I got the impression that the booster was the first scheduled for re-use as opposed to the previous ones that were on a more of a "lets look at it if it survives and decide" basis.
I'm sure it was insured, even if the insurance was basically an escrow against public liability in the event of a catastrophic launch anomalies involving the public. It's not like you can go to three repair facilities and get written estimates on repair cost!
If you watch the video of the explosion, you would see the explosion happened very high where you would expect the interface between the second stage and the payload would be, so it's not clear that it was the Falcon9 that blew up or the payload. Those Geosync satellites carry considerable fuel for both station-keeping and for vacating there position upon retirement. It's plausible that either had the problem, or even both.
There's a technical phrase for what happened and it's "God damn it, the fucking thing blew the hell up, the second stage just spilled it's fucking guts all over the mother fucking launch-pad! The whole damned pad is probably FUBAR."
yes that's X-band (7.0 to 11.2 gigahertz (GHz)) used by military, and civilians mostly for Radar, Amateur radio has a frequency band in there (10.000 to 10.500 GHz,) to., The satellite communication band Ku (12–18 GHz) has (the band 11.2–12 GHz the working definitions of Ku band and X band overlap) is in there as well. A lot of weird shit can happen in those frequency bands, and it's not unusual for people to play around there doing things that aren't strictly legal, you'd be surprised the havoc someone can cause with a fluorescent light, some waveguide and an old TV dish.
When we were doing receiver alignments and got to noise tests, we had to turn off the fluorescent lights because they pumped out a lot of X-band high end noise.
There are only about 8% of the USHCN Sites, sited so that the expected error is less than 1C, which is pretty damning considering the warming for the century is estimated at 0.7 degrees Celsius.
Or maybe they thought it's been so fucking cold for so long we can't grow enough food to eat so we better start make things to trade for food from warmer places that still have a growing season.
There were problems and they were either fixed or worked around, but the problems didn't seem to match the level of hysteria in the media. I had big problems then, our software vertical went belly up, so I got drafted into installing the software updates into our OpenUnix server that didn't have any graphics or networking installed, so I had to download them from SCO and dd them over to floppies on a linux machine yada yada yada. It was hairy but planes weren't falling from the skies either.. Likewise NY is supposed to be underwater now, the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free last year yada, yada, yada and it's not.
So amongst people who have a vested interest in in continued research grants to study a a supposedly apocalyptic catastrophe, there is a consensus that there will be an apocalyptic catastrophe that requires research grant money for them to study; of course there is.
Now that Global Warming has turned into "Globally it got warmer, but now it may have stopped getting warmer", the alarmists are crying the old "It's worse than we thought" mantra by dredging up some obscure proxy data to interpret, and published it in some crony reviewed magazine. Of course the part they forgot is it wasn't that long ago they told us the the anthropogenic part of global warming was only theoretically possible since 1950, so warming a century before that is either another failed prediction that weakens confidence in the models, or this study is whacked.
It's pretty clear to anyone with half a brain that the extremists on both sides are religious zealots, and you don't have to read very many of the climatgate emails too realize that the moral compasses of high profile Climatologists are off true north.
You don't get it, It's not in his personal income taxes, those are just going to boring old stuff, some dividends, some salary, a few taxable perks and some deductions. All of the good stuff will be buried in the numerous corporate tax forms, the corporations, that own the corporations, that own the corporations. It's like the Clinton's, their personal returns are pretty boring, looking at The Clinton Foundation is where the fun begins.
We have the Freedom of Information Act specifically to inhibit Government and Politician’s corruption and increase transparency. Hillary setting up a private server strongly implies that she was attempting to evade the FOIA laws, the most likely reason is to avoid revealing the very corruption the laws were put emplace to help prevent.
The more the deleted emails are dug up, the more corruption is being revealed
Let's also assume for the moment that Hillary wanted to have an e-mail address with a domain name the added to her marketing value and she asked some egg-head if he/she could make it happen. Now assume that the egghead recognizes that she's the secretary of state as well as the former first lady of a two term president.
Now the egghead hears her ask for this and he's like "Well, I can't put that on our internal servers... what else can I do to make it happen?" Of course the egghead isn't a lawyer and he/she doesn't want to be cock-blocked by some manager and then go back to Hillary and tell her/him (still not sure) that he screwed up and now her dreams of having a her marketing slogan as a domain name for her e-mail will not be possible.
All you have to do is: 1. have IT at the State Dept set up an email server, at the State Dept, 2. manage the Email server per State Dept's policies, regulation and US law by State Dept's professional administrators 3. Point the Domain record's MX record to the State Department's server. If your the US Sec of State, you can do this shit.
Honestly, four years of the federal government in D.C. not fucking things up for the rest of us, regardless of party affiliation, sounds like the best kind of presidency.
Bill Clinton was actually a pretty good President by that Standard too.
Abraham Lincoln was almost a third party president, he ran as a Republican as the Whig party imploded. If the Tea Party aligned with the Libertarians, we'd have almost a similar situation with the Republicans; Gary Johnson was a Republican at one time.
The Republicans are in trouble, a big percentage of their rank and file are highly disgruntled. Obama started with a democratic majority in the House and Senate, Obamacare got pushed through and the Democrats were decimated in the mid-term elections. The mandate seemed clear to me, the rank and file wanted Obama throttled back. Obama went off the charts with Executive Orders to push through what he couldn't get through Congress and Boehner couldn't stop it and he got kicked to the curb. Next we had Mc Cain an independent running as a Republican against Obama, now we got Trump who's really an Old School Conservative Democrat running against Clinton a Progressive Democrat. Trump's support base is males making $35-75,000.00, with less than a 4 year degree, in short the middle class, the Six-pack Joes that are paying the majority of the taxes. In a lot of ways, the third party is consuming the Republican Party internally. Atlas is shrugging and the political parties aren't paying attention, things are likely to get ugly.
When I was in the Army, I had a SECRET NOFORN CRYPTO document that I had lost accountability of. My phones were tapped, I was followed everywhere, I was sure I would end up in prison. Eventually I found it had fallen out of the filing cabinet drawer (the only document in that drawer) and behind the drawer that had CONFIDENTIAL documents, the filing cabinet was inside a locked vault. I was so lucky everything just went away, as I really could have still been prosecuted for just losing accountability.
People can and do go to prison for far less than what Hillary has admitted to; hell I've probably just broke the law describing the incident.
The United States Presidential line of succession defines who may become or act as President of the United States upon the incapacity, death, resignation, or removal from office (by impeachment and subsequent conviction) of a sitting president or a president-elect. 1 Vice President Joe Biden (D) 2 Speaker of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan (R) 3 President pro tempore of the Senate Orrin Hatch (R) 4 Secretary of State John Kerry (D) United States presidential line of succession
It's Clear who succeeds who; who is running for Vice President may be more important than who's running for President, I keep waiting for Clinton to stroke out. I also think Biden's real purpose is to keep Obama from being assassinated, a role Kaine seems well suited for as well.
Trust me, they could easily have all of the emails, the Russians have them and the NSA has them; the fly in the ointment is the chain of custody and the fruit of the tainted tree. Very probably there is a team at the FBI that has all of them, and a cleanroom team that only has access to what is admissible.
They'll just keep tugging away at loose threads as they find them until the whole thing unravels, this is SOP in RICO investigations. Keep everything on the down-low, Clinton's narcissism, will make her think she's getting away with it. The FBI will have enough on her cronies to neutralize the fear she'll drag them down with her. Eventually they'll have enough to seize Clinton Foundation assets and records. No dirt on others and no money, she'll be done. Maybe even Soros will get tangled up in the net.
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I got the impression that the booster was the first scheduled for re-use as opposed to the previous ones that were on a more of a "lets look at it if it survives and decide" basis.
I'm sure it was insured, even if the insurance was basically an escrow against public liability in the event of a catastrophic launch anomalies involving the public. It's not like you can go to three repair facilities and get written estimates on repair cost!
If you watch the video of the explosion, you would see the explosion happened very high where you would expect the interface between the second stage and the payload would be, so it's not clear that it was the Falcon9 that blew up or the payload. Those Geosync satellites carry considerable fuel for both station-keeping and for vacating there position upon retirement. It's plausible that either had the problem, or even both.
that should be "rapid unscheduled autonomous prelaunch disassembly", just to be clear.
It also means that insurance rates for SpaceX launches just went up. Making really cheap rockets won't save any money if they're not reliable.
I'm not sure that SpaceX has enough launch experience to be considered reliable even with a perfect record.
There's a technical phrase for what happened and it's "God damn it, the fucking thing blew the hell up, the second stage just spilled it's fucking guts all over the mother fucking launch-pad! The whole damned pad is probably FUBAR."
Oh, don't forget the big voter registration drive in their cemeteries.
yes that's X-band (7.0 to 11.2 gigahertz (GHz)) used by military, and civilians mostly for Radar, Amateur radio has a frequency band in there (10.000 to 10.500 GHz,) to., The satellite communication band Ku (12–18 GHz) has (the band 11.2–12 GHz the working definitions of Ku band and X band overlap) is in there as well. A lot of weird shit can happen in those frequency bands, and it's not unusual for people to play around there doing things that aren't strictly legal, you'd be surprised the havoc someone can cause with a fluorescent light, some waveguide and an old TV dish.
When we were doing receiver alignments and got to noise tests, we had to turn off the fluorescent lights because they pumped out a lot of X-band high end noise.
There are only about 8% of the USHCN Sites, sited so that the expected error is less than 1C, which is pretty damning considering the warming for the century is estimated at 0.7 degrees Celsius.
Or maybe they thought it's been so fucking cold for so long we can't grow enough food to eat so we better start make things to trade for food from warmer places that still have a growing season.
There were problems and they were either fixed or worked around, but the problems didn't seem to match the level of hysteria in the media. I had big problems then, our software vertical went belly up, so I got drafted into installing the software updates into our OpenUnix server that didn't have any graphics or networking installed, so I had to download them from SCO and dd them over to floppies on a linux machine yada yada yada. It was hairy but planes weren't falling from the skies either..
Likewise NY is supposed to be underwater now, the Arctic was supposed to be ice-free last year yada, yada, yada and it's not.
That is one of the problems, there is little data any more, it's all been adjusted, normalized and gridded into "data product".
So amongst people who have a vested interest in in continued research grants to study a a supposedly apocalyptic catastrophe, there is a consensus that there will be an apocalyptic catastrophe that requires research grant money for them to study; of course there is.
Now that Global Warming has turned into "Globally it got warmer, but now it may have stopped getting warmer", the alarmists are crying the old "It's worse than we thought" mantra by dredging up some obscure proxy data to interpret, and published it in some crony reviewed magazine. Of course the part they forgot is it wasn't that long ago they told us the the anthropogenic part of global warming was only theoretically possible since 1950, so warming a century before that is either another failed prediction that weakens confidence in the models, or this study is whacked.
It's pretty clear to anyone with half a brain that the extremists on both sides are religious zealots, and you don't have to read very many of the climatgate emails too realize that the moral compasses of high profile Climatologists are off true north.
You don't get it, It's not in his personal income taxes, those are just going to boring old stuff, some dividends, some salary, a few taxable perks and some deductions. All of the good stuff will be buried in the numerous corporate tax forms, the corporations, that own the corporations, that own the corporations. It's like the Clinton's, their personal returns are pretty boring, looking at The Clinton Foundation is where the fun begins.
Probably too optimistic, she'll likely die before they get far enough, there is a lot of layers on that onion to peal back.
We have the Freedom of Information Act specifically to inhibit Government and Politician’s corruption and increase transparency. Hillary setting up a private server strongly implies that she was attempting to evade the FOIA laws, the most likely reason is to avoid revealing the very corruption the laws were put emplace to help prevent.
The more the deleted emails are dug up, the more corruption is being revealed
No, it's the fruit of the tainted tree, and chain of evidence problem, we're talking prosecution not rendition.
Let's also assume for the moment that Hillary wanted to have an e-mail address with a domain name the added to her marketing value and she asked some egg-head if he/she could make it happen. Now assume that the egghead recognizes that she's the secretary of state as well as the former first lady of a two term president.
Now the egghead hears her ask for this and he's like "Well, I can't put that on our internal servers... what else can I do to make it happen?" Of course the egghead isn't a lawyer and he/she doesn't want to be cock-blocked by some manager and then go back to Hillary and tell her/him (still not sure) that he screwed up and now her dreams of having a her marketing slogan as a domain name for her e-mail will not be possible.
All you have to do is:
1. have IT at the State Dept set up an email server, at the State Dept,
2. manage the Email server per State Dept's policies, regulation and US law by State Dept's professional administrators
3. Point the Domain record's MX record to the State Department's server.
If your the US Sec of State, you can do this shit.
Honestly, four years of the federal government in D.C. not fucking things up for the rest of us, regardless of party affiliation, sounds like the best kind of presidency.
Bill Clinton was actually a pretty good President by that Standard too.
Abraham Lincoln was almost a third party president, he ran as a Republican as the Whig party imploded. If the Tea Party aligned with the Libertarians, we'd have almost a similar situation with the Republicans; Gary Johnson was a Republican at one time.
The Republicans are in trouble, a big percentage of their rank and file are highly disgruntled. Obama started with a democratic majority in the House and Senate, Obamacare got pushed through and the Democrats were decimated in the mid-term elections. The mandate seemed clear to me, the rank and file wanted Obama throttled back. Obama went off the charts with Executive Orders to push through what he couldn't get through Congress and Boehner couldn't stop it and he got kicked to the curb. Next we had Mc Cain an independent running as a Republican against Obama, now we got Trump who's really an Old School Conservative Democrat running against Clinton a Progressive Democrat.
Trump's support base is males making $35-75,000.00, with less than a 4 year degree, in short the middle class, the Six-pack Joes that are paying the majority of the taxes. In a lot of ways, the third party is consuming the Republican Party internally. Atlas is shrugging and the political parties aren't paying attention, things are likely to get ugly.
When I was in the Army, I had a SECRET NOFORN CRYPTO document that I had lost accountability of. My phones were tapped, I was followed everywhere, I was sure I would end up in prison. Eventually I found it had fallen out of the filing cabinet drawer (the only document in that drawer) and behind the drawer that had CONFIDENTIAL documents, the filing cabinet was inside a locked vault. I was so lucky everything just went away, as I really could have still been prosecuted for just losing accountability.
People can and do go to prison for far less than what Hillary has admitted to; hell I've probably just broke the law describing the incident.
It's Clear who succeeds who; who is running for Vice President may be more important than who's running for President, I keep waiting for Clinton to stroke out. I also think Biden's real purpose is to keep Obama from being assassinated, a role Kaine seems well suited for as well.
Trust me, they could easily have all of the emails, the Russians have them and the NSA has them; the fly in the ointment is the chain of custody and the fruit of the tainted tree. Very probably there is a team at the FBI that has all of them, and a cleanroom team that only has access to what is admissible.
They'll just keep tugging away at loose threads as they find them until the whole thing unravels, this is SOP in RICO investigations. Keep everything on the down-low, Clinton's narcissism, will make her think she's getting away with it. The FBI will have enough on her cronies to neutralize the fear she'll drag them down with her. Eventually they'll have enough to seize Clinton Foundation assets and records. No dirt on others and no money, she'll be done. Maybe even Soros will get tangled up in the net.
Okay we're going to need a reputable citation on that non-deletion thing.