Balex

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[–] Balex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought it was in reference to Dark Brandon.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where are they? I want to pull up with my homie and surprise him 🤫

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

But SpaceX has literally lowered the cost of a launch by an order of magnitude. They also are flying one of the most successful rockets ever flown.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Evolution isn't some sentient force striving for perfection. There is a lot of retarded stuff that we have evolution to thank for. This could just be a side effect of some other trait that normally helps the fish survive. Plus, earthquakes don't happen often enough to affect evolution in the long run.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world -2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What do you mean from that distance? By the time he shot her they were <5 feet apart.

You're right, it doesn't change the fact that the cop completely failed at controlling the situation and she is now dead because of that, but it muddy's the water and creates conversations that don't need to be had (like this).

I don't know why you seem to think that getting boiling water thrown at you would be like taking a hot shower, but that could seriously mess someone up for life.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nope, she still had the pot in her hands up until the point he shoots her. You can even see steam coming off the ground after she gets shot.

I don't think either of their lives are more or less important than the others, but I do think the officer has the full responsibility for how that situation plays out.

I just hate the dishonesty about the situation, it makes your criticism look weaker. You can 100% criticize the cop without lying about the facts.

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 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.

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