BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20

Subject: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 25 May 20 - 10:54 PM

I don't think SpaceX has the track record yet to be transporting humans. Some of y'all know more, though, about what is actually involved, so, y'all, whaddaya think?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 May 20 - 12:05 AM

I think I don't want to jinx them. :-/

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 May 20 - 12:55 AM

I think that Elon Musk and Donald Trump have too much in common.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mr Red
Date: 26 May 20 - 03:37 AM

I don't think SpaceX has the track record yet to be transporting humans

Well Elon says he has more successful launches that the US based competition, & points to the level of insurance he pays on each launch, and reckons it is much less.

There are compounding factors like the value of the payload, and his charges for each launch which he brags are half the price. But, who, other than Roscosmos have any current track record on transporting humans to the ISS?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 26 May 20 - 10:59 AM

Weather may delay the launch anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 26 May 20 - 11:09 AM

Hasn't trump already suggested top USA science corporations
should quickly build matter teleportation machines,
like transporters in Star Trek...???

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 20 - 08:49 AM

There will be a 10am (Mudcat time) meeting about the weather.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 May 20 - 01:43 PM

If we get clear skies, the ISS will be visible in the UK at around 21:20, followed by Space-X at 21:50 tonight. Look west, just to the right of the moon, they will be travelling to overhead.

Info. from Tim Peake’s FaceBook Page.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 02:24 PM

Mucinex is going into orbit as a precaution in this immunocomplex mission by SpaceX complete with socal distancing.
Tornado warnings were mentioned and the announcer is more suited for a sporting event or dog show. Tensions are rising, the countdown has begun and THEY HAVE cut to a Verizon commercial followed by Good RX and a Miralax commerial.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 20 - 02:50 PM

Anybody else watching the live coverage?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 03:00 PM

Now they are doing a fashion show about the new space x suits made by Playtex. I recognize the guy doing this segment as the star of the show Blowed Up Good. aah Here he is now, William Shatner is giving his blessing,,,the fat lady has sung and finally...
I am looking at a blonde woman (Katy Perry?) and her mini dog sitting on a suspended paper moon cresant covered with glitter? An...d
another Miralax commericial followed by a Humira ad.
I better change the channel.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Jeri
Date: 27 May 20 - 03:06 PM

Liftoff is at 4:33 AT. I'll go back then. I've never been a big fan of pre-game shows.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 03:25 PM

I switched from the Science Channel to the Discovery channel and apparantly Miralax is also their sponsor. It has me wondering if an astronaut needs Miralax laxative after the main engines kick in and they go to 7 g's in 20 seconds..
Cool, the seats are Ricarro race car seats. Uh oh, the controls are all touch screen. They have just changed the Master of Ceremonies to the guy who does Overhauling and Mercum auto auctions.

I think I'll come back in an hour

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 May 20 - 04:18 PM

No launch today.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 04:27 PM

The President and his sidekick Pense just arrived a little late at which point Elon Musk immediately scrubbed the flight due to weather sighting of lightning in the last half hour.

Trump grumbled about a **** waste of time and may drag this out with an Investigation that is rumored to be called Elon Gate.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Charmion
Date: 27 May 20 - 04:30 PM

You'll never get me up on one of those. I'm with Joe Offer; Elon Musk is way too Trumpy to be trusted.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mr Red
Date: 27 May 20 - 05:50 PM

Elon didn't get to where he is today..........................

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: EBarnacle
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:06 PM

Lady Hilary and I tuned in about 4:20 and got the news of the postponement to Saturday. See you there?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 27 May 20 - 06:56 PM

IF Trapped in an elevator with Musk or Trump, I'm a Musk man.
Even Trumps digestive system is rotton. Besides I like ideas over hate.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mr Red
Date: 28 May 20 - 05:08 AM

How SpaceX and Boeing will get Astronauts to the ISS Everyday Astronaut on YT

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 20 - 06:41 AM

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 20 - 06:44 AM

Pilots Bob and Doug are both married to former astronauts

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 May 20 - 07:44 AM

Why oh why is the news only calling them by their first names? They are professionals!

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mossback
Date: 28 May 20 - 09:29 AM

Musk is interested in space because planet earth is much too small to contain his monumental ego.

Pretty amusing coming from a car salesman.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 28 May 20 - 09:30 AM

To what profession do they belong, Mrrzy? They're transport vehicle operators--highly trained and skilled, I'll wager--but transport vehicle operators all the same. Transport vehicle operator is an occupation, not a profession, as it lacks ethics and has no social sanction for its own control over admission to the occupation. (It does have operating principles: stay alive and deliver the passengers and cargo. These go to ensuring returns for the shareholders.)

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mossback
Date: 28 May 20 - 09:56 AM

it lacks ethics and has no social sanction for its own control over admission to the occupation

Rather like Elon himself, then?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 28 May 20 - 10:44 AM

Is musk real life Bond villain...???

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 28 May 20 - 01:49 PM

Once you put a new car in orbit you are in advertising - not sales.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 May 20 - 05:02 PM

Um, astronaut?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: EBarnacle
Date: 30 May 20 - 03:33 PM

Aand they're off.
A few years ago, Lady Hillary and I watched a launch from as close as they allowed the public to get. The sound was stunning and it was exciting to watch

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: gillymor
Date: 30 May 20 - 06:02 PM

What an incredible waste of time, money and human resources. We don't have the will or moral decency to even attempt to save our own planet but we're eager to spread our garbage into the rest of the universe so rich guys can cross another item off their "bucket list" with a ride into outer space.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mossback
Date: 30 May 20 - 06:14 PM

Now, c'mon - Musk is gonna save the world, just like Shitter & Farcebook.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: gillymor
Date: 30 May 20 - 06:31 PM

and if Prez dumbshit is enthusiastic then there's got to be something hinky about it. Perhaps a "branding" opportunity or at least another way to line the pockets of his cronies.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 May 20 - 10:31 PM

Not a waste. We have to be able to survive our planet. Unless we can move our world like the moties did...

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: EBarnacle
Date: 31 May 20 - 12:43 AM

Yes, it is a huge expenditure of funds. Ask yourself how much of modern technology has been spun off from the various space programs.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 31 May 20 - 02:16 AM

Even if the only benefits we got from space programs were Velcro and Vespel, it would be worth it.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: gillymor
Date: 31 May 20 - 06:02 AM

Mrrzy wrote: "We have to be able to survive our planet."

It would be far more realistic to put all that time, effort and treasure into restoring and preserving our own planet rather than try to build an inhabitable environment somewhere out in space for billions of people and do it before we destroy the earth. Imagine the technology that could develop from the former endeavor, plus, and far more importantly, succeeding generations would actually have a place to live. But then it would be difficult and space travel sounds far more glamorous and intriguing than saving the earth.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: EBarnacle
Date: 31 May 20 - 12:57 PM

In case you have not heard, one big meteor strike wiped out the dinosaurs. We need to spread out to ensure our continued existence. We also need to clean up this litter box we live on.
As they say in the business world, grow or die. That also applies to microorganisms.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mossback
Date: 31 May 20 - 01:04 PM

That's as they say in the capitalist free market world, surely?

Spread out as in colonialism? Or as oin Corona Virus?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mr Red
Date: 31 May 20 - 01:34 PM

Now, c'mon - Musk is gonna save the world, just like Shitter & Farcebook.

Tesla's mission statement is to accelerate the move away from fossil fuels in vehicles. And colonise Mars. One out of two ain't bad.

He gives and the takes away. He ain't perfect, but he ain't stoopid.

'sides - he will be dead before there is a colony** on Mars.

**breeding pair minimum defintion.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mossback
Date: 31 May 20 - 02:09 PM

Tesla's mission is to make ginormous gobs of money for Elon, full stop. No, he ain't stoopid, which makes him all the more dangerous - kinda like a Trump with a brain. If he thought he could make more money by pushing fossil fuels instead of electric cars, he'd do it in a New York minute.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mr Red
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 02:53 AM

If he thought he could make more money by pushing fossil fuels

I beg to differ. Like I said he ain't all bad.
His brother Kimbal, and erstwhile busness partner, is something of an entrepreneur also with an environmental edge to him. And there's a business minded sister. And a entrepreneurial eco-cousin.

Just be thankful - being born in SA - he can't be president! Mind you, would that stop him trying? Look out Canada!

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: gillymor
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 05:45 AM

Yes we'll just tidy up the litter box a bit then toddle off to Mars to build an artificial biosphere for billionaires and their useless offspring so they can reseed the Universe while the riff raff stays behind treading water. Jolly good plan.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mossback
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 08:41 AM

Now THAT, Gilly, is the REAL Tesla mission statement!

Thanks for posting it.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Jun 20 - 08:56 AM

The second stage of the falcon 9 is left in an orbit like space junk until it burns up in about 24 hours. shhh

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Mr Red
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 04:09 AM

Now THAT, Gilly, is the REAL Tesla mission statement!

Fact check - SpaceX

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 10:49 AM

I am a bit bemused at the negative comments from several above who seem to view any venture by a billionaire entrepreneur as merely self-serving and wasteful.
   Yes, Musk stands to make a lot of money with his projects and yes, his ego is well documented............ but... there are thousands of Tesla vehicles bearing satisfied consumers happily ticking off non-polluting miles... and more to come. Tesla has developed a new type of rechargeable battery that, if it proves successful, could make putting up with Musk's ego a minor inconvenience.
   In the same way, they are developing a better way to put solar panels on buildings and designing underground transit systems. You don't do these projects overnight and not without setbacks and LOTS of money. NASA did choose Tesla over Boeing for this rocket, and LO! they have a cheaper way to send payloads AND now passengers to the ISS..... and land the 1st stage on a barge in the ocean for re-use!
   The argument that "we need to solve problems down here and 'clean up the planet' before committing billions to space" is a common one ... but who really believes that NOT going to space will actually get money diverted to all those other nice goals? It just don't work that way. As was said above, the space program over the last 50-60 years has resulted in more useful stuff than I can type here... including the GPS that a lot of you carry around in your pockets!

   The major problems confronting humans right now are... too MANY humans and political upheavals partially fueled *BY* too many humans. Maybe if an Elon Musk would figure out a gentle and fair method of population control, we could concentrate on stopping Trumps, Bolsonaros, Putins, Erdogans and Dutertes from making life miserable for so many.....maybe...

   I shake my head sadly at the simplistic way so many evaluate the complex problems of humans fouling their own nest. Making fun of idiots like flat-earthers is one thing, but when technology is actually working, it is silly to act as though a few billion constitutes waste.
   Here's just one article that I doubt anyone else here has seen..
https://www.teslarati.com/teslas-biggest-enemy-the-spread-of-misinformation-from-the-misinformed/
I found it by going here

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: Donuel
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 11:10 AM

YES As I said I am a Musk man but leave it to Bill to stoop so low as to to resort to filthy Facts to prove a point. What will Bill resort to next, REASON?

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: gillymor
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 11:36 AM

Bill, I have no problem with Musk (except for when I put on too much of it) seriously though, I don't see the logic of going to space in order to develop technology to save us from climate change when we should act like adults and make the commitment to cut out all the middlemen and develop it for it's own sake, from every thing I've read and seen time is of the essence. Have we got time to build a dome on Mars for people who can afford to live in it and use the resulting technolgy to "clean out the litter box". It seems like our priorities are terribly skewed. I'm sure I won't leave my grandson the price of a ticket. I know saving this planet is a daunting task but if we don't we really don't deserve to survive as z species. Now back to work.

Subject: RE: BS: Upcoming crewed Space-X launch 27/5/20
From: gillymor
Date: 02 Jun 20 - 11:39 AM

"a species", dtupid fone.