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Tim

He should be looking into the link between geriatric sperm and producing mutant children.

antipodean

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="572302" data-time="1460639116">He should be looking into the link between geriatric sperm and producing mutant children.</blockquote> Was thinking exactly the same thing as I read it.

canefan

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Tim" data-cid="572302" data-time="1460639116">He should be looking into the link between geriatric sperm and producing mutant children.</blockquote>WeLL it sure as he'll isn't global warming

No Quarter

Yeah the wife made me aware of that a while ago, respect for De Niro went through the floor. I wasn't aware there was a reluctance in the Scientific community to talk about Vaccinations. In fact here I was thinking they were trying develop more.

mariner4life

my respect for him has been slipping since the 90s based purely on his Filmography
 
this kinda seals it.

NTA

I saw a Travis Bickle bobble head toy at a pop culture store in Melbourne on Tuesday

Paekakboyz

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://imgur.com/gallery/Q95ko'>http://imgur.com/gallery/Q95ko</a>
 
Excellent!

mariner4life

that's very good

antipodean

Imgur had a bunch of amusing tinder profiles. This one made me laugh.
 
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/4XtR1Kn.jpg" alt="4XtR1Kn.jpg">

antipodean

NTA

So, Tesla have managed to land their Falcon 9 First stage rocket on a barge - a "drone ship" - for the first time, and that on a live mission. Pretty fucking big news all up. Why?
 
As per the previous landing on solid ground, equipment manufacture costs a shitload more than the fuel, so re-use of manufactured parts drives costs down. Rather than just chucking bits in the ocean like the early space programs etc.
 
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/31/reusability-key-making-human-life-multi-planetary'>http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/31/reusability-key-making-human-life-multi-planetary</a>
 
Landing on a barge has added another element: they can cover more launch patterns, rather than having to land it on a set part of the earth and therefore only conduct missions from one location with one arc of launch and first stage recovery.
 
They'll now take that Stage 1 component and test fire it about 10 times to check the stresses of the landing, and that it can be re-used.
 
 
Full launch video here if you've got the time - skip to 27 minutes to watch the rocket land and a bunch of nerds lose their shit. Watch the drone ship going through a bit of chop - not like it was a glassy smooth sea or anything:

canefan

I wonder how much it costs to launch the Tesla rocket as opposed to the cost of the Kiwi rocket lab one? Apparently it's the cheapest by a mile, reusable or not

NTA

Some info here - though it is general numbers: <a class="bbc_url" href="http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8330/what-is-the-cost-breakdown-for-a-falcon-9-launch">http://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8330/what-is-the-cost-breakdown-for-a-falcon-9-launch</a> 
" SpaceX currently sells an "off the shelf" Falcon 9 launch for $61.2 million USD (from 2016) ..." 
And 
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Propellant 
Musk has famously stated at the National Press Club that the cost of propellant is only 0.3% the cost of the rocket, which yields about $200,000 for a $60m launch. 
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I read somewhere else that Musk wanted to drive costs down to something like $1000 per pound of payload (so about $2200/kg). 
This is an older article discussing payload costs: <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.nss.org/articles/falconheavy.html">http://www.nss.org/articles/falconheavy.html</a>

canefan

Google says the projected cost of a rocketlab electron rocket launch will be $6m. They have a revolutionary rocket engine design and use 3D printers to fabricate much of the parts

taniwharugby

NSFW
 
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Paekakboyz

This needs your immediate attention
 
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NTA

Oh shit I LOLd

Nepia

I'm 0-1 in the LOL-ing.
 
I was waiting for a punchline on the Kevin one that didn't come. Sausage Party was funny as fudge, although I did wonder where it was going given its name.

dogmeat

<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea/'>http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea/</a>

booboo

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="dogmeat" data-cid="573538" data-time="1461060878"><a class="bbc_url" href="http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea/">http://andywoodruff.com/blog/beyond-the-sea/</a></blockquote>
 
Comment 17: 
"Would be nice to see one where New Zealand isnâ€t on the far edge of the map! Though we often get cut off altogetherâ€¦ 
David 
30 March 2016 @ 2:26am"

The Silver Fern

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