lori daniels
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lori daniels
@loricat77
Rochester,NY native.I like music, movies,TV,soda+weekends,I adore cats😽😸😻📺🎸
Rochester, New York Katılım Nisan 2013
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I miss the way #ChicagoFire used to be. Where it actually had good storyline and had all the actors and actresses in the episodes.
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@PaulDMauro Thanks for taking us along on your vacation! Nice 👍😃
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Difference Between SpaceX and NASA
NASA and SpaceX are both going to the Moon.
But they are building completely different machines to get there.
Here is the difference, explained simply.
NASA builds like a government.
Slow. Expensive. Extremely safe. Every single part is tested, certified, reviewed, and reviewed again.
Their rocket, the SLS, costs $4 billion per launch. It cannot be reused. Once it fires, it is gone forever.
Their capsule, Orion, seats four astronauts and was designed with decades of engineering tradition behind it.
It is the most powerful rocket America has ever built. It is also the most expensive way to get to space that currently exists.
NASA’s approach is: we cannot afford to fail, so we will take all the time we need.
SpaceX builds like a startup.
Fast. Cheap. Fail, learn, rebuild, try again.
Their rocket, Starship, is the biggest rocket ever built by any human civilisation. It is designed to land back on its launch pad, be refuelled, and fly again within hours.
One Starship launch costs a fraction of what NASA spends on SLS and the plan is to launch it dozens of times just to refuel itself in orbit before heading to the Moon.
SpaceX’s approach is: move fast, break things, fix them in public, and make it cheaper every time.
How They Work Together
NASA is not competing with SpaceX. They hired SpaceX.
The plan for landing on the Moon works like this. NASA’s SLS rocket launches astronauts in the Orion capsule toward the Moon.
Meanwhile SpaceX launches Starship separately, fuels it up using 14 tanker flights in orbit, and parks it near the Moon waiting.
The astronauts transfer from Orion into Starship. Starship takes them down to the lunar surface. They spend about a week on the Moon. Then Starship brings them back up to Orion, and they fly home.
They are two completely different vehicles with two completely different companies but they all have one mission.
In conclusion,
NASA style: one perfect rocket, one shot, do not fail.
SpaceX style: launch many times, fuel in orbit, land the rocket back, fly it again tomorrow.
NASA is the architect. SpaceX is the contractor who figured out a cheaper way to lay the bricks.
Neither can finish this mission without the other.
That is what modern space exploration actually looks like.


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@OneChicagoCtr It was just to show off Oliver Platt acting chops! ❤️📺
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Should Dr. Charles survive his brush with death, we need Chicago Med to drop this ongoing storyline. onechicagocenter.com/chicago-med-ne…
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Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 epic The Ten Commandments is a cornerstone of American cinema, boasting an immense legacy as one of the highest-grossing films of all time (adjusted for inflation). Starring Charlton Heston, it is celebrated for spectacular practical effects, including the iconic parting of the Red Sea, and remains a perennial television staple during Easter and Passover.
© The Ten Commandments (1956)
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This is a kind of dreadfully common Northern Michigan ugly-winter sky. There are no clouds and when you look up it is a very ugly yellow gray, if that color is possible. Yes, it is. This is it. There are no shadows cast because there is no sunlight that breaks through. The ground is a dull white from half melted snow. The light is actually sickening. Really. It makes you ill. Even when you are indoors the way the light falls through the windows and onto your floors is depressing. It makes the inside of your house look uglier. Your rooms look terrible, the floors and your tables are awful. Everything that is a little wrong is blown up bigger. Any of the mess looks worse and more depressing, it makes you more irritated. It's not until the sun comes out that you realize everything isn't awful and that your house isn't a total ramshackle shack. This sky is nature's equivalent of a bare fluorescent bulb on concrete.
It's very bad for you.
I have tried to take hyper-realistic photos this winter and this might be one of the most realistic, and most depressing for that reason.

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