- Joined
- Oct 11, 2014
The Canadarm is indeed vital to the ISS, and a real fucking cool work of engineering, especially this current iteration of it and Hatfield's a damn hero as far as I'm concerned.
Though I will say I had no idea Canada got cucked that bad, Starfighters? For real? Jeez. I'm gonna look up that UFO tidbit though, that's wild.
Unrelated, but JAXA are fucking madlads for being on their way to completing another sample-return mission from another rock in between Earth and Mars.
Yeah, look up the story of the Avro Arrow. Although there is some truth to the fact that the Arrow project was infiltrated by Russian spies (and the MiG-25 was the result) the real reason for killing the project so completely was the American aerospace industry's paranoia. A.V. Roe Canada (Avro) was almost completely gutted as a result with most of the engineers going to NASA and working alongside ex-Nazi scientists to advance the American space program.
(As an interesting but entirely personal sideline, A. V. Roe was purchased by Hawker-Siddley and ended up hiring my father as a mechanical engineer, allowing him to completely take over a technology that Hawker-Siddley figured was non-viable so that when he quit Hawker-Siddley he ended up launching 2 companies based on this technology that H.S. abandoned and made himself pretty rich in the process!)
Also, Go JAXA!!! The more missions involving Mars, no matter how peripheral, the better. The more interest is raised in colonizing the Red Planet the better. I am praying to Gods I dont even believe in to live long enough to see a Mars colony be created and thrive.