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by ericcumbee 3y ago
At this point it is probably going to be a human rated Dream chaser. they were the 1st looser in the original commercial crew contract. They seem to be on track for a test launch later this year for Commercial Resupply.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
That device specifically was cheap and readily available. If it failed you could have gone to any OfficeMax or Circuit City and picked up a replacement.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
It means that you would have to buy an external Remote ID module.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
and Vulcan is not human rated. and ULA has said they have no plans to Human Rate Vulcan. I feel like that is kind of the writing on the wall that Starliner won't fly beyond what they have Atlas boosters earmarked for.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
the problem is I don't think there is interest in privatizing the station. I think it was floated at one point, but Axiom and Blue Origin seem to be more interested in building their own stations. especially when the prospect of being
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
I think you could. the question is "is it it worth it?". the Station was built on the ground mostly in the 90s using 80s technology. I would think there are a lot of design decisions driven by 1980s technology that they are stuck
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
no one thats been following the test campaign for Super Heavy is surprised by the damage. the damage to the pad has been documented after the 3, 14, and 33 engine Static fires in the run up to launch. I believe they said SpaceX has been exp
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
Those are people that have worked hard to get to this point. I don't fault them for being excited and having some fun with it. Feel like they earned it.
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by ericcumbee 3y ago
they cover NASA contracted Dragon Launches. so the Crew Missions and the CRS missions.
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by ericcumbee 4y ago
I don't know what the exact test is, but if there is legitimate fundamental constitutionally protected free speech (Criticizing the government) the fact that its also commercial speech is irrelevant in my mind.
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by ericcumbee 4y ago
Honestly this sounds like the work of a guy by the name of Chris Sevier. He was a lawyer but was disbarred after being ruled mentally incompetent to practice law. He sued for the right to marry his laptop. He has been pushing a variety of b
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by ericcumbee 4y ago
I assume that the 36 million isn't just compensatory damages, but punitive damages, and possibly treble damages + legal fees.
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by ericcumbee 4y ago
if you own 1000 parking lots you already did that, if you pulled a permit to repave them you've done it again.
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
A clearly defined format probably prevents something like "Where is Task Force 34 the world wonders" from happening.
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
From my understanding each bomber has a playbook so to speak along with the code book. each Play is a different target package. Just like in US football the message from Command to the bombers isn't the verbatim target package but just
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
It's not rocket science starting a race car for the most part. you turn on the car's power system and then press the starter button.
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
The way around it is students "Went" to school 5 days a week. somedays they were on campus, and some days they were remote learning. I know of several schools in my immediate area that implemented such a system.
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
You have to do a good bit more to deal in Class III items than just your FFL.
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
Because you also get Methane as a by-product of natural gas production and that is the fuel for starship.
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
Remember when Steve Jobs said the way to build apps for the iphone would be mobile web apps and we hated that idea? good times.
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
economies of scale like the little Baefung (spelling) handheld that you can buy on amazon for 30 dollars and you can listen and talk on ham, GMRS, FRS and Marine bands to name a few?
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by ericcumbee 5y ago
NASCAR is the abbreviation of a name so technically all caps is correct.
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by ericcumbee 6y ago
Try playing solitaire on windows 10 with out a internet connection.
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by ericcumbee 6y ago
Columbia happened on a Saturday.
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by ericcumbee 6y ago
I keep remembering hearing Capcom keep saying "COLUMBIA HOUSTON,UHF COMM CHECK OVER" You could just tell every time he repeated that it just got harder and harder for him to say it with out cracking.
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by ericcumbee 6y ago
Wasnt it WEBCT and then one bought the other... Desire2Learn appears to be the big competitor now (the university i worked at was completing the migration from Blackboard to D2L when i started. and the Uni System of Georgia followed suit.
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by ericcumbee 6y ago
I live with in about 40 miles of Plant Vogtle and thats not really an accurate assessment. They have had to reshuffle some of the work due to COVID-19. but last I saw all of the major construction milestones on unit 3 are complete. its just
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by ericcumbee 6y ago
biomass is a lot more than just trees. and even then its byproducts of forestry product production like saw dust.
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by ericcumbee 7y ago
I've noticed its only "Historic" Launch Complex 39A, when SpaceX is doing something that could be considered "Historic", for every day SpaceX Launches they seem to revert back to it just being "Launch Complex 3
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by ericcumbee 7y ago
it's five dollars and filling out a web form. its not exactly onerous requirement.

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