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Nice: SpaceX Plans To Stage Its First Passenger Flight Around the Moon Next Year
Expensive tickets, I'm sure. I don't think Kayak will turn up any discounts.
But this is big -- the first act of purely commercial space travel. (Note: I said "travel." I'm aware that deploying satellites into space has been a partly commercial venture for some time. This is the next step and it's a big one.) Come on, you know you want to go. Just take off your Crocs and admit it.First they'll send a team to the International Space Station, which kind of makes the ISS semi-important for the first time just as a way station for commercial transport, and about six months later they'll send two passengers on a lunar fly-by. No landings yet, alas! Then Joe Biden's fixin' to have them build a train. Oh wait he's gone now. Rewrite: And then Donald Trump's fixin' to build a Moon Wall to keep the aliens out. I have written about the Institutional Phase of space travel (governments do it) versus the Commercial Phase (private entities do it) before. Not only is the latter more pleasing to the conservative mind, but it also is undoubtedly more futuristic and advanced than the former. (DON'T COMMENT ON THAT OLD THREAD -- INSTANT BAN. Automated thing to keep spammers out.)
SpaceX to fly two space tourists around the moon in 2018
by Matt McFarland
Two tourists are paying SpaceX for a trip around the moon next year. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Monday afternoon that the travelers had already placed a significant deposit. "Next year is going to be a big year for carrying people to the space station and hopefully beyond," Musk said in a conference call with reporters.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 07:46 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (ph+ut)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Moonlight Graham at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (bc2Lc)
If they're taking bets this will not happen, I'll take that action.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:47 PM (AKOhm)
Can't stop the signal, Mal.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (ph+ut)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:48 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Eisenhorn at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (J9FkY)
And then forget to hold his breath till he gets there.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (J+eG2)
They're just brine shrimp. How smart could they be?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (NXfyF)
No one else finds it odd that Musk doesn't wanna go into space himself?
Because if I built a space racket you can bet your sweet bippies I'd be riding in it.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (rF0hx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: JackStraw at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (LTHVh)
..........
Illegal Aliens
Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: First Guy to Eat a Clam at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (BO/km)
......
Huh?
Posted by: Guinea Pig at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (HgMAr)
Nah. If I built a space racket, I'd sit back and count the money rolling in.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (ph+ut)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (u8kLQ)
How bad can it be?
Posted by: First Guy to Eat a Clam
Exactly!
Posted by: First Guy to Eat An Egg Out Of A Chicken's Ass.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (ph+ut)
.......
That's gonna be huge. A bunch of crazies running around staking claims.
Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (HgMAr)
The problem with the NASA space monkeys was that they came back Super Intelligent.
Posted by: Grump928(C)
Simion
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (hvf9s)
Prediction: I will find the vacuum leak in my car before Mosk sends people into space in his rocket.
(And I ain't finding that damn leak.)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
This way, if the craft explodes or crashes, nothing of great value is lost.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Ace at 07:52 PM
++++
It would be nice if we were to colonize the moon before the Chinese do. And I'm not even joking.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (R+30W)
That is just the nastiest thing ever unless you are flying private. Just no.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: eleven at February 27, 2017 07:54 PM (qUNWi)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:54 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: eleven
Me too. They have the most annoying British accents. And they're always demanding I take another enema.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 07:55 PM (u8kLQ)
Will it have a huge, luxurious spaceport in the middle of it?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 07:55 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:55 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 07:55 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (waSFb)
Apparently you have never followed a Zombie Link.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 27, 2017 07:53 PM (R+30W)
...............
I don't know. When I get there I may be hungry for some take-out.
Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (HgMAr)
Also, bring five bucks if you want a sandwich. Meals aren't included.
Cheaper than the ball park.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Sea Monkeys at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (8ZskC)
American senior citizen with nothing to lose? Crazy Russian thrill-seeker?
Maybe one of each, and they'll learn valuable life lessons from each other.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (i2uPg)
What about the first person to lick a toad?
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (u8Ywb)
"I hate fucking intelligent space monkeys."
Just go with the blond ones.
(Ducks, and runs)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 07:55 PM (J+eG2)
How about we send up some of our horeywood "betters" that were on stage last night? What's the worst that can happen?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (waSFb)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (LTHVh)
Passenger A: Some view, huh?
Me: *turns up volume on headphones, huffily flips page of book*
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (EnKk6)
The Moonmen will hide out in Sanctuary Craters.
They'll be hiding in the moon shadows.
Moon shadows moon shadows.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (IqV8l)
I posted this on the Crocs thread, but by boyfriend thinks Tevas with hiking socks is acceptable footwear. Even in winter. *shudders* He has a tricky foot size so finding regular shoes is hard. But surely there are more humane options I can live with! He wore them on our second date, I almost cut the cord then and there. (To be fair, we went on a walk, so was not completely inappropriate shoe selection at the time. But still.)
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Zombie Bill Paxton at February 27, 2017 07:58 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 07:57 PM (waSFb)
They'd miss their flight cause they were on the wrong rocket.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 07:58 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (KP5rU)
My husband thinks appropriate attire are chonies and cowboy boots to take the trash to the cans.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (u8Ywb)
We want to go to Uranus.
Posted by: Sea Monkeys at February 27, 2017 07:56 PM (Tyii7)
But no crop-dusting.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (waSFb)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (ph+ut)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (KP5rU)
They tried but all their rockets kept ending up in London.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: FDR at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (pv3gO)
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (JNDQi)
............
Will they drive their taco rovers into town?
Posted by: wth at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (u82oZ)
I believe there was a documentary on this starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt called Passengers.
I would do a GoFundMe to get Neil Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye on board. For science! And then if something bad happens humanity is saved.
(Is it true Bill Nye and Bernie Sanders are doing a debate on science stuff? The horror.)
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: space monkey feminist at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (u8Ywb)
---
Wait - these Chonies?:
https://choniesbrand.com/
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (EnKk6)
He's got two Oscars under his belt now after distributing Manchester by the Sea.
It's only a matter of time until he finds the next Kubrick to fake another moon landing.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (5VlCp)
No joke, I would buy one.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Neil Tyson DeChicken at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (sK2fh)
A grown man on our flight home had jammie pants with cereal boxes on them. No kaboom though, I checked.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: LizLem
It ends with them making love right on stage.
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (S2V6F)
Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (Sfs6o)
No one else finds it odd that Musk doesn't wanna go into space himself?
Because if I built a space racket you can bet your sweet bippies I'd be riding in it.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 07:49 PM (AKOhm)
Actually, Musk has said, "I want to die on Mars. Just not on impact."
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: DavidC at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (/Ltft)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (lidp8)
My husband thinks appropriate attire are chonies and cowboy boots to take the trash to the cans.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (u8Ywb)
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Wait - these Chonies?:
https://choniesbrand.com/
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:01 PM (EnKk6)
Could be worse: http:// whatisabrony.com/ (remove space)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (waSFb)
Sure. For Trolling the showers at the YMCA.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:03 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: Charlene at February 27, 2017 08:03 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 07:59 PM (u8Ywb)
---
Wait - these Chonies?:
https://choniesbrand.com
And I was thinking it was some kind of hat. This puts an entirely new light on the comment.
Um, how long have you known this guy, CaliGirl?
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:03 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:03 PM (7I7P7)
I didn't know that was a brand. He wears boxers.
In case you didn't know chonies is Spanish for underwear.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 08:03 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (5VlCp)
No joke, I would buy one.
...
sounds like the premise of a mid-50s-to-60s sci-fi story.
(which i would read. and yeah, I'd buy a ticket.)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:04 PM (8rNrN)
SpaceX the final frontier. These are the voyages of really rich people
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 08:04 PM (auHtY)
#FakeNews then?
BUT I SAW IT ON CNN AND ABC!!!
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: tu3031 at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (qJhUV)
SpaceX the final frontier. These are the voyages of really rich people
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 08:04 PM (auHtY)
Capt. Kirk has expensive taste.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (waSFb)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (SjImc)
Posted by: Capt. Christopher Pike at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: DavidC at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (/Ltft)
...............
But don't it make my brown eye blue
Posted by: Crystal Gale at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (ODxAs)
And even though it's to the Moon, I would like my liftoff music to be Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (EnKk6)
Is it safe?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (SjImc)
You're guaranteed the experience of a lifetime or the best nap you've ever had.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (waSFb)
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 07:50 PM (BO/km)
Hi there!
Posted by: Borman, Lovell, and Anders at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:02 PM (lidp
Musk is an overrated rent seeker. nothing he has done since Paypal has accomplished anything besides soak up government funding.
Posted by: ghbucky at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (D2q91)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Weasel at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (Sfs6o)
Posted by: Capt. Christopher Pike at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (8ZskC)
#FakeNews then?
BUT I SAW IT ON CNN AND ABC!!!
Posted by: ace
Supposedly it was to circle the moon and come back. Not land.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (ph+ut)
Boxers, briefs, bikinis....what are we talking about here???
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (JNDQi)
Because if I built a space racket you can bet your sweet bippies I'd be riding in it.
----------------
If he flies on it, then it's a passenger slot that isn't being used to make money.
Posted by: junior at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (nsZ+m)
Because, I'll go if there are some triple breasted space whores.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (NXfyF)
i read some article (or did I dream it?) that said that would be provided for, a private area and all, because Of Course You'd Want To.
maybe not this particular flight, but one of these billionaires plotting this service.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (SjImc)
You're guaranteed the experience of a lifetime or the best nap you've ever had.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (waSFb)
Well I meant the thread, but hey I'd go on the space ride. Would I have to do a PRT while I am up there?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (SjImc)
Posted by: Sogourney Weaver at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (bc2Lc)
Posted by: Ace at 07:52 PM
whew that was close.
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:07 PM (R7cwD)
Mostly.
Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (Sp1NT)
How bad can it be?
Posted by: First Guy to Eat a Clam
Exactly!
Posted by: First Guy to Eat An Egg Out Of A Chicken's Ass.
What he said!
Posted by: First Guy to Seabirds Fermented in a Seal's Carcass
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (VSenK)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (SjImc)
That would be the room with all the floating white globules, probably.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (8ZskC)
Now I'm tharn.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (SjImc) "
The fact that a Dentist is asking this famous question is not lost on me.
(Goes looking for clove oil)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (mt/Im)
He wears boxers. I guess from growing up in California we've always called underwear chones, choners, and chonies.
I don't know if it's Spanglish or not.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: Neil Tyson DeChicken at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (Tyii7)
in science, we call this a vaginal eclipse
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson After Dark at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (mt/Im)
(Goes looking for clove oil)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (J+eG2)
I was wondering how long before someone picked up on that one. LOL
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (SjImc)
Posted by: Buzzion at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: rickb223 at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (ph+ut)
Posted by: HAL 9000 at February 27, 2017 08:10 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:10 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:10 PM (SjImc)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:10 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 08:10 PM (HDU3V)
Posted by: George Costanza, 2123 AD at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8rNrN)
You just know it'd be recorded. I get that vibe from Musk. It'll cost a million dollars to keep humanity from seeing you fumble with your zippers and harness, and watch your one condom escape your grasp and float around in zero gee like a sad little deflated zeppelin.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Ralph Cramden at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8J/Te)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (Ivjge)
Posted by: ghbucky at February 27, 2017 08:06 PM (D2q91)
I don't follow it too closely, but I think a lot of Musk's achievement is in the behind the scenes management aspect of things. No non-government entity has ever come close to doing what his people are doing. And they're making steady, incremental progress (again, as far as I can tell). I'd almost rather the money went to SpaceX from the government, than going into NASA and a bunch of transgender anti-gravity lettuce research that nobody cares about.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8ZskC)
>in science, we call this a vaginal eclipse
Erectile Occulation.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: George Costanza, 2123 AD at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8rNrN)
Where are the best bathrooms on the moon?
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (SjImc)
That said, I'm guessing it's Rooshian-style, fully automated flight controls, etc. You wouldn't want the tourists to screw anything up, and you damned sure wouldn't want to risk a qualified astronaut/pilot on a thing like this.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:05 PM (SjImc)
No. It's not safe, it's... very dangerous, be careful. (reaches for oil of cloves)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (5VlCp)
Can't Sleep, Thread will eat me
Can't Sleep, Thread will eat me
Can't Sleep, Thread will eat me
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (IqV8l)
I read something last year about why humans can't have sex in space. Can't remember the reasons, but they had a lot of them.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (ODxAs)
My husband's buddy is our dentist. He gets mad at me because I always ask him, are you sure you know what you're doing?
His nickname is Dr ouch.
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (u8Ywb)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (HDU3V)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8ZskC)
If the first one you run into is a left winger, it's curtains for you for sure
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (SjImc)
Posted by: Planned Parenthood at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (Tyii7)
That of course depends on the success of the Falcon Heavy rocket, which hasn't yet flown. It's currently scheduled for its first test flight later this year. That schedule has already slipped, mainly because of the accidents they had in 2015 and 2016.
I've been saying for a long time that if they can't find a paying customer for the first test flight, they should send an unmanned Dragon on a circumlunar flight. That would show a lot of people that we're not as far from being able to go back to the moon as they think.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (sdi6R)
You do realize that you'd have to talk to someone on this flight, right?
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (BN/jk)
>in science, we call this a vaginal eclipse
Erectile Occulation.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (NXfyF)
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The Obliquity of the Eclipsed Dick.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: willow
===
No but you could probably buy it pretty cheap.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (JNDQi)
It would be fine if the ABORT button was bright red. Unless Eleanor Holmes-Norton was a passenger, that is.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 08:00 PM (JNDQi)
If that was for me, I knowwwww. Sigh.
His shoe size is 9 EEE. It's the finding of extra wide shoes that is the problem. Any suggestions for places to find reasonably priced shoes in that size?
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (hvf9s)
You will be in a soundproof iron casket the whole time so you can't touch anything.
No worries.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (BN/jk)
I have to talk to him afterward?!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: CaliGirl at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (u8Ywb)
Sounds like my kind of guy
Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (SjImc)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (R7cwD)
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Okay sounds good. I won't comment on anything other than this. I will also not have sex in space.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: SarahW at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (Sp1NT)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (R7cwD)
DANGER, DANGER WILL ROBINSON!!!
Posted by: Robot at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Neil Tyson DeChicken at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (J+eG2)
in science, we call this a vaginal eclipse
Posted by: Neil DeGrasse Tyson After Dark at February 27, 2017 08:09 PM (8rNrN)
As if you like chicks.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (lidp8)
But what if they have Space:1999 _dialogue_?
More wooden than an advanced carpentry class.
Posted by: torquewrench at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Lunar Family Robinson at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (7I7P7)
You will be in a soundproof iron casket the whole time so you can't touch anything.
No worries.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:13 PM (mt/Im)
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'Member "Planet of the Apes"? One of those caskets had a big old leak in it.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (Ivjge)
They also claim you can't do it in a Fiat 850, but.you.can.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (R7cwD)
There is a segment of a history channel show that covers this. Discussing if you could do it and the method to achieve it. One idea is clothing with zippers. You unzip your outfit and then you zip them together with your partner. That way you don't float away from each other in the act.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (R7cwD)
Bet it's already been done on Spacestation 1 or 2.
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (BN/jk)
If there are scientific advancements to be achieved through the discovery of space exploration, they are hard to predict. Plus, we can already live in comfort to about age 100 in this country. How much more advancement do we really need?
But rich people can be separated from their money over stuff like this. So the things that get funded are going to be the things that people actually want. Like being able to fly to the moon, maybe even land on it, and bring back your own personal moon rock. Or pee your name in moon dust, or whatever it is that would make you feel like you left your mark where almost no one else can come and scratch it out.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Skip at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (HDU3V)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:15 PM (R7cwD)
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I can't imagine any good reason why someone would want to go into space. I can barely stand American Airlines.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Siri Alexa Cortana, Esq. at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (GdgAM)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8ZskC)
I get dibs!
Posted by: Margaret Sanger at February 27, 2017 08:16 PM (mtGE/)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (dFi94)
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (NXfyF)
Trump should then declare the Moon American territory. That alone will get him in the History books. Then colonize and militarize it.
U.S. Moon....
Posted by: William Eaton at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (MuTTO)
Posted by: I'm Tucker Carlson and I will destroy you at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (qnOHi)
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (BO/km)
I'm not seeing the difference....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (KgpWR)
It's going to require a LOT of coinage to get Smaug to agree to that, just saying.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8ZskC)
So you'd be punishing yourself for being a baby?
Posted by: Barack Obama at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (mtGE/)
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (U0lQa)
Posted by: ghbucky
Musk and Thiel should switch bodies. Musk looks gay, but it's actually Thiel who is gay.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (R7cwD)
http://preview.tinyurl.com/z8y8xlv
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (sK2fh)
No way you get away without snuggling in that scenario.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (NXfyF)
More wooden than an advanced carpentry class.
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Two words: Travel. Tube.
I would be 10 years old and happy again.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:19 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:19 PM (0mRoj)
I started this trip as her boyfriend, bitch.
Posted by: A Baby at February 27, 2017 08:19 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Iblis at February 27, 2017 08:19 PM (3gBCr)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:19 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (3BqEq)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:14 PM (EnKk6)*
Well, only if you want to Afterwards.
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Bigby's Typing Hands at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (U0lQa)
Bet it's already been done on Spacestation 1 or 2.
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Officially, it's never happened.
Unofficially, if it ever has, the most likely suspects are a US husband and wife that were on the same mission crew. They weren't married when NASA staffed the mission (otherwise NASA probably wouldn't have put them together on the same mission), but started dating during the training and got married before they went up into space.
Posted by: junior at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (nsZ+m)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:11 PM (8ZskC)
Local news story
Posted by: Kermit Gosnell at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (mtGE/)
#538 on the previous thread thanking various members of the Horde for
having my back. I apologize if I left anyone out. You're good peeps and
good friends.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:19 PM (0mRoj)
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You commented on the old thread? And you are not banned? Ace is lying to us again.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (dFi94)
Then, once they're about 350,000 miles from Earth, have the capsule "run out of gas"...
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (u8kLQ)
************
Basically because your thrust capacitor would send her into orbit like Sandra Bullock in Gravity.
No friction.
Posted by: Elan Musk the better scent at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (fi5nC)
There is a segment of a history channel show that covers this. Discussing if you could do it and the method to achieve it. One idea is clothing with zippers. You unzip your outfit and then you zip them together with your partner. That way you don't float away from each other in the act.
sex bungees. They're pretty good on earth, too
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Warren Beatty at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (bc2Lc)
#538 on the previous thread thanking various members of the Horde for
having my back. I apologize if I left anyone out. You're good peeps and
good friends.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:19 PM (0mRoj)
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You commented on the old thread? And you are not banned? Ace is lying to us again.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (dFi94)
That was before the spambot banner thingy was put into effect.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (0mRoj)
I've always thought part of what used to make Americans Americans was a frontier. Yeah ... Alaska is kind of like that. But Alaska sure as hell ain't 40 Acres and a Mule country.
And the first real steps out there won't be like that either. The first Moon Base won't be. The first Colony won't be.
But I wish I could be around for the part after that. I miss all the good parts.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (dFi94)
Ace has a link in the post to an old thread. His 1700 word epic poem about a movie review of a movie. Don't comment on THAT thread.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at February 27, 2017 08:22 PM (mt/Im)
Got to zappos.com. Go to Men> shoes> and filter by size and width. There are some several in all styles under $100.
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 08:22 PM (JNDQi)
U.S. Moon....
Posted by: William Eaton at February 27, 2017 08:17 PM (MuTTO)*
Then the Dims can find space ballots in the back of the lunar landing module!
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 08:22 PM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 27, 2017 08:22 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (fPE66)
Posted by: Elan Musk the better scent at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (fi5nC)
zip them together with your partner. That way you don't float away from
each other in the act.
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Foreplay. eww
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Rare Earth Metals at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (nN3W/)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (JO9+V)
How long do conservatives have to suffer a pseudo-reformed Institutional Phase which will inevitablely capitulate to another Institutional Phase?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (4YGWz)
Liberals think there is no more frontier - that is why they are interested in their backtier now
Posted by: Batterup at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (mtGE/)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:23 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Hairy Reed at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 07:51 PM (8ZskC)
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Haven't the Russians done some space banging? In the interest of science.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (R+30W)
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Still, the pressure would be enormous on Mr. Astronaut to get it up, especially if it amounted to becoming the first humans to have sex in outer space.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (Ivjge)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (mt/Im)
(DON'T COMMENT ON THAT OLD THREAD -- INSTANT BAN. Automated thing to keep spammers out.)
Posted by: Ace at 07:52 PM
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (0mRoj)
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Ahhhh .... well, you're just in time for a drink. What'll you have? I have gin and gin.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (dFi94)
Who wants to have to clean those things out between every go-round? "Ooo, everything's sticky!!" :-P
Posted by: qdpsteve at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (u8kLQ)
Posted by: Barney Frank at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: Bob Dole at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (R7cwD)
There's really only a couple.
Posted by: Issac (Not the fig) Newton at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (NJYYf)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 08:22 PM (BN/jk)
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Military votes 2-1 GOP...
Of course Green Peace will complain humans are ruining the Moon.
Posted by: William Eaton at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (MuTTO)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:21 PM (0mRoj)
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Ahhhh .... well, you're just in time for a drink. What'll you have? I have gin and gin.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:25 PM (dFi94)
At this point, gin will definitely do and I don't even like gin.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (R7cwD)
No. That's not how it works.
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (BO/km)
that he linked toward the end of this post. Commenting on a thread from
today or yesterday is fine.
Posted by: Warbler at February 27, 2017 08:22 PM (0OG8D)
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I know better than to fall for your trickery. Think you can confuse me into banning myself, do you? Well, not every one is Ace.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (dFi94)
Haven't the Russians done some space banging? In the interest of science.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 27, 2017 08:24 PM (R+30W)
There have been mixed crews on the ISS for years, so I'd be surprised if it hasn't happened by now.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:20 PM (0mRoj)
And trans-lunar injection. And go for power-up. And hard dock. And de-orbit burn.
I can keep this up all night, people. Try me.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (8nWyX)
Yeah... The first significant settlements in North America were pretty sparse, pretty temporary, and pretty rough and tumble, for a good hundred years or more at first. Say, 1650-1750. The whole pioneer/settler mentality didn't really take off until right before the revolution I think, and really went gang busters in the 19th century.
So you're guessing that the Moon will kinda be the same way?
Or more like all the national space-age players get a stake, just like the 18th century colonialists carved out big chunks of the new world politically, but didn't really do much with it outside of mining and trapping, but it will be the pioneering Americans who really flourish and settle and press outwards as time goes on...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (0mRoj)
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Fair enough. I shall only give you half a bottle.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (dFi94)
I'm guess that handjobs would be ... problematic.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (fPE66)
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (0OG8D)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (0mRoj)
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Fair enough. I shall only give you half a bottle.
Posted by: grammie winger at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (dFi94)
Thank you kindly.
*chugs*
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (0mRoj)
In one of the known mirror universe AoSHQs, regular commenters are banned for not posting frequently enough, and Logan's Run style life clock crystals are embedded in everyone's foreheads.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (BO/km)
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What am I missing, the fact that out in space there is no gravity so the man's unit would naturally be erect? I don't think so. But I am pretty dumb about physics.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (Ivjge)
I'm guess that handjobs would be ... problematic.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (mt/Im)
You have to be fastened to the bulkhead first.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (0mRoj)
Yeah... The first significant settlements in North America were pretty sparse, pretty temporary, and pretty rough and tumble, for a good hundred years or more at first. Say, 1650-1750. The whole pioneer/settler mentality didn't really take off until right before the revolution I think, and really went gang busters in the 19th century.
So you're guessing that the Moon will kinda be the same way?
Or more like all the national space-age players get a stake, just like the 18th century colonialists carved out big chunks of the new world politically, but didn't really do much with it outside of mining and trapping, but it will be the pioneering Americans who really flourish and settle and press outwards as time goes on...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (sK2fh)
Not sure how much trapping is going to be going on the moon but who knows. :-p
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (lidp8)
which is fine for me because i already nutted but it might not be great for my partner
So you need like bungee cords to arrest the flying back motion that's going to happen with every, um, love bump.
or a sleeping bag that you can tighten up around you.
Someone is going to have to be strapped to something stable and the other one is going to have to be bungeed to that person.
and leverage is going to be a problem. There's going to have to be a lot of holding each other going on.
it's kind of going to be like high school, clumsy, weird, scary, and maybe some vomit afterwards
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (8rNrN)
Just a guess ... but yeah. That's my guess. I'm thinking a place where single folks go for insane wages because the risks are god-awful and the long-term effects are unknown.
It'll be a while before anybody hauls their husband/wife up their to homestead. I'm guessing.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 08:30 PM (fiGNd)
Do we still get to grope them before they board? I've never groped a billionaire before.
Posted by: TSA at February 27, 2017 08:30 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 27, 2017 08:30 PM (fPE66)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:30 PM (R7cwD)
It has nothing to do with physics. It's all about the nookie.
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 08:30 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 08:27 PM (8nWyX)*
2-1/2 hrs til ONT. Then you really should stop.
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 08:30 PM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:31 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (lidp
Well there's Moon Snipes. Millions of them! Here's a sack - go catch yourself one!
Posted by: Buzz Aldrin at February 27, 2017 08:31 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Hooker at February 27, 2017 08:31 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:26 PM (lidp
**************
LOL--ack!
Posted by: Elan Musk the better scent at February 27, 2017 08:31 PM (fi5nC)
I would say that at some point you'll be upside down but, I guess that's a given.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:31 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Zombie Armstrong at February 27, 2017 08:31 PM (nN3W/)
Oh, good idea! Thanks.
He has friends with good taste in shoes, maybe I can recruit them to help me get him better footwear. I blame his dad, I love his dad a lot but he has the same bad shoe fashion sense. He was mistakenly raised to assume this is normal.
Apparently the new Tevas ads not only aren't embarrassed about their rep but openly embrace the shoe and sock style. Monsters.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 08:31 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:32 PM (0mRoj)
Equipment is fragile like they say in Italy.
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 27, 2017 08:32 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: Country Boy - just a humble, occasionally hotheaded poster at February 27, 2017 08:32 PM (TF/Tq)
What am I missing, the fact that out in space there is no gravity so the man's unit would naturally be erect? I don't think so. But I am pretty dumb about physics.
no. it would just be weightless. would it sometimes point up or away from his body if the rest of his body drifted the opposite way? Sure.
but that doesn't mean it's erect. it means it's a flaccid weiner drifting in space.
Like the Star Wars reboot
Posted by: Saffron, Space Hooker at February 27, 2017 08:33 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:33 PM (8ZskC)
I was envisioning .. er .. jet propelled races.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:33 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:33 PM (KgpWR)
And the processing facility is in a cave in the desert...yeah, that's the ticket! Only 150 million for a seat and a 30% discount for repeat customers! The cameras are only black and white and the narrator does sound a little like Walter Cronkite but...nostalgia... you know.
Posted by: JB1000 at February 27, 2017 08:33 PM (Z0hHk)
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (sdi6R)
probably good, because pregnant in space might be tough.
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Buzz Aldrin at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:33 PM (8ZskC)
This is where all those Shake Weight exercises finally pay off.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:34 PM (7I7P7)
protip, it's not really that great rolling in the surf at the ocean either.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 27, 2017 08:28 PM (fPE66)
Not a doctor, but a huge space nerd.
Astronauts typically experience head congestion and puffy red faces for a period once they're up because our bodies normally have to fight gravity. Without gravity, the natural processes that circulate blood operate a little too hard. I haven't got any specific details on areas with poor circulation (probably because astronauts generally have to pass insane physicals), but it seems reasonable that a circulatory system that has spent decades working against gravity would be more efficient in a weightless environment.
~the more you know~
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (EnKk6)
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That's exactly what I was thinking.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (Ivjge)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (R7cwD)
"Push the red button when you need help. Wait one.... oh. Blue button. Yeah, blue."
AAA provide towing service? Will they get a trip-tik?
Do they get extra training on the use of duct tape in case of emergency?
Does the tin can come with a real bathroom?
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at February 27, 2017 08:36 PM (FtrY1)
No way you get away without snuggling in that scenario.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:18 PM (NXfyF)
Don't forget the argument about who is floating through the wet spot.
Posted by: Buzzion at February 27, 2017 08:36 PM (P38g1)
doubt it. they're small enough that gravity means nothing to them compared to boyancy. and they don't navigate by gravity cues; they just follow a chemical signal.
and i imagine that chemical signal goes to all the same places because it has no where else to go. it's not being pulled down by gravity, it's just being pushed through a tube. gotta think gravity is again more or less barely even a factor here.
Posted by: Saffron, Space Hooker at February 27, 2017 08:36 PM (8rNrN)
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protip, it's not really that great rolling in the surf at the ocean either.
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or when she's yelling at you to hurry up because the kid has tryouts early tomorrow
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:35 PM (lidp
Didn't they used to give those out with Cracker Jack?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (mt/Im)
a sandy beach isn't peaches either
Posted by: Saffron, Space Hooker at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (KgpWR)
......
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (R7cwD)
It's usually not even worth polishing my shoes, the soles wear out so quickly.
Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler. Welcome to Trumpdome, bitch! at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (0OG8D)
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No place to raise your kids, that's for sure.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (i2uPg)
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: GuyfromNH at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (5zfq1)
Posted by: Fred From Allstate at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (nN3W/)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (i2uPg)
And its cold as hell
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (Ivjge)
No gravity means blood flows to your head more readily, so it's like auto-correct for your penis.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (GX63o)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (KgpWR)
Next we're going to hear the story of the time she asked him to hand her the remote.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (8ZskC)
"We just fucked in SPACE!"
"I know I can't believe it! We just fucked in space!"
"We actually just fucked in space!"
No awkwardness, it's just kind of all the same thing though.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:39 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Corona at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (6zJAh)
You know she's orgasmed when she drops the remote.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:38 PM (lidp
+++
Nah ah. Not in the movies I've seen. They've got rooms galore, many with double beds, bathrooms,
vaulted ceilings.
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (Ivjge)
We can wait til we land, lady.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (ksj3z)
Posted by: Elan Musk the better scent at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (fi5nC)
around minute 20 you get into the part where you go "It kinda wasn't all that"
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 08:41 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (mt/Im)
Donovan: I'm just mad about Saffron
Saffron's mad about me
I'm just mad about Saffron
She's just mad about me
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 08:41 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (8rNrN)
Space roast, rotisserie style.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 08:41 PM (GX63o)
"I've got to go to the, uh, other pod now. I'll call you."
Problem solved.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:42 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (8rNrN)
Kinda depends on how many million miles your dry spell was.
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at February 27, 2017 08:42 PM (wB8Tg)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 27, 2017 08:42 PM (wEKXX)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:42 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 08:42 PM (i2uPg)
At least you can still watch foot porn on youtube.
Posted by: Quentin Tarantino at February 27, 2017 08:42 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Dude that Just Screwed a Chick in Space at February 27, 2017 08:43 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 08:43 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 08:43 PM (JNDQi)
Posted by: Dude that Just Screwed a Chick in Space at February 27, 2017 08:43 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 08:44 PM (ksj3z)
Posted by: The Giraffe at February 27, 2017 08:44 PM (mtGE/)
Whoa. I've never considered the idea. Won';t the lack of gravity be a factor here?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:44 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 08:45 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:45 PM (8ZskC)
Whoa. I've never considered the idea. Won';t the lack of gravity be a factor here?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:44 PM (mt/Im)
Nothing that a monthly application of centrifugal force wouldn't solve.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 08:45 PM (GX63o)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:46 PM (lidp8)
All in all, it's like the butt stuff: great in theory, laborious and/or disgusting in practice.
Posted by: imp at February 27, 2017 08:46 PM (XIXZz)
Posted by: Zombie Dr. Smith at February 27, 2017 08:46 PM (Tyii7)
... " SOOOOO ... I was thinking. When are we going to take our relationship to the next level ?"
Posted by: Dude that Just Screwed a Chick in Space at February 27, 2017 08:46 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:44 PM (mt/Im)
I think capillarity is the dominant mechanism. Probably. I don't know.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:46 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 08:47 PM (ksj3z)
Posted by: broseidon on even newer magic glowy rectangle at February 27, 2017 08:47 PM (urgYo)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:46 PM (lidp
Hedwig and the angry 2.54 cm.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:47 PM (sK2fh)
... "So, does this suit make my butt look big ?"
Posted by: Dude that Just Screwed a Chick in Space
****
It makes you look like the Stay-Puft marshmallow man with mirrored sunglasses.
Posted by: Tilikum Killer Assault Whale at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (hVdx9)
All in all, it's like the butt stuff: great in theory, laborious and/or disgusting in practice.
Posted by: imp at February 27, 2017 08:46 PM (XIXZz)
For space butt stuff you'll need the jet packs.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (GX63o)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe
Wormholes are overrated.
Posted by: John Crichton at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (uTkRj)
Nah, Space is a vacuum.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: That deplorable guy who always asks... at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (Tyii7)
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (J+eG2)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (8ZskC)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (oVJmc)
I'd buy that Mark a beer. You know. If we had a bar. In space. Where I screwed a chick.
Posted by: Dude that Just Screwed a Chick in Space at February 27, 2017 08:49 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:48 PM (8ZskC)
Oh man, please somebody make this show. "Gilligan's Crater". I would watch it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:49 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (fPE66)
twenty minutes? Thirty? Maybe forty.
Yes, it will be cool to see the earth from space. For like an hour. And then... What movies are they running? Oooh, The Accountant?
Let's watch The Accountant -- IN SPACE!!!
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (8rNrN)
Say, wasn't Joe Biden also going to cure cancer? Obama said he was in his last SOTU speech....
Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (BHXsy)
Posted by: broseidon on even newer magic glowy rectangle at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (urgYo)
that was really funny.
you were really passionate on the streaming stuff.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (3BqEq)
They better remember to bring their towels
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 08:51 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:51 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:51 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:51 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Lizzy at February 27, 2017 08:51 PM (NOIQH)
twenty minutes? Thirty? Maybe forty.
Yes, it will be cool to see the earth from space. For like an hour. And then... What movies are they running? Oooh, The Accountant?
Let's watch The Accountant -- IN SPACE!!!
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (8rNrN)
The difference would be that the rental fees in space would be like buying the backyard pool from the Skymall magazine.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:51 PM (lidp8)
*raises his hand*
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:52 PM (7I7P7)
==
protip, it's not really that great rolling in the surf at the ocean either.
==
or when she's yelling at you to hurry up because the kid has tryouts early tomorrow
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 08:37 PM (KgpWR)
*snort*
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 08:52 PM (0mRoj)
around minute 20 you get into the part where you go "It kinda wasn't all that"
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:40 PM (8rNrN)
And then the "you wanna do it again?"
Posted by: Buzzion at February 27, 2017 08:52 PM (cAnNx)
But as they say: It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
The take off will be cool. Definitely a show there. Leaving earth's orbit will be great.
then... it gets a bit boring for a few days.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:52 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:53 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 27, 2017 08:53 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:52 PM (8rNrN)
Like trying to play kerbal space program without the warp feature.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:53 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:53 PM (mt/Im)
Can we start a GoFundMe to round up all the Kardashians / Jenners and their hangers-on, put them in a ship that flies them to the moon and then crashes them into the moon's far side?
Pleeeeeeease!!!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 08:53 PM (v1g1+)
True Story ...
... My Tribe wanted to see Gravity in IMAX. I watched that shit for about fifteen seconds. Took the glasses off and walked outside.
I was flat assed about to puke.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 08:54 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 27, 2017 08:54 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: washrivergal at February 27, 2017 08:54 PM (Ivjge)
for a few hours.
Then you're gonna find out the key to moving in zero g is that you DON'T move in zero gee, and you're mostly strapped to a chair, and can only move with a steward's assistance.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:54 PM (8rNrN)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpN9MmKfzbY
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 08:55 PM (8nWyX)
Elon Musk is Tesla's manager?
https://youtu.be/l2q_-xN2N54
Posted by: Puddleglum at February 27, 2017 08:55 PM (uTkRj)
Especially since you will be tied up in a soundproof iron casket so you can't touch anything.
In space, no one wants to hear your screams.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:55 PM (mt/Im)
But as they say: It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive.
The take off will be cool. Definitely a show there. Leaving earth's orbit will be great.
then... it gets a bit boring for a few days.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:52 PM (8rNrN)
So no cell phone reception in space? Cause i would just play Candy Crush to past the time. If i have to just read or even worse talk to the other passenger all the time I would go crazy.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:55 PM (lidp8)
Let's watch The Accountant -- IN SPACE!!!
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (8rNrN)
The one time I got to fly a plane I was amazed at how quickly it became boring.
Scenery doesn't change fast enough to make it interesting.
I suppose that, in a plane, if the scenery was changing fast enough to make it interesting, you would have other Very Interesting Problems, so it's not really better.
But yeah, I think you would geek out for an hour about weightlessness and how very cool it all was, and then you'd be locked in the machine that goes ping with a real-life star-warp screen saver playing on the very small window of your ship. Except not warp.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (yL25O)
'You think with a portfolio like this you can have space sex with ze duck?'
'You can have space sex with ze chicken!'
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (3BqEq)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:54 PM (8rNrN)
That could sorta become a thing, as the "space tourism" concept takes off... have a bunch of workout stations like they do on the space station, but make them all focused on what it's like to do various things in space, just to kill time during the transfer.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Big V at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (ep6C/)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (fPE66)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (8ZskC)
Safe flying is boring flying.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (mt/Im)
I was flat assed about to puke.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 08:54 PM (fiGNd)
======
I had the same reaction when I first flew an RC quadcopter wearing First Person View (pilot view) goggles while standing up.
Posted by: Flyboy at February 27, 2017 08:57 PM (JKGcx)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 08:57 PM (KP5rU)
Which is "better", yahoo or gmail?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:53 PM (mt/Im)
I loath them both, primarily because of their sponsors. Honestly, I'd rather pay (and I do) some company that isn't an agent of the Deep State for email service.
That said, gmail -- Yahoo's performance has been going down the toilet.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 08:57 PM (v1g1+)
When they come back to Earth they're going to find it run by damn, dirty apes
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 08:57 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: WannabeAnglican at February 27, 2017 08:57 PM (5Hluh)
all the stuff that would make space travel palatable takes floorspace and weight. It's just going to be tin cans for a while.
what you want is a cruise ship. what you get is the back seat of a chevette and a Blue ray player.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:58 PM (8rNrN)
Yeah, I have real paid email, I'm just not giving it out to you reprobates.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:58 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: broseidon on even newer magic glowy rectangle at February 27, 2017 08:50 PM (urgYo)
Only two passengers...and they will be out of the chicken when they get to you.
Vegetarian lasagna, sir?
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (ODxAs)
I respectfully disagree. Were there is a will, there is a way.
Posted by: Retired Buckey Cop is now an engineer at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (5Yee7)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (7I7P7)
417 Just think of all the selfies you can post of yourself in space on Facebook.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (8ZskC)
Commercial spaceflight won't have fully arrived until a porn production is mounted there. Behind the Green Capsule from the Mitchell Brothers or Debbie Does Deep Space.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (v1g1+)
NASA has just started working to see if it can put crew on the Orion EM-1 mission in 2018 (LATE 201
. If Musk beats NASA/Orion on a lunar fly-by, NASA managers and the Astronaut Corps will collectively scream so loudly, it will be the loudest sound on Earth since Krakatoa exploded. Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (AMIL/)
yes there is that... but... how long can you really gaze in wonder at the night sky?
i think I could go for an hour. Then I'm gonna probably see what's happening on the Internet.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:00 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:00 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:00 PM (BHXsy)
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 08:57 PM (auHtY)
The democrats?
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:00 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:01 PM (mt/Im)
Whoa. I've never considered the idea. Won';t the lack of gravity be a factor here?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:44 PM (mt/Im)
Nothing that a monthly application of centrifugal force wouldn't solve.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 08:45 PM (GX63o)
++++
Maybe that vagina glue will have an application after all.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 27, 2017 09:01 PM (R+30W)
Don't sell yourself short. I bet you could manage 90 minutes with Kate Upton.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 09:01 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:01 PM (mt/Im)
Mostly, I mean. Take off and landing would be INCREDIBLE, closing on the moon INCREDIBLE, seeing the earth from space INCREDIBLE, but...
but...
it's gonna be like 10 or 12 days, right?
you know-- the earth seen from space is amazing. But realistically, how long are you gonna look at it before you start flipping through StarMall magazine and wondering if you need a new barbecue tool combo?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:02 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (fPE66)
Or look out a window on one side and see the whole Earth, then look out a window on the other side and see the whole Moon.
And watch the Earth get smaller and the Moon get bigger. That would be pretty cool.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:02 PM (sdi6R)
Well, rumors of Jobs returning to AAPL began in July 1997. On the news he would, I spent $2200 on stock.
Look at what the stock has done since then!
Hint: I'm retired, age 61.
Buy on the rumor, sell on the news.
Posted by: hambone at February 27, 2017 09:02 PM (L7t0A)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (IqV8l)
you know-- the earth seen from space is amazing. But realistically, how long are you gonna look at it before you start flipping through StarMall magazine and wondering if you need a new barbecue tool combo?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:02 PM (8rNrN)
I think the original moon missions were about 3 days to and 3 days back.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (lidp8)
Oh, and here's a problem--
WHO GETS THE F***ING WINDOW SEAT?
Because, seriously, I'm not sitting in the aisle. No way, baby. No way.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (8rNrN)
Some folks were publicly speculating last week that NASA would add a crew to the unmanned mission planned for late 2018 or early 2019.
Probably why Musk is suddenly talking about 2018.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 08:56 PM (mt/Im)
The landing was exciting. Pilot couldn't control the little taildragger we were in. Was trying to taxi too fast to get out of the way of the commercial jets coming in after us. Fishtailed all over the runway.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (yL25O)
oh that seems doable.
Okay, I'm back in.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (8rNrN)
what you want is a cruise ship. what you get is the back seat of a chevette and a Blue ray player.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 08:58 PM (8rNrN)
Yeah, and just like here on Earth, at the first sign of trouble your cruise ship crew (who don't understand a lick of English or what going down with the ship means) will bolt for the life rafts and leave your sorry asses to fend for yourselves.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (v1g1+)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (IqV8l)
That's just gross.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 09:03 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:04 PM (BHXsy)
Posted by: Issac (Not the fig) Newton at February 27, 2017 09:04 PM (NJYYf)
Posted by: IRS at February 27, 2017 09:04 PM (NXfyF)
We're not built for it.
look up NatGeo 2000-ish edition on extended space inhabitance.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 09:04 PM (4YGWz)
Posted by: SGT York at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (ITvKk)
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (NXfyF)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (IqV8l)
I've toyed with the idea of buying a telescope. But I realized i) I'd be bored with it in a week, and ii) you really need to be far far away from city lights for an even a mediocre telescope to work well.
Didn't cac do poats on telescopes and stars for a while?
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (W8bn5)
454 432>> NASA is very busy doing that Muslim outreach BS. Priorities.
Posted by: Issac (Not the fig) Newton at February 27, 2017 09:04 PM (NJYYf)
Great! Now we just to force Musk to use affirmative action engineers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (SRKgf)
I never thought this would happen to me: I signed up for the Musk run around the moon and who were my fellow passengers? Kate Upton and Christina Hendricks. And zero g is an AMAZING thing.
I have seen the face of God.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Fantasy at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (fPE66)
Posted by: Philip K. at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (4YGWz)
they should be fired!
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (AKOhm)
But realistically, how long are you gonna look at it before you start bitching that the in-flight wifi service sucks and you're sick to death of watching the half dozen "People's Court" episodes looped replays
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (v1g1+)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (7I7P7)
Talk about boring. Venus is nothing but thick clouds.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (lidp8)
I wonder if this monstrosity is gonna be spewing evil CO2 all over our atmosphere, and, even worse, untainted space? I hope he realizes that once you ruin this Universe, we don't have another one to flee to.
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 27, 2017 09:07 PM (xpfRn)
Mark Steyn is gone from CRTV.
I am not happy about this.
Posted by: WannabeAnglican at February 27, 2017 08:57 PM (5Hluh)
What was that about? Did he leave, or was he let go?
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:07 PM (ANIFC)
Pay your Taxes.
Posted by: IRS at February 27, 2017 09:04 PM (NXfyF)
I missed all the excitement here earlier, but OTOH I just finished my taxes, so I'm in the afterglow, and feel like I should be smoking a cigarette. That's the traditional thing to do after getting fucked, isn't it?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 27, 2017 09:07 PM (SRKgf)
You're lying if you say you wouldn't do the same.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 09:07 PM (8nWyX)
Posted by: Philip K. at February 27, 2017 09:06 PM (4YGWz)
Well played. Well. Played.
Posted by: ScoggDog at February 27, 2017 09:07 PM (fiGNd)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 09:07 PM (PY9jH)
Or you're confined to a wheelchair in Greenwich Village.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:07 PM (7I7P7)
Or, if they had the whole thing set up to simulate Apollo 13 part deux, so you're freaked out the whole time, but really it's just a headfake to keep people from being bored.
They definitely need to have something where they're sending you instructions in morse code and you have to take apart the toilet to get the parts to build the newtonium scrubber in time to get the particle counts back down to survivable levels before you lose radio contact.
Posted by: TexasDan at February 27, 2017 09:08 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 09:08 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:08 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:08 PM (BHXsy)
So let's build the big nuclear powered spinning wheel thing like in The Martian and get moving. It's only money, and probably just a rounding error in EBT.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:08 PM (mt/Im)
I was flat assed about to puke.
Posted by: ScoggDog
Yeah, the script was pretty much shit...
Posted by: Philip K. at February 27, 2017 09:08 PM (4YGWz)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 09:09 PM (PY9jH)
NASA has just started working to see if it can put crew on the Orion EM-1 mission in 2018 (LATE 2018 ). If Musk beats NASA/Orion on a lunar fly-by, NASA managers and the Astronaut Corps will collectively scream so loudly, it will be the loudest sound on Earth since Krakatoa exploded.
Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2017 08:59 PM (AMIL/)
That would be cool if the new Moon race is between NASA and a private company.
And NASA is talking about putting a crew on an entirely untested rocket and capsule, while SpaceX plans to test both the Falcon Heavy and Dragon 2 with unmanned flights first, and also send a crew to the ISS in Dragon 2 before the Moon flight.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:09 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 08:29 PM (lidp
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Cheese harvesting.
Posted by: Margarita DeVille at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (Nox3c)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (AKOhm)
Yes, and they were good.
google this:
site:ace.mu.nu cac telescope
or
site:ace.mu.nu cac astronomy
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (8nWyX)
Mark Steyn is gone from CRTV.
No offense to the others, but Mark was the only reason I was considering it. Worth it to get a brief subscription and listen to all his previously done, presumably archived stuff?
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (hvf9s)
Maybe he'd like to carpool with Harry Reid and me?
Posted by: Tim Kaine at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (NXfyF)
461
Off topic but...
Mark Steyn is gone from CRTV.
Didn't last very long.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (IqV8l)
That sucks. He and Crowder were the two reasons that I signed on. Watching Mark Levin pitch sclerotic fits as opposed to merely listening to them holds no interest for me.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (v1g1+)
well...you do other things too while you're outside...
it's one of the best things in life.
Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (3BqEq)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 27, 2017 09:09 PM (PY9jH)
Harry Reid: He better not be poaching on my territory!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (auHtY)
In fairness, there's sulfuric acid rain too.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (mt/Im)
The Martian was so dumb it actually made me angry.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (AKOhm)
From Steyn Online:
In less congenial telly news, today was perhaps the most sobering and humbling day since this poor old Canadian came to the United States many years ago. I had only been doing the show for a little over a month, and had hoped to be doing it for a long time to come. There is always a story between the lines, and everyone of course is free to speculate. I hope to be able to say more in the days ahead.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Infidel at February 27, 2017 09:11 PM (ByNzS)
I've toyed with the idea of buying a telescope. But I realized i) I'd be bored with it in a week, and ii) you really need to be far far away from city lights for an even a mediocre telescope to work well.
Didn't cac do poats on telescopes and stars for a while?
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (AKOhm)
My best friend's late grandfather wrote a book about astronomy & city lights. He had a nice telescope set up in a shed in his yard. I have a few of his photographs hanging in my living room.
http://tinyurl.com/h6zceos
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:11 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:11 PM (AKOhm)
You first, Bro.
Posted by: Fritz at February 27, 2017 09:12 PM (YAPkP)
No offense to the others, but Mark was the only reason I was considering it. Worth it to get a brief subscription and listen to all his previously done, presumably archived stuff?
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (hvf9s)
I think they have a free one-month looky-loo offer going on now. Steyn's interview with the guy who waterboarded KSM is worth viewing.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:12 PM (v1g1+)
Posted by: chavez the hugo
My Gawd, haven't you seen Star Trek II!!!
*ka-tooeh *
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 09:12 PM (4YGWz)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (AKOhm)
Me too, everyone who read the book kept saying how realistic it was and then I watched the movie and it was almost as bad as Independence Day especially towards the end. I was kind of pissed.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:13 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Infidel at February 27, 2017 09:11 PM (ByNzS)
I'll have to see Tucker skewer him. My middle school science class had us watch him several times a week, I grew very fond of him. Sad to see people you like turn idiotic.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:13 PM (hvf9s)
it's one of the best things in life.
You know nothing of my work, do you?
Posted by: Robert E Howard at February 27, 2017 09:13 PM (NXfyF)
well...you do other things too while you're outside...
it's one of the best things in life.
not in space you don't.
plus there's gonna be some asshole kicking the back of my chair, i just know it
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:14 PM (8rNrN)
I liked the spaceship though.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:14 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: Matt Damon at February 27, 2017 09:14 PM (ANIFC)
it's one of the best things in life.
not in space you don't.
plus there's gonna be some asshole kicking the back of my chair, i just know it
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:14 PM (8rNrN)
That would be me.
Posted by: FussyBaby at February 27, 2017 09:16 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at February 27, 2017 09:16 PM (NJYYf)
458 >>Okay, I'm back in.
Kinda sad when you have to announce it.
Posted by: garrett at February 27, 2017 09:05 PM (NXfyF)
Well, someone has to be first to build shelves in space...
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (v1g1+)
In theory.
i don't know if i'd go to hawaii and that's just 14 hours or whatever. Plus, it's Hawaii.
Here's my offer:
Let me fly the ship and you've got yourself a customer, Elon.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Matt Damon at February 27, 2017 09:14 PM (ANIFC)
Seeing Kimmel take him down several times in the telecast, and celebs reading their own mean tweets, were two of the few good things about the Oscars last night. Also the botched best pic announcement, but that goes without saying.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: EVLINC! at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (y3aQB)
you were really passionate on the streaming stuff.
Posted by: concrete girl
===
Yeah I have a condition. "Drunk Obsessive Yelling at Clouds Drunk Disorder".
And when I get that feeling?
I need sexual healing.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (KgpWR)
He says it likes it's a good thing.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:18 PM (bQxkN)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 09:18 PM (JO9+V)
What if it's a ship with like 10-14 passengers. I know the Musk one only has like 2. Let's say it's ten years down the road and now it's a 10-14 passenger ship.
What if one of these dicks gets sick when we're just exiting the atmosphere? And we have to divert to Dallas?
Oh man, am I gonna be pissed.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:19 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 09:19 PM (c6/9Q)
Posted by: California High-Speed Rail To Nowhere at February 27, 2017 09:19 PM (kCDOM)
--
I only saw a sample -- he was singing jazz, and he interviewed a salt-of-the-Earth Quebecois couple who made cheese or croissants or something. Seemed pretty quirky. But if there's also political content, then there must've been a whole other aspect to it.
Steyn's twitter says he's suing them.
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 09:19 PM (i2uPg)
Let me fly the ship and you've got yourself a customer, Elon. "
How about we give you a Playschool type control panel so you think you are doing something. Would that tide you over?
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:19 PM (lidp8)
517 Bill Nye says that but for man, our climate would be like that of 1750, when the earth was cooler, we had less CO2 so plants didn't grow as well, and people everywhere were a lot, lot poorer.
He says it likes it's a good thing.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:18 PM (bQxkN)
Oh, fook off, Nye and just off yourself so you don't have to endure your sadz.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (v1g1+)
I should keep my stupid opinions to my stupid self , usually.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (KgpWR)
"I'd forgotten how much I hate space travel!" -- C3P0
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Mike at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (c056A)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (BHXsy)
Posted by: freaked at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (AKOhm)
Ray Walston would have been better in the role
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (auHtY)
31 Let me guess: Neil DeGrasse Tyson, greatest scientist of all time. And Hillary Clinton, the Christopher Pike gambit
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (v1g1+)
Posted by: Ian S. at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (5dOnv)
How about we give you a Playschool type control panel so you think you are doing something. Would that tide you over?
actually a mock pilot station could kill a few hours.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (KgpWR)
That's another thing about Prometheus that was dumb.
The chosen crew for the amazing flight into the Unknown was miserable and barely interested in what they were about to do. There was no excitement or awe.
I'm tired of the bored space miner characters who treat space travel as "old hat" and are basically smalltown factory workers who'd rather be in a bar or working on their 4X4's than be in a spaceship.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (AKOhm)
If he likes that period so much he is welcome to go there! *rummages around for Ace's time machine*
Speaking of time travel, I can't decide if the new Jack the Ripper time travel show will be hilariously awful in a good, satisfying way or a sad, I wasted valuable hours of my life kind of way.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:22 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (7I7P7)
Mine was when I kept looking for Jean Reno in the departing crew and he wasn't there.
I don't know why he should have been in the cast, it just seemed like a glaring oversight.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 09:23 PM (8nWyX)
To do a lunar fly-by, you'd need something as powerful as a Saturn rocket. Space X has a hard time getting their rockets off the pad. And now they're going to launch the equivalent of a Saturn rocket? Nope, not buying it.
Posted by: Mike at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (c056A)
Um, no, no, and no.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:23 PM (sdi6R)
that would keep a few bust for a week or two.
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (R7cwD)
hence, the market for Space Whores.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: willow at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (R7cwD)
Canceled in three episodes or less kinda way.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (AMIL/)
The second time up, i was the very first person in line to walk up to the stage for the whole handshake/get your fake stand-in diploma deal, and Bill Nye was standing there to be the first to shake your hand.
I had prepared a little shorter-than-an-elevator-speech speech about it to say while walking by, cause I thought it was kind of neat. I get up there, with a line of a thousand or so people behind me. He hasn't realized that the graduates were "inbound", so to speak, and he's turned around the other way grabbing a sip of water. He realizes i'm already there, turns around, there's an awkward rushed handshake, and I totally missed my chance to say something.
Just a funny story for ya. No deeper meaning.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (sK2fh)
Were we, the audience, supposed to believe the crew of the Prometheus was the best of the best?
Every one of them was a Problem.
Are you telling me these people were vetted and these were the best they had to choose from??
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (AKOhm)
Why, maybe there's an exogenous factor at work. But it'd have to be really big, and involve a lot of energy ...
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (bQxkN)
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:22 PM (hvf9s)
Jack the Ripper travels in time? Like Dr Who? Or is it like the Malcolm McDowell 'Time After Time' movie?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:25 PM (auHtY)
Really, could they have chosen a worse crew for Prometheus?
You knew in the first 10 minutes they would doom themselves by their own hands.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:25 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:25 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: ace
First Twitter rant from space.
I'm just sayin'...
Posted by: GnuBreed at February 27, 2017 09:25 PM (xpfRn)
The chosen crew for the amazing flight into the Unknown was miserable and barely interested in what they were about to do. There was no excitement or awe.
most of that link I provided about institutional vs. commercial space flight was about that. Prometheus was actually set in the institutional phase, where spaceflight is a major rare thing, but the whole crew was a bunch of malcontented misfits who couldn't give a fuck. Which is possible in the commercial phase, when space travel has become routine and a chore, but it's stupid when this is literally the first expedition to a planet believed to have life on it. (In fact-- believed to have the progenitor race of all human life on it.)
Who the hell on this trip would be 'Space, what a buzz-kill"?
that was my big point: In early missions, where you have a billion eager candidates, you would select nothing but gung-ho, super-competent military phDs who are totally into the mission. You would not get malcontents, layabouts, and people who get into drama with other people.
you only get the latter type when space travel is going on like air travel goes on now.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:22 PM (hvf9s)
Jack the Ripper travels in time? Like Dr Who? Or is it like the Malcolm McDowell 'Time After Time' movie?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:25 PM (auHtY)
They're doing a series on "Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper"?
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (ksj3z)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:24 PM (bQxkN)
Dinosaur Farts....
Posted by: T Rex at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (W8bn5)
Wine grapes were grown by the Romans in England, I've been told.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (bQxkN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (BHXsy)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (ksj3z)
Space smells like spent gunpowder.
Really.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (8nWyX)
Jack the Ripper travels in time? Like Dr Who? Or is it like the Malcolm McDowell 'Time After Time' movie?
it is that movie, made into a series.
I don't know why they keep doing this. You can't make movies into a series. For how many years, exactly, is HG Wells going to chase Jack the Ripper?
Seven or eight if it's success.
This premise can't be extended that long.
It was a great two hour movie. How can they make it 100+ hours of tv?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:28 PM (8rNrN)
most of that link I provided about institutional vs. commercial space flight was about that.
I remember your thesis -- excellent. It changed how I watch this crap now. Now that I know this info, I expect more from hollywood scifi.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:28 PM (AKOhm)
Other than ipse dixit, what evidence does he have of this? Oh that's right. None whatsoever.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 09:28 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:28 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:28 PM (ksj3z)
They will have to be let in on the secret of artificial gravity or "Musk-grav" as it's called, but sworn to secrecy.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:29 PM (mt/Im)
except there really aren't any well-known historical serial killers....
maybe vlad the impaler...
and emily bartony or whoever that was...
but that only gets you like three extra shows...
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:29 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:29 PM (BHXsy)
This could be a hoax, like the moon landings. The dupes think they're travelling around the moon, when really they're being shown films of the moon outside their windows, and a bunch of guys on the outside rocking their capsule back and forth to make it feel like they're travelling.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear
Like that Mission Impossible episode where they fooled a guy into believing he was in a submerged submarine until they got some information out of him.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:29 PM (IqV8l)
125 i read some article (or did I dream it?) that said that would be provided for, a private area and all, because Of Course You'd Want To.
That would be the room with all the floating white globules, probably.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at February 27, 2017 08:08 PM (8ZskC)
How many times do I have to tell you? It's mayonnaise!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (v1g1+)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:29 PM (mt/Im)
And then, per the preceding conversation, they can learn what Musk-grav love truly is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (mt/Im)
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (ANIFC)
Or how about a musical, Saucy Jack?
Saucy Jack, you're a naughty one/Saucy Jack, you're a haughty one
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (W8bn5)
You'd have to put them in a centrifuge to simulate the additional G-forces felt at take off and acceleration through the atmosphere.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (0mRoj)
you only get the latter type when space travel is going on like air travel goes on now. "
Oh no, you mean one day we are going to see space travelers in nothing but cargo shorts, t-shirts, and euro-sandles? Plus they will have to bring on the ship their baby grand piano instead of checking it? Then count me out at that phase.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (lidp8)
I don't fly very often but when I do I look around at how many people aren't even paying attention during takeoff.
We're about to Fly, I think to myself. How is this not even a little bit exciting to these jerkoffs, I think to myself.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (AKOhm)
You knew in the first 10 minutes they would doom themselves by their own hands.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:25 PM
Idiot #1- "I'm gonna take my helmet off"
Idiot #2- "That's a really bad idea"
*Idiot 1 takes helmet off"
Idiot #2- "Oh well"
Idiots #3, 4 and 5- "Sweet!"
*they all take their helmets off*
Posted by: otho at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (lmIoG)
I paid for a subscription to Levin TV about six months ago and I think I have watched one episode. Mark just went off the rails about Trump's ideas on trade and tariffs and it got to the point I couldn't listen to him anymore. I've tuned into his radio show periodically and have turned it off within seconds when I happen to hit on an "anti tariff the world's a free trade paradise until Trump screws it up day."
So I kept hearing about CRTV and thought I might subscribe to it when I knew Steyn was on. He is on for one month and is now off. Obviously, he has done something to piss off Levin, not pure enough or whatever.
A lot of people on CRTV appear to be pissed from the comments and want their money back. They joined specifically for Steyn....
Posted by: Jen at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (cWhln)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (ksj3z)
Space smells like spent gunpowder.
Really.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (8nWyX
Would a fart float around like a cartoon bubble filled with joker gas?
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (ksj3z)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (BHXsy)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (W8bn5)
Seriously, there's a guy on YouTube who posts videos claiming that SpaceX's first stage landings are hoaxes.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (W8bn5)*
The anti-gravity field necessary to pulloff that ruse would be pretty damn useful. Just sayin.
Posted by: mission control at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (BN/jk)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:10 PM (AKOhm)
Ray Walston would have been better in the role
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (auHtY)
I knew it would suck when they didn't even bother to CAST the part... of Marvin....
It made me sooooo angry!
Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (NgKpN)
149 Sounds like a scam - a good one, however.
That said, I'm guessing it's Rooshian-style, fully automated flight controls, etc. You wouldn't want the tourists to screw anything up, and you damned sure wouldn't want to risk a qualified astronaut/pilot on a thing like this.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 08:12 PM (lutOX)
It'd be best for everyone to keep Eleanor "What Does This Red Button Do?" Holmes Norton off that flight... just sayin'.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (v1g1+)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (AKOhm)
If he likes that period so much he is welcome to go there! *rummages around for Ace's time machine*
Speaking of time travel, I can't decide if the new Jack the Ripper time travel show will be hilariously awful...
Posted by: LizLem at
Bill Nye is an idiot.
Posted by: Farmer at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (o/90i)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 09:08 PM (JO9+V)
The 20 credits are on the spacechest. Call yourself an uber.
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (GX63o)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:26 PM (ksj3z)
Space smells like spent gunpowder.
Really.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 09:27 PM (8nWyX
Would a fart float around like a cartoon bubble filled with joker gas?
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (ksj3z)
Maybe. Of course, it's not like you can just open the window either.
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Insomniac
------
Uh,no. Don Herbert was a genius by comparison. Remember, Nye is just another mechanical engineer. Herbert at least had a science degree.
Also, from Wiki:
"World War II when he enlisted in the United States Army as a Private. Herbert later joined the United States Army Air Forces, took pilot training, and became a B-24 bomber pilot who flew 56 combat missions from Italy with the 767th Bomb Squadron, 461st Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force. When Herbert was discharged in 1945 he was a Captain and had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters"
The greatest achievement by Nye is not choking his scrawny neck with one of his fey bow ties.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (JO9+V)
"Gonna need another Timmy!"
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (r6Z+k)
When they landed, no one was excited. Everyone was pissed off and just wanted to get it over with.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:33 PM (KP5rU)
Seven or eight if it's success.
This premise can't be extended that long.
It was a great two hour movie. How can they make it 100+ hours of tv?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:28 PM (8rNrN)
The Fugitive Meets Dr. Who Meets Jack the Ripper Meets Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein!
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:33 PM (auHtY)
Posted by: Insomniac
------
Uh,no. Don Herbert was a genius by comparison. Remember, Nye is just another mechanical engineer. Herbert at least had a science degree.
Also, from Wiki:
"World War II when he enlisted in the United States Army as a Private. Herbert later joined the United States Army Air Forces, took pilot training, and became a B-24 bomber pilot who flew 56 combat missions from Italy with the 767th Bomb Squadron, 461st Bomb Group of the Fifteenth Air Force. When Herbert was discharged in 1945 he was a Captain and had earned the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters"
The greatest achievement by Nye is not choking his scrawny neck with one of his fey bow ties.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 09:32 PM (ZO497)
You just confirmed my statement regarding Mr. Wizard after contradicting it...
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 09:33 PM (0mRoj)
Maybe cryo-stasis just makes people cranky. Did you consider that?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:34 PM (mt/Im)
Called "Space Cadets," it featured a group of young people, ALL SELECTED FOR GULLIBILITY AND LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SCIENCE, to be the first private citizen space travelers.
It was all a hoax -- and yes, they did have a hoax window showing the earth from space and all that.
The meanest thing was they took them to a "Soviet Space training camp" -- supposedly, the mission was a joint venture between the UK and Russia -- but the Soviet space camp was a decommissioned british air base with soviet red stars painted on it with actors doing Russian accents. (A couple spoke russian for real.)
It was so mean.
If you can bear to watch it -- and it is hard to watch, though it's compelling -- the first part is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3c5rsqqHjE
Caution: Contains very high levels of embarrassment and just awful terribleness.
Meanest trick ever played.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:34 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (3BqEq)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan!
No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:29 PM
(BHXsy)
that was probably coming from whatever was converting "space" into oxygen hydrogen they could breathe ?
Posted by: runner at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (c6/9Q)
Wanna watch a gladiator movie, Billy?
Posted by: Peter Graves at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (eeTCA)
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (AKOhm)
To do a lunar fly-by, you'd need something as powerful as a Saturn rocket. Space X has a hard time getting their rockets off the pad. And now they're going to launch the equivalent of a Saturn rocket? Nope, not buying it.
Posted by: Mike at February 27, 2017 09:20 PM (c056A)
Um, no, no, and no.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:23 PM (sdi6R)
1. Since it's a circumlunar flight without orbiting the Moon and landing, there is no need to carry a lunar lander, or the fuel needed to get in and out of orbit. So the rocket doesn't have to be as powerful as the Saturn V.
2. Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in the world today, capable of launching a payload weight second only to the Saturn V.
OK, that's only two "nos". Sorry.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (BHXsy)
But, not for me.
My heart would stop from all the excitement.
And then you'd all have to bury me at sea, in space.
No thanks.
Posted by: navybrat at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (w7KSn)
Jack the Ripper travels in time? Like Dr Who? Or is it like the Malcolm McDowell 'Time After Time' movie?
it is that movie, made into a series.
I don't know why they keep doing this. You can't make movies into a series. For how many years, exactly, is HG Wells going to chase Jack the Ripper?
Seven or eight if it's success.
This premise can't be extended that long.
It was a great two hour movie. How can they make it 100+ hours of tv?
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:28 PM (8rNrN)
++++
With the time machine premise as in Tine After Time, they can keep changing up to make it interesting. Jack goes to 1975, Wells follows. Then when Wells get too close, off Jack goes to 1923, or 1999, or 1776, etc.
Of course, what matters is the writing. If the writers are lame, then the show sucks ass all throughout history. But, the time thing gives them an opportunity to keep it fresh.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 27, 2017 09:35 PM (R+30W)
I watched it all the way through a few years ago, so at least back then, I had the full show.
It's so mean. I felt guilty watching it.
But I couldn't stop watching it.
The reveal is... terrible.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:36 PM (8rNrN)
I thought it was cool that there was a narcissistic android who was mainly interested in being like Peter O'Toole. Really, though, the main point of Prometheus was special effects, and those were pretty good. Disgusting, tentacled aliens and bulgy, blobby featured humanoids who hate us.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:36 PM (W8bn5)
But if you're going to talk bollocks about science, whether you're a scientist or not, it's bad.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 09:36 PM (sK2fh)
We're about to Fly, I think to myself. How is this not even a little bit exciting to these jerkoffs, I think to myself.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45 at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (AKOhm)
Eh... as someone who used to have to fly a lot for business, it get's old after a while. Kind of like watching out the window when the bus pulls away from the curb.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at February 27, 2017 09:36 PM (wmaTe)
You knew in the first 10 minutes they would doom themselves by their own hands.
Posted by: Soothsayer 45
The Jim Cameron version of the Titanic crew would have been more successful.
/selfediting
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 09:36 PM (4YGWz)
Posted by: Batterup at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (mtGE/)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Insomniac
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You used logical operators...logic doesn't work on me. I need shouted words.
;-)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (ZO497)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Charles the Simple at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (7jX2E)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Insomniac
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You used logical operators...logic doesn't work on me. I need shouted words.
;-)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (ZO497)
Er, OK.
MR. WIZARD IS A ZILLION TIMES BETTER THAN THAT HACK BILL NYE!!!
Better?
Posted by: Insomniac at February 27, 2017 09:38 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (ksj3z)
Not to be the fart-soaked wet blanket and ignore the joke (though that is pretty much my entire purpose in life), constant ventilation is required in the astronauts' sleeping cabinets on the ISS. If the air isn't kept moving, they'd wake up choking on a bubble of exhaled CO2 that hadn't gone anywhere because in still air without gravity, it just sort of floats there.
Posted by: hogmartin at February 27, 2017 09:38 PM (8nWyX)
If the question is, can people smell in a pressurized spacecraft or spacesuit in zero-gee, the answer is yes.
Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2017 09:38 PM (AMIL/)
Tesla cars are a toy for the well-off. Impractical as a first or even second car, using a flywheel provides great acceleration, and so they're a great sports car, subsidized at government expense. A metaphor for how the 1% love Big D government?
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (bQxkN)
FOR GULLIBILITY AND LACK OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT SCIENCE, to be the first
private citizen space travelers.
====
Oh.
Oh I must watch this.
I am going straight to hell.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (KgpWR)
The Saturn V rocket was only used to get the spacecraft to the moon. The command module was used to get back and the lander had its own engine to get on and off the moon.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Jean-Francois Kerry at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (8zL5i)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (LTHVh)
not that bad, but there is a hugely interesting part about nightmares.
One girl, in her sleep, sleep-talks, saying "It's not real... they're not really Russians... they're not really Russians..."
However, when she's awake, she believes the whole thing.
It's amazing: Her subconscious gets it and tries to shout the truth out to her, but she wants to believe it so much she doesn't listen.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2017 09:38 PM (AMIL/)
Smell? They stink on ice!
Posted by: Count de Monet at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (JO9+V)
That said, Soyuz is the longest-serving spacecraft in history - half a century.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (BHXsy)
remember SPACE ACADEMY with Jonathan Harris?
remember JASON OF STAR COMMAND?
this intro is almost as good as Bigfoot & Wildboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lP7udY9ob8
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: Batterup at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (mtGE/)
Does the giraffe have a due date, or are we just guessing and winging it?
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (sdi6R)
Better?
Posted by: Insomniac
------------
Yes, thank you.
Remember, when communicating with Hammer, that he rode the short bus.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (ZO497)
maybe vlad the impaler...
and emily bartony or whoever that was...
but that only gets you like three extra shows...
Posted by: ace
It's almost as if you never have read Devil in the White City.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (4YGWz)
Posted by: Gref at February 27, 2017 09:38 PM (AMIL/)
Thus proving that, at least when in spacesuits...
The old Universal Law of 'he who smelt it, dealt it', holds true...
Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 09:41 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:41 PM (IqV8l)
They could have used a subplot where they overhear something that would lead them to believe that half the candidates are meant to be food for the other half on the journey.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:41 PM (LTHVh)
Sounds like someone's got some...
**puts on sunglasses**
... sour grapes.
**YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!**
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at February 27, 2017 09:42 PM (r6Z+k)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:42 PM (KP5rU)
Challenge Accepted!!
Posted by: Barney Stinson like TV execs at February 27, 2017 09:42 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:36 PM (W8bn5)
Trigglypuff was in "Prometheus"?
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:42 PM (ANIFC)
And then Donald Trump's fixin' to build a Moon Wall to keep the immigrants out.
--
Done and Done.
Star Wars Defense Initiative. Ronnie Raygun.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 27, 2017 09:42 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine. Glory to Kekistan! No Longer Accepting Harem Applicants at February 27, 2017 09:42 PM (BHXsy)
remember JASON OF STAR COMMAND?
this intro is almost as good as Bigfoot & Wildboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lP7udY9ob8
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (AKOhm)
The words you are writing are English but they make no sense.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:42 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 07:52 PM (W8bn5)
They would need the Saturn V to launch her fatass into space.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at February 27, 2017 09:43 PM (1JnAL)
One season. Time travel shows are hard to sustain, though Quantum Leap made it 5 seasons.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:43 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (8rNrN
I'll do it on Wed. during my morning cardio.
I'm committed my bandwith to SpongeBob for the little ones for the next 24hrs.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:44 PM (ksj3z)
remember JASON OF STAR COMMAND?
====
The Powers of Matthew Starr
Ark II
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 09:44 PM (KgpWR)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM
In space, no one can hear you rip one.
Posted by: Ripley at February 27, 2017 09:44 PM (DMUuz)
The Saturn V rocket was only used to get the spacecraft to the moon. The command module was used to get back and the lander had its own engine to get on and off the moon.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (lidp
But the Saturn V had to lift the Command Module, Service Module, and Lunar Module to the moon.
For a circumlunar mission, all you need is a Command Module, which just whips around the moon and comes back. That's not as much mass sent to the moon, so it doesn't require a rocket as powerful as a Saturn V.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:44 PM (sdi6R)
One season. Time travel shows are hard to sustain, though Quantum Leap made it 5 seasons.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:43 PM (LTHVh)
What about this old 60's show I've seen time to time on MeTV. I think it is called The Time Tunnel. Irwin Allen creation I think.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:45 PM (lidp8)
btw, is Elon Musk being clever with the name SpaceX?
as in instilling the subliminal Space Sex on our minds?
I think so.
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at February 27, 2017 09:45 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:45 PM (KP5rU)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:45 PM (7I7P7)
He could bring Elizabeth Bathory into the future, and she and Hillary Clinton could exchange recipes for bathing in the blood of young virgins while scheming to reclaim the presidency. Ratings gold!.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:45 PM (hvf9s)
no
it was fine
i wouldn't have mentioned it if i didn't think it was funny.
give yourself a break
Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 09:45 PM (3BqEq)
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:46 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:46 PM (KP5rU)
remember SPACE ACADEMY with Jonathan Harris?
remember JASON OF STAR COMMAND?
this intro is almost as good as Bigfoot & Wildboy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lP7udY9ob8
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at February 27, 2017 09:40 PM (AKOhm)
I see you star stuff... but raise you....
Its about time....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYe6g6vGUac
Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 09:46 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: Godsmack at February 27, 2017 09:46 PM (r6Z+k)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 27, 2017 09:46 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: chavez the hugo at February 27, 2017 09:46 PM (KP5rU)
oh, so THAT's what the "X" stands for...
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 09:46 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (IqV8l)
Transportation included.
And I want a fruit basket, bitches.
Posted by: Deplorable Redneck Bitter Clinger at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (MCEs2)
Posted by: acewing plover at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Jean at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: Batterup at February 27, 2017 09:37 PM (mtGE/)
Does the giraffe have a due date, or are we just guessing and winging it?
-------
It was supposed to be mid-February. She's a bit overdue.
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (JNDQi)
I have a working theory that Projection is strong with the Left, as so many of their anti-Right memes actually come from a Leftist place.
Why the year 1750? It wipes out everything Industrial. So the best we could expect is to live like hobbits, except for the Chosen of course.
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:48 PM (bQxkN)
remember JASON OF STAR COMMAND?
====
The Powers of Matthew Starr
Ark II
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at February 27, 2017 09:44 PM (KgpWR)
\
Bah.... Space, Above and Beyond....
Space Marine Pilots who were also Special Forces... and.... like... everything... LOL
Posted by: Don Q. at February 27, 2017 09:48 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:48 PM (hvf9s)
I see you star stuff... but raise you....
Its about time....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYe6g6vGUac
Tooty from Car 54 Where Are You!
Posted by: Soothsayerwing Plover at February 27, 2017 09:48 PM (AKOhm)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (IqV8l)
But it's not just a time travel show, there's space exploration too.
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:48 PM (ANIFC)
Posted by: Ripley
The ripples in the Appletini give it away, SuperAlienWoman.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 09:49 PM (4YGWz)
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead
There seems to be a wave of mass insanity. We can't understand it properly because we're in the middle of it right now. It'll probably take several decades to sort through it all.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: eleven at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (qUNWi)
Let me fly the ship and you've got yourself a customer, Elon.
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:17 PM (8rNrN)
Space flight is mostly a few short engine burns, interspersed with a whole lot of coasting. Don't even have to steer.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (Qk4LE)
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:39 PM (lidp
But the Saturn V had to lift the Command Module, Service Module, and Lunar Module to the moon.
For a circumlunar mission, all you need is a Command Module, which just whips around the moon and comes back. That's not as much mass sent to the moon, so it doesn't require a rocket as powerful as a Saturn V.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:44 PM (sdi6R)
True, it will be less mass but still a lot. Remember that the lander was much less massive than the command module.
As it pertains to SpaceX, I'm not an expert on them but I don't believe they have even built a booster big enought to do the manned moon mission yet let alone tested it. Also, I pretty sure that they have built a capsule that can hold people but I am not sure that they have actually launched people into space yet. So sending people to the moon in a year and a half from now seems a little optimistic.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (IqV8l)
=====
Much herb was consumed watching that show in the early to mid 80s on Sunday nights. I remember none of it, and that's when herb was weak compared to today.
Posted by: Flyboy at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (JKGcx)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:51 PM (7I7P7)
I particularly liked the episode where the young son introduced the planet to Rock & Roll. He could just steal everyone's songs because, hey, they don't know who the Stones are.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:51 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:29 PM
The Benders and apparently, Nero. Not particularly well known though. One of the major factors in making Time After Time work was the casting. McDowell and Warner really worked together. Dunno if they will recapture that in the casting.
Posted by: otho at February 27, 2017 09:52 PM (lmIoG)
The Grumman-built Lunar Module may be the best piece of engineering by Man ever. The thing had to land on the Moon, and then take off from the Moon. Holy Fuck that was hard. Flying around the Moon once is comparatively trivial, no?
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:52 PM (bQxkN)
Bonus points for Jonathan Banks as a bad guy.
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:53 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 09:53 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 09:53 PM (EnKk6)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:54 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: MSTisdale at February 27, 2017 09:54 PM (g9d8D)
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at February 27, 2017 09:53 PM (EnKk6)
Not being facetious at all, but: How could they tell?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 09:54 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: ace at February 27, 2017 09:21 PM (8rNrN)
How about the controls to the phaser banks? You could zap Klingon warcraft.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2017 09:54 PM (WDdjT)
Yeah, and Clara, by a nose...very cute nose. Not at all like Victoria.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at February 27, 2017 09:54 PM (Qk4LE)
Now that show had the best cliff-hanger last episode ever. They knew they were being canceled and they said 'Suck on these storeylines that you will never learn what happens!'
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:54 PM (LTHVh)
The Grumman-built Lunar Module may be the best piece of engineering by Man ever. The thing had to land on the Moon, and then take off from the Moon. Holy Fuck that was hard. Flying around the Moon once is comparatively trivial, no?
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:52 PM (bQxkN)
Probably just as easy to send the capsule around mars as the moon. Passengers may not like it, but doable.
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (P/kVC)
Posted by: Tuna at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Jean at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (zZb/S)
Been watching "Timeless" -- kinda interesting, but the constant "this was a bad time to be black" and "this was a bad time to be female" and "this was a bad time to be gay" stuff gets old real fast.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (VSenK)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (IqV8l)
But it's not just a time travel show, there's space exploration too.
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:48 PM (ANIFC)
Yes, exploring a lot of planets that all look like rock quarries
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (auHtY)
As it pertains to SpaceX, I'm not an expert on them but I don't believe they have even built a booster big enought to do the manned moon mission yet let alone tested it. Also, I pretty sure that they have built a capsule that can hold people but I am not sure that they have actually launched people into space yet. So sending people to the moon in a year and a half from now seems a little optimistic.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (lidp
They have the Falcon Heavy rocket and the Dragon 2 manned spacecraft. Neither of them have yet flown, but they are planned to later this year or early next year. If the test flights go well, a circumlunar mission is doable in late 2018. They plan to launch a crew to the ISS before then.
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (sdi6R)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:56 PM (LTHVh)
Posted by: Ignoramus at February 27, 2017 09:52 PM (bQxkN)
If it were trivial the Russians would have most likely beaten us to it. All of it was hard.
Nowadays it is definitely easier since we have so many years of space travel under our belts but still no piece of cake.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 09:56 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: eleven at February 27, 2017 09:50 PM (qUNWi
It's for me as well.
The kids TV shows have passed the point where I don't trust them to show my boys.
I got them the Batman animated series from the early 90's. They both have to dress up in their own Batman costumes to watch it.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:56 PM (ksj3z)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at February 27, 2017 09:56 PM (i2uPg)
--
I read this as:
I'm sure the paperwork to get the FAA to allow this will be harder than the engineering to modify the ISIS service module for the flight.
/because the only way that we can make ISIS love us it to give them our technology.
Posted by: shibumi, a rational single white female and kitteh servant at February 27, 2017 09:56 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 09:57 PM (7I7P7)
Lots of Victorian whores.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 09:30 PM (mt/Im)
Well THAT goes without saying!
Starring Paprika, international time travel whore, sister of Saffron?
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:57 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 27, 2017 09:47 PM (IqV8l)
But it's not just a time travel show, there's space exploration too.
Posted by: josephistan at February 27, 2017 09:48 PM (ANIFC)
Yes, exploring a lot of planets that all look like rock quarries
Posted by: TheQuietMan at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (auHtY)
Your tellin me?
Posted by: The Gorn at February 27, 2017 09:57 PM (NgKpN)
But, I refuse to believe Elon will let a couple of tyro billionaires get the first ride on top of a Falcon Heavy. Now that will be a kick in the ass.
Ps. I claim first use the word "tyro" here... well, in a non-Obama post, okay?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 27, 2017 09:58 PM (LeUrG)
Weren't there a lot of Renaissance Italians who poisoned people? Like the Borgias and the Medicis.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 09:58 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:56 PM (ksj3z)
You are a good dad Pepe! Still one of the best Batmans ever. I loved the new Lego Batman movie, don't know if you've seen it.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:59 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 10:00 PM (UJ/i5)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at February 27, 2017 10:00 PM (W8bn5)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 10:00 PM (ksj3z)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 10:00 PM (UJ/i5)
Ps. I claim first use the word "tyro" here... well, in a non-Obama post, okay?
Posted by: Ray Van Dune
I'd insult you for it but I'm sure you know what you're doing.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 27, 2017 10:01 PM (4YGWz)
Indeed, and they've got a nice VHS quality which enhances the viewing experience too.
*taps his nose*
Posted by: Walter Freeman at February 27, 2017 10:02 PM (7I7P7)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 09:31 PM (ksj3z)
No, it would mix into the atmosphere due to Browneyean motion.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 27, 2017 10:02 PM (WDdjT)
Posted by: rickl at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (sdi6R)
Is the heavy rocket multistage? Because that is going to be another leap in tech from single stage.
They also have to train and screen the two rich half-wits to see if they can handle themselves in spacesuits and not to panic in an emergency and also see if they can handle high g's. Does SpaceX even have spacesuits? And they must have to have an expert tech or two go with them because there is no way they are sending them up alone.
Posted by: StrawMan at February 27, 2017 10:02 PM (lidp8)
Posted by: Jean at February 27, 2017 10:03 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 09:59 PM (hvf9s)
It's on the agenda for this weekend. But again a 5 and a 3 year old in Batman costumes at the theater. It will be a most excellent adventure for sure.
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 10:04 PM (ksj3z)
last i heard it had been "confirmed," but the thrust being produced was so small that some kind of tiny unaccounted-for experimental defect couldn't be ruled out.
it seems to me that if it's a real effect, it should be easy to up-power it to a point where there's no question that some tiny experimental contamination is at work.
why is the power of thrust limited to the range of possible experimental error? Why can't you juice it well past that range?
Posted by: acewing plover at February 27, 2017 10:04 PM (8rNrN)
Posted by: Skookumchuk at February 27, 2017 10:05 PM (/WPPJ)
Posted by: Jean at February 27, 2017 10:05 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: Burnt Toast at February 27, 2017 09:55 PM (P/kVC)
It takes significantly more speed to get to Mars than getting to the Moon. Which makes your ascent and insertion vehicles exponentially larger for the Mars vehicle. But still, either of the (LEO to Mars) and (LEO to Moon) delta V budgets are way smaller than the (Earth Surface to LEO) budget.
Another annoying problem with getting to Mars is the timing, I would think. You can huck a spacecraft out to the Moon whenever you feel like it, more or less. You have to wait for a good transfer window to get to other planets. And there's no fancy solution to that problem outside of waiting. (or Ace's time machine...)
I don't know how often we get good windows to Mars, but i'd imagine it's once every year and a half or two years. I don't know and I don't feel like looking it up. So i'm using the WAG method of estimation.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 10:06 PM (sK2fh)
Posted by: lindarising at February 27, 2017 10:06 PM (JNDQi)
Posted by: Jean at February 27, 2017 10:08 PM (zZb/S)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 10:04 PM (ksj3z)
A most excellent and adorable adventure! I hope they love it.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 10:08 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Saffron, Space Whore at February 27, 2017 10:08 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 10:04 PM (ksj3z)
A most excellent and adorable adventure! I hope they love it.
Posted by: LizLem at February 27, 2017 10:08 PM (hvf9s)
That's very sweet and kind of you to say. Thanks!
Posted by: Widespread Pepe at February 27, 2017 10:11 PM (ksj3z)
happily ever after at ace's
Posted by: concrete girl at February 27, 2017 10:12 PM (3BqEq)
It's going to be right up there with StarLost.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 27, 2017 10:14 PM (UJ/i5)
Posted by: Jean at February 27, 2017 10:08 PM (zZb/S)
There was some mission that was talked about but never happened, or maybe it was just a sci-fi story I read one day, but the point was to assemble a spacecraft in orbit, one module at a time, rather than trying to launch the whole thing in one piece. You would save a ridiculous amount of fuel that way, but your maneuvering equipment would have to be pretty damn tight.
Was that the Orion project, or was that something else?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 27, 2017 10:19 PM (sK2fh)
He was a defender of Christendom against the Islamic Ottomans.
Posted by: buzzion at February 27, 2017 10:20 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: colfax mingo at February 27, 2017 10:39 PM (Ik1WR)
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Hands out the pickled hard-boiled eggs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 27, 2017 10:42 PM (ZO497)
Spacex Falcon 9 rockets are already 2-stage, with 9 Merlin engines in stage 1 and a single Merlin as stage 2. The Falcon Heavy will also be 2-stage, except the first stage will have 3 first-stage cores side-by-side. That's 27 engines, but they resisted the temptation to call it the Falcon 27. I would have named it the Falcon Twenty-Fucking-Seven Big-assed Rocket.
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 27, 2017 10:52 PM (LeUrG)
Posted by: Ripley
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Hands out the pickled hard-boiled eggs.
Posted by: Mike Hammer,
* THAWAK , THAWAK, THAWAK *
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