Good News: Slow, but steady progress

On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:54:50 UTC-5, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
RichA wrote in
:

On Friday, 5 January 2018 00:40:20 UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
On getting back into space:

http://www.wmfe.org/nasa-closer-to-l...nauts-from-u-s
-once-again/81979

John Savard

What is the point of the Starliner? It can only carry 7 people
and next to no cargo. Is it that much cheaper to build/launch
than the Shuttle was?

That would be the entire point, yes, to be cheaper than the shuttle
was. That is, in fact, Musk's entire business plan: to be cheaper
than the shuttle. So far, he's been pretty successful at it.

--
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

You comparing the crap that egomaniac puts up to the Shuttle? HA!

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 2:52:15 PM UTC-7, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:

I read once, that something like 80% of all Canadians are within 100
miles of the border, and this is proof they're massing for an attack.
I supposed you're going to tell me that's not true, either.

It may just be the cover story, but the claim is that it's due to most of Canada
being too cold to grow food in.

Plus, we prefer to listen to your TV stations instead of our own.

John Savard

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 01:58:49 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
wrote:
Plus, we prefer to listen to your TV stations instead of our own.

Listen? Don't you have radio for that? ;-)

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 04:58:52 UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 2:52:15 PM UTC-7, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:

I read once, that something like 80% of all Canadians are within 100
miles of the border, and this is proof they're massing for an attack.
I supposed you're going to tell me that's not true, either.

It may just be the cover story, but the claim is that it's due to most of Canada
being too cold to grow food in.

Plus, we prefer to listen to your TV stations instead of our own.

John Savard

You can live in the mid-north areas. You have to like rocks, muskeg (swamp), mosquito numbers that make the Amazon look bugless and cold.

On Saturday, 6 January 2018 23:00:49 UTC+1, RichA wrote:

You can live in the mid-north areas. You have to like rocks, muskeg (swamp), mosquito numbers that make the Amazon look bugless and cold.

Well, that finally explains why you are so grouchy! ;-))

On Jan 6, 2018, Paul Schlyter wrote
(in et):

On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 01:58:49 -0800 (PST), Quadibloc
wrote:
Plus, we prefer to listen to your TV stations instead of our own.

Listen? Don't you have radio for that? ;-)

You think they want to watch all those Canadian actors in US TV? Canadian
actors who are actually living/working someplace warm?

--
Harry F. Leopold

RichA wrote in
:

On Friday, 5 January 2018 16:54:50 UTC-5, Gutless Umbrella
Carrying Sissy wrote:
RichA wrote in
:

On Friday, 5 January 2018 00:40:20 UTC-5, Quadibloc wrote:
On getting back into space:

http://www.wmfe.org/nasa-closer-to-l...tronauts-from-
u-s -once-again/81979

John Savard

What is the point of the Starliner? It can only carry 7
people and next to no cargo. Is it that much cheaper to
build/launch than the Shuttle was?

That would be the entire point, yes, to be cheaper than the
shuttle was. That is, in fact, Musk's entire business plan: to
be cheaper than the shuttle. So far, he's been pretty
successful at it.

--
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

You comparing the crap that egomaniac puts up to the Shuttle?
HA!

People who actually know what they're talking about seem to feel
that SpaceX's rockets are something of an advance over previous
designs.

You, on the other hand, appear to be a childish idiot wracked with
jealously.

In any event, Musk's rockets are operating now, and the shuttle is
not. And it's $2,500/pound currently, expected to go down, versus
$8,000 (not adjusted for inflation) for the shuttle. So yeah, it's
rather successful at the primary mission of being cheaper than the
shuttle, no matter how much you masturbate over your childish
jealousy of Musk.

--
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

Quadibloc wrote in
:

On Friday, January 5, 2018 at 2:52:15 PM UTC-7, Gutless Umbrella
Carrying Sissy wrote:

I read once, that something like 80% of all Canadians are
within 100 miles of the border, and this is proof they're
massing for an attack. I supposed you're going to tell me
that's not true, either.

It may just be the cover story,

Well, y'all would need one of those, wouldn't you?

but the claim is that it's due
to most of Canada being too cold to grow food in.

That's why you want ot invade the US, obviously.

Plus, we prefer to listen to your TV stations instead of our
own.

Can't blame you for that. As much as our television sucks (and it
does, a lot), since yours isn't made in the US, it *must* suck even
more.

--
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.

On Monday, 8 January 2018 17:22:33 UTC+1, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:

Can't blame you for that. As much as our television sucks (and it
does, a lot), since yours isn't made in the US, it *must* suck even
more.

Nature abhors a vacuum... particularly a Dyson.

"Chris.B" wrote in
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On Monday, 8 January 2018 17:22:33 UTC+1, Gutless Umbrella
Carrying Sissy wrote:

Can't blame you for that. As much as our television sucks (and
it does, a lot), since yours isn't made in the US, it *must*
suck even more.

Nature abhors a vacuum... particularly a Dyson.

Nature's not entirely alone, when it come to Dyson's, which have "the
proper amount of suckage, er, suction."

--
Terry Austin

Vacation photos from Iceland:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/collection/QaXQkB

"Terry Austin: like the polio vaccine, only with more asshole."
-- David Bilek

Jesus forgives sinners, not criminals.