That's the site, not the actual launch ramp, more of a ramp to the launch ramp. I can see why that's still there.
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That's the site, not the actual launch ramp, more of a ramp to the launch ramp. I can see why that's still there.
I don't know much about the attempt, other than there was a mechanical failure....and maybe the wind was unfortunate on that day.
Well, I finished my CSS lessons series.
Someone already owned the dot com :mad: so I used dot dev: https://css-lessons.dev/
Looks nice, though I have no knowledge on those subjects.
I got bitten by a dog today. That hasn't happened since I was in college, and that dog was mighty feeble.
Today, I was riding my bike through a campground and a largish dog came out barking aggressively. It then ran around the bike and bit my leg. The bite didn't penetrate my pants, but it sure bloodied my leg. The dog was considering a second go, and I was going to punch it in the snoot, but the owners of the dog got it to come back to camp. I don't know if they even realized it had bitten me, and didn't feel like making any big deal out of it, so I just left. A bit later, I took a closer look at my leg and found that the blood had run all the way to my sock. It looked kind of gruesome, but I continued on my ride...which probably didn't help, before returning to my camp to wash my leg and the bloody pant leg.
That was interesting.
My dad used to work claims for Allstate before he became an agency owner, and he told me the worst claim (that the person survived) he ever worked was a dog bit claim.
He said a 4-year-old girl bent down to pet a little lap dog when the dog snapped and ripped off her lip up to her ear.
It caused permanent nerve damage and naturally she had to have plastic surgery.
It's one of those things where he always emphasized to us as kids to never put your face in front of a dog, no matter how friendly you think it is.
Dogs can be unpredictable. This dog was not. It was clearly being defensive, but I was still surprised that it bit me. I thought it was all bark. Had I realized it was going to bite me, I would have raised my foot and let it bite my shoe. I doubt I would have really felt that, as my shoes are pretty tough.
Any large animal that gets near your face can do damage. I almost got knocked out on two different occasions by a very friendly Doberman. While friendly, it was a tank with a head like a battering ram, and it happened to jump up as I leaned down. The dog seemed none the worse for the collision, but both times it was a heck of a blow to me.
I also heard tell of a gal who lost both of her front incisors when a large salmon got loose from her grasp and hit her right on the chin.
That seems comical. Not in the respect that it's funny she lost her teeth, more like that sounds like something you'd literally see in a comic book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
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Thank you ChatGPT
I'm rooting for the Artemis II to go well. But honestly I don't know what the benefit will be to go to the moon or even Mars. Until there is a breakthrough in propulsion, where does this lead?
Still, it's pretty cool and hope all goes well.
I've just finished the 1965 edition of Dune for the first time.
It is by far one of the best fictional books I have ever read.
That's almost exactly correct, except that it should have been more of an uppercut than a slap across the face.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
Have you ever read Rendezvous With Rama? That was a good one. MANY years later, two sequels were written, and they shouldn't have been. The first book did not make humans the center of the universe. The sequels "corrected" that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dday9
I'd like to see it go well, too. There is no benefit to getting to either one that I can see. Perhaps if we found rare earth metals in the asteroid belt, or on the moon, though neither one seems at all likely. I'm not sure whether rare earth metals would get concentrated enough to bother mining without some kind of tectonic/volcanic/erosional process to gather them into more or less one place. Without that, a race to either the moon or Mars just seems to be about bragging rights.Quote:
Originally Posted by wes4dbt