The SpaceX News Thread

Discussion in 'Techforge' started by gturner, Dec 17, 2014.

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    yippee ki yay mother fuckers. nailed it.
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    Huh. Almost like Twitter was useful or something.
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    I don't mind tweets from information originators. The tweets from an unknown person with too little information to know if it's worth click through are annoying.

    Keep up the good work.
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    who the hell is shannon watts? I can't be arsed to check her, the tweet, or the thread.
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    If you don't know who she is, then don't ever give MAOHS shit about his avatar again. Seriously. If you're going to bitch about his avatar and not know who the mother of a child who died in one of the worst mass shootings of children in the US is, then you're no better than Dayton when it comes to issues you claim to care about. She founded Sandy Hook Promise.
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    thank you for that piece of context (which is sadly lacking in all tweets). Bravo!

    Keep up the good work.
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    You should have known that well before this. She's not exactly been a shirking violet since her kid was murdered. Which is something that anyone who was concerned about gun control would know. Unless, of course, they were superficial on the subject.
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    thank you for educating me (the tweet did not).

    Mods!!!!! Help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm being trolled in a gturner thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Thought it was going to blow up from the fire. Very pleased it didn't. Hopefully with SN16 the video feed won't cut out or be obscured by clouds, fog, and other starship parts on landing.
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    As excited as I am about SpaceX and their advancement of human spaceflight technology, things like this need to get reeled in.

    https://www.valleycentral.com/space...nauthorized-road-closures-security-personnel/
    https://thehill.com/changing-americ...s-official-threatens-spacex-with-arrests-over
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...-warns-spacex-amid-showdown-over-public-roads

    Long story short, apparently SpaceX closed some county roads without authorization and enforced the closure with unlicensed security guards that might have also been illegally presenting themselves as "official" LEOs.
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    goddamn randian industrialists.
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    A rocket a day keeps the high costs away.
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    Now there's a solid recipe for some random civilian to lose his shit on a rent-a-cop and get away with it. :bergman:
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    That's some rocket.

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    Musk, "Let's light this candle."
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    Let's build a rocket.

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    Test fire last night.
    Video at the link.
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