Balex

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[–] Balex 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

While I do agree that there are scenarios that are very complicated, I feel like this website does a very poor job at showing those. Almost every single scenario they show doesn't make sense at all. Why are there barriers on one side of the road, why does half the crosswalk have a red light while the other half has a green light?

[–] Balex 4 points 7 months ago

Why do you think that space is a huge downgrade though?

[–] Balex 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In his partners body cam video you can hear a sound before he starts shooting. Still don't know how you would mistake that for a gunshot, but there was at least a sound 🤷

[–] Balex 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It looks like it really has to pee.

[–] Balex 3 points 10 months ago

Not quite. They are pushing it a little harder. You still have the Facebook website, but their branding for other things now has Meta more front and center (i.e. Oculus Quest -> Meta Quest)

[–] Balex 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Fair enough. I've just been jaded from reading people bash on SpaceX anytime anything in space "fails". But yeah, those events are similar in the sense that on the surface it looks like a failure, but they met their main mission goal and learned a lot from it. It sounds like the engine issue might've happened for them before, so hopefully they got a lot of good data from this and are able to fix the issue.

It's important to keep in mind that going to space is very hard. Landing on another celestial body is order of magnitudes harder.

[–] Balex 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I don't know why people insist on trying to diss SpaceX anytime there's space news... Anyway, last time they missed the Autonomous Drone Ship was years ago when they were first trying to land. So I'm not exactly sure what you are referring to.

Plus, with space missions there are usually many different mission objectives, and with this mission the main mission was to "demonstrate its highly precise navigation and landing system" which they determined to be a success. The extra credit mission would be if it landed properly and they were able to do more science with it.

[–] Balex 6 points 11 months ago

I read aggressive as in accelerating aggressively. Possibly to get around people?

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