I was once on a first date at Fort Tilden when, to the surprise of most at the beach, Enterprise went by on a barge. It was a surreal and excellent experience.
Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display
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#12There's a Men-in-Black sequel here; that thing is operational .
Independace Day 4 - the fly it to Pluto and nuke the aliens.
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#13I've seen all the Space Shuttles in their retirement. It took me 10 years to get to them all. But I saw Endeavor when it was still just on the ground (like Discovery). I can't wait to go back and (re)complete my collection! Interestingly, with this display, you can now see the shuttle in all operating modes: Endeavor is in launch configuration, Atlantis is in orbit configuration, and Discovery is in landing configura…
On the ground or suspended about 20 feet up? I saw Endeavour in 2017 and it was like this and you could walk under the wings. I've seen Discovery about 10 times because I live much closer to DC but you can't only walk around it, not under it.
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#14There's a Men-in-Black sequel here; that thing is operational .
They did something similar in Moonfall, which is a fun movie if you like campy sci fi like Independence Day and Armageddon. One of those movies I was glad to randomly check out on a flight.
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#15I was once on a first date at Fort Tilden when, to the surprise of most at the beach, Enterprise went by on a barge. It was a surreal and excellent experience.
Did the relationship last?
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#16This does sound great but because I'm an idiot I assumed the title meant that they had installed a 20 story LCD display on the side of an old space shuttle. Which I thought was pretty cool too. But I think I've been watching too many PC gaming hardware review videos.
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#17This does sound great but because I'm an idiot I assumed the title meant that they had installed a 20 story LCD display on the side of an old space shuttle. Which I thought was pretty cool too. But I think I've been watching too many PC gaming hardware review videos.
It gets worse, I thought they installed such LCD display to virtually display the shuttle in real life size or something :) The importance of proper titles...
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#18Maybe SpaceX should take it and send it toward the sun...
It would be great if Musk bought an orbiter and made an honest display about what a boondoggle the whole program was. SpaceX's success shows the shuttle was seriously the wrong thing to have done. It would have been much better for NASA and the country to focus on cost-reduced expendable launchers, later gradually converted to first stage reuse, and only then to full reuse. People were pushing for this since the 1960s.
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#19This does sound great but because I'm an idiot I assumed the title meant that they had installed a 20 story LCD display on the side of an old space shuttle. Which I thought was pretty cool too. But I think I've been watching too many PC gaming hardware review videos.
I thought the same thing.
And I think some of the advertisement screens in places like Times Square could easily scale to 20 stories. I don't think they're that big now, but I think they could do it with little trouble.
Re: Space Shuttle Endeavour's 20-story vertical display
#20There's a Men-in-Black sequel here; that thing is operational .
And in "Moonraker" someone steals one in transport. It could happen here, I suppose.