Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Monday, April 4, 2016

Kinda Not Impressed

On Saturday, April 2, Blue Origin successfully launched its reusable New Shepard vehicle on a brief jaunt to space for the third time from its launch site in West Texas, continuing to showcase the viability of its reusable rocket technology.
Lord Bezos of Amazonia is behind this, but color me "meh".

Maybe this is taking it slow, but it seems to me that the idea of a space rocket is to deliver stuff to space, whether putting it in orbit or propelling it into deeper space. Maybe they can scale it up, but as SpaceX has found out, it's a hell of a lot more difficult to fly a rocket capable of throwing stuff into orbit back to Earth land land it safely. If you want to land it back where you took off, you're going to need to build a larger stage in order to bang a uey and fly back the way it came.

Or you have to land the thing in the middle of the ocean, which SpaceX has been trying. I kind of doubt that the FAA is going to look kindly on, say, launching something from Vandenberg and then landing the first stage somewhere in Nevada, Oregon or southern California. And the NIMBYistas would go batshit over that.

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