Awesome stuff you see on the internet

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. 
" 
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"

booboo

<a class="bbc_url" href="http://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/baby/79042121/First-it-was-Justice-now-its-Messiah-The-rejected-New-Zealand-baby-names-of-2015">http://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/baby/79042121/First-it-was-Justice-now-its-Messiah-The-rejected-New-Zealand-baby-names-of-2015</a> <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">Names rejected by the registrar-general in 2015 included Rogue, King and Royal. 
Names must not imply rank, resemble official titles or cause undue offence. 
READ MORE:

There's no Justice
It's an official 'No' for regal names
Court orders name change for Talula Does the Hula 
The maximum length allowed is 99 characters, to include first names, middle names and surnames. 
Justice was the most rejected name between July 2001 and May 2013. 
But, in 2015, Messiah was the most commonly rejected name, followed by King, Royal, Prince and Empress. 
Other rejected names included anything using a "/" symbol, Royahl, Rogue, Sarjant and MMMR, a Mongrel Mob acronym. 
A departmental spokesman said there was no list of "banned" names as all names registered in New Zealand must comply with the legislation. 
If a name failed to meet criteria, the proposal was reviewed by the registrar-general of births, deaths and marriages, Jeff Montgomery. 
Montgomery said there was nothing stopping parents calling their children by any name of their choosing. Legislation applied to official names, on birth certificates, passports or used formally in court, he said. 
People have the right of appeal to the Family Court for a rejected name but no one had done so, he said. 
"Most parents are serious. They think it's a name that fits their baby. They think it's a nice name. 
"There's not normally anything nasty about it. They're not intending it to be offensive." 
Montgomery said there was some flexibility. 
The name King could be permissible as a middle name, but not as a first name. 
Names must also be easily pronounced and enunciated. 
In other words, no symbols, gang acronyms or "/", but the word "backslash" could be permissible, he said. 
"People can call themselves whatever they like. 
"We might not approve Messiah but you can call your children whatever you like." 
It was not the registrar-general's job to judge, he said. 
Around 60,000 babies are born in New Zealand each year, and less than 1 per cent have their name registered personally by the registrar-general. 
In 2015, a total of 49 names were rejected. 
REJECTED BABY NAMES IN 2015 
Messiah 7 
King 5 
Royal 4 
Prince 3 
Royale 3 
Bishop 2 
Princess 2 
Empress 2 
/ [symbol in name] 2 
() [name in brackets] 2 
Sir 1 
Royahl 1 
Rogue 1 
Knight 1 
Justyce 1 
Lord 1 
Regal 1 
Suprintedent 1 
Royaal 1 
Commodore 1 
Justice 1 
Chief 1 
Sarjant 1 
Impryss 1 
Christ 1 
Queen 1 
MMMR 1 
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Total: 49 
SOURCE: Department of Internal Affairs</blockquote>

Rembrandt

Safe to assume that'll be 49 more people in some form of criminal/mental facility in about 16 years?

taniwharugby

and that's where you end up with daft spellings to get those daft names...
 
Rogue - would they allow Rohg
Knight - do they allow Night/Nite
King - would they Cing
 
I have seen the name 'Martial Law' (was a person that came into NZ and this was their legal English name)

Rembrandt

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="573586" data-time="1461106690">
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and that's where you end up with daft spellings to get those daft names...
 
Rogue - would they allow Rohg
Knight - do they allow Night/Nite
King - would they Cing
 
I have seen the name 'Martial Law' (was a person that came into NZ and this was their legal English name)
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Not to mention daft parents who can't spell. The older I get the more I'm in favour for breeding licenses

NTA

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="taniwharugby" data-cid="573586" data-time="1461106690">
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and that's where you end up with daft spellings to get those daft names...
 
Rogue - would they allow Rohg
Knight - do they allow Night/Nite
King - would they Cing
 
I have seen the name 'Martial Law' (was a person that came into NZ and this was their legal English name)
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You clearly haven't seen many bogan names. While your suggestions do fall into the category of bogan names, you're missing a trick by using vowels like some kind of hoity-toity upper-class piston wristed gibbon.
 
Observe:
 
Knight = Knyht or Nyt
King = Kyng or Cyng
 
 
The wife, working at a Kids Hospital in Western Sydney as she does, has seen some fucking fantastic ones:
 
Bengerman (Benjamin)
Bylynda / B'lyndah (Belinda)
Anfernee (Anthony - really, this is the winner)
Three brothers named Stratocaster, Telecaster, Marshall (guitar player, obvs)
Blayde
Various versions of Jaden/Jayden/Jaiden/Jaydin/etc
 
and so on.

The Silver Fern

Awesome stuff you see on the internet