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Post by justinator »

Apocryphon wrote: post #390
justinator wrote: post #345

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I just need to look locally and see we're in trouble. NIST, NCAR. Super Drought conditions forming in the West. This isn't good. But hurray Moon missions, I guess. Pity we're causing the entire World Economy to collapse with a unneeded war.

Rather unfortunate timing that the original Apollo moon landing also happened in the middle of the Vietnam War.

Honestly, that coincidence was NOT lost on me.

Part of me finds it inappropriate to do the two things at once. Advancement in scientific knowledge being somewhat at odds with blowing up one of the oldest civilizations in the World.

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Post by dyauspitr »

bradhe wrote: post #294
0xffff2 wrote: post #282

I do hope the doomers who think that the entire US government has been completely gutted will take note of this. The government workforce is in a bad spot for sure, SLS is far from a perfect program, but this still demonstrates that we are doing some real work still.

I have a really hard time telling if this is despite the current administration’s best efforts, because the current administration’s policies, or just an artifact of government inertia. Top level: Super excited to witness this in my lifetime. Edit: Also, my 40 years of life leads me towards the latter category.

Definitely despite.

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Post by [deleted] »

Trasmatta wrote: post #373
general_reveal wrote: post #365

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Well. You are getting down voted but here I am in later stages in life watching this Moon launch, and unlike other times in past, I didn’t feel any inspiration. Honestly, it’s a waste of money. That’s my final answer, there’s kids that need food. I am no longer inspired by this stuff. I’ve seen enough advanced technology for many lifetimes, we need something else as a species (more of that humanity thing).

> Honestly, it’s a waste of money. That’s my final answer, there’s kids that need food NASA has a tiny budget - 0.35% of the US Federal budget. Kids aren't going hungry because of Artemis II. There are much better candidates to be upset about in that regard.

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Post by Polizeiposaune »

bombcar wrote: post #288
anonymars wrote: post #279

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A real bright spot compared to lately. The messages of positivity and comradery in the live stream were a nice contrast (That being said, I can't believe they cut to people on the ground during SRB separation!) edit: here's better footage from Everyday Astronaut: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOsSRRBMNoc&t=24512s

I took that to be the most dangerous part and they didn’t want to televise a Challenger II.

What happened to Challenger -- burn-through of a joint in the SRB motor casing -- happened well before scheduled SRB separation.

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Post by randomNumber7 »

wat10000 wrote: post #307
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #205

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> that's what "untested" means in spaceflight Sort of. At a certain threshold, everything is untested. I’d put this closer to modified than untested—the general config was tested in Artemis I and the specific configuration in a variety of ground tests.

I'd say it's tested. It failed. Then they're flying it anyway. Wonderful stuff.

And the next flight will use a different design. I wonder why?

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Post by tsunamifury »

tw04 wrote: post #350
0xffff2 wrote: post #282

I do hope the doomers who think that the entire US government has been completely gutted will take note of this. The government workforce is in a bad spot for sure, SLS is far from a perfect program, but this still demonstrates that we are doing some real work still.

Take note of a project that’s about 15 years behind schedule and many multiples over budget finally progressed because we lowered safety standards to just launch? I’m not sure how that’s proof the government isn’t gutted. Let me know what our schedule is for the next one and how that timeline has changed. Ignoring the projects that have been outright canceled… You’re currently the guy saying “ya, all you haters that…

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Post by BuyMyBitcoins »

stephenhuey wrote: post #341

Just listened on the radio driving the kids to swim class! I'm curious, does anyone think the show For All Mankind provided any peer pressure or influence to help propel NASA to this moment?

It’s a fun idea to consider, but I suspect the true push is due to how capable China is proving to be in spaceflight. They’ve got plans for a manned mission to the moon and are eyeing the same craters at the Lunar South Pole as we are.

While the outer space treaty forbids claiming territory in space, it doesn’t forbid building a base and putting a “Keep Out” sign on the airlock.

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Post by ben_w »

lapcat wrote: post #267
TeMPOraL wrote: post #254

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Nobody it'll say space exploration will alone solve those problems. But it helps, and can help more - much more, if we go all the way in and establish permanent economic activity and eventually settlements in the space near Earth and beyond.

> if we go all the way in and establish permanent economic activity and eventually settlements in the space near Earth and beyond. Could you please explain exactly how these would help to stop war and inequality? As far as I can tell, space exploration is going to exacerbate inequality, for example, by making Elon Musk even more obscenely wealthy than he already is.

Is the problem inequality or rather poverty? Because those are not the same thing.

What we've done in space has absolutely helped with poverty. It makes weather forecasts possible, which helps even the poorest farmers.

This can happen at the same time a handful of people become obscenely wealthy from it.

Though in Musk's case, I suspect the wealth is a bubble which will pop before he can cash out more than 8% of it.

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Post by ryandrake »

kypro wrote: post #368
sd9 wrote: post #320

Minutes after launch they reached "ten thousand miles per hour". That's 2.78 miles per second. Nuts. No doubt the speeds go even higher later too. I'm sure people here are already familiar with the speeds these things go, but that's the first time I've confronted a fact like that and it blew me away.

I was thinking the exact same thing when they announced the speed. I assume the top speed of Artemis will be at least double that too...

It will be slower, eventually. The moon orbits at about 2300 mph, and as Artemis gets further from Earth, it will slow down to a similar speed.
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