Load Time For A Meatspace Person Takes A While At First, But They Rarely Pause For Buffering

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Dangitall, how come LJ is broken and yet you all still keep posting? It's not like I can read it, you bastards. My friends page is comatose! How the hell will I know what you had for lunch or see your hilarious attempts at baking cakes or tell you long hideously detailed stories about adventures with menstrual cups this way?*

I guess I'll just have to spend the next few days while I wait for our crack squad of savvy motivated LJ personnel to unbreak everything doing, you know, REAL ACTIVITIES. I understand those huge upright chunks of flesh and hair I keep seeing around are actually people, in some strange non-text, non-icon interface that seems vaguely familiar somehow. I'll see if I can't friend one somehow, though I can't find the button for that yet.***

At least I seem to have fixed my own internet connection. Ball's in your court, LJ.


*Actually, there haven't been many adventures. Contrary to some of the stuff I read on the forums back when I was getting the hang of this thing, I am not suddenly One With My Body, nor do I feel a grand connection with the moon.** It has merely become a new variation on the monthly "Oh, this is happening again" ritual.

**Which is good because it's NOT LIKE I'LL BE GOING THERE ANY TIME SOON OBAMA WHAT THE HELL MAN.

***I know, I know: HURRRRR.

Comments

[asqmh.livejournal.com]

Yeah! Why DID Obama decide to bork NASA? I think Mr. President once wanted to be an astronaut and when they didn't accept him, he decided to become president instead and UNRAVEL THE WHOLE FUCKING PROGRAM.

*ahem*

Or something. It might have been like that.

[beccastareyes]

Well, to be fair, Real Astronomers like to argue about whether we should go back to the Moon or do something else instead*. (Or just scrap the manned space program and do it with robots -- which usually gets booed down by the rest of us, because a lot of us are entranced by the coolness of manned spaceflight, even if robots give us more data per dollar.)

* My vote's for a Near-Earth Asteroid. Maybe one of the ones that's in resonance with Earth, so there's a nice window when it's nearby in space, so an abort can be done.

First step is figuring out what the hell to do about the fact no one got the 'next gen launch vehicle' funded and developed before folks started worrying about 'the Shuttle is old and we should really shut it down'. (At least that is being worked on.)

[cougarfang.livejournal.com]

My initial reaction to the moon thing was also NOOOOOOO WHYYYYYY but thinking about it... if there's not an actual moon base in the near future, then is there actually a point to sending people to the moon other than "HOLY SHIT THIS IS COOL"? I'd rather see people in space a lot more often and doing useful things, in my fairly ignorant layperson's humble opinion. (And in the meanwhile other people can tinker with theoretical moon bases and hopefully eventually come up with something worth funding.)

[ellixis.livejournal.com]

Sometimes the flesh chunks have text on their fabric covering! I find this immensely helpful in interfacing with them.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

I'm being able to read my F-page, but am having problems commenting. This is the first time this morning I've gotten this far; now it shall probably balk when I try to post it.

I am finding this not-being-able-to-comment thing very frustrating, because you know that everybody needs my opinion!!

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'm not too worried about the Moon specifically (I'd rather we started going further out, even if that's going to take some serious time), and I cheer for robots, but just having people out in SPACE seems like a step forward. Scrapping that feels like we've cancelled The Future.

I'm all for a Near-Earth Asteroid, too. That would be neat!

[shadesofmauve]

I beg to differ.

There are certain times of day, e.g., directly after lunch, or at the pre-coffee stage of the morning, when I frequently have to pause for buffering.

My room-mates have gotten used to it.

[beccastareyes]

A lot of the problem is we needed to fund things earlier so now we're stuck. Bush's administration had plans, but didn't toss any money at NASA, and I think now even if we toss money at it, there will still be a gap. Of course, there are plans out there, so saying 'Okay, now here's the deal -- we'll be out of commission for a bit, but we're working on this neat thing' would be good. Get Obama to speechify -- he's good at that. Mention about jobs in the aerospace industry.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I've found that it generally clears up later at night, around the time I typically get home from work. Looks like this is going to be continuing until sometime in May (http://kylecassidy.livejournal.com/591298.html).

The real reason the Moon program was canceled is because they were coming too close to revealing the secret Reptoid Bases. Can't be having that.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

I'd heard that about LJ. I have been trying at different points through the day and it seems to slow down at random times for me.

Here I was thinking the Moon Program kept running into the monsters Rita Repulsa was throwing at us, and the damage was getting prohibitive ...

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Okay, yeah, and sometimes I have trouble booting up. Perhaps you are right.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

The Moon's kind of a pointless destination anyhow. As you mentioned above, Asteroids are pretty much where it's at. IIRC, better resource availability if you pick the right ones, and there's no Gravity Well to climb out of if you want to use it as a stepping stone to, say, Mars or the Jovian Moons.