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The crew was woken up today with a prerecorded posthumous message from Apollo 8 and 13 Astronaut Jim Lovell who welcomed them back to his old neighborhood.  He echoed Frank Borman's Christmas Eve message by mentioned "the good Earth".

6 minutes ago, chasfh said:

I have two accounts, one for baseball, one for politics, and I have cleaned the magats out of my political feed and don't have to encounter them.

Some may say that's merely wrapping myself in bubble wrap to protect my snowflake sensibilities from alternative points of view. Me, I view it as simply avoiding people who throw bombs for kicks.

There's nothing wrong with being in a bubble if your goal is to entertain yourself.  I've resigned myself that I don't care anymore to hear what Tom Nichols or George Conway have to say anymore.  it's just repeating the same thing over and over.  I'd rather follow Noir Chick in Old Hollywood to see classic beauties of yesteryear or NASA **** or Codify

but I question the effectiveness now.  I still use the site but I'm finding it less useful for what I liked it for.  If it's just a bunch of crackpot right wingers talking to each other, and arguing, then it's just an AOL chat room.  I just it for entertainment and sports.

I don't think Benetti's national aspirations affect his willingness or ability to still do Tiger Games unless he wants summers off or to work less in the summer. The overlap with football and college BB is a short window.  

Just now I looked up at the moon in my backyard and for the first time in my life I can say "there's people up there". About 26,000 miles away.  Netflix will be livestreaming the flyby this afternoon, starting at 1 pm EDT.

They're sleeping right now, will wake up at 9:50 EDT, I wonder if they'll do something special.  Charlie Duke, moonwalker on Apollo 16, woke them up the other day.  He's the one who was CAPCOM on Apollo 11's landing.  "We copy you down Eagle"

At 1:56 they'll be further than Apollo 13's record.

Around 2:15 they'll darken the cabin to prepare for photos.

During this time they have assignments and they might be able to see the Apollo 12 and 14 landing sites.

6:47 they'll lose contact

7:02 is the closest approach to the moon

7:27 reacquisition of signal

8:35 a solar eclipse for them

9:20 lunar flyby ends

I’m pretty sure Dan prefers radio and agreed to do the TV splits when necessary if it meant getting Jason on board most of the time. That how I interpreted his comments last year when they discussed this. 

It was the kind of move that tells me the organization, particularly Chris Ilitch, is serious about putting a good product out.  

53 minutes ago, Shelton said:

I can’t tell if MCS is doing a bit. Those are the best bits to do. 
 

Anyway, seeing as how this is how it has always been done for as long as we can remember, I’m not sure what’s so objectionable about yesterday’s game. Everyone on the field knows the deal when rain is in the forecast.

They showed the managers and Scott Harris and the umps in the dugout and everyone seemed agreeable and happy. 

The network is. Fanduel as a company is fine. They just put their name on it. I’m sure you know that. Just clarifying as I have seen it elsewhere that “betting is done”. 

I saw it too but from a person who posts a lot of crazy ****. 
 

JV also said it’s not that bad and he could have played if he needed to but everyone agreed this is not the time of the year to do that. 

Today was a perfect opening day.  Wore shorts.  Ditched my light jacket around 11:30.  Got home and walked to the local bar for the final fish fry of the season.  A mile walk after that. 20,000 steps and a tanned face.  
 

and a tiger win. 

Let’s see what the good Catholic JD Vance has to say about the pentagon. 

Isn’t there a fundamental issue that EO’s are not laws?  Regardless of the scope of their intent the law is the law and the constitution is the constitution. If the court were to agree that this anchor baby stuff going forward should be negated isn’t the place that’s done via an amendment or law and not an order?  I’m assuming there is something I am missing I guess 

2 hours ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Aren't you basically vacuuming up your shyte?      That's about the only way that could work, right?   

 

 

 

 

 

Yes, like they did on the space shuttle and today on the ISS, but in Apollo days they put it in bags. Entirely manual.  You taped the bag to yourself.  
 

Urine was deposited outside. “Constellation Urine” as Wally Schirra called it.  That used some vacuum tech as you attached yourself to a tube. I guess it hurt sometimes because of the vacuum portion. Then it was dumped. In Apollo 13 the crew was told to stop the dumps because they were worried about them affecting their trajectory.  That request was rescinded but the crew didn’t realize it. So they had bags of urine taped all over the inside of the spacecraft and the moisture was causing the tape to come off. So it’s cold, dark, hungry, and bags of piss everywhere. 
 

in some Apollo missions the fecal bags were carefully labeled and analyzed later by scientists to see how the body digested food in zero G. Everything in they ate was carefully logged. 

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

in the context...the person who gets access to classified information signs an NDA to protect the information.   That is also wrapped up in a raft of classification regulation in which you are not allowed to use classification to protect the reputation of the organization.   However, Doofusmctrumpusface won't understand that and will conflate them with the NDAs he made his employees sign to protect...unflattering information. 

That’s what I am getting at.  What a government employee signs because of their job and the data they have access to is not th same thing as Trump making his whores sign so they won’t talk about his sick or his employees won’t talk about tbhim young girls visiting mar a Lago. 

3 hours ago, ewsieg said:

You're thinking like a rational person would think, which is why you are wrong.   It's quite clear looking at her what the real issue is, this aging women thinks it's alright to just represent his whims without truly representing the most important thing to Trump, physical looks.  She has refused Mar-a-lago face and he's not going to tolerate that.

Definitely a legal document, but you can't use it to hide behind illegal acts.  As a public official, no idea if it is even legal to sign an NDA related to your work though.  

What I mean by a legal document is the law can’t come after you.  Poor choice of words. It’s not a criminal act to “break” one. Nobody will arrest you.  If you sign one and I thjnk you break it by only course of action is to sue. I can’t call the cops or city hall. 

Isn’t an NDA just a contract between two parties?  It’s not a legal document. It’s never been tested for government work and I doubt would hold up in a civil court. 

What we're seeing is AI being put on objectives so people coming up with things that are not AI, calling it AI, and everybody plays along... the the big wigs can tell Wall St we did AI.  

I've seen it said that AI can make people more productive... so if that's true then why would you negate that productivity by firing people?  Don't you want more output?  Or is productivity not the real goal? (Rhetorical question, I know).

I saw quotes by Barret to the effect of "Yeah but the Constitution"

The solicitor is like "It's a brave new world...." Roberts said "It might be but the constitution is still the constitution"

Going up in an Orion would be a lot better than an Apollo command module.  It’s got about 50 % more space but also another crew member. But the interior is also laid out favorably. It’s not cockpit style with switches and dials guages. It’s touchscreens.  
 

embedded in the Apollo 10 transcript is the realization that a “turd” was floating around. Fecal containment devices.  

Artemis III is no longer set as a landing mission. Isaacman reconfigured the plans, in a good way.  I’m still skeptical that will happen as they don’t even have a lander settled yet. But yeah I have been excited for this mission for a long time. I took the day of work for it. 

what is different about Artemis and Apollo is Apollos focus was going to the moon.  Artemis is about deep space with the moon as a steppingstone for that.  They are testing different things.  Apollo was about learning how to do it.  Was the math correct?   Do the radars and communication systems work?   The problems being solved were more practical.
 

We have the tools now for that so focus can shift to the equipment itself like the Orion capsules performance. 
 

Artemis II is going to slingshot around the moon, like Apollo 13 had to do after their problem.  They. will not go into orbit   There’s no need to.  The risk and fuel requirements are unnecessary .  They know they can do it when the time comes. Most Apollo lunar missions started in a free return launch trajectory and once things looked good they altered course for their lunar orbit path.  

Humans have not left earth orbit since December 1972, This is a very big deal for space enthusiasts.  

45 minutes ago, pfife said:

4.54per gallon in Vegas

Sweet gas prices.   If i voted for this,  I wouldnt show up where i bragged about voting for this either 

probably playing with grass or something.