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So in about 27 days Elon Musk will reveal his big SpaceX plans for a whole new Mars colonisation architecture, with new rockets. Could be very exciting stuff.
Prediction: concept art will reveal his colony to look vaguely like a dick and balls.
I'm just excited for the first re-use of a Falcon 9 first stage, but hey, if good ol' Elon has some new holy-shit-mankind-is-awesome stuff to shoot at us, really, by all means, Musky, bring it on.
I was worried the exploding Falcon yesterday was the reused one, but apparently not.
No, the refurb is going to be used for SCS-10 in October.
This one was carrying a Facebook Internet.org satellite so I think it's a deliberate act of sabotage in the summer blockbuster spy movie vein.
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I'm fascinated by Musk's plans, but his ambition is incredible. I look forward to reading more.
Godspeed, Boeing.
Godspeed all of 'em.
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I wonder just how much Kennedy Space Center's Vehicle Assembly Building can withstand hurricane conditions. Matthew is expected to hit Cap Canaveral directly today.
I never even thought about that. I know Disney World has closed, and for only the fourth time, because of hurricane Matthew.
When I lived in Florida, my girlfriend at the time lived in a place called Satellite Beach, which is just a few miles south of Cape Canaveral. Whenever I'd go visit her, I'd take the long way home (already a long drive to and from Orlando, which is dead-center between the coasts) and drive past the VAB just to see it.
This anecdote doesn't really connect to anything, just sumthin' I think about when Canaveral comes up.
Also, Canaveral is extracted from "caña veral," basically "cane field;" sugar cane used to grow there.
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If I don't get to watch a rocket launch IRL in the next 5 years, I'm gonna kill someone.
Probably Teague "I visited SpaceX" Chrystie.
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One time in Orlando, driving east at night, I saw a very confusing thing: this oddly bright, oddly slow, upward moving flashing dot. First thought was firework, second thought was helicopter, third thought was a shooting star approaching me at a foreshortened angle. It took me fifteen seconds to figure out I was watching a rocket launch from a hundred miles away.
It happened again a few months later.
It breaks your brain a little bit, especially out of context.
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Hell, I've had people come to the astronomy center I used to work at from the village nearby, telling us they had witnessed UFOs. Turned out it was the french Air Force practising for Bastille Day's parade. Can't imagine what a rocket launch would do to these people.
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I feel ever since the great brain drain, the only sort of national pride/foray for a Brit, into space exploration has been the Beagles (one of which, not a good example) and Tim Peake. And that makes me sad.
So, I'd be in with the people from that village.
Has anyone been watching the National Geographic Mars series?
I haven't been able to yet, but it looks like my jam. I'll check it out before too long.
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