Lichfield Dean Posted April 22, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted April 22, 2023 (edited) Spoilers from this week's end-of-season Picard Spoiler The D looked great, loved it. Things I liked: The attention to detail was incredible. Everything looked absolutely spot on (not 100% sure about the curve of the "horseshoe" where it heads towards the floor but that's only something you can see in side-by-side images and to be fair it was a hell of an complex shape). It still looks good onscreen. It's "the fat one" as the show liked to call it, but it still has an elegance amongst a lot of the increasingly complicated modern Trek ships. Things I didn't appreciate: The inertial dampers seem to work when needed but not when the producers want the crew to react to the ship's movements. Bit irritating. In a typical Picard "lack of originality" move, they basically turned the D into the Millennium Falcon and a Borg cube into the second death star and totally recreated Lando's attack from Return Of The Jedi. This is the kind of rubbish writing that has permeated Picard and annoyed me, but that's for another topic. Why do they keep referring to it as "analog"??? Grrr.... The Enterprise G I get why they did that but really? The Titan becoming the new flagship of the Federation? Seems a bit... rubbish after the F. Edited April 22, 2023 by Lichfield Dean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted May 24, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted May 24, 2023 I guess this is the end for the Cornwall satellite launching industry? https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65692302 Virgin Orbit: Branson’s rocket dream ends after mission failure Sir Richard Branson's rocket company Virgin Orbit has shut down, just months after a major mission failure. The firm's converted jet and leases on properties have been sold for $36m (£29m), just a fraction of the $3.7bn the company was valued at in 2021. In March, Virgin Orbit said it would make most of its workforce redundant after failing to secure new investment. The California-based firm filed for bankruptcy protection in the US early last month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted July 26, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 26, 2023 Plenty of UFO talk today. But it's just that - the whistleblowers haven't given any concrete evidence as far as I can tell. It's all just words. They may be credible witnesses etc. but this is still all just hearsay. Give us actual pictures or videos or physical items or just... something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted November 18, 2023 Author VT Supporter Share Posted November 18, 2023 Starship going up again today? I'm looking forward to a giant explosion again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Tegis Posted November 18, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 18, 2023 4 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said: Starship going up again today? I'm looking forward to a giant explosion again. Looks like a go still, 10 minutes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted November 18, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 18, 2023 (edited) They got further this time including seperation. So we got two kabooms for the price of one. Edited November 18, 2023 by Tegis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted November 18, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted November 18, 2023 I'm sure Elon will be cool, calm and collected about this and look for ways he can encourage and support his talanted team in these difficult circumstances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted November 18, 2023 Administrator Share Posted November 18, 2023 52 minutes ago, Tegis said: They got further this time including seperation. So we got two kabooms for the price of one. Let's just hope the second one hasn't left a load of debris at 150km. They really needed to bring it lower before exploding it if was under control Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 At this point, Carew's Newcastle penalty has a more legitimate claim as a space faring endeavour. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted March 14 VT Supporter Share Posted March 14 Third potential kaboom in about 30 minutes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted March 14 VT Supporter Share Posted March 14 Funny innit. We all think we live in a modern world smug about t'internet and the smartphones in our pocket whilst physically laughing out loud about those massive brick phones they had in the 90s. Some bloke in the future will probably discover one of these videos in the future on his holophone and wonder why the **** we were burning all that shit to send a machine into space. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A'Villan Posted March 18 Share Posted March 18 On 27/07/2023 at 07:11, Lichfield Dean said: Plenty of UFO talk today. But it's just that - the whistleblowers haven't given any concrete evidence as far as I can tell. It's all just words. They may be credible witnesses etc. but this is still all just hearsay. Give us actual pictures or videos or physical items or just... something. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_William_Cooper Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted March 19 Author VT Supporter Share Posted March 19 On 14/03/2024 at 12:51, Tegis said: Third potential kaboom in about 30 minutes Well, it go kaboom eventually, but it seems to have mostly worked well prior to that. And the board footage (especially during re-entry) was astonishing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaJ100 Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 I'm curious as to why the richest people in the world seem to be bent on making rockets to get the hell off of it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted March 19 VT Supporter Share Posted March 19 (edited) 1 hour ago, VillaJ100 said: I'm curious as to why the richest people in the world seem to be bent on making rockets to get the hell off of it Just in case insurance Very rich people have a very inflated opinion of themselves Edited March 19 by Follyfoot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted March 19 Administrator Share Posted March 19 3 hours ago, Lichfield Dean said: Well, it go kaboom eventually, but it seems to have mostly worked well prior to that. And the board footage (especially during re-entry) was astonishing. The booster failed to restart it's engines (again) and crashed into the sea at 2-3 times the speed of sound. Starship developed a fuel leak shortly after separation and this caused an uncontrolled spin throughout the ballistic portion. Entry was completely uncontrolled and this led to some pretty colours as parts of the ship which weren't supposed to be exposed to atmospheric friction burnt up. It was pretty much the most minimal improvement possible compared to the last launch, but the marketing spin is going well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 Clearly Musk is a huge bellend, but are people here trying to imply that SpaceX don’t know what they’re doing? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted March 20 Administrator Share Posted March 20 5 minutes ago, Panto_Villan said: Clearly Musk is a huge bellend, but are people here trying to imply that SpaceX don’t know what they’re doing? I like that Musk wasn't even present for this launch. He's leaving things to the engineers. I just wish the presenters wouldn't mislead people. You could see the fuel leak, both in the video stream and buy watching the graphic showing fuel levels. It was spinning throughout all the ballistic tests (you could see the shadows spinning around in the internal views. The same graphic showed that it was in wrong orientation (and spinning) during re-entry. I think the engineers will consider the mission a success within their rapid prototyping methodology. It's all the marketing bollocks that annoys me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panto_Villan Posted March 20 Share Posted March 20 4 minutes ago, limpid said: I like that Musk wasn't even present for this launch. He's leaving things to the engineers. I just wish the presenters wouldn't mislead people. You could see the fuel leak, both in the video stream and buy watching the graphic showing fuel levels. It was spinning throughout all the ballistic tests (you could see the shadows spinning around in the internal views. The same graphic showed that it was in wrong orientation (and spinning) during re-entry. I think the engineers will consider the mission a success within their rapid prototyping methodology. It's all the marketing bollocks that annoys me. Yeah, that’s fair enough. I can appreciate there’s a lot of hype bollocks around SpaceX. They definitely know what they’re doing though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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