I just watched a rocket explode on NASA TV

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Twat Nosferatu: Aug 14, 2008

Fojar38 posted:

imo this is a sign from god that our reach is exceeding our grasp

cancel all space launches

And sacrifice more chickens.

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Huxley: Oct 10, 2012; Grimey Drawer

Plafop posted:

Again, unironically, we should stop spending for any foreign aid, military or otherwise except for a select few trusted allies.

You know how people say we can't go to war with China because we are so economically dependent on them?

We give money to non-"few trusted allies" for basically the same reason. It's a hell of a lot cheaper to give some dumbfuck country a shitload of corn and antibiotics and let them slowly come to depend on us than it is to blow them up to make them do what we want.

There are lots of types of leverage; the military isn't even the only one that lets us kill poor people to punish their leadership.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 14:51

Not Nipsy Russell: Oct 6, 2004; Failure is always an option.

Antares? Should have called it Antaeus.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 15:35

Feindfeuer: Jun 20, 2013; shoot men, receive credits

So does the US have any heavy lift vehicles in service at the moment that use a western rocket engine for the primary stage? Cause it seems that even the Atlas V is using imported russian rocket engines for its primary, even though a much more modern design.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 15:42

Alas Boobylon: Sep 30, 2014

Moridin920 posted:

and tech development; GPS, material sciences, computer sciences, etc.

but you know whatever

lol if you think all that tech wouldn't have inevitably gotten developed earthbound for like 1/1000th of the cost

# ? Oct 29, 2014 15:43

mikemil828: May 15, 2008; A man who has said too much

Feindfeuer posted:

So does the US have any heavy lift vehicles in service at the moment that use a western rocket engine for the primary stage? Cause it seems that even the Atlas V is using imported russian rocket engines for its primary, even though a much more modern design.

The Delta IVs uses good ol American engines.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 15:57

Feindfeuer: Jun 20, 2013; shoot men, receive credits

mikemil828 posted:

The Delta IVs uses good ol American engines.

That's nice to hear.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 16:08

Leperflesh: May 17, 2007

SpaceX is also developing heavy lift, based on the Falcon series of engines.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 18:11

ziasquinn: Jan 1, 2006; Fallen Rib

loving CHRIST Obama give NASA 3% of the budget and let the military just die already.

Idk why we loving even need to have a defense budget greater than the next 30 nations combined. Just make it 100 billion more than #2 and they'll never catch up. Then the rest in social and education. And a gently caress ton into NASA

Like it won't build jobs or something.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 18:48

ziasquinn: Jan 1, 2006; Fallen Rib

Throwing money at anything will fix it too bad no one wants to. Cancer would be hosed if we dropped 2 billion into it.

Spread too thin. Haven't any of these politicians played RTS games?! Gotta focus down one thing at a time. Jesus

# ? Oct 29, 2014 18:49

Lawman 0: Aug 17, 2010

Your Dead Gay Son posted:

Throwing money at anything will fix it too bad no one wants to. Cancer would be hosed if we dropped 2 billion into it.

Spread too thin. Haven't any of these politicians played RTS games?! Gotta focus down one thing at a time. Jesus

Lol if you think many politicians actually engage in strategic thinking.
Most of them would start entering cheat codes as soon as things got hard.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 18:53

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# ? Oct 29, 2014 22:39

Alas Boobylon: Sep 30, 2014

1% bump after hours btd

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BgRdMchne: Oct 31, 2011

Alas Boobylon posted:

1% bump after hours btd

Short sellers taking their profits.

# ? Oct 29, 2014 22:49

etalian: Mar 20, 2006

zimboe posted:

from the Wikipedia NK-33 article-italics mine:
The engines are high-pressure, regeneratively cooled staged combustion cycle bipropellant rocket engines, and use oxygen-rich preburners to drive the turbopumps. The turbopumps require subcooled liquid oxygen (LOX) to cool the bearings. These kinds of burners are highly unusual, since their hot, oxygen-rich exhaust tends to attack metal, causing burn-through failures. The United States had not much investigated oxygen-rich combustion technologies until the Integrated Powerhead Demonstrator project in the early 2000s.[2] The Soviets, however, perfected the metallurgy behind this method( possibly not). The nozzle was constructed from corrugated metal, brazed to an outer and inner lining, giving a simple, light, but strong structure. In addition, since the NK-33 uses subcooled LOX and kerosene, which have similar densities, a single rotating shaft could be used for both turbopumps.[3]

Listen carefully: on the video you can hear the engine stutter once.

"The NK-33s are imported from Russia to the United States and modified into Aerojet AJ26s, which involves removing some electrical harnessing, adding U.S. electronics, qualifying it for U.S. propellants, and modifying the steering system."

This is like 50 year old iron, man, what could possibly go wrong?

Yeah basically Orbital didn't have much experience in liquid fuel rockets so most of the work and actual hardware was outsourced to Ukraine.

The actual engines themselves were also sitting in a russian warehouse since the 60s/70s before getting rebuilt by Aerojet.

quote:

Aerojet has agreed to recondition sufficient NK-33s to serve Orbital's 16-flight NASA Commercial Resupply Services contract. Beyond that, it has a stockpile of 23 1960s and 1970s era engine

etalian fucked around with this message at 03:16 on Oct 30, 2014

# ? Oct 29, 2014 22:53

suck my woke dick: Oct 10, 2012; I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

TEAYCHES posted:

are you trying to say that every right-wing or libertarian analysis of government brands one as a "complete loving moron"?

at the loving commies in this thread. Look at all the successful countries where people are stateless and happy about it :911:

# ? Oct 30, 2014 08:30

Robo Reagan: Feb 12, 2012; by Fluffdaddy

Zeike posted:

owned, is America the best now?

hehehe

it was a soviet engine that's over 40 years old and was in a plastic bag when we bought it, so yes still the best :911:

# ? Oct 30, 2014 08:32

Blazing Ownager: Jun 2, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Moridin920 posted:

shut the gently caress up dildo fucker we don't even spend more than half a percent of our budget on the whole of NASA because of people like you

what about that jet that we are spending 1.5 TRILLION on that can't even fly for more than a few hours without the engine exploding is that stealth boondoggle relevant?

dildo fucker

gently caress everything about our military spending right now. Overpaying for poo poo that doesn't work, for wars we're not fighting. It's ludicrous.

# ? Oct 30, 2014 08:36

Alas Boobylon: Sep 30, 2014

ORB up 3% before the bell dip buyers going hog wild!!!

# ? Oct 30, 2014 14:18

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ziasquinn: Jan 1, 2006; Fallen Rib

Lawman 0 posted:

Lol if you think many politicians actually engage in strategic thinking.
Most of them would start entering cheat codes as soon as things got hard.

Lol

$rosebud

# ? Oct 30, 2014 14:45

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