In reply to Mr_Asa :
Build the world's most powerful rocket using the first full flow engine to ever fly? Figure out how to mass produce engines at the rate of one a day? Work on second stage reuse when nobody else has even managed first stage yet? Work in a hardware rich testing company where stuff gets built instead of simulated? Sure, there are some cool projects at places like Relativity but nothing that's going to revolutionize the industry. It's hard to get more interesting than that.
SpaceX doesn't just suckle at the government teat. It's taken over the commercial and scientific launch business because it launches more often, more reliably and for less money than anyone else. And that's with the rocket they consider to be obsolete.
(Could not find a good meme for Pythom Space, they're a joke on their own)
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I know some people who worked for SpaceX. They have all said it was a terrible experience but great for the resume. They now work for NASA.
Recon1342 said:
MEMES!!!!
Kind of makes you wonder why the AF requires higher ASVAD score and is generally much harder to get into than say the MC. Maybe because they want intelligence? Love my MC brothers from a breakfast omlet made to order Airman.
mtn said:
In reply to 914Driver :
I saw a bunch of those blades being delivered on a cargo ship. It is shocking how huge they are.
Last year we drove past a pile of busted up blades from those turbines, stacked somewhere in the southern tier if NY along highway 17. They're huge, they have a finite life, they apparently damage somewhat easily, and I don't believe they're made of anything recyclable.
Not to mention, they are ugly as sin, dotted along the landscape.
*cough* Scalded Composites *cough*
93EXCivic said:
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I know some people who worked for SpaceX. They have all said it was a terrible experience but great for the resume. They now work for NASA.
I know 4 people that went the other way, go figure. They will tell you NASA is horrible, but SpaceX is great.
Appleseed said:
I am reminded of the time my WWII veteran dad leaped to his feet and raced out the front door in time to see several T-6 Texans go booming over the house just above the tree tops.
He was nearly deaf by then, and about 84 years old. He was out the door in a flash, before I even heard them coming.
This is him during a tour of a liberty ship about ten years earlier.
Steve_Jones said:
93EXCivic said:
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I know some people who worked for SpaceX. They have all said it was a terrible experience but great for the resume. They now work for NASA.
I know 4 people that went the other way, go figure. They will tell you NASA is horrible, but SpaceX is great.
That's the difference between someone who actually wants to build exciting things and a government drudge trying to make retirement while doing as little as possible.
eastsideTim said:
Impossibly timely. We just got word that "they" (owner of a construction project we are doing design work on) "are planning for a round of DiSC training in Q1 of next year." This was followed by a survey asking for our permission to share our DiSC assessments (personality profiles) with the owner (city) in question, the general contractor, the architect, and likely the rest of the design team, and whether we'd be interested in a full day out of town and overnight stay to participate in a "DiSC teaming session".
Sure. Maybe I can provide a retina scan, DNA sample, and a little bone marrow while we're at it.
This is a project that is budgeted at an even 100 million dollars. We're already at 150 million because they're packing in every feel-good bleeding-edge feature they think might improve their image as ecologically mindful, socially conscious early adopters.
Meme slightly related.
DarkMonohue said:
Are you pointing at me?
(I studied Myers-Briggs to find the theoretically ideal compliment to my INTJ, thus better hedging my bets. I even had the then Miss "SoonToBeMrsSkinny" complete the test to confirm my secret analysis that she was, in fact, the complimentary temperament type.)
ShawnG
MegaDork
11/19/22 1:28 p.m.
Appleseed said:
*cough* Scalded Composites *cough*
Yes.
Don't forget building asymmetric aircraft in order to make them fly straight.
Toyman! said:
Steve_Jones said:
93EXCivic said:
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I know some people who worked for SpaceX. They have all said it was a terrible experience but great for the resume. They now work for NASA.
I know 4 people that went the other way, go figure. They will tell you NASA is horrible, but SpaceX is great.
That's the difference between someone who actually wants to build exciting things and a government drudge trying to make retirement while doing as little as possible.
What a load of horseE36 M3
