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Comment Re:Probably not something you should upgrade to ye (Score 0) 29

If people that are concerned with database performance are doing day zero upgrades of a X.0 kernel release, they're idiots and they deserve what they get.

Anyone that has been around the block a few times knows you wait and let the idiots shake out all the problems like this, and you upgrade on the X.1 that fixes all the problems they could have never seen coming due to mountains of edge cases that cannot effectively be tested for.

Comment Re:full moon, full earth (Score 1) 91

Because they can change the spacecraft's attitude to put whatever they want into the window while flying along the same trajectory?

Guess what, they probably could have taken a picture of the full sun too. Amazing what you can do when you are somewhere in the 360,000 kilometers between Earth and Luna.

Comment Re:54 Years to Do Less (Score 1) 91

Only hateful individual I'm seeing here is you, using the same stupid hateful dipshittery twice now.

You have no idea what the selection criteria was, and how it was applied. The NASA Director of manned flight operations knows, and that's who ultimately selects the crew.

You, and everyone else in this thread, is speaking out of ignorance and stupidity.

Comment Re:It certainly is, IF... (Score 1) 91

Now only if there was some way that they could bring enough water for the multi-month trip to Mars, and have that water also be used for secondary purposes like radiation shielding...

These are engineering problems. Engineers haven't started working on them outside of "well how about..." because we don't have any funding for manned Mars spacefilght, just the same as nobody was working on lunar landers until there was a manned spaceflight mission to put people on the moon.

Comment Re:Its really all about logistics (Score 1) 91

If you already have a space station in Earth orbit, why do you need one in Lunar orbit too?

Why would you not seek to do your interplanetary burn direct from Earth orbit, like we have done with literally every single thing we've ever sent to Mars?

Not being snarky, just wondering if there is some delta-V advantage to being higher up the well, but in a different (lesser) well.

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