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Early Morning Open Thread

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  July 16, 20112:31 am| 19 Comments

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Cameras mounted on the two solid rocket boosters that helped propel space shuttle Atlantis into orbit on July 8 provide unique angles of the launch from the Kennedy Space Center and their subsequent water landing downrange in the Atlantic Ocean.

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  1. 1.

    Mike G

    July 16, 2011 at 2:59 am

    Very cool.

  2. 2.

    Alexandra

    July 16, 2011 at 3:00 am

    Beautiful.

  3. 3.

    Yutsano

    July 16, 2011 at 3:13 am

    It looks so…smooth.

  4. 4.

    Martin

    July 16, 2011 at 3:14 am

    I doubt I’ll get to, but I do hope my kids have a chance to go into space. How fucking cool is it that we can do that at all?

  5. 5.

    piratedan

    July 16, 2011 at 4:06 am

    isn’t that part of the problem, liberals and progressives look forward with hope and a thought of “what if” and “wouldn’t it be neat” and Conservatives are busy looking looking back and longing for yesterday and finding comfort “when things were simpler”.

  6. 6.

    Bnut

    July 16, 2011 at 5:31 am

    I really fucked up tonight. I talked one of my friends into smoking with me and he’s now puking his guts out in the bathroom. I feel so awful right now. He lives a clean lifestyle, drinks, no drugs whatsoever. He’s my second closest friend, and he always had talked about us smoking together, esp. after he came back from Iraq and got discharged. I feel like I pushed him into something he didn’t really want, and did it only to please me. I thought we would stay up all night swapping war stories and watching Sportscenter. I feel like such a tool right now. We both agreed not to tell his wife, and I made him swear because I have no doubt I would catch more heat for this debacle.

  7. 7.

    stuckinred

    July 16, 2011 at 5:38 am

    Holy shit, can you believe this story from the LA Times?

    “Carmageddon: Tempers flare as 405 Freeway shuts down

    The stoppage prompted honking from drivers in the few vehicles caught on the freeway between Skirball Center and Mulholland Drive. A couple of people exited their cars.”

    I hope they have the national guard standing by, fucking people HONKING their horns!

  8. 8.

    stuckinred

    July 16, 2011 at 5:39 am

    Bnut

    He hurled from sparkin up a blunt? Damn devil dog, they don’t make em like the used to!

  9. 9.

    Bnut

    July 16, 2011 at 5:42 am

    stuckinred

    We were a bit drunk already, so….

  10. 10.

    hilts

    July 16, 2011 at 5:57 am

    Song for the Atlantis space shuttle

    Across the Universe
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj-4t9drUlM

  11. 11.

    stuckinred

    July 16, 2011 at 6:00 am

    Bnut

    Got it, the twirlybirds. When the room gets to spinning you know what’s next!

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    kdaug

    July 16, 2011 at 6:24 am

    @Bnut: The 1-2 combo can be a bitch for the uninitiated.

  13. 13.

    Cermet

    July 16, 2011 at 7:01 am

    Nice images- simply amazing that these launches cost over 1.2 billion dollars each when a single use rocket (like a Saturn V) would have been one-third or even less in cost and put up the ENTIRE weight of the shuttle as useful payload! Talk about missing the boat – what you get when trained monkey’s … astronauts … I mean, have input on space vehicle design. Also, worse yet, the selection of the fuel propellant was wrong – should have been room temp kerosene with liquid oxygen but instead they miss-calculated and used liquid hydrogen – unbelievable that NASA and a team of smart people missed that simple fact: would have reduced lift mass by almost 5%!

  14. 14.

    MikeJ

    July 16, 2011 at 7:52 am

    While the shuttle has a design that’s a mish mosh, it’s really because they had to get funding from DoD, and they insisted on screwing it up. The original shuttle was much smaller, much simpler, and wasn’t meant to be used for 30 years.

    There was nothing wrong with a research project for a shuttle, and could have been a great way to bring down the cost. Instead they had to build a completed system to get any funding at all. It’s as if somebody told the Wright brothers that they would get no funding unless the plane they built could carry 550 passengers 8,000 miles.

  15. 15.

    mr. whipple

    July 16, 2011 at 8:42 am

    Anyone know why the shuttle rotates just a few seconds into the launch?

  16. 16.

    Poopyman

    July 16, 2011 at 9:06 am

    @mr. whipple: See here.

    I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. That took a whole half hour? Didn’t seem like it.

    Also too, the intertank cam audio is awesome.

  17. 17.

    mr. whipple

    July 16, 2011 at 9:40 am

    Thanks, Poopyman!

  18. 18.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    July 16, 2011 at 10:06 am

    @Bnut: Here’s a little rhyme I used way back in the past:

    Dope before beer, no fear.
    Beer before dope, no hope.

  19. 19.

    Gregory

    July 16, 2011 at 11:40 am

    I can’t believe I watched the whole thing. That took a whole half hour? Didn’t seem like it.

    According to the onscreen timer, it too two minutes (!) for the shuttle to get to the altitude to jettison the boosters. It too considerably longer for them to fall back to Earth.

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