History, Politics And Current Affairs

The level of accuracy(control authority) shown by SpaceX in landing the Super Heavy is incredible. https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1845966756579627167 And of course, no one has considered that centimeter accuracy can't be devoted to re-entry vehicles, greatly reducing the CEP. No cans of instant Sunshi...

There's also a lot to the truth that FEMA is dysfunctional on a high level where policy is being made. The lower levels are doing what they can, but suffer from inconsistent directives from above, an incoherent data management and entry system, and damage categorizations that don't make any sense. ...

Trump is only projecting on Harris what he did as President, when he misappropriated FEMA funds. FEMA also has several different funds for different purposes and they are by law prevented from shifting fuinds from one pool to another precisely to combat abuses and corruption. Yopu may want to ask t...

Ahh, I see. Unfortunately Fortunately, I don't have a twitter account, so I was unable to see any of the comments. Thanks for letting me know what happened. Belushi TD FTFY. That is a big tank. It also looks more like one of the above ground propane tanks instead of a gasoline storage tank. The lat...

California officials reject more SpaceX rocket launches, with some citing Musk's X posts https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/california-officials-reject-more-spacex-rocket-launches-with-some-citing-musk-s-x-posts/ar-AA1s6Zsb Given some of the reasoning, the commission needs whammed upside the head...

And a small kablooie, to make everyone happy.

Starship launch #5 tomorrow morning, Sunday October 13, at 8am Eastern, 7AM Central time. They'll try to catch the Booster on the chopsticks at the launch pad for recovery, either resulting in a great technical achievement or leading to a horrendous kablooie. Should be greatly entertaining either way.

Interesting video on the production of the shell casings for 155mm guns at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant. Unlike the last video posted, this isn't from two different plants. https://youtu.be/Cl-5K_hT-OM?si=nvGjfeJlXX7P5yNu What's interesting is the automation. There's some more that can be done...

Nik_SpeakerToCats wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2024 8:07 pm

"Just bang the radioactive rocks together..."

They tried that and got the Demon Core!

She was bombed and damaged enough in April 1945 that when she was transferred to Kure, she was laid up instead of used. Then she was towed to the US after recommissioning instead of sailing under her own power before the sinkex. Anyway, it's not that spectacular a find. They knew approximately where...

I'm also got it hit the FAA in the failure to upgrade the current aircraft control system. That's a twenty year plus failure. Forty year failure. They knew about it, tried to update their computers in the 80's, and have been continuously at least a decade behind in air traffic control automation si...

This is a 4 page example of a Bureaucracy that is out of control. I would say unable or unwilling to do their job in a timely manner except that I don't know whose schedule they are on. The timing is suspect. Trying to make SpaceX appear to be criminal, rogue scientists to punish Musk because of hi...

It's been posted here before. Besides, it never caught on. The USAF had to fight the Marines for the crayons, and the Marines didn't play fair. If the Air Force can’t trick the Marines out of their crayons, they don’t deserve their rep as the second smartest service. Not if the Marines eat their cr...

It's been posted here before.

Besides, it never caught on. The USAF had to fight the Marines for the crayons, and the Marines didn't play fair.

Is the numbering system designed to confuse other countries or the enemy (The Treasury)? I'm of the opinion the worst, most dangerous enemy the the RN ever fought was Exchequer You are correct kind sir. They have certainly sunk or taken out of commission more good, workable ships with life left in ...

Pdf27 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 11, 2024 4:53 pm You mean D, R, F, S, L etc. or the actual numbers? The letters have swapped around a few times over the years so you probably need to be quite specific.

I think he means the pennant numbers

And if I'm on a boat with wonky steering, I put an engineer's mate in the steering compartment 24/7 to see what's actually happening. During critical stuff like docking and unrep, there's at least two of them with a procedure to quicky cut out malfunctioning machinery. If I have to sail. But it soun...

And that raises all kinds of questions in itself. The biggest red flag for me is the ringleader being demoted a single rank (to E-7) and the rest getting NJPs. That isn't one small group of rotten SNCOs, but a rotten system creating and protecting them. Which is SOP for the USN’s personnel evaluati...

Yea, pretty much. It’s hard to see how Boeing and NASA move forward with this. At least another crewed test flight and frankly, it’s hard to see the benefit. The Starliner can’t compete with the proven performance of SpaceX at this point. Time for NASA to pull the plug if Boeing doesn’t The fall of...

Sorry to hear that. Prayers being sent to the appropriate CO for the health of your family.