"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
10/13/2015 at 18:18 • Filed to: None
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"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
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Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2015 at 18:25 |
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Oh, cool! (in my 10-year old inner voice)
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Chariotoflove
10/13/2015 at 18:26 |
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me too. I love these cutaways and there is some really great info packed into that graphic
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Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2015 at 18:35 |
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Where did you get it? Because I would buy or print out a high-res version and put it up on the wall for my kid.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Chariotoflove
10/13/2015 at 18:39 |
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I found it at dark roasted blend
Leadbull
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2015 at 18:57 |
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When I was a kid, I had entire books full of cutaways.
Used to spend hours poring over those
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Chariotoflove
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2015 at 18:58 |
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Ah, found it! Also, I think I have found a new time-sink. Thanks!
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HammerheadFistpunch
> Chariotoflove
10/13/2015 at 19:08 |
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Yeah drb is trouble, fortunately it’s only updated every so often
BigBlock440
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2015 at 19:42 |
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Went to the Kennedy Space Center last year, walking around their “rocket garden” I was a little disappointed, all of the rockets seemed fairly small. Then I made it to their Apollo center, they had a Saturn V hanging from the ceiling not too far above your head. Walking the full length of it, holy shit that is a big rocket.
user314
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2015 at 19:48 |
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And because there’s an xkcd for everything, the Up Goer Five:
TheOnelectronic
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/13/2015 at 19:57 |
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I think you mean the Up Goer Five
http://imgur.com/gallery/X3yjd9…
(that last paragraph at the bottom remains one of my most favorite bits of writing ever.)
You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2015 at 11:48 |
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Awesome find. I had a chance to see a Saturn V at the Houston Space Center. It was definitely worth the hour drive from the hotel just to see that.
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HammerheadFistpunch
> You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
10/14/2015 at 11:50 |
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I would love to see it, my dad worked with the team that used to make the solid rocket motors for the space shuttle and my good friend also works in rockets, I find them very interesting.
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You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/14/2015 at 14:41 |
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If you’re ever in the Houston area make a point to go see it. I wasn’t able to get in the museum, but it looks pretty impressive on the internet. The museum would probably be worth a trip to Houston too.
PS9
> HammerheadFistpunch
10/31/2015 at 09:04 |
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It’s not fair.
One day, space travel will be safe and commercialized. The machines we use to get there will be tested through time and revision. There will be mistakes. People will die. But we will adapt and improve until those realities are thoroughly mitigated.
Someday, going to space will be as easy as going to Italy. You just buy your ticket and off you go to the orbital hotel, or the moon resort, or Martian Stonehenge, or that crashed ancient space ship on Enceladus, or surf the methane lakes of Titan, or explore the Oort cloud, or even touch the Heliopause. The future of space travel and space tourism is bright. We will one day quench our thirst for space exploration.
But that day will not be today. It won’t be tomorrow either. None of my remaining days as a mortal human will have any of this cool shit in them, and it’s not fair. It’s just not fair.