Because shut up, Kyle.

I enjoy revisionist history...yes is was global fat cats fault...let’s not put any blame on the hundreds of thousands of people who bought $500,000 houses with two buttons and some pocket lint and mortgages with terms a blind moron could see were ludicrous unless the house magically proved to be worth $600,000 eight…

More than that, this was a “what happens if we break something” test, so it was already less than ideal conditions. SpaceX has had failures, many of them public. (They even put out a video called “How not to land a rocket”) But I have yet to see them make the same mistake twice.

First, These are new steerable chute designs. Its engineered to reduce the recovery radius and allow retrieval personnel to approach the landing zone with more accuracy and get a lot closer before splashdown. These are far more complex than the staged chutes used by Apollo. Second point: Chute/water recovery for D2…

We did send people to the moon... But the original three people slated for teh Apollo 1 crew were killed an accident (one of that crew almost died when the Liberty Bell 7 malfunctioned) and the crew Apollo 13 also almost died do to a malfunction. Then there were the deaths of the Challenger and Columbia shuttles. So no…

This is why we do tests.

Pan Am Flight 759 in 1982 crashed immediately after takeoff in New Orleans due to a microburst.  While odds are they won’t bring down a plane, it definitely happens.  I agree, both did their jobs and everyone got home.  That’s really all that matters. 

I’m not really seeing any fails here. I just read a writeup on an incident where ATC played the “a bunch of other plans flew through it just fine” card, and a lot of people died when a microburst whipped up.

Pilot saw something that made him uneasy, and didn’t fly through it. ATC kept him from hitting anybody.…

My mom spanked me when I was disrespectful to people. I'm really glad she didn't love me so much that she killed me with bears.

Keep reading your Bible. The world needs more atheists.

I find religion offensive and appalling, so deal with it.

dude, the article is literally parts of the Bible.

Well, Lot didn't know they were angels at the time. Still, offering up your daughters to be gang raped so your guests won't be is all kinds of fucked up.

Yeah, but in fairness "Run away and don't look back!" could be taken to mean "Run away and don't look back, because looking back will slow you down" or "Run away and don't look back, because you'll see horrendous things you don't want to see like a city being massacred". Few people would go from that to "Run away and…

You forgot about god's BFF Lot sending out his virgin daughters to be raped by the angel rapists just so the angel rapists would leave him and his angels (who can presumably take care of themselves because miracles) alone together.

Yes! See that's what I'm always trying to explain to people. It's like, compare the OT God to gods of the contemporaneous Assyrian religion. All those Bronze Age cultures had gods that were insanely badass and seriously bloodthirsty. Basically, those were tough times.

So you're telling me that Old Testament god was just as much of an asshole as most other mythological gods of the time?

I heard that is when he switched to a different PR guy.

"I'm a perfect being, yet I'm going to create an imperfect world full of pain & suffering, & punish those fragile creatures who don't pray to me hard enough." - God