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What caught my eye initially was the unusual track of the flight path.
A United Launch Alliance Delta 4 rocket climbed into orbit Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a top secret spy satellite, adding a new set of eyes in the sky for the U.S. government's intelligence community and nudging part of the Delta 4 family closer to retirement.
The 217-foot-tall (66-meter) Delta 4 rocket lifted off at 2:11 p.m. PST (5:11 p.m. EST; 2211 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg on the power of an Aerojet Rocketdyne RS-68A main engine and two Orbital ATK-built solid rocket boosters.
[...] ULA confirmed the flight's successful outcome in a press release around two hours after liftoff.
[...] "It's a classified payload for the NRO," Varghese said in a pre-launch interview. "We can't go into the details of what the payload does, but it's a national security priority, and it's mission will ensure that the warfighters across the globe have the appropriate intel that they need to be able to support operations."
Codenamed NROL-47, the satellite lofted Friday will likely join the NRO's fleet of orbiting radar reconnaissance stations.
The Delta 4's trajectory toward the southwest suggested it was bound for an unusual high-inclination retrograde orbit that would allow the rocket's top secret payload to travel in the opposite direction of Earth's rotation.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday January 16 2018, @08:27PM (9 children)
Response to a clueless newbie who thinks something is wrong with his Mac:
"I suggest that you avoid reading the log unless something is really going wrong. You'll always find frightening messages in there, even when the computer is working perfectly."
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:03PM (7 children)
an earlier version of this manual
page said true when it meant false and said false when it meant true. You
may only ask one true/false question to determine which one is correct.
Just kidding! This version of the manual page is definitely telling the
truth.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by frojack on Tuesday January 16 2018, @09:56PM (6 children)
Michael: Back on your meds buddy.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Funny) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:25PM (5 children)
ALL OF YOU MUST BOW DOWN BEFORE THE GREATNESS THIS IS ME
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:27PM (4 children)
I just built the installer for our internal QA to test.
It's looking real good so I don't forsee any problems with testing by my client's customers.
(My client is a fabless semiconductor firm. Their customers manufacture finished products for end-users.)
When all the customers are happy with my product then I get paid.
I'm going to buy a car.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 16 2018, @10:43PM (3 children)
How about a refill on the meds instead of a car?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:27PM (2 children)
Having a car would make it a hell of a lot easier to get to the pharmacy. As it is I spend over an hour each way on the bus.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 17 2018, @04:07AM (1 child)
Where I live I can walk to CVS faster. With the bus fare I can't afford, I could have my pick of CVSes.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday January 17 2018, @05:10AM
I wait for the bus then go from central Vancouver to downtown, wait for another bus then go back to central Vancouver, but on a different street.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday January 16 2018, @11:28PM
I Am Absolutely Serious.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]