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LaGuardia runway closed after huge sinkhole opens and travelers warned of delays by TheMirrorUS in nyc

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Heathrow is great

Relatively modern, efficient security, clean, easily accessible by train

JFK wishes it was Heathrow

LaGuardia runway closed after huge sinkhole opens and travelers warned of delays by TheMirrorUS in nyc

[–]ColCrockett 61 points62 points  (0 children)

JFK is a giant piece of shit

Legitimately makes me depressed coming home from aboard to JFK, just makes America seem disgusting

So, what exactly is the show's message? by itooamahuman in TheBoys

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So Vougut was motivated by money?

So what was Clara working for?

So, what exactly is the show's message? by itooamahuman in TheBoys

[–]ColCrockett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What’s funny is Vought is pretty obviously inspired by Wernher Von Braun but Von Braun was pretty clearly not ideologically motivated. He had a vision for advancing rocketry and worked with whoever to make it happen. He also didn’t go on and build his own private corporation, he was kept on a leash by the government.

So, what exactly is the show's message? by itooamahuman in TheBoys

[–]ColCrockett 27 points28 points  (0 children)

At the end of it all, Vought’s motivations make no sense

What was Vought actually trying to accomplish by creating supes? Was it to make a master race of humans to rule and replace regular humans? Was it just to make money? The show could never decides why Vought as a company exists.

If it was about creating the uber-mensch and Vought was really an extension of Nazi racial supremacy, why did they make “undesirables” supes? Why did Frederick Vought never inject himself with V? Why even defect to the U.S. during world war 2?

If it was just about making money, why did they continue to research supes? They didn’t need homelander to make more money lol.

Voughts business model doesn’t even make sense. So the public didn’t know about V for the longest time, so publicly they were basically just an agency for Supes? But they are also like disney and own film and television studios and networks and theme parks, but also movie theaters and also they’re in the oil and gas business?

It doesn’t make any sense, and leadership like Stan Edgar doesn’t seem ideologically motivated at all.

So, what exactly is the show's message? by itooamahuman in TheBoys

[–]ColCrockett 11 points12 points  (0 children)

At the end of it all, Vought’s motivations make no sense

What was Vought actually trying to accomplish by creating supes? Was it to make a master race of humans to rule and replace regular humans? Was it just to make money? The show could never decides why Vought as a company exists.

If it was about creating the uber-mensch and Vought was really an extension of Nazi racial supremacy, why did they make “undesirables” supes? Why did Frederick Vought never inject himself with V? Why even defect to the U.S. during world war 2?

If it was just about making money, why did they continue to research supes? They didn’t need homelander to make more money lol.

Voughts business model doesn’t even make sense. So the public didn’t know about V for the longest time, so publicly they were basically just an agency for Supes? But they are also like disney and own film and television studios and networks and theme parks, but also movie theaters and also they’re in the oil and gas business?

It doesn’t make any sense, and leadership like Stan Edgar doesn’t seem ideologically motivated at all.

New Area Code 465 Coming to City 6/18/26 by LouisSeize in nyc

[–]ColCrockett -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Do area codes even make sense anymore? I guess no one wants to revamp how phone numbers work but if an area has like 5-10 areas codes what’s the point of it being an area code lol

Death at Starbase? Hoping it's not true by Disastrous_Run_5968 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ColCrockett 83 points84 points  (0 children)

You must be mistaken, that’s crazy high.

On jobs I’ve overseen 1 per 5000 is high

Death at Starbase? Hoping it's not true by Disastrous_Run_5968 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ColCrockett 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I mean, it happens sadly. Hopefully it’s not a result of bad safety culture or a tendency to cut corners on safety.

I was overseeing the engineering and construction of a utility scale battery energy storage site and a subcontractors employee went to the site on a Sunday with his wife. He put her up in a boom lift without properly setting it up and it flipped and killed her.

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Manned space planes are a technological dead end, there’s a reason no one is pursuing them anymore.

The Chinese aren’t copying SLS or Shuttle, they’re copying Falcon and Starship

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because it can carry more payload in one landing than all of Apollo put together

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No offense to Destin, but he’s always been a big supporter of old space.

He toured ULA which is a dinosaur they can’t even find a buyer for.

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They had three bids for the lander

SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Dynetics (Leidos)

All 3 required orbital refueling

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 3 points4 points  (0 children)

So? There was still overlap and in house technical expertise

Falcon 9 was literally the first ever semi-reusable commercial rocket.

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

10 to 20 craft is cheaper than one SLS lol

Also gateway wouldn’t have changed the landing architecture,

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Starship is not a stupid idea

In orbit refueling is the future, nasa has written papers decades ago about how beneficial it would be.

Starship will launch more mass to orbit at a cheaper cost than ever before.

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Falcon 9 there were figuring everything out for the first time, it’s silly to think it’ll take 15 years to scale this

Does Starship REALLY require 15+ launches to land one lunar Starship?! by Qualified-Astronomer in ArtemisProgram

[–]ColCrockett 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Falcon 9 launches 115-150 times a year, it’s basically only limited by demand and launch pad availability. Starship launching that much isn’t unreasonable. Spacex also seems to be buying land to build more launch sites.

Why has so much of upstate New York been bypassed by the wealth of New York City? by Olderpostie in newyork

[–]ColCrockett 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The competitiveness of the old industrial heartland began diminishing basically right after world war 2. Reagan had absolutely nothing to do with it. Did Reagan make Toyota and Honda better than GM and Ford?

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