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Going for Antares was apparently too much, it crashed into the launch pad. :D
 
ryan said:
This OP seems like a waste of time, bits, space, energy ..., and that's not even what annoys me.
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You realize they just blew up an Antares rocket? It's ass exploded 20 seconds into the flight.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
ryan said:
This OP seems like a waste of time, bits, space, energy ..., and that's not even what annoys me.
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You realize they just blew up an Antares rocket? It's ass exploded 20 seconds into the flight.
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Was the point of the OP to make a joke? Are you against the Antares rocket? What's the point?

You know; most people are bumbed when NASA fails. It's just so lame to sit back and make bad jokes on a failure of an incredibly amazing organization that is so important to the future of humankind.

It just annoys me and is lame on so many levels that I won't even get into.
 
Loren, unless you can show the rocket is fundamentally badly designed, you don't have any point and you're jumping to conclusions as usual.
 
Well, rockets sometimes explode, especially the ones of new design.
I see no reason to trash NASA for that, especially considering it was private rocket.
 
I'm confused. This was a private company using engines from old Russian rockets. How is this NASA's fault?
 
Playball40 said:
I'm confused. This was a private company using engines from old Russian rockets. How is this NASA's fault?
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Easy! NASA is US government organization and US government have been pissing off Russia lately.
By the way, it's Russian engine modified by Ukrainians, how about that for conspiracy? :)
 
Playball40 said:
I'm confused. This was a private company using engines from old Russian rockets. How is this NASA's fault?
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Obviously, NASA has failed to secure a budget to make their own damned rockets, rather than outsource to subcontractors using Russian leftovers and duct tape. A decent federal agency would have bought enough Congressmen to obtain 8 or maybe even 10% of discretionary spending and take care of these issues.

Alternately, if they could show that zero-gee cloning technology would produce a cure for ebola, they'd have enough money to launch an aircraft carrier into orbit...
 
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