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How to spot you are on the downslope in your life cycle:
10 years ago: Led all nations in Space Exploration and Utilization.
Today: Not in space.
Future: No plans other than more tax reduction for the job creators so that the RICH in other countries can develop a tourist attraction for the merely rich.
……and no one even criticizes our culture for this as the downward spiral tightens and accelerates.
More to come.
Welcome to the Third World!
On the contrary the people you support have every intention of running everyone who has enough money to hire others out of the country or reducing them to the point they are also taking government handouts.
Why with any luck everyone will soon be living off “government money” and only Fed Gov employees and Congress critters will be rich in this police state.
It is already a sad truth that the only way to stay in business in this country is to bribe Congress or the WH while continuing to make pay offs to state and local officals.
I installed a computer network in a home office for a client.
The client insisted they wanted Dell computers.
I called Dell Customer Assistance to inquire about an equipment issue.
I get a rep that is located in India. He spoke English, but not well enough to intelligently discuss a technical issue. I gave up and solved the issue myself.
Why can’t Dell provide support jobs to Americans?
I smell a plot…
They do offer onshore support, but it’s an upsell called ProSupport… not the same as basic support.
because every moron in the US wants upwards of $15/hour for doing menial, mind-numbing jobs, including (but definitely not limited to) answering phone calls and reading off of a scripted troubleshooting page displayed on the screen in front of you (which, incidentally, requires the worker to have absolutely no knowledge or skill in whatever they’re doing tech support for and, I would argue, not even a triple-digit IQ). If they’ll do it for $15/DAY in India or the Philippines or wherever, well….if you’re not intelligent enough to figure that one out, then you’re part of the problem.
Funny what inflation of the money supply does to an economy.
Nah, I don’t buy it
In the 1960 we couldn’t even get an Apollo rocket off the ground, the Russians were first, what a shame for the us back then, right?
And from there we landed 12 people on the moon, landed probes in various planets and asteroids, not to mention the Space Shuttle that built the ISS
Now, we are having trouble launching a PRIVATE rocket into space, again, a first in the world.
Think about all the ramifications this is gonna have once they put all their things together.
Their capsules are designed to carry people even though right now are used only for cargo.
If history teach us something, this is the beginning of something really big
“SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said that high combustion chamber pressure in engine No. 5 was to blame and that technicians would conduct an inspection later in the day. If the engine needs to be replaced, a spare is available.”
“This was the first launch attempt by the several private U.S. companies hoping to take over the job of delivering cargo and eventually astronauts to the space station for NASA. Only governments have accomplished that to date: the United States, Russia, Europe and Japan.”
This was not a failure. This was a successful abort sequence.
A computer saved the day. Go back to work, slave!
Standing tall but couldn’t get it off the launch pad. Yeah, we’ve all had that problem, right?
Yup. All kind of problems…
combustion chamber malfunctions in both engines, shield fails on reentry, insufficient velocity to achieve orbit, early depressurization …
Space is tough. Always has been. Always will be. Toughen up!
This is the third Falcon 9 launch, I can cut them some slack.
How many rockets did NASA blow up on the pad or just after launch? I’d say SpaceX is doing pretty well.
Look at the bottom Tweet of John C. Dvorak’s included image:
“Whatever happens today, we could not have done it without @NASA, but errors are ours alone and me most of all.”
To me, that’s a very vain statement. NASA states how much they cooperate with the private space industry.
NASA’s astronauts are certainly cooperating.
My big question is what direction NASA’s astronaut program will take. Will it be dissolved? Included in SpaceX’s goal of Mars exploration? etc.?
I have always admired the US space program and puzzled by how all of the most modest predictions of manned space flight have totally failed to hit target. Decline as part of the “end of empire” might account for it but it is most likely a combination of economic and socialogical factors that combined to impede progress. Painting a target on Mars, will guarantee that nobody will hit it.
And some meaningless emojis.. 😲👿🌻🇺🇸🚀🎢💤
The launch room look’s like FaceBook central. (Maybe more like the lunch room.)
Video 8:00 to 10:00 … Strongback to Falcon9 : Does somebody need a hug?
Compelling audio at the beginning … video was kinda bland overall 😉
I applaud an attempt few have made …
Hopefully this not a return of the days when even NASA couldn’t get its own non-shuttle flight rockets off the ground without major problems occurring. A number of satellite only launches were not successful for about a year. Almost as if NASA didn’t like non-manned flights competing with its manned flights. So the mysterious forgot how to do, what they use to do without any problems, pre-Space Shuttle era. Then some of the low cost, non-manned space probes, started suffering mission ending problems. Like that Mars probe that crashed or got lost. There just seems to be two tiers of expertise involved. If it’s got men aboard it, it flies without a hitch. If it’s got no men aboard it, anything can happen.
So much for America the great. LOL
You try putting several tons of volatile rocket fuel in a metal tube and manage a controlled explosion long enough to reach escape velocity and see how well you do.
Yeah fucktard, what does your country make – shoe bombs?
You know what they say, there’s no free launch.
This sequence of events happens when mom walks in the room just prior to lift off!
They had successful lift off this morning. Ahhhh. Happy ending.