They were recovered after splashing down in the ocean with parachutes — hardly high tech — and reused after extensive and expensive refurbishing, which killed the promise of fast and cheap rocket turnaround. The SRBs were technically reusable, sure, but it was barely cost effective or timely.

I’m so baffled you managed to commit “should of” and then correctly use “should have” in the very next sentence that I have to share it with the world.

Apparently, not much more was required to rank in Twin Galaxies.

I try to keep my humor Funny or Die free.

If for no other reason, because I don’t like broken promises and those guys are still alive.

So you’re saying they should make Grand Gear?

It’s been a while since I saw such a sun-spot-sized burn with this level of irrefutable argument. Congratulations.

Keywords are “stupid eyes.”

Step 1. Open your eyes

I was saying what you were implying in your comment.
From this thread, I figure that, besides failing to control your students discipline-wise, lacking proper skills and mindset to be a good teacher, and insisting on defending your position even as your more qualified and experienced peers school you on the contrary,…

No, you got it all wrong!

Your experiences are not being dismissed or not taken seriously. Quite the opposite, you’re acknowledging your experience and seeing how serious it is that you cannot command respect from your students and yet you think you’re the cat’s meow in the classroom.

Yeah, we’re in different environments. We’re in a healthy relationship with our students whereas you’re going through hell because you don’t respect your students but expect them to respect you while failing to see they curse at you because you suck as a teacher, not because they’re inherently evil. 

Idiot.

In my classes, I go to great pains to demonstrate the proper and respectful way to disagree with someone.

Will you ever stop blaming your failure as a teacher on everything but yourself? You’ve blamed challenging environments, you’ve blamed being a male teacher, you’ve blamed being funny and cool, you’ve blamed being from out of town, you’ve blamed students being entitled, you’ve blamed parents hating teachers, you’ve…

Yes, you should have cared a lot mot about learning what makes a good teacher and what a good teacher makes.

A major misstep was it not. I’ve had many a funny and cool teacher who managed to keep the whole class with eyes peeled while commanding major respect. Because they were funny, cool, and good teachers. Which, as you obviously haven’t figured out, goes way beyond being knowledgeable, but has much to do with coming…

Don’t forget to add “insecure asshole who demands kids respects him while not deserving it” to the description.

I am also not a bad teacher.

It was praiseworthy because King owned the teacher for passing on outdated, wrong, information that perpetuates harmful myths and the teacher’s reaction was less than stellar in dealing with a critically-thinking, if confrontational, child.