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SpaceX Gets the Green Light To Resume Rocket Launches (fortune.com)
Elon Musk's SpaceX rocket company has been cleared to resume flying following a launch pad explosion four months ago, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday. From a report on Fortune: The decision clears SpaceX to attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 10 Iridium Communications satellites as early as Monday, a day later than originally planned. SpaceX, owned by Tesla Motors Chief Executive Officer Musk, on Friday declined to comment about what caused the delay. Liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is targeted for around 10:26 a.m. PST/1:26 p.m. EST. The FAA, which oversees commercial U.S. space launches, oversaw SpaceX's investigation into why a Falcon 9 rocket burst into flames on a launch pad in Florida as it was being fueled for a routine, prelaunch test on Sept. 1. The accident destroyed the $62 million booster and a $200 million Israeli communications satellite that had been partly leased by Facebook to expand Internet access in Africa.
SpaceX Gets the Green Light To Resume Rocket Launches
While rocket launching your resume is certainly faster than regular old mail, it's still slower than e-mailing it out there.
more anti-sniper coverage than a Presidential appearance at an NRA convention
Seriously, does this mean they know what caused the thing to explode now?
Anybody know what the reason was?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Judging by how poorly communist countries have done and are currently doing I think I'll take my chances with our current "capitalist" setup. (And we're not a good model of capitalism at all).
Soviet Famine killed millions
Chinese famine killed millions
Venezuela's communist system is failing them now just like the USSR's system went belly up.
Communist Vietnam has almost no human rights
I could go on, but I think this is sufficient to disprove your bullshit.
The USA put men on the moon multiple times, sent probes on escape velocity from the solar system, and now has probes and rovers around and on Mars.
Where are the soviets now?
The USA put men on the moon multiple times, sent probes on escape velocity from the solar system,
In the 70s
and now has probes and rovers around and on Mars.
Stuff that the soviets did first in the 60s/70s, including harsher planets like venus
Who's currently transporting people to the ISS?
Well, the current Russians are the ones putting the US in orbit... As the US cannot do it at all.
Didn't Putin give you guys a vacation after Trump won?
In Soviet Russia, government makes jokes about you!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
The country whose Finance Minister wanted Atlas Shrugged to be mandatory reading in the schools. Not the USSR.
There is no communist nation. There is a totalitarian nation with a mixed command/capitalist economy. But nothing that Marx would call communist.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
In what way is man that is providing 10s of 1000 of decent to high paying jobs, a parasite?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Didn't Putin give you guys a vacation after Trump won?
I take it you admit to losing the argument about main point of this thread when you resort to that.
If you are talking about China it's the closest thing around to the old Soviet style communist dictatorships that's still available, albeit with a mixed economy.
Sure. But it's not like the political systems that preceded communism in Russia or China were that much better. Famines are unfortunately a regular occurrence in the history of both those countries.
Jupiter? Saturn? Pluto?
nice selective memory.
Sure. But it's not like the political systems that preceded communism in Russia or China were that much better. Famines are unfortunately a regular occurrence in the history of both those countries.
The preceding famines were nowhere near close to the magnitude of the communist ones, nor were there purely man-made.
Well if you guys would rather stick to the 'No True Scotsman's Fallacy' I guess that's fine too...
Sputnik 1 vs Explorer 1 demonstrated that USSR was 4 months ahead in space race before the US in 1957/8.
Gagarin vs Glenn demonstrated that USSR was about 1 year ahead before the US in 1962.
Apollo 11 vs nothing demonstrate that right now US is about 50 YEARS ahead of the USSR/Russia, AND COUNTING. Guess communism ain't so hot after all, is it?
Who's currently transporting people to the ISS?
The reason is the same as the reason you're wearing a T-shirt with a "made in China" tag. It's shit but it's cheap. Having cheapest workforce around is nothing really to brag about.
But i guess you paid russian trolls have to make the most out of it, before Sputnik, the Pride of the Empire :DDDDDD gets replaced by a product of a small private company :DDDDDDDD
the soviets were also not communist.
They were a pure command economy tied to a totalitarian leadership.
NONE of those things are communists. In POF, I doubt that we will ever see a communist nation ever on this planet. Probably the closest things are the farms in Israel.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Neither were purely man-made. They were mostly due to poor (murderous) policies, in particular the Soviet one, but both had climate issues behind the agricultural production collapse as well.
the soviets were also not communist.
They were a pure command economy tied to a totalitarian leadership.
NONE of those things are communists. In POF, I doubt that we will ever see a communist nation ever on this planet. Probably the closest things are the farms in Israel.
We actually have seen it, just it doesn't last long at all. The USSR even began that way, but it declined so quickly that they had to replace the economic system with socialism.
For an excellent case study on this, read about the Icarians. They had plenty of resources, including a few cities already built whose prior residents just left, (i.e. Navoo Illinois, when the Mormons who built it were forced to leave by the state government) and even got to pick and choose who joined the commune, selecting those with a higher work ethic and rejecting those who didn't. In fact most who came were wealthy and gave up all of their possessions to the community, doing the whole "to each, from each" thing. The problem is, the GDP gradually declined and what happened to them is the same thing that happened to every communist country that came after them; they had to gradually establish a command economy, and the more they did this the more tired of it that people became until enough of them left that the whole thing just fell apart.
Russia tried to solve this by erecting a wall to keep people in and enacting "work truancy" laws (i.e. the police would make sure that you were at your designated place of work,) and that lasted them all of about 25 years, but they were still dirt poor the whole time. The Icarians weren't an official government though, and they had no ability to do this. They could have lasted longer if they did, but to what end? Communism is a really crappy idea no matter how you look at it.
It's shit but it's cheap ? What the hell are you talking about ? There is a good reason neither Europe nor the United States has currently the capacity to send people on orbit - it's not an easy engineering problem.
This is cool.