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  • jon-nycJ Online
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    jon-nyc
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    #33

    That’s cool

    Only non-witches get due process.

    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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      LuFins Dad
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      #34

      That room would pass no DEI standards today.

      The Brad

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      • LuFins DadL LuFins Dad

        That room would pass no DEI standards today.

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        @LuFins-Dad said in Dudes posting their Ws:

        That room would pass no DEI standards today.

        Which is, in part, why they figured it out and not NASA.

        Please love yourself.

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        • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

          @LuFins-Dad said in Dudes posting their Ws:

          That room would pass no DEI standards today.

          Which is, in part, why they figured it out and not NASA.

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          #36

          @Aqua-Letifer said in Dudes posting their Ws:

          Which is, in part, why they figured it out and not NASA.

          NASA's approach has been make it perfect the first time.

          SpaceX's approach is make it fast, cheap and learn from mistakes.

          "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

          The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            #37

            Last week I was able to visit Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

            If you ever go, you pay like $75 to get in (includes a bus from the visitor center to the Saturn V building), but for $25 you can upgrade the bus to a 1.5 hour "explore tour" of the property.

            LISTEN TO ME, PAYING THE EXTRA $25 IS THE BIGGEST NO BRAINER ON THE PLANET IF YOU EVER GO THERE.

            It was AMAZING, the tour guide on the bus was fantastic, lots of trivia, a few jokes, and amazing facts. The bus lets you out 3 times to take pictures, and you see so much. You get awfully close to the launch pads for the Apollo and Shuttle launches, and now Artemis, as well as a new Space X "tower and chopsticks". You get to see the Vehicle Assembly Building, the crawler, the actual places where the Apollo astronauts got ready, the countdown clock, the stands, the CBS building where Cronkite watched Apollo launches from, you drive the very same road the Apollo (and other) astronauts took back in 1969...

            Anyway...............what struck me, as I saw a SpaceX falcon rocket being refurbished after a launch, was how incredibly routine this has become. The day after we left, there were 2 SpaceX launches, where the rocket returned (one to a drone ship, one to the launch pad).

            I didn't get to see a launch unfortunately (I was hoping, but weather scrubbed one launch) but did get to hear/feel the rumble from one later that week from 10+ miles away. It was great.

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              89th
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              Can you tell I enjoyed the visit?

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                  The last time I was there was when my daughter went to Space Camp, maybe 20 years ago. It took me about 1 second to answer when she asked if she could go.

                  Fun place

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                    #41

                    Nice. I was there in April and right after we arrived there was a Falcon launch. Total surprise for me.

                    I did the bus tour in 2018 with the boy. Awesome indeed.

                    Only non-witches get due process.

                    • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                      blondie
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                      Great photos! I wish I’d visited there.

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                        #43

                        Easily in the Top 5 coolest fucking things my dad ever did:

                        He was down in Florida, walking around, viewing the Rocket Garden at Cape Canaveral. It wasn't too crowded, just some tourists, but he saw this one guy looking up at the Mercury rocket. Just by himself, staring at it.

                        He walked up behind him and said, "that was your ride, wasn't it."

                        Dude was Alan B.

                        Afterwards they got a photo together that my dad still has on his bookshelf.

                        Please love yourself.

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                          I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                          When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

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                          • Aqua LetiferA Aqua Letifer

                            Easily in the Top 5 coolest fucking things my dad ever did:

                            He was down in Florida, walking around, viewing the Rocket Garden at Cape Canaveral. It wasn't too crowded, just some tourists, but he saw this one guy looking up at the Mercury rocket. Just by himself, staring at it.

                            He walked up behind him and said, "that was your ride, wasn't it."

                            Dude was Alan B.

                            Afterwards they got a photo together that my dad still has on his bookshelf.

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                            @Aqua-Letifer said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                            Easily in the Top 5 coolest fucking things my dad ever did:

                            He was down in Florida, walking around, viewing the Rocket Garden at Cape Canaveral. It wasn't too crowded, just some tourists, but he saw this one guy looking up at the Mercury rocket. Just by himself, staring at it.

                            He walked up behind him and said, "that was your ride, wasn't it."

                            Dude was Alan B.

                            Afterwards they got a photo together that my dad still has on his bookshelf.

                            That is great.

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                              I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                              When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

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                              @Copper said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                              I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                              When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

                              Didja beat her?

                              Only non-witches get due process.

                              • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                @Copper said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                I had Alan B. Shepard Jr's autograph hanging on my wall.

                                When I moved out of my mother's house, my sister took my room and trashed the autograph.

                                Didja beat her?

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                                @jon-nyc said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                Didja beat her?

                                This was way before Trump, so at the time that was not allowed.

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                                  jon-nyc
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                                  #48

                                  Is she still alive? THere's no statute of limitations on trashing an Alan Shepard autograph.

                                  Only non-witches get due process.

                                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                                    taiwan_girl
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                                    @89th Great pics and background

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                                    • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                                      Is she still alive? THere's no statute of limitations on trashing an Alan Shepard autograph.

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                                      @jon-nyc said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                      Is she still alive?

                                      In New Zealand.

                                      Her son visited here last week, I guess I missed an opportunity.

                                      Kiwis seem to take vacations weeks and months at a time.

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                                      • taiwan_girlT taiwan_girl

                                        @89th Great pics and background

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                                        @taiwan_girl said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                        @89th Great pics and background

                                        Thanks, I've had a little vino tonight, but I'm trying to recall some of the interesting facts. First that Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), the first pic... the stripes of the American flag are 8 feet wide, you can drive the tour bus up each stripe. It's the biggest american flag on the planet, you can fit Yankee Stadium on top, plus room for parking, it's the biggest one-story building in the world... and so on.

                                        Here's a better video about how it works, great animation, too.

                                        Link to video

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                                        • 89th8 89th

                                          @taiwan_girl said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                          @89th Great pics and background

                                          Thanks, I've had a little vino tonight, but I'm trying to recall some of the interesting facts. First that Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB), the first pic... the stripes of the American flag are 8 feet wide, you can drive the tour bus up each stripe. It's the biggest american flag on the planet, you can fit Yankee Stadium on top, plus room for parking, it's the biggest one-story building in the world... and so on.

                                          Here's a better video about how it works, great animation, too.

                                          Link to video

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                                          @89th said in Dudes posting their Ws:

                                          you can drive the tour bus up each stripe. It's the biggest american flag on the planet, you can fit Yankee Stadium on top, plus room for parking, it's the biggest one-story building in the world

                                          Wow!!!!

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