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mithridates

Yay, I can go back to sleeping in the mornings. The Falcon 1 by SpaceX was successful on most of its objectives, even though it failed to reach orbit. It did reach space though and was much better than the first flight.

The thing that makes this rocket so important is that it costs its customers only $7 million per flight, as compared to $50~$100 million or so for most others, with the very cheapest coming in at $30 million if I remember correctly. So for sending stuff to space it's the equivalent of having your rent cut down to a fifth of what it once was. And thanks to that we're going to have a Malaysian company send up a satellite with them that they probably wouldn't have been able to consider if the price tag was that much higher.

I watched the launch online this morning and it was interesting seeing the first cancellation right at T-0, something most rockets can't do. The pressure was off by 1 psi. One guy apparently didn't know there was a mike next to him because you could hear some ranting about one motherf*cking psi for a few minutes.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17695361/

mithridates · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 9:02 pm Post subject:

Troll_Bait · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:42 am Post subject:

I love your threads on the Current Events forum.

"Three of these things
belong together.
Three of these things
are kind of the same.
But one of these things is doing its own thing.
Find out before my song is done.
And now my song is done."

a. Islam: The Threat Within
b. Multiculturalism is a failure
c. Not all terrorists are Muslim, BUT ...
d. Dramatically inexpensive rocket has successful test flight

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

mithridates · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:34 am Post subject:

mithridates · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 8:49 am Post subject:

Here's some more perspective on why this can be considered a success:

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

mithridates · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:24 am Post subject:

On the other hand · Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Location: I walk along the avenue

caniff · Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Location: All over the map

mithridates · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:46 am Post subject:

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

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gang ah jee · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: city of paper

Mith, since you're on a break from posting your trademark anti-Muslim threads, do you have any links to credible sites that discuss the feasibility of extra-terrestrial colonisation? I'm all for it, but I'd gotten the impression that it's more-or-less impossible. At very least I'd say that we'd need a near something-for nothing energy source to make it in any way viable, and then there are all the physiologicial and psychological issues, etc, etc. But I'd like to believe...

Troll_Bait · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 10:40 pm Post subject:

Sorry about all of the confusion, everybody! My post seemed clear to me, and I thought I was being witty. Embarassed

I meant to say that there is a sameness to the threads found on the Current Events forum, in that they tend to cluster around a limited number of issues (e.g. Islam, Global Climate Change, George W. Bush, conspiracy theories, etc.).
So, Mith's threads are refreshingly distinct from the majority of other threads by other posters.

I meant to respond sooner, but I couldn't. I don't know if it's my computer of if something was farked up with Dave's, but whenever I hit "submit," the coloured bar beneath just sat there like frozen molasses, doing nothing.