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  1. 8 minutes ago, G650 said:

    I may or may not have Skelly tattooed on an arm.

    Before it became clear, that SD was going Rockabilly, I was at one of their shows with some friends.  Maybe the Cameo Theatre IDK...  Anyway Mike comes out before the opening act and talks to the crowd a little bit.  Then laughs and as he's walking off stage says "let's see you guys slam to this!"

    The opening act was a country band.

    Audible groans.

    It's clear to me now that he really liked the band and brought them along, but oh man, read the room.

  2. 28 minutes ago, G650 said:

    So an actual true story, I convinced my parents to let me go as a punk rocker for Halloween when I was younger, which to their credit they were totally down with. This is when the second wave was just taking off, and big hair, leather and shit were in. I ripped up some baracuta type jacket I had, dyed my hair pink and made a mohawk. This was early 80s, I'm sure the neighbors thought we were all going to hell. We all got full into punk when Pennywise hit the scene, which was around junior high for me. Being all surf kids down here at the beach, the SoCal punk scene became pretty big here, not sure if @locodos was still here at that point or not.

    Yeah left in '85...   That town always felt like it was plucked out of Cali (or wanted to be anyways) may or may not have pierced my own ear with a safety pin in '83.  (fuck I was stupid) 

    The DC punk scene was legit for east coast and we got a lot of that ...  But then again everyone got a lot of (Henry Rollins) Black Flag, Bad Brains, Minor Threat

    I was into Social D, DRI, Kennedys, BF, Circle Jerks... but I think my favorite was 7 Seconds.  I didn't like heavy, I liked fast.  Disliked metal-ish vocals.  So I was late to Misfits and the metal influenced groups.

    One thing I will say about Hardcore/Punk groups, the music was mostly shit.  Seems like each band only had like 3 good songs and the rest were just filler.

     

    Here's a modern group that feels more Punk than Grunge to me anyway.

     

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  3. 15 minutes ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I can see rap taking place for punk for younger kids, but it just doesn't seem it would hit the same.

    Yeah, it's not the same.

    The VERY limited amount of rap I have heard is more of a slow grind build up and to G650's point is somewhat older.   

     

  4. 3 minutes ago, G650 said:

    It was about 20 years ago. The olds are the ones listening to rap now.

    True, I have some Pop Smoke on a few playlists.

    But I hear punk music at respectable establishments now.  I remember stopping dead in my tracks hearing the Muzak version of Holiday in Cambodia.  I think it's clear now that Punks failed just like the hippies.

  5. After Gen X, Rap became then new Punk...  Youthful anger, anti establishment, provocative lyrics designed to enrage, the olds hate it.

     

    This is not my original idea, I heard it in an interview and my first reaction was "tha fuck it is!"  but the more I've thought about it the more true it feels.

  6. 25 minutes ago, G650 said:

    lol fucking no man. All the associated costs came down, they actually lagged comparable tech. Say you use the initial of 27k per lb for LEO instead of the latest 8k per lb just to err way on your side, you are looking at SpaceX being a little over 1/20th as expensive. In the same time frame RAM costs have dropped to 1/1000000th(!!) as much as 1982. The cost of a GFLOP has gone from 10's of millions to cents. These are the huge costs that go into space flight. These guys are huge laggards.

    If that's true, then the Shaggy Brain trust is perfectly placed to:

    1) Start a Rocket company on the cheap using processing power not hardware (I mean we already nailed the activity function)

    2) Use the wreath fun the wrap the rockets with pithy posts and paint penises

    3) ?

    4) Profit!

    I mean if Space X  are huge laggards and they are dominating the launch market?  How dumb are we?!

    Spoiler

    Narrator "Pretty fucking stupid"

    BF, G650, I humbly apologize, your posts have given me pause to reflect... Nasa is the perfect image of budget and project management and Space X is lucky they are, coat tail riding bitches!...    and frankly I gotta go book some accommodations or I'm going to be sleeping in a sheuch.

  7. 1 minute ago, NoName said:

    wait, really?

    Space X had $5.2b in expenses in CY2022, and had about $2 billion in funding over the same timeframe from SpaceX.

    SpaceX is the 2nd most awarded contractor for NSASA behind JPL i think.

    ...so you really don't think that NASA has shit to do with getting to Mars? FFS they were the first ones to land on the planet, have a presence there today and pay SpaceX like 40% of their expense budget for the year...and they have nothing to do with getting to Mars in the first place?

     

     

     

    ???  I haven't posted anything about Mars, like at all. 

    My post have been:

    • To credit space X radically reducing cost to LEO.  Which they did.  Link posted above
    • Point out that NASA is a jobs program (looking at you Alababamba)
    • Nasa has been beset by political wrangling (I think from your post you agree)

    The idea that NASA will have a permanent Human Settlement on the moon on or around 2030 is one of the stupidest things I've ever read on Surly or Shaggy.  Especially because we are already balls deep in 2023.

  8. 2 minutes ago, G650 said:

     

    SpaceX hasn't managed to do things NASA did sixty years ago. It's not a conversation. If we wanted NASA to work on budget space servicing it's something they could do in their spare time, there's nothing remotely impressive about that. The only that holds NASA back is being a political football.

     

    If you want evidence of NASA's efficacy, just look around man. About 95% of everything we use in the modern world came from NASA, DARPA and Bell Labs. The space missions they launch are a fraction NASA's purpose.

     

    SpaceX is a joke.

    If your point is that Nasa has been valuable to the US.  Great we agree.

    If your point is that Nasa bid out work that advanced mankind.  Great we agree

    So all that happened by let's say the mid 70's.  (So 50 years ago)

    So tell me the story of Nasa since then...   You know, efficient Nasa, who has lost capability over time.

    Who is it that takes Nasa astronauts to space?

     

  9. 14 minutes ago, G650 said:

    NASA, dollar for dollar, is the most effective program the United States has ever run.

     

    Also, LOL

    According to who? You got a link to back up that bold statement?   

    Quote

    Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stemmed from claims that NASA's Space Shuttle program failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as well as design, cost, management, and safety issues.[1] Fundamentally, it failed in the goal of reducing the cost of space access. Space Shuttle incremental per-pound launch costs ultimately turned out to be considerably higher than those of expendable launchers.[2] By 2011, the incremental cost per flight of the Space Shuttle was estimated at $450 million,[3] or $18,000 per kilogram ($8,200 per pound) to low Earth orbit (LEO). In contrast, the comparable Proton launch vehicle is said to cost as little as $110 million,[4] or around $5,000 per kilogram ($2,300 per pound) to LEO, despite not being reusable.

    When all design and maintenance costs are taken into account, the final cost of the Space Shuttle program, averaged over all missions and adjusted for inflation (2008), was estimated to come out to $1.5 billion per launch, or $60,000 per kilogram ($27,000 per pound) to LEO.[5] This should be contrasted with the originally envisioned costs of $260 per kilogram ($118 per pound) of payload in 1972 dollars (approximately $558 per pound adjusting for inflation to 2019).[6]

    While the shuttle did serve a purpose servicing satellites and space stations in orbit, it failed at its original goal of achieving routine, reliable access to space, partly due to multi-year interruptions in launches following Shuttle failures. It was never as economical as expendable rockets for the task of launching satellites.[7] NASA budget pressures partly caused by the chronically high NASA Space Shuttle program costs have eliminated NASA crewed space flight beyond low earth orbit since Apollo, and severely curtailed use of uncrewed probes.[8] NASA's promotion of and reliance on the Shuttle slowed domestic commercial expendable launch vehicle (ELV) programs until after the 1986 Challenger disaster.[9]

    Two out of the five spacecraft were destroyed in accidents, killing 14 astronauts, the largest loss of life in space flight.[10]

    LOL at your LOL 

  10. On 6/7/2022 at 4:45 PM, mdmost said:

    I should've asked this before our trip where I was walking 10 miles a day. What's the best insoles for running or walking shoes? I wear Asics but have had some issues with plantar fasciitis before. I have some ones from my podiatrist for my everyday shoes. I'd like some for when I wear running or walking shoes but don't want to go back to him for them. I mostly need good cushioning for stability as I overpronate when I walk. My Asics help with that but I find the cushioning is just not enough. I bought some Dr. Scholl's from Target where you cut them down to fit your feet. They worked okay but weren't enough. 

    Where should I look for some better ones? A running store like Run on?

    Hoka Bondi8s

    Not insoles, but they are the cushiest shoes on the market...  so good

  11. 17 hours ago, G650 said:

     

    They do, which is the fucking problem. Why did we outsource that.

     

    NASA is so much more competent. We easily could have developed reusable rockets with the money we pissed away on SpaceX subsidies.

    NASA is a political football. In addition to being a jobs program for shitty Red states, it's a cashcow for the defense industry.  Space X has DRASTICALLY reduced the cost of payload to LEO. (like a 4/1 reduction)  Say what you want about Elon, Space X is doing some real shit...  I will admit he might have jumped the shark with Starship.

    https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20200001093

  12. 10 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    If Ocean Pacific comes back into style, I'm set.  That means Spuds Mackenzie t-shirts aren't far around the corner.

    I don't think you're too far off now.  I was in a surf shop the other day and stopped dead in my tracks, they were selling Cord shorts that looked just like OPs.  I chuckled, showed my kids and told them you can hear people walking in these.  They didn't know what I meant, but I sweater god I can hear it still.

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  13. Snotty? - Yeah, but not in mucusy way

    Alty? - check

    Punky? - Think if the Cure took their SSRIs and listened to too much Beachboys at the mall

    Garagey? - That's kinda the only way to describe their sound

     

    Check out these nerds from my home town... (or not, that might be the better call)

    I assure you they sounded way better drinking beer around a bond fire on the beach.  They were the first really local band I got into.

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