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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Mar 3, 2015 12:08:31 GMT 1
Also, usually when it comes to catfights I would go something like "YEAH" and the usual wolf whistle, but no. No. Really, no. Here in this forum, it's a different story. It doesn't feel right here.
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Post by jklinders on Mar 7, 2015 14:20:17 GMT 1
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Post by jklinders on Mar 18, 2015 21:36:39 GMT 1
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Mar 18, 2015 23:57:09 GMT 1
I've always suspected the Mars One crowd were full of shit. Of course it does piss me off in that those fuckers give the rest of the spaceflight community a bad name. Reasons why I suspected Mars One was full of shit? 1) Shrugging off that takes six months to get to Mars in the first place with current man-rated rocket tech 2) Ignoring that Mars isn't like Earth in that while Columbus took a gamble on his voyage, he was going someplace where he could fairly easily find needed resources. We don't know the first thing about in situ resource utilization (ISRU) which is rocket scientist-speak for taking materials from an environment and converting them into a usable form. 3) Assuming the trip is for colonization, our lack of ISRU capability in space basically means the ship has to carry enough resources to sustain a large group of people until regular cargo flights are made This is fundamentally impossible. 4) Ignoring or outright attacking people like me who think we should return to the moon first and apply the experience gained for future missions to Mars. Bottom line: if they actually built and launched that ship, the entire crew is basically toast: high amounts of radiation, lack of resources that can be readily used and no way of coming back if something goes wrong. Even the most optimistic engineers that have their shit straight say a manned Mars mission is going to be at least 2 years duration, including transit time. That's a long fucking time to be out in space and we have no idea how we'll react or adapt to Mars' gravity which is 1/3 that of Earth. ETA: Holy fuckballs... after reading the article more closely, it's clear Mars One is either a total fucking scam or run by idiots. Linders, I'm stealing one of your gifs to describe how I feel about idiots like Mars One and the damage they do to public perception of spaceflight.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Mar 19, 2015 0:08:00 GMT 1
One thing of note: despite being fictional, Mass Effect does a good job at coming up with a plausible timeline of events prior to the game's events. 2069 - First permanent station on Luna. 2103 - We finally start a settlement on Mars. This is plausible in that it gels with the way things are going in the spaceflight industry right now. The real kick in the nuts, though, is that if we'd have kept the Apollo Program alive, learned more from it, and kept the NERVA program alive, we'd have had a moon base by roughly 1981 and a Apollo 11-style visit to Mars by 1978.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Mar 19, 2015 0:18:52 GMT 1
So basically, our Science Victory is a long way off?
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Mar 19, 2015 1:20:00 GMT 1
Pretty much. Average Joe Six-Pack gives less than a shit about spaceflight, despite that practically everything in the Western world relies on space. ATMs, internet, radio, televison, etc are all the way they are now because of the satellites in orbit right now.
Hey now, there's a thought: get popular backing for spaceflight by killing everyone's TV feeds so they can't watch the Kardashians or their internet so they can't watch youtube or use facebook. Of course only a massive asshole would actually do something like that.
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Post by jklinders on Mar 20, 2015 10:26:33 GMT 1
And let the he said/ she saids begin. www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/140170-Mars-One-Finalist-Claims-The-Operation-Isnt-a-Scam This kid is countering the first guy's arguments point for point. Except Mars One has no tech, no facilities or even a decent screening program to show us. I still think if they blast off in only 10 years at the preparation level I am seeing there will be a capsule full of corpses arriving in orbit at Mars. This is not something whose funding should hinge on a goddam reality TV show. It smells wrong.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Mar 20, 2015 14:41:33 GMT 1
Was going to drop this in random quotes before slinking off to bed to pass out, but since it involves stupidity as related by a surgeon I know... "We have a saying in our department that most patients get admitted the Burn Unit after hanging out with one of 2 brothers: Tom Foolery or Jack Assery. For example, Tom Foolery is burning your garbage. Jack Assery is using gasoline as an accelerant. Until I see some independent safety testing, this thing has a lot of potential for beta testers to meet Jack Assery." Here's what prompted his comment: xm42.com/
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Post by jklinders on Mar 20, 2015 22:20:12 GMT 1
*facepalm*
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Apr 23, 2015 21:58:59 GMT 1
This. Five year old girl told to cover upI am truly appalled. This whole stupid "dress code" that seems to only affect girls has been pissing me off for a while, and now they've crossed a line. This needs to stop.
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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Apr 23, 2015 23:42:45 GMT 1
And to think I've got two songs that are apropos in my attitude towards this nanny bullshit.
Between this and kids pointing their fingers at each other or biting their pop-tarts into a vaguely weapon-like shape being arrested, I'm really feeling the rage here.
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Post by jklinders on Apr 24, 2015 11:48:32 GMT 1
Gotta start that body shaming young. Can't train these girls to hate themselves and pop diet pills like chewing gum if you don't start them on hating their bodies as young as possible.
When I was a kid, the dress codes were clear, concise and applied equally to both sexes. I have no idea how but we have somehow managed to backwards on this one. Pretty soon it will be burkas for the girls and the boys will still be able to dress like hoods with their pants halfway down their fucking legs.
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Post by jklinders on May 5, 2015 10:31:40 GMT 1
When i first caught wind of this, I could not find much corroboration for it. Joss Whedon has closed his twitter account down. He gave a public reason for it having to do with not wanting to put much time into it but it seems like it may have been more of a hate filled backlash over his portrayal of Black Widow. The tumbler crowd really reminds me of the story, "The Scorpion and the Turtle." Joss has been a stalwart and public feminist for longer than most of these fuckwits have drawn breath but they turned on him immediately and viciously for the apparent reason that they interpreted Natasha Romanov's comment about her being a monster and sterile in the same conversation as her thinking she was a monster because he was sterile. Not the many people she killed while an evil assassin. Not her upbringing which was specifically designed to turn her into a murderer (all brought up in the same convo) but because she was made sterile. that link is a listing of tumbler twat twit posts directed at him since the movie came out. These people need to get a fucking life. they keep doing this to their friends they will find themselves alone in their echo chambers and loved by no one.
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Post by Cali on May 5, 2015 21:24:59 GMT 1
Q. What the hell is up with so many people on tumblr?
A. Puberty.
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