[ExI] bond villain

[William Flynn Wallace]

Recovery of the first stage was awesome.  Beyond that I think have lost
most of my awe about getting things in orbit.  That it was private
business, mostly, was certainly a significant event. TV news I don't watch,
but I suspect that no details of the scientific aspects of the program will
see the air, which, by the way, is now outdated for TV (but not for radio -
does anyone listen to radio news?).  bill w

On Sun, May 31, 2020 at 11:04 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *Giulio Prisco via extropy-chat
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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] bond villain
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> >>…I have been following the Spacex adventure.  Someone commented that
> Elon Musk reminds them of a Bond villain…But what if… the technology
> billionaire is the good guy doing good things, and the government agent is
> the bad guy? ….  spike
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> >…Let's thank the Simulators for Elon Musk. He is very needed… Giulio
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> Ja, roger that Giulio.  A good friend of mine since we were age 7 grew up
> with the space program as I did (what a marvelous privilege that was)
> worked at the cape during the shuttle years, lives near the giant integral
> sign (Max Brewer Bridge) and was out there both days, the rained-out
> Wednesday and again Saturday.  His comment interested me: there have been
> plenty of Spacex launches out of the cape (he estimates about 70 of them
> over the last about ten years.)  He lives down on the Indian River about a
> km from the Integral so he sees them all and he sees the crowds.
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> This was the first manned Spacex launch.  This time it was a completely
> different game: waaaay the heeelllll more people, way more enthusiasm: the
> crowd went crazy, cheering and acting like fools out there when they lit
> the candle, great time.  It was Apollo all over again.
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> I am struggling with the irony.  The unmanned launches carry instruments
> of enormous scientific value, and of course that feet-first landing trick
> is the controls engineer’s playground.  This launch took a coupla fellers
> to the station, which has little if any remaining scientific value: we
> already know the answers to the (very few) questions that station gave us.
> The proletariat cheered like crazy for the scientifically uninteresting,
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> Shows to go ya: no Buck Rogers, no bucks.
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