OT: They Launched! (2025 Update)

Now that is a technological miracle!

Results in tremendous cost savings. Think it was Musk that said not salvaging and reusing the booster was like flying a new jumbo jet from the east to the west coast and then destroying it.

And it looks easy to do, but is mind boggling the technology required.

Perfect description!

Pissed me off yesterday. Just as the booster was landing "Lost Signal" popped up for a few seconds. Signal came back and it was there. I have seen other video of it though. Amazing.

Heh. Good one.

Did you know that there's a ship in The Expanse (the book series, not the TV show) called the "Watney"? It's basically one in a list of ships in some huge engagement.

Cindy Hamilton

That pissed me off too. I was extremely interested in watching that. It was the real innovation. All the rest of that stuff has been done before, but not as eligantly

I'm not familiar with that series but I used to be a big fan of science fiction, so it's probably up my alley.

Chuckle.

I wonder if he'd pay it or just complain about his lost $7,500 subsidy.

My name is on a disk on Mars.

I have hear the same thing from other programmers. The endless revisions and scope creep meant they never started coding

:'(

iirc I left the company in May. I'd been doing some moonlighting for another employee who had a side project. When he contacted me to send a

Ha! I don't know how it works in your house, but mine, I ALWAYS GET THE LAST WORD! She says, "You can come out from under the bed now." And I say "Yes dear."

What???

Hope she does not want to move to Mars. I will just tell her we would have to grow our food in our own poop. That'll fix her.