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MarAzul said:
Moments later, my eleven year old grandson joined me moments later and asked; What the frig is that?

Took a few hours to answer that one.

https://www.space.com/39197-spacex-spectacular-rocket-launch-views.html
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cool stuff, Bud. I remember how exciting it was as a kid to follow our NASA program. The nation would park in front of TVs and tune in radios to follow along. Sad to thing that we now have to hitch hike rides to hang out on an antiquated Russian tin can...at least the free market can pick up the slack a bit now.
 
DaLincolnJones said:
cool stuff, Bud. I remember how exciting it was as a kid to follow our NASA program. The nation would park in front of TVs and tune in radios to follow along. Sad to thing that we now have to hitch hike rides to hang out on an antiquated Russian tin can...at least the free market can pick up the slack a bit now.
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Yeah, this was a free market shot I think. We no doubt will be better off this way.
 
Dang! Never realize I was a three pointer with Veterans protection, until I filled out the Spacex application. I wonder if that gives me enough privilege to overcome ancient?
 
I can't be the only one that sees a huge white penis in the sky... :dunno:
 
MarAzul said:
Ha!

I just happened to see an add where Spacex is looking for a Naval Architect.
Dang! Boat moorage is so high in LA, I put in an application for the job. Can't wait to see what they want built. Heading back to LA tomorrow.
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May have something to do with the next-gen spaceport drone ship. :dunno: Which would still be awesome
 
BrianFromWA said:
May have something to do with the next-gen spaceport drone ship. :dunno: Which would still be awesome
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After reading about their projects some more, I think they are looking to recover their stage one sections of the rocket engines used on lift off. It looks as if they use multiple units of the same Falcon Rocket to lift what ever. Like the Falcon heavy is the Falcon9 x 3.

I speculate from that, they need a sea going log truck to pick this stuff up down range. Meh!

But I will check it out, IF they get past the ancient!!!! I did not tell them just how old I am but... it has to be pretty clear with the experiance list from here back to the middle of the last century. :cool2:
 
BrianFromWA said:
May have something to do with the next-gen spaceport drone ship. :dunno: Which would still be awesome
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MarAzul said:
After reading about their projects some more, I think they are looking to recover their stage one sections of the rocket engines used on lift off. It looks as if they use multiple units of the same Falcon Rocket to lift what ever. Like the Falcon heavy is the Falcon9 x 3.

I speculate from that, they need a sea going log truck to pick this stuff up down range. Meh!

But I will check it out, IF they get past the ancient!!!! I did not tell them just how old I am but... it has to be pretty clear with the experiance list from here back to the middle of the last century. :cool2:
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BrianFromWA said:
May have something to do with the next-gen spaceport drone ship. :dunno: Which would still be awesome
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Actually, I would rather come design a modern day Destroyer for the US Navy. When I look at the inventory they have today,
they don't have one. They use the name but it is in name only. Displacement and draft would prohibit executing many Destroyer missions.
 
I thought about this job the night I was travelling back to LA.

One requirement they listed for the job was proficiency using AutoCad! AutoCad? I said to myself, why the hell do people think a Naval Architect uses this tool? I even ask the President of the Primary Naval Architect school why they do that once. It is a crappy tool for hull design here on earth where we have water and atmosphere to deal with.

I use what the Ausies developed. You can't do what it will do with AutoCad!
But then you don't need to worry about laminar flow dynamics in space so Autocad will do when designing a craft to operate within the appropriate Reynolds number.

I think these people probably do know what they are about, but they sure write a funny looking job description as a recruiting call.
 
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