Yeah, very slow. Maybe it's because they're fixing the problems.
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Yeah, very slow. Maybe it's because they're fixing the problems.
Improvements seem to have been made, though some seem to still remain to be made.
Either that or it is cyclical.
Can't wait for my cheat meal Burger king tonight!
I thought this might have happened. https://www.yahoo.com/news/intuitive...223928967.html
I watched the landing. There was problems, a delay and then they announce "the lander was on the moon" . Already knew that. They never came out and said it was successful landing, it went as planned. Been checking the news today and they still never gave a clear description of the landing other than it was on the moon. To be honest the darn thing looks top heavy and be easy to tip over. But hey, they were able to hit the moon.
Well, the lander didn't get destroyed, that is something. :-)
Success in such endeavors is a matter of degrees.
In this case they were about 90 degrees off. :p
The first manned landing on Mars looks to be off by centuries rather than decades. :-(
I've never seen much benefit in sending a person to Mars. Until we're able to propel much larger crafts, much much faster, Earth is the only viable habitat.Quote:
The first manned landing on Mars looks to be off by centuries rather than decades. :-(
The benefits of such endeavours is always debatable. What exactly was the benefit of the first manned moonlanding except for beating the Soviets to it and some limited scientific benefits? Clearly scientific probes are already hard to do and even there politics tend to get somewhat involved as it appears to be of great importance which specific country sent one. And here I was thinking advances in space flight were meant to benefit all of humanity instead of some country's ego. Why silly me. (sarcasm)
I sort of agree with going to the moon in '69. It was definitely political but there was a lot to learn. Like what it takes to propel a manned vehicle and land on a distant object. Could we even do it. But now it's 50+yrs later and we want to go to Mars using basically the same method. The electronics have improved but not the propulsion method. As of now that would mean physical damage to the astronauts even if the mission was successful. If I could see some meaningful benefit I'd probably feel different. I guess it could be a stepping stone but to where? Until we solve the problems of the damage zero gravity causes and vehicle size and speed, what's the point?
We were all suppose to be jetting around in fly cars by now. Maybe I'm just bitter because I was looking forward to that. lol
To be honest, the bitter tone in my last post was kind of due to the fact that I am a bit bitter about the promised Mars landings. I vividly remember reading science magazines from the 70's/80's during my teenage years and watching sci-fi which basically said we'd be going to Mars somewhere during the early 21st century. I guess I took even the purportedly serious magazines way too seriously. Oh, and add the newscasts with some politician making the same promise to that as well. And do you know where we are, in my humble opinion? We are cowering in low-Earth orbit in fear of the dangers of outer space and fighting among each other on Earth's surface. Don't get me wrong, I am not for hasty, reckless, and costly missions which endanger human lives; that would be going too far, but they really should stop making unrealistic promises, inflating expectations of susceptible individuals. Also, YouTube is crawling with pointless videos about the subject. On the other hand, I am left wondering whether anyone really would want to hear a manned mission to Mars could be done somewhere in the distant future, but not within their lifetime? Perhaps now something may come of it, after several decades, somewhere very late this century or early in the 22nd century. Many people today probably would want to be around when a manned landing finally does happen but could not be.
(I asked Chat-GPT) to rephrase my original text a bit for the sake of clarity.)
The lack of progress has made me bitter. I wanted to work for Spacely Space Sprockets :)Quote:
To be honest, the bitter tone in my last post was kind of due to the fact that I am a bit bitter about the promised Mars landings.
I want my robot maid and flying car! ;-)
I want my MTV.
Are you jokingly referring to that music channel from decades ago? :-)
I want my Rudy-like talking computer! (Not the fake stuff we have now! XD)
The roller coaster still rolls. If you'd asked me Saturday morning I'd say I'd been ghosted. By Saturday noon friend zoned/dumped for some local James William Bottomtooth III. By Saturday afternoon really confused. By Saturday night back to normal++. No change Sunday morning. Day's not over yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
If I had a nickel for everyone who's said "Run, Forrest, run!" by now I could fund a Presidential campaign.
Dire Straits - Money For NothingQuote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
How does that abbreviate to MTV? :rolleyes:
You might get your nickelback.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
The song was so much about MTV that it could almost be the name of the song. The music video was a cartoon about MTV.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
So it was related to that music channel I referred to? :-) Or am I off again? :-(
No, it was related. There is likely no song that was ever more intimately tied to/about MTV than Money For Nothing. It was a song largely about MTV.
Ah okay, I never really watched MTV, beyond knowing it existed and was something to do with music aimed at teens I don't know much about it.
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Wait weren't Beavis and Butthead first shown on MTV?
As long as you feel the ride is beneficial and your not hurt by the bumps, then enjoy the ride. From what you've posted these swings seem to be the norm and not likely to stop.Quote:
Originally Posted by dilettante
The song actually uses the phrase "I want my MTV".Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0
I'm 99% sure I have heard music from the same band long long ago! :-) Not too surprising that this was fairly typical for the 80's and 90's.
That was after my time. Nice to see that Reply With Quote is now working again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
I think you're right, though the distance probably factors in as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
I never really cared for it myself, but how old are you if I may ask? I am 44, I'm guessing you're a few years older. :-)Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Actually it didn't carry teen music until later. The content aimed at MTV's core audience (20 to 35) at the time of its debut moved on to the second channel VH1. That made room for MTV to switch to head-banger stuff and before long "music-adjacent" content like TV shows.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
What time period are we talking about exactly? My memory concerning MTV is so vague I'm not even sure when I first learned about it or when it first aired. My memory is like: some american music video channel from the 90's/possibly 80's aimed at young (very broadly speaking people). I was actually surprised I even remembered Beavis and Butthead had something to do with MTV.
I was much more interested in cartoons and space operas back then. :-)
PS:
And what channel MTV was on I never have known. Back then I'd probably have to zap through a dozen channels on the satellite reciever to even be able to watch it.
You were 1yr old when MTV came out. It had it's own channel.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
I was never into it. Especially at first, they were playing Devo and Flock of Seagulls. Plus I was pretty busy in those days.
Alright, that means MTV is much older than I thought! :-) I never got into MTV, once I learned to appreciate cartoons with crude humor I kind of liked Beavis and Butthead and their movie. But we were talking about music for the most part, let's see, all I can really say is that if I haven't heard just about every popular song from the 80's and 90's at least a dozen times or so I might still enjoy them, especially for nostalgic reasons. Anyway I never really was that much into music to begin with.
I might have occassionally watched MTV on vacation in the US or during those years I lived there (for my father's job) on cable. If we even could recieve MTV in the Netherlands it was through our satellite dish. :-) It definitely wasn't in the package you got when recieving via antenna and probably was available with some of sort of cable subscription (likely one with extras), which became available in our area around 1995. If I felt like it I could check, but my guess is that with digital tv these days I probably recieve just about every channel available in the netherlands you can imagine by default. Or perhaps not.
I'm 56, so yes, a few years. I watched a fair amount of MTV videos as a freshman in college.
When I was watching MTV was 85-86. I don't remember ever watching it after that, though.
Sounds like you were 16 or so back then, pretty much around the age I'd expect for someone to be interested in MTV.
Guess his age to the nearest second.
56 years, 7 months, and 17 days old - I am not even touching seconds! XP
Technically, you were about six hours early on that guess.
I was off by six hours?! OMG! OMG!
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(Ahem)
I was born about one month and three weeks prematurely. If you ignored that I'd be 44 years, 3 months, 24 days, 15 hours, and 53 minutes old. :-)
PS:
How do you display images again here? I keep forgetting. And while this forum is mostly fairly easy to use the system for handling attachments and images could be modernized a bit imho.
Use "Go Advanced" then select "Manage Attachments"
Is it just me or has anyone else notice that this site has slowed down. Takes a long time to open, takes a long time to navigate between pages. It's like that on both of my computers. All the other sites I normally visit are fine.
It's not just you, and it comes and goes. This is part of whatever the issue was that is getting resolved.
Done! :-) This forum is slow! :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
At the moment, it certainly is.
VBF has been very fast all day. Nice change.
Glad to hear that, let's hope it stays that way for now! :-)
And we can reply with quotes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels
Life is good.
Or at least good enough.
Well, I am glad you feel that way Shaggy. :-) What else could we discuss in this post race? I am out of ideas atm. :-(
Well for 68754 the sum of its digits is 30. It has a total of 4 prime factors and 16 positive divisors....
So stupid it is actually kind of funny. :-)Code:"Well for 68754 the sum of its digits is 30. It has a total of 4 prime factors and 16 positive divisors...." - Can you write a good joke about that?
ChatGPT
Why did the number 68754 go to therapy?
Because it was feeling divided! Its therapist said, "You've got to sum up your digits and find your prime factors." But all it could think about was how it was divided into 16 different parts!
I see that the buttons are now missing for replies, quick or otherwise, and that reply with quote is back to not functioning.
Two steps forwards, one step back.
No for long. Unless only VIP's like me get them. lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
For what it is worth, the forum seems to work fine for me.
Yeah, what was missing was missing only temporarily. All is well, today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter Swinkels