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04-12-19, 11:27 AM | #166 |
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Pretty amazing, that. As usual, yesterday's science fiction is today's experimental technology and tomorrow's mundane reality. When Star Trek first aired the Communicators were thought to be impossible. Just fifty years later the modern cell phone is so far beyond what they dreamed of then that those too young to have been there can't imagine what it was like.
These vertically-landing rockets were also once the stuff of science fiction, and there was a time when even travelling into space was unimaginable. My own grandfather grew up in a time when there were no airplanes, no cars and no electric lights. I just wish I could see what the next hundred years will bring.
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04-12-19, 01:52 PM | #167 |
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I had no idea about this... ASTOUNDING!
When I was a kid my favourite show was Thunderbirds and this kind of landing was perceived then as becoming routine one day... but I never thought I'd live to see it
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04-12-19, 02:38 PM | #168 |
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These booster rocket landings remind of old Ray Bradbury stories, namely the Martian Chronicles. Bradbury repeatedly described scenes of a spacehsip from Earth landing, and the spaceshipo always was shaped like an conventional rocket.
Ray Bradbury is one of my absolute favourite authors.
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04-12-19, 04:18 PM | #169 |
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That is always amazing to watch.
I used to laugh when I watched Sci Fi movies made in the 1950's for their unrealistic and impossible vertical landings. Not laughing any more.
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04-13-19, 06:26 AM | #170 |
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Great stuff
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04-13-19, 09:12 AM | #171 |
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Bah easy stuff. Press a button and it either happens or it doesn't. Try changing tack in a square rigger off Cape Horn in a gale with a short handed crew.
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04-13-19, 10:17 AM | #172 | |
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04-13-19, 11:05 AM | #173 |
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The main booster was supposed to land like that on a barge at sea, wonder if it made it? Didn't work the first time, hope it does this time anyway.
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04-13-19, 08:41 PM | #175 |
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Thanks Dowly! That is really incredible!!!!
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01-08-20, 02:38 PM | #176 |
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SpaceX rolling out Starlink
This will be huge for folks who don't live in the cities.
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01-10-20, 07:42 PM | #177 |
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A New Launch. Every two weeks.
https://www.businessinsider.com/spac...k-works-2020-1
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01-12-20, 04:07 PM | #178 | |
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https://www.fool.com/investing/2020/...ellite-br.aspx
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01-13-20, 04:53 PM | #179 |
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So Starlink would be available from everywhere in the world.. for free? Looks liek some countries will build a giant jamming device..
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01-13-20, 05:00 PM | #180 |
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I just hope they're able to minimize the interference to astronomy as they said they will try to do. We have enough problems with light pollution on the ground - we don't need more up there.
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