Ontopic Mission to Uranus

[Frau Blugher]

This thread needs Cassini Updates please if anyone . . . .

Did you know that the first telescopic views of Saturns rings were described by the Vatican as " Jesus' foreskin" ?

Now you do .

 

[my little brony]

holy crap. I had no idea there was so many pads. I thought there was like 2, or 3.

No wonder they call it space coast.

thats amazing.

apparently it was cheaper to just build new pads than retool older pads for bigger rockets

 

[my little brony]

holy crap. I had no idea there was so many pads. I thought there was like 2, or 3.

No wonder they call it space coast.

thats amazing.

and that's just on the air force base. you can barely see the kennedy launch pads just north of the bend

I think that's 39A with the red tower at the very top

 

[fly]

This thread needs Cassini Updates please if anyone . . . .

Did you know that the first telescopic views of Saturns rings were described by the Vatican as " Jesus' foreskin" ?

Now you do .

Back when the Catholic church were world leaders in actual science.

 

[my little brony]

 

[Ledboots]

You mean you hope you can find a spot with minimal light pollution

I hate this area at night

Me too, but I'll be up in Pasco county tonight, it's somewhat clearer sky up there.

 

[Ledboots]

very cool pic. I wonder what's in the dark rectangle on the right.

UFO area

 

[Amstel]

UFO area

It was so damn dark!

 

[Darth Handsome]

You could fit a lot of refugees on that site. Juat sayin.

 

[Frau Blugher]

You could fit a lot of refugees on that site. Juat sayin.

The vetting process would finally include the Vulcan salute .

 

[Frau Blugher]

" Live long and . . ."

5...4....3....2....

 

[Strings]

" Live long and . . ."

5...4....3....2....

Don't text and drive?

 

[Frau Blugher]

Don't text and drive?

I'm not explaining this one .

 

[Mr. Argumentor]

This is pretty good.

The Magnus effect is what allows you to levitate a screwdriver or other round object by passing a stream of compressed air over one of the surfaces.

 

[nukes]

This is pretty good.

The Magnus effect is what allows you to levitate a screwdriver or other round object by passing a stream of compressed air over one of the surfaces.

No treadmill, highly disappointed.

 

[Darth Handsome]

Ok look Ive been watching some more ancient aliens and from the sounds of things you guys have got it all wrong.

 

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Ok look Ive been watching some more ancient aliens and from the sounds of things you guys have got it all wrong.

They showed up, built the pyramids, knocked up some chicks then fucked off
They the right ideas

 

[Strings]

I like the one where bigfoot and aliens are in cahoots.

 

[Duke]

very cool pic. I wonder what's in the dark rectangle on the right.

So here is the deal with these retention ponds. They are holding areas, and the water is pumped to a launchpad around the time a launch is scheduled. The water is dumped into the exhaust redirector at the bottom of the launch tower as a sound supression system. Apparently, if they don't dump a ton of water in, the sonic vibrations caused by the engine would shake the rocket apart, destroying it before it ever made it 10 feet off the ground.

The water is probably a different color because of whatever they do to treat it.

 

[Duke]

view of the launch pads at cape canaveral. space x uses the fourth one from the bottom as the falcon 9 landing pad