Frostweaver Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 (edited) I know it's not CoH, but it's amazing! Edited May 27, 2020 by Frostweaver 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostweaver Posted May 27, 2020 Author Share Posted May 27, 2020 Bah, launch abort. I get it though, bad weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Morbid Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Frostweaver said: Bah, launch abort. I get it though, bad weather. I think the Clockwork King had something to do with it. For the scarifying misadventures of Mike Morbid, go to Twitter and look for @JMikeMorbid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roleki Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 26 minutes ago, Mike Morbid said: I think the Clockwork King had something to do with it. Which is actually a Nemesis plot. 1 He doesn't HAVE an ass. That's one of the things we're transplanting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImpousVileTerror Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Which Arachnos forced him in to a corner to commit to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironblade Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 Rescheduled to Saturday afternoon. Originally on Infinity. I have Ironblade on every shard. - My only AE arc: The Origin of Mark IV (ID 48002) Link to the story of Toggle Man, since I keep having to track down my original post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTeague Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 I mean, it's disappointing, but I think they very much collectively learned the lesson of Never Ever Ever say "Damn the Torpedoes, the nation wants to see the launch", EVER again. 1 Roster: MTeague's characters: The Good, The Bad, and The Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwright Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 I'm under no illusion that another tragedy will never happen, but may it never happen because of haste and incompetence, and may it be a long, long time off. On a more positive note, we've been discussing this event on my work team. Most were not alive in '81 when Columbia, the first fully functional shuttle took flight. It was magical. It'd been a few years for us without space traffic then: the Apollo-Soyuz mission was in '75, the last Skylab mission was '74, so the kids of my generation were stoked to see a flying space ship that looked like a plane and not a cone. It didn't hurt that we were getting a steady diet of space sci-fi at the time, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactica, the Black Hole...the Buck Rogers series had just concluded, Buck having started his journey in a fictional version of the shuttles. It also didn't hurt that we'd been thrilled when the test shuttle was named "Enterprise" for obvious reasons, and Trek was in full swing with one movie out for just over a year (with hot sales of laserdisks, betas, and early VHS) and one movie on the way. (I'm not even going to detail being a toddler seeing Neil Armstrong take that first step and watching a room full of young adults in an excited frenzy: one of my earliest memories.) So I'm excited to see my nieces and nephew's generation rediscover the wonder of a new chapter in manned space missions. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haijinx Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 10 hours ago, Techwright said: On a more positive note, we've been discussing this event on my work team. Most were not alive in '81 when Columbia, the first fully functional shuttle took flight. It was magical. Ha. I think we are older on this forum than people suspect in general. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haijinx Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 The interior shots of that Command Module are amazing. Somehow better than a lot of Sci Fi Bridges. At least to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rathulfr Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 11 hours ago, Techwright said: (I'm not even going to detail being a toddler seeing Neil Armstrong take that first step and watching a room full of young adults in an excited frenzy: one of my earliest memories.) I was a wee lad then, too. My younger brother and I had to sneak out of bed and down the hall to just behind my dad's recliner to surreptitiously watch the Apollo coverage on the black and white television without alerting dad to our presence. 3 @Rathstar Energy/Energy Blaster (50+3) on Everlasting Energy/Temporal Blaster (50+3) on Excelsior Energy/Willpower Sentinel (50+3) on Indomitable Energy/Energy Sentinel (50+1) on Torchbearer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MTeague Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 I missed Armstrong's walk on the moon. Born in 1970. But Columbia and Enterprise and Challenger I remember quite well. I always did want to see Rush perform "Countdown" live as well, but the concerts i made it to never included that particular track. Great song though. Roster: MTeague's characters: The Good, The Bad, and The Gold Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RikOz Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 On 5/27/2020 at 2:27 PM, Mike Morbid said: I think the Clockwork King had something to do with it. On 5/27/2020 at 2:54 PM, roleki said: Which is actually a Nemesis plot. As it turns out, it was actually Karen. https://babylonbee.com/news/space-x-launch-scrubbed-after-karen-called-the-cops-on-it 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostweaver Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 Welp, there's going to be another attempted launch today! Totally worth watching. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwright Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Loved it. Picture perfect, except for the loss of video feed at the moment when the Falcon 9 touched down on the drone ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostweaver Posted May 30, 2020 Author Share Posted May 30, 2020 I suspect that the feed was cut to protect patents... After all, if we had seen the little tractor beams pop up and guide the Falcon 9 into a perfect touchdown, we might suspect something. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrauleinMental Posted May 30, 2020 Share Posted May 30, 2020 Born a little late for Apollo 11. But I was watching Challenger--and the return to space on Discovery. I woke up early in the morning for the Parker Solar Probe launch, and I was watching today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwright Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 5 hours ago, Frostweaver said: I suspect that the feed was cut to protect patents... After all, if we had seen the little tractor beams pop up and guide the Falcon 9 into a perfect touchdown, we might suspect something. Watching the feed, and then the cut-out, I was thinking what a truly bad time for the video to fail. We'll now have conspiracy theorists stating that the whole thing was faked and they used the gap to swap video footage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twisted Toon Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 2 hours ago, Techwright said: Watching the feed, and then the cut-out, I was thinking what a truly bad time for the video to fail. We'll now have conspiracy theorists stating that the whole thing was faked and they used the gap to swap video footage. Well, you know that the moon landing was faked, right? 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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