Live rocket launch in 10mins here

 

http://www.spacex.com/webcast/

Just now, Youri McAnespie said:

It was such a pointless death - at least with experiments you might get a nice perfume.

 

Sunshield for the JWT is now fully deployed. 75% of the 355 single point failures have now been completed. 

Not far to go now! 🤞

Hadn't paid much notice to the JWT until reading this thread and even then only read stuff in passing. Then today I found out that the BiL of the bloke who works for me in Scotland has been working on it for the last 17 years. 17 years on a single project. And I'm sure he said that his BiL was only brought in because of some failure and that it had been going on for years before. Probably if I read back through this thread I'd find some of the info but the engineering that he was telling us about is mind-boggling. Just to deploy the sunshield is incredible engineering and yeah @kent_white the individual deployments and the single-point failures that can wreck the mission blew my mind

Meanwhile The Clangers are playing slide whistles on the so-called moon. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial is buggering off back to Saturn using a Speak and Spell. What a load of nonsense. Pluto is a planet - oh no it isn't now because we took photos but nobody else can see them. They have big sheds and nobodies allowed in - because they host the Moon sets for when they faked the shameful pretend moon landings.

 

15 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

Hadn't paid much notice to the JWT until reading this thread and even then only read stuff in passing. Then today I found out that the BiL of the bloke who works for me in Scotland has been working on it for the last 17 years. 17 years on a single project. And I'm sure he said that his BiL was only brought in because of some failure and that it had been going on for years before. Probably if I read back through this thread I'd find some of the info but the engineering that he was telling us about is mind-boggling. Just to deploy the sunshield is incredible engineering and yeah @kent_white the individual deployments and the single-point failures that can wreck the mission blew my mind

That’s incredible there must be some arses going 5p 10p everyday 

1 hour ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Meanwhile The Clangers are playing slide whistles on the so-called moon. E.T. the Extra Terrestrial is buggering off back to Saturn using a Speak and Spell. What a load of nonsense. Pluto is a planet - oh no it isn't now because we took photos but nobody else can see them. They have big sheds and nobodies allowed in - because they host the Moon sets for when they faked the shameful pretend moon landings.

 

Same sheds with massive chickens?

 

How much does all this bollocks cost and could it not be spent better elsewhere?

Look after the planet you currently occupy rather than going to llok at other stuff out there.

Just now, Traf said:

How much does all this bollocks cost and could it not be spent better elsewhere?

Look after the planet you currently occupy rather than going to llok at other stuff out there.

$15bn 
 

America spend $700 bn annually on defence 

PL clubs spend £1bn each transfer window 

It’s all relative 

2 minutes ago, Traf said:

How much does all this bollocks cost and could it not be spent better elsewhere?

Look after the planet you currently occupy rather than going to llok at other stuff out there.

We are in danger of losing our sense of adventure, I grew up in the 60-70s when we used to sit little men on top of 10,000 tonnes of liquid oxygen and blast them into space armed with computers no more powerful than a kettle and slide rules. We used to compete to who had the fastest and highest rocket planes, these days we don't do it for the hell of it but have to justify the financial costs.

I prefer it as it was

35 minutes ago, Rudy said:

Same sheds with massive chickens?

And they stick to their own. Astronauts. I've seen the big-eared boys at NASA.

37 minutes ago, Cheese said:

 

The whole thing would look cool when opened - except they've got no cameras on it, so it'll just be a lot of cheering and an animation.

Why's that bald bastard off Peep Show got involved? Why not get Tom Hanks as chief bullshitter? I can't believe people buy this bollocks. A touring player out of D:Ream and Brian May are 'Doctors' in this farce. Man on the moon but no we can't be arsed going back in fifty years. Fucking Star Trek is more believable. TJ Hooker nobbed Uhuru breaking down barriers.

Edited January 5, 20224 yr by Youri McAnespie

32 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said:

Why's that bald bastard off Peep Show got involved? Why not get Tom Hanks as chief bullshitter? I can't believe people buy this bollocks. A touring player out of D:Ream and Brian May are 'Doctors' in this farce. Man on the moon but no we can't be arsed going back in fifty years. Fucking Star Trek is more believable. TJ Hooker nobbed Uhuru breaking down barriers.

You can’t go to the moon because you’d now technically be trespassing.

The moon was purchased by Bill Gates from the American government in 2007. He’s now co-owner of the entire rock along with Bezos, Musk and the House of Saud.

In the next 40 years, there will be a colony of proper rich bastards living there whilst the earth either cooks us all, a meteor wipes us out or we go to war over some historical tweets.

You can’t go and neither can the rest of us

16 minutes ago, Spider said:

You can’t go to the moon because you’d now technically be trespassing.

The moon was purchased by Bill Gates from the American government in 2007. He’s now co-owner of the entire rock along with Bezos, Musk and the House of Saud.

In the next 40 years, there will be a colony of proper rich bastards living there whilst the earth either cooks us all, a meteor wipes us out or we go to war over some historical tweets.

You can’t go and neither can the rest of us

Musk is the greatest freak in the world - I'm going to get a job as a night porter at the London hospital he resides in.

Then take mates from the pub to see him - and spin him around and pour gin on him.

He shags his mum - nailed on.

Bezos molests goats and Annie the Orphan not the black girl in the reboot - the ginger one.

The House of Saud fly out Hungarian girls to do up the wrong 'un whilst pissed on Johnny Walker. Using Viagra as they're impotent. They then laugh at executions like fat blobs in their pool.

Edited January 5, 20224 yr by Youri McAnespie

19 hours ago, MancWanderer said:

Hadn't paid much notice to the JWT until reading this thread and even then only read stuff in passing. Then today I found out that the BiL of the bloke who works for me in Scotland has been working on it for the last 17 years. 17 years on a single project. And I'm sure he said that his BiL was only brought in because of some failure and that it had been going on for years before. Probably if I read back through this thread I'd find some of the info but the engineering that he was telling us about is mind-boggling. Just to deploy the sunshield is incredible engineering and yeah @kent_white the individual deployments and the single-point failures that can wreck the mission blew my mind

I'd love to have a natter with him. I bet it's fascinating! Seriously of they get this things sending images back it'll be a marvel of modern engineering! 👍

Course it is - they definitely don't just sit around watching Countdown and doing the Sunday Express crossword and ordering pizza via uber eats. What a load of old cock. I went to Jodrell Bank as a nipper and all they had as proof was some light show that was obviously fake even to a seven year old kid.

6 hours ago, Rudy said:

$15bn 
 

America spend $700 bn annually on defence 

PL clubs spend £1bn each transfer window 

It’s all relative 

Wish I had a relative with 15bn.

Could still be used to help the poorer in society.

5 hours ago, kent_white said:

I'd love to have a natter with him. I bet it's fascinating! Seriously of they get this things sending images back it'll be a marvel of modern engineering! 👍

Hhmmm. I’ll ask if his BiL is open to having a chat. Might not be allowed of course but I’ll ask

 

2 hours ago, Cheese said:

 

Yes, it's an extender! 😁

I can't believe intelligent folk think this codswallop is real. We took a photo of a black hole - can we see it? No.

The next sham - people flying to Mars. In a Datsun Sunny.

Then they'll grow potatoes in their own turds and listen to disco music.

It's all lies - yet the Yeti and his North American cousin the Sasquatch are real yet dismissed as myth - but Butch Armstrong played golf on the moon, course he did, essential kit for travelling to another planet a set of clubs and a few dozen balls.

 

4 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said:

I can't believe intelligent folk think this codswallop is real. We took a photo of a black hole - can we see it? No.

The next sham - people flying to Mars. In a Datsun Sunny.

Then they'll grow potatoes in their own turds and listen to disco music.

It's all lies - yet the Yeti and his North American cousin the Sasquatch are real yet dismissed as myth - but Butch Armstrong played golf on the moon, course he did, essential kit for travelling to another planet a set of clubs and a few dozen balls.

All in a country that still builds houses from wood.

Even the 3 little pigs worked out that was stupid.

8 minutes ago, Traf said:

All in a country that still builds houses from wood.

Even the 3 little pigs worked out that was stupid.

Let's build houses from wood in a floodplain hurricane zone, then send men to the moon using a Vic 20, course they did/do - they sell whole chickens in tins and watch Letterman in bed. Man on the moon pffft, yeah they did and I left my wallet in El Segundo.

Edited January 6, 20224 yr by Youri McAnespie