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  • eddiec
    eddiec Posts: 3,959
    brianlux said:
    A waste of money  and more wreckage to the environment. That money and those resources could have gone a long way to helping a lot of people and/ or the planet.
    I get what you're saying, but it is also a major advancement in technology and creates cheaper ways for space exploration. It think it cost half a billion to lauch each of the old space shuttles. I don't have a figure, but apparently these are much less expensive per launch. Hopefully these technologies will eventually benefit the planet and the human species. Looking at the rapid advancements over the last fifty years, perhaps this will ultimately lead to more efficient and less damaging ways to travel. 

    And I can't help but remember the Star Trek TNG episode, 'The Inner Light', where Picard spends a virtual life on a dying planet, culminating in a rocket launch to preserve the memory of that world.
    https://www.netflix.com/watch/70177987?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C24%2C15497ae1-b18d-40d9-95d0-13c752e3d167-195071937%2C%2C%2C
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    eddiec said:
    brianlux said:
    A waste of money  and more wreckage to the environment. That money and those resources could have gone a long way to helping a lot of people and/ or the planet.
    I get what you're saying, but it is also a major advancement in technology and creates cheaper ways for space exploration. It think it cost half a billion to lauch each of the old space shuttles. I don't have a figure, but apparently these are much less expensive per launch. Hopefully these technologies will eventually benefit the planet and the human species. Looking at the rapid advancements over the last fifty years, perhaps this will ultimately lead to more efficient and less damaging ways to travel. 

    And I can't help but remember the Star Trek TNG episode, 'The Inner Light', where Picard spends a virtual life on a dying planet, culminating in a rocket launch to preserve the memory of that world.
    https://www.netflix.com/watch/70177987?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C24%2C15497ae1-b18d-40d9-95d0-13c752e3d167-195071937%2C%2C%2C

    Mom mother was a HUGE fan of NASA, space flight and all that and there are few people I've loved more than my mom.  I say that in hopes that maybe others here will not take too much offense at my viewpoints here. 

    And my views on this are strong.  I don't understand what it is exactly that we are exploring out there.  We've been to the moon.  Not much going on there, and what we accomplished was basically littering a sacred place. 

    Mars?  Why?  So we can live in bubbles up there.  I don't see the appeal. 

    And I don't understand the argument favoring technology.  I'm pretty sure we could have developed the same technologies here on earth, not up there.  In fact, that is the case. 

    So bottom line for me is, no one has ever convinced me we have benefited from space travel and the fact remains, it is damaging the environment. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,295
    And here is the rocket safely returning to earth to be recycled for reuse. 

    https://youtu.be/Dm__ZSLc6Is

    simply amazing engineering
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Jason P said:
    And here is the rocket safely returning to earth to be recycled for reuse. 

    https://youtu.be/Dm__ZSLc6Is

    simply amazing engineering
    This wasn't CGI!?!
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,295
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Jason P said:
    And here is the rocket safely returning to earth to be recycled for reuse. 

    https://youtu.be/Dm__ZSLc6Is

    simply amazing engineering
    This wasn't CGI!?!
    It's pretty crazy.  You can see how hard that platform is rocking in the ocean.  Yet they are still able to land on it from outer space.  One of the engineers described it as taking a #2 pencil to the top of the empire state building and having it land on its point on a postage stamp.
    Be Excellent To Each Other
    Party On, Dudes!
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    Jason P said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    Jason P said:
    And here is the rocket safely returning to earth to be recycled for reuse. 

    https://youtu.be/Dm__ZSLc6Is

    simply amazing engineering
    This wasn't CGI!?!
    It's pretty crazy.  You can see how hard that platform is rocking in the ocean.  Yet they are still able to land on it from outer space.  One of the engineers described it as taking a #2 pencil to the top of the empire state building and having it land on its point on a postage stamp.
    Those waves are pretty damn big out there and I don't get how that rocket isn't top heavy and falls over?

    Can I read about that somewhere?  That is some serious engineering and AI going on!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    edited October 2024
    This seems creepy weird to me for some reason>  This has to be A.I. footage or something, right?  No wings, no vertical or horizontal stabilizers.  Just weird.  Gotta be fake.:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGC31lmdS6s

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    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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