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[Jeremiah12LGeek]

 

 

 

 

Damn. God needs to upgrade to a GTX 970.

[LPPrince]

So are we gonna talk about SpaceX CRS-7 Falcon 9's launch failure?

 

If you happen to have never seen a rocket fail in midair, here's a launch failure that happened just this morning. Be glad this was unmanned.

 

https://twitter.com/...230978869493760

 

Currently they believe the issue may have been over-pressurization 

[Fast Jimmy]

And she'll eat the Earth

Quit fat-shaming Sol.

[LPPrince]

Quit fat-shaming Sol.

 

[Fast Jimmy]

So are we gonna talk about SpaceX CRS-7 Falcon 9's launch failure?

If you happen to have never seen a rocket fail in midair, here's a launch failure that happened just this morning. Be glad this was unmanned.

https://twitter.com/...230978869493760

Currently they believe the issue may have been over-pressurization

This is amazing news.

That's probably weird for me to say. Do you know why I think it is amazing? Because I flipped through major TV news networks and found nothing about it. Yes, there were no human casualties, but still... it is a space rocket exploding and the world's reaction has not been horrified tragedy. This bodes good things for the expansion of space missions in the future. Because space travel (even its failures) are starting to become more pedestrian.

[ApocAlypsE007]

So are we gonna talk about SpaceX CRS-7 Falcon 9's launch failure?

 

If you happen to have never seen a rocket fail in midair, here's a launch failure that happened just this morning. Be glad this was unmanned.

 

https://twitter.com/...230978869493760

 

Currently they believe the issue may have been over-pressurization 

Launches to space will remain expensive for as long as rocket engine is the only viable way to get there. Large rocket engines require such a precise engineering because of the massive temperature and forces on the structure, so high rate of failure is imminent. Also, liquid fuel rockets are the most powerful, but are notoriously volatile and unreliable (Smaller solid fuel rocket engines used for missiles are much more reliable, but don't produce as much power. There exist hybrid engines, but they are mechanically complex).

 

NASA and Russian space programs also had their share of launch failures, some of them costing human lives (undocumented in the case of Russian space program).

[LPPrince]

This is amazing news.

That's probably weird for me to say. Do you know why I think it is amazing? Because I flipped through major TV news networks and found nothing about it. Yes, there were no human casualties, but still... it is a space rocket exploding and the world's reaction has not been horrified tragedy. This bodes good things for the expansion of space missions in the future. Because space travel (even its failures) are starting to become more pedestrian.

 

Launches to space will remain expensive for as long as rocket engine is the only viable way to get there. Large rocket engines require such a precise engineering because of the massive temperature and forces on the structure, so high rate of failure is imminent. Also, liquid fuel rockets are the most powerful, but are notoriously volatile and unreliable (Smaller solid fuel rocket engines used for missiles are much more reliable, but don't produce as much power. There exist hybrid engines, but they are mechanically complex).

 

NASA and Russian space programs also had their share of launch failures, some of them costing human lives (undocumented in the case of Russian space program).

 

Far as we know coming from Elon Musk's twitter we have the following,

 

"Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as we review the data."

 

"There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause."

 

"That's all we can say with confidence right now. Will have more to say following a thorough fault tree analysis."

 

https://twitter.com/elonmusk

[Fast Jimmy]

Far as we know coming from Elon Musk's twitter we have the following,

"Falcon 9 experienced a problem shortly before first stage shutdown. Will provide more info as we review the data."

"There was an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank. Data suggests counterintuitive cause."

"That's all we can say with confidence right now. Will have more to say following a thorough fault tree analysis."

https://twitter.com/elonmusk

Social media at its finest, honeslty. History being chronicled... rather than what outfit someone dresses their dog in.

BTW, thank you Prince for making this thread. I apologize for not checking in with it until today.

[LPPrince]

Social media at its finest, honeslty. History being chronicled... rather than what outfit someone dresses their dog in.

BTW, thank you Prince for making this thread. I apologize for not checking in with it until today.

 

S'all good. I figure y'all can keep this one up fine;my struggle is updating the Discover Andromeda thread with new information and media to teach a thing or two to Mass Effect fans.

[bEVEsthda]

Pretty much this....

 

But on the other hand I'd like to think and be hopeful that someone helped out people in the past with things like the pyramids and other things. The mathematics for them is just something that I find interesting and that they calculated those structures all by themselves I find amazing.

 

The Mayans knew all about the solar system and that there are other planets besides ours and that we orbit the sun. Where did they learn this?  I'd like to be hopeful and think someone maybe threw them a bone or two in the right direction.

 

I'm not sure what exactly you're thinking of, but most of these things are known. Ancient mathematics is not much of a mystery. Many texts have been preserved in various ways. There is only one mystery. That the Dogon people in Mali knew that Sirius is a double star. This is probably explained today. They simply adopted modern information, transferred from a french expedition at the end of the nineteenth century, into their own tradition. Many ancient cultures, Babylonian, Greek, Egyptian, Indian, Chinese spent a lot of time studying astronomy. I don't really know much about the Mayans, but if the Sumerians and Babylonians knew, why wouldn't the Mayans?

Heck, even the early Scandinavians knew a lot of astronomy. Enough to keep track of the days of the year, not a mean feat in those days.

 

As for the mathematics of the pyramids, you have to distinguish between the mathematics used to build the pyramids, and all the mathematical relations which can be found inside the form of the pyramids. The later is often something modern writers extract to make the pyramids more fantastic (as if that is necessary). But the question "how did they know that?" often need not be asked. They didn't. They just built the dam things  .

 

The foundation is 'flat' in a way that follows the earths curvature, because they used a shallow flooding of water to set the heights.

The angles are perfectly 90 degrees, because they used a rope with twelve equidistant marks, which can be held in a 3-4-5 triangle.

They used a sliding elevator counterweight to get the heaviest blocks high up. The remains of this system is still inside the pyramids.

Etc.

I don't think for a minute that extraterrestrials were needed.

 

...to build them...

 

But,  of course, the pyramids are landing platforms for giant, visiting space ships. It's self evident really. They're the only thing massive enough to take the weight, and the shape indexes the position exactly and safely, for a perfect load distribution.   Anybody should be able to see that. There's no other use for them. Pharaoh tomb? - Pfft, no body there.

[The Devlish Redhead]

So are we gonna talk about SpaceX CRS-7 Falcon 9's launch failure?

 

If you happen to have never seen a rocket fail in midair, here's a launch failure that happened just this morning. Be glad this was unmanned.

 

https://twitter.com/...230978869493760

 

Currently they believe the issue may have been over-pressurization 

 

 

 

That was unfortunate.

 

 

It looked good for a while. 

 

"massive unplanned disassembly" was one of the twitter comments..

 

I hope they can try again on the next supply mission. Wasn't this one taking some Microsoft gear into orbit to the ISS?

[LPPrince]

ISS needs an Xbox 360 or Xbox One

[The Devlish Redhead]

ISS needs an Xbox 360 or Xbox One

 

oh... That could actually be fun to do while weightless..

 

I thought it was the Microsoft hololens they were going to try.

[Fast Jimmy]

oh... That could actually be fun to do while weightless..

I thought it was the Microsoft hololens they were going to try.

Can you imagine using Kinect Fitness while you float around from weightlessness?

"Please step closer to the Kinect..."

"Please step away from the sens..."

"Please hold stil..."

"..."

"Please step closer to the Kinect."

[The Devlish Redhead]

I like this but it made me think of Farscape

 

 

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Minutes After Takeoff

 

https://en-maktoob.s...-155617646.html

 

It was the last nail to the coffin of Space exploration! lulz

[Fast Jimmy]

SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Minutes After Takeoff

https://en-maktoob.s...-155617646.html

It was the last nail to the coffin of Space exploration! lulz

You're crazy...

I like you... but you're crazy.

[BluRay]

Damn,that's the third failure in 7 months I guess...?

I feel sorry for Microsoft,their precious HoloLens got destroyed 

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Damn,that's the third failure in 7 months I guess...?

 

 

Yes. The amount of failure is too damn high! Shut down all space projects!

Give the space budget to me, so I can turn into a supervi..*cough* hero and protect earth!

[Fast Jimmy]

Meanwhile... at DARPA:

http://www.techtimes...-engineered.htm

[LPPrince]

Meanwhile... at DARPA:

http://www.techtimes...-engineered.htm

 

Didn't click this till now since nothing else in the post told me what this was about(SHAME *rings bell*)

 

Its gonna take a looong time if thats how they plan to turn Mars around into a more suitable place for humans. Especially given outside sources or lack thereof.

[Fast Jimmy]

Didn't click this till now since nothing else in the post told me what this was about(SHAME *rings bell*)

Its gonna take a looong time if thats how they plan to turn Mars around into a more suitable place for humans. Especially given outside sources or lack thereof.

Well, true. But might as well start now and then do makeshift work until the hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of years it takes to reach completion.

Ideally? We would have a strain of life that could seed a potential garden planet, Terraform it, spread life, then jettison more spores to further planets, creating a ever-spreading cycle of adaptive life.


Something like Lavos in Crono Trigger, minus the time traveling, magic powers and inevitable apocalypse.

[LPPrince]

Well, true. But might as well start now and then do makeshift work until the hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of years it takes to reach completion.

Ideally? We would have a strain of life that could seed a potential garden planet, Terraform it, spread life, then jettison more spores to further planets, creating a ever-spreading cycle of adaptive life.


Something like Lavos in Crono Trigger, minus the time traveling, magic powers and inevitable apocalypse.

 

That seems incredibly dangerous and potentially life threatening even with its initial purpose being to make life easier for us on other worlds.

 

I don't think we should do that at all. We do that and we lose the diversity of the universe. That and it could very much have unforeseen consequences.

[Fast Jimmy]

That seems incredibly dangerous and potentially life threatening even with its initial purpose being to make life easier for us on other worlds.

I don't think we should do that at all. We do that and we lose the diversity of the universe. That and it could very much have unforeseen consequences.

...like time-traveling, magic powers and inevitable apocalypses?

[LPPrince]

...like time-traveling, magic powers and inevitable apocalypses?

 

The latter, probably.