Splashdown Crew 5 - Live Streams
2 Likes
While you waitâŚ
Terran 1: Launching The Worldâs First 3D Printed Rocket (Pt. 2)
Current launch time is 14:35 ET
3 Likes
Thanks for the reminder. Got my 
ready, fingers crossed for successful launch.
Update:
Oh wow ⌠!
On Hold at T-01:10 because of a boat in the restricted area, few minutes later we still got a very confident launch director to âsendâ it regardless. Often times a bad idea to not restart full sequence, but go right out of hold again. Then at the moment of launch, auto systems put it on hold again at T-00:00, right as you expect it to ignite.
Well, so far so good, sure am enjoying the excitement, but no launch just yet 
Might turn into a scrub âŚ
3 Likes
Maybe this time? 43 minutes to go.
New launch time is 4:00pm ET.
3 Likes
Itâs going to be close, aiming for the very end of the launch window, after they just reset once more, adjusting a last time. Weâll see, but I am not confident to see a launch today.
3 Likes
To be continuedâŚ
3 Likes
Third attempt maybe later today.
3D printing video from last year while youâre waiting:
3 Likes
They are having to hold because some idiot is in a boat and too close? 
3 Likes
Yay! Achieved their first goal and produced usable data for the upcoming Terran R.
3 Likes
I fell asleepâŚwhat happened to the 2nd stage booster? They had an anomaly⌠
1 Like
Per CNN:
The rocket did undergo a successful liftoff, completing Stage 1 separation and meeting Max Q (a state of maximum dynamic pressure) as planned. But in Stage 2, the engine appeared to lose ignition, causing Terran 1 to plummet prematurely.
3 Likes
2 Likes
So theyâre really going trans-lunar for their first crewed flight? Iâm really not comfortable with a spacecraft with this little flight-hours taking people on a several day trip without potential recovery in case something goes wrong. Why not let them orbit earth for a couple days first, to let Orion get its spurrs for a crewed long.endurance flight?
Iâm glad Nasa is doing something again, but this seems awfully risky. Itâs not the darn space race anymoreâŚ
3 Likes
âŚor is it? 
3 Likes
2 Likes
I have to agree with them on this one. There are just too many bad actors out there.
It is also interesting that here in the US, this same topic ran on the nightly news but, did not focus on job loss. It focused on AI impersonations. They interviewed a man who was scammed by supposed kidnappers who played what sounded like his daughterâs voice to convince him she was in trouble. It was all fake. They merely need a snippet of your voice to make you say anything they want by running it thru one of several AI programs out there.
This is much more concerning to me than losing jobs to AI.
3 Likes
For better or worse, we canât put the genie back in the bottle. Itâs never worked historically.
What we can do is look ahead and take sensible measures. Fat chance of that happening in the current political climate where nobodyâs interested in solving anything in the first place. So yeah, weâre doomed. Iâm not sure what the doom will look like exactly, but we most definitely are.
5 Likes
Iâm not sure what calling for curbs on AI is supposed to achieve. Even if respectable academic institutions were to heed the call, do we really imagine that commerce and industry will do so, if thereâs a sniff of profit or competitive advantage? Even if civilian bodies were to rein in their research, do we genuinely think the military will do so? Even if western governments were to enforce a moratorium, do we seriously believe the Chinese or Russians would do so?
As @jedidia suggests, nothing is going to stop this now. It has a momentum of its own, and itâs happening rather more quickly than I anticipated.
(edit) The more I think about it, the more I think that calling a halt on AI research can only be virtue signalling on the part of those responsible. Those who sponsored this research are now realising just how dangerous and unstoppable it will be, and, when it all goes pear-shaped (as it will), they will be in a position to say âbut I warned youâ.
4 Likes
Yes,
I am reminded of the group of scientists who tried to stop research on the atomic bomb. What came of that?
I canât remember now if Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened after that failed symposium or not.
Perhaps, if we continue the AI research, we collectively may develop workarounds like we (mostly) have for computer virii. That is my hope anyway. But taking the research out of the hands of the Good Guys, leaves it ultimately in the hands of the bad ones.
3 Likes
3 Likes