holy shit, its been 20 years? I had to IMDB that to verify this. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:32 PM, Jay Weekley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Too young to have seen Apollo 13? Oh man, that was out 20 years ago. > > Ken Hohhof wrote: > >> We seem to be living in negative times ... if you believe the >> presidential debates. It�s a mess, it�s a disaster, the barbarians are >> at the door, so elect me. >> BTW, if anyone is too young to have ever seen the movie Apollo 13, watch >> it. I love the part with Marilyn Lovell ordering the reporters off her >> lawn who couldn�t even be bothered to cover the mission until it turned >> into a potential disaster. �Those people don�t put one piece of >> equipment on my lawn. If they have a problem with that, they can take it >> up with my husband ... he�ll be home Friday.� Movie has more great >> quotes than you can shake a stick at. >> *From:* Joe Falaschi <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 9:59 AM >> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Space X >> Humans think negative more than positive. I saw this yesterday: >> >> http://blog.eosworldwide.com/blog/180-rule-creative-problem-solving#axzz3xhrPypBF >> and it seems to fit... >> >> https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wired-success/201406/are-we-hardwired-be-positive-or-negative >> On Jan 19, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote: >> >> It does seem to me that people started out focusing on the successes at >>> NASA and ended up focusing only on the failures, now the cycle is starting >>> over with private enterprise. >>> I don�t like the way people universally started to talk about the >>> Space Shuttle like some enormous failure to be mocked. NASA and their >>> contractors were told to build a reusable space truck for delivering stuff >>> to orbit, and that�s what they built. At the beginning people ignored >>> the risks and marveled at the successes. Then there were some failures, >>> and eventually no one cared about the successes, it wasn�t new and shiny. >>> *From:* That One Guy /sarcasm <mailto:[email protected]> >>> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2016 8:53 AM >>> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT Space X >>> I still think NASA should have been revamped. Private entities should >>> foot the bill for all failures, paid only upon success. >>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Agreed, I am still amazed they can hit the damn ship without >>> crashing it into it. >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016, 10:34 AM Josh Reynolds >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> The speed at which they are progressing is astounding. They >>> are doing >>> some truly amazing things. >>> >>> On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 10:32 AM, Jason McKemie >>> <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> > Yeah, I was watching that live. They lost satellite uplink >>> to the ship right >>> > before they landed it unfortunately. Disappointing to see >>> they had more >>> > problems. The seas were apparently pretty rough and they >>> mentioned that ice >>> > on the pad could have been a factor. Still, a pretty >>> amazing feat. >>> > >>> > >>> > On Monday, January 18, 2016, Chuck McCown <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >> >>> >> He stuck the landing, but only to have a latch on a leg >>> fail.... arrgh.. >>> >> Look at how close it is to the center of the target: >>> >> >>> >> >>> >>> http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/01/18/elon_musk_spacex_rocket_explodes_during_attempted_sea_landing.html >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team >>> as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >>> >> > -- If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
