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Yup, seemed pretty cool but not sure that the 4.5 years they spent on it was worth it.
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Quoted: Yup, seemed pretty cool but not sure that the 4.5 years they spent on it was worth it. View Quote That is just the nature of space travel in the absence of warp drives, hyperdrives and teleportation. One other bit of trivia, this was technically SpaceX's first interplanetary mission. So I would imagine there was a significant cost savings compared to if this had been launched on an Atlas or Soyuz or Ariane rocket. |
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Quoted: You ungrateful fucker, who do you think invented the very tide pods you eat. We did Keep sending us checks View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Better than spending it on unproductive boomers with social security. You ungrateful fucker, who do you think invented the very tide pods you eat. We did Keep sending us checks Funniest thing in days.... They've moved on from Tide Pods now though. These days the little brainiacs are cooking chicken in Nyquil and eating it. I say bon appetit! If we could just get them to do it before skydiving just imagine how things would improve. |
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Quoted: Funniest thing in days.... They've moved on from Tide Pods now though. These days the little brainiacs are cooking chicken in Nyquil and eating it. I say bon appetit! If we could just get them to do it before skydiving just imagine how things would improve. View Quote I just saw their "ass babies" the other day, just the latest thing they since up their ass. Yep, totally the best thing since sliced bread they are. NiQuil & chicken? What the original fuck? |
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Quoted: Alright, I’ll admit it, that was pretty cool. As some who is terrible at math, I am amazed that they can get two things to come in contact (let alone collide) over that sort of distance. I bet those people would hella good spotters or long range shooters. Link to tall, slim blonde in mission control onlyfans? View Quote Their wind reading skills are legendary. |
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Quoted: I just saw their "ass babies" the other day, just the latest thing they since up their ass. Yep, totally the best thing since sliced bread they are. NiQuil & chicken? What the original fuck? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Funniest thing in days.... They've moved on from Tide Pods now though. These days the little brainiacs are cooking chicken in Nyquil and eating it. I say bon appetit! If we could just get them to do it before skydiving just imagine how things would improve. I just saw their "ass babies" the other day, just the latest thing they since up their ass. Yep, totally the best thing since sliced bread they are. NiQuil & chicken? What the original fuck? All of that nonsense and they still have time to try and insult people because of something they can't comprehend. |
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Quoted: Lol. The math that describes orbital mechanics is over 400 years old. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: OK, 50 to 100 years from today I wonder if NASA will still be laughing and cheering when that very same asteroid after bouncing off of a couple of its neighbors and flying off course suddenly appears and pierces our atmosphere and wipes out our and every other species on earth. Lol. The math that describes orbital mechanics is over 400 years old. Hell, they weren't even sure as to what the damned thing looked like prior to crashing the probe onto it. What else are they not quite sure of? |
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Quoted: You ungrateful fucker, who do you think invented the very tide pods you eat. We did Keep sending us checks View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Better than spending it on unproductive boomers with social security. You ungrateful fucker, who do you think invented the very tide pods you eat. We did Keep sending us checks shhhh, don't mention the Tide Pods, not quite sure they figured them out. |
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In for if it made a difference, or they just spread a mass of globular rocks into space.
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Quoted: Taxation is theft. Besides, most of the shmucks here won't stop talking about how they want a planet killer to come screaming right down on their heads (and their families heads). Granting them the mercy of ending their horrific American upper middle class existence. I mean, I'm very familiar with the concept that existence is pain and anyone who says anything else is selling something. But that's some serious narcissism when you say that you want to go out and take 93.87% of life on this planet with you. View Quote lmao unironically thinking paying taxes is worse than the extinction of the human species. No wonder no one takes libertarians seriously. |
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Quoted: pretty damn cool. I am always paranoid they just knocked it on course to hit earth now lol. View Quote I wonder if they’ll try this on Apophis. Oh never mind, it’s not going to hit us in 7 years anyway. They say the current trajectory puts it under our current satellites, but will not hit us. I feel pretty good about that, and them. |
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This is taking long range ballistics to the next level....pretty impressive.
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Quoted: Taxation is theft. Besides, most of the shmucks here won't stop talking about how they want a planet killer to come screaming right down on their heads (and their families heads). Granting them the mercy of ending their horrific American upper middle class existence. I mean, I'm very familiar with the concept that existence is pain and anyone who says anything else is selling something. But that's some serious narcissism when you say that you want to go out and take 93.87% of life on this planet with you. View Quote I'm guessing you don't get invited to a lot of parties. |
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Quoted: OK, 50 to 100 years from today I wonder if NASA will still be laughing and cheering when that very same asteroid after bouncing off of a couple of its neighbors and flying off course suddenly appears and pierces our atmosphere and wipes out our and every other species on earth. View Quote |
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Imagine if this asteroid was a more advanced civilizations favorite asteroid and we just yeeted once of our space rockets at it.
I think they would be kinda pissed about right now |
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Quoted: Imagine if this asteroid was a more advanced civilizations favorite asteroid and we just yeeted once of our space rockets at it. I think they would be kinda pissed about right now View Quote Well then they should have left some kind of markings on its surface saying, "hands off!" Or something like that. |
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Quoted: You ungrateful fucker, who do you think invented the very tide pods you eat. We did Keep sending us checks View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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The last pictures before impact are very interesting. Considering the low mass of the object seeing mostly regolith makes me wonder if the impact will make any change to trajectory as a whole or just scatter a whole lot of shit that will go in unpredictable directions causing far more chaos than we could ever anticipate.
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Quoted: Video is time stamped to begin just before the impact. Pretty cool to watch the asteroid get bigger and bigger as the satellite moves toward it at 14,000 mph. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/259519/7B1281BF-A095-4603-AF89-7B168AAE4003_jpe-2540768.JPG View Quote Didn’t anyone check to see if the other side had the Mystery Science Theater logo on it before firing a rocket at it? Attached File |
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Caution, terrain
Caution, terrain Terrain Terrain Pull up! Pull up! |
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That reminded me of the Ranger 7 mission in 1964 which took the first close up images of the lunar surface before impacting.
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I wonder how many classrooms were showing this to their students?
Oh wait, never mind, it would have interrupted their drag queen poll dance show. I'm typing this on my $2000 PC that I purchased with my $6000 a month social security check. |
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Telescope video of impact. It's mostly there after impact! |
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The most disappointing part of this test is that we didn't start with a 500kt warhead
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I wonder if some other alien civilization is looking at us right now and saying, "what the fuck those knobs are up to now"
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Quoted: Lol. The math that describes orbital mechanics is over 400 years old. View Quote You can math things all you want, but human arrogance will be the end of civilization. Scientists need only make one small mistake (a mundane detail Michael), and large objects spinning thousands of miles per hour that unexpectedly had a streak of ice running through it explodes in unexpected ways, hurtling towards earth. I mean they can't even accurately predict a hurricane tract even with all variables known. |
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It seems to fit the dirty snowball model, will be interesting to see the after action photos.
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Quoted: You can math things all you want, but human arrogance will be the end of civilization. Scientists need only make one small mistake (a mundane detail Michael), and large objects spinning thousands of miles per hour that unexpectedly had a streak of ice running through it explodes in unexpected ways, hurtling towards earth. I mean they can't even accurately predict a hurricane tract even with all variables known. View Quote |
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