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What about trying really, really hard to believe that a guy with a Nazi tattoo on his chest didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo?
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My brain refuses to resolve the effect of it as anything but CGI. Event though it isn't.
I mean, folks who make CGI better watch these too or they're not doing their jobs.
I hope they watch some of these, because movies are full of disappointing rocket scenes that are so many orders of magnitude away from the real thing that it's like representing a skyscraper with a treehouse. There is considerable room for reality to inspire fiction a bit more on this front.
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#144Whoa the acceleration from the start surprised me. It’s huge and it just … zipped off the pad like a bullet (ok not real bullet but still).
The more you accelerate early instead of later, the less fuel you have to subsequently carry to get to the same speed so it's more efficient.
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The tiny part of SpaceX that is actually about space, yes. Unfortunate that it has been bolted onto the hulk of Musk's AI fever dreams.
It is still about space. AI and space computers are just the vehicle to fund it all.
The graveyards are full of blockchain companies who said something similar.
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That would qualify as libel, and I don't defend libel.
Yet here you are, doing it. Reminder: > "pedo boy" sounds like an insult, not a charge... This is evident from you changing his word from "pedo boy" to "pedophile".
I don't consider "pedo boy" to be slander any more than someone in the west calling another a "motherfucker". It's not actionable, and the lawsuit alleging it to be libel failed for that reason.
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I never said it was. It also has nothing to do with apartheid.
A white kid growing up in the 80s in South Africa has nothing to do with apartheid?
Playground insults have nothing to do with apartheid. Nor does it imply that every white child was evil.
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Actual, literal Nazis got us to the Moon and frankly no one cared. Not then, not now. Try separating politics from the advancement of humanity, you'll feel better.
In "V2" page 179 Dornberger writes: "Do you know that your closest colleagues (including von Braun) have stated in company at Zinnowitz that it had never been their intention to make a weapon of war out of he rocket? That they had worked, under pressure from yourself (Dornberger) at the whole business of development and only in order to obtain money for their experiments and the confirmation of their theories? That t…
Another interesting factoid about the V2 program is it accelerated the collapse of the Reich.
How can that be, you might ask?
The V2 program was an incredibly expensive program, and sucked up enormous resources. But the V2 proved to be an inconsequential weapon, and did very little damage, because its guidance system was primitive.
The V1, ironically, was effective. Not because it wreaked critical damage on Britain, but because it was cheap to build and deploy, and the British spent a great deal of resources trying to stop it.
It reminds me of the current drone warfare.
Hitler also demanded that it be used to attack London, blowing up civilian homes, when it would have been much more effective attacking the staging areas for D-Day.
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#149Just watching the live-stream, does SpaceX only hire young guys in their 20's?
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#150Just watching the live-stream, does SpaceX only hire young guys in their 20's?
>Just watching the live-stream, does SpaceX only hire young guys in their 20's?
Basically. It's a rough work-life balance at SpaceX and as people get older, they want to live their lives and not live at work.