Anyone Have Some Scuba Gear?
BRK is very sorry, but due to the fact that he’s getting ready for two launches and NASA just chunked a $273 million satellite into Antarctica, he will be unable to post about the first round of patch notes today.
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Damn… Was looking forward to hearing from BRK, after the last pod-cast that showed that he was back and blazing.
same. would love to know hes thoughs on the latest patch notes
wow! congrats NASA on your achievement:
http://worldofwarcraft.mmocluster.com/img_achievements/828de7ebc36914880e774b009a733c31.jpg
Failures at NASA are becoming tedious.
I was a kid when Apollo was lamding on the moon and I remember how different those times were.. There was an electricity in the air then, a sense of “we are stepping into the unknown, beginning a journey into the future and towards life in space.
I opened this in IE 7 and was able to post. I use noscript with Firefox but has “temporarily allowed ALL on this page”
Now, its completely different. So sad.
As an aside – I was unable to post this using Firefox. It said my javascript AND cookies were both enabled.
/raises hand
If you pay for the trip, I’ll go get it
Quote: “NASA just chunked a $273 million satellite into Antarctica,”
Well, that is one way to describe it. I wonder how much a nose-cone weighs? Brings new meaning to “I’m carrying a few extra pounds”. In this case several hundred kilograms, I’m sure. Physics, she is a B_tch!
You’re gonna need more than Scuba gear. I hear it gets mighty cold down in that part of the world, bring a fire mage
@Rimar – Noscript is evil. It’ll kill things even if you tell it to allow everything on a page and will override your javascript settings. The only real way to make sure javascript will work as intended in your (very common) situation is to uninstall noscript.
On topic: Good luck to BRK with all that…
Maybe that is the problem, BRK was supposed to hit the button once, but was spamming it instead.
@ Rimar
Your correct there was more pride, excitement and inspiration during the Apollo program but there was also many failures.
I also feel that if your looking at pure science and knowledge done since the Apollo program that NASA has been incredibly successful. Should things have been done differently? Without doubt.
Failures have and will always be part of NASA’s mission. Space, even today, is an incredibly tough and unforgiving endeaver no matter what the mission. The collective success is what we need to take in to account.
Hopefully, NASA is able to inspire a nation again as the Apollo program did but that takes leaders in Washington to step up to the plate and understand that funding NASA is an investment that pays dividends greater then the initial money. In many different ways including a pride in our nation.
Damn, sorry for the wall of text but I love NASA for the most part.
Hooray NASA!
On a more serious note, I imagine it really, really stinks that we can conceive of doing all these wonderful things in space, yet we’re still in our infancy as space explorers. All the tech is ridiculously expensive, and just as prone to failure due to malfunctions and misplaced decimals and whatever as it was 40 or 50 years ago. Yet it’s still SO COOL… just wish we could advance faster to artificial gravity and teleporters and all the REALLY fun stuff
Speaking of fun stuff: Call Stabled Pet! Popped in to Sholazar for some Loque-hunting and forgot to switch out your prized 80 DPS kitty, yet actually spot the Spirit Beast far from Nesingwary’s stablemaster? BOOM! Switch out kitty for Trash Monkey with this new skill, abandon Trash Monkey, and tame away before that filthy level 77 enemy-faction hunter on his 60% flying mount gets it! Also useful for switching to a specific pet in an instance where the pet’s talent will come in handy (monkey for extra AOE on trash or adds, warrior has to bail so bring in the wasp for some armor-reducing goodness, switch to that level 78 pet if that heroic’s going very well to eat up some uber-XP for it).
NASA needs to resocket the launcher with +hit
Well, *&$%. I used to be able to post comments here in my normal setup (Firefox plus NoScript) by temporarily disabling NoScript (”Allow Scripts Globally”), but now that won’t work either…
And sorry to hear about the trashed satellite…wait, it was named “Taurus”? Oh, Cairne’s going to be pissed. Maybe you can hire some Tuskarr to swim down there and haul it out; those guys seem pretty well insulated.
$273 million of taxpayer’s cash being drained in a crashed satellite is diddly-squat compared to how it gets burned over here. Google “Northern Rock”, and check out what happened to what is now a nationalised bank/mortgage society, sitting on a debt to the populace of billions of pounds.
As a side-note, I find the Firefox app “IE Tab” handles posting on these Wordpresses, as even with NoScript enabled for the site I still get JavaScript issues.
Hey, this quote from NASA launch manager Chuck Dovale could have been about playing a hunter: “The reason not everyone is able to do this is, it’s hard. And even when you do the best you can, you can still fail. It’s a tough business.”
Thanks Dobmeister, I’ll check IE Tab out.
And excellent quote, Euri. Reminds me of one hanging on the wall in my office (I do clincal investigations): “If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called Research.”
The problem that NASA has always had is a win big/lose big affliction. When they win, such as the Apollo missions, Hubble, the new Mars rovers, Cassini, the Voyagers, Pathfinder, and the Vikings, they win huge. Unfortunately, the Apollo moon missions are the last of what many consider the big ticket auidience winners. Other than a collection of nerds, eggheads, and a few informed members of the public, interest was lost in a lot of these wins within weeks or months, fair or not. When Nasa loses, however (Challenger, Columbia, Mars Polar Lander, Apollo 13, etc.), they lose huge, and the public decries the waste of money, manpower, and lives our space program is. Naturally, the media doesn’t help in that regard, as they love pointing out how much is spent on NASA every year. Space is, and always will be, a double-or-nothing bet. You either get huge rewards or fiery debris; that doesn’t mean we should stop trying.
Good luck, BRK…Look forward to patch notes.
“The only real way to make sure javascript will work as intended in your (very common) situation is to uninstall noscript.”
The only real way to make sure javascript will work as intended is to visit every virus- and trojan-infested Web site you can find, so that javascript will have the opportunity to pwn your PC.
Loosing a post a post just sucks. After writting your post then right click and highlight your text and select copy.
So if your post fails then just hit the back button and try again. If that fails then log off BRK’s site and return and when you go to comments simply paste your comment quickly and post it. Time seems to matter so the faster the better.
Hope that helps.
@Sedna and Euri
Excellent quotes both of you!
However, I think my quote pretty well sums it all up…
BANG HEAD HERE
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Trying to remember something I once read about…some inventor who had hundreds of fails, but of course all we are taught is about the one win. Until I can do rocket science perfectly, I am not going to complain about them who can do it most of the time.
My Spaceship Husband sympathizes, as he’s one of the guys on the team that are redoing all the CFD for one of those launches (something about a fuel injector), and hasn’t gotten home from work before 10pm in two weeks – most days he leaves before I get up, and gets home around when I go to bed!
Good thing he doesn’t blog!
Good luck!
You know what really bugs me about this event. It is not the fact that it did not go as planned and a large sum of money was not effective used (some would say that it cost them 200+ million not to do that error again, which is some effect)
but that the team doing the research is now saying “oh well I guess we are going to have to talk to other people and see if we can get the data from them” oh that burns me. Don’t you think you should of asked them first before you spent the 200+ million on building your own data collector? if you do mange to find someone you can get the data from then you just wasted 6 or so years and 200+ million.
To Blame NASA might be a bit early yet. In the end it will boil down to human error, weather it be in the construction process , Communications between groups of people or just not expecting a variable and accounting for it in your calculations.
The good thing will be is that something was learned.
In the immortal words of Zap Brannigan
“You win again gavity!!!”
@Kunukia
could it be from Thomas Edison who said, after inventing the light bulb
“I did not fail 2000 times at inventing the light bulb, I found 2000 ways how not to make one”
NASA is just failing over and over. Look at their plans for their new vehicles, no one can think straight there anymore. Commercial companies are passing them by, China is passing them by.
To add insult to injury, Obama appointed Neal Lane wants to remove the “aeronautical” and “space” from the name, stating he wants NASA instead to “solve the energy problem” WTF? There are plenty of scientists in the world to study that, but NASA is to no longer study space?
I have little hope for our country.
@ yunk
AMEN!
Are they planning to recover the Sat?
Nasa is changing their game because they are preparing to release to the world Alien based free-energy.
@Crimsontusk
Aye, that sounds right.
This is interesting given what happened to the Mars Rover in, “Big Bang Theory,” last night.
Perhaps someone at NASA told a lady friend they could drive a satellite, in SPACE!
Like Chuck Devale said in the article: ‘Launching rockets is hard!’
They’ll get changed anyway so it’s no big deal. Good luck with real life and that. Can’t wait to see you on project lore.
For those who want to post in Firefox using NoScript, in addition to allowing bigredkitty.net you also have to allow yimg.com, because that’s where the CAPTCHA image comes from.
Maybe NASA need some help from the goblins in A52… or maybe not
Sounds like a great premise for the next Bond movie. Evil guy gets secret technology from sunken satellite,threatens world,Bond pwns.
It looks to me that so much of BM damage will be coming from pets that it should no longer be considered foolish to take some of those pet survivability talents like Endurance Training. When your pet is doing more than 50% of your damage, dead pet is very bad mojo.
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Being something of a sci-fi nut, one of my favorite quotes from babylon 5 is from the end of the episode Infection. It’s very applicable to current/future funding of NASA and the public’s support.
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Reporter: “After all that you’ve just gone through, I have to ask you the same question a lot of people back home are asking about space these days. Is it worth it? Should we just pull back, forget the whole thing as a bad idea, and take care of our own problems, at home?”
Sinclair: “No. We have to stay here, and there’s a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics – and you’ll get ten different answers. But there’s one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on: whether it happens in a hundred years, or a thousand years, or a million years, eventually our sun will grow cold, and go out. When that happens, it won’t just take us, it’ll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-tsu, Einstein, Maruputo, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes – all of this. All of this was for nothing, unless we go to the stars.”