I'm not going to download the app, but just went to Twitter. Com for the first time. I don't get it. It is like a crunchie version of Facebook. Hard pass.
Yup on everything above. You look at the Saturn V, and it looked bad-ass--a perfect white with NASA logos and the American flag all over it. Artemis looks like--and, well, really is--a bunch of shit slapped together, like a Cuban's '57 Pontiac with different color body panels and Bondo.smellody wrote: ↑November 18th 2022, 5:14pmI really don't like Tesla. Don't understand Twitter. Don't like spaceX.
I'm fine with real cars that drink Dino juice. Facebook sans the ads is better than talking to people. NASA should be in charge again.
I also think that muskee guy looks weird. Like a hamster that had his lips and cheeks done.
I'm going to stick with real cars, avoid twitters, and wait until the aliens are officially unveiled for space travel since we are apparently unable to step up.
Interestingly (or not), my father played a very small part in the space program. During the Surveyor Program, my pa worked at the University of Chicago, where they assembled a few of the test packages sent to the moon. He had to fly a lot in those days, when very few middle-class people actually flew anywhere. Because of this, he was present in important moments. one of which was during a press conference with NASA bigs during a strike with one of the major contractors during Apollo.Hawk wrote: ↑November 18th 2022, 11:17pmI’m not much concerned with the aesthetics of spacecraft except I think Bezos could have done better than making what looks like the world’s largest dildo.
@Smells: I’m guessing you’re just too young to remember but NASA didn’t build the Saturn 5. Main contractors included Boeing, North American, Douglas and IBM. The last makes more sense if you remember what 1969 computers looked like. Trivia: Chrysler had a large part of the Saturn 1’s booster and Coors was a big part of the Flying Crowbar which fortunately never made it off the ground.
IOW, as far as rockets go, not much has changed - NASA acts as a sort of project manager / prime contractor.
One other factoid lost to the mists of time is that the Saturn 5 got its spiffy white paint job in large part due to the conceit of Werner Von Braun. He’s dead so we’ve probably seen the last of fashion forward launch systems.
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