OT: Artemis Launch

[e5fdny]

Doing a quick re-verify and it's now believe it was going so fast it vaporized when it tried to go through the atmo on its way to space.

So it could have but the atmo got in the way. LOL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob

Still a “whoa” event to me.🙂

 

[RU4Real]

By the way. That was like $5B of your tax dollars being 98% thrown away. Sigh. Just let SpaceX do it. They're maybe a year from fully reusable and maybe as soon as next month.

I'm gonna take a pause on letting a guy who doesn't understand web dev actually send important stuff into space.

 

[m1ipabrams]

Not to mention all the other planets have nothing to do and the weather sucks.

I suspect that they would think our weather sucks and their planet has so much better weather due to the liquid nitrogen oceans. To stay with the theme of this thread, its all relative.

 

[RUScrew85]

Still a “whoa” event to me.🙂

Yeah like a reverse direction meteor. Yikes.

 

[DennisHajekRC84]

I guess I wasn't clear. When I said empty space, I meant E M P T Y. Nothing there but you and empty. No starts, gravity, atoms, radiation. Nothing.

The point is that if you have no frame of reference are you really spinning? It's a corollary to the constant velocity question. As much as you expect that you'd experience centripetal force, that presupposes you can spin in a universe with no frame of reference. The question is, can you if you are spinning there are you really spinning? Can you spin?

That was my question for 1984 and being stoned.

yeah but you left out the most important part. How are you supposed to light the joint in outer space?

 

[Shelby65]

Here's an interesting semi-factoid. It's widely believed the first thing to leave Earth's gravitational field was a metal cover on a borehole that "contained" an early underground nuclear test. The containment/lid failed and isbelieved to have been shot off the damn planet. LOL

First after what point during earth’s formation ?

 

[REDRICH65]

So glad NASA is finally going back to the moon. Lived through the excitement of the 60’s & 70’s. in space exploration. Every launch was must see TV. Hope I have a few more years in my tank