Iceberg wrote:I've been sitting on this comment for days, but when I look at the thread header, I think, "China sends space into man? What's so new about that? All you need is an AK-47 to fill a man full of new spaces."
/groan
But don't they usually only insert a single space, billed to the family?
Patrick Degan wrote:worse shipboard fires aboard the destroyers USS Laffley and USS Aaron Ward in World War II did not result in anywhere near the level of structural damage as suffered by the Belknap, whose topside works were razed right down to her main steel deck.
The Belknap collided with the JFK at the overhang under catapult 3 and 4. That is where the JP5 tanks are and the ruptured tanks dumped about a million gallons right down the stack. The fire on the Belknap went to the main deck only at the center. The bridge and CIC were undamaged and aft of the superstructure the 5" was ok.8 crewmen lost their lives.
I did some quick sketch calculations, about 1m gallons is about 2,500 tons
of JP5, and all that went right down into the boilers. Now THATS one
hell of a fire.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
MKSheppard wrote:
I did some quick sketch calculations, about 1m gallons is about 2,500 tons
of JP5, and all that went right down into the boilers. Now THATS one
hell of a fire.
Damn, I just realized I was using the weight of gasoline which is 5-6 pounds
a gallon, rather than JP5....oh wait, JP5 is about that weight too.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
it is unclear whether China will allow its 1.3 billion population to witness the launch live. State television has reportedly scuttled plans for live broadcasts.
it is unclear whether China will allow its 1.3 billion population to witness the launch live. State television has reportedly scuttled plans for live broadcasts.
Uhhhhhh.....why?
Because a live catastrophic failure would lower the morale of the population, something the Party presumably wants to avoid at all costs.
it is unclear whether China will allow its 1.3 billion population to witness the launch live. State television has reportedly scuttled plans for live broadcasts.
Uhhhhhh.....why?
Because a live catastrophic failure would lower the morale of the population, something the Party presumably wants to avoid at all costs.
But a live wondrous success would raise the morale of the population. Not very confident, are they?
JodoForce wrote:... and the whole flight was successful.
What, nothing to say now?
I'd say Col. Yang made my argument for me, and quite effectively.
When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
I of course want as many Chinese space flights to succede as it takes to get the US Space program in gear and start kicking Chinese ass.. then of course they can crash and burn for as all I care. Then India can start their space program and we can out do them to...
Patrick Degan wrote:
I'd say Col. Yang made my argument for me, and quite effectively.
Yep. But I find it very interesting that they didn't televise
the launch live.
"If scientists and inventors who develop disease cures and useful technologies don't get lifetime royalties, I'd like to know what fucking rationale you have for some guy getting lifetime royalties for writing an episode of Full House." - Mike Wong
"The present air situation in the Pacific is entirely the result of fighting a fifth rate air power." - U.S. Navy Memo - 24 July 1944
Patrick Degan wrote:
I'd say Col. Yang made my argument for me, and quite effectively.
Yep. But I find it very interesting that they didn't televise
the launch live.
SOP in a closed society —especially a communist one.
When ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided, there can be no successful appeal back to bullets.
—Abraham Lincoln
People pray so that God won't crush them like bugs.
—Dr. Gregory House
Oil an emergency?! It's about time, Brigadier, that the leaders of this planet of yours realised that to remain dependent upon a mineral slime simply doesn't make sense.
—The Doctor "Terror Of The Zygons" (1975)
But I find it very interesting that they didn't televise
