MuckleMoo Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Sounding like they might have to abort due to weather Edit Welshbairn beat me to it 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Game's aff. How they couldn't have called it earlier using a local ref before all the fans travelled, I will never know. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Aborted. f**k sake weather. Should have launched it from Dundee this afternoon. Sun was splitting the skies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 (edited) Looked fine over Florida, scrubbed in case they bottled it over Dundee imo. You wouldn't want to emergency land down there with fancy new space suits. Saturday 8.20 pm next attempt. Edited May 27, 2020 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Hope it was Trump rather than NASA or SpaceX who called the mission Launch America. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamamafegan Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Was halfway up the law when I heard. Law was choka block with rocket enthusiasts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 2 minutes ago, jamamafegan said: Was halfway up the law when I heard. Law was choka block with rocket enthusiasts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 10 minutes ago, Shandon Par said: Just another night in Dundee tbf 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Having another go at 8.20pm. Coverage started here. Another launch possibility tomorrow evening I think a bit earlier. https://www.spacex.com/launches/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 50:50 is it? You would think that nut job Musk would have invented a cloud zapper by now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Tattiescone Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 So what they're saying is humans can't colonise the Solar System if it's raining? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL-FFC Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 (edited) 5 minutes till launch all good so far, they reckon it will be visible in Glasgow tonight about 2215 looking to the south west when it does it second orbit. Edited May 30, 2020 by AL-FFC 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AberdeenHibee Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 That.was.AWESOME! Go Space X. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim McLean's Ghost Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Elon already had a hair transplant. Looks like he might need a new one. Just now, AberdeenHibee said: That.was.AWESOME! Go Space X. Humbug. Russians have maintained space capabilities while america turned its back. The fact they defunded NASA and gave the money to a company led by a deluded arsehole is not worthy of praise. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wee-Bey Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Watched the NASA stream and love how everyone involved was quite low key before launch, then once it was up in space... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL-FFC Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 When you look at how much Boeing and Space X have been funded by NASA i think boeing had something like 3 times the budget from NASA that Space X had and they still havent achieved a launch or successful one at least. The sad thing is as soon as some f*cker touches the moon watch the same shit happen on the moon as down here between the US and Russia/China 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL-FFC Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 5 minutes ago, Henderson to deliver ..... said: Watched the NASA stream and love how everyone involved was quite low key before launch, then once it was up in space... At least they achieved something we're spending 100bn on a train that gets you to Birmingham 10 minutes faster from London 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, Jim McLean's Ghost said: Elon already had a hair transplant. Looks like he might need a new one. Humbug. Russians have maintained space capabilities while america turned its back. The fact they defunded NASA and gave the money to a company led by a deluded arsehole is not worthy of praise. Not keen on the LAUNCH AMERICA logo, and Musk taking the red pill, and all the other shite with Covid, but hopefully that's to do with getting Trump to pump more money into the fantasy 2024 moon landing for him to hive off to stuff like the Starship. Landing and reusing the first stage rockets is a big step up from Soyuz, and a lot more entertaining. And the mainly failed attempts to catch the nose cone halves on giant nets on ships. Hopefully he sells off Tesla for squillions and concentrates on space based entertainment. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AL-FFC Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 1 minute ago, MixuFruit said: Matt Stoller wrote an incredible series of articles about Boeing in the aftermath of the 737 max crisis. They've essentially been gutted of expertise in the name of "efficiency savings" aimed at maximising shareholder dividends. After reading his stuff I now check what the physical aircraft is I'm going to be flying in and if it's a Boeing I change the booking till it's and Airbus. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/sep/11/boeing-capitalism-deregulation Got to admit i was the same when i worked away anything Boeing scared the shit out me and i dont like flying at the best of times, Even the Boeing employees one of the whistleblowers said he wouldnt allow his family to fly in a Boeing plane they knew about the safety issues but denied all knowledge even after the Ethiopian airlines they tried to blame it on pilot error. Even with the commercialising Space how far will it go before Profit comes before safety, Musk comes across as a perfectionist in a Steve Jobs kind of way and i dont think he would allow it but Boeing sod that. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 2 minutes ago, AL-FFC said: Got to admit i was the same when i worked away anything Boeing scared the shit out me and i dont like flying at the best of times, Even the Boeing employees one of the whistleblowers said he wouldnt allow his family to fly in a Boeing plane they knew about the safety issues but denied all knowledge even after the Ethiopian airlines they tried to blame it on pilot error. Even with the commercialising Space how far will it go before Profit comes before safety, Musk comes across as a perfectionist in a Steve Jobs kind of way and i dont think he would allow it but Boeing sod that. I like the way Musk tests and tests again for safety, but if that's covered he's quite happy to see failures as part of the design process to blow up millions of dollars of equipment in the incremental learning process. Unlike Boeing who test on computers, put passengers on board, and see them crash. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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