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David...Doctor Disrespect had about 400K people watching him on twitch and people were donating up to $5k to watch him -- nm - Remlik Feb 6, 15:03
Did rolo ever give us his swag total? -- nm - Spawn Feb 6, 15:00
"Made on Earth by Humans" -- (link) - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 14:43 3
- He's gonna get us all killed. -- nm - Mop Feb 6, 16:30
- Huh... wait a second... isn't Trump one of those humans? -- nm - Aliens Feb 6, 14:49 1
  - We thought he was one of you. -- nm - Humans Feb 6, 14:54
If the list had been the top 10 movies I am looking forward to? I just realized that Death Wish would be on my list. - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 14:39
I'm not the only one, right? -- (link) - Name Withheld by Request Feb 6, 14:14 [youtube] 1
- Spoiler - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 14:21
I've been listening to Pat Benatar and Billy Squier a lot lately. You got a problem with that? -- nm - prayformojo Feb 6, 14:05 8
- Billy Squier is fine, but why not Donnie Iris? -- (link) - landbeck Feb 6, 15:05 [youtube]
- Nope because I can't hear it over here. ;-) -- nm - Krusty Feb 6, 14:20
- only if you don't have his choreography from Rock Me Tonight down. -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 14:11 2
  - I just gotta get me the one of those rad shirts, and I'll be all set -- nm - prayformojo Feb 6, 14:40
  - And the outfit. - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 14:12
- Fire and Ice is a decent jam. The guitar work on In The Dark is sublime -- nm - Epiphany Feb 6, 14:10 1
  - Little Too Late. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 14:13
- Olivia Newton-John - The Rumour (1988) -- nm - Max Feb 6, 14:07
Explain to me why they fire off from sea level, all those boosters are just to get the payload to the upper atmosphere.... - zeitgeist Feb 6, 13:59 5
- It is not an unreasonable question. There are in fact air launched vehicles such as Orbital ATK's Pegasus. The answer has to do with scale - JD Feb 6, 14:19
- These aren't "small" payloads. The FH will carry up to ~63,000 kilos into LEO - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 14:08 3
  - And it costs the same amount of energy to get a payload to 50,000 feet anyway. On a plane you're wasting a lot of energy horizontally. -- nm - Ender Feb 6, 14:16 2
    - #thatswhatshesaid -- nm - Max Feb 6, 14:18 1
      - booster rockets, sure...30 seconds and you break off -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 6, 14:49
Today a colleague advised that she "watches all the Real Housewives" shows, including Real Housewives of Melbourne and followed up with "don't judge" - Roger More Feb 6, 13:57 2
- A former BOP writer sent me down a Wikipedia loop over a Real Housewives post. Fernanda Rocha is a playa! -- nm - David Feb 6, 14:02
- Is it judging if you now *know* she is an idiot? -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:59
Live Starman feed. -- (link) - Ender Feb 6, 13:53 [youtube] 11
- So let me get this straight (I have been very indisposed today), Elon put the car and astronaut from the opening of Heavy Metal into orbit? -- nm - Jovian Feb 6, 14:22 1
  - Exactly. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 14:25
- The reflection of the Earth in the side of the car is a neat visual. -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 6, 13:58
- One day we're going to discover a giant space whale struggling to breathe, and George is going to pull this out of its blowhole. - Max Feb 6, 13:56
- Hot. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:55
- it's kind of nuts we can see this. -- nm - Andie Feb 6, 13:54 5
  - Right? -- nm - spamlet Feb 6, 14:04
  - This. I have no idea how that is working/possible. -- nm - MDH Feb 6, 14:03 3
    - You do know the Moon landing was shown live on TV right? ;-) - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 14:12 1
      - Fake landing -- nm - Trump Feb 6, 14:13
    - long hdmi cable -- nm - Max Feb 6, 14:06
My worlds are colliding! -- (link) - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:49
Canadian Hockey News - Hayley Wickenheiser has announced she will donate her brain to concussion research upon her death. -- (edited) - Andie Feb 6, 13:46
Ironic that ... - Beryllium Feb 6, 13:41
Andie, I'm a little late, but how did you like your weekend in Quebec City? Any highlights? -- nm - Guigue Feb 6, 13:35 3
- We had a blast. so lucky with the weather. i guess the highlight is the big toboggan slide. I posted a video of it. How about you? (LINK!) - Andie Feb 6, 13:37 2
  - Looks faster than I remembered! Strangely, I've never done it despite living there 19 years and going to the Carnaval almost every year - Guigue Feb 6, 13:40 1
    - will do! -- nm - Andie Feb 6, 13:40
If i have a screening pass for 50 Shades Freed tomorrow, but i use it to get in then sneak into 3 Billboards, exactly how horrible a person am I? -- nm - Andie Feb 6, 13:32 13
- Heh, I’m going to see 50 shades tonight, mostly to embarrass M. She loves the movies, but is super embarrassed about it. - mafic Feb 6, 15:06
- that's....kind of a grey area -- nm - zeitgeist Feb 6, 14:01
- "I don't think those plans is very fair." - Max Feb 6, 13:36 6
  - We all know you will "chicken out" and watch 50 Shades. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:53 3
    - to my credit, i haven't seen any of the movies and i stopped after the first book. -- nm - Andie Feb 6, 13:54 2
      - And now you get to see how it all ends! -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:56 1
        
        The series climax, as it were. -- nm - Max Feb 6, 13:57
  - i'm giving no movie my money. there is no money. -- nm - Andie Feb 6, 13:37 1
    - It's still your soul, Andie. Your soul. -- nm* - Max Feb 6, 13:38
- You've discovered the 51st Shade of Gray -- nm - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:35
- Since I really disliked 3 Billboard, I don't mind if it doesn't get the money... -- nm - Guigue Feb 6, 13:35
- Pretty horrible, but I don't think sneaking into a movie will affect that. nm - Dignan Feb 6, 13:34
- Not at all -- nm - Will Hunting Feb 6, 13:34
"Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars." -- (link) - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:29 4
- So what is it heading to mars for? Just sightseeing? -- nm - just oblique Feb 6, 13:31 3
  - Epic road trip. -- nm - Ender Feb 6, 13:33
  - The Falcon Heavy or it's successor the BFR will be delivering payload and passengers to Mars soon. This is demonstrating - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:33
  - proving they can do it. -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 13:32
Uh oh, ika (AuLux) is down, -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:23 2
- working fine for me. -- nm - Diva Feb 6, 13:26 1
  - Just googled something and that is not opening, either. But ST is fine, ika SLACK is fine. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:26
~It's been a long road, getting from there to here.~ -- nm - Max Feb 6, 13:20
That launch was just wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Feb 6, 13:14 16
- *Really* wanted to watch it but I was walking down to the library at the time. -- nm - Meg Feb 6, 13:28
- Per their website, the services of using a Falcon Heavy is $90M - JD Feb 6, 13:22 10
  - I call shotgun! -- nm - just oblique Feb 6, 13:25 7
    - We'd have to save a lot longer to afford the use of a human rated spacecraft to go along with the $90M launch fee -- nm - JD Feb 6, 13:27 2
      - “Screw it. Just give me an air tank.” -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 13:30
      - "And with TSA fees that comes to $546 million. Credit or debit?" -- nm - Max Feb 6, 13:29
    - "Ultimate shotgun!" -- nm - David Feb 6, 13:26 3
      - "We have shotguns on board now??" -- nm - Max Feb 6, 13:28 2
        
        They are hopefully better than our "flamethrowers". -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:28 1
        
        This is turning into a gas-station-splash-fight scene. -- nm - Max Feb 6, 13:30
  - The resulting James Cameron IMAX film should look pretty. -- nm - Max Feb 6, 13:25
  - "ULA's launches cost an average of $225 million; The Delta 4 Heavy, its most powerful rocket, runs about $350 million a launch; The lower end of the - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:24
- they're still saying a payload in 4 years, full crew in 6 to Mars.. that would be absolutely incredible. i can't even imagine it... -- nm - colin Feb 6, 13:19 3
  - Imagine graduating high school this year, entering college in physics, and popping out of grad school just as the first Mars flight lifts off. -- nm - Max Feb 6, 13:23 2
    - Logan is 5th grade right now, so right behind that. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:26 1
      - "Logan never comes home for the holidays any more." "Well, he *does* live on Mars now..." -- nm - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:27
"John Kelly on whether Trump has read the Schiff memo. “No, no. It is quite lengthy.” We are told it’s 10 pages." -- (link) - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:11 5
- Corrected quote -- (link) - Guigue Feb 6, 13:17 2
  - They'll read one page to him at bedtime for the next 10 nights :/ -- nm - Meg Feb 6, 13:26 1
    - Or break it into consecutive tweets -- nm - Meg Feb 6, 13:27
- Wonder. Was that before or after he called DACA peeps Lazy who need to get off their asses? -- nm - Jovian Feb 6, 13:14
- "Front and b..." "No. And it's double spaced 16 pt font." -- nm - Reagen Feb 6, 13:13
Something about the shape of it ... felt like real spaceflight. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 13:05 1
- like it was going to penetrate the heavens. -- nm - colin Feb 6, 13:10
That booster landing was wicked cool. Were they supposed to land simultaneously? -- nm - Name Withheld by Request Feb 6, 13:03 4
- Yep. No word yet on the center core and whether it survived its landing attempt. -- nm - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:04 2
  - On the plus side, landing the center core is really not what this launch was about, so it would be the icing on the cake, but - Guigue Feb 6, 13:05 1
    - Recovery of the boosters, though, is what's going to make it economical. Not a biggie if they lost this one, but they'll - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 13:08
- Approximately, yes. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 13:04
DOW closes up over 500 -- nm* - ty97 Feb 6, 13:01 2
- Speaking of which I got a work email from our 401k company basicly telling us to not panic about the last couple of days -- nm* - eag Feb 6, 13:09
- only 1200+ points to go to get back to last Thursday! -- nm* - decline Feb 6, 13:05
You all do realize that Elon Musk is an alien, right? -- nm - ty97 Feb 6, 12:56 1
- Yes. His name is Erk and he crashed on earth 90 years ago, and the pollution in our atmosphere has driven him mad with power. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 13:04
Yay! We're going home! -- nm - ISS Crew Feb 6, 12:56
how the F did they get those two to land at the same time!!! -- nm - mud Feb 6, 12:55 3
- They separated at the same time from the same place. Both are reused cores, too! -- nm* - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 12:56 1
  - I know! but seeing them touch down perfectly next to each other in unison was the prettiest thing I've seen since ...BR2049!!! -- nm - mud Feb 6, 13:00
- space magic - just oblique Feb 6, 12:56
Shit, that's insane -- nm - just oblique Feb 6, 12:53
Now to recover all 3 boosters! -- nm - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 12:51 7
- What else could they do to show off? - Mop Feb 6, 12:55
- lost the center core -- nm - colin Feb 6, 12:53 4
  - comms, it seems.. hmm -- nm - colin Feb 6, 12:54 3
    - They always lose comms, but they might have landed fine -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 13:06 2
      - yeah, not sure. control room didn't seem too excited about when it touching down... -- nm - colin Feb 6, 13:08 1
        
        No, based on their reactions, they almost relayed bad news and then got audio slapped into not doing it. ONLY GOOD NEWS! -- nm - Beryllium Feb 6, 13:23
- 2 successful, 1 to go! -- nm - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 12:53
and it didn't blow up or nothin' -- nm - decline Feb 6, 12:51 2
- Maybe next time. -- nm - Mop Feb 6, 12:57
- Cloverfield Paradox? -- nm - budice Feb 6, 12:54
LIR: Jax. They launched from Cape Canaveral -- nm - just oblique Feb 6, 12:51 6
- Aw man, I should have gone to watch. -- nm - JaxSean Feb 6, 12:52 3
  - *smacks JaX* -- nm - spamlet Feb 6, 12:53 2
    - Busy at work and sick. :( - JaxSean Feb 6, 12:55
    - Hey now, how would he have known this was going to happen? -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 12:54
- The two side boosters are returning there to land. The main booster is landing on the platform in the ocean -- nm - just oblique Feb 6, 12:51 1
  - The droneship Of Course I Still Love You! -- nm - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 12:52
Jesus Christ. They did it. -- nm - Mop Feb 6, 12:50
HOLY. SHIT. - spamlet Feb 6, 12:50 3
- Yup. Maybe a little misty eyed. -- nm - Mop Feb 6, 12:51 1
  - i totally started crying. wow. -- nm - colin Feb 6, 12:52
- DON'T PANIC -- nm - just oblique Feb 6, 12:50
A Tesla Roadster is currently flying through outer space... -- nm - Ender Feb 6, 12:50 2
- The future is weird. -- nm - znufrii Feb 6, 12:52 1
  - WE WERE PROMISED FLYING CARS!!! -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 12:53
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- nm - TWuG - Fly, Falcon, Fly! Feb 6, 12:50
:thumbsup: - just oblique Feb 6, 12:50
Maybe those guys will get around to Thrawn. -- nm - Diva Feb 6, 12:48 12
- They already have on Star Wars Rebels. -- nm - Remlik Feb 6, 13:16
- That would be incredible. Even David might like him as a character. -- nm - Inigo Feb 6, 12:50 8
  - He's no Rose. -- nm - David Feb 6, 12:54 7
    - First scene: Thrawn kicks Rose, killing her with the single blow. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 12:55 6
      - ah but see she's the one who reprograms his Bodyguard droids to assassinate him. -- nm - Remlik Feb 6, 13:18 4
        
        We lose both? Totally worth it. -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:24 3
        
        nah Rose would be watching from afar as Thrawn attacks her hologram. He does tend to underestimate the ones he shouldn't -- nm - Remlik Feb 6, 13:25 2
        
        OMG a Rose hologram? What next, Binks? -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 13:27 1
        
        she's a techie! she knows that stuff. -- nm - Remlik Feb 6, 13:29
      - Sounds about right. Star Wars can't have nice things. -- nm - David Feb 6, 12:56
- There's a lot of good EU material out there too, after Thrawn. -- nm - Strongbad Feb 6, 12:49 1
  - and none of that is canon. Though they may bring some of it back -- nm - Remlik Feb 6, 13:16
B2 is all about... sex? -- nm - Spawn: Six Time Blood Feud Champion Feb 6, 12:48
Main Engine Cutoff! -- nm - Ender Feb 6, 12:48

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