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   Ketira shena Pretarasedrin said, about 1 year ago

   LOL…. that’s cute!
   But this morning, at 9:53 am EDT, it happened: The ISS snagged the Dragon. Those of you who don’t have the NASA-TV on their cable system should check out their channel on YouTube; they may have put the highlights up there already.

   GO ISS! W00t!
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   masterskrain said, about 1 year ago

   Well, the trucking company I worked for before retiring had all their trucks limited to 62 M.P.H.
   I wonder how long it would take to get to low Earth orbit at that speed.
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, about 1 year ago

   Yes only the space trucks won’t look like that.
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   dtroutma said, about 1 year ago

   I reflect on Shepherd’s comment essentially: “to think everything was low bidder”. With the commercialization of everything, and advertising space, NASCAR vehicles may be in our future. Actually, in “super 8” competition in Australia, the advertiser coverage on the car has displaced the numbers, and announcers don’t even use the numbers.
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   indieme said, about 1 year ago

   Just wait until you see the delivery charges. You win again, right wing capitalist war profiteering conservatives.
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   CasualBrowser said, about 1 year ago

   @masterskrain

   3.7 hours
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   1opinion said, about 1 year ago

   @rightisright

   How the heck do you get government flops out of this.
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   lonecat said, about 1 year ago

   @CasualBrowser

   You would never achieve escape velocity.
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   lonecat said, about 1 year ago

   @rightisright

   And where was private enterprise when we put people into orbit and when we landed people on the moon? (Check out Heinlein’s early story, “The Man Who Sold the Moon”.) I’m happy that private enterprise is in on the action, but the space program would never have got off the ground if governments hadn’t taken the lead. And still today, most of the important research is not likely to attract private enterprise. In my opinion, some of the most important science being done today is the discovery of planets outside our solar system. Which private company is going to pay for that?
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    walruscarver2000 said, about 1 year ago

    @1opinion

    Don’t ask him. You’ll only encourage more nonsense.
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    INGSOC said, about 1 year ago

    Pink Slime is certainly acceptable….!!
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    CasualBrowser said, about 1 year ago

    @lonecat

    Not trying to escape the Earth’s gravitational pull, just traverse the 230 miles from sea level to the ISS.
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    CasualBrowser said, about 1 year ago

    @rightisright

    So you want to go back to the government program????
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    masterskrain said, about 1 year ago

    @CasualBrowser

    Assuming, of course, that the ISS is in a Geostationary orbit, and that I don’t make that left turn at Albuquerque!
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    mikefive said, about 1 year ago

    I see big blinking neon Budweiser signs 30 miles wide in our future.
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