Cancer Posted April 19, 2023 Report Share Posted April 19, 2023 "Oops [or the equivalent in French]." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 19, 2023 Report Share Posted April 19, 2023 Thailand celebrates New Year with water festival. Elephants join in https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/65301222 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 19, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Cancer said: "Oops [or the equivalent in French]." Merde. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 Didn't destroy the launch complex, though, unlike the second launch attempt of the N1 back in 1969. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Logan D. Hurricanes said: SpaceX giant rocket explodes minutes after launch from Texas I got up early to watch this. It was epic. That rocket is enormous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 20, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 Local news, this scared the hell out of me this morning. Whoops! State apologizes for waking Floridians with accidental 4:45 a.m. emergency alert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unclevlad Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 1 hour ago, Cancer said: Didn't destroy the launch complex, though, unlike the second launch attempt of the N1 back in 1969. Not only that but they got a LOT!!! of data to analyze, and from the comments, passed at least one other significant milestone...it survived the period of maximum stress. Altho it's possible that the tumbling/failure to separate *could* reflect a stress-induced problem. Yeah, just getting completely off the ground is pretty big. Scaling the booster up is non-trivial. The story points out that many of the individual engines didn't fire. The failure analysis is going to make many engineers very happy. Heck, in some ways, from an engineering and development perspective, this was a REALLY good outcome. EDIT: oh yeah. Why I came into this thread. BuzzFeed News is shutting down. This follows a trend in digital media, where the income streams just aren't as viable as the early optimism promoted. Story is in NYT; they point out that the ad dollars are going to broader platforms. I also think it's plausible that the digital media industry spawned far too many companies, splitting the ad revenues in too many ways. Now we're maybe seeing the seedlings get thinned. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 13 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Not only that but they got a LOT!!! of data to analyze, and from the comments, passed at least one other significant milestone...it survived the period of maximum stress. Altho it's possible that the tumbling/failure to separate *could* reflect a stress-induced problem. Yeah, just getting completely off the ground is pretty big. Scaling the booster up is non-trivial. The story points out that many of the individual engines didn't fire. The failure analysis is going to make many engineers very happy. Heck, in some ways, from an engineering and development perspective, this was a REALLY good outcome. That may explain why people were cheering when the rocket exploded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 19 minutes ago, unclevlad said: Not only that but they got a LOT!!! of data to analyze, and from the comments, passed at least one other significant milestone...it survived the period of maximum stress. Altho it's possible that the tumbling/failure to separate *could* reflect a stress-induced problem. Yeah, just getting completely off the ground is pretty big. Scaling the booster up is non-trivial. The story points out that many of the individual engines didn't fire. The failure analysis is going to make many engineers very happy. Heck, in some ways, from an engineering and development perspective, this was a REALLY good outcome. The speculation I'm seeing is that too many of the Raptors failed or grenaded on the way up, so the stack developed an unrecoverable precession by the time stage separation was supposed to happen. I understand that the booster is supposed to be able to tolerate the loss of a few engines via throttling and gimballing but they lost seven or eight, which is getting close to 25%. 19 minutes ago, unclevlad said: EDIT: oh yeah. Why I came into this thread. BuzzFeed News is shutting down. This follows a trend in digital media, where the income streams just aren't as viable as the early optimism promoted. Story is in NYT; they point out that the ad dollars are going to broader platforms. I also think it's plausible that the digital media industry spawned far too many companies, splitting the ad revenues in too many ways. Now we're maybe seeing the seedlings get thinned. That figures, Buzzfeed won a Pulitzer two years ago for exposing the Uighur genocide. They had become a top journalistic outlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 1 hour ago, unclevlad said: BuzzFeed News is shutting down. This follows a trend in digital media, where the income streams just aren't as viable as the early optimism promoted. Story is in NYT; they point out that the ad dollars are going to broader platforms. I also think it's plausible that the digital media industry spawned far too many companies, splitting the ad revenues in too many ways. Now we're maybe seeing the seedlings get thinned. That's too bad. They had become good stuff. So far they're the only news organization to actually call me up and try pumping me as a source. Heh, maybe that's what started doing them in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starlord Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 5 minutes ago, Cancer said: That's too bad. They had become good stuff. So far they're the only news organization to actually call me up and try pumping me as a source. Heh, maybe that's what started doing them in. They were doing a piece on how to destroy the universe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 No, destroying something else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted April 20, 2023 Report Share Posted April 20, 2023 Was the "something else" journalism, by any chance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 (edited) It would best if I entered no official answer to that question. Edited April 21, 2023 by Cancer Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assault Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 Deer causes chaos after breaking into Melbourne home before becoming trapped Deer are a feral species in Australia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csyphrett Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 3 hours ago, assault said: Deer causes chaos after breaking into Melbourne home before becoming trapped Deer are a feral species in Australia. They are feral everywhere. So many have attacked my car. CES Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 And not terribly bright. One hit my truck. I didn't hit it, I was parked. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 A picture of the late Queen surrounded by her grandchildren and great-grandchildren has been released to mark what would have been her 97th birthday. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65350728 BoloOfEarth 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 Reindeer are the stupidest animals on the planet; there are molds that have more brains. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted April 21, 2023 Report Share Posted April 21, 2023 * (Waiting for Logan to post the Floridians' reply to that naked challenge) * assault and Logan D. Hurricanes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted April 22, 2023 Report Share Posted April 22, 2023 21 hours ago, Cancer said: * (Waiting for Logan to post the Floridians' reply to that naked challenge) * Please, let's not use the words 'Naked' and 'Floridians' in the same sentence.... it could lead to bad things. Cygnia and Pariah 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
death tribble Posted April 22, 2023 Report Share Posted April 22, 2023 Barry Humphries dies aged 89. He was better known as Dame Edna Everage https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65328507 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted April 24, 2023 Author Report Share Posted April 24, 2023 Here's one I didn't see coming. Old Man 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Walsh Posted April 24, 2023 Report Share Posted April 24, 2023 (edited) Crooks thought they could trust the encrypted phones they were buying, but... https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/04/24/crooks-mistaken-bet-on-encrypted-phones (This is a long read, but I found it interesting.) Edited April 24, 2023 by GM Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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