NASA, What have you done for me lately?

Gofirstclass said:
OK, let me see if I have this right....this jet flies at 50,000 feet...and it's super quiet. But why does it have to be super quiet if it's about 9.5 miles high.

What listening device it gonna hear it, and as fast as this thing flies it's going to be loooong gone by the time anyone on the ground can determine what the sound is coming from? I can just hear some foreign military expert saying "Hey, I just heard someone slam a car door. Anyone else hear it?"

Sounds to me (bad pun there, sorry) like this project was designed to provide lots of people with lots of money. :rolleyes:

"Wasn't this discussion tabled a couple of years ago - by the same OP? Maybe someone else but the same questions and discussions."

I don't recall posting this before, but what the heck, with my chemo brain I could have posted it yesterday and maybe not have remembered it. o_O
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Lockheed Martin is one of our largest defense companies. reducing the sound also means less energy is wasted, which means the craft can fly farther Or faster or both. This tech will likely find its way into vehicles and missiles that we aren’t currently privy to. NASA has always been a feeder into military tech. Shit the space race was nothing more than show of military force/tech against Russia.
 
highslice said:
Velcro!
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No….. a Swedish guy invented Velcro hunting it started in the 1940’s when he was hunting and he and is dog got covered in burrs…. When he got home he wondered why the could cling so well….. he figured it out and invented Velcro…… he died a multi millionaire in 1990
 
Blueone said:
No….. a Swedish guy invented Velcro hunting it started in the 1940’s when he was hunting and he and is dog got covered in burrs…. When he got home he wondered why the could cling so well….. he figured it out and invented Velcro…… he died a multi millionaire in 1990
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Google it it’s quite an interesting story

Do you guys remember when the US army embraced Velcro …. Probably 25 30 years ago. They designed all new combat gear and uniforms and deployed them….. the guys in compat hiding would open a pocket and it was so loud it gave away their location….. our government scrapped all the gear and uniforms
 
Space X gets $2.04B out of $25B. That does raise an interesting question of what the rest is spent on when Space X is really the only viable, reusable launch system.
 
PlayDate said:
Space X gets $2.04B out of $25B. That does raise an interesting question of what the rest is spent on when Space X is really the only viable, reusable launch system.
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Plenty of sites to find that out if one wants to dive into the details. For example: Last year NASA spent 73.5% of its total budget on contracts with nearly 5,000 businesses, nonprofit organizations, and educational institutions across the United States. NASA's major contractors—Boeing, Lockheed-Martin, SpaceX, and Orbital Sciences—are the biggest recipients of NASA funding, though they in turn work with many additional supplies and businesses.
 
PlayDate said:
Space X gets $2.04B out of $25B. That does raise an interesting question of what the rest is spent on when Space X is really the only viable, reusable launch system.
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Things like the James Webb telescope, the project allowing the measurement of gravitational waves, there’s a helicopter flying around mars. They do a lot of things beyond just putting astronauts into space. SpaceX at this point is just the transportation of those things.

image comparison of James Webb vs hubbell
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PlayDate said:
Space X gets $2.04B out of $25B. That does raise an interesting question of what the rest is spent on when Space X is really the only viable, reusable launch system.
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I don’t know all the names, JPL is one. There are a lot of places in Baltimore, Greenbelt, Houston, Australia, Chile, others, that are still monitoring the Voyager crafts, SETI, Space Station monitoring, Hubble, JW telescope, lots of stuff going on daily that NASA funds.
And they still train astronauts daily, for what I don’t know, but I m sure that aint cheap.
And don’t forget the AC bill on that building in the desert where they store those alien bodies. And he aint cheap…
Welcome to earf mutha fkrs!
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Blueone said:
No….. a Swedish guy invented Velcro hunting it started in the 1940’s when he was hunting and he and is dog got covered in burrs…. When he got home he wondered why the could cling so well….. he figured it out and invented Velcro…… he died a multi millionaire in 1990
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Guess I gave NASA too much credit.
 
Maggieiscrazy said:
Do you guys remember when nasa made a movie about landing on the moon. And (almost) everybody believed it was real?
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Do you remember when Buzz Aldrin punched some retard that thought it was faked?

72-year-old Buzz Aldrin punches a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face | September 9, 2002 | HISTORY

On September 9, 2002, astronaut Buzz Aldrin—the second human to set foot on the moon—is walking outside a Beverly Hills hotel when a conspiracy theorist starts harassing him and accusing Aldrin of lying about the Apollo 11 moon landing. Incensed, Aldrin punches his heckler in the face. “You’re...
www.history.com www.history.com
 
Maggieiscrazy said:
Do you guys remember when nasa made a movie about landing on the moon. And (almost) everybody believed it was real?
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My grandfather an amazing smart nice man…. Just couldn’t accept landing on the moon was real….. I am pretty sure he started the phrase Fake News
 
northshore said:
Do you remember when Buzz Aldrin punched some retard that thought it was faked?

72-year-old Buzz Aldrin punches a moon landing conspiracy theorist in the face | September 9, 2002 | HISTORY

On September 9, 2002, astronaut Buzz Aldrin—the second human to set foot on the moon—is walking outside a Beverly Hills hotel when a conspiracy theorist starts harassing him and accusing Aldrin of lying about the Apollo 11 moon landing. Incensed, Aldrin punches his heckler in the face. “You’re...
www.history.com www.history.com
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I’m not afraid of him. I think I could take him.
 
Blueone said:
My grandfather an amazing smart nice man…. Just couldn’t accept landing on the moon was real….. I am pretty sure he started the phrase Fake News
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He isn't the only one, my grandfather too. He also questioned the thought that if you left your yard and walked straight west, how could you end up in the east.
 
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