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This is false. Period. Anyone who reads this post is being played by someone without any concern for the truth, who only seeks to increase themselves by drawing in the greatest amount of credulous fools possible. Again, this is false.
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is false. Period. Anyone who reads this post is being played by someone without any concern for the truth, who only seeks to increase themselves by drawing in the greatest amount of credulous fools possible. Again, this is false.
This photograph leads Page 8 of my Pad B Stories, and can be found at this link: 16streets.com/39-B/39-B%20...
I have other versions of this image, with individual systems highlighted and labeled, and perhaps I'll drop a few of those in too, if anyone is interested to see them.
I have other versions of this image, with individual systems highlighted and labeled, and perhaps I'll drop a few of those in too, if anyone is interested to see them.
Launch Pad 39-B Construction Photos - Space Shuttle - Page 008
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September 1, 2025 at 12:32 AM
This photograph leads Page 8 of my Pad B Stories, and can be found at this link: 16streets.com/39-B/39-B%20...
I have other versions of this image, with individual systems highlighted and labeled, and perhaps I'll drop a few of those in too, if anyone is interested to see them.
I have other versions of this image, with individual systems highlighted and labeled, and perhaps I'll drop a few of those in too, if anyone is interested to see them.
Yeah, this is the stuff. This is the Real Stuff.
August 31, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Yeah, this is the stuff. This is the Real Stuff.
Thank you for the mention. It's quite humbling.
And I thank you more than you can ever know, for finding John O'Connor's beyond-valuable set of gigapans.
Those things are a National Treasure, and it broke my heart when they went down.
And now they're back!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
And I thank you more than you can ever know, for finding John O'Connor's beyond-valuable set of gigapans.
Those things are a National Treasure, and it broke my heart when they went down.
And now they're back!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
June 28, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Thank you for the mention. It's quite humbling.
And I thank you more than you can ever know, for finding John O'Connor's beyond-valuable set of gigapans.
Those things are a National Treasure, and it broke my heart when they went down.
And now they're back!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
And I thank you more than you can ever know, for finding John O'Connor's beyond-valuable set of gigapans.
Those things are a National Treasure, and it broke my heart when they went down.
And now they're back!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
The rewards can come in late, sometimes many years late, from wholly unexpected quarters, in wholly unexpected form, but know this:
Life rewards the persistent, more and to greater degree than it does the intelligent. But. Be intelligent AND persistent, and no force will ever be able to stop you.
Life rewards the persistent, more and to greater degree than it does the intelligent. But. Be intelligent AND persistent, and no force will ever be able to stop you.
June 3, 2025 at 11:59 PM
The rewards can come in late, sometimes many years late, from wholly unexpected quarters, in wholly unexpected form, but know this:
Life rewards the persistent, more and to greater degree than it does the intelligent. But. Be intelligent AND persistent, and no force will ever be able to stop you.
Life rewards the persistent, more and to greater degree than it does the intelligent. But. Be intelligent AND persistent, and no force will ever be able to stop you.
Berger is a good man, but more and more, in pursuit of information from the inside, he is cosying up to the Devil, and if he's not careful, he will one day find himself looking at the ink of his signature drying at the bottom of a Deal with that Devil, and he may not be able to ever back out of it.
May 30, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Berger is a good man, but more and more, in pursuit of information from the inside, he is cosying up to the Devil, and if he's not careful, he will one day find himself looking at the ink of his signature drying at the bottom of a Deal with that Devil, and he may not be able to ever back out of it.
9 launches in, with Saturn V, they were on Apollo 14.
9 launches in, with Starship, and they're still looking for pieces of wreckage in the ocean and have yet to successfully execute a single fully-complete end-to-end test mission.
Musk more and more appears to be in over his head with this thing.
9 launches in, with Starship, and they're still looking for pieces of wreckage in the ocean and have yet to successfully execute a single fully-complete end-to-end test mission.
Musk more and more appears to be in over his head with this thing.
May 30, 2025 at 1:05 AM
9 launches in, with Saturn V, they were on Apollo 14.
9 launches in, with Starship, and they're still looking for pieces of wreckage in the ocean and have yet to successfully execute a single fully-complete end-to-end test mission.
Musk more and more appears to be in over his head with this thing.
9 launches in, with Starship, and they're still looking for pieces of wreckage in the ocean and have yet to successfully execute a single fully-complete end-to-end test mission.
Musk more and more appears to be in over his head with this thing.
I've got a feeling that when Tsilkovsky first worked it out, there had to be a point at which he just sort of sat there, and looked at his equation, and said to himself, "This thing is an asshole. This thing is going to cause a lot of trouble, when people try to use it. I do not like this equation."
May 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I've got a feeling that when Tsilkovsky first worked it out, there had to be a point at which he just sort of sat there, and looked at his equation, and said to himself, "This thing is an asshole. This thing is going to cause a lot of trouble, when people try to use it. I do not like this equation."
It occurs to me the Shuttle Orbiter is still the only reliable fully-reusable SECOND Stage that's ever been flown. SpaceX is discovering just how hard it is to get a second stage back from orbit.
And I have mentioned possible loss of SpaceX esprit de corps, earlier, and if THAT is now happening...
And I have mentioned possible loss of SpaceX esprit de corps, earlier, and if THAT is now happening...
May 28, 2025 at 12:21 PM
It occurs to me the Shuttle Orbiter is still the only reliable fully-reusable SECOND Stage that's ever been flown. SpaceX is discovering just how hard it is to get a second stage back from orbit.
And I have mentioned possible loss of SpaceX esprit de corps, earlier, and if THAT is now happening...
And I have mentioned possible loss of SpaceX esprit de corps, earlier, and if THAT is now happening...
Try surfing. Perhaps that too might bring you so fully into the present as to cause you to disbelieve there ever was a past. Or a future. But please choose your beginning with care. Warm water. Small waves. Just you, the water, and the sky. It's very hard to learn. Be easy on yourself. It will come.
May 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Try surfing. Perhaps that too might bring you so fully into the present as to cause you to disbelieve there ever was a past. Or a future. But please choose your beginning with care. Warm water. Small waves. Just you, the water, and the sky. It's very hard to learn. Be easy on yourself. It will come.
I see you've got a Space Shuttle on your shirt.
It was an amazing machine.
Maybe you'd like to know how we built one of the lauch pads that it took off from.
Pad B.
If so, the below link takes you to Page 1 of the Narrative.
Which is still being written, at this time.
It was an amazing machine.
Maybe you'd like to know how we built one of the lauch pads that it took off from.
Pad B.
If so, the below link takes you to Page 1 of the Narrative.
Which is still being written, at this time.
Launch Pad 39-B Construction Photos - Space Shuttle - Page 1
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May 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I see you've got a Space Shuttle on your shirt.
It was an amazing machine.
Maybe you'd like to know how we built one of the lauch pads that it took off from.
Pad B.
If so, the below link takes you to Page 1 of the Narrative.
Which is still being written, at this time.
It was an amazing machine.
Maybe you'd like to know how we built one of the lauch pads that it took off from.
Pad B.
If so, the below link takes you to Page 1 of the Narrative.
Which is still being written, at this time.
That's Pad 36 on the left, way off on the horizon. So you're on the coast, south of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The sand-pumping rig is visible, too, so it's a fairly recent shot. Maybe standing on the beach, just north of the Cocoa Beach Pier. Somewhere in that area.
May 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
That's Pad 36 on the left, way off on the horizon. So you're on the coast, south of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The sand-pumping rig is visible, too, so it's a fairly recent shot. Maybe standing on the beach, just north of the Cocoa Beach Pier. Somewhere in that area.
Too cool! And I always thought that NASA missed a golden opportunity by not covering the Space Shuttle in ribs under a a layer of potatoes. Baked potatoes in an oven cook SLOW. So let 'em cook, let the heat reach the ribs, land on the runway, and have barbecue! Win win! But they didn't do it. Sigh.
May 4, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Too cool! And I always thought that NASA missed a golden opportunity by not covering the Space Shuttle in ribs under a a layer of potatoes. Baked potatoes in an oven cook SLOW. So let 'em cook, let the heat reach the ribs, land on the runway, and have barbecue! Win win! But they didn't do it. Sigh.
Correction. We DID use the Hammerhead Crane. One time. When I was with Ivey Steel. We hung the GOX Arm on the FSS with it. More as a favor, than anything else. That Hammerhead Crane was VERY limited in what it could do.
Launch Pad 39-B Construction Photos - Space Shuttle - Page 66
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May 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Correction. We DID use the Hammerhead Crane. One time. When I was with Ivey Steel. We hung the GOX Arm on the FSS with it. More as a favor, than anything else. That Hammerhead Crane was VERY limited in what it could do.
The B-52 looks happy to be there.
May 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The B-52 looks happy to be there.
Fascinating. Bob Sieck's personal collection? I hope he's ok, and does not need the money. That looks like a section cut of the rail the crane rotated on. I was all over that crane, the whole time I was out there. But we never used it. The ironworkers regarded it as a toy. Worthless.
Launch Pad 39-B Construction Photos - Space Shuttle - Page 44
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May 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Fascinating. Bob Sieck's personal collection? I hope he's ok, and does not need the money. That looks like a section cut of the rail the crane rotated on. I was all over that crane, the whole time I was out there. But we never used it. The ironworkers regarded it as a toy. Worthless.