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Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by justinator »

NetMageSCW wrote: post #432
justinator wrote: post #401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Your life must pass by really slowly with a lot of waiting if you don’t do more than one thing at a time.

It's a game of priorities I guess when resources are limited. And no: I can't do everything, everywhere, all at once. Can you?

Big rocks in the pickle jar first. For you that includes wars when talking was working?

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

justinator wrote: post #398
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #363

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> Aren't astronauts by definition bat shit crazy? By poetic definition, e.g. “Here’s to the Crazy Ones,” yes. Clinically and technically, no. They’re paragons of human explorers, and exploration is a fundamentally human trait. > We have people lining up for one-way missions to Mars How many astronauts?

I think sometimes, clinically: yes. https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2018/11/astr... > How many astronauts? More than we can send. Wasn't there a country-wide competition?

> sometimes, clinically: yes

Sure. Compared to population, no.

> More than we can send

Which astronauts said they’d be fine with a one-way mission?

> Wasn't there a country-wide competition?

Was there? You’re the one making the claim.

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Post by justinator »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #443
justinator wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think sometimes, clinically: yes. https://www.houstoniamag.com/news-and-city-life/2018/11/astr... > How many astronauts? More than we can send. Wasn't there a country-wide competition?

> sometimes, clinically: yes Sure. Compared to population, no. > More than we can send Which astronauts said they’d be fine with a one-way mission? > Wasn't there a country-wide competition? Was there? You’re the one making the claim.

Glad you agree with the crazy.

Google is your friend re; Mars one-way astronauts.

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Post by sd9 »

layer8 wrote: post #424
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.

Escape velocity is 25,020 mph (6.95 mps), so not completely surprising. Note that escape velocity applies to a situation without continued propulsion and also without air resistance, but still you can imagine that the order of magnitude is similar.

Not surprising if you know that. Pretty surprising to me who didn’t.

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Post by janalsncm »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #317
wvbdmp wrote: post #247

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I hope so, but if this goes awry in any way, especially if – god forbid – they lose the crew, my fear is it’ll be a blow to the American hegemony that will be very hard to recover from. Orange man is bad, but I think something like that would add a whole other dimension to the US’s loss of face. I’m as anti-american as they come, but despite everything Pax Americana must be acknowledged and I shudder at the thought o…

> Pax Americana must be acknowledged and I shudder at the thought of it shattering. Shudder away! We've already had both Carney and the finance minister of Singapore essentially declare Pax Americana to have ended. Everybody else is just being polite. [EDIT: prime minister of Singapore, not finance minister]

The prime minister of Singapore said something similar. It’s worth a watch, he is very well-spoken.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NXSI4cCm3BM

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Post by dryarzeg »

Electricniko wrote: post #396
hagbard_c wrote: post #285

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It was probably deemed a relatively high-risk moment which they did not want to broadcast in case of failure like it was when the Challenger mission exploded.

NASA had another feed that was just the view of the launch from Kennedy Space Center, no commentary. It was a few seconds ahead of the main broadcast, so it seems they already had a delay built in for the masses.

I certainly missed that one. Is it available somewhere recorded? If it is, can you please send a link to it? I'm sorry if I'm asking something stupid, it's just that I can't find anything like that and I also want to see this badly.

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Post by transcriptase »

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…

Indeed. The GSA with 10k employees is going to fall apart without the 40k unused winzip licences DOGE so cruelly took away from them in their senseless spree of madness.

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Post by GaryBluto »

It is very disconcerting to see so many completely disregarding incredible technological innovation because other problems exist, especially on HN.

If we were not allowed to progress technology until everybody is 100% free of suffering, we'd never be able to create technological that may potentially lead to the alleviation of suffering. It all feels very crabs in a bucket - "I don't feel happy so nobody else should, and nothing should happen unless it is things that directly, immediately do things I want and solve problems I care about."

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