P161911

1/29/21

It doesn’t get much more remote than Promontory, UT (incidentally, the transcontinental railroad was joined just a few miles from the facility where the SRBs are made). Interesting too how the diameter of the SRBs was determined... http://www.astrodigital.org/space/stshorse.html

1/29/21

So much this.

1/29/21

My wife called me at work to tell me. I told her I did not believe it, that NASA would not be so careless. Denial, anger - still at anger.

1/29/21

The evening of the explosion President Reagan had scheduled a call to the Teacher in Space as part of his State of the Union address; there was a huge amount of pressure to have the shuttle on orbit in time for that call, far beyond mere congressional funding. This was the last chance to meet that schedule.

1/29/21

The NASA budget only went up during the Reagan administration. 1981 5.5bln to 1989 11bln based on US OMB records.

1/29/21

To this day I still have nothing but contempt for Dan Rather because he sarcastically referred to the shuttle program as a “high-tech low comedy” when they scrubbed the mission on the 27th over a faulty hatch bolt. Then after the 28th spent the next several weeks bemoaning the loss of the crew and asking why wasn’t…

1/29/21

Just to clear this up FLDS vs LDS. They are both cults. I live in Utah. Now continue talking about Engineering and stuff.

1/29/21

Reagan definitely did cut a lot of beneficial government programming, but he wasn’t responsible for the shuttle. It was already well into testing by the time he took office - the first flight of the Enterprise was in 1977. NASA found out its budget was going to get axed almost as soon as Armstrong and Aldrin were back…

1/29/21

I find the idea of polygamy odd and unappealing. Dealing with one wife is hard enough, having multiple would add too much chaos. Even if it was true love, not some cult sex/control thing, it still seems like a horrible idea to me.

1/29/21

Everything you just wrote is absolutely insane.

1/21/21

Thats nothing, our 1949 Willy’s had the ‘E’’s in “JEEP” in the wrong order!

1/21/21

If it’s people you want to smuggle I guess any car will do as long as you know how to pull it off.

1/21/21

Here’s how I’d do it. Get an old beater Cadillac with a 8L V8. Remove the connecting rods and rocker arms from 4 cylinders. Fill with your contraband.

1/21/21

here in TX, we call that the road rage pistolero hole.

1/21/21