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2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968. back then the Moon base and all those orbital stations didn't seemed so much like a goddam fiction. given that humanity had 33 years to accomplish it.
now, even going back from plastic to glass bottles seems like science fiction.
besides, why waste taxpayers money on a mission to the Moon when you can waste it on "war against whatever"?
Ariane 5, Payload to LEO: 20T, Payload to GTO: 10T, Cost per launch: US$165–220 million
Proton-M, Payload to LEO: 23T, Payload to GTO: 6T, Payload to GSO: 3T, Cost per launch: US$65 million
Falcon Heavy, Payload to LEO: 63T, Payload to GTO: 26T, Payload to Mars: 16T, Cost per launch: $150 million
Long March 5, Payload to LEO: 25T, Payload to GTO: 14T, Payload to GSO: 6T, Cost per launch: ?
Long March 3B, Payload to LEO: 11T, Payload to GTO: 5T, Payload to GSO: 3T, Cost per launch: $70 million
B-2 Stealth Bomber, Payload to LEO: 0T, Payload to GTO: 0T, Unit average cost: $2100 million, No. built: 21
M1 Abrams battle tank, Payload to LEO: 0T, Payload to GTO: 0T, Unit average cost: $9 million, No. built: 10300
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Crosby Stills and Nash!
"It's gonna be a long time gone"
Bill Simnel
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There is still a ton of the earth we have not discovered. Let's start discovering what we have before we decide to take off. 
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Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So far, every single cent spent on space has been spent here on Earth. Microcomputer technology, pacemakers, hearing aids, Teflon (yup - byproduct of the Gemini program), and a lot more is a direct result of the US Space Program.
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Possibly. But that does not negate what I said.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I think SpaceX will be there before Artemis will be. Artemis is dependent on the Boeing/Lockheed ULA conglomerate that still hasn't gotten their latest launch off the ground using a "proven" Delta V rocket. In the meantime SpaceX has launched a manned mission to the ISS and nearly a dozen commercial launches.
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We HAVE bases on the Moon AND Mars but it is not acknowledged in the media!
It is also part of the reason for the new "Space Force".
The military has had ENOUGH of the secrecy and wants to de-classify more of the 6,000+ classified patents on health, anti-gravity, "free" energy and more.
Anti-gravity craft are perhaps the biggest secret of the last 100 or so years!
I know what you might say. If they didn't land on the White House lawn, UFO's aren't real.
About 200 generals and admirals are behind Trump to start revealing more this stuff as soon as the "swamp" gets cleaned up some more.
However unfortunately the "deep state" still controls the 6 major media companies. The result?
The media has already elected Biden and they cast Trump as the worst president ever!
Biden is most always shown smiling and Trump is shown in some unfavorable news article as grumpy,angry,frowning etc about 98% of the time. When has this ever happened with any other president running for a 2nd term?
Anyway, it may be one of the most historic, contested and drawn-out elections ever! 
rehopkins2
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Be careful. You are either right on the edge of Rule 4, or a bit over it. That's not a good place to be ... if you want to keep your account open, anyway.
Rules at the top of the forum: 4. No politics (including enviro-politics[^]), no sex, no religion. This is a community for software development. There are plenty of other sites that are far more appropriate for these discussions.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah, sounds great. Totally not a political deflection from the worst position the US has been in for decades.
I can't wait to watch the Trump Ship 1 take off from Trump Space Center, land at Trump Base, and set up Trump Colony to build the new Trump Tower. It will be the tallest building on the Trump Moon! Right next to the Putin Condominium Complex.
I can totally Seig it coming.
Thanks for taking one of the last places I peruse to dump some politics into.
"My software stacks are so old the frameworks have a termite problem." - Me, probably
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I'll believe it when I see it.
Who wants to bet that in 2023 they will scrap the SLS and buy SpaceX Falcon Heavy or Starship rides to the moon?
I want to live long enough to watch the first manned Mars landing.
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A trick question for The Chase in the twenty second century will be "What century did mankind first land on the moon?".
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Insurers who up the price for loyal customers: The Lounge[^]
UK insurers to be blocked from favouring new customers[^]
I'd feel empowered if it didn't say they'd been thinking about it for a year 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not happening here in Oz, they upped mine by 25%, when I shopped around I found a similar product less 50%. Lying, thieving bastards that they are.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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It's not just insurers. I find businesses do this all the time. Years ago I cancelled my Sears credit card because they were giving better interest rates to new customers and wouldn't drop my rate.
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obermd wrote: I cancelled my Sears credit card
Ahh, so THAT's the reason they went bankrupt!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Anyone here have a development organization that might/is/has transitioned to this product?
I don't want to drink the MS cool-aid but it looks pretty impressive. But it's not my $$ 
Would love to hear some feedback...
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Clarification: I mainly work in an embedded development shop and about all of our processes are manual. We have a few scripts to do builds plus Bugzilla and Subversion. I'd appreciate thoughts on how to slowly jump into the Azure pool.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
modified 22-Sep-20 12:43pm.
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We use it for Work Items and Source Control. Works great for what we need.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Tell me about your team... is it just you grunts, or is management involved working the scrum line and sprints?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Small team. We don't use the sprints.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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We have been using it for at least 2 years now. We are also using the scrum templates (now modified quite a bit, but started with the stock ones). The architecture works well. We are using git and use pull requests to approve dev work. We have deployment pipelines to 4 environments, so it's easy to deploy to any environment with just a click. When a pull request completes, we deploy automatically to the dev environment, then there is an auto deployment to the QA environment during the late night. Deployments to other environments happen manually with a button click and an approval. The whole architecture is soooo much better than it was before 2015.
I can highly recommend it for a Microsoft shop over JIRA and Jenkins.
modified 22-Sep-20 12:27pm.
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Do you have people managing the tool?
Context: I'm in an embedded organization with management that sort of has an idea about software. The presentation I saw today was somewhat "big picture" with stakeholders, developers, etc. There seemed to be some overhead in order to manage everything....
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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We have one developer in our group who makes changes to the pipelines and build servers. At this point, he doesn't have much to do on a daily basis, and most of his time is devoted to regular development on our product. We have a group of about 10 developers and about 6 business analysts and 5 qa testers. The business analysts take the business feature requests and create features and pbis and write up the requirements. The business analysts keep the backlog in priority. The developers groom the backlog once or twice a week to estimate complexity. The business analysts set up the sprints and the developers determine what can get done in the sprint. Sometimes there are too many items in the sprint, and we work with business analysts to determine what to move to the next sprint and what to keep. Sometimes we can complete more work, so we try to add additional pbis to the sprint, or add some tech debt pbis (which devs have created and groomed earlier) to the sprint.
Over the years, we have added custom status to some of the dropdowns in the pbi and task items, and we have also added some custom fields we track. It's pretty easy to add these items, and the managers usually do it (either the manager of the business analysts, or the dev manager).
Setting up the build environments (build servers and configuration) and release pipelines is the biggest task, but once done, only needs a little maintenance (such as updating the build servers with updated third party libraries).
We use SQL server, WebAPI, vue.js, webpack, node and other web and other .Net Core technology stack.
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