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2020-09-23 Science & Technology

SpaceX pressure test to failure of SN-7.1 stainless 304-L tank is done.

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Posted by 3dc 2020-09-23 06:39|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Watched the 1st minute and skipped to 6:54:00 and saved 5 mins of my life.

While I understand the need for QA/QC MTBF testing. I also wonder how many $$ Millions this test cost to accomplish?

What does the leadership plan to do? Inhabit / Mine Mars somehow? Or make it the new Devil's Island II Penal colony, or a form of Solar Lebensraum for World population overflow?

Posted by NN2N1 2020-09-23 07:28|| 2020-09-23 07:28|| Front Page Top

#2 Pushed to destruction, on purpose. Hopefully after reaching a good bar rating.

Now this is different than bar crawling, right?

Posted by Skidmark 2020-09-23 09:00|| 2020-09-23 09:00|| Front Page Top

#3 What does the leadership plan to do? Inhabit / Mine Mars somehow? Or make it the new Devil's Island II Penal colony, or a form of Solar Lebensraum for World population overflow?

See: The Marching Morons.

Posted by M. Murcek 2020-09-23 10:52|| 2020-09-23 10:52|| Front Page Top

#4 "The Marching Morons"
Well I see someone saw the subtle point that I was making in a round-about way.

It is a 1950's award winning Sci-Fi novel and available for free on Project Gutenberg.
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51233

A snippet
"...intelligence was bred out. It is gone. Children that should have been born never were. The just-average, they'll-get-along majority took over the population. The average IQ now is 45."

Posted by NN2N1 2020-09-23 17:50|| 2020-09-23 17:50|| Front Page Top

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