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Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by stellar678 »

timewizard wrote: post #467
v3ss0n wrote: post #147

Hate all you want to Elon, you still need to credit to credit due.SpaceX did awesome Job.

> Hate all you want to Elon, you still need to credit to credit due. Under no circumstances will I agree that "Elon rescued" anyone or anything. The guy has a fetish to be seen as a rescuer. It's unseemly. > SpaceX did awesome Job. Fulfilling a contract they've executed several times before? slow clap

> Fulfilling a contract they've executed several times before? slow clap

More than you can say for the Boeing launch that took the astronauts up last summer.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by ck2 »

Are there public domain NASA photos/video?

Or is it all now copyright and privatized?

Public funding production should mean public domain technology and product.

Not just space stuff, publicly funded medicine too.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by tempestn »

esskay wrote: post #135
tempestn wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When rescuing astronauts stranded on the ISS, one would expect. I can't imagine any other president using that as an opportunity to explicitly bash his predecessor. Can you?

Nobody was stranded.

The point is not the definition of the word stranded. They were up there for much longer than they expected or planned. That involved some amount of hardship. (Missing their families for months, if nothing else.) Bringing them back was not an appropriate opportunity to make it about how bad Trump thinks Biden is.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by dionian »

jcranmer wrote: post #431
exodust wrote: post #364

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> recent (regrettable) turn It's only regrettable through the lens of partisan politics. DOGE is undeniably a good concept. You will notice governments around the world copying the method. That is, launching initiatives to audit everything, cut wasteful spending, expose corrupt spending, and trim bureaucratic inefficiency via external oversight. It would be regrettable not to undertake the task.

If your goal is cutting waste in the government, DOGE is absolutely the worst possible way to do it. The idea of bringing in a bunch of "whiz kids" who know absolutely nothing about the departments they're auditing [1], axing people arbitrarily (i.e., firing seemingly everybody who is "probationary"), and cutting programs seemingly purely by Ctrl-F'ing for keywords without even bothering to figure out if the keyword…

Congress doesnt seem to be exposing the waste that DOGE is. A rose by any other name is just as sweet

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by TomK32 »

indoordin0saur wrote: post #322
Animats wrote: post #80

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Today, being a NASA astronaut is kind of a dud job. There are about 50 active astronauts at the moment, and not very many flights for them. Peak was around 150, in the Shuttle era. With 135 Shuttle flights, with up to eight people aboard, most of them got a chance to go up, usually more than once. Not today. Another astronaut comments on what the Crew-9 people can expect: "The returning astronauts will "struggle to w…

Flights to Mars in about 5 years though! I can't imagine how amazing it would be to be one of the first geologists getting out on foot and exploring those canyons, mountains, lava tubes and caves...

You mean last year, according to this source (2017) https://youtu.be/tdUX3ypDVwI?t=2305

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by mr_toad »

ck2 wrote: post #482

Are there public domain NASA photos/video? Or is it all now copyright and privatized? Public funding production should mean public domain technology and product. Not just space stuff, publicly funded medicine too.

NASA has a whole streaming service. Not sure of the legal status but I thought everything made by the US government was public domain?

https://plus.nasa.gov/

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by FireBeyond »

pokstad wrote: post #417
bigtones wrote: post #292

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> He’s very knowledgeable about space topics, has good sources, and has been extremely fair to Musk in the past. None of the writers of Ars Technica are anything like fair to Musk.

They were all “fair” to him until he switched politics.

Musk's donations to political parties is public (leaving aside SuperPAC and other funding being hidden).

He has NEVER donated more to the Democrats than the Republicans. Like most billionaires he donates to both parties. Historically, he donates ten times more to the Republicans and the Democrats.

Nothing about Musk has ever seemed "liberal". Just convenient. He smokes weed on shows, but if you work for one of his companies you'll be fired if you don't piss clean. Anti-taxes. Anti-regulation/oversight.

How has he ever been democrat-leaning in any meaningful way?

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by zzzeek »

grandiego wrote: post #390
Workaccount2 wrote: post #375

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If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff. Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.

Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.

try being a billionaire and you'll note "being liked" becomes a vastly heavier lift

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by llamaimperative »

TimTheTinker wrote: post #462
llamaimperative wrote: post #426

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> Even just a "little" (5%-10%) corruption is a moral stain on the whole thing. Timeless: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fra... How about let's solve problems practically instead of having trillion dollar decisions made in the name of virtue signaling about "moral purity." > But doesn't the DC bureaucracy represent a common enemy to those on either side who value democracy? Uh, no. USAID etc…

> as prescribed by the Constitution The constitution doesn't mention anything about any federal agencies. The Department of State didn't even exist until a 1789 law signed by George Washington. USAID was established by the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Its express purpose is to fund U.S. foreign economic and humanitarian assistance programs. If the majority of USAID money is going towards things that do not align w…

Congress controls the budget, it really is that simple.

If I believe USAID is full of waste, fraud, and abuse, I’m free to express that at the ballot box where I vote for a congressperson who wishes to vote on the next budget accordingly.

The executive has many dimensions of freedom with regard to federal agencies. “Existence of” and “funding of” are not among those dimensions of freedom.

Re: Crew-9 Returns to Earth

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Post by TomK32 »

grandiego wrote: post #390
Workaccount2 wrote: post #375

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If Elon recognized that he had the social skills of an NPC and had hired a PR team, we would probably all still adore him and likely he would still just be doing engineering company stuff. Take heed, if you have money, power, and poor social skills, hire people to manage it for you.

Sad world where people expects successful people to hire a PR team just to be liked.

I don't, but I expect a powerful person to have the foresight to have not just Yes men around them and listen to advice/voices that give them counter points to what they want to blurb out before they blurb it out.
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