Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today

Re:Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today by sitkack on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @10:45AM (#16316943)

This whole thread should review Clarke's Three Laws[0]

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is impossible, they are very probably wrong.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

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Re:Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today by greenhouse_gas on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:01PM (#16317552)

The (counter) corollary to rule #1: They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

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Re:Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @12:19PM (#16317689)

AFAIK Columbus should be grouped together with Bozo the Clown - his plan was rightfully laughed at; he only survived because he lucked into discovering a new continent halfway through the trip...

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Re:Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today by jacquesm on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @01:17PM (#16318146)

The Forrest Gump of the 1400's?

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Re:Watch the SpaceX Falcon Heavy Rocket Launch Today by sitkack on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @02:57PM (#16319028)

To my defense, I never said getting laughed at makes one's idea any good.

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