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Spuds · 11-18-2022, 10:56 PM

TIL Whiteline has a 30% off sale... A week after I ordered all my bushing stuff...

I'm dumb lol

Sapphireho · 11-18-2022, 11:17 PM

To day I realized I don't care what NASA does. Just a waste of money.

x808drifter · 11-19-2022, 07:39 AM

TIL: Not only were the SRB's from the SLS from the shuttle, but so were the 4 MRB's on the center stage.
Even more surprised it didn't launch in 2016ish.

cjd · 11-19-2022, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

To day I realized I don't care what NASA does. Just a waste of money.

Cheaper than demonstrating an utter lack of management skills, general understanding of how people work, and showing yourself to be the world's richest bully.
Also, not a waste of money, generally; that's not to say the way certain funding programs go aren't a poor financial decision (cost plus? wtf. Oh right, gotta send money to the states for those senators...)

NoHaveMSG · 11-19-2022, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

To day I realized I don't care what NASA does. Just a waste of money.

There are a lot of solutions that NASA has developed with private companies that are big industries today. Cordless power tools is a huge one. It's budget is less then .5% of the governments budget.

soundman98 · 11-19-2022, 03:14 PM

TIL the government has an incredibly large and useless budget

soundman98 · 11-19-2022, 08:57 PM

TIL ok go has some really interesting music videos. never ben a fan of the band, but contraptions are interesting in every one of them.

pope · 11-19-2022, 10:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

To day I realized I don't care what NASA does. Just a waste of money.

Here’s the archive of the publication detailing the thousands of everyday technologies derived from NASA research.

One of my favorites is grooved concrete developed for the shuttle program, now used to make roadways safer. Seems obvious in hindsight, but without the shuttle program it’s unlikely any budget would have been spent on studying it.

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/archives

Tcoat · 11-19-2022, 10:26 PM

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Originally Posted by pope

Here’s the archive of the publication detailing the thousands of everyday technologies derived from NASA research.

One of my favorites is grooved concrete developed for the shuttle program, now used to make roadways safer. Seems obvious in hindsight, but without the shuttle program it’s unlikely any budget would have been spent on studying it.

https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff/archives

JD001 · 11-20-2022, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Sapphireho

To day I realized I don't care what NASA does. Just a waste of money.

My wife asked me why would anyone want to work on the moon.. I had no reply..

soundman98 · 11-20-2022, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by JD001

My wife asked me why would anyone want to work on the moon.. I had no reply..

sounds like a nice work retreat from the boss. had enough of nagging from mission control? turn off your comms!

Spuds · 11-20-2022, 10:38 AM

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Originally Posted by JD001

My wife asked me why would anyone want to work on the moon.. I had no reply..

Same reason people want to work in Antarctica.

Also, the moon isn't populated by idiots.

soundman98 · 11-20-2022, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Spuds

Same reason people want to work in Antarctica.

Also, the moon isn't populated by idiots.

YET.

but i hear the neighbors are real assholes.

Spuds · 11-20-2022, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by soundman98

YET.

but i hear the neighbors are real assholes.

11-18-2022, 10:56 PM	#3669
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11-19-2022, 08:57 PM	#3675
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