Remember there was some tweet or something where some moron in the USA said the Russians in the space station should be abandoned out there. Putin-hate. Maybe Russia is sick of our bullshit
This. WHY would Russia WANT to participate in a program mostly controlled by a country who fucking lies constantly about them?
Plus the ISS is pretty close to it's expiration date anyway.
It's only planned to stay up there another 10 years ago, if that.
So even if we WEREN'T in a spat there's a good argument for them to pull out.
Normally I'd jump on the "their loss" mentality.
Maybe that's true.
But Russia has a pretty strong national pride thing going on right now too obviously so they might just want to roll their own station a la China.
Or compete/participate with the numerous private space station programs being started, which may be a significant advantage to them over working with NASA...
.... which isn't totalllllly broken, less so than the 3-letters, maybe about on par with the FAA - but it's funded by and their goals and mandates are set by congress so whatever brokenness it has is UNFIXABLE without solving the congressional corruption and just getting worse, also like the FAA.
On 8 April 2022, SpaceX 's Crew Dragon space capsule was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket for the first American space tourist mission to International Space Station.
Polaris Industries built the space shuttle. Boeing, Northrop Grumman, United Launch Alliance, and Aerojet Rocketdyne are building the SLS. Is any a nation? Or were they contractors for a nation, you arrogant prick?
Would you like some help with your anger issues?
NONE of those companies actually were in charge of the launches, they only made parts and equipment.
Sorry if I hurt your widdle feelings by pointing out the ignorance of your troll comments.
Bubye Shill!
You're playing semantics. You said Russia is the only nation that flies there and them pulling out is a big deal, but the US flies there too so it's NOT SUCH A BIG DEAL NOW IS IT? Somehow it doesn't count because the US contracts it out to its citizens? You just can't stand someone pointing out that your post is frickin' retarded, and mocking my "reading comprehension" doesn't change the fact. Do grow up.
If you are too simple to understand the difference, then that is your own problem. Maybe some ESL classes might help you.
Definition of nation....
1a(1) : nationality sense 5a three Slav peoples … forged into a Yugoslavia without really fusing into a Yugoslav nation— Hans Kohn
(2) : a politically organized nationality
(3) in the Bible : a non-Jewish nationality why do the nations conspire — Psalms 2:1 (Revised Standard Version)
b : a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government Canada is a nation with a written constitution— B. K. Sandwell
c : a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status a nation of vast size with a small population— Mary K. Hammond
2 archaic : group, aggregation
3 : a tribe or federation of tribes (as of American Indians) the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma
You are the typical little shill that thinks they can go to any post they want and blast rude remarks and act the troll and expect everyone to lay down for you.
Well guess what Scooter! I don't play your little games.
You seem to think only YOUR opinion matters and you're dead wrong.
Looking at your comments, ALL you do is troll other people and offer NOTHING constructive.
So I suggest you grow up, because where it stands at the moment, you are acting like the poster boy for Mom's Basement Soy Boy Club.
Don't like a post, go to the next one or piss off. I really don't care
Rockwell International built the Space shuttle. NASA, through its contractors, is building the SLS (known to the cognoscenti as the Senate Launch System). SpaceX is a private contractor offering spaceflight as a private service. And I guess you would know from experience who is an arrogant prick.
Bruh! I give you something easy. Water needs a container. Water rests flat. That is a fact. Scale down that experiment. Gravity doesn't change the fact that water has to rest flat. We are not fucking a spinninig ball at 25k mph. Expand your thunking. You are not expanding your thinking
Well, you are just diverting from the fact that you refuse to look into the relevant history and physics of the Earth being round: the fact that it was deduced from observational geometry, the fact that it was circumnavigated on its surface, and the fact that it was orbited by a human observer. These are all facts.
Water does not rest "flat." It follows the curvature of a roughly spherical gravitational potential field. If a bucket has a diameter of 1 foot (about 0.3 meter), the spherical bulge of the water is about 2 millionths of a millimeter. You can eyeball something that small, right? It just means you don't know what you are talking about. We are indeed on a sphere that rotates at roughly 0.0007 RPM, and the acceleration associated with that is imperceptible. Do the numbers yourself...if you can. Just because you have no idea what the answer is, you ignorantly assume there is no answer.
You need to open your mind and crack some books. In my time, a fifth-grader knew more than you do.
So, here we have a brainiac who cannot refute the FACT that it is impossible to see how flat the water is in a bucket. That it needs a bucket is obvious, but is only like saying "the sky is blue." There is no end when you are trying to correct the world, but cannot be bothered to correct your own stupid errors.
It has been sometimes said that conversation is like a tennis game: one tends to play to the level of one's opponent. So, these conversations tend to degenerate because your side refuses to discuss facts and science and just retreats into a shell of defensive denial and offensive opprobrium. In other words, you don't even understand your own position and you are frustrated at being unable to hold your own in an intelligent conversation. For you, the right answer is to throw a horse apple and skedaddle home and slam the door behind you. What a coward. I bet you would be unable to calculate the difference between flat water and convex water in a bucket. It turns out that the usual approach doesn't work because even modern cheap computers cannot calculate to the required number of significant digits. One has to come up with an approximate formula to even get in the right ballpark. But I am no doubt talking over your head. So, no more admonitions about me opening my mind. I am already operating above your level. You take some steps to get up here with me.
The difference between you and i, is i don't give a shit if the earh is round or not. I just want the truth. The spinning ball feels like bullshit. I don't know and neother do you. You haven't seen the curve either you're just believing what your told. And your so damn brainwashed that you will defend it.
You make no sense. Why would you give a shit about the truth, if what the truth is means nothing to you? A clue comes from your "the spinning ball feels like bullshit." You cannot think by resorting to "feelings." The effect of the spin is insensible to the human body. But not to the atmosphere, in which it produces cyclones. And not to the oceans, in which it produces the equatorial bulge. I've by now pointed out that the spherical bulge in a bucket of water is simply too small to observe. We do live on a big planet, and being sufficiently big over a small scale sure looks "flat." Larger scales, not so much.
I see the curve at an altitude of 40,000 feet. Of course, that is no accomplishment, since even a flat LP-disk Earth would show a curve at its edge. A point which you obviously have not taken into consideration. The more definite proof is that you can sail west or east and will ultimately return to your starting point. Impossible if the Earth is not round. Same thing with airplane flight. Even more so with satellites.
Speaking of brainwashed and believing what you are told, you are a prime example. You have turned your back on actual knowledge and subscribed to a cult belief system that has to deny most of modern life. All those poor, deluded people who are picking up TV signals from satellites. All those befuddled nitwits that are having telephone calls around the world to where it is night instead of day (I do that all the time, with my family in Africa).
How is it that, of the two of us, I am the only one providing information to explain all these things? You couldn't explain yourself if your life depended on it.
Remember there was some tweet or something where some moron in the USA said the Russians in the space station should be abandoned out there. Putin-hate. Maybe Russia is sick of our bullshit
This. WHY would Russia WANT to participate in a program mostly controlled by a country who fucking lies constantly about them?
Plus the ISS is pretty close to it's expiration date anyway.
It's only planned to stay up there another 10 years ago, if that.
So even if we WEREN'T in a spat there's a good argument for them to pull out.
Normally I'd jump on the "their loss" mentality.
Maybe that's true.
But Russia has a pretty strong national pride thing going on right now too obviously so they might just want to roll their own station a la China.
Or compete/participate with the numerous private space station programs being started, which may be a significant advantage to them over working with NASA...
.... which isn't totalllllly broken, less so than the 3-letters, maybe about on par with the FAA - but it's funded by and their goals and mandates are set by congress so whatever brokenness it has is UNFIXABLE without solving the congressional corruption and just getting worse, also like the FAA.
Their loss
Loss of what exactly? I’m not even sure the news is true but even if it is, I’m curious why it’s considered to be this big error on Russia’s part.
On 8 April 2022, SpaceX 's Crew Dragon space capsule was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket for the first American space tourist mission to International Space Station.
SpaceX can deliver astronauts and supplies.
And when exactly did SpaceX become a "nation"? Reading comprehension is a valuable tool, getcha some!
Yes, this.
Meme courtesy of the little voices in my head. REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
Maybe Musk will salvage the rig, squat and homestead. Prop up the decaying orbit and pimp out the joint.
Um, no they aren't? SpaceX just delivered their 4th crew.
Is SpaceX now a "nation"??? Reading comprehension is a valuable tool, getcha some!
Polaris Industries built the space shuttle. Boeing, Northrop Grumman, United Launch Alliance, and Aerojet Rocketdyne are building the SLS. Is any a nation? Or were they contractors for a nation, you arrogant prick?
Would you like some help with your anger issues? NONE of those companies actually were in charge of the launches, they only made parts and equipment. Sorry if I hurt your widdle feelings by pointing out the ignorance of your troll comments. Bubye Shill!
You're playing semantics. You said Russia is the only nation that flies there and them pulling out is a big deal, but the US flies there too so it's NOT SUCH A BIG DEAL NOW IS IT? Somehow it doesn't count because the US contracts it out to its citizens? You just can't stand someone pointing out that your post is frickin' retarded, and mocking my "reading comprehension" doesn't change the fact. Do grow up.
If you are too simple to understand the difference, then that is your own problem. Maybe some ESL classes might help you.
Definition of nation.... 1a(1) : nationality sense 5a three Slav peoples … forged into a Yugoslavia without really fusing into a Yugoslav nation— Hans Kohn (2) : a politically organized nationality (3) in the Bible : a non-Jewish nationality why do the nations conspire — Psalms 2:1 (Revised Standard Version) b : a community of people composed of one or more nationalities and possessing a more or less defined territory and government Canada is a nation with a written constitution— B. K. Sandwell c : a territorial division containing a body of people of one or more nationalities and usually characterized by relatively large size and independent status a nation of vast size with a small population— Mary K. Hammond 2 archaic : group, aggregation 3 : a tribe or federation of tribes (as of American Indians) the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma
You are the typical little shill that thinks they can go to any post they want and blast rude remarks and act the troll and expect everyone to lay down for you. Well guess what Scooter! I don't play your little games. You seem to think only YOUR opinion matters and you're dead wrong. Looking at your comments, ALL you do is troll other people and offer NOTHING constructive.
So I suggest you grow up, because where it stands at the moment, you are acting like the poster boy for Mom's Basement Soy Boy Club. Don't like a post, go to the next one or piss off. I really don't care
TL;DR. Later
Rockwell International built the Space shuttle. NASA, through its contractors, is building the SLS (known to the cognoscenti as the Senate Launch System). SpaceX is a private contractor offering spaceflight as a private service. And I guess you would know from experience who is an arrogant prick.
High Quality meme there, fren!
They could be doing it for safety reasons, no-one wants to be up there in these hacky whacky times.
On the other hand, it is another art of war move. I can hear liberal crowing about Russia running out of money.....
Moves and counter-moves. Optics.
Bruh, the earth is flat. No such thing as a space station
Your assertion is flat. Flatter than a 3 day old soda
Expanding your thinking is not for everyone
This is getting embarrassing. The earth is frigging flat look into it.
Eratosthenes in 240 BC. Look into it.
Magellan in 1521 AD. Look into it.
Gagarin in 1961 AD. Look into it.
It isn't "flat," nor was it ever. You are seriously disturbed. You have trapped yourself in a psychotic bubble of paranoid delusion.
Bruh! I give you something easy. Water needs a container. Water rests flat. That is a fact. Scale down that experiment. Gravity doesn't change the fact that water has to rest flat. We are not fucking a spinninig ball at 25k mph. Expand your thunking. You are not expanding your thinking
Well, you are just diverting from the fact that you refuse to look into the relevant history and physics of the Earth being round: the fact that it was deduced from observational geometry, the fact that it was circumnavigated on its surface, and the fact that it was orbited by a human observer. These are all facts.
Water does not rest "flat." It follows the curvature of a roughly spherical gravitational potential field. If a bucket has a diameter of 1 foot (about 0.3 meter), the spherical bulge of the water is about 2 millionths of a millimeter. You can eyeball something that small, right? It just means you don't know what you are talking about. We are indeed on a sphere that rotates at roughly 0.0007 RPM, and the acceleration associated with that is imperceptible. Do the numbers yourself...if you can. Just because you have no idea what the answer is, you ignorantly assume there is no answer.
You need to open your mind and crack some books. In my time, a fifth-grader knew more than you do.
You are brainwashed well. Water needs a container. The end
So, here we have a brainiac who cannot refute the FACT that it is impossible to see how flat the water is in a bucket. That it needs a bucket is obvious, but is only like saying "the sky is blue." There is no end when you are trying to correct the world, but cannot be bothered to correct your own stupid errors.
It has been sometimes said that conversation is like a tennis game: one tends to play to the level of one's opponent. So, these conversations tend to degenerate because your side refuses to discuss facts and science and just retreats into a shell of defensive denial and offensive opprobrium. In other words, you don't even understand your own position and you are frustrated at being unable to hold your own in an intelligent conversation. For you, the right answer is to throw a horse apple and skedaddle home and slam the door behind you. What a coward. I bet you would be unable to calculate the difference between flat water and convex water in a bucket. It turns out that the usual approach doesn't work because even modern cheap computers cannot calculate to the required number of significant digits. One has to come up with an approximate formula to even get in the right ballpark. But I am no doubt talking over your head. So, no more admonitions about me opening my mind. I am already operating above your level. You take some steps to get up here with me.
If you know the contents of a book, describing a truth, you only know the description but not the very truth itself.
Says the man who hasn't read the book. Just a deflection from the fact you cannot answer these questions.
The difference between you and i, is i don't give a shit if the earh is round or not. I just want the truth. The spinning ball feels like bullshit. I don't know and neother do you. You haven't seen the curve either you're just believing what your told. And your so damn brainwashed that you will defend it.
I have no dog in this fight.
You make no sense. Why would you give a shit about the truth, if what the truth is means nothing to you? A clue comes from your "the spinning ball feels like bullshit." You cannot think by resorting to "feelings." The effect of the spin is insensible to the human body. But not to the atmosphere, in which it produces cyclones. And not to the oceans, in which it produces the equatorial bulge. I've by now pointed out that the spherical bulge in a bucket of water is simply too small to observe. We do live on a big planet, and being sufficiently big over a small scale sure looks "flat." Larger scales, not so much.
I see the curve at an altitude of 40,000 feet. Of course, that is no accomplishment, since even a flat LP-disk Earth would show a curve at its edge. A point which you obviously have not taken into consideration. The more definite proof is that you can sail west or east and will ultimately return to your starting point. Impossible if the Earth is not round. Same thing with airplane flight. Even more so with satellites.
Speaking of brainwashed and believing what you are told, you are a prime example. You have turned your back on actual knowledge and subscribed to a cult belief system that has to deny most of modern life. All those poor, deluded people who are picking up TV signals from satellites. All those befuddled nitwits that are having telephone calls around the world to where it is night instead of day (I do that all the time, with my family in Africa).
How is it that, of the two of us, I am the only one providing information to explain all these things? You couldn't explain yourself if your life depended on it.
as someone who has worked on probably 100+ DGs in the last 10 years.... that's hilarious :)
Dollar General is out of control
But they still are not currently flying back and forth. So my point stands.