NASA's $1 Billion Mobile Launcher Leans a Little

www.popularmechanics.com ^ | Feb 21, 2018 | By Avery Thompson

[robroys woman]

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”.

[Hegemony Cricket]

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...

[rktman]

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.

[Flick Lives]

While NASA seems to believe this lean is not enough to require additional construction, it will likely mean that the Mobile Launcher won’t be used for more than one or two launches.

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$912 million dollars. Apparently use of the mysterious Ancient Egyptian technology called a “plumb-bob” has been lost.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

NASA's latest tower for launching rockets has a little bit of a lean

Thanks to the muslim outreach program at NASA, it probably points to Mecca.

[bmwcyle]

N ever A S traight A nswer. What do you expect?

[Red Badger]

We could turn it into a tourist attraction.....it is Florida, after all.................

[EQAndyBuzz]

“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...”

Now that’s funny.

[right way right]

The NASA launcher has Peyronies disease.

[polymuser]

10 million pounds. Built on a swamp. What could go wrong?

[Red Badger]

LOL!.........................

[PeterPrinciple]

“plumb-bob”

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The “plumb” in “plumb-bob” comes from the fact that such tools were originally made of lead (Latin: plumbum, French: plomb).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?

[PeterPrinciple]

A bob is the weight on the end of a pendulum found most commonly, but not exclusively, in pendulum clocks.

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and there is the answer

[\/\/ayne]

The Leaning Tower of Billion.

[SgtHooper]

Good gawd!! The government is the biggest parasite on the American people!

[Mr. K]

SpaceX could have built that in half the time for a quarter of the money

[Red Badger]

AND IT WOULD BE STRAIGHT.................

[Red Badger]

The Leaning Tower of NASA...................