathetic form of internet nerdery. Today I have learned that failing at it is the true low point. I hope that the mysterious inner circle of reject friends gives you a lifetime ban from their secret club for being such a failure.
As long as Slashdot's a good 4 hours behind the times, let's get this outa the way too.
--- BEGIN INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION ---
"Meh. Running Imperialist Lackey Dogs!
Their shuttle pales in comparison to the People's Glorious Three-Part Fireworks Display that Dear Leader has orchestrated downrange of Pyongyang!"
--- END INTERCEPTED TRANSMISSION ---
Perfect finish to the Fourth, indeed, even if I didn't get to see the Shuttle launch and didn't have a need to know what happened to the non-decoy part of Kim's little fireworks show :)
Nice try, Kim. No cigar. You still so ronery.
yes, but 'engineerspeed' doesn't really sound as motivational. or as fast.
We emerge from our mother's womb an unformatted diskette; our culture formats us. - Douglas Coupland
I can only imagine the bad-taste jokes that would have happened if there has been an accident.
"Why doesn't NASA have 4th of July BBQs anymore?"
"They can't convince any of the astronauts to show up."
"New from TNT Fireworks: The Discovery! The biggest bang for your bucks! Fits any space-exploration budget!"
Every time I go to the grocery store in my piece of **** car, to buy some beer and smokes, I too leave with a thunderous blast and cloud of smoke, rattling my own garage door for 5 minutes... and I'm guaranteed on every trip that at least 5 objects fall off my car as well.
In fact, everyone knows in my neighborhood I'm about to do a launnch, because I have to run an air compressor to pump up the bald back tires... they gather in lawn chairs to watch and kids on bicycles patrol the streets like F15's to make sure my air space is clear.
If I tune the radio just right I can pick up Rush Limbaugh, which is as close as I get to mission control.
Once it caught on fire, and darn near well exploded. I had to pop the hood right quick and jump on there and take a good p*** on the fuel rail which was on fire... took everything I got to put that one out. That was Grocery Trip number 13. I guess it was jinxed by the number. I hear Ron Howards planning on making a movie short about that trip. I had to patch up the fuel rail with some duck tape and used condoms I found behind the back seat.
You know, buck for buck, I believe the American public gets more drama and excitement out of my car then they do some old space shuttle. With the front end alignment being as shot out as it is, I know it gives me plenty of excitement on the turnpike, jumping all over as it does
Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth shattering kaboom!
Your caps aren't big enough for it to hear/read.
Maybe try to add bold...
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
Godspeed, is that even faster than Ludicrous Speed?
For all intensive porpoises your a bunch of rediculous loosers
Some time last year, I saw the same claim made for Windows Vista.
Of course, since then, they've cut back on major new features. So maybe now it isn't the most complex thing that humans have ever built.
But there are many ways to define complexity. Someone at MS (or one of their detractors) is probably right now working on a definition that will restore the claim.
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
was actually two large coolers full of ice-cold PBR left over from the festivities.
[http://it-tastes-so-good.blogspot.com] Are you hungry?
Lets just hope that chunks of Aero Glass foam don't tear off it during the product launch.
Blessed are the 1337, for they shall pwn the earth.
I'd bet NASA could make just as awe-inspiring of a spectacle by lighting fire to a billion one-dollar bills soaked in jet fuel.
It must be a slow slashdot news day. NASA Shuttle has launched hundreds of times before safely.
It's still more of a news story than Dork-vorak's latest opinion on any random subject or an article about "Is [insert the name of a lame duck technology] dead/obsolete?". How many "news stories" did we have to endure about Bluetooth being a dead technology only to mill through waste-deep comments from pizza delivery boys who talked up how bitchin' their bluetooth mouse is. Not to say that the opinion of a pizza delivery boy isn't just as legitimate as Dvorak's...
Dedicated Cthulhu Cultist since 4523 BC.
What independence are you celebrating?
You've never seen ID4 before???
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
-Eric
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
For the same reason most folks scrap their little roadsters when they have kids. Like Gemini, they are cool, sporty, and 'good enough' to get around town in - but that's about it. Once you want to actually *do* anything in orbit, you need docking capability to provide shirtsleeve transfers, you need room for passengers in addition to the pilot and his backup, etc... etc...
Because there was no need for heavy lift capability - it was too expensive for all but the largest of cargoes, and the largest of cargoes were too expensive for anyone to be interested in building.
That would have worked - had there been any commercial use for these 'tried and true'[1] system. But there wasnt.
[1] They actually weren't. *Together* the Gemini and Apollo flight hours don't add up to the hours a typical new aircraft gets in the development and testing phase alone.