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Post by dotancohen »

emiliobumachar wrote: post #957
dotancohen wrote: post #718

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Have you been to the rocket garden at KSC? The Saturn V isn't vertical, but they've got almost everything from the Redstone and later vertical. I was in Florida in 2018 and I think they were getting ready to display a pair of SRBs. They did have Atlantis inside, too. And of course a horizontal Saturn V. I saw that Saturn V as a child once, too. I think that the Saturn V really made me the person that I am today. Seei…

"size of a machine divided by the smallest critical engineered component of the machine" Computer processors probably take that cake.

That's a great point. And it raises the question if we consider the nanometer scale features of the processor against the size of the rocket as a whole.

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by rhubarbtree »

dragonwriter wrote: post #249
rhubarbtree wrote: post #240

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Sparked the environmental movement, to name but one major impact.

> > The previous Moon missions certainly didn't accomplish that. > Sparked the environmental movement, to name but one major impact. It...really didn't. There was a new wave with a different political orientation (less conservative/elite) in the environmental movement roughly contemporary to the space program from—the 1950s through the 1970s—but it was driven by a variety of human driven (nuclear testing, oil spills,…

I didn’t say it was the sole cause of the environmental movement, you’re being silly.

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by monegator »

Blackstrat wrote: post #887
monegator wrote: post #870

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what about the fact that it is a joint effort between different agencies?

Doesn't mean a thing in the grand scheme of things. Nor does having a woman, a minority, and a Canadian. Those are irrelevant. It makes some people feel good and others virtuous, but it doesn't further the mission one iota. Show me technical accomplishments, regardless of the crew composition and the agencies involved. The crew can all be women or minorities, I don't care. I'm looking for progress and accomplishments…

being european, i'm really glad of the role that ESA has in Artemis. ESA is bringing new tech to the table.

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by Arodex »

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.

"That this Artemis launch is happening in the lead-up to America’s 250th birthday has heightened the sense that it’s a nostalgia act for the Baby Boomer gerontocracy. All the more so because Donald Trump, the oldest person ever to be elected to the White House, is presiding over the whole affair. His administration has sought to sabotage NASA’s scientific missions, but the president seems delighted to have the agency gin up a national spectacle on his behalf, just as he was happy to have a military parade on his birthday."

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/04/artemis-moon-lau...

Re: Artemis II Launch Day Updates

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Post by duped »

foltik wrote: post #273
duped wrote: post #224

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There's never non-zero value to any challenging engineering problem. The question is whether the finite resources spent to solve it are best spent on it versus other projects. And in this mission in particular, you can't divorce science from politics. NASA's budget was reined in by Trump 45 and his admin picked Artemis because a manned mission to the moon invokes a particular feeling and memory, not because it benefi…

The moon isn’t a known quantity, we sent a handful of people there for a combined few days half a century ago. There’s immense scientific and engineering value in keeping a generation of engineers fluent in deep space operations. If you’re angry about this dumpster fire of an administration wasting money and gutting research (I am too), the answer is to fight for better funding across the board, not to tear down one…

I'm going to tear down spending $2.5 billion to test the toilets on a space ship every chance I get. It is a massive waste of resources and depletion of human capital that would be better spent on other projects that could advance science and human understanding.

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Post by turtlesdown11 »

nandomrumber wrote: post #977
turtlesdown11 wrote: post #888

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> And in the case of lifting most of humanity out of poverty, two things are responsible: capitalism and technology. You alleged above it was due to the moon landings that people were lifted out of poverty. Do you understand the difference here?

Was not the space race, and the cold war context it happened it, a driving force in pushing technological advances forward?

I'm sorry, so now it's not capitalism, technology, or the moon landings, but the cold war context? Could you pick a specific "event" you believe lifted so many people out of poverty, and provide research or supporting documentation?

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Post by propagandist »

hluska wrote: post #92
propagandist wrote: post #54

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Some people are great at self promotion.

Are you actually surprised that a livestream paid for my NASA would promote NASA? Geez, that’s innocent.

No, we're referring to the piece that was posted here on the previous day. You can search for Artemis on this site and read that piece.

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Post by njarboe »

ActorNightly wrote: post #770
njarboe wrote: post #508

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I think these space projects are great, can create much good will, and give people dangerous things to do that are worth risking the danger for. But war, inequality, and climate mismanagement are political problems that are not going to be solved (if they need to be solved) by science and engineering (the first two at least).

They can absolutely be solved by science and engineering, people just need to stop being so fucking afraid to break the rules to do whats right.

What does inequality even mean? Everyone must be identical? The idea of removing inequality is dystopian.

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Post by squibonpig »

njarboe wrote: post #988
ActorNightly wrote: post #770

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They can absolutely be solved by science and engineering, people just need to stop being so fucking afraid to break the rules to do whats right.

What does inequality even mean? Everyone must be identical? The idea of removing inequality is dystopian.

Stopping the world's resources from being controlled and directed by a tiny fraction of its population isn't the plot of Harrison Bergeron
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