Regnad Kcin: Those NASA folks love their acronyms, don't they? IF the MEC's don't arm the NAB, the PIC won't charge and the SNAFU will FUBAR the GD MF-ing thing.

IMHO these acronyms are necessary so that the astronauts don't DIAF, prompting the ground crew to say OMG WTF. They're quicker to say, so they have more time to STFU and GBTW.

Uchiha_Cycliste: I don't know which is more despairing, your complete ignorance of fluid-dynamics, general science, or what the space program has done for us as a country.

*favorites Uchiha_Cycliste*

I saw Atlantis launch last year on the Hubble mission. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever witnessed. And I am planning another trip to Kennedy Space Center this year. Just walking around that place made me feel like I could do anything if I put my mind to it.

doubled99: Yeah, they can, unless they put you on the ignore list, too, since you re-posted.
"Sweets, You couldn't ignore me if you tried."

That's the fundamental flaw in the concept of an ignore list. I get by just fine with mine empty. There are people on fark, such as yourself, that I disagree with on certain things. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing.

nekom: doubled99: Yeah, they can, unless they put you on the ignore list, too, since you re-posted.
"Sweets, You couldn't ignore me if you tried."

That's the fundamental flaw in the concept of an ignore list. I get by just fine with mine empty. There are people on fark, such as yourself, that I disagree with on certain things. There is nothing wrong with disagreeing.

You're a better person than me. In the same way I avoid speaking with my father, I try to avoid conversations that will trigger rage.
I'm here to have fun, what's the point of dealing with people that will diminish that? Should I give anti-vaxxers, holocaust deniers, and nazis their share of time too, just because they have something ignorant to say?

microlith: It's almost like the people who biatch about us spending money on frivolous things while PEOPLE ARE STARVING!

Exactly.

There are a lot of hungry people in the world, and none of them are hungry because of NASA. None of them are colder, and certainly none of them are dumber.

Well, maybe some ...

Uchiha_Cycliste: Should I give anti-vaxxers, holocaust deniers, and nazis their share of time too, just because they have something ignorant to say?

But you'll miss your daily dose of crazy!

But arguing against the merits of the shuttle program or the space program is hardly crazy, it's a valid stance, just one with which I disagree.

Where the heck is something alcoholic to raise a toast
to Atlantis with...??

(rummages)

P.S.: Bob Park is a biased mutherfarker

nekom: Uchiha_Cycliste: Should I give anti-vaxxers, holocaust deniers, and nazis their share of time too, just because they have something ignorant to say?

But you'll miss your daily dose of crazy!

But arguing against the merits of the shuttle program or the space program is hardly crazy, it's a valid stance, just one with which I disagree.

There is a right and a wrong way to approach a meaningful debate.
My issue isn't with his stance as much as approach. I can certainly disagree with tats, or say, even drew on things. But the conversations that are struck up are meaningful and relatively respectful. If I were to hop into a thread about a new hybrid and start screaming at everyone in it that they are idiots and killing the planet because they should be cycling. I'd expect eh same treatment. This is a god damn Nasa launch thread. Spittle flicking cursing Nasa isn't appropriate or appreciated.

Fark really needs to improve its ignore functionality.

dstanley: Fark really needs to improve its ignore functionality.

fark needs recursive ignore so that ignore is recursive
so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive so that ignore is recursive ..

(stuffs a virus in Software2)

Go.

The Fark.

Away.

Uchiha_Cycliste: This is a god damn Nasa launch thread. Spittle flicking cursing Nasa isn't appropriate or appreciated.

It's also the third to last shuttle flight, a time when many look back at the shuttle program and evaluate it. What better time and place to discuss its merit?

I for one am disappointed in the space program, I think that realistically we could have a lunar station and a much more robust space station by now. But of course the political pressures that took us to the moon are long gone. We went to the moon before the pocket calculator. They brought slide rules along! Imagine what we could do by now if we would have wanted or needed to.

Even still, no matter how many questionable things my government does, nothing fills me with national pride greater than the shuttle program has. It's truly a thing of beauty that has inspired a generation of scientists. These are the intangible qualities that the program has brought. That's what I'll miss the most.

nekom: It's also the third to last shuttle flight, a time when many look back at the shuttle program and evaluate it. What better time and place to discuss its merit?

Again it's the approach not the message.

Ok: So, should we really be doing this?
Not OK: Let's crash that f*cking thing into the Gulf.

Strike up the conversation by all means, I don't think that anyone here would be upset be intelligent discourse. I'd get into it with you but I've been working for quite some time and lack the capacity for that sort of thinking right now. Another day =D It'll be fun!

IdBeCrazyIf I'd hoped someone would notice ^_^

IdBeCrazyIf 2010-05-14 12:32:52 PM

Sounds like he's just blowing up in front of everyone here

Uchiha_Cycliste: Not OK: Let's crash that f*cking thing into the Gulf.

Well, this IS Fark after all.

nekom: Uchiha_Cycliste: Not OK: Let's crash that f*cking thing into the Gulf.

Well, this IS Fark after all.

touche salesman, touche.

\It *SHOULD* have been done with a lolcat, then it'd have been ok.

Can we quit feeding derp99 the Freak Chow now??

He's getting too fat to stuff through that teeny little hatch.

Hope they brought a book to read.

mfsteve: Serious question: How are we supposed to get to the ISS after the shuttles retire?

T-minus 39 minutes and counting

there should be another scheduled hold in a bit

dstanley: mfsteve: Serious question: How are we supposed to get to the ISS after the shuttles retire?

dstanley, that is an awesome photo... but it makes me sad.

Astronauts day off in space (new window)

I always wondered about this.

Kittypie070: there should be another scheduled hold in a bit

If I'm not mistaken, the last scheduled hold is at T-9 and it's maybe 45 minutes or so.

If all goes according to plan on launch, and it lands perfectly, this will be the first time a shuttle makes its final launch and DOESN'T disintegrate.

Technically speaking since they don't have to worry about getting Atlantis back to Florida for another launch, they could land it anywhere and get away with it. My vote is for Dulles.

BZWingZero: It has to be refurbished and processed in case its needed for a rescue mission

Not if the last 2 flights are ISS missions.