#TheOrville #Deflectors

Watching The Orville and several thoughts. Definitely love/hate feelings. So much borrowed from every space ship and crew ever made (they have a Data, a varied and conflicted crew, a common enemy, and a lot of interpersonal relationships) but the Earth in the 2000's references fall so flat you could slip them under a door. They had clips of Friends??? But I accepted Captain Mercer has a Kermit on his desk ...

The first few episodes were nearly torture, but it looked great, graphic wise, and attention to detail, etc., except for the HDTV clarity of poorly applied to prosthetics.

World creating isn't easy, so I kept at it.

It got a lot better in later episodes and though they broke "prime directive" like 5 times, fast and loose is ok with decent writing, which I feel it has.

The Moclan characters are the most interesting. And the Deflectors episode was really well done.

I'm sure the anti woke mob hates this show, but I don't care.

The two metal structures are the flame #deflectors, which are meant to sit under the #launch table during launch to divert #rocket #exhaust away from the #vehicle to avoid thermal, acoustic, or debris issues, as well as to minimize damage to #pad #infrastructure.
Theses #FlameDeflectors were used at LC-34 for the #Saturn I and the larger, wider one was used for the upgraded Saturn IB. Flame delflectors are meant to divert the #exhaust of a #rocket as it #launches to protect the #vehicle and #pad #infrastructure.
After the #Apollo Program was finished, #LC34’s tower was dismantlted to prevent its uncontrolled collapse due to rust from the salt spray. The rest was #abandoned in place and a #memorial #plaque and kiosk were to memorialize the deaths of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee during the Apollo 1 fire.
#CapeCanaveralAirForceStatsion, #CCAFS, #Apollo1, #AbandonInPlace
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