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Repeal the 19th Amendment
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: RGV TX (via KC & ATX)
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NFL's #1 Ermines Fan
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
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Of course not. Enabling exploration is not exploration. Queen Isabella was not an explorer. The merchants who sold supplies to Jim Bridger were not explorers. Explorers are the tip of the spear. They're the ones who see new places with their own eyes and bring back stories of Bigfoot and giants, and no one can question them because no one else has been there. The ISS workers are just workers whose jobs require them to be in an unusual workplace. |
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#5493 | |
Kind of a mod
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Donkey Land
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#5494 |
Repeal the 19th Amendment
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: RGV TX (via KC & ATX)
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It is telling how your argument is changing along the way. First, singling out the entire private sector space industry, without any consideration for the fact there is virtually NO public sector space industry to speak of in the United States. You were basically saying, "SpaceX (short for SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES INC.) doesn't explore space." Now you are trying to drag Queen Isabella into it. It was over the moment you committed to the Submit Reply button on your original post:
Also, "I feel like..." should never be uttered by a man. It is best reserved for some dumb broad, just before she says the dumbest shit ever. |
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#5495 | |
NFL's #1 Ermines Fan
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
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The 12 guys who landed on the moon are all clearly explorers. I could potentially call the first people who identified explanets explorers, though obviously their physical risk is low. I could call the first space walkers explorers. If I really stretched it, maybe I could think of a few other space things like the people who spend a year in space to see what it's like, though that's coming pretty close to being a worker. Exploration is becoming less common as we learn more about the world, but it can still occur. A person doing experiments with spider webs and low-gravity manufacturing isn't an explorer. They're an innovation worker at best. |
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#5496 |
The Seated Villain
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Seattle
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I loved the white-hot flap actuating. Incredible.
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#5497 |
Repeal the 19th Amendment
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#5498 |
"Think BOOM!"
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: 33.675° N 106.475° W
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#5499 |
Repeal the 19th Amendment
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: RGV TX (via KC & ATX)
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Starship IFT4 afterparty…but NDA obligated ahhhhhhh!
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#5500 |
Kind of a mod
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: A Hypnagogic Landscape
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#5502 |
Repeal the 19th Amendment
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#5505 |
Kind of a mod
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Donkey Land
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Pretty good debrief with Elon. Key things that stood out to me: the booster landing was "precise" while Starship was about 6km off target. He thinks there's a chance they'll try to catch it for IFT-5.
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#5506 |
Repeal the 19th Amendment
Join Date: Nov 2018
Location: RGV TX (via KC & ATX)
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Met a SpaceX employee from Kansas City. Pitched on the Blue Valley Northwest HS baseball team. Big Chiefs and Royals fan.
Most of the employees are likely sports agnostic. But they do have enough Chiefs fans throughout the company for a ChiefsX group chat on Microsoft Teams. There is a company plane that flies free and direct between Brownsville and Los Angeles (which is a godsend: the Valley sucks for flights). Gives the Mrs. and me little excuse to miss the Chiefs-Chargers game this year at SoFi. |
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