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FarenDin69
The shuttle would have exploded or fallen down and that's 450 millions.
silentsuspekts87
This is going to be epic
FauxFargoth
FYI, NASA is getting pretty serious about a Moon mission using SLS.
LazyJones1
That reminds me... Is Horizon Zero Dawn out yet?
GamiCross
And one day-- we'll finally be back to ... Riding horses.
pjsmudgejason
Clean that thick ship
ENCHANTMEN
WTS: Space Shuttle, boosters and external tank included. Bit of a fixer upper. Sold as is.
Lurkingoff
I thought this was for a movie...
lokigodofchaos
Same. I saw the figure ona horse and assumed Planet of the Apes.
Merrak
Watchpoint: Gibraltar sure has changed in the latest patch.
CliffyWeevil
Neat.
Derwyd
The man looks like a witcher.
Getsoft4u
it feels like living in Rome during the middle ages...
keanyoy
Is that Geralt of rivia
vanella
Space-x is going to the moon, just announced http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/27/technology/spacex-moon-tourism/
RocketSprocket
There was one astronaut who really needed to 'pee right now!' The other astronauts said 'can't you just hold on until we get there?'
Dominiricanish
Not if Elon Musk has anything to say about it!
vanella
They announced it an hour ago, so 3 hours after your comment :) http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/27/technology/spacex-moon-tourism/
Dominiricanish
I love this man!
CatBlaster5000
Decent.
lenomdeplume
Its who we are...now that a plurality believe Noahs Ark existed AND transported dinosaurs.
oldskoolzeldafan
this have been my pc wallpaper for like... forever.
Aquilarden
Hey, this is the picture that inspired some of my writing. Post-apocalyptic return to feudalism. Knights in riot gear.
BaconOnARock
Why would they leave the shuttle on the launch pad to rot? Did some massive disaster happen only a few days before launch?
vanaman
Yeah, yeah, but it looks good and ordinary people usually don't think about these things.
StandardDeviant
Also, the shuttle would collapse long before it could be buried like that. Rockets leak fuel.
KlondikeBarr
this is one of my backgrounds
VintronTheExonite
Don't attach your bullshit quotes onto an artist's image and not give us any sauce.
wwcasedo
Wow calm down snowflake
VintronTheExonite
YouSignedTheGodDamnedContract
No one should alter someones artwork, especially not with stupid "profound" quotes. But op just reposted, someone else defaced it.
VintronTheExonite
I don't see how the situation has improved.
jackedape
Agreed, make Pepe great again!
SpecialProjectY
The orange foam coating the solid booster would be gone decades before the twin starter would empty themselves and implode.
StreaksOnTheChinaNeverMatteredBefore
destructionhamster
Isn't this from George of the Jungle?
FilthyHexer
You're thinking of Curious Kong
decker250
Winston play of the game
hitlershairydick
GIMME ALL YOUR FUCKING PEANUT BUTTER
TobascoPanda
daveisamonster
One of my favorite you tube search memories is ape ak
jeffeypuh
We were never horses. Gorillas man. We used to be gorillas.
McSose
Looks like picture from the series The 100
Aussieausti
Exactly! That's what I thought as well, I love that show
Janusha
Today USA does not own a space shuttle. Astronauts have to hitch a ride with Russia up and down from the ISS space station.
vanaman
Actually there are three of them.
bf3c
I think you meant to say the International ISS Space Station
kmikl
Real talk: the Space shuttle should have been run in tandem with another space-exploration vehicle in the 80's and 90's had Nixon not /1
kmikl
/2 hacked NASA's budget. Only reason the shuttle existed is that the CIA/DARPA contributed funds for an ultra-heavy lift space-vehicle.
Janusha
Today rambling mad creationist Ted Cruz is in charge of NASAs budget. Where he constantly tries to cut projects that disagrees with religion
Bystandr
Even better- the ship, tank and boosters are thin and would corrode to structural failure within 50 years. Unless they piled the dirt on it,
Bystandr
that kind of accumulation would take millenia.
Lavie154
I'm pretty sure that the ET is so fragile when not up to pressure (if it is in any way like a falcon 9), it would crumple like a soda can.
JahniSlim
SpaceX Dragon will be taking our proud scientists up very soon! No more going to space from Kazakhstan! :D
JahniSlim
https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/17/21225163/nasa-spacex-crew-dragon-falcon-9-commercial-dm-2-first-crewed-launch
JahniSlim
May 17th let's go!
rxpx40
Uhm, Technically, we still own the fleet of shuttles. They simply aren't active. They've become museum pieces.
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rxpx40
Negative. They were not purchased. They are leased.
Lavie154
Evidence?
Janusha
So my statement stands perfectly fine then, does it not.
rxpx40
NO! They were not purchased by the museums!!! They are leased.
Janusha
Irrelevant. USA does not have an operational space shuttle and has to hitch a ride with Russia.
rxpx40
Now, I agree with that statement.
FingersInTheDirt
Sauce?
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murderhobbit
The Legend of Zelda: 5555
murderhobbit
Dammit, supposed to be 55555
TimTheEnchanter01
America, 2019
ToPPsyKReTTs86
Stop fucking saying sauce. It's such a stupid goddamn thing to say.
Colcunillingus
....Sauce....
FredwardAyy
Destiny: Lost renegades
blokeno79
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FingersInTheDirt
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YourMomsNewBoyfriend
Hollandaise
FingersInTheDirt
tfussy
Oblivion movie with Tom Cruise I think
0gre
I, too, would like to know. It pretty cool art.
Corastuff
The yummy flying saucer :P sorry, couldn't resist.
IsaacMeadow
Author
FingersInTheDirt
JackkBakin
Source
FingersInTheDirt
Raven78uk
FingersInTheDirt
uncleorandrew
Half life 3
easybrz
Moon
FingersInTheDirt
newworldtraveller
The future.
StrokeFlavoured
Ahhhh, damn. You were first. Have your upvote.
FingersInTheDirt
ItsDrP
WE HAVE TO GO BACK
gamecracker
Breath of wilds new trailer.
easybrz
No mans sky
FingersInTheDirt
easybrz
Haha you're all over this
FingersInTheDirt
Fingers in many pies and dirt
IChangedMyUsernameSoPeopleCantGoogleMe
Yuri Shwedoff, he has awesome artwork!
FingersInTheDirt
You are now easier to find on google
IChangedMyUsernameSoPeopleCantGoogleMe
How so?
FingersInTheDirt
IChangedMyUsernameSoPeopleCantGoogleMe
AnusHemingay
Space Horse 4000
Esnoopydo
I looked it up and all I found were bikes...
FingersInTheDirt
Thank you
TexasBaconMan
I like you too.
stabbert3
I like you
Soolie
The sixth result to googling "space horse"
CoffeeIsTasty
They're good horses, brunt
alejandromer
tehzpoon
No Ragrets
RosencrantzNGuildensternNeverLived
Nay
impostersquall
is this a book or a movie? or....a joke?
Larryjesusnme33
Neigh
ThrowdaFischbach
Original post by the artist. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/white-castle-1632dfa5-bce0-45ac-9fc4-d752b68591f6
RingOfFavorAndProtection
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Racack
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lillemaake
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ICanFixThat
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Emperitor
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SecondHandDeathWish
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FingersInTheDirt
Thank you
ElonCrust
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FriendlyEagle
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ChefLes
5 years later link broken. Here you go fellow random : white castle by Yuri shwedoff
Xeroblaz
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stormegedendarklordofall
The shuttle was a terrible program. It WAS supposed to launch twice a month. Be MUCH cheaper. Have a lower ton per dollar cost 1/2
stormegedendarklordofall
(They are not the exact same, just trust me on it) and was supposed to have a higher success rate. 2nd one
stormegedendarklordofall
Costs. It failed front he beginning.
stormegedendarklordofall
And they only got 5. Plus we had a WHOLE Saturn 5 and Apollo space craft that was not launched because Nixon did not want to pay for launch
Lavie154
The shuttle was also very underfunded. Had it gotten proper funding, it could have gotten off the pad way sooner. It was designed in 1972(1)
Lavie154
and flew only in 1981. Nixon killed the space program from the start.
Lavie154
They also stopped launching it twice a month because they put the mission 70% priority then the crew 30%. Then Challenger happpened.
Lavie154
(Challenger was easily avoidable and was in conditions no flight controller today would dare launch in.
Lavie154
Um... The shuttle, until Falcon Heavy flies, was the CHEAPEST dollar-per-pound way of sending payload into orbit commercially.
stormegedendarklordofall
The Saturn V was much cheaper.
Lavie154
Keyword: Commercial
Lavie154
Keyword: Commercial
stormegedendarklordofall
The shuttle was run by NASA. Which is a GOVERNMENT organization. The space shuttle was not commercial.
Lavie154
It did carry commercial payload.
stormegedendarklordofall
I know this might sound like i trying to be a dick here. I assure you I am not trying to be, but what missions?
Lavie154
STS-5, STS-7, STS-8, STS-41-B, STS-41-D, STS-51-A, STS-51-D, STS-51-G, STS-51-I, STS-61-B, and STS-61-C.
stormegedendarklordofall
It was around 96% if I remember that correctly. The Russians rocket is 100%. One of the big reasons was politics. NASA asked for 10 billion,
Dongers22
IDK where you heard R-7 family has a 100% success rate (One failed like 2 months ago ffs). But yeah, man-rated shuttle kinda sucked wee wee.
Dongers22
They asked to much from one launch vehicle, honestly, in some ways like the F-35 program, ya think you're saving money by adding capability
Dongers22
to a single design, but the whole thing ends up costing as much if not more, while compromising other features.
stormegedendarklordofall
I am speaking of the fatalities of the Soyuz rocket.
Lavie154
R-7 = Soyuz.
Lavie154
Also, there are a lot of fatalities with Soyuz/R7. While they are from the early days, they still exist.
stormegedendarklordofall
Has a crew member died from a launch failure? No.