Danderman123

The Russians clearly didn't watch "Gravity". Exploding a nuke in space would result in widespread damage to Russian systems.

I'm not Walt Anderson, but I did work for him in Russia. Here's an "inside baseball" story: At one point in SpaceX efforts to design a rocket engine (Merlin), Elon had a moment of doubt, and started looking to buy an engine. The best out there was the NK-33, but Aerojet had already scooped up all production from the factory. So, I was asked to find more. I suspected that the design bureau in Samara still had some in storage (the engines had not been in use for 40 years by then). So I arranged for a visit to Samara. Russians don't trust foreigners, so the first piece of business is to drink. I was seated at a table where everyone had a bottle of vodka in front of them. Which we drank during a long series of toasts. Apparently, I passed the test, since I was led into the bowels of the design bureau, and shown maybe a dozen pristine NK-33s. And after that, taken to a private villa on the Volga river. But, Elon fixed his engine, so those engines in Samara were used by the Russians on a Soyuz variant.

The farming in the Coachella valley came after I retired. And, no, I didn't found NASA. It's gratifying that you think my career is amazing.

The Russian space program is dying. Much of the money allocated to it is stolen. The engineers who designed their best systems are long dead. The Soyuz spacecraft design is now 60 years old, and the replacement has taken 10 years of work and still isn't ready.

There IS a process for doing something about the border. It starts with the Housing drafting a bill and passing it. That's the part the Republicans won't do. A child could see that the border is only an election issue for the Republicans.

The election this week showed that the border issue may be hurting the Republicans.

I am sure that these recordings will be revealed Real Soon Now. Meanwhile, the Special Counsel has released some big news, which I will post when it's available.

This whole court session is a joke. 'I had health on my mind': Nathan Wade testifies cancer stopped him from dating in 2020 The sole witness alleging a relationship between Nathan Wade and Fani Willis pre-2021 clearly perjured herself. The plaintiff's attorney is doing her best Alina Habba imitation. She's down to questioning whether Fani Willis got more shrimp when they dined together and split expenses. At the worst, the judge is going to refer the issue to the state Bar. Or not.

... write a simple statement outlining your position? Let me show you how to do it: "Human pollution is causing global temperatures to rise. There are no natural forces causing warming." I understand your goal is to sow dought on the basic premise that humans are causing warming. So, you borrow from other Deniers who never state their position, they only attack the Global Warming hypothesis. You have issued partial statements that leave room for you to wriggle out of support for the Global Warming hypothesis later on. Just state your position...

The Trial is set for March 25.

The witness for the plaintiff testified that she saw Willis and Wade kissing before 2022. Then she got destroyed on cross. A former friend of Fani Willis in the DA's office, she was fired for bad performance and is still angry. She doesn't remember any details. Bad witness. Next! Update: Attorney Terrence Bradley was supposed to testify that he witnessed Wade and Willis in a romantic relationship. Instead, he declined to testify. Oops.

Not important. You really believe that no poster here has never claimed that CO2 impacts temperature. There have been all sorts of nutballs posting on this forum about Global Warming. What is important is that you simply state your position on human caused global warming.

Friday is supposed to be E-day. My guess is damages at $379 million, a little extra penalty for bad behavior in court. I doubt that Trump will ever pay in his lifetime, and his estate will be worthless.

More on the renting Mir project: https://www.nytimes.com/2000/07/23/magazine/american-megamillionaire-gets-russki-space-heap.html I was long gone by the time this news broke. And this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphans_of_Apollo There was a documentary about the renting Mir project. I saw the movie at some enormous theater in LA, with my girlfriend. She was duly impressed by my appearance in the movie. Neither of these deal much with the origins of the project, which is when I was involved. My goal was to use an electrodynamic tether to raise Mir's orbit so it could be stored for future use (like now). I still have my copy of the RSC Energia technical feasibility report. I bailed on the project when the plan changed from storing Mir to operating it right now (in competition with the International Space Station). I saw the danger in competing against NASA's #1 cash cow.

and yet there are posters who claim that humans are not causing the increase in atmospheric CO2 from 280-400+ ppm.

Sorry, that's astronomy, not my field. I am just an itinerant guitar player/space systems architect.

My favorite photo from the SS-18 launch (not my photo), I was inside the plane at the time. After the launch, and the party, we had to fly back to Moscow. Unfortunately, the TU-154 aircraft engines wouldn't start. After long hours on the swelting tarmac, the engines wouldn't start, and the small airport didn't have a starter. So a mechanic tried Russian style repair, he hit the engine with a hammer. And off we went.

you seem confused. "Mir project" = the effort to rent Mir. Not the Soviet Mir project, which started in 1975. SpaceX was formed more than 10 years after the enabling legislation was passed.

and here is a photo of me in the RSC Museum with the MirCorp guys (MirCorp was founded after this photo was taken). It's the Vostok 1 capsule.

See if you can find a photo of the silo after launch. A couple more photos of the launch. The metal ring falls off the missile on the way up. The missile is in the red circle, I was 7 km away at launch.

1990: Enabling legislation for SpaceX passed: https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/COMPS-10648 1998: Mir project begins 2001~: SpaceX formed (I was not involved).

Here's something you have never seen before, a photo of an open SS-18 silo, just a few minutes after the missile was launched. I was invited to the Baikonur cosmodrome to see a launch. This is the rocket that Elon wanted for his first Mars project.

Mike Griffin, a former NASA administrator, was intent on duplicating Apollo. He started the Ares program, which evolved into the current Artemis.

Nope. I was involved in the Mir station long before my current companies were formed. The company that emerged from the Mir activity was MirCorp, but I was not involved in that company. It sounds like the timeline is confusing you. 1998 (more or less): effort to rent Mir starts. 2000: I leave the project, MirCorp is formed. 2006: I start work on company #1 2009: Company #1 incorporated 2010: first payload to ISS flown 2018 (more or less): 2nd company founded.

Because that was the location of one of my companies, per NASA. It appears in NASA documents for many years. I'll send you something via mail.