ST Alpha - Backboarding

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Search Dr. S. Talk
TT/ST Wiki
How Well Do You Know ...

RSS Feed

Hosting by DigitalOcean

Support ST on Ko-Fi

Welcome to SlickerTalk ▲

Kick your heels up, settle in, and get ready for a raucous discussion. The topic is anything and everything: movies, television, politics, music, breaking news, recycled news, orange-colored prediction markets, etc.

Join the Conversation

Suggestions and requests can be sent to team @ slackertalk.com. Or, please use this form to submit a bug report.

Recent News ▲

BlueSky Starter Pack for STers
This is a list of automatic follows when creating a BS account. Special thanks to Kim for setting it up! To bridge your account to the Fediverse, follow @ap.brid.gy (per the Bridgy docs)
the pack

[ SlackerTalk / Beta ] [ SlickerTalk ] [ Dr. S. Talk ]

Live

Down to Post

< Newer

Older >

Posts: 153

Initial poll is "go for launch", but several more polls will be conducted. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 12:27 14
- mmmm second lunch -- nm - amanda May 27, 12:35 2
  - Taco-1 hour -- nm - Max May 27, 12:36 1
    - I had a yallah for lunch. I could go again for second lunch or dinner. (god bless yallah taco.) -- nm - amanda May 27, 12:36
- Do we know what time on Saturday is the next window? -- nm - spamlet May 27, 12:35 5
  - Think it was like 7:32 pm? -- nm - VMan May 27, 12:37
  - We do, but I'll have to look. I think it is either 3:30 ish or 4:30 ish. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 12:37 3
    - Windows are: Saturday, 5/30: 1522 ET and Sunday, 5/31: 1500 ET. So 3:22 and 3:00. Instantaneous launch windows, no delays. - TWuG May 27, 12:39 2
      - Thanks. I couldn't find it and didn't know if it was a "don't talk about it" thing -- nm - spamlet May 27, 12:48
      - Hmm. I was way off. -- nm - VMan May 27, 12:42
- Range is red, so if it stays red, it'll be no-go. Downrange air and sea are clear and various stations for tracking also clear. - TWuG May 27, 12:31 2
  - At T-45 minutes they'll poll the range to go for propellant load. If range is still red and weather doesn't look like it'll clear, they'll scrub. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 12:33 1
    - Currently at T-1 hour -- nm - TWuG May 27, 12:34
- What is the official time for the launch? -- nm - Jovian May 27, 12:28 1
  - 4:33 EDT -- nm - TWuG May 27, 12:29
Meng must stay -- (link) - mud May 27, 12:23 2
- At this point it's probably better for her health in many ways. -- nm - . May 27, 12:39
- Reuters: -- (link) - mud May 27, 12:38
On a hunch I muted the SpaceX stream and started playing the audio of She Sells Sanctuary, and suddenly I'm that much more stoked for the launch. -- nm - Max May 27, 12:19 1
- ::500 Spawn Points:: -- nm - Spawn May 27, 12:20
The woman who does the Trump lip syncs wrote a book on how to appear smart in meetings without knowing what you're talking about. -- (link) - Reagen May 27, 12:15 1
- I've followed her on twitter for years - she's worth a follow -- nm - decline May 27, 12:16
Work covid situation - Dano May 27, 12:15 3
- this is exactly it for us as well. I have mentioned that I want to buy an office shed; I think this may push me over the edge. my house is too small - amanda May 27, 12:24
- ::socially distanced high five:: -- nm - Spawn May 27, 12:19
- Oh... and they sent us masks. -- nm - Dano May 27, 12:17
The Falcon 9 / Dragon 2 stack looks so sleek compared to the Soyuz (er and I guess Soyuz) with its strap-on boosters -- nm - JD May 27, 12:07
We've reached the "let them eat cake" portion of the passion play. -- (link) - TWuG May 27, 12:03
Kellyanne Conway wore green today....twitter did what twitter does -- (link) - Remlik May 27, 12:02 5
- I don't stand in line for cupcakes. Next. -- nm - ty97 May 27, 12:09 2
  - that's cause you're on a diet. -- nm - Remlik May 27, 12:26 1
    - Wait, he is sitting in line! -- nm - Spawn May 27, 12:35
- Bravo. -- nm - Mop May 27, 12:08
- :-] -- nm - mud May 27, 12:03
Original headline: Anti-Semitic crime in Germany at highest level recorded. - Ba'rona Beast May 27, 12:00 7
- In fairness to the writer, in all likelihood they would not have been recording anti-Semitic crimes during THAT time. -- nm - VMan May 27, 12:06 3
  - Are you kidding? They're Germans. They record and organize everything. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 27, 12:24
  - Heh. "Sorry, Anti-Semitic what? There must be a bad connection." -- nm - Reagen May 27, 12:11 1
    - I'll just type this up on my invisible typewriter. -- nm - Herr Wiggum May 27, 12:16
- Just like Trump is the worst treated president! -- nm - Spawn May 27, 12:02
- I'm skeptical. -- nm - David May 27, 12:00 1
  - I'm reading a history of Germany in reverse chronological order. So far, this looks accurate! -- nm - Reagen May 27, 12:02
LYC: My first colony in Oxygen Not Included died. It's a bit like watching your Kerbel's crash over and over and over again... -- nm - oblique May 27, 11:54 2
- I'm sorry for your loss -- nm - decline May 27, 11:57 1
  - Don't worry, we'll make more :) -- nm - oblique May 27, 11:58
"Data shows long-term quarantining detrimental to intimate relationships, w/ 19.5% not being able to “perform” or faking" -- nm - David May 27, 11:54 14
- I would love to see a comparison of those with kids to those without. -- (link) - Spawn May 27, 12:01 [Backboard]
- "Come on, honey, I see you every day now. The shine has worn off." -- nm - Bad Idea Jeans May 27, 11:56 5
  - "6.5% of people with cohabitants have experimented with a threesome" -- nm - David May 27, 12:01 4
    - *white guy blinking.gif* -- nm - Reagen May 27, 12:03
    - Including pets? or all human? -- nm - Max May 27, 12:02 1
      - *perks up* -- nm - oblique May 27, 12:03
    - Way low. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 12:02
- Tell me about it! - Mop May 27, 11:55 1
  - You never loved us! -- nm - oblique May 27, 11:58
- I volunteer to test this -- nm - JD May 27, 11:55 3
  - Haven't you said enough this week??? -- nm - David May 27, 12:00 2
    - I'm starting to think that you're my Vernon to my Bender - JD May 27, 12:03 1
      - I was trying to remember Vernon on Futurama. -- nm - David May 27, 12:09
- Was that before or after they learned of their partners' work personalities? -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 27, 11:55
Fucking Trump ruins everything. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:50 3
- As soon as he replaced the head of NASA, I stopped watching NASA TV. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 12:20
- I don't want to watch the launch any more. -- nm - Mop May 27, 11:56
- Who told you to f*** him? -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 27, 11:51
FWIW there are four windows on Dragon 2. I'm not sure that we'll ever have a crewed spacecraft without windows - JD May 27, 11:47 14
- Gus demanded them, and they have stayed. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 11:53 5
  - *laugh* I was going to make reference to that but didn't know if it was just from the movie -- nm - JD May 27, 11:57 3
    - I have been to his museum at least a dozen times (he was from my county). -- nm - Spawn May 27, 11:58
    - Gus was smart. Apollo 13 would have been lost without windows. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:58 1
      - Armstrong wouldn't have been able to pilot the Eagle without windows -- nm - JD May 27, 11:59
  - *ding* -- nm - mud May 27, 11:55
- "Pilots." -- nm - The Right Stuff May 27, 11:53
- Plus if you can't see outside WTF is the point? -- nm - spamlet May 27, 11:52
- In case they send up dogs, again. You know how dogs love to stick their head out windows. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:50
- They actually do learn to steer by the stars so the windows are absolutely necessary. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:49 4
  - Exterior cameras could solve that. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:51 3
    - But cameras could potentially fail. A window is a completely manual, unpowered visual method. - JD May 27, 11:52 2
      - True. Simple solutions are the best solutions. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:53
      - Yup -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:52
StarBonds adjusted today over at the old HSX... -- nm - Diva May 27, 11:47 3
- I just checked my portfolio, I went up two places apparently today to 238th. -- nm - MDH May 27, 11:54
- Oh is that still around? -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 27, 11:50
- ~ooooooo-eeeeeeeee-ooooooo~ -- nm - theremin May 27, 11:48
Oh fuck. Here comes trouble. -- nm* - Mop May 27, 11:47 6
- If it were to spectacularly crash on live tv, the spontaneous exuberance online would be fascinating and uncomfortable. -- nm - Name Withheld By Request May 27, 11:48 5
  - Exuberance? -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:50 4
    - Is there a word that means more joyful than "exuberance"? - TWuG May 27, 11:52 3
      - Maybe I don't know what is actually being discussed here. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:53 2
        
        Trump dying on TV -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:54 1
        
        Oh. Yeah, no thanks. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:59
tornado warning "expired"(?) so launch is a go -- nm - mud May 27, 11:46
Question for Beaker or Shaun if they are around..... - Walt_Disney May 27, 11:46 1
- I can't see why not, but I don't live in the city, so I can't really be sure with 100% certainty. -- nm - Shaun May 27, 11:47
Touchscreens? Haven't they seen The Expanse?! -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:46 15
- The Expanse takes place in the "future", bery -- nm - mud May 27, 11:47 14
  - Yes, yes, but my point was that a touchscreen is what doomed that one guy ... -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:49 13
    - what guy -- nm - mud May 27, 11:50 12
      - Solomon Epstein. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:52 11
        
        I still don't understand that story. I need closurre! -- nm - Mop May 27, 11:57 7
        
        Uh. He dead. His ship is on the drift, further away than any other earth ship. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:58 6
        
        1 - We don't know how his story got told if he dead. 2 - We don't know how his technology got shared if he dead. -- nm - Mop May 27, 12:07 4
        
        He explicitly said something about leaving notes for his wife. And eventually a ship could have gotten to him and recovered him/his ship. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 12:11 2
        
        Some say you can still see his ship... I think Ashford said so. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 12:18
        
        All the schematics were on their server at home, he said. She'd be rich. -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 12:17
        
        He is dead but didn't hang himself. Oh, wait..wrong Epstein -- nm* - JD May 27, 12:09
        
        But his widow is wildly rich! -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:59
        
        The touch screen didn't kill him. His failure to account for the extra Gs and how to operate under that load is what killed him. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:53 1
        
        For want of a working voice interface... -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:57
        
        And this is why I refuse to fly-by-wire. -- nm - Ba'rona Beast May 27, 11:53
Josh Gad teased it at the end of his Splash reunion yesterday. His next reunion will be Lord of the Rings. -- (link) - Mop May 27, 11:44 [youtube]
[snork] -- (link) - mud May 27, 11:42 1
- Fantastic! -- nm - Mop May 27, 11:42
ISS capacity is 6. With only Soyuz being the only crew carrier, it was decided that current ISS crew size would be de-rated to 3 - JD May 27, 11:40 10
- i assumed this was going to be a dad joke, but had no idea what the punchline would be -- nm - prayformojo May 27, 11:43 2
  - "I propose, that for scientific testing purposes, we breed a type of midget even smaller than the normal midget. We can call them Shetland Midgets." -- nm - Senator Tim Calhoun May 27, 11:52
  - My bed's capacity is 6, but I've sometimes squeeze in 7. -- nm* - Dad Flex May 27, 11:48
- They have suits, they could just attach a few astronauts to the outside on leashes and then trade off who gets to go inside. -- nm - Max May 27, 11:43 1
  - I wonder if there's a bbq place near Canaveral named "The Reentry Grill" -- nm - Beryllium May 27, 11:48
- plus 7 is a lucky number -- nm - decline May 27, 11:43
- Three... times 2... carry the one... WUT? I'm so confused! -- nm - Mop May 27, 11:42 2
  - Soyuz is capped at 3 passengers, I believe. Crew Dragon could evacuate the ISS configured with just 4 seats. - TWuG May 27, 11:45 1
    - I got this. -- nm - Felix Baumgartner May 27, 11:47
- Nice. Thank you. -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:42
Bridenstine annoys the fuck out of me. Does he suck or is he just tainted by being a Trump appointee? -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:33
Hatch closed. -- nm - spamlet May 27, 11:33 2
- Doug just yawned. Guess he's bored. -- nm - spamlet May 27, 11:34 1
  - Needs a beer. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 11:41
I'm seeing a lot of gimps on the gangway. -- nm - Max May 27, 11:32
I'm surprised that the crew is wearing SpaceX suits instead of NASA suits. -- nm - Mop May 27, 11:25 19
- They're certified by NASA like everything else. -- nm - spamlet May 27, 11:30 1
  - Kid, you're certified by NASA! -- nm - Mop May 27, 11:33
- No. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 11:27
- They were specially made by Space X to fit the individual. Probably because of that whole we don't have suits that fit a woman spacewalk fiasco. The - jnine May 27, 11:27 14
  - but they've never been tested in space right? - decline May 27, 11:29 13
    - They have. The first Crew Dragon to travel to the ISS carried a mannequin wearing one. Plus, you can test in vaccuum chambers easily -- nm - TWuG May 27, 11:32 2
      - "I have a great idea for a prank. We're going to shove the mannequin out and then call up Houston in a panic." -- nm - Bad Idea Jeans May 27, 12:02
      - 8-) That's a level of testing that the Mercury astronauts didn't get for their suits -- nm - JD May 27, 11:48
    - How did they know NASA's would work? -- nm - jnine May 27, 11:30 9
      - We didn’t. We just didn’t care back then. *puts a dog in the suit* -- nm - Will Hunting May 27, 11:42
      - monkeys in space -- nm - decline May 27, 11:41
      - If I had a GIF of that Space Force scene where the monkey floats the bone to the dog I would post it here. -- nm - Spawn May 27, 11:37
      - Partially this. Partially if things go correctly, it won't matter if they work or not (no spacewalk) and mainly cause we can simulate space - JD May 27, 11:34 3
        
        These suits are not meant for spacewalks. The EVA suits have beefed up insulation, HVAC systems, and reflective visors. - TWuG May 27, 11:48 2
        
        Exactly 8-) That was my mangled point. These suits won't be called into service at all when things go according to plan - JD May 27, 11:54 1
        
        These suits are pressurized and would protect the astronauts from a loss of atmosphere in the capsule or ISS, but couldn't withstand - TWuG May 27, 11:57
      - Seriously, I believe they test them in a vacuum chamber. Amongst other things. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:32
      - Here's a roll of duct tape. Just in case. -- nm - Spacesuit Developer May 27, 11:31
- When in Rome. -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:26
3'rd century Roman mosaic floor found in Italy -- (link) - Peglegpete May 27, 11:24 2
- Whoa, that's a fantastic picture. -- nm - Mop May 27, 11:26
- Well that's no surprise since that's where Rome is. -- nm - Captain Obvious May 27, 11:25
Hey amanda, speaking of a certain school, how did your budget thingy go (I may have missed it) - decline May 27, 11:23
In light of the Blues Brothers throwback. Hopefully, one of them will drop a "She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro." -- nm - VMan May 27, 11:20

Post a message top

< Newer

Older >

(Disclaimer: This website uses cookies to store identifying information. Please practice safe password usage.)