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RE: Noteworthy News
April 20, 2023 at 1:08 pm
(April 20, 2023 at 12:12 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: I was thinking it will either go up or go boom... seems like it did both!
Watching the live feed from Spacex, it seems 5 of the engines didn't light, don't think that caused the problem though, the two stages didn't separate.. used the wrong type of glue!
Still not sure if it just exploded or if they used the self destruct system.
Yup. There is a mass of explosive(s) placed in every rocket fairing so if it has failures like this thing experienced, it is destroyed. Little parts hitting the ground, potentially at a population center, is better that a big piece landing.
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 20, 2023 at 1:10 pm
(April 20, 2023 at 11:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Elon Musk’s Super-Dee-Dooper SpaceX Mars rocket explodes just after liftoff for a test flight. According to the company:
Quote:As if the flight test was not exciting enough, Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly before stage separation
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Bold mine-That is some of the best spin I have seen. 
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 20, 2023 at 2:16 pm
(April 20, 2023 at 1:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (April 20, 2023 at 11:58 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Elon Musk’s Super-Dee-Dooper SpaceX Mars rocket explodes just after liftoff for a test flight. According to the company:
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Bold mine-That is some of the best spin I have seen.
RUD is a standard term used in space companies these days.
The main thing they need to ensure is "pointy end up, burney end down"
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 20, 2023 at 5:27 pm
(April 20, 2023 at 2:16 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: (April 20, 2023 at 1:10 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: Bold mine-That is some of the best spin I have seen.
RUD is a standard term used in space companies these days.
The main thing they need to ensure is "pointy end up, burney end down"
I don't follow space travel much so that was the first time I had heard of it.
Just saw a meme with a Golden Retriever explaining was happens to his toys as rapid unscheduled disassembly. Now I know what Harley has been up to since we got her.
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 20, 2023 at 9:24 pm
What? This really happens?
Quote:Thieves have pulled off a massive gold heist at Toronto's main international airport, with CA $20 million (USD $15m) swiped from a cargo terminal on Monday in what police said was a 'very rare' theft.
The robbery is the largest gold theft since July 2019, when $30 million was stolen from an airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
On Thursday, Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn said the container with the gold arrived on a plane early Monday evening. He would not say where it came from.
The plane was unloaded, and its cargo taken to a holding facility.
Duivesteyn said the container was 'removed by illegal means,' and reported missing shortly after the plane was unloaded.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...rport.html
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 22, 2023 at 5:35 am
It appears that the gun involved in the shooting on the set of the Alec Baldwin film ‘Rust’ had been modified to fire without the trigger being pulled. All criminal charges against Baldwin have been dropped.
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 22, 2023 at 6:23 am
Well, apparently a gun can go off without pulling the trigger..... 
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 24, 2023 at 11:50 am
Tucker Carlson out at Fox News | CNN Business
Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist who hosted the network’s highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement Monday.
The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million over the network’s dissemination of election lies.
Fox News said that Carlson’s last show was Friday, April 21.
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 24, 2023 at 11:55 am
(April 24, 2023 at 11:50 am)arewethereyet Wrote: Tucker Carlson out at Fox News | CNN Business
Fox News and Tucker Carlson, the right-wing extremist who hosted the network’s highly rated 8pm hour, have severed ties, the network said in a stunning announcement Monday.
The announcement came one week after Fox News settled a monster defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million over the network’s dissemination of election lies.
Fox News said that Carlson’s last show was Friday, April 21.
Best news I’ve heard in some time. As a bonus, he’s free to take over The Daily Show.
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RE: Noteworthy News
April 24, 2023 at 12:32 pm
Well look at that, he really is getting replaced.
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