.:`=-~rANdOm~`-=:. Game Servers
.:`=-~rANdOm~`-=:. Game Servers (Read Only) => Discussion => Topic started by: Supertoaster on February 24, 2011, 01:02:51 PM
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Watch it! http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html)
Discovery was my favorite :-[
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Watch it faggots! http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html (http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html)
Discovery was my favorite :-[
No
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No
thought it wouldnt be as offensive coming from a faggot like me but whatever
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Yeah, why wouldn't we be intelligant for one?
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heres a semi intelligent thought- why would you call yourself that
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heres a semi intelligent thought- why would you call yourself that
because i'm gay of course, lol, i like to make fun of myself
okay lets not get off topic here
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because i'm gay of course, lol, i like to make fun of myself
okay lets not get off topic here
ok, last derail here.
Tell me, why would you want to call yourself a word that is meant to dehumanize you?
a word that was created so that people would feel less bad about calling you gay
because people know its wrong yet do it anyway?
why would you bring that on yourself? seriously though, i mean that. why?
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Congrats to the shuttle for not blowing up on launch or burning up on re-entry.
Discovery was my favorite :-[
Besides, would you like to go into mid-Earth orbit in a 26 year old piece of equipment that was never designed with safety as top priority. (economic efficiency was top)
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Congrats to the shuttle for not blowing up on launch or burning up on re-entry.
Besides, would you like to go into mid-Earth orbit in a 26 year old piece of equipment that was never designed with safety as top priority. (economic efficiency was top)
absolutely :omgwtfddosd:
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Congrats to the shuttle for not blowing up on launch or burning up on re-entry.
Besides, would you like to go into mid-Earth orbit in a 26 year old piece of equipment that was never designed with safety as top priority. (economic efficiency was top)
That statement is so far from the truth I can't even see it anymore.
The original idea behind it was, a safe, economical, reusable spacecraft.
It mostly failed on all counts.
However, if you know anything about NASA, safety IS the top priority.
Their pursuit for absolute safety is the reason they failed on the whole economical and reusable issue.
Since they had to basically rebuilt the shuttle from scratch each time it landed it was only somewhat reusable.
Because of it not being able to meet safety requirements for relaunch after it flies, they have to spend on the order of 4 times the amount they initially projected to.
NASA mandates every critical system have three point failure or above. Meaning every system required for the thing to fly, and for people to survive, has to be able to survive three different catastrophic failures, before it's in danger of failing outright.
The guidance computer for example. It consists of three computers, simultaneously computing the same data, they then compare the data they each calculated and if one of them is erroneous they take the majority as true, if these three computers all fail, there is even a fourth computer with the sole task of backing up the main guidance system encase of failure.
The program used on the guidance systems is widely known as the most perfect computer program ever made.
Aka if Gmod was programmed as well as the shuttle guidance computer, the game would never crash, your contraptions would never blackhole, and it would be imposable to cheat under any circumstance, barring the computer hardware failing.
Granted part of the reason the shuttle program is so well made, is it's operating parameters are very well defined, and it has a relatively simple task to perform.
In addition to this, as far as space hardware goes, 26 year old hardware is nothing. Just about all spaceflight runs off of the idea of proven safe hardware. So most times they will use legacy hardware because they know it will work. Even if its more expensive/heavy/ etc.
There is a good reason for this too. Your average space launch costs around 2 Billion+, if you are spending that much money on something, you spare no expense in ensuring it works. You don't want to run the risk of using new equipment, if it might possibly cost you the whole launch.
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There Xrain goes making me feel stupid again. :(
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Xrain is very intelligant.
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Granted part of the reason the shuttle program is so well made, is it's operating perimeters parameters are very well defined, and it has a relatively simple task to perform.
Holy fuck, did Xrain make a mistake?
... I don't know what to think of this world anymore.
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Xrain is very intelligant.
Yes, very intelligant.
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Sparans are the best. As shown in the movie 300.
I am good english. ;D
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Yes, very intelligant.
Read op.
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Read op.
I know.
Was making fun of the spelling mistake.
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"intelligant"
Son, I am dissapoint.
No one is gonna take this seriously now. lol.
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So much for an on topic intelligent discussion.
On that matter, have they got the retirement dates for the other shuttles?
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Today, Thursday 23, 2011, at 4:53:24- three seconds before the end of the day’s launching window- the final Discovery Space Shuttle took off, for the 39th time; setting off for the International Space Station to deliver supplies, equipment and a final American storage module. This takeoff being the last for the shuttle, many large crowds of tourists and viewers stood by to watch the takeoff from a distance. “The countdown proceeded smoothly into its final hour, but trouble with an Air Force tracking system computer threw the outcome into doubt. With the countdown holding at the five-minute mark, the Air Force reported a successful repair.”
This mind blowing event had most likely, a large impact on the world. Other countries outside of the U.S. probably view the successful takeoff as an U.S.A. achievement. The larger impact is on the United States, I can honestly say. The Americans must see this as a large accomplishment, that is if we here of the landing confirmation.
As an American myself, I see the successful takeoff as a great achievement, and I hope others do so too. I hope everyone aboard, including the commander, Steven W. Lindsey; Col. Eric A. Boe of the Air Force, the pilot; Capt. Benjamin Alvin Drew Jr. of the Air Force; and Nicole P. Stott, the flight engineer, Michael R. Barratt, a physician and astronaut, and Capt. Stephen G. Bowen of the Navy- are all okay. Seeing as though the shuttle is taking it’s last trip (its 39th), the joy of its return should be even more rewarding.
The shuttle is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station around 2:15 p.m. Saturday. “The new storage module will be attached to the station on Tuesday. The flight plan calls for Discovery to undock from the station on March 5 and land at the Kennedy Space Center on March 7.”
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/derail
deacon your avatar is disturbing.
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Holy fuck, did Xrain make a mistake?
... I don't know what to think of this world anymore.
Hey I'm an engineer, not an English major. ;)
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Hey I'm an engineer, not an English major. ;)
In Soviet Russia... nvm
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Hey I'm an engineer, not an English major. ;)
He solves practical problems.
Not problems like, "What is beauty?", because that would fall within the purviews of your conundrums of philosophy.
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Fuck you, Obama.
cancelling constellation program.
Now we're gonna have to ride in those grimy Russian Soyuz rockets.
Thanks.
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Hey I'm an engineer, not an English major. ;)
fuck yes engineer
also carp, yes. it is. watch boondock saints.
again
and again
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I'm going to miss the Space Shuttles... now we're gonna go back to Rawkits :[
I always wanted to fly a Space Shuttle... Oh well.
At least I was alive to see them before they became technological Dinosaurs of the Information Age.
Hey, maybe the rawkits of way way when will be NUCLEAR POWERED
!FUCK YEAH! [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29 (http://[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propulsion%29)