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Inebriated Astronauts - No Problem! NASA has outlived it's usefulness anyway
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EuGpfT308zY ^ | 7-28-07 | MrArbitrage123

Posted on 07/28/2007 9:31:06 AM PDT by MrArbitrage123

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EuGpfT308zY

I think NASA is becoming less relevant with every year anyway.


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KEYWORDS: astronauts; drunk; lohan; nasa
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

“...there is absolutely nothing for them to do until the shuttle is safely in orbit.”

Really, absolutely nothing? How would you know that?

For instance, when mission control directs the pilot to adjust the thrust down on the main engines to compensate for max Q, then to proceed with throttle up after passing through max Q, he’s actually using what, a trained monkey?


41 posted on 07/28/2007 12:50:04 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Now with added lemony freshness!)
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To: MrArbitrage123

I drink a bottle of airline wine if there’s too much turbulence.

I wouldn’t get on the shuttle without at least 5 martinis and a canister of nitrous oxide.


42 posted on 07/28/2007 12:52:37 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Now with added lemony freshness!)
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To: oh8eleven

Nasa hasnt done a damn thing to make our lives better, I would ask the same question on the CIA too.


43 posted on 07/28/2007 12:55:04 PM PDT by omega4179 (is it Global war against global Jihad yet?)
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To: RightWhale
Somebody must have tried those once or twice to see if they would work. If the cable brake failed you would be doing about 100 mph at the bottom. Not quite freefall terminal velocity.

That's why I said I couldn't imagine anyone actually using them. Besides that, the astronauts would have had to get out of the Apollo capsule and somehow get over to the cables with their suit on. However, the guys who worked there at the pad told me that the man that designed those escape cables did slid down them so it could be done.

44 posted on 07/28/2007 1:02:38 PM PDT by fewz (I prefer to get my fear from professional fear-mongers not government officials with a bellyache.)
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To: Spirochete

hey, they are pilots! They have to keep in practice, irrespective of spaceflight.


45 posted on 07/28/2007 1:18:24 PM PDT by expatpat
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To: MrArbitrage123

46 posted on 07/28/2007 1:20:04 PM PDT by RedWhiteBlue
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To: Hazwaste
For instance, when mission control directs the pilot to adjust the thrust down on the main engines to compensate for max Q, then to proceed with throttle up after passing through max Q, he’s actually using what, a trained monkey?

Well actually there two monkeys trained to do pre orbital maneuvering. One is the active and the other a back up. After they have dutifully served their purpose and the shuttle has reached "cruising altitude", the cargo bay door is opened and they are ejected into space.

47 posted on 07/28/2007 2:02:00 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: omega4179
Nasa hasnt done a damn thing to make our lives better, I would ask the same question on the CIA too.
I can't fault the CIA, we have no idea how many times they have saved us. But NASA is a bust in my opinion.
48 posted on 07/28/2007 2:21:38 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: oh8eleven

“Absolutely. Just what have they accomplished in the last 30 years of spending ~$15 billion a year?”

I agree. This money would be better spent on carbon offsets. Though I have read somewhere( I think NY Times) that scientists think that Zoya Grass will grow on any planet that we find that has water.

It is my understanding that if such a planet is found, if we send the grass there, scientists think it will only take about 2 generations for the grass to take over the planet and only a couple of hundred years for it to be habitable.


49 posted on 07/28/2007 2:31:15 PM PDT by thegreatmalcolmx (I came to love white people. At least that is what I was taught in my black history class.)
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To: thegreatmalcolmx
Surely you jest.

50 posted on 07/28/2007 2:52:24 PM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: RightWhale; fewz

Geronimo lines.....drilling rigs have them in place, too.


51 posted on 07/28/2007 2:53:59 PM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: MrArbitrage123
one of the two alleged (get that, “alleged,” as in “not proved”) incidents was a Russian launch, so there’s no telling if it was an American astronaut or a Russian.  And if I were launching from Kazakstan I'd keep a bottle of Vodka nearby, just in case! There is apparently no documentation of these alleged incidents, just some anonymous grousing from mid level medical techs who felt that they weren’t taken seriously enough.

Boo hoo.

Petty bureaucrats get bent out of shape when real living human beings actually go out into the arena and “strive to do the deed.” And they are shown to be small men (and women) of little consequence, so they revel in bringing down their betters for not being perfect.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”

Theodore Roosevelt 

Get over your jealousy.  They do.  You complain.  It sounds like a fair division of labor, assigned according to the talents of those involved.

52 posted on 07/28/2007 3:06:34 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Hazwaste
For instance, when mission control directs the pilot to adjust the thrust down on the main engines to compensate for max Q, then to proceed with throttle up after passing through max Q, he’s actually using what, a trained monkey?

On his program the other day, Rush implied that launch control radios the commands, but the computers on board are doing the work. Don't know if the pilot is just pushing a button or is just monitoring the board to make sure the craft is doing as it's instructed. But I'm with your way of thinking. If there's a pilot commander that's suposed to be actually doing those things, I take it for granted that he IS doing those things.

53 posted on 07/28/2007 3:34:25 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: fewz
Somebody must have tried those once or twice to see if they would work. If the cable brake failed you would be doing about 100 mph at the bottom. Not quite freefall terminal velocity.

That's why I said I couldn't imagine anyone actually using them. Besides that, the astronauts would have had to get out of the Apollo capsule and somehow get over to the cables with their suit on. However, the guys who worked there at the pad told me that the man that designed those escape cables did slid down them so it could be done.

I should think that the terminus would be elevated such that, with planning, you could account for the weight of a rider and the line and, with some slack, the rider would actually begin to climb a little as he reached the end of the slide. That should slow him down enough that he could simply let go and drop a few feet into a PLF (parachute landing/fall) when the he neared the end of the ride.

54 posted on 07/28/2007 3:41:37 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: MrArbitrage123
Skip the Moon, go for Mars
55 posted on 07/28/2007 4:47:59 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo (Skip the Moon, go for Mars)
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To: BradyLS
I should think that the terminus would be elevated such that, with planning, you could account for the weight of a rider and the line and, with some slack, the rider would actually begin to climb a little as he reached the end of the slide. That should slow him down enough that he could simply let go and drop a few feet into a PLF (parachute landing/fall) when the he neared the end of the ride.

You could be right. I didn't get to see what the ground end looked like and it was a long way from the top so I couldn't tell from up there.

56 posted on 07/28/2007 6:57:05 PM PDT by fewz (We need less immigration and more emigration. They say Canada is a nice place for socialist.)
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To: MrArbitrage123
A hit and run Newbie vanity...you're just so special, Sparky.

Jackass.

57 posted on 07/28/2007 7:27:16 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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