31 Replies to “SpaceX launch”

  2. Nah little trollsky, the launch is to put an environmental monitoring device in orbit, and that is GREEN and that is therefore good.
    You can put all of the derelicts you like on welfare and it is not going to advance humankind one iota. But bless your little … whatever, trollsky! We conservatives are still at work so your kind can multiply.

  3. Those damn Yanks! Just CAN’T keep them down! SpaceX were the first ever to land a rocket.
    It must be very annoying for the Obama; no matter WHAT he does, the Yanks keep on winning!

  5. SpaceX were the first ever to land a rocket.
    No, even the inept gov’t accomplished that on the moon almost 50 years ago.

  6. Too bad … Scam Newton sliced and diced the Shecawks. Cheat Caroll will have to find new ways to bend the rules

  7. Must admit, Seattle’s Wilson gave Carolina some game in the second half.
    Carolina will have to play better second half football against remaining teams or we wont make it into the Super Bowl..
    –
    If New England wins it all again, I will punch Belcheat in his other eye..

  8. Goooo Caarolina ! First team to repeat the 1974 (?) Miami Dolphins undefeated NFL season ! That would be monumental..

  9. The lunar landers were not first stages. They didn’t have to deal with supersonic aerodynamics.
    This was SpaceX’s second launch in less than a month. This time, a latch mechanism on one of the landing legs didn’t engage, or they would have recovered the first stage again. When was the last time anyone did two orbital launches in less than a month?

  10. Um that would be the 15-1 Panthers.Seahawks blew the game in first half unprepared for crap field(no cleats)but no excuses.

  11. Oh crap … I thought they were still undefeated. So they mailed-in an end of season game that had no playoff importance ? Sorry, I don’t follow the NFL as closely as I used to … the constant commercial breaks, TV timeouts, Interminable challenge reviews, and general slow pace of the games bore me to tears. I find myself watching far more EPL and Hockey these days.

  12. A launch vehicle, on the Earth. Much harder, because of the higher g, and not using a specially designed lander. Ah trollsky, that was a good try!

  13. The hawks played poor games in 3 of their last 4. Didnt deserve the win last week, so today was not a surprise. Changes on the way, goodbye Beast, too much attitude there.
    Its hard to repeat and players start believing their own headlines

  14. Gee, they broke another window…at least the inept gov’t knew enough to have workable legs almost 50 years ago. Not that it would matter to welfare Queen musk…almost $5 billion in welfare will buy a lot.

  15. I’ve personally never understood how “conservatives” who are hawkish about government waste in every other sphere will completely abandon their principles when somebody says “…IN SPAAAAAAAAAAACE”. Space exploration is a huge boondoggle that’s had little in the way of practical benefit for the billions expended on it. (An argument can be made for the Apollo program being the genesis of modern software engineering, but that’s a hugely inefficient use of seed capital).

  16. Ah, the wee monkey with the plywood violin is at it again.
    Except the lunar landings had human pilots. Under much lower gravity. With no wind, rain, fog or landing platform pitching up and down 15 feet every few seconds. Hey, here’s an idea! Maybe you should volunteer to be a back-up pilot in one of these experimental landings. If it is so easy, what could go wrong?

  18. Maybe you should volunteer to be a back-up pilot in one of these experimental landings. If it is so easy, what could go wrong?
    What, no $5 billion in welfare to do it? It’s a lot easier to play with other peoples money, ya know…makes up for the gravity, wind, rain, fog and pitching sea. heh
    If only the pioneers would have had other peoples money to play with, just think what they could have done. Gawd, some people are dumb…the USSR all over again.

  19. So -close- to success, robbed by a landing leg malfunction. That must have hurt. You think you’ve thought of everything, then… you didn’t. Jeez.

  20. Daniel Ream said: “Space exploration is a huge boondoggle that’s had little in the way of practical benefit for the billions expended on it.”
    Satellite TV, radio, satphones, global imaging, GPS, winning the Cold War, the West still having the whip hand in global affairs despite the utter retardation of socialists because ICBMs are why there was Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions in the first place, fly by wire and now drive by wire control systems, cheap computers, wifi… I could go on, but you get the idea.
    Space is the high ground. He who controls the high ground can drop things on everybody else. Conservatives understand this. Liberals like to whine about the money that got taken away from Welfare, so they can have a bat to hit Conservatives with.
    Imagine if Canada had launch facilities for heavy satellites. That would be a very lucrative thing. The reason we don’t is IDIOTS whinging about the money and scummy politicians listening to them. Avro had plans to do that back in the 1950’s, scuttled by a short sighted moron named Diefenbaker.
    What do we have instead? Windmills. Genius!

  21. Oh fer gawds sake, the pioneers built whole countries without gov’t doing it for them. These johnny come lately characters can’t even imagine doing things for themselves…like leftists, history started yesterday.

  22. There was some speculation that the leg didn’t deploy properly because of ice build-up on the mechanism due to the fog. The launch and recovery conditions were less than ideal, but they launched anyway. So either they had a booster they were ready to throw away and decided to test in less than ideal conditions or they were just that confident it was going to work. If they were really afraid this was going to be a deal breaker, they wouldn’t have launched. It would appear the Musk is going to start making a lot of money on his $5 billion investment. Give the market another week or two and Google might be the way to access his success.

  23. I hear what you are saying strad. BUT as any Canadian worth his salt knows, Canadian Pacific in the 19th century built the transcontinental rail line with the aid of gov’t funding.

  24. Well, Canada wasn’t really a separate country, it’s always been tied to the Commonwealth and always had parasites like musk on the gov’t teat.
    Think more along the lines of the 3% in the Colonies who broke away from the parasites and established their own country and recognized the individual as having pre-existing rights.
    The pioneers and settlers of the Canadian west built on their own, more in spite of the parasites than because of them. The railways were the musks of their time.

  25. “Satellite TV, radio, satphones, global imaging, GPS, winning the Cold War, the West still having the whip hand in global affairs despite the utter retardation of socialists because ICBMs are why there was Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions in the first place, fly by wire and now drive by wire control systems, cheap computers, wifi… I could go on, but you get the idea.”
    And green power will be profitable on its own with just a few more million in government subsidies, right?
    Kathy’s right for once: every man is liberal about the things he knows best – IOW, he wants someone else to pay for his pet causes.

  26. I think avoiding a land war in Russia (and China) more than compensated for any amount spent on ICBMs.
    Also Daniel, it may have escaped your attention but Space X is a -private- concern. I have no use for Elon Musk or his Tesla, but this rocket is excellent. There is also Bert Rutan and his Virgin Galactic endeavor, there is John Carmack and his private space shot company, and more.
    These guys are picking up where NASA dropped the ball. What’s your problem with private space shots competing against NASA and the Russians for satellite launches?

  27. Ah what drivel from you, Strad. The Canadian west wouldn’t have existed without a rail line. Despite its enormous commercial value, the project was simply too large for any private capital to finance. Government support was NOT optional.
    And no, the commercial value had nothing to do with shipping you lot out west or your grain back east. The principal commercial value of all the transcontinental railways including those in the US was the Silk Trains, and it remained so until mid-20th century.

  28. The Canadian west wouldn’t have existed without a rail line.
    Not attached the the eastern parasites, at least. Which would have been a good thing.

  29. The Canadian west wouldn’t have existed without a rail line.
    Not attached to the eastern parasites, at least. Which could only have been a good thing.

  30. If the Canadian west didn’t exist, you wouldn’t be there. And that would truly be a good thing.

  31. Heh, people had migrated north from the States long before the parasite railway came. People who had no need of anyone else to do things for them, or subsidize them, like musk…
    The eastern parasites even forced farmers to use eastern built farm implements, not at all suited to the conditions. They were barred from buying suitable implements from the US. The west would have been much better off as another State.
    Anyway, thank you for your insignificant opinion…

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