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NASA's $1 Billion Mobile Launcher Leans a Little
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| Feb 21, 2018
| By Avery Thompson
Posted on 02/21/2018 10:03:25 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
I think things like Space X have made much of the function of NASA obsolete.
Private enterprise does pretty much everything better than the Government does. It’s best to leave the government to things that only have a government solution. Space exploration used to, but not any more. Time for them to bow out of the “small stuff”.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:06:12 AM PST
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: Red Badger
Couldn’t they just shim up one or two of the legs? There are probably some surplus copies of What Happened that they could shove under there...
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:07:14 AM PST
by
Hegemony Cricket
(< < Wandering aimfully > >)
To: Red Badger
At the rate they’re proceeding, the MLP may NEVER see a launch. Pretty sad. I worked the shuttle for 36 years and now we’re payin’ the rooskies. Sad dang day.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:10:10 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Red Badger
While NASA seems to believe this lean is not enough to require additional construction, it will likely mean that the Mobile Launcher wont be used for more than one or two launches.
$912 million dollars. Apparently use of the mysterious Ancient Egyptian technology called a “plumb-bob” has been lost.
To: Red Badger
I am sure that there will be a $1.5 billion program to straighten it up, just as soon as the appropriation can be spread out across the required number of congressional districts.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:12:10 AM PST
by
Eric Pode of Croydon
(I'm an unreconstructed Free Trader and I do not give a damn.)
To: Red Badger
NASA's latest tower for launching rockets has a little bit of a leanThanks to the muslim outreach program at NASA, it probably points to Mecca.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:12:58 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Perhaps we should care less about who we may offend and care more about who we may inspire.)
To: Red Badger
N ever A S traight A nswer. What do you expect?
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:15:28 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts; rktman
We could turn it into a tourist attraction.....it is Florida, after all.................
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:16:26 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
To: Hegemony Cricket
“Couldnt they just shim up one or two of the legs? There are probably some surplus copies of What Happened that they could shove under there...”
Now that’s funny.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:24:25 AM PST
by
EQAndyBuzz
(What is a Blue City? First world cities run by third world politicians.)
To: Red Badger
The NASA launcher has Peyronies disease.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:31:44 AM PST
by
right way right
(May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
To: Red Badger
10 million pounds. Built on a swamp. What could go wrong?
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:38:34 AM PST
by
polymuser
(Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
To: right way right
LOL!.........................
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:39:41 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: Flick Lives
plumb-bob
The “plumb” in “plumb-bob” comes from the fact that such tools were originally made of lead (Latin: plumbum, French: plomb). The adjective “plumb” developed by extension, as did the noun “aplomb,” from the notion of “standing upright.”
so where does the “bob” in “plumb-bob” come from?
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:40:11 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: PeterPrinciple
A bob is the weight on the end of a pendulum found most commonly, but not exclusively, in pendulum clocks.
and there is the answer
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:43:05 AM PST
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: Red Badger
The Leaning Tower of Billion.
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:53:11 AM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: Red Badger
Good gawd!! The government is the biggest parasite on the American people!
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:57:46 AM PST
by
SgtHooper
(If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
To: Red Badger
SpaceX could have built that in half the time for a quarter of the money
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:57:54 AM PST
by
Mr. K
(No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
To: Mr. K
AND IT WOULD BE STRAIGHT.................
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:58:44 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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To: \/\/ayne
The Leaning Tower of NASA...................
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posted on
02/21/2018 10:59:21 AM PST
by
Red Badger
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