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[Andy44]

Somebody with lots of extra cash and no sense should build an N1. Kind of like those guys who build bolt-by-bolt replicas of old cars or airplanes. This time, do the engineering right and get the software bugs ironed out and let's see it fly for real.

Just because.

 

[MaverickSawyer]

Why? It was a horribly inefficient design. We can do better than the N1.

 

[Urwumpe]

Somebody with lots of extra cash and no sense should build an N1. Kind of like those guys who build bolt-by-bolt replicas of old cars or airplanes. This time, do the engineering right and get the software bugs ironed out and let's see it fly for real.

Just because.

I'd rather build a UR-700 and launch to the moon. In sight of Trumps villa in Florida. And paint "Chelomeis Revenge" on it.

(Damn, the LK-700 was one of the projects I really wish I had meshes, because my own ones had been too ugly to finish.)

 

[Andy44]

Somebody with lots of extra cash and no sense should build an N1. Kind of like those guys who build bolt-by-bolt replicas of old cars or airplanes. This time, do the engineering right and get the software bugs ironed out and let's see it fly for real.

Just because.

Why?

Like I said: Just because.

 

[Artlav]

Why? It was a horribly inefficient design.

That's an invalid question.
For example, i just build an e-book reader out of a rock.
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bc9OJk9lux-/

Why?
Dunno, haven't occurred to me to ask that.

 

[Linguofreak]

Why? It was a horribly inefficient design. We can do better than the N1.

To expand upon what Andy and Artlav said:

"For the coolz"

Or better yet:

"Why not?"

Edmund Hillary might say "because it's there", but the N-1 had a bad habit of ceasing to be in any particular "there".

 

[Urwumpe]

Edmund Hillary might say "because it's there", but the N-1 had a bad habit of ceasing to be in any particular "there".

Some might even say, launching a N-1 is a very short pleasure.

 

[Notebook]

For Artlav #24272 above.

Just curious, what is your "Power supply works better than smells" for?

Thanks, N.

 

[Ravenous]

Somebody with lots of extra cash and no sense should build an N1. Kind of like those guys who build bolt-by-bolt replicas of old cars or airplanes. This time, do the engineering right and get the software bugs ironed out and let's see it fly for real.

Just because.

"Not because it is easy, but because it is hard"

It's a real pity there were never any good quality film made of the longer-lived launch attempts, it must have looked fantastic as it got off the pad (I mean of course those tests where it did successfully get in the air.)

There are many old films of the Saturns launching (on archive.org for example) and they're great to watch.

 

[Artlav]

Just curious, what is your "Power supply works better than smells" for?

All sorts of low power stuff - lights, monitors, computers, routers, 3D printers, etc, run directly off of a 24 V DC wiring, which is supplied and battery backed by the thing in question.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Edmund Hillary might say "because it's there", but the N-1 had a bad habit of ceasing to be in any particular "there".

Well, the N-1 was there, and there, and over there, ooooh there. And there.

 

[Urwumpe]

The new definition of a Pyrrhic victory:

The company WeatherOnline had sued the German weather service for their smartphone app, because it offered information for free, that according to the recent changes of the law (in favor of companies like WeatherOnline, BTW) should only be sold at neutral costs.

Well, now the DWD App costs 2€ once for the professional version (which had 5 million users in Germany) and many people are ranting against Weather Online, not the DWD... paying for an app is suddenly considered some kind of confused civil resistance it seems, Also the poor quality of the WeatherOnline reports is now getting a lot more focus.

Could you imagine somebody sueing the NOAA because they want to make money with the data that the NOAA offers for free?

 

[Linguofreak]

Could you imagine somebody sueing the NOAA because they want to make money with the data that the NOAA offers for free?

They wouldn't get very far. Works of the federal government are in the public domain by law.

 

[tl8]

The new definition of a Pyrrhic victory:

The company WeatherOnline had sued the German weather service for their smartphone app, because it offered information for free, that according to the recent changes of the law (in favor of companies like WeatherOnline, BTW) should only be sold at neutral costs.

Well, now the DWD App costs 2€ once for the professional version (which had 5 million users in Germany) and many people are ranting against Weather Online, not the DWD... paying for an app is suddenly considered some kind of confused civil resistance it seems, Also the poor quality of the WeatherOnline reports is now getting a lot more focus.

Could you imagine somebody sueing the NOAA because they want to make money with the data that the NOAA offers for free?

Does the weather service get to keep the money? I would pay $2 once off to access the government weather service if they got the money to use as they wish.

 

[Urwumpe]

Does the weather service get to keep the money?

Yes. They could decide to reduce the taxes for it though, if it is too successful. But that requires some kotau for those who are less successful.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Happy birthday to me... got my mom's death certificate in the mail today.

Damn, sometimes life has no chill.

 

[Urwumpe]

Happy birthday to me... got my mom's death certificate in the mail today.

Damn, sometimes life has no chill.

Well, there is never a good day for this, but that is really a bad day for it.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Well, there is never a good day for this, but that is really a bad day for it.

I'm partially amused by the cosmic lottery that we all play every day. Sometimes the numbers line up just so. It is all dispassionate chance; no intention to be mean or cause harm, but sometimes it happens all the same.

It's also the shortest day of the year, so I feel like I won the Depression Powerball today too.

Meh, this shall pass. Don't mind me if I imbibe some alcohol and vent a little. My apologies in advance.

 

[Urwumpe]

I'm partially amused by the cosmic lottery that we all play every day. Sometimes the numbers line up just so. It is all dispassionate chance; no intention to be mean or cause harm, but sometimes it happens all the same.

It's also the shortest day of the year, so I feel like I won the Depression Powerball today too.

Meh, this shall pass. Don't mind me if I imbibe some alcohol and vent a little. My apologies in advance.

No deal, I can understand it. I just had to realize that I slowly turn into a Klaus Kinsky double at work during the final days of the project, and that against my coworkers who have to face the same troubles right now. I am really in a terrible shape mentally and its not just the lack of daylight...

but tomorrow, I'll load my car with presents, set the navigation system due south and get some miles between me and my past project for finally becoming human again. There is no better therapy than three weeks with my girlfriend and the children.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Yeah, I'm looking forward to the holidays with my sister's family. My wife has given me a dispensation to disappear for a few weeks this winter, which I will probably spend snowshoeing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Life goes on.