It was considered a successful launch. I guess this is a new thing, so any success is considered a success.

I have a little different spin on the launch. I grew up by Vandenberg Air Force Base, now Vandenberg Space Force Base, and spent most of my life well informed about early missile launches. My father was employed by Lockheed at the base as a propellant engineer beginning in 1957-1958 and at some point a Site Manager with four launch pads. I entered into the biz working space shuttle after 8 years working aircraft manufacturing and flight test and field engineering before I worked space shuttle. After that went away on the west coast, I worked NRO Payloads as a design engineer. So since the first attempts to get to into space, from 1957 to 2014, i’ve been very familiar with space launch and development.

I can tell you that you just don’t get a perfect mission and one needs to learn to crawl before you walk, and then walk well before you run. It cannot be compared to any other mode of transportation development and the huge risks at any event. I see nothing at fault or going off track of a new flight vehicle. The three representatives were a bit over the top with their development failure commentary, but in this goofy social networking age, the uninformed information written by people that can’t find their gluts, need to bow out. No offense to those here on the forum.

My son works for SpaceX at VSFB on the Falon vehicles, so he’s a third generation missile enthusiast.

So other than the comments, the joyful exuberance, and the Rapid Disassembly comment, everything thing is normal during this development phase.

You've obviously got far more inside/first hand knowledge than I do. You should start a thread as I'm sure you have lots of super fascinating info.

My assessment of this launch based on what I've seen/read is that this new rocket was built that was larger and more powerful than the Saturn V (which is impressive from the start) AND reusable! You've got to crawl, walk, run, but when they build something like this, they say "Let's see if it'll crawl, and assuming the crawl is successful, lets see if it can walk and then run afterwards." So, the launch was a success, why not see how far it could get afterwards. It seems to me that it walked a bit after it's crawl, so you could consider it as having exceeded expectations by quite a margin which is cause for celebration.

It looked like a huge accomplishment to me.

For folks poo-pooing it as a failure, how many times did SpaceX have to try to land their reusable rockets before that was a consistent success? (still one of the coolest things that I've ever seen)

It'll be great/interesting to follow the development of this new larger reusable rocket.

I see no reason to poo poo this. This was an incredible achievement among many from Space X. Go Elon! Go Space X! Go Starfleet, lol.

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They did make Max-Q which is the most structural stressing condition. In fact if you recall that the space shuttle throttled back while going through Max-Q. I’m not sure if the Super Heavy throttles back. I just asked my son. I’ll post his response.

According to the narrator of the video that I saw, they did throttle back and then back up as they passed through.

My son said the same. He also said one engine didn’t throttle back. But the root cause has yet to be determined. One engine in thirty isn’t much. They may even have a variable throttle back to adjust total thrust at a given condition.

I don't generally like most of the "non traditional" renditions of our anthem but this kid did a great job.

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Umpire’s chair at the WTA Stuttgart Open where Porsche is a major sponsor…

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Amazing...still another grandson still alive.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/grandson-10th-president-john-tyler-dies-180975992/

Sacred feces! Imagine your million dollar house just sliiiiding into the canyon that used to provide a nice view.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/videos-capture-utah-homes-sliding-down-cliff-into-a-canyon/ar-AA1afUiH

Zero gravity chairs
 

Any reco's on a brand?

Keyless drill chucks suck
 

My hands have gotten too weak to tighten these things. I'm looking at this. Any input?

https://www.penntoolco.com/precise-1-8-5-8-wrench-for-keyless-drill-chucks-3700-0294/

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I'd love to have one of those as my desk chair, but I'm not going to pay several thousand for one. One of these days I'd like to get a seat out of an old 911 and get it mounted to a base.

I suspect that would be heartbreaking. Hopefully the people that lived there had enough noticed to be able to get their stuff out of the house, which would be a little better. This is probably far better than losing your home to fire or flooding, and at least no one was along for the ride.

Part of the issue I see there is poor erosion control. Its probably exacerbated by the drought. Homes also built up against hillsides where those occasionally slump and push them off the foundations.

Limited land and a rush to build...

Yep, and I'm guessing insufficient prep of the site for a home based on the geology of the site.

I feel like there's an engineer of some sort, somewhere that would have said "you shouldn't build there, but if you do, you need to make sure you do X, Y, and Z to make sure the house doesn't slide down the hill.

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If that works with your particular chuck then great. For $10, it seems like it's worth a shot.

Another option, how about replacing the chuck?

I find that most keyless chucks don't require a ton of torque to lock, so if that didn't work, then maybe a "can opener" that is small enough, or maybe something like a pipe wrench since the twisting of the wrench causes the jaws to clamp shut. But then a pipe wrench is heavy which is likely to be an issue.

I have a Bauer battery drill and I hold the chuck with my left hand and slowly pull the trigger. When the chuck starts to slip in my hand, release the trigger and it's good and tight. Reverse the direction of the drill to remove the bit.

It uses the power of the drill instead of having to twist the chuck manually.

I think FB has a hand with a weak grip, so holding the chuck is a problem even with the power of the drill.

That's it exactly. My right hand is 90% crippled and with the strength of a 2 year old.

I believe that wrench only works with the specified Precise keyless chuck. It doesn't work with any chuck. Your best bet would be to replace the keyless chuck with a keyed one, assuming your drill has a standard thread on the output. To remove a chuck, you first remove the screw inside it. It will be left hand threaded. Then the chuck unscrews normally. When we used to replace keyed chucks, you'd put the key in one of the holes and smack it with a hammer to loosen the chuck. Not sure what you'd do on a keyless, but I know I've done it before.

Thanks rockfan! Whether or not it works I've learned something new for the day. Now I can take a nap. :D

This is a guy I respect and one of the few I have followed on social media. One Man trying to make a difference.

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Very cool guy with a vision!

a buddy took my lady & I out onto the bay fishing yesterday for her birthday. pretty good day, we all got fish. mine was the largest at 28".





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Triple play baby!
 

Just as scary, imagine living in this house in Portland's West Hills, which is in a huge Pacific Rim earthquake zone colloquially known as "The Ring of Fire"



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Yep, while I'm sure being inside a house while it slide down a hill would be horrifying, I feel like there would be a chance that you'd live.

Being in that thing if it decided to "TIMBER!" seems like it would leave very, very little chance that you'd survive.

Yep, I've replaced a chuck before (keyed --> keyless) and it wasn't hard at all. I don't think going the other way would be any harder.

Maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there but it looks like there is a building it is connected to at the far end from the camera

File under WOW!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/student-pepper-sprays-teacher-who-confiscates-her-phone/ar-AA1aV3w0?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4164a0f1553c4b649d99cb 849e6a6f0e&ei=67

The student is probably a minor and will skate assault charges.

I was at the doctors office and this makes no sense. Having the clean paper hand towels and the trash bin in the same fixture. So someone comes in, and does a #2, and doesn’t do a great job of washing their hands, places the soiled paper towel and drags it across the clean towels. Now the next guy/gal gets #2 on his hands from that contaminated towel.http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1683771434.jpg

Dolph Lundgren has been fighting cancer since 2015, was told he had 2-3 years to go, then got an encouraging development. He's currently 65 years old. Good luck Dolph!

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/dolph-lundgren-reveals-secret-8-year-cancer-battle-how-second-opinion-saved-his-life

Bo Jackson has had the hiccups for nearly a year now...

https://www.today.com/news/sports/bo-jackson-hiccups-nearly-year-rcna83976

^^^ That would seriously suck ... hope it works out for Bo!