7:37 PM EDT April 24, 2024:
Rocket Scientists - “The Fall Of Icarus”
From the album Brutal Architecture
(1995)
Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm
File under: Independent Prog
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I Was Just Passing The Time
When I first ended up at Rocketdyne (it was serendipity, not a conscious move) I was gobsmacked knowing I was working on the Space Shuttle Main Engine program, with bonafide rocket scientists and engineers. It was 1987, almost exactly one year since Challenger exploded and I was working on the FMEA/CIL (Failure Modes and Effects Analysis/Critical Items List) in anticipation of the shuttle’s…
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let me talk about SpaceX and rockets for a second
because while I don't give a flying fuck about musk
yesterday's (20/04/2023) launch was a succes. The point was to get it in the air, anything more was extra. It was a test flight. Every rocket goes through this process.
SpaceX is not bad at making rockets, there are a lot of very skilled scientists involved and rockets are constantly being reused etc. technology has been rapidly improving this field.
This is new technology and it is being tested. As I have said before, this happens and has happened for every rocket. With NASA, with Rocketlab with SpaceX, any company you can think of.
The scientists now have a lot of data they can use to improve the rocket where things went wrong.
This was a test flight, nothing was on board, this is a testing phase and this is new development. This was the first time that the full stack was tested in flight. I am speaking for the scientists here because they are the actual key to this. They've (scientists in this field in general) made some incredible forward steps in the last years.
It's probable that the explosion was planned to some extent and likely that it was absolutely expected to happen.
Yes you can laugh at the explosion, yes it looks hilarious I can appreciate the memes a lot please continue.
But do realise that this did not go wrong and this is a positive for the scientists that work on it.
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Robert H. Goddard tows his rocket to the launching tower behind a Ford Model A truck, northwest of Roswell, New Mexico, circa 1931.
(NASA)
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Maybe it wasn’t such a bad assumption for Stolas to think he could get away with spelling out B-I-T-C-H in front of Stella when referring to her. ;) I think Andrealphus at this point might try something similar if he needed to. XD
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India has successfully landed on the South Pole of the moon. This comes days after Russia’s failed attempt. And I for one think this achievement is extra delicious.
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Morning!
Morning!
Hey, you like to draw, right?
Uhhh, yeah, sure…
Why?
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Team Rocket Lucario Scientist!
Patreon Reward!
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So do we just not talk about Vash being able to handle a spaceship control panel, bypass the lock that was on Tesla’s files and him being very comfortable fixing his own arm like do we just not talk about it like do we just not t
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Hell's Greatest Dad except it's Hell's Worst Dad where my versions of Giovanni and Volo are fighting over who's the worse dad and then my Colress breaks in and proves he's the absolute worst (despite caring for his kids more than Giovanni)
(//tw for gaslighting/manipulation, child abuse, child experimentation, murder and minor death mention)
Giovanni: I made the most infamous organisation to try and find my daughter, abandoned my son when he retaliated against me and then when I met him again, I tried to ruin his relationship with his girlfriend and force him and his sister to join me when they very much didn't want to. I'm obviously the worst dad!
Volo: You think that's bad? I gaslit my eldest kid into worshipping Arceus so I could use her for my own gain, then when she stood against me, I tried to use Giratina to kill her! Then years later, I chose reviving my dead wife over taking care of my 3 younger kids like she would of wanted. I'M the worse dad!
Colress, who only had kids because he wanted someone to take his research, left his twin children when they were five to join Team Plasma which lead to 8 years of abuse from their mother, promising to come back and then never doing so when given the chance, then proceeded to turn his youngest daughter into a human experiment and hid it from her for as long as he could: IT'S ME!
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i titled this file "GRAAHHHH SUBSPACE!!!!!!.png". im not kidding. playing as boombox does wonders to your brain :3 IM GOING TO COMBUS
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