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DEI For North America

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“OMG, it’s not a parody.”

I found this amusing: “Now I have no problem with Indigenous Peoples, but from this statement it appears that Indigenous women were the main topic of conversation between the 3 leaders. Perhaps that is Justin Trudeau’s influence? He likes women, right? I know women like him. He is a good looking guy. Better looking than his real father even, and certainly better looking than Pierre.”

15 thoughts on “DEI For North America”

    1. Castro was a chad. Arafat tried to emulate his style but he looked like a waterboy wearing the quarterback’s jersey.

  2. I am not aware of many indigenous women wanting to return to living in mud huts- as perhaps many white lefties might think is a good direction- though seems rational hold on traditional values while going towards the future.
    I wonder when Canada and Mexico are going to get more involved with space exploration- though most of time, I wonder when US is also going to do this.
    Though in the world in general more and more nations are becoming more involved.

    And wondering about how long SpaceX is going to continue to delay using it’s ocean platforms.
    I have been thinking that these oil platforms may not be stable enough in various weather conditions, particularly in rough sea conditions.
    Also what ocean areas would are better to used for daily ocean launches.

    1. I lived and practiced medicine in Canada (Ottawa) for 12 years…..Canada seemed quite proud that their space involvement was building the Canada arm for the shuttle, and Chris Hadfield camping out up there.

      And that was enough for them. They took offense when I’d mention that the arm could have been built just as well and likely for less in the US, and we launch all sorts of idiots into space…

    2. Depends on the platform – the ones actually sitting on the seabed have withstood very heavy wind/wave conditions in the North Sea, North Atlantic, etc. The ones off the Canadian Maritimes also dealt with significant iceberg threats.

      They are shut down during especially bad weather because of an overabundance of caution, and to mitigate the risk of a pipeline breaking

      1. I believe these aren’t sitting on the seabed.
        Of course can’t much about conditions of atmosphere [other being different locations] but
        other what happening in sky, shutting down due to oceanic conditions, was the delays, I was thinking of
        avoiding.

    3. Though I have a bee in bonnet about making floating breakwaters- breakwater for launch site pad [oil platform] and breakwaters for general operation related operations related to launch site.

  3. Ocean launch / landing platforms would be plenty stable, much more so than the barges currently in use, and capable of supporting a considerable weight of equipment. I have heard that the project is on hold pending developments with the Starship project, but that may just mean that they’re sticking to the design phase for now rather than completely ignoring it. No point demolishing superstructure until you know how much has to go.

    WRT Turdeau and company, all turds in the punchbowl of life … Pretty confident that Biden and Amlo both idolized Trudope’s real father Fidel Castro. They’ll let him say anything.

    1. wiki:
      “The ASDS are autonomous vessels capable of precision positioning, originally stated to be within 3 m (9.8 ft) even under storm conditions, using GPS position information and four diesel-powered azimuth thrusters. In addition to the autonomous operating mode, the ships may also be telerobotically controlled.

      The azimuth thrusters are hydraulic propulsion outdrive units with modular diesel-hydraulic-drive power units manufactured by Thrustmaster, a marine equipment manufacturer in Texas.The returning first stage must not only land within the confines of the deck surface, but must also deal with ocean swells and GPS errors.”
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_spaceport_drone_ship
      It seems the stages could return to oil platform, I thinking fully fueled stack launching from oil platform.
      Likewise launching during an earthquake seems like it could be problem, whereas landing empty stage during an earthquake [on land] could be less of problem.

      1. Bear in mind that deepwater offshore platforms have a very deep hull that has large ballast tanks in it. The bottom of the platform can easily be 100 feet under the surface, where there are no swells nor waves. The legs rising from the submerged hull are made relatively small to avoid interacting with the surface waves. They really don’t move around very much.

        1. One Idea of have for breakwater, can simply
          described, 20 meter diameter pipe and say 100 meters long, which can be filled and pressurized
          with water pressure of about 10 psig. And if water
          is freshwater, it floats slightly above the denser sea water. It water mass per 1 meter length is more mass than boomer sub mass per meter length. Small waves can go over it and designed to break big waves and make surfing wave one ride going over it. But main designed to able to move it [tow it].
          Ocean waves can have a lot energy which mostly below the waterline- and when come to beach and break, that energy is more apparent- though it lose a fair amount energy travelling thru shallower water, before it breaks- or good surfing areas are where less energy is lost before it breaks.
          So question, is bottom of pontoon below 100 feet or top of pontoon below 100 feet- and there is wave energy with larger swell below 100 feet.
          Or with 60 feet below waterline, the idea is to stop most of wave energy unless they very big waves.
          The another aspect is the higher above the deck something is, the larger swaying motion as compared to the deck level.

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