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Sounds kind of like the caseless ammunition cartridge idea that's been floating around the firearm design world for several decades now. Instead of a brass case, the solid propellant itself is its own case, with the projectile glued to the end of it. No manufacturer has ever managed to make it...

Still one of the coolest missions ever. So happy to be alive to see this in realtime.

IIRC Spaceship 1 had a similar control issue on its first space flight and they had to adjust it for subsequent flights.

All that cutting and you'd wind up with a different movie. Which is kind of the point: the movie sucked as is.

Nope. Buzz Aldrin did it right. Fed the troll a knuckle sandwich.

Agree with this. TLJ was just awful, and it wasn't just a fluke. 3 bad Lucas films followed by 2 bad Disney ones. Lucas even went back and wrecked his earlier, good, films by re-editing and adding unnecessary CG garbage. The fluke was Rogue One being good; it's the only one that breaks the...

What's a "refactoring"?

Even a bankable brand name like the Star Wars franchise can only take so much abuse from garbage movies before it stops being a cash cow.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/alan-bean-astronaut-who-walked-on-the-moon-dies-at-86/ Apollo 12 LMP Alan Bean has passed away/ ---------- Post added at 03:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:04 PM ----------

Since we're on the subject of the F-35, the USAF is making them nuclear-capable: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/05/24/terrifying-new-nuclear-threat-is-here.html And soon the B61 variable yield nuclear weapon.

The F-35 bears a superficial familial resemblance to the F-22, both being Lockheed Martin designs, but they are totally different programs. Right off the bat the F-22 has 2 engines and the F-35 (all variants) has one. The F-22 was supposed to be made in great numbers to replace the F-15 as the...

Speaking of natural disasters, gotta love Hawaii. Golf, anyone?

:lol: ---------- Post added at 10:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:27 PM ---------- So I recently read that the SyFy channel has decided not to renew The Expanse for a fourth season. No doubt because they are idiots of one kind or another, and need to spend more money on the next...

Near where I grew up in New Jersey there used to be a safari drive kind of thing associated with the Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park. We never drove through it and I wasn't that interested in it, but my friend down the street went through it with his family and the monkeys jumped on...

Darwin is a thing. :facepalm:

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Any mission can be aborted post launch when the range safety officer pushes the Big Red Button. "Abort" doesn't necessarily mean you get the payload back intact, of course.

"That's well done." Gotta love it! Great job by the pilot.

American news outlets don't report stuff like this, not in the headlines, anyway. Wheh it does make the newspaper (for those that still read such) it winds up on page 4 or 5. They are too concerned with politics and which hat Kanye West is wearing today.

LOL reminds me of the South Park Funnybot episode.