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2024 Big 12 Championship - Iowa State vs. Arizona State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
asu needs 33 more points to break our record for rig ccg victory margin -
2024 Big 12 Championship - Iowa State vs. Arizona State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
none of that right now please bad karma -
2024 Big 12 Championship - Iowa State vs. Arizona State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
what's their nil situation -
2024 Big 12 Championship - Iowa State vs. Arizona State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
? he has to stay for the trophy preso after his reception last year he should be desperate for an early ending to this game so he has a chance to speak on national television without 60000 hecklers -
CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Hagbard Celine replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
this sounds exactly like what i posted upthread pre-authorized 45 days later denied for total left-field bullshit reason TEN DAYS to appeal called and asked how they thought it was legal to get away with claiming plate tectonics in the indian ocean was at all related to my pre-authorized ct it's criminal fraud unpunished because too big to fail and donation-captured politicians -
Game Week 14, 2024- Texas v Georgia SEC Championship Game
Hagbard Celine replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
body blow! -
Game Week 14, 2024- Texas v Georgia SEC Championship Game
Hagbard Celine replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
fifa pitch width: 74 yards football field width: 54 yards despite the seat rows which expand 10 yards on both sidelines the can find a space for him in one of the tunnels - the anus has 4 tunnels at field level bullshit excuse remains -
Game Week 14, 2024- Texas v Georgia SEC Championship Game
Hagbard Celine replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
searchlight = disney = eSiPn = he's picking Texas -
Game Week 14, 2024- Texas v Georgia SEC Championship Game
Hagbard Celine replied to Wulaw Horn's topic in Football
if the stadium can host a regulation fifa pitch it has room for our steer -
2024 MWC Championship - UNLV vs. Boise State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
ridiculous they get a bye enshittified -
2024 MWC Championship - UNLV vs. Boise State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
unlv oc is a dipshit -
2024 MWC Championship - UNLV vs. Boise State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
i want to believe -
2024 MWC Championship - UNLV vs. Boise State
Hagbard Celine replied to satyanash's topic in Football
come on vegas -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hagbard Celine replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
my wish is for domer to draw indiana since 1959 they've played once in 1991 -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hagbard Celine replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
what's a P4? -
CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Hagbard Celine replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
i too was beguiled by the egress it looked like professional tradecraft but the hostel video with the mask down - that's sloppy if he made that mistake - regardless of preparation - he made others he's findable without help from the boys -
CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Hagbard Celine replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
or you could just vacuum and ingest every electronic signature everywhere on the planet every hour of every day month after month year after year the question is who gets to use it and what they do with it to date we have little evidence it is being used "openly" - even to drop a clue to civilian LE to help them on their way when a 1%er is liquidated the atlanta bus datapoint came early - i look forward to learning the source -
CEO of UHG Shot and Killed in NYC - WTF is wrong with you New York
Hagbard Celine replied to Bevo's topic in Daily Texan
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there was another loss of comms last month that took 3 weeks to hack the plutonium is about spent https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/03/science/voyager-1-radio-transmitter-power-supply/index.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us and in catching up on this topic we missed the passing of ed stone in june he was the original jpl pm for voyager https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/edward-stone-1936-2024 the probes were launched 47 years ago..... will they make 50? the 2017 pbs documentary "the farthest" is available for free in 4k and it's a tearjerker 97 minutes - sit down with your kids and make sure they know this story https://www.pbs.org/video/the-farthest-voyager-in-space-qpbu4y/
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FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hagbard Celine replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
or pile-driving our rival in to the ground for the 2nd time in 3 years which does not happen very often across all of college football oh yeah, it was a league game this time -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hagbard Celine replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
the brilliance of the12-team playoff is everyone gets to faafo pat runs out of success rates if sark lifts the crystal football -
FINAL 2024 CFB polls/rankings - Texas #3/ #4 /#3 (CFP/AP/Coaches)
Hagbard Celine replied to TKthunder2's topic in Football
the committee should put tonight's winner and the rig winner in the 8/9 for the potential yormark comedy when unlv beats asu -
i hope you packed some warmer clothes FIGHT!!
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jared isaccman trumped to run nasa so long SLS https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/12/how-did-the-ceo-of-an-online-payments-firm-become-the-nominee-to-lead-nasa/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=ars&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_mailing=ARS_Rocket_120524&utm_medium=email&bxid=5d892326fc942d478883f557&cndid=&hasha=a33abab8e12a2173469648950b73a000&hashb=584090fb26ed05b8319f8d3b03c5f2e7987b578f&hashc=a2f63589b923906ad50fd1ad1a5b1de97f6960c7dd523e9c23d6988db5716270&esrc=&utm_term=ARS_RocketReport President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday his intent to nominate entrepreneur and commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as the next administrator of NASA. For those unfamiliar with Isaacman, who at just 16 years old founded a payment processing company in his parents' basement that ultimately became a major player in online payments, it may seem an odd choice. However, those inside the space community welcomed the news, with figures across the political spectrum hailing Isaacman's nomination variously as "terrific," "ideal," and "inspiring." This statement from Isaac Arthur, president of the National Space Society, is characteristic of the response: "Jared is a remarkable individual and a perfect pick for NASA Administrator. He brings a wealth of experience in entrepreneurial enterprise as well as unique knowledge in working with both NASA and SpaceX, a perfect combination as we enter a new era of increased cooperation between NASA and commercial spaceflight." So who is Jared Isaacman? Why is his nomination being welcomed in most quarters of the spaceflight community? And how might he shake up NASA? Read on. Meet Jared Isaacman is now 41 years old, about half the age of current NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. He has founded a couple of companies, including the publicly traded Shift4 (look at the number 4 on a keyboard to understand the meaning of the name), as well as Draken International, a company that trained pilots of the US Air Force. Throughout his career, Isaacman has shown a passion for flying and adventure. About five years ago, he decided he wanted to fly into space and bought the first commercial mission on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft. But this was no joy ride. Some of his friends assumed Isaacman would invite them along. Instead, he brought a cancer survivor, a science educator, and a raffle winner. As part of the flight, this Inspiration4 mission raised hundreds of millions of dollars for research into childhood cancer. After this mission, Isaacman set about a more ambitious project he named Polaris. The nominal plan was to fly two additional missions on Dragon and then become the first person to fly on SpaceX's Starship. He flew the first of these missions, Polaris Dawn, in September. He brought along a pilot, Scott "Kidd" Poteet, and two SpaceX engineers, Anna Menon and Sarah Gillis. They were the first SpaceX employees to ever fly into orbit. The mission was characteristic of Isaacman's goal to expand the horizon of what is possible for humans in space. Polaris Dawn flew to an altitude of 1,408.1 km on the first day, the highest Earth-orbit mission ever flown and the farthest humans have traveled from our planet since Apollo. On the third day of the flight, the four crew members donned spacesuits designed and developed by SpaceX within the last two years. After venting the cabin's atmosphere into space, first Isaacman and then Gillis spent several minutes extending their bodies out of the Dragon spacecraft. This was the first private spacewalk in history and underscored Isaacman's commitment to accelerating the transition of spaceflight as rare and government-driven to more publicly accessible. Why does the space community welcome him? In the last five years, Isaacman has impressed most of those within the spaceflight community he has interacted with. He has taken his responsibilities seriously, training hard for his Dragon missions and using NASA facilities such as a pressure chamber at NASA's Johnson Space Center when appropriate. Through these interactions—based upon my interviews with many people—Isaacman has demonstrated that he is not a billionaire seeking a joyride but someone who wants to change spaceflight for the better. In his spaceflights, he has also demonstrated himself to be a thoughtful and careful leader. Two examples illustrate this. The ride to space aboard a Crew Dragon vehicle is dynamic, with the passengers pulling in excess of 3 Gs during the initial ascent, the abrupt cutoff of the main Falcon 9 rocket's engines, stage separation, and then the grinding thrust of the upper stage engines just behind the capsule. In interviews, each of the Polaris Dawn crew members remarked about how Isaacman calmly called out these milestones in advance, with a few words about what to expect. It had a calming, reassuring effect and demonstrated that his crew's health and safety were foremost among his concerns. Another way in which Isaacman shows care for his crew and families is through an annual event called "Fighter Jet Training." Cognizant of the time crew members spend away from their families training, he invites them and SpaceX employees who have supported his flights to an airstrip in Montana. Over the course of two days, family members get to ride in jets, go on a zero-gravity flight, and participate in other fun activities to get a taste of what flying on the edge is like. Isaacman underwrites all of this as a way of thanking all who are helping him. The bottom line is that Isaacman, through his actions and words, appears to be a caring person who wants the US spaceflight enterprise to advance to greater heights. Why would Isaacman want the job? So why would a billionaire who has been to space twice (and plans to go at least two more times) want to run a federal agency? I have not asked Isaacman this question directly, but in interviews over the years, he has made it clear that he is passionate about spaceflight and views his role as a facilitator desiring to move things forward. Most likely, he has accepted the job because he wants to modernize NASA and put the space agency in the best position to succeed in the future. NASA is no longer the youthful agency that took the United States to the Moon during the Apollo program. That was more than half a century ago, and while NASA is still capable of great things, it is living with one foot in the past and beholden to large, traditional contractors. The space agency has a budget of about $25 billion, and no one could credibly argue that all of those dollars are spent efficiently. Several major programs at NASA were created by Congress with the intent of ensuring maximum dollars flowed to certain states and districts. It seems likely that Isaacman and the Trump administration will take a whack at some of these sacred cows. High on the list is the Space Launch System rocket, which Congress created more than a dozen years ago. The rocket, and its ground systems, have been a testament to the waste inherent in large government programs funded by cost-plus contracts. NASA's current administrator, Nelson, had a hand in creating this SLS rocket. Even he has decried the effect of this type of contracting as a "plague" on the space agency. Currently, NASA plans to use the SLS rocket as the means of launching four astronauts inside the Orion spacecraft to lunar orbit. There, they will rendezvous with SpaceX's Starship vehicle, go down to the Moon for a few days, and then come back to Orion. The spacecraft will then return to Earth. So long, SLS? Multiple sources have told Ars that the SLS rocket—which has long had staunch backing from Congress—is now on the chopping block. No final decisions have been made, but a tentative deal is in place with lawmakers to end the rocket in exchange for moving US Space Command to Huntsville, Alabama. So how would NASA astronauts get to the Moon without the SLS rocket? Nothing is final, and the trade space is open. One possible scenario being discussed for future Artemis missions is to launch the Orion spacecraft on a New Glenn rocket into low-Earth orbit. There, it could dock with a Centaur upper stage that would launch on a Vulcan rocket. This Centaur stage would then boost Orion toward lunar orbit. NASA's Space Launch System rocket is seen on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in April 2022. Credit: Trevor Mahlmann Such a scenario is elegant because it uses rockets that would cost a fraction of the SLS and also includes all key contractors currently involved in the Artemis program, with the exception of Boeing, which would lose out financially. (Northrop Grumman will still make solids for Vulcan, and Aerojet Rocketdyne will make the RL-10 upper stage engines for that rocket.) As part of the Artemis program, NASA is competing with China to not only launch astronauts to the south pole of the Moon but also to develop a sustainable base of operations there. While there is considerable interest in Mars, sources told Ars that the focus of the space agency is likely to remain on a program that goes to the Moon first and then develops plans for Mars. This competition is not one between Elon Musk, who founded SpaceX, and Jeff Bezos, who founded Blue Origin. Rather, they are both seen as players on the US team. The Trump administration seems to view entrepreneurial spirit as the key advantage the United States has over China in its competition with China. This op-ed in Space News offers a good overview of this sentiment. So whither NASA? Under the Trump administration, NASA's role is likely to focus on stimulating the efforts by commercial space entrepreneurs. Isaacman's marching orders for NASA will almost certainly be two words: results and speed. NASA, they believe, should transition to become more like its roots in the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, which undertook, promoted, and institutionalized aeronautical research—but now for space. It is not easy to turn a big bureaucracy, and there will undoubtedly be friction and pain points. But the opportunity here is enticing: NASA should not be competing with things that private industry is already doing better, such as launching big rockets. Rather, it should find difficult research and development projects at the edge of the possible. This will certainly be Isaacman's most challenging mission yet.
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