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What the fuck is the point of a wing spinning like a helicopter in the middle of space.

Can we not turn this thread into the shitfest Global warming thread with science denials and other bullshit. Just post a fun article and move on. Last thing we need is rescorla coming in here and talking about how the AGW's made up the big bang too.

No this is awesome. Go read Lords of the Sith. Seeing Vader in his prime fucking raping shit will be amazing. We have never seen him really do anything but fight old man obiwan, and have 2 lightsaber duels. He is an incredibly powerful force user so seeing him tear through a big group of rebels...

Kind of dumb he denies being the flash to Patty, last episode he was about to tell her multiple times but got interrupted and basically everyone else know already, but he suddenly decides that he isnt going to tell her now and not just that but vehemently deny it when she finds out?

I get the whole "time" started with the big bang thing, question is always why then and not before.

Pretty much. More of a thought experiment than anything useful.

I think you can basically state that about the entire race. We can understand a lot of concepts mathematically, but when you try to conceptualize the time scales, speed and distance of the universe our minds can just never truly comprehend them.

I think the hardest part to accept about the big bang, is that it makes sense up to the moment the "bang" happens. I feel pretty strongly that is is true to the best of our understanding, but it is really curious what happened "before" and why it happened when it did and not say 20, 30, 50...

Yeah her dialogue was spot on, think he was complaining mainly about the voice. Would have been funny if she called Zeb a walking carpet.

Sure. But no one really gives a fuck about going into sub orbital for 4 minutes and back down, we want to do useful things in space besides sending up rich people for 5 minutes.

Yeah facts suck. I know.

Yeah I mean, in ANH they dont really show much in the way of a fleet, I would assume after the first DS gets popped a lot more systems realize they have a chance and defect, hence why we get the mon calamari and other races joining in Ep2/3. I hope we get a better glimpse of the rebel forces in...

If you actually read the facts you'll see it has nothing to do with Elon. One is a suborbital flight that lasts 4 minutes. One is a payload rocket that puts things into LE and Geo orbit. The thrust difference alone is 1,500,000 million vs 100,000 between the rockets. Elon pointed it out but the...

The amazon rocket is not even comparable. It goes straight up and down basically and doesn't enter orbit or need to launch payloads into orbit. It has no long term viability besides sub orbital flights for 4 minutes then back down. It's basically a tourist rocket. As such it is much simpler...

Well real carrie fisher sounds like a lobster so it's the best youll get.

Maybe the blacksaber makes a comeback.

Kinda shitty pilot, Not sure I will watch this. I wish they spent more time getting the team together instead of BAM lasers and speech and they all leave their current lives to join the team. They should have given them each a little more motivation to join besides some shallow 30 elevator...

Plz delete, saw other thread.

When is release?

Yeah agreed. Yoda drops the ball big time not sensing ol sheev. Granted he's a super powerful sith that can prob mask his presence but still, the dudes had beers every week in his office and he didnt notice shit. Same goes for #2 Mace Windu. We can basically assume george had very little...

Yeah, Yoda only says "the last of the jedi, you will be" not "the last force sensitive person with any idea about the force"

I would assume the goal would be to be building the smallest craft capable of reaching LEO. I think most satellites they put into LEO/Geo orbit are around the same size and only need X amount of thrust to get them up there, so building massive rockets for short missions when they are not needed...

Yeah they "we're bad" seems a little too on the nose. Like show us don't tell us, and I feel like most interesting bad guys are self-righteous and don't see themselves as such. So them admitting they are bad just makes it shallow.

Also if you do some reading on SRBS, only the steel casing was reused, the rest was basically trashed due to the sea water.

I think the idea is LOW COST reusable rocket. Im sure they could ditch in the ocean but it would be prohibitively expensive. Musk has stated he wants to be able to relaunch incredible quick i.e within 1-3 days. So an ocean bath is not quite going to work.

They are trying to develop the technologies in tandem that is my point. Elon Musk will never do anything the easy way.

To be clear Musk is trying to In TANDEM develop multiple technologies into one rocket: 1) Vertical Take Off and Landing 2) Reusable for Earth/Future Missions elsewhere 3) High Efficiency (Which means Barges) Im sure you could make reusable rockets that land in the Ocean but that wouldn't...

I never said the barges are for Mars. You made the point that they should use the Ocean as a body to catch the rockets but that defeats ONE of the key technologies Musk is trying to develop; reusable rockets that can vertically land. The Barge landings are a completely different issue and not...

No one is implying landing on the barge is pivotal to a Mars landing, and dont be obtuse "Crashing" them is of course not the idea. But if your read the article on why they do it you'll realize it is pivotal for them sending up larger loads/rockets to be returned to earth and if they can do it...

Yes sorry. I meant something where they dont show the death on screen. Like all the "falling/Drowing" deaths they have in kids movies, i.e no body or heavily implied

Well I doubt you will see them get chopped on TV, most likely they will ride off into the sunset or get something off screen/sacrifice ala Inquisitor in S1.

Exactly. Musk wants a 24hour turn around on Rockets, dropping them in the Ocean or on Land won't allow anything like that.

Your right, it is not reliable. Hence why they are spending 10+ years developing the technology for Mars. Until it has the same Failure rate as the LEM from the lunar missions you can assume we wont be sending anyone to Mars. Also please dont quote the Martian, The storm was complete bullshit...

Why does SpaceX keep trying to land rockets on floating barges? - CSMonitor.com It doesn't but SpaceX is trying to develop many technologies in Tandem. (The barge part specifically)

Yeah. Starz is great, First Spartacus and now this. Perfect mix of Sex, Violence and great characters.

This 100% true for seafood which is generally frozen at sea as it's caught. The only way to get fresh fish literally is to pull it out yourself. As for chicken and other meats, Beef is about a month old by the time you get it, by the time the cow is killed, butchered, aged and moved it's seen a...

How is it irrelevant? Musk wants to go to Mars in 10-12 years and landing there is the hardest part. Once they figure out how to do that with big loads the rest is much easier. I'd say they are working on exactly the right things right now. You are right that he is thinking Big and ahead of...

Elon has stated repeatedly that his end goal game is to colonize/land people on Mars. Every piece of tech they develop is towards this goal. Sure they want to bring cheaper LEO vehicles to be used by NASA etc but if they can develop mars tech in tandem while still accomplishing their goals they...