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Fatwa Arbuckle: Misanthropologist

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! 😉

Seconding Mac’s good wishes for SpaceX; hope the launch is successful and that they stick the barge landing this time.

BBL.

Just Sven
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9 years ago

Good morning drive-by!

Hoping a jerrylicious day to GN--Mrs Sven is on the road again and I’m still mired in this hellcoldflu thing. Yuck.

Sven

Fatwa Arbuckle: Misanthropologist

Hai, Sven --

Safe journeys to Mrs. Sven; hope you get well soon.

Paddy O'Furnijur
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9 years ago

Good morning, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa and Sven!

Safe travels for Mrs. Sven and healing for Sven.

The re-entry for the SpaceX launch vehicle will be on a much more aggressive trajectory this time, making it even harder to successfully land on the barge.

Paddy O'Furnijur
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9 years ago

It looks like the SpaceX launch has been put off until tomorrow.

Fatwa Arbuckle: Misanthropologist

Thanks for the update, Paddy. IIRC, I read this morning that their chances of having a good launch window today were only 60%.

Fatwa Arbuckle: Misanthropologist
Reply to  Mac

My -- perhaps spotty -- understanding is that a reusable first stage, assuming a proven design for it which can be semi-mass-produced, would reduce the per-pound cost of payloads to low earth orbit by 90%.

I’d say that’s pretty significant. 😉

(Bonus -- Reducing the involvement of the once-heroic NASA and getting much wasteful gummint bureaucracy out of the way.)

Fatwa Arbuckle: Misanthropologist
Reply to  Mac

Look how the solid state computer changed computing and our world.

Yup.

Hell…I was just pondering that the Commodore 64 SX (about $2400.00 adjusted for inflation) had a display slightly smaller than the one on my phone. Which cost about 15% of the inflation-adjusted price of the Commodore. And has slightly better memory, functionality and portability.

Criminy…remember how much fun it was to backup files when you only had, say, 128K of RAM and one 5.25″ floppy drive?

Just Sven
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9 years ago

Hi GN!

Going to bed, still feeling tired. Mrs Sven landed OK and is happily pursuing whatever she had to go out of state to pursue.

Pleasant dreams, folks.