The article has the nerve to excuse Ukraine for doubting Russia's good faith, when Ukraine has a history in this affair of promoting the most flagrant lies and deceits. It's like the tar pit calling the crow "black."
What facts? You act like you are talking to a phantom audience. I will tell you in all sincerity, my telepathy is pathetically weak. You really need to express yourself clearly in words. (I checked. No butt-hurt, except for sitting on a wooden deck chair.) Worthy of what? Your attention? In that case, I'm glad.
A third time you break your vow of ostracism. I can get you to reappear every time. Who has power over whom?
You have to listen with discernment. The fact of her having clearances has no relevance to what she is reporting. The factual allegations being reported are taken from open sources, so there is no disclosure of classified information or spreading of falsehoods. Anything else would be her speculations as to what may be happening "behind the scenes," which she qualifies as speculation (albeit intuitive and informed).
It is good to go, for what it is. It may not go as far as you want. The witch-hunt cavils are meritless.
A little parable: After many trials, Jonah comes to Nineveh to preach God's warning. The crowd is interested...but some with reservations begin to exclaim: "His hair is not white enough. Has he talked with God? He's not carrying the two tablets! Can he touch his staff to rock and make water spring forth? Can he part the Tigris River? What was he before he came to sermonize? Is this a scheme to collect alms? Is he a Satanist, telling lies?" Jonah has no answer, and sadly departs.
How would you know anything? You can't see beyond your prejudice. Don't bother to throw the Bible at me without any supporting argument. That is a famously fallacious tactic. Why don't you shake some Holy Water at me, as well?
Yet, here you are again. You swear me off, and come back twice. Does this mean I have power over you?
So is the boulder in my front yard. In fact everything. But no mere material contains my soul. I see you are pretty much a fraud. You declare yourself quit of me, but here you are.
If you would come right out and say what you mean, and why it is relevant to anything, we could have a conversation. But, so far, you are just a collection of arch quips.
This is great. I don't understand a word of Spanish, but I can get caught up it it anyway. He is hitting a nerve with the needle of truth.
Also 1/4 Dutch, 1/4 English, and 1/4 Swiss. But who's counting? DNA is only chemistry. What is the interest in German Jews?
Sorry, pal. You are lost in dreams. You can't even hold a conversation without alluding to your subjective world.
Close. I am told my mother's grandparents came from Saxony, in an effort to avoid being drafted into the Kaiser's army. Do I get a magic decoder ring if I know more? At least I am 25% German. What are you?
I laugh at DNA. As though it contained our soul?
The Army built and deployed German built rockets (Redstone, Jupiter). And loaned their personnel to be employed by the rocket prime contractors. Ultimately, the Germans designed and oversaw the production of the Saturn V that took us to the Moon. So, it is a hilarious slander to say their rockets were "inadequate." They were regularly described as being "bridge-builders" because they put so much margin into their structures. It was that margin that allowed the addition of a fifth engine into the S-1C first stage without a late and costly redesign.
Look, you really don't know much about von Braun, his Peenemunde team, their career at NASA, and what NASA is and always has been.
What "doom spiral"?
The Shuttle retirement was in 2011, after Falcon 9's first flight. It was clearly regarded as Obama's replacement for the Shuttle. SpaceX's prominence in the market was ramping up at that time. Was SpaceX known to the man in the street? No. Was it already rearranging the marketplace? Yes. The question of who SpaceX was "well known to," should hinge on who depended on its availability. It was certainly well known to customers. (And what does being "well known" have to do with Q's messages? We sort of specialize in that which is not well known.)
That's what I have thought. I don't know whether to be disappointed or concerned.
I knew about the von Braun team when I was still a child in the1960s. It was only them. They were mostly employed at the now Marshall Spaceflight Center (formerly part of Redstone Arsenal, home to the Army missile program). I've been there multiple times on work assignments. Have you ever been there? NASA had centers all over the country, working on propulsion, aerodynamics, airplane flight control, and a host ot aviation subjects. The von Braun people were only part of a much larger whole.
The team was all fired from NASA after von Braun was kicked upstairs to Washington DC, to be basically in charge of nothing. (He resigned and died of cancer a few years later.) Looks like simple envy and resentment that they had such a prominent and indispensable role in engineering the Saturn V launch vehicle that took us to the Moon. They have been gone for half a century.
So much for the idiotic assertion that NASA was all Germans. Not to mention the ridiculous libel that they were all Nazis at that time. Every German under Hitler had to be a member of the Nazi party, or they wouldn't be permitted to work. Von Braun and his team had been employed by the German Army for their work before Hitler came to power. They threw all that overboard when they decided en masse to leave Peenemunde and surrender to the American forces. (Still reading your history?) I'm part German. I've been witnessing the casual, acceptable anti-German bigotry in this country all my long life. I guess for you, World War II is not over and you are expecting to turn up the Red Skull if you look hard enough.
They weren't and you don't know any such thing. Nor do we.
I am frankly tired of and disgusted with schoolyard bigotry: all Germans are Nazis; all Italians are Mafia; all Jews are Zionists; all Russians are Communists; all Freemasons are Satanists. Nothing but ethnic and group smears elevated to collective libel.
Not true. They became mainstream to their customer community when they started operation of Falcon 9. The plan for the vehicle was announced in 2005. Its first flight occurred in 2010. Anyone familiar with the industry would have noticed SpaceX as the Newcomer with Promise.
Once they started manned flights, and bringing back boosters for re-use, they became famous. That's a notch above mainstream.
Are you asserting Q posted such an observation recently?
You have to realize that the odds of a coincidental date are 1 in 365. Definitely not zero. And slender odds only means it doesn't happen often---but that it does definitely happen. We have a population of 330 million. The even odds are that 904,109 people have the same birthday as you!
I agree. It is also an embarrassment for this page. My brother's wife was a Navy officer (so was he) and there was never any suggestion that she was anything less than a good one.
Woke is when declarations are all-important. Bigotry is when declarations don't matter, but race, sex, or nationality is all-important.
I'm with you. Love of country. You can't let the bad despoil the good. It goes against the grain to think you can escape a worldwide struggle by running away. If it is any encouragement, I have heard through my wife's family there, that healthy things are developing in Zimbabwe. Still a long road to travel.
Sometimes, people complain to me that they are trying to figure out what other country to flee to. I just shake my head. You boobs. Don't you understand we were it? We can't run; we can only stand. Stop being cowards; start being courageous.
Considering this is the Age of LGBTQ(etc.), being "poofed" might only mean a change of heart.
There is also a stoic interpretation. All the trials and burdens impose suffering---but if you suffer and survive, you realize that mere suffering will not kill you, and you are no longer afraid to persevere. (Because, truly, this may be a struggle for all our life.)
Thanks for the clarification. My prior experience was some exposure to the Teledesic project, operating with an antenna footprint of 700 km2. These footprints move along at orbital speed (~7.8 km/sec for low Earth orbit), so dwell times are probably measured in a matter of a few minutes at most. There will be considerable packet switching to connect with a ground terminal.
I looked up Starlink to get some sense of the downlink distribution and support and it is pretty amazing. A complete terminal is priced to be available to commercial or industrial entities. A lesser capability is potentially available to those who can afford it, so links direct to user may not be far off at all. It was a quick scan of a long article, but it seems that the system relies on wifi for the final path to the end user, instead of landline.
The government apparently issued a response strategy in 2018, so, yeah, they're "working on it."
Were you thinking of the Starfish Prime test in 1962? There is plenty of theoretical dissection of what happened, based also on a similar Soviet test that same year. Underground tests still provided data on nuclear detonations, and we've also learned more about the structure of the upper atmosphere since then.
First of all, the launch is expected by this weekend, so your angst is misplaced.
Secondly, I was only relaying what someone else said about the purpose of the assessment. Which was a paper study, since no testing of any actual rocket took place (and the meme was idiotic nonsense).
Thirdly, when you burn a carbonaceous fuel in a rocket, it goes nearly equally to carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide. You are welcome to breathe the carbon monoxide. It is good for no one. Thankfully, it is not heavier than air.
Fourthly, as demonstrated by the first launch fiasco, there is definitely the possibility of the exhaust "scrubbing" concrete dust (or eroding the concrete) to create particulate contamination of any deluge water.
China is well behind SpaceX, which is the world leader in reuse, and I expect it to remain so. The current delay was never a problem in the development of the Falcon 9 and Falcon 9 Heavy. It was entirely the result of Musk's foolish attempt to cut corners. What do you want? For Musk to pull off dangerous experiments that could harm the wildlife in the adjacent state park? Your whole attitude is belligerent without cause.
Interesting that not only is Harris not a "natural born citizen," she appears not even to be an ordinary citizen. First Obama, then Harris. Very bad precedent.
I looked and couldn't find any actual substance to that ridiculous meme. If you think about it, there is no way to artificially generate such loud noise. So the idea of measuring seal response is nonsense. They already know from experience at Cape Canaveral that animals can tolerate a lot without panic.
As an example, I was involved in directing a solid rocket motor test for an antiaircraft missile propulsion unit. The booster was over and done with in 1.4 seconds, and it sounded for all the world like an explosion. Many decibels. The test complete, we all congregated at the pad to admire the smoking casing (and wince at the stench). This was all taking place at a remote location, surrounded by forest. I happened to turn around...to notice a curious deer at the end of the test pad, no more than 20 feet away. It looked back at me, then calmly sauntered off. I would have thought it would have been scared into the next county, but no. And then I reflected on the fact that they probably just stand there when thunder occurs. Over with before they can barely flinch.
Another commenter said that the F&WS was assessing the effects of runoff water from the planned deluge system. Okay, that's reasonable. The deluge system is a new configuration. I didn't say that they were looking specifically at debris effects, only that the unplanned effects of that launch were huge and that an environmental concern was at least legitimate. And what are they supposed to do? They trusted Musk on the first launch, and that was absolutely misplaced. The launch site is adjacent to a state park, so the government has a fiduciary duty to assure there would be no harm to animals protected by that park. Not a punishment if it is in accordance with the agreements that Musk approved and must comply with.
I've worked in the field of launch vehicles. I'm not happy with any government delay that is unreasonable. But safety is pretty damn important. You have no idea the magnitude of blast that would result if the total stack blew up. There's a reason that public viewing of the Saturn V launches took place at an extreme distance, and Musk's bird is bigger than a Saturn V. I spent some time once, calculating blast overpressure distances for a launch disaster of a vehicle design we were working on. My boss was puzzled why I was doing it. I answered, "So we know where to put the chain link fence where a pregnant mother can watch a vehicle go off high order. There's gonna be such a fence and we've gotta put it somewhere." He had no answer to that.
I've never said "the technology doesn't exist." I have pointed out that space lasers don't exist. I have never said or suggested that our technology is different from the Israeli technology (all light bulbs work the same way, to use a prosaic example), though it may not be precisely identical (many different light bulb designs). It is not secret technology, insofar as the science is concerned. It is a matter of workmanship. Unless you have a system in hand for dissection and copying, you have to make it yourself. Russia and China are similarly occupied.
I oppose only sheer ignorance, which is here in abundance, along with rejection of any actual expertise. I'm not being paid a cent by anyone. Want to pay me to shut up?
My site name is simply a literal fact. Originally, I thought it to be a bit of humor (ironic that it would be true). I have been involved in laser weapon design, proposal, and analysis over a span of 30 years. You guys haven't, and it shows. I don't have time to waste patting myself on the back, and my arms aren't made for it. But I do adhere to the old Texas saying: "It ain't bragging if you can prove it." You simply don't like credentials or experience. As for demeaning, if I had a dime for every curse, insult, or name thrown at me from the noble gentlemen of this site, I would be a rich man. I limit my harshness to telling people they are ignorant---when they are. Even now, you accuse me of being a paid shill---entirely out of your own imagination. In my world, 2 + 2 = 4, and I have no need to apologize for it. (In recent talk about the assassination in Panama, some commenter---in total certainty---identified the assassin's pistol as a Sig 226. So I looked up images for a Sig 226. No possible way that pistol was a Sig 226, or a 225; the physical characteristics are distinctive.. The confident person never bothered to confirm his hunch and just hung himself out to dry. Everyone gave him a pass.)
Here's a chilling thought: Suppose the "controlled opposition narrative" is actually the truth? How would you ever know? You start out with an assumption that it is a lie, and then evolve further imaginary lies to "explain" questions resulting largely from your own ignorance and prejudice. From this, it is only a step to "fringe conspiracies," which are forbidden on this sight, but which are indulged in like public drunkenness.
Because once it is mixed with rocket exhaust and possible pad erosion, it is no longer fresh water. Relax. They anticipate being ready to go before the month is out. None of this delay would have resulted if Musk hadn't gone off half-cocked.
Including the actual one: it was real. You can't fake lunar gravity, and that shows clearly on the videos, especially the behavior of the dust kicked up by the Moon Buggy. Or the nearness of the horizon. And if you've ever been at a major launch, you would know something Real has happened.
You would rather believe liars who lie to you about the Moon, than honest people who tell the truth about the Moon. You are nowhere.