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.
“...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?
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.
Nasa hasnt done a damn thing to make our lives better, I would ask the same question on the CIA too.
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.
hey, they are pilots! They have to keep in practice, irrespective of spaceflight.
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.
“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.
Geronimo lines.....drilling rigs have them in place, too.
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.
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.
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.
Jackass.
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