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SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by hinkley »

hueving wrote: post #558
pavel_lishin wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you know that the person asking you to be a reference is a bad engineer, and they're applying for someplace that builds critical systems - medical devices, say, or rockets - maybe you want to warn their potential employer that they're hiring a liability.

It's pretty presumptuous to make that assertion unless you knew the person for many years in different work environments. I've seen lots of engineers become 'bad engineers' because of a myriad of environmental issues (bad management, bad peers, bad office, bad engineering decisions foisted upon them). If you didn't see them perform well, don't provide a reference. If they are that bad, nobody in a reputable position…

Yes but then you don’t get to crush someone’s dreams in an act of petty revenge. /s

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by pi-rat »

dmix wrote: post #589
mxvzr wrote: post #562

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If I understood properly none of the boosters were block 5 so they weren't looking at re-flying them. They are however interested in recovering the grid fins on the side boosters, which were redesigned to accommodate for the nose cones now sitting on top of them.

Block 5?

Version 5 of the falcon design.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by syshum »

Yetanfou wrote: post #569
mabbo wrote: post #192

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This is why I love the live streams hosted by John Innsprucker. He doesn't look like a TV star, he looks like an engineer, a rocket scientist. He looks real. The other hosts are great, but if you told me they were hired actors or PR people I'd believe it.

Seeing how a harmless comment on a man 'look[ing] like an engineer, a rocket scientist´ leads to yet another long thread about 'bias' and similar concept is worrisome. The more speech is stifled, the more people have to weigh every word, every expression before they dare to utter it for fear of being accused of violating something, somewhere, making someone feel 'harmed', the less open and welcoming society will be.…

I wish I could upvote this 1000 times. It is painful to see how little respect for freedom of expression society in general has. While many of use were looking out for Government intrusion upon Free Speech it seems we ignored a much bigger threat.

Social Media enabled out rage mobs and a perpetual victim class has lead to more censorship than any government could ever hope for. If you are guilty of wrong think today you will be jobless, homeless, and a social outcast.

How far have we come from the days of "I disagree with you but I respect your right to say it" to "I disagree with you now I will boycott your employer, get you fired, get you kicked out of your home, and ensure all organizations/clubs/companies ban you from their events and platforms"

Sad days indeed

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by lwansbrough »

dingo_bat wrote: post #547

It's such a shame that so many people with Elon kind of money aren't doing anything to transform us into a spacefaring species. Why doesn't apple have a mars program? What the fuck are people doing with all the money? Awesome work by spacex. They are peerless, except if you want to count massive superpower governments as peers.

I think I'd consider Blue Origin a peer.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by erikpukinskis »

dmix wrote: post #589
mxvzr wrote: post #562

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I understood properly none of the boosters were block 5 so they weren't looking at re-flying them. They are however interested in recovering the grid fins on the side boosters, which were redesigned to accommodate for the nose cones now sitting on top of them.

Block 5?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Full_Thrust#Block_5

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by CydeWeys »

tonystubblebine wrote: post #590
CydeWeys wrote: post #283

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You're showing your biases here. The other people on the livestream are also rocket scientists. They aren't PR people. They just happen to be younger, or women, or of color. So you might want to re-evaluate what you think a rocket scientist "looks like", because your notion is outdated. Sorry to call you out like this, but these kinds of prejudices about who is the "correct" kind of person for tech jobs are harmful a…

Good comment. All the people trying to derail the conversation by claiming you are derailing the conversation could have just upvoted you instead or commented "good point" and then upvoted that.

I really did not want to derail the conversation into this topic anyway. I'm a lifelong space fan and I've been looking forward to this launch for years. I watched it live today with dozens of my coworkers.

But I went to read the comments here and the second highest comment wasn't about the magnitude of the achievement or anything like that, it was just a throw-away comment about the way the livestream's hosts look. I felt obligated to respond because the look of it was so bad. This whole thread would never have happened had that comment not been sitting so prominently on the page sans rebuttal. I'm not the one who started the conversation about looks, in other words.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by lwansbrough »

hycaria wrote: post #471

It seems I am the only one bothered by putting useless junk into the universe. I don't even know how it's possible that they were allowed to litter space just for the sake of it. Like there's not enough human garbage rotating in orbit. Couldn't they send a small probe or something more useful than a car ? Also human space travel is just the answer to none of our current and urgent earthly problems. I don't get why pe…

Garbage is a human construct. From an external observer, it's just a byproduct of a natural, organic process.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by Retra »

tylersmith wrote: post #444
leetrout wrote: post #67

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They said in the broadcast they weren't but when it got close to the ground you could tell they were the same feed. https://i.imgur.com/WXQEsKo.png https://youtu.be/wbSwFU6tY1c?t=37m49s

Those are not at all the same. You can see different parts of the ground. You can even tell that the source of the right stream was really to the left of the other one.

You'd think it would be easy to tell. I mean, you see the other booster ignite in both views, which means they have to be looking toward each other - in opposite directions. I don't know about you, but when two people look in opposite directions they tend not to see the same things.

Re: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy successfully launches

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Post by 0xWilliam »

take4 wrote: post #500
Svettie wrote: post #379

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On the other hand, there are indeed many scientists/engineers who look/act "nerdy" or don't have the suaveness of people we typically see on TV. I think what GP is saying is that typically companies will put forward people who are good-looking and charismatic for PR, so it's nice to see someone different and unpolished be center-stage in the public eye.

Why exactly is “good looking and charismatic” a bad thing? To be a good host you need to (should) be charismatic, that’s literally the job.

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