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- Comment on spicy one 4 days ago:
Missilepotamia
- Comment on Trump, Who Has Likened Himself to a King, Bristles at ‘No Kings’ Protests 2 weeks ago:
418 I'm a teapot - Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 2 weeks ago:
Sure, there’s plenty of reporting, mostly with agendas. www.inc.com/kit-eaton/…/91195626
Perfect? No. Meeting more primary goals than not? Yes.
Flight 1 – Apr 20, 2023 Primary Goals: ❌ Integrated launch ❌ Stage separation Secondary Goals: ❌ Booster splashdown ❌ Starship reentry
Flight 2 – Nov 18, 2023 Primary Goals: ✅ Hot staging ✅ Near-orbital trajectory Secondary Goals: ❌ Booster recovery ❌ Starship reentry
Flight 3 – Mar 14, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Orbital velocity ✅ Propellant transfer demo Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Raptor engine relight
Flight 4 – Jun 6, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster splashdown ✅ Starship reentry Secondary Goals: ✅ Hot-stage ring jettison ✅ Landing flip maneuver
Flight 5 – Oct 13, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster catch with launch tower ✅ Starship splashdown Secondary Goals: ✅ High-altitude flight ✅ Flap durability test
Flight 6 – Nov 19, 2024 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster recovery ✅ Starship reentry Secondary Goals: ✅ Raptor relight in space ✅ Daylight splashdown
Flight 7 – Jan 16, 2025 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster catch ✅ Starship splashdown Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Harmonic resonance test
Flight 8 – Mar 6, 2025 Primary Goals: ❌ Booster recovery ❌ Starship reentry Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Thermal protection system test
Flight 9 – May 27, 2025 Primary Goals: ✅ Booster reuse ✅ Starship reentry (reached, failed in execution) Secondary Goals: ❌ Payload deployment ❌ Raptor relight ❌ Heat shield tile test (data collected, vehicle lost)
- Comment on [Opinion] We Should Immediately Nationalize SpaceX and Starlink 3 weeks ago:
The author wants the capabilities of SpaceX “brought into the sphere of democracy.” That sounds less like nationalisation and more like selling it to a functioning government. I wouldn’t trust Trump or his cronies to run things any more than I would Elon. Fortunately, Gwynne Shotwell is the functioning adult running the company and (mostly) managing Elon’s interference.
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Any story about SpaceX as a font of private innovation because it’s free from state interference would be hard to square with the economic reality of the many billions it’s reaped from its numerous contracts, some public and some classified, with NASA and the Department of Defense. Without that, SpaceX in anything like its current form would be unthinkable.
Without “that” - meaning contracts to deliver services. Should they have not taken any government jobs? Does “build a new vehicle to deliver people to ISS” or “deliver satellites to orbit” count as state interference? This paragraph is idiocy. As far as I know, the only government money granted to SpaceX was ~25M from Texas to lure Starbase and Starlink production. Everything else was a contract or other performance-based funding.
SpaceX - with reusability - has undeniably changed the space industry on a global scale, and the decrease in $/kg to orbit is the main factor in our ability to access space and the solar system. The cost hadn’t gotten meaningfully under $5,000/kg ever, with the Shuttle at $65k/kg, until Falcon 9 brought it to ~2500 and Heavy down to 1500. Starship (which has been performing successful tests with some explosive secondary goals) should get it to $200/kg. ourworldindata.org/…/cost-space-launches-low-eart…
Fuck Trump. Fuck Musk and his drug-fueled slide into shitbaggery. Let SpaceX cook.
- Comment on What are some of the worst acted main or supporting characters in a TV series you've watched? 1 month ago:
Common in Silo. It feels like he wandered in off the street and gets prompted for every line. Modern wardrobe and affect in a post-apocalyptic setting. Completely flat and out of tune with the world. Up against Tim Robbins and Iain Glen, it’s just more glaring.
- Comment on am i insane? 2 months ago:
Definitely sounds like bipolar or something close. See a psychologist ASAP; faster cycles can be a warning sign. You’re not insane, you just have an unreliable narrator!
A few things I’ve learned from being married to a lady with bipolar for 16 years:
- it’s not your fault, but it is your responsibility
- not being able to trust your brain sucks, but knowing it can be a liar helps
- you can be happy and productive and have a normal life
- take your pills, especially if you don’t feel like it
- self-medicating has trade-offs - try to stick with TV or other distractions instead of things that can have consequences like drugs or sex
Good luck on your journey!
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 3 months ago:
Conservatives: Won’t somebody think of the children?!
Subtext: as slave labor or sex objects or ideological battlefields or…
- Comment on what unbiased media sources do you use? 5 months ago:
I get all my news through my router. (Also Reuters is pretty good.)
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 6 months ago:
The better one’s life is, the more scared they are to lose it.
Enough of the general public is finally crossing the line we’ve been pushed towards for decades.
France around and find out.
- Comment on My post was removed because it was not political? 6 months ago:
- Comment on hard to argue with 8 months ago:
bobs and vagene?
- Comment on Crystals 10 months ago:
Piezoelectricity?
- Comment on Anon watches game of thrones 11 months ago:
Gotta admit, I expected the show to end up making sense. Subverted!
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 1 year ago:
Boobscrolling. Poonscrolling? Goonscrolling!
- Comment on Resume Tip: Hacking "AI" screening of resumes 1 year ago:
Their settings imply that they do
