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Have we ever been in sustained 24 hour combat operations with a very credible air threat? Obviously something was going on that caused a giant increase in "shoot at anything flying".

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I thought for sure the autopsy would turn up something contributory instead of just getting choked to death. I wasn't there and I haven't ever been in that situation but it's hard to believe that he held that choke that long. Sucks for the marine. Sucks for the poor bastard in the cities that can't leave.

Nailed it. The current version is hilariously bad. It's down at least a few times a day. Our base had a contractor who's job was PEX. He knew EVERYTHING and could fix ANYTHING with a phone call. They cut his contract last year due to apparently no complaints or issues with pex so no need for a local help desk 🙂 Now we have a remote help desk who I don't think know what PEX is.

The trillion dollar question of whats next then 🙂

I haven't confirmed it with 23 and me but I'm going to take a flying leap here and say he's not a middle aged white dude.

I mean thats just like your opinion man. He was a TMO guy for awhile.....

My grandfathers watch type situation

Ballsy call

"Houseless" man who has been arrested more than 40 times for assault and the like was choked out on subway while harassing riders and ultimately ended up dying. Twitter is full of subway riders commenting on how he has attacked them in the past. AOC takes this chance to defend the man and..... https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1653880169516466178?s=20

You don't think the Russians have been trying to kill him all along?

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Will be at the airport

What an absolute joke.

Bit of a miscalculation

It could have made it all the way to splashdown and they would call it a failure despite that being the intention all along. Tribes man. Tribes.

They definitely know now though 🙂 Maybe saved them some money on demo.

I took it more as they thought they could get one launch out of it and gambled. They obviously lost.

Yeah, what were they thinking. It's twice as powerful as the largest rocket fielded. Did you read Elon's quote?

Incognito mode if you're specifically shopping/buying something helps

This angle is freaking wild. They definitely lost engines from this.

1 tower and many rockets. From the looks of follow on videos, they FUCKED up the pad big time. NASA would have spent decades designing a over engineered pad that would have came in 100% over budget. Space X took a risk from the looks of it and from the outside looking in, they'll need a redesign for the next launch. "3 months ago, we started building a massive water-cooled, steel plate to go under the launch mount. Wasn’t ready in time & we wrongly thought, based on static fire data, that Fondag would make it through 1 launch. Looks like we can be ready to launch again in 1 to 2 months."

It sure sounds great though....Meanwhile, our day to day mission support comm systems are down on at least a weekly basis and are given lip service support. So innovative.

Yup, they had no intentions of it making it up. Booster and ship were going to splashdown in pacific and Atlantic. They have more starships but only one pad.

Cleared the pad and then some before deconstructing. She's a big ol' bitch 10 million pounds of propellant Video of entire launch https://fb.watch/k17C1M-B4e/