Amazing footage of a recent shuttle launch, taken from numerous cameras on the SRBs and elsewhere. If you have the patience to let the video buffer a bit, the launch is around 3:00 in. The SRB separations at 5:13 and 5:40 are particularly spectacular, to those of you that dig this kinda stuff anyway.
I had the privilege many years ago, back when the shuttle was relatively new, to be inside the assembly building. and along the track to some launch pads, and it was an awesome experience.
I don't think that Briterican is paying attention to the big bun fight that is EvC Land right now, but I know him, so I''l pass on your regards.
Mutate and Survive
On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage
I have discovered that the only substantial intellectual discourse I found since vanishing from here was from visits to Granny Magda's, and as that doesn't come often enough, I guess I'd better rejoin you guys here.
I'll try to rejoin participation in the fight for rationalism over fantasy (on the side of rationalism I should note) gradually over the next week.
Hope you've been well! I'd LOVE to visit the assembly building, and/or see a launch, but until then I'll just have to keep watching videos and pretending I'm Buck Rogers
I have discovered that the only substantial intellectual discourse I found since vanishing from here was from visits to Granny Magda's
God help you, you poor, poor man.
Welcome back
Mutate and Survive
On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. - Charles Babbage