@Freelancer λ 1-1: I just read that as a long, run-on sentence all quickly spouted off in one breath. I feel the same way. Also, Eagle all the way. The Sabre was a blunt tool for punching your way through the rough-and-tumble border systems. The Eagle had finesse while still being beefy enough to hold its own head…

@boneheadotto: I LOVED that game. I really wish FL2 had seen the light of day.

@InTheTexasNotOfIt: I was about to say, doesn't that happen anyways? You hear all the time about people being trampled and beat to death at soccer matches, I thought it was part of the tradition of going to the games.

@RenegadeNukes: Bingo. Spaceflight's still a tricky business. Even today the big players lose launch vehicles.

@sneakypoo: Probably something like what went through the mind of, say, Alan Shepard. After a load of spectacular, high-profile launch failures, and problems in the systems are delaying his launch: "Why don't you fix your little problem and light this candle."

@musiqrulez: "I pride myself on having the skills and the mind, but not the short-sightedness" "Go creatives!!!" "musiqrulez" If you are, in fact, in music rather than engineering, and do have the skills, which I rather doubt, then you are either extremely talented at music and I applaud you, or you have poor…

@Stem_Sell: Now now, it's blindingly obvious this is a serious matter. We shouldn't make light of it.

So...Malaysia is the Philadelphia of Asian soccer?

@KBlack: At least bring back the Hellhounds from World War II and Vietnam.

The US does need to put Baneblade into service.

@Rils: I, too, find it shocking.

@plazmatyk: Well that news is just electrifying.

@plazmatyk: Watt's that? This isn't some Joule of a problem?

@Stem_Sell: It's unparalleled in magnitude!

@Settings: Yeah, the legs are stiff, but I feel like it's rock solid for my DSLR, and once the ball head ships out to me, it should rock.

Gorillapod and some cash.

@wagnerrp: I don't know that it would be cheaper. I mean, that's a lot of force on those control surfaces that you have to do maintenance on. I'm sure plenty of engineers put their heads together on that one with fare more expertise than this lowly undergrad.

@wagnerrp: Aha. Well that makes sense. Only super-pricey parts on the solid rockets would be the guidance systems and such then, I suppose.

@SgtBeavis: NASA needs those ATK SRBs on the HLLV ASAP.

@I Think We're Property: The vehicle isn't just "expensive". It's the bulk of the cost for a launch if I'm not mistaken. The fuel itself is very cheap stuff, albeit in massive amounts. Should bring down costs, though.