[P44]

[HSMW]

"A guy looked at my airplane the other day and said I wonder how many people I could have fed for the price of that airplane...

I replied I am not sure,  it fed a lot of families at the Dassault factory where it was built.
I’m sure it fed a bunch of families that rolled the aluminum at the Alcoa factory.
It surely fed a lot of people at the Honeywell factory where the experts built the turbines.
It fed a whole company for a few weeks when I had them build me a new interior.
It feeds the families of the linemen that fuel it.

That’s the difference between capitalism and a welfare mentality. When you buy something, you put money in people's pockets, and give them dignity for their skills.
When you give someone something for nothing, you rob them of their dignity and self worth.   
Capitalism is freely giving your money in exchange for something of value.
Socialism is taking your money against your will and shoving something down your throat that you never asked for."

[Get_It]

Esses dois - principalmente o Musk - vieram alimentar uma nova corrida ao espaço e um investimento que não existia desde o tempo da corrida à lua entre os EUA e a União Soviética. Ajudaram a dar um novo salto tecnológico e a reduzir os custos no lançamento de objectos ao espaço.

Oriente provavelmente teria sido deixado para trás e só daqui a umas décadas a China é que seria a única a fazer qualquer tipo de investigação espacial de interesse. A China, essa defensora dos direitos humanos e que tanto contribui para acabar com a fome a pobreza no mundo.

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[Viajante]

A nova corrida ao espaço está animada, com alguns milionários a gladiarem-se, mas vou pegar na mais cómica que é a abordagem de Bezos 

Acho que não é necessário mais comentários:

[Lusitano89]

[HSMW]

Com 14 anos de atraso e ia correndo mal a chegada do "novo" módulo russo à ISS.

[HSMW]

Following this morning's docking of the Nauka module to the International Space Station , the module's thrusters started firing at 12:45pm ET (1645 UTC) inadvertently and unexpectedly, moving the station 45 degrees out of attitude.
Recovery operations have regained attitude and the crew is in no danger


https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=386426096150729&set=gm.1380398609009622

[HSMW]

Em versão transparente. 

The Soyuz Rocket, Russian for "union" Rocket developed by OKB-1 and manufactured by Progress Rocket Space Centre in Samara.
Russia is the longest operational human spacecraft program in the history of space exploration.First crewed flight was on  April 23  1967.

[Lusitano89]

[HSMW]

Se estivesse à mesma distância de Saturno seria visto assim:



 

[HSMW]

[Lusitano89]

[HSMW]

 Pictured here are the orbits of the over 1,000 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs).

These documented tumbling boulders of rock and ice are over 140 meters across and will pass within 7.5 million kilometers of Earth -- about 20 times the distance to the Moon.
Although none of them will strike the Earth in the next 100 years -- not all PHAs have been discovered, and past 100 years, many orbits become hard to predict.

[Lusitano89]

[mafets]

Le véhicule d'essai OK-GLI (Buran Analog BST-02) a été construit en 1984. Il était équipé avec quatre moteurs à réaction AL-31 montés à l'arrière. Cette navette Bourane pouvait décoller par ses propres moyens pour des essais en vol, contrairement à la navette d'essai américaine Enterprise.

Fonte: Avions moches, bizarres, ratés, projets abandonnés et aviation insolite.

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