Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
The rise of casual drug use.
Changes for the worse that have happened in my lifetime
- Thread starter Drago
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Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Climate change
raleighnut
Legendary Member
- Location
- One of the 'Elite'
The total smoking ban in pubs, why couldn't some bars 'opt out' and just have a sign that said "Smoking Allowed, If You Don't Like It Feck Off" or somesuch.
RoubaixCube
~Tribanese~
- Location
- London, UK
I mean lead is toxic either way. Just because you swap out one evil for another does not make it any less damaging. Though im guessing less lead in the environment is better right? Still causes cancer and a host of other issues if you constantly breath it in.
Either die from lead poisoning/exposure to lead from the environment or die from the additives in petrol that cause cancer. Lead can also cause cancer too i might add and inhibit body growth and mess about with peoples DNA (according to what im reading...)
so we are damned if we do and damned if we dont. But so long as mother earth is safe, the grass is green, the birds are singing and the trees are growing - Its just the circle of life.
Imagine if the world was reduced to an apocalyptic planet of toxic gas and dust particles and we'd have to put on hazmat suits and breathing apparatus every time we left our caves.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Any professional sport [c.f. amateur sport where doing it is the important, fun bit...]
Staff.
Essentially the slow-death of the entire, unsustainable neo-liberal capitalist consumptive economic / social model (and far more importantly the associated destruction and misery this will cause).
Looks like you timed your birth quite well as it's all downhill from here!
Looks like you timed your birth quite well as it's all downhill from here!
The ban was essentially made on health and safety grounds wrt staff working in the pubs.
If you want to kill yourself, do it at home. Don't expect others to kill themselves serving you beer.
gavroche
Getting old but not past it
- Location
- North Wales
The rise of cancer and obesity inducing fast food chains.
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
The unreported withdrawal from sale of Top Deck shandy in the UK, especially the cider one.
OP
OP
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
...can be given the same choice - you don't like it, don't apply to work there.
steveindenmark
Legendary Member
The health and safety executive. Everyone should be allowed to climb as well as fall out of trees with impunity.
Political correctness. It has devalued my Robertsons enamel golliwog pin badge collection.
Mega supermarkets. They have decimated high streets.
Political correctness. It has devalued my Robertsons enamel golliwog pin badge collection.
Mega supermarkets. They have decimated high streets.
- Location
- London
Why did that happen?
How much beer/alcohol was in it?
I don't remember feeling remotely drunk on it as a young kid.
Hard disagree, for reasons I shall hide behind a spoiler to avoid thread derailment.
The Shuttle program was *catastrophically* bad.
It set space exploration back by at least 35 years, more if you include the R&D time.
It looked iconic but it was a failure in pretty much every category one chooses to examine it.
It was emphatically not a technological marvel or the pinnacle of technology - it was a massive backwards step, a 122-foot white elephant, a perfect monument to hubris.
Indeed, the only marvellous thing about it was that it was so unbalanced that it required incredible engineering to make the damn thing fly at all.
Project brief: a cheap, reusable launch vehicle that could take large payloads into LEO with a landing/launch turnaround in a week.
Reality: hideously expensive, very dangerous (even by spaceflight standards) riddled with engineering problems that did not affect conventional launch vehicles, that took at least 2-3 months to refit after a single mission, with additional massive delays when the heatshield tiles needed replacing every few missions, or when the entire fleet was grounded for years after the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
The Shuttle was originally intended to be just one part of a much larger program called the Space Transportation System (STS) that was intended to bring large payloads to the Moon and Mars with a view to making missions there much easier, faster, cheaper and safer.
Nixon came along and nixed most of the program, leaving them with what we came to know as the Shuttle and its vestigial STS designation, leaving the entire program looking rather pointless.
Now onto stats:
- It cost $450 million for a single launch, which is ~8-10 times more than a conventional rocket launching similar payloads (and ~50-70 times more than was originally claimed for the project)
- 2 of the Shuttles failed catastrophically, representing 40% of the space-rated Shuttles and 1.54% of all Shuttle launches.
Running the Shuttle program was so expensive that it caused NASA to be run into the ground, to the point where the organisation that safely sent humans to the moon and back six times haven't had the capability to launch any manned vehicles in the 9 years since the program was shut down.
It looked iconic but it was a failure in pretty much every category one chooses to examine it.
It was emphatically not a technological marvel or the pinnacle of technology - it was a massive backwards step, a 122-foot white elephant, a perfect monument to hubris.
Indeed, the only marvellous thing about it was that it was so unbalanced that it required incredible engineering to make the damn thing fly at all.
Project brief: a cheap, reusable launch vehicle that could take large payloads into LEO with a landing/launch turnaround in a week.
Reality: hideously expensive, very dangerous (even by spaceflight standards) riddled with engineering problems that did not affect conventional launch vehicles, that took at least 2-3 months to refit after a single mission, with additional massive delays when the heatshield tiles needed replacing every few missions, or when the entire fleet was grounded for years after the Challenger and Columbia disasters.
The Shuttle was originally intended to be just one part of a much larger program called the Space Transportation System (STS) that was intended to bring large payloads to the Moon and Mars with a view to making missions there much easier, faster, cheaper and safer.
Nixon came along and nixed most of the program, leaving them with what we came to know as the Shuttle and its vestigial STS designation, leaving the entire program looking rather pointless.
Now onto stats:
- It cost $450 million for a single launch, which is ~8-10 times more than a conventional rocket launching similar payloads (and ~50-70 times more than was originally claimed for the project)
- 2 of the Shuttles failed catastrophically, representing 40% of the space-rated Shuttles and 1.54% of all Shuttle launches.
Running the Shuttle program was so expensive that it caused NASA to be run into the ground, to the point where the organisation that safely sent humans to the moon and back six times haven't had the capability to launch any manned vehicles in the 9 years since the program was shut down.
Concorde was a pretty cool rich kids' toy tho, I'm slightly sad it was mothballed because unlike the Shuttle, Concorde wasn't being relied on to drive space exploration forwards.
