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SpaceX and other space stuff

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RichterScale said:
Traveling across the US seems like traveling across the whole planet. There is just about every landscape and climate. It's truly amazing.
It gets a little hilly as you get into west Texas and then the mountains start as you hit New Mexico. The east coast of Texas on the gulf is very humid and Florida-like. I wouldn't say the whole state is flat and/or like a desert.
With stopping for fuel, food, rest and taking some pics, you can comfortably drive from coast to coast in 3-4 days. I tell everyone that they should take a week off and just drive west. See the grand canyon at least once in their life, the giant sequoia trees, the mountains, just the scenery alone while driving is worth the drive. It's amazing how many people live in this country and haven't seen any of it. Even people who travel a lot for work don't get to see it. The inside if every plane, airport and hotel look the same.
It's not expensive and better than spending a week on a cruise ship.
Same thing with resort vacations.
People go to beautiful places, even Hawaii, and sit by a pool for a whole week. I think it's nuts.
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I remember the train I got arrived 2 hours late, then travelled about 3 hours back in the wrong direction, so that it could park up in a siding for about 11 hours, before setting off in the right direction.

I was asking the guard why I couldn't have just spent that extra day hanging out with my friends, in comfort, and the train just pick us up on its way through? :banghead:

Probably could have driven halfway across Texas, by the time the train got back to where I got on it.

I did drive up from Meteor Crater, on a beautiful sunny day, up to Grand Canyon (My then girlfriend had never seen it either, in spite of living in Nevada).

We arrived a few hours later at Grand Canyon, and it was a whiteout.

I've still never seen more than about a metre into the canyon - so I can't be sure it actually exists.

It was dangerous as hell trying to drive back home to Vegas.

Just getting back from the national park to the freeway, took hours, of treacherous ice ridges and deep snow.

Then, the freeway itself was literally a whiteout - like being inside a pingpong ball, unable to see to the end of the hood of the car.

I just had to keep the tail lights of the big rig in front, in view, and follow along.

Then that crazy bastard must have realised he wasn't going to make his delivery / scheduled break in time, and put his foot down.

In the end, I had to drive totally blind, keeping one wheel on the rumble strip, and using the GPS to show what the road ahead looked like.

Thankfully, a motel eventually appeared on the GPS, so we got off the road.

One of these days I'll actually get to see the Grand Canyon.
 
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Jon Clegg said:
But will he do this?
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In reference to that question about 'singing' Rocket Man as in the video you posted, it seems you're close.

https://www.cnet.com/news/william-s...ong-about-his-trip-to-space-with-blue-origin/

Can't wait to hear this song for the ages :)

He should do an intro to the song, too. Something from his Star Trek days. Something like...

Space: the bourgeois frontier.
These are the voyages of the wealthy "Privileged".
Their ongoing mission:
To explore costly new whims;
To seek out new thrills and new self indulgences;
To blithely go where bold men have gone before.

Honestly, if I had the kind of money these rich folk have, I'd buy a ticket in a heartbeat. Loved space stuff since I was a kid.
 
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fig said:
In reference to that question about 'singing' Rocket Man as in the video you posted, it seems you're close.

https://www.cnet.com/news/william-s...ong-about-his-trip-to-space-with-blue-origin/

Can't wait to hear this song for the ages :)

He should do an intro to the song, too. Something from his Star Trek days. Something like...

Space: the bourgeois frontier.
These are the voyages of the wealthy "Privileged".
Their ongoing mission:
To explore costly new whims;
To seek out new thrills and new self indulgences;
To blithely go where bold men have gone before.

Honestly, if I had the kind of money these rich folk have, I'd buy a ticket in a heartbeat. Loved space stuff since I was a kid.
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Wood and Wire said:
Ranches, canyons, rivers, the odd city.

There's even a hill in Austin.

I'm English too, but I've spent a bit of time in Texas, and spent days travelling across it by train - which to most Americans is boring, and featureless. But to a Brit is a totally alien landscape, only seen in movies.
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Only state I've been to is Michigan, unless you count hanging around an airport terminal in New Jersey for 14 hours (how is it possible to lose a pilot?)... anyway MI was amazing but not alien, landscape-wise.
 
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They are installing one of the “Chopsticks”/ catch arms on the carriage that will eventually be on the launch tower right now at SpaceX.
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