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๐Ÿงต /sfg/ - Spaceflight General

Anonymous No. 16447000

#100 Edition
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>>16447000
fuck you. who cares about this gay pencil rocket which launches gaylink and a negligible amount of other useless payloads. How does this effect my day to day life in a positive way?

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>>16447000
im a cat fucker

๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Anonymous No. 16447017

>>16447013
I hope it makes your day-to-day worse
faggot

Anonymous No. 16447018

>>16447000
How do Americans cope with their private space industry experiment turning out to be a complete failure (and not even private really - every American space company would be bankrupt long time ago if not for taxpayer money)?

Anonymous No. 16447027

>>16447000
Thunderf00t debunked this

Anonymous No. 16447028

Another boeing geostationary satellite exploded.
Meanwhile, raptor test stand did 5 re-lights back to back then another 35 re-lights at random times today.
https://x.com/i/status/1849149229182411001

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Anonymous No. 16447054

Raptor is starting to behave like an actual sci-fi ship engine now.

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>>16447018
yeah

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Anonymous No. 16447110

STATIC FIRE TODAY
LAUNCH ON MONDAY
https://x.com/BocaChicaGal/status/1849404145859506372

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Anonymous No. 16447129

>>16447077
is this an actual bot? what the fuck

๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Anonymous No. 16447136

are you guys really so sad that all you do is circlejerk about rockets all day? makes it sadder that its cult clown Musk rockets in particular too.

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Anonymous No. 16447139

Can't get over this

Anonymous No. 16447152

>>16447136
>are you guys really so sad that all you do is circlejerk about rockets all day?
yes

Anonymous No. 16448098

>>16446993
Just an expendable grift for grant money. Same as plasma magnet.

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>>16447077
>Missing indefinite article
Yep, it's a slavshit

Anonymous No. 16448121

>>16447139
anon the one thing that is in abundance on Mars is empty space

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Anonymous No. 16448267

I guess this is the real /sfg/ now.

Anonymous No. 16448268

stupid fucking janny nuked all the other threads

Anonymous No. 16448270

Staging

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>>16447016
Who the fuck posts this shit in /sfg/?

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Anonymous No. 16448272

spess

Anonymous No. 16448275

Retarded janny confirmed

Anonymous No. 16448276

Who the fuck poops in /sfg/?

Anonymous No. 16448277

>>16448272
Imagine there's even just 2 or 3 multiplanetary civilizations per galaxy in this image. There's probably more.
>>16448276
Gross people.

Anonymous No. 16448278

Slav shits

Anonymous No. 16448279

>>16448276
Disguting people

Anonymous No. 16448282

>>16448277
there's none but there's a lot of alien moss and fungi and such

Anonymous No. 16448283

>theres allot of life exaclty like that on eartth
idiot

Anonymous No. 16448284

>>16448282
I think fungi is like nature's von neumann machines and seed the entire galaxy with life. super hardy, lie dormant, spores get fucking everywhere

Anonymous No. 16448288

>>16448283
be happy I didn't give the reddit take of saying aliens are like crabs

Anonymous No. 16448291

so much for the page 10 autism

Anonymous No. 16448292

nobody cares dork

Anonymous No. 16448293

I saved a cat

Anonymous No. 16448296

i call bullshit

Anonymous No. 16448297

>>16448283
Who said that? We have no idea what interplanetary civilizations might look like, or how they might be organized. Our best guesses are grasping in the dark.

Anonymous No. 16448298

>>16448296
>>16448292
>>16448291
>>16448293
samefag

Anonymous No. 16448300

What was the official explanation for the pajeet orbital bomb?

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>>16448298
You are fucked beyond recognition

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Anonymous No. 16448304

HOLY F********** GUYS

OFT 6 LICENSE JUST DROPPED

AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Anonymous No. 16448306

>>16447054
Is that 39?

What was the previous record for relights? What about for any engine period?

Anonymous No. 16448308

>>16448277
>>16448282
The rest of the universe didn't exist until humans became capable of studying it in detail. It was essentially generated by our attempts to understand it.
Atum-Ra and his host withdrew from Creation into the Duat temporarily in order to let this development continue without their interference. Thoth's observations have led him to begin the process of restoring himself and the host into the world so that they may venture out into the unknown as humanity's vanguard. They will likely take the form of humans who have synthesized themselves with AI. Thoth will be the first to emerge. I worry about what he saw that made him think this was necessary.

Anonymous No. 16448309

>>16448304
*intercom whistle*
Boeing please report to the Principle's office. Boeing please report to the Principle's office.
*compressed sound of phone smashing into plastic*

Anonymous No. 16448311

>>16448309
*Principal's
**Principal's
sorry

Anonymous No. 16448315

>>16448311
Oh hell no I'm not getting close enough to that door to read the sign if you they see you through that frosted glass your ass is getting called

Anonymous No. 16448317

>>16448315
what the fuck are you even talking about

Anonymous No. 16448319

>>16448315
Yeah, well you're readin' that sign

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Anonymous No. 16448325

>>16448323
Blue Origin has never hit a deadline. Even every New Shepard launch gets scrubbed.

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Anonymous No. 16448328

>>16448317
See you monday teach

Anonymous No. 16448329

https://youtu.be/TViIk4Py6lc?si=7-w7yHkelhWWIuwR

>many times the loco pilot cannot control the train at such high speeds

Anonymous No. 16448330

>>16448306
Pretty sure it's 39, which would be the number of times Space Shuttle Discovery was used.

Anonymous No. 16448334

>>16448328
You little twerp

Anonymous No. 16448335

>>16448329
what the fuck is a villager

Anonymous No. 16448339

>>16448335
you need them to collect resources

Anonymous No. 16448340

>>16448328
You are hereby expelled from /sfg/-high

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>>16448335
those guys

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Anonymous No. 16448342

>20 years on the ISS and we still haven't grown a 2 ton (weightless) pumpkin.
what a waste of my tax dollars

Anonymous No. 16448343

>janny killed the retarded /pol/ thread
Haha get fucked

Anonymous No. 16448344

>>16448335
Indians (tech support not casinos) who live remotely and traditionally. No phones, no lights, no motor cars. They do have movies. When presented with a globe they thought it was a movie prop.

Anonymous No. 16448346

>>16448343
Pretty sure this is the /pol/ thread. I'm voting for Trump, I hope you are too.

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>>16448342
I support this idea. A short-term solution to growing food for Mars is growing it in orbit and dropping it down to your colony. It'd be quicker than cleaning out enough soil to grow under domes on the surface, and would be a good supplement while surface-production is getting established.
>>16448346
If you want SpaceX to not get nationalized I'm not sure how you could rationalize any other vote.

Anonymous No. 16448351

>>16448347
>someone saved my webm
yee

Anonymous No. 16448353

How is New Glenn supposed to be work when it has 1/5th the thrust of Starship?

Anonymous No. 16448355

Daily reminder that there is literally no reason to colonize Mars with humans

Anonymous No. 16448357

Now that Stump has been brought up, how will he do literally anything different from his previous presidency? He did literally nothing good for space back then
>inb4 space force and artemis
Artemis has become a jobs program that uses billions upon billions for useless stations and cannibalizes critical science missions and telescopes for their budget. Space Force already existed before them, what Trump did was just make them 'official'. Literally nothing at all changed except they had a new name.

Anonymous No. 16448359

>>16448357
If he actually puts Elon in charge of re-structuring the government then the change would be completely fucking radical.

Anonymous No. 16448360

>>16448353
Iโ€™d just like to interject for a moment. What youโ€™re referring to as Starship, is in fact, Starshp/Super Heavy or as Iโ€™ve recently taken to calling it, Starship plus Superheavy. Starship is not an orbital rocket unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning launch vehicle made useful by the Superheavy booster, Mechazilla, and vital OLM components comprising a full superheavy lift launch vehicle as built by SpaceX.

Anonymous No. 16448361

>>16448357
>Now that Stump has been brought up, how will he do literally anything different from his previous presidency?
The only thing I'm confident about is that he will do whatever Israel wants him to

Anonymous No. 16448363

>>16448361
Just say youre antisemitic.

Anonymous No. 16448364

>>16448363
I am

Anonymous No. 16448365

>>16448360
Sorry GNUwU poster, How is GS1 relevant in 2024 when Superheavy has 5 times more thrust?

Anonymous No. 16448370

>>16448365
same way electron is "relevant" now. by being not spacex and the second or third best option.

Anonymous No. 16448373

Kek based janny fucking those 'b-but muh board culture' faggots

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Anonymous No. 16448379

These are the gimbal engines.
So I guess if one of these fail then New Glenn just punches a hole straight through Landing Platform Vessel 1.

Anonymous No. 16448384

>>16448357
Seems like a long road. Doge has to happen instead of just being an election meme, then congress needs to confirm elon's appointment so we don't get a phony in there. The lobbyists in washington are going to fight this thing from the start. Even if doge has no decision power they would need auditing powers to be effective. This is actual drain the swamp shit which I'm not hopeful can ever happen.

Anonymous No. 16448393

>>16448373
Exactly. This gives us a mandate to stage whenever we want! This is FREEDOM

Anonymous No. 16448401

>>16448357
best thing the next president can do is task spacex to put the vp on moon surface within 4 years, completely separate from the Artemis structure. 2 billion only payable if it's done before the term ends.

Anonymous No. 16448405

>>16448359
>If he actually puts Elon in charge of re-structuring the government
I somehow doubt that would happen. The best-case scenario is Trump would just let Elon and SpaceX do their thing but that's about it.

Anonymous No. 16448414

>>16448373
>>16448393
The reason we have a stage flooding problem is someone will early stage, then the current thread reaches page 10, then a 'real' thread is made to avoid rewarding the early stager, then the early stager just keeps early staging anyway even though no one uses his thread. Using the early stage thread would fix the problem, but then you reward mental illness.

Anonymous No. 16448423

>>16448414
Rewarding mental illness is what got us troons.

Anonymous No. 16448424

>reddit melting down because elon has talked to putin so starlink doesn't end up triggering WW3
Isaacson book also has a chapter on it. The conversation wasn't broadcast to the world which in their minds means it was "secret" and therefore he is a traitor who should be arrested immediately for complying with US State dept regulations by not illegally allowing Starlink to be used to attack targets inside Russia. They are honestly clueless that SpaceX has crushed the Russian space launch industry or the that Elon was footing the bill for Starlink in Ukraine initially. It should be obvious that another great power conflict with be fatal to his space colonization ambitions.

Anonymous No. 16448425

>>16448424
Literally who asked about Putler?

Anonymous No. 16448429

>>16448425
the wall st. journal

Anonymous No. 16448441

two weeks

Anonymous No. 16448445

>>16448379
damn that ho thick. ya'll got more of her??

Anonymous No. 16448452

>>16448105
JIDF has been trying to drive people away from the chans by making it an unpleasant place and intelligent conversations impossible, I'm sure it them. Can't have the JQ discussed ever.

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Anonymous No. 16448454

>>16448330

Wait does the SSME even relight again on the same mission?

Anonymous No. 16448457

>>16448452
This post is offtopic

Anonymous No. 16448463

>>16448445
Yeah, New Glenn is a pretty big rocket, there's plenty of pictures around.

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Anonymous No. 16448466

>>16448463
For you

Anonymous No. 16448467

>>16448464
insanely wholesome

Anonymous No. 16448470

LIVE crew 8 splashdown stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRB3FHV9Dw

Anonymous No. 16448472

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1849696300503318830

Two hot blondes

Anonymous No. 16448473

>>16448466
Reddit chungus Keanu wholesome Reeves

Anonymous No. 16448475

it's still insane that spacex almost didn't get the com crew contract. Look at em now, crew 8 + axiom flights + Rook's flights

Anonymous No. 16448478

>>16448472
If I was inthe room I would rip their clothes off. I seriously would have no control

Anonymous No. 16448481

>>16448464
pretty jelly

Anonymous No. 16448483

Space karen

Anonymous No. 16448485

https://x.com/davill/status/1849459575998583268
>Great job by the engineering, operations and engine teams on the installation (here is another view.) The seven #BE4 engines in this image will deliver more than 3.8 million pounds of thrust for #NewGlenn. Three of the seven engines gimbal to provide the control authority for New Glenn during ascent, re-entry, and landing on Jacklyn, our recovery vessel downrange at sea. That gimbal capability, along with the landing gear and Reaction Control System thrusters, are key to making our booster fully reusable. Fun fact: The vehicle's max design gimbal condition is during ascent when it has to fight high-altitude winds.

Anonymous No. 16448487

Space kyle

Anonymous No. 16448488

Space chad
>Verification not required.

Anonymous No. 16448493

>>16448457
calm down, David, he asked a question

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Anonymous No. 16448498

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849697543543980378
>Olbermann has achieved the impossible and gone BEYOND "full retard"
>SpaceX is the primary communication system of the Ukrainian military on the front lines, because everything else has been destroyed or jammed by the Russians!

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Anonymous No. 16448499

>>16448498

Anonymous No. 16448503

speaking of which what's going on with star shield? is it really just starlink sats but dedicated for the mil, with different frequencies or something

Anonymous No. 16448504

>>16448503
we'll find out when bibi attacks iran

Anonymous No. 16448505

>>16448504
Who?

Anonymous No. 16448506

always seemed strange to me they close the nosecone AFTER the deorbit burn

Anonymous No. 16448509

https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187
>Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022. At one point, Putin asked him to avoid activating his Starlink internet service over Taiwan as a favor to Chinese leader Xi Jinping
>Musk was having regular conversations with 'high-level Russians,' according to a person familiar with the interactions. At the time, there was pressure from the Kremlin on Muskโ€™s businesses and 'implicit threats against him,' the person said."
latest elon/starlink hit piece, probably a nothingburger?

Anonymous No. 16448511

>>16448498
>>16448499
He's right

Anonymous No. 16448512

>>16448509
No. Felonious Moskal Husk is a criminal traitorous felon that needs to be locked up immediatly before him and ScamX poison the well any further

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Anonymous No. 16448513

>>16448498
Wow, I didn't expect Elon to say "retard".

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Anonymous No. 16448514

>>16448509
>All these hit pieces against Elon/SpaceX up in unison the past few days
Someone's salty

Anonymous No. 16448517

>>16448509
I swear to God if I have to hear Russia/Russia/Russia/Hitler/Hitler/Hitler for the next four years please declare martial law and dispose of the media gentry. I mean it, the entire journalist class, execute them

Anonymous No. 16448521

>>16448513
He smokes weed live on air.

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Anonymous No. 16448522

>>16448509
>according to a person familiar with the interactions

Anonymous No. 16448524

>>16448509
Journalism isn't about finding stories any more, its about stitching together a bunch of words and sentences that actually say nothing at all, but framing them in such a way that they cause the reader to infer a story by themselves that you *didn't* technically write.
"Musk has dealings with Putin!" No shit, Musk *is* space.
No starlink for Taiwan? The Taiwanese government restricted starlink due to already existing legislation.
"muh contacts"

Anonymous No. 16448525

>>16448509
But taiwan doesn't even allow starlink to operate there anyway since they require 51% ownership of ISPs.

Anonymous No. 16448526

>>16448517
Based

Anonymous No. 16448527

>>16448517
What if instead we threw you in jail for being a Putinbot

Anonymous No. 16448533

>>16448525
>since they require 51% ownership of ISPs
retards

Anonymous No. 16448539

>>16448527
You won't take me alive. Expect dead feds

Anonymous No. 16448542

>>16448539
good then we'll have twice the dead traitors

Anonymous No. 16448544

>>16448542
Kek

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>>16448509
>according to a person familiar with the interactions
So you can just straight up make shit up now? This shit doesn't even make sense in the first place. Kremlin has no direct way to pressure Musk's businesses, none of them are involved in anyway with Russia. And like other mentioned Taiwan doesn't allow Starlink to be sold there in the first place, which has nothing to do with China.

Anonymous No. 16448546

>>16448542
Killing journalists is a God-given right

Anonymous No. 16448547

wtf a dragon just flew over my house

Anonymous No. 16448548

>>16448545
>So you can just straight up make shit up now?
yes, this has been happening for a while now, of course they try to do it without explicit lies if they can like framing it in a certain way and so on but blatant lies aren't uncommon either

Anonymous No. 16448549

>>16448509
>woman
>hyphenated last name
Yikes

Anonymous No. 16448551

>>16448499
>anybody who shows even the slightest hesitation to give all their blood and treasure, even their children's lives, to protect nu-israel deserves to be hung for treason!
(((they))) are absolutely loosing it over this war, drove them to genocide the Gazans they are so beside themselves with frustration

Anonymous No. 16448554

>>16448509
>implicit threats against him
s-should we be worried?

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Anonymous No. 16448555

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bXJgDD8lk
>Is Neutron almost ready? Peter Beck interview

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Anonymous No. 16448556

Crew-8 looking good.

Anonymous No. 16448557

800m to go

Anonymous No. 16448559

sploosh

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Splashdown!

Anonymous No. 16448562

>>16448561
nice screencap. must feel amazing feeling the capsule hit the water.

Anonymous No. 16448565

>>16448555
who is this slut?

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>>16448509
https://archive.is/6S1qC
Clickbait. Only the 2022 rumour is mentioned where putin threatened to noook if Crimea was attacked which Musk already denied even happened and the Taiwan 'evidence' is from a 'ex-Russian spy' who somehow claims he knows what his superiors were doing somehow.

NAFO retards eating it up cos they only read the title though and are seething ol Musky is siding with Trump..

Anonymous No. 16448567

>>16448565
I have no idea, the video just got recommended

Anonymous No. 16448569

>>16448565
You sound like a chauvinistic pig

Anonymous No. 16448571

>>16448569
what gave you that idea?

Anonymous No. 16448572

>>16448571
Your oinking and squealing at the sight of a woman

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849714841105334429

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>>16448498
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849704081394479311

Anonymous No. 16448575

>>16448572
great work detective!

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>>16448509
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849703862091080122

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>>16448576
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849707863050158368

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https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1849714422593487175

Anonymous No. 16448579

>no onboard live cam
lame

Anonymous No. 16448580

Not to get too political but it's fucking insane that the managerial class thinks it makes sense from a security perspective to go toe-to-toe with the guy who puts 90% of the world's payload to space.

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Anonymous No. 16448581

>>16448578
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1849713619774341379

Anonymous No. 16448582

>>16448533
It's so China can't economic warfare their telecoms.

Anonymous No. 16448584

>>16448580
They are authoritarian and feel entitled to power. Their hubris and failures will be their undoing. The executive apparatus and regulatory state is in for a rude awakening.

Anonymous No. 16448585

>>16448545
Have you been around for the past 10 years? Yeah, you can literally just make shit up in the media now, more specifically since 2013 in the US.

Anonymous No. 16448587

>>16448581
I thought that said "Instead of splashing down" and panicked for a sec.

Anonymous No. 16448588

>>16448580
Why? He is gonna rod from god Olbermann now?

Anonymous No. 16448589

>>16448580
They tried to ban math once too bro.

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Anonymous No. 16448590

>>16448580
Bold of you to assume they think it makes sense.

Anonymous No. 16448591

>>16448585
>more specifically since 2013
>since 2013
haha lol kek jajaja wwwwwww lmao

how naive

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Anonymous No. 16448592

Aw sweet, a /pol/ thread!

Anonymous No. 16448593

>>16448592
I would love for US space hegemony not to be a partisan issue. But it is, somehow.

Anonymous No. 16448595

>>16448588
yes please
put some cameras around the location

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>>16448592

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>>16447000
Thoughts on skyrora?

Anonymous No. 16448603

How could you walking on Mars after 9 months trip if you can't even do after 6 months on Earth orbit???

Anonymous No. 16448604

>>16448603
Less gravity.

Anonymous No. 16448611

>>16448517
>Russia/Russia/Russia/Hitler/Hitler/Hitler
That fucking tactic ain't going anywhere. Communists have used it to great success since the 1950s.

Anonymous No. 16448614

>>16448611
Yeah the comparison to Hitler isn't helpful. He didn't draft dodge and served in WW1.

Anonymous No. 16448615

anyone else having problems with accessing pockocmoc's website?
https://www.roscosmos.ru/

Anonymous No. 16448617

>>16448591
technically true since 2013 is when anon became conscious

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>>16448615
It has been like that for a while now. Tried to get the documents for the test firings of the rd-303 a few weeks ago and was unable to access it. I think they have blocked all IPs outside Russia.

Anonymous No. 16448623

>>16448622
>rd-303
rd-301*

Anonymous No. 16448625

>>16448599
Who?

Anonymous No. 16448627

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Jgev_YGl44
this retard is moving goalposts and holy deluge of spacex misinformation

Anonymous No. 16448629

I won

Anonymous No. 16448632

>>16448499
>>16448498
My honest reaction

Anonymous No. 16448633

>>16448629
What did you win champ?

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Anonymous No. 16448634

>>16448632
Forgot the FUCKING IMAGE

Anonymous No. 16448639

>>16448634
kill yourself

Anonymous No. 16448640

>>16448627
NDT is impossible to watch.
Every time he talks it's like watching a 60 year old black dude slowly bringing himself to orgasm with the sound of his own voice.

Anonymous No. 16448643

>>16448634
who is this faggot and why are you posting screenshots of him?
and I mean that actually looks unironically like a homosexual

Anonymous No. 16448644

>>16448627
it is amusing that he has made it so obvious recently how astroturfed his whole science educator role was. wholly undeserved and probably had some agency running his career for him. wonder if he stopped paying them or it got DEI'd and as such the competency crisis can't keep him looking legitimate

Anonymous No. 16448647

>>16448627
>my feud
When was the last time they've been in the same room?

Anonymous No. 16448649

>>16448644
Before Cosmos: Hood edition, people actually believed him when he wrote he was mentored by Carl Sagan.
When people sought clarification he slowly gave up more of the lie until he was down to "I met him a couple times and he signed a letter".
His whole life is astroturfed, the dude's field of study is counting stars.

Anonymous No. 16448650

>>16448644
>wonder if he stopped paying them or it got DEI'd and as such the competency crisis can't keep him looking legitimate
What is this word salad even supposed to mean.

Anonymous No. 16448651

>>16448625
google it

Anonymous No. 16448652

>>16448592
It's not /pol/, it's actually observably happening.

Anonymous No. 16448676

Holy crap. There's actually a legitimate Musk h doujin about him making catgirls for Mars. A legitimate one.. and it has a sequel too. LMAO

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Anonymous No. 16448684

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/solar-power-from-space-actually-it-might-happen-in-a-couple-of-years/?comments-page=1#comments

this was posted a while ago, but I didn't see a lot of discussion
interestingly if the power delivered is much higher per area compared to simply solar, then perhaps there are some niche applications like pic related, cruise ships going fully electric, remote military bases (relatively small power receivers vs large field of solar panels)
but the power/area would have to be pretty high

Anonymous No. 16448693

>>16448650
browns just can't keep up

Anonymous No. 16448696

fags

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Anonymous No. 16448697

>>16448676
source?

Anonymous No. 16448702

>>16448697
Aizaws Hiroshi created it.

Anonymous No. 16448705

>>16448697
Insatiable Bastards - Elon Musk's Ambition

Anonymous No. 16448712

>>16448684
I have only seen people talk about it as an idea. Iโ€™d like to see some hard numbers.
A quantitative measurement of how much power could be generated by a simple power constellation (can this ability simply be โ€œaddedโ€ to Starlink??) What is the mechanism for transmitting and receiving power? Would you construct local โ€œsubstations,โ€ perhaps the size of a car or something, that receives power from multiple satellites and banks it all in a power bank for local distribution such as a military base or whatever? Could you beam power directly to homes?

Anonymous No. 16448718

>>16448712
the point of this thing is to be a low cost demonstrator, being sent to LEO with a transporter mission
kind of doubtful but it would be cool if it had some utility as it would increase the need to send more mass to orbit

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Anonymous No. 16448734

New Armstrong mogs Starship

Anonymous No. 16448735

>>16448734
>this thing that exists in my hallucinations mogs starship
yeah

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Anonymous No. 16448736

>>16448644
>>16448649
Even Sagan was criticized for being a lightweight somewhat during his time though it was never as deserved. For NDT shoes were simply too big to fill and the very premise that the world needed DEI Carl Sagan was retarded to begin with.

Anonymous No. 16448739

>>16448734
Should be ready by the 2050's then? The 18m Starships will be nearing phase out in favor of the 21m version.

Anonymous No. 16448745

>>16448736
Carl Sagan was a "lightweight" to fit his role as a science communicator. He performed his part perfectly as a liaison between people who knew their shit and people who wanted to know enough shit to be inspired.
NDT wants to be the best science communicator, the smartest astronomer who ever lived, the most prolific author, he wants it all.
He's a narcissistic midwit and his contribution to science is repeating someone else's work in calculating how to count dots in a field.
It's like that "good will smith" clip from Norm McDonald, but instead of 2+2 on a whiteboard it's a black man learning how to do a "connect the dots" puzzle.

Anonymous No. 16448746

>>16448739
Late 2040's (read - 2050's) is the official timeline, yes.

Anonymous No. 16448748

>>16448746
Jeff will be a brain in a vat or uploaded to AWS by then.

Anonymous No. 16448750

All spaceflight problems have a simple solution - A bigger rocket

Anonymous No. 16448752

>>16447000
The most important technology for spaceflight is biotechnology. You will never reach other stars if you do modify humans.

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Anonymous No. 16448753

raptorunreliabilitysisters how do we respond without sounding mad

Anonymous No. 16448756

>>16448753
It's so unreliable it can't even run for more than 8 seconds.

Anonymous No. 16448761

>>16448756
no, you sounded upset in that one, try again.

Anonymous No. 16448763

>>16448753
Rapid reusability of Raptors wasn't proven by that test, the stress for the engine is different in re-entry and landing. When they do a successful static fire within 48 hours after landing I will be convinced.

Anonymous No. 16448765

>>16448580
Elon's whole thing is that he disrupted a lot of people's happy stagnation, solving many deliberately unsolved problems. Basically everyone is seething that despite all the money and "power" wielded over a literal century to maintain a certain status quo, the market still rewards the creation of value. Even non-anti-semitically the companies he's fucking with are owned by the hedge funds that lost money on tesla that also own the media companies that run the news, so every power hungry normalfag happy to extend state control through themselves has 100% convinced themselves that the greatest man of our time is a dangerous fraud who should be jailed

Anonymous No. 16448766

>>16448753
>>>/wsg/5716362
Actual footage from Stennis (real)

Anonymous No. 16448767

>>16448753
Some senior engineer probably got asked by Elon how many times can Raptor relight and when there wasn't an exact answer he was told he would be fired next meeting if he didnt know by then. So here we are. Numerous examples of this sort of thing in Isaacson's book.

Anonymous No. 16448768

>>16448763
nope, you still sounded angry in that one as you're resorting to phony logic.
sisters we need a response that doesn't sound mad.

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Anonymous No. 16448769

>>16448556
thumbnail looks like dog

Anonymous No. 16448771

>>16448734
Total pownage

Anonymous No. 16448772

Drink cum today

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Anonymous No. 16448780

What was the technological breakthrough that allowed clusters of engines to all fit on a single first stage?

Anonymous No. 16448781

>>16448580
They're using the people below them to fight against Musk. Why do you think they control the media?

Anonymous No. 16448785

Went to the library today and asked if they have Musk's autobiography but it was 35 euros so I didn't take it.

Anonymous No. 16448786

>>16448780
Wasnโ€™t really any breakthrough, it was a natural progression from V-2 to second / third-generation rockets (V2 to redstone to saturn, V2 to R-1 to R-7 aka soyuz, V2 to diamant to ariane 1)

Anonymous No. 16448787

>>16448739
Don't sleep on Blue.

Anonymous No. 16448788

>>16448785
>paying at the librarby

Anonymous No. 16448790

>>16448787
ZZZZZZZZZZZ

Anonymous No. 16448793

>>16448787
my mattress cover is blue

Anonymous No. 16448799

Musk has been warned by the DOJ

Anonymous No. 16448800

>>16448799
Warned of what?

Anonymous No. 16448801

>>16448793
my mattress cover has jizz stains all over

Anonymous No. 16448802

>>16448799
it is funny how our federal apparatuses can warn citizens against doing legal things then of course never act on their prior warnings when it stops mattering (like after an election)

Anonymous No. 16448803

>>16448802
>when it stops mattering (like after an election)
depends who wins

๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Anonymous No. 16448804

Crew-8 members have all been transported to a local medical facility for โ€œadditional evaluationโ€
NASA says they decided to begin all elements out of a, quote, โ€œabundance of cautionโ€. Meaning at least one of the astronauts had a medical issue I imagine. Could just be sea sickness or a cold?

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Anonymous No. 16448806

>>16448803
>polymarket.com/elections
depends on if they can convincingly steal another election you mean

Anonymous No. 16448808

>>16448804
Unfortunately, they lave long form Starliner Syndrome

Anonymous No. 16448809

>>16448806
what is polymarket and why should I trust it?

Anonymous No. 16448810

>>16448799
10 days!

Anonymous No. 16448811

>>16448753
Is this a main engine, or an RCS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcXouT8ggfI

Anonymous No. 16448812

>>16448809
I'm fairly sure it's some bitcoin/crypto/web 3.0 nonsense, it's probably safe to ignore it.

Anonymous No. 16448813

>>16448809
do you live under a rock?

Anonymous No. 16448814

>>16448809
It's a gambling website.
Take it as seriously as sports gambling. A 65% chance of trump winning seems about right to me.

Anonymous No. 16448815

>>16448806
>higher = win
So you'd gladly play Russian roulette with two in the chamber? It's more likely it's empty so that means it's safe.

Anonymous No. 16448816

>>16448767
On the one hand that sounds like a terrible work environment, but on the other it is a pretty valid question considering what they want to do with these engines.

Anonymous No. 16448817

>>16448809
>what
prediction market though this one is for non-americans
>trust
if you mean the platform then they're legit on payout. if you mean the idea of a futures prediction market well it's been shown to give better results than experts
currently have a $2,440,142,989 Vol. for the trade
https://learn.polymarket.com/docs/guides/get-started/what-is-polymarket/
you can use USDC if other crypto bother you
>>16448812
leftist stupid reddit nigger lol

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Anonymous No. 16448818

https://x.com/joroulette/status/1849788904972357942

Anonymous No. 16448819

>>16448817
>leftist stupid reddit nigger lol
thanks for proving me right

Anonymous No. 16448820

>>16448813
>>16448814
>>16448817
Can I gamble on weather a certain launch will fail?

Anonymous No. 16448822

>>16448818
space fungus strikes again

Anonymous No. 16448823

>>16448820
I'm not sure how polymarket works but I knows theres websites where you can start a bet about anything you want.

Anonymous No. 16448824

>>16448818
they always get a health check up after landing. has that dude never watched a return?

Anonymous No. 16448826

>>16448820
maybe

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Anonymous No. 16448827

>>16448820
Indirectly.

Anonymous No. 16448828

>>16448820
there was a prediction market for if boeing starliner would return with crew but it was one of the no money sites

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Anonymous No. 16448830

>>16448819
you got left behind by crypto exploding in value because you're a faggot leftist and I am now worth 8 figures because I let my gpu run hot for a few years LMFAO

Anonymous No. 16448832

>>16448823
>theres websites where you can start a bet about anything you want.
Link?

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Anonymous No. 16448836

>>16448811
Main engine, the exhaust was too long for it to be a RCS

Anonymous No. 16448839

>>16448832
https://www.metaculus.com
if the main free one afaik

Anonymous No. 16448840

>>16448824
Additional evaluation, retard. As in, this is more than the standard procedure

Anonymous No. 16448841

>>16448832
I don't know any specifics sadly. I know there tightly controlled prediction markets and more loose ones. Also real money and play money versions. Couldn't tell you which is which though.

Anonymous No. 16448843

>>16448836
We should build Orion battleships so immensely big that it would require quad Raptors just as RCS so it can turn and orient

Anonymous No. 16448844

>>16448840
they always get that RETARD as the initial health check is just by a doctor on the ship. fucking tourists who know nothing but spreading their own shit all over their face

Anonymous No. 16448848

>>16448844
https://x.com/commercial_crew/status/1849788128443142465
Read it and weep; you donโ€™t have to admit you are wrong, that we can all deduce

Anonymous No. 16448849

yikes
https://www.metaculus.com/questions/349/spacex-lands-people-on-mars-by-2030/

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Anonymous No. 16448851

lol

Anonymous No. 16448852

>>16448849
I think 2030 will be the year personally so technically I'd have to vote no here :(

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Anonymous No. 16448855

>>16448832
>>16448839
Metaculus isn't a prediction market, it's just a forecasting site. The prediction is just an aggregate of the user predictions, nobody is betting here. I don't think just anyone can make markets on Metaculus. (Metaculus generally does the best though, as far as I'm aware.)
Manifold markets is a play money prediction market, where anyone can sign up and make markets, I've seen it posted here a few times, and I think this is where this >>16448828 market was.
Polymarket is a real-money prediction market, people bet money on whether or not some event will happen. The reason this works is because the market should pay out in expectation if you, for example, buy a yes share at 60% if and only if the underlying true probability is greater than 60%. A 60% share costs $0.60 and pays out $1.00. In the long run, you break even if an event is trading at %60 and in fact happens %60 of the time. It's like a poll, but you're punished for being a retard by losing money, so you can't just spout bullshit for free. It's not "available" in the U.S., but it's crypto. You're supposed to just lie, use your brain.
The big one everyone knows is PredictIt, but it only does politics, mainly in the U.S. This is a real money prediction market.
There's also Kalshi, which is legal in the U.S. and a real money market, but there are very few markets and they have shit volume so there's not a whole lot of money to be made there, it's worth looking at if you're interested though.

I made/make decent money on these just by betting against obvious retards, not so much recently since it turned into kind of a slog, but it was fun for a while.

Anonymous No. 16448856

>>16448851
How could someone unironically believe this after IFT4?

Anonymous No. 16448859

>>16448851
What a bastardization of the truth. The internet was a mistake, letting every idiot confidently spew forth their stupid ideas

Anonymous No. 16448862

>>16448851
At what point heat shield was not needed? Even ITS had heat shield and that was when the rocket only existed in concept

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Anonymous No. 16448863

>>16448855
Thanks for the quick rundown. I'm guessing I can sign up to polymarket with a random email and then send crypto? Who are the obvious retards you bet against

Anonymous No. 16448864

>>16448862
Heโ€™s incorrectly describing methane perspiration cooling

Anonymous No. 16448867

>>16448862
For a short window after the stainless steel announcement, the plan was to have the skin of starship actively cooled by flowing and weeping methane.
While it would be awesome its easy to deduce why they put that idea on the shelf.

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Anonymous No. 16448868

>>16448851
>space shuttle style
I would say SS style would be non-uniform custom molded tiles specifically. is there a source for how many unique tiles it actually had?

Anonymous No. 16448869

>>16448851
>>16448856
>>16448859
Care to point out where the guy is wrong?

I remember you retards screeching about how bad Space Shuttle tiles are, how retarded oldspace was for using them, and how genius SpaceX was forsimply using a bare stainless steel heat shield...
Then they quietly added tiles but promised every tile would be identical (despite that being impossible due to the shape of the vehicle) and all you retards were screeching about how stupid Space Shuttle was for using unique tiles to fit the form of the spacecraft...
Then they quetly made dozens of unique tile shapes to fit the body of the craft (like shuttle) and all you retards were screeching about how "NO, BUT THIS TIME ITS DIFFERENT, THIS TIME IT WILL BE RAPIDLY REUSABLE OR SOMETHING LOL"...
Then they quietly made plans for a hangar dedicated to inspecting and replacing the tiles on the ship every flight... LIKE SHUTTLE....

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Anonymous No. 16448870

>>16448848

Anonymous No. 16448871

>>16448869
>I remember you retards screeching about how bad Space Shuttle tiles are, how retarded oldspace was for using them,
Post one of example of a non-shitpost saying this.

Anonymous No. 16448872

>>16448851
>10% chance by 2030
lol. Didn't NASA have a 70% joint confidence level for early 2028 or something

Anonymous No. 16448873

>>16448868
Yeah the bulk of the tiles being uniform and hexagonal is already an enormous improvement.
Probably.

Anonymous No. 16448875

>>16448869
Unlike the shuttle, the design changes as engineering progresses. If tiles are lighter, cheaper, and more reliable, then there's no problem. I still hate tiles though
>>16448870
Concerning

Anonymous No. 16448876

>>16448851
>it was supposed to have a stainless hull capable of withstanding entry on its own
nope, it was a question of methane sweating or heat shield, the methane sweat system would not have been simple either and not necessarily any more rapidly reusable than the tiles

Anonymous No. 16448877

>shuttle tiles break
>the ship disintegrates
>starship tiles break
>lands in the wrong place

Anonymous No. 16448879

>>16448869
> how bad Space Shuttle tiles are
they are, retard

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Anonymous No. 16448882

>>16448869
You're being highly disingenuous, which of course is the only way you can make an argument.

Anonymous No. 16448883

>>16448871
you really think I screencap posts from half a decade ago to show to retards like you?
If you don't know then you are a newfag.

>>16448875
The tiles are made from the EXACT same material as Shuttle tiles. There is no material science innovation here at all. Sure they can probably do the inspections for cheaper than NASA, but Starship will never be able to refuel and refly twice in the same day, or even the same week. I guarantee it.

Btw, shuttle tiles cannot withstand lunar or Martian entry velocities, so manned trips to Mars and back straight up aint happening. This problem with the shield is part of why dear moon was cancelled. it was/is technically impossible. Orion is unironically needed to return humans from the Moon.

Anonymous No. 16448884

>>16448877
Aluminium, the bug-zapper of engineering materials.

Anonymous No. 16448885

>>16448870
There was probably a report of an ammonia smell

๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Anonymous No. 16448886

>>16448883
>lunar entry
>tiles

Anonymous No. 16448887

>leftist having a meltdown after I made fun of him for missing out on generational wealth
heh

Anonymous No. 16448888

>>16448883
>The tiles are made from the EXACT same material as Shuttle tiles
wrong, they are multiple generations developed from that

Anonymous No. 16448889

>>16448883
>Orion is needed to return humans from the moon
phew. thank god Orion has a flawless heatshield

Anonymous No. 16448892

>>16448883
the archive exists newfag

Anonymous No. 16448893

>>16448882
?
Care to point out where I am being disingenuous?
I'm just retelling the history of this general.

>>16448879
I know they are bad, which is why its bad that staarship is uisng them. Thats the point!

>>16448877
Many tiles on shuttle broke or fell off newfag. Have you literally never heared of foam strikes? If starship normalises losing tiles then 100% it will kill a crew. You dont know which tile loss is fatal and which is not until it happens.

Anonymous No. 16448894

>>16448883
The material of the heat tiles for the shittle wasn't the main problem (and they aren't the exact same regardless). It was that there was a bazillion different individual heat tiles and because of the shittle's garbage as aluminium structure they had to cover the entire fucking shittle in them.

Anonymous No. 16448895

>>16448889
Orion returned didnt it?
And it returned within safety margins, unlike Starship which burnt through the shield both times. The only reason NASA are worried about the shield is because they are pussies who are overcautious. The shield is safe but just doesnt behave how they expected.

Anonymous No. 16448896

>>16448893
>I know they are bad, which is why its bad that staarship is uisng them. Thats the point!
they are not the same tiles, Starship has redundancy under them if something goes wrong and I guarantee you they have way smaller number of tiles
also SpaceX is actually competent and is able to iterate rapidly, so they can actually solve problems when they come up instead of sweeping them under the rug like with the Shuttle

Anonymous No. 16448897

>>16448894
>It was that there was a bazillion different individual heat tiles
WRONG.
Don't you know how easy it is to make silica tiles?
It's not exactly like making unique engines...

>>16448892
(you)

>>16448888
Care to explain?

Anonymous No. 16448900

>>16448895
>And it returned within safety margins
Only 10% of the heatshield chunked off therefore we have a 10x safety factor!

Anonymous No. 16448901

>>16448893
>Care to point out where I am being disingenuous?
>I'm just retelling the history of this general.
To begin with this general didn't even exist when Starship decided to use tiles.
Secondly you ignore the entire reason why the shittle's heat tiles were so hated in the first place.
Lastly you're making completely unfounded claims. Deer moon was cancelled because Miyazaki underestimated just how long it would take for Starship to get ready for such a flight. Claiming they can't withstand Martian entry velocities are completely unfounded as well.

Anonymous No. 16448902

>>16448896
>Starship has redundancy under them if something goes wrong
You have to throw away the ship if there is burnthrough. The ablative cannot be reused, and there is not enough ablative for a full reentry.
The problem is it wont be rapidly reusable, and in the case of burnthrough it wont be reusable at all.

Anonymous No. 16448903

>>16448870
I'll buy one share of
Someone developed mild symptoms consistent with hydrazine poisoning.

Anonymous No. 16448904

>>16448894
yeah
steel vs aluminium
gen n tiles vs gen 1 tiles
a small number of different shapes vs 10k different tiles
tile damage redundancy through an ablative vs redundancy in some very specific locations through sheer luck

then you have advances in automation and whatever which will allow SpaceX to automate the replacement and inspection of the tiles when they have actually iterated up to an acceptable solution, the ships will be mass produced so the system will go through massive iteration due to that and the initial flights (and in any case) will be unmanned vs all shuttle flights being manned for completely retarded reasons

Anonymous No. 16448905

>>16448895
Nigger it came back looking like the moon.

Anonymous No. 16448906

>>16448897
>WRONG.
>Don't you know how easy it is to make silica tiles?
>It's not exactly like making unique engines...
It is when every single tile must be exactly done right or the heat expansion of the frame of the shittle and the tiles themselves can cause catastrophic consequances. That is the single biggest reason why it took such a long time to replace its heat tiles. Starship doesn't have this problem. It doesn't need to produces a bazillion different shapes that need to be perfectly put together. It uses the same shape of the tiles almost anywhere, and it's much more resistant to slight imperfections of their individual placements.

Anonymous No. 16448907

>>16448901
>To begin with this general didn't even exist when Starship decided to use tiles.
Uhm, aktually!
>Secondly you ignore the entire reason why the shittle's heat tiles were so hated in the first place.
?
>Lastly you're making completely unfounded claims. Deer moon was cancelled because Miyazaki underestimated just how long it would take for Starship to get ready for such a flight.
lol, buddy. Musk promised him a deadline. We all know Musks deadlines are always fake but why was he expected to know that. Dearmoon wont even be possible by 2030, should he just keep paying forever?

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Anonymous No. 16448908

>>16448870
It's over
>https://x.com/TLPN_Official/status/1801021815570997317

Anonymous No. 16448909

>>16448902
you are just pulling that out of your ass, you can fix it, replace the tiles and ablative (they have done it already when they decided to remove the tiles and put ablative + the next gen stronger tiles on the ships)
the fact that the ablative cannot be reused is irrelevant, its there as a redundancy and might be removed in the future when they the tile system gets reliable enough

Anonymous No. 16448910

>>16448908
>june 12th

Anonymous No. 16448911

>>16448907
>Uhm, aktually!
So you agree you were disingenuous? Good.
>Uhm, aktually!
Read the thread retard
>lol, buddy. Musk promised him a deadline. We all know Musks deadlines are always fake but why was he expected to know that. Dearmoon wont even be possible by 2030, should he just keep paying forever?
It doesn't matter, you lied through your teeth for the reasoning why it was cancelled. That was the point I was making. Not that Miyazaki was a gullible retard for thinking Starship would be ready in 2023.

Anonymous No. 16448912

>>16448906
>the heat expansion of the frame of the shittle and the tiles themselves can cause catastrophic consequances
Stainless doesnt expantd when hot? You learn something new every day!
>>16448905
Look at the Apollo heatshields.
Starship would come back as molten slag from those velocities.
>>16448900
Problem?
Ablative heat shields are meant to ablate, sugar.

Anonymous No. 16448913

why do leftists argue like such jewish faggots?

Anonymous No. 16448914

>>16448907
no deadline was promised, miyzaki just lost half his net worth during covid so he chickened out

Anonymous No. 16448915

>>16448911
Youre trolling at this point.
You literally agreed with me that Starship cant do dearmoon but for some reason have a stick up your ass about it.

Anonymous No. 16448918

>>16448912
>Stainless doesnt expantd when hot? You learn something new every day!
No, that's not what I was saying. Steinless steel's specific strength doesn't drop of a cliff once reaching temperatures above 300 degrees like it is for aluminium and has a much higher melting point. This means that it tolerates imperfections in its heat tiles far more than the Shuttle and makes you able to MUCH faster replace heat tiles.

Anonymous No. 16448919

>>16448912
Orions heatshield isn't ablative.

Anonymous No. 16448920

>>16448915
I never agreed on that. I just agreed on that Miyazaki was a gullible retard for believing Starship would be fully developed in 2023.

Anonymous No. 16448921

>>16448913
there are no leftists here faggot, just some people using critical thinking and discussing serious concerns about the state of starship, and others arguing in bad faith because they dont want to hear the truth.

Anonymous No. 16448923

>>16448921
You're projecting hard.

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Anonymous No. 16448925

If tile issues are insoluble SpaceX will simply buy Stoke and adapt their heatshield for Starship

Anonymous No. 16448926

>>16448919
You are trolling. Thanks for letting me know.
The Orion heatshield is made from Avcoat. Same material the Apollo shield was made from. How can this general be full of people who know so little about what they are allegedly interested in?

Anonymous No. 16448927

>>16448915
just read this post chain, are you retarded? or just pretending to be.

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Anonymous No. 16448928

>>16448912
>Ablative heat shields are meant to ablate
It's meant to char layer by layer, not end up with chunks missing

Anonymous No. 16448929

>>16448923
Why would I not want Starship to succeed? I'm not a leftist and I think Musk is the greatest man alive. I want it to work which is whyI'm concerned about it.

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Anonymous No. 16448930

>>16448928
Insane that almost 30 Billion USD and 18 years of development later and Orion still isn't crew rated.

Anonymous No. 16448931

>>16448929
you argue like a leftist kike. I don't believe you. You don't have a soul. The solar system will be better without you

Anonymous No. 16448933

>>16448928
Orion is single use, right?

Anonymous No. 16448934

>>16448929
>concern trolling
We're back in 2022 now? I thought you would have found a new stick by now.

Anonymous No. 16448936

>>16448925
Why aren't there any Starship vapes? Or other spaceflight themed smoking paraphernalia

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Anonymous No. 16448937

>>16448927
You are retarded so there is no point trying to discuss things which you can't understand.

>>16448928
You don't need to school me on this. I know it didnt behave as they simulated it to, which is why they are worried. Point was it survived within safety margins. Lunar entry chews up heat shields, nothing new.

Anonymous No. 16448939

>>16448936
disgusting druggie. we would throw you to the phobosan penal colony on mars.

Anonymous No. 16448942

>>16448937
>safety margins
But it didn't survive within safety margins. That is the entire problem. NASA defines what the safety margin is, not you.

Anonymous No. 16448944

>>16448931
Ok buddy. Well I wasnt arguing with you, I was pointing out problems with the vehicle and with the attitude of people here. I know youare arguing with me though, which is kind of the problem. Discussion here is so low IQ its insane. (you) are part of the issue btw.
>>16448934
>anyone who disagrees is bad faith
crazy how the worl actually unctionswith people like you around.

Anonymous No. 16448945

>>16448944
>anyone who disagrees is bad faith
That is literally what you say here kek >>16448921

Anonymous No. 16448946

>>16448942
kek

Anonymous No. 16448948

>>16448945
you actually are trying to argue with me for no reason though kek. you arent interested in the truth.

Anonymous No. 16448950

>>16448948
whats the truth? Starship is going to fail in every way possible from now on?

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>>16448948
>everyone who disagrees with me and points out by blatenly faulty reasoning and false claims isn't actually interested in the truth and only argue in bad faith

Anonymous No. 16448953

you're both gay

Anonymous No. 16448954

>the dutch faggot derails another thread
a sad sight to see

Anonymous No. 16448955

>>16448954
send him a tikkie for the disruption

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>>16448939
>disgusting druggie

Anonymous No. 16448959

>>16448956
pretty wild that just in 4 years the Biden admin was able to turn all the tech libertarians into fascists

Anonymous No. 16448960

>>16448950
Truth is starship wont be fully or rapidly reusable for the next decade at least. Thats what ive been saying.
Artemis requires a turnaround of 2 weeks which is realistic, but daily turnaround is impossible, so Earth to Earth is impossible.
As it stands manned flights beyond LEO are also impossible because the shield can't withstand that. Musk said the biggest challenge is the heatshield, and it's true. Starship cannot do a manned trip to Mars and back with the shield it has,and cant even do dearmoon.

Anonymous No. 16448963

>>16448960
There's no truth here though. It's just the speculations from a retard that can't even get the most basic of facts correct.

Anonymous No. 16448967

>>16448960
The truth is you're just a bored dork trying to get some interaction from strangers on the internet, same as anyone else. You're just doing it in a gay way.

Anonymous No. 16448968

>>16448963
LMAO.
Ok, I'm done trying to tell you how it is. Just wait and watch.

Anonymous No. 16448969

>>16448960
so not fully or rapidly reusable, but 2 weeks is realistic? you mean it will be refurbished in 2 weeks and as such not be fully reusable?
and they won't neither fully reusablityt nor rapid reusability before 2034

Anonymous No. 16448971

>>16448968
You pseudo intellectuals sure are entertaining to see perform.

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Anonymous No. 16448972

God I hate you. Yes, especially YOU

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>>16448818
>>16448870

Anonymous No. 16448975

>>16448379
/sfg/: groundsit general

Anonymous No. 16448976

>>16448379
So when will they do a static fire of the first stage?

Anonymous No. 16448977

>>16448976
two weeks

Anonymous No. 16448979

Why has there never been a oxidizer rich staged combustion hydrolox engine? Based on what I know of how retardedly complicated the SSME's were I'd figure that oxidizer rich would be the way to go for the future but even the soviets went with fuel rich hydromeme, is there something I'm missing? Does hydrolox make way more heat than other mixes that not even soviet material scientists could handle?

Anonymous No. 16448980

>>16448979
hydrolox is gay

Anonymous No. 16448982

>>16448980
Yes but other than that

Anonymous No. 16448983

>>16448982
it gets very hot

Anonymous No. 16448984

>>16448979
Because fuel rich is simply easier than oxidixer rich for hydromeme engines.

Anonymous No. 16448988

>>16448816
It's usually the newer employees who don't realize his autism level. The flip side is he will never claim to remember that one time he chewed someone out. If someone demonstrates they know their shit and are ambitious they will have all the project autonomy they could ever want and will be accountable to nobody at the company other than him. There was an anecdote about a QA auditor getting into an argument with one of the Raptor engineers over not doing paperwork. When Elon learned of it he went off on the QA auditor. He was in meetings nearly every day with the Starship engineering team until 1:30am at one point and his presence at work stations is apparently so common workers just ignore him unless he has questions or gives orders. You can sort of see this in the Starbase tour video, they aren't at all surprised to see him when they go inside one of the bays.

Anonymous No. 16448990

>>16448984
Why? Wasn't one of the biggest problems with the SSME superheated hydrogen leaking along the turbo pump shaft into the oxygen lines and they needed a ridiculously overdesigned seal to stop that? Would oxidizer rich fix that problem completely?

Anonymous No. 16448991

>>16448801
so does mine!

Anonymous No. 16448992

>>16448990
>Would oxidizer rich fix that problem completely
And instead you now have hot oxygen corroding your engine from the inside! It's just an engineering trade off.

Anonymous No. 16448993

>>16448684
Not only could they power the propulsion and provide onboard electricity, they could heat the hot tub, the swimming pool and even the passengers directly from space.

Anonymous No. 16448994

>>16448992
Yeah but the soviets solved that, I understand why the americans never did it but why the soviets?

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Anonymous No. 16448995

You know what does away with heat shields? Space elevators

Anonymous No. 16448996

>>16448869
>all these hallucinations
you're mentally ill

Anonymous No. 16448997

>>16448992
i wish i could get some hot oxygen to corrode my engine from the inside if you know what i mean

Anonymous No. 16449001

>>16448907
>entire foundation of argument is destroyed
>w-well you're a nerd!
>?
>retard acts retarded and doesn't notice
>musk promised
>musk set a deadline for themselves and made no pinky promise to terminally online redditors

you need to get help buddy.

Anonymous No. 16449002

>>16448993
comfy

Anonymous No. 16449003

>>16448994
Different priorities. The US saw hydromeme as the future while the USSR didn't. The USSR also had better material science when it came to developing exotic alloys and ablative materials than the US. The USSR also had more freedom in developing rocket engines because of the way design bureaus were structured. Glushko could get the funding and resources to develop a bazillion different engines while such a counterpart didn't exist in the US.

Anonymous No. 16449004

>>16448912
>NOOOOO THEY CANT DO INTERPLANETARY REENTRY BECAUSE I SAID SO
you're retarded

Anonymous No. 16449005

yesterday: elon has is involved in bribing people to vote
today: elon is colluding with putin to undermine america

they really really really do NOT want us leaving this planet

Anonymous No. 16449006

>>16448753
Future spacecraft will use pulsed raptors for RCS

Anonymous No. 16449007

>>16449003
I think the number of engines makes the soviet side more puzzling, they made quite a few hydromeme engines but always went fuel rich. You say it's just an engineering trade off but if thats the case then why did everyone who made a hydromeme engine make the same tradeoff?

Anonymous No. 16449008

>>16449005
More like he's having a major impact on the presidential election and they're pulling out all stops in a desperate attempt to try to decredit him.

Anonymous No. 16449009

>>16448954
this is the dutchfaggot falseflagging btw

Anonymous No. 16449010

>>16448769
I saw it, too

Anonymous No. 16449012

>>16448815
Yeah, it's great that Trump is ahead, but it's still a 1 in 3 chance of a really bad outcome

Anonymous No. 16449014

>>16448903
Best fit for why all of them were taken since all of them were likely exposed.

>>16448995
Elon, fire this guy.

Anonymous No. 16449017

>>16448472
Anyone have the screen shot?

Anonymous No. 16449018

Looks like ship 33 (first v2 ship) is headed to Massey's tomorrow for its first test fire

Anonymous No. 16449021

>>16449007
There's no benefit in using oxidizer rich over fuel rich in hydromeme engines. The later is simply easier to develop and has basically the same efficiancy and performance. Oxidizer rich when using oxygen is only used when you can't run fuel rich, like with kerolox engines.

Anonymous No. 16449023

>>16449021
But I just told you a benefit of using oxidizer rich over fuel rich.
Actually it's clear you don't know why and are just trying to present yourself as more knowledgably than you are.
Have a good day, I won't be responding to you again.

Anonymous No. 16449025

>>16449018
i may post in sfg everyday but i still dont know what the pre-launch activities are for starship and superheavy

Anonymous No. 16449026

>>16449023
haha, fag!

Anonymous No. 16449031

>>16449025
Would you like me/us to inform you? This will be an autist info dump

Anonymous No. 16449033

>>16449031
i'll forget it anyway

Anonymous No. 16449035

>>16449025
it's mostly just arguing with the FAA until they get a launch license

Anonymous No. 16449036

>>16449025
It's similar to car start-up.

Anonymous No. 16449040

>>16448827
Is Polymarket just people betting on random bullshit?

Anonymous No. 16449042

>>16449025
When the stack and destack loop starts you know that the ship will be soon be ready

Anonymous No. 16449043

>>16448818
they are dead. I'm calling it now.

Anonymous No. 16449044

>>16449031
do it

Anonymous No. 16449047

>>16448818
Probably too hard of a landing since one of the parachutes failed. Maybe fucked up one of their spines. Which is why we need stronger load bearing spines

Anonymous No. 16449059

Berger got word of some bad news...

Anonymous No. 16449061

Its over. One of the astronauts is on their death bed.

Anonymous No. 16449062

>>16449059
When? 2021?

Anonymous No. 16449065

>>16448818
Their bones must be jelly, lol.

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Anonymous No. 16449074

>>16448509
>wtf Elon why doesn't Starlink work in Kursk?!

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Anonymous No. 16449080

>>16449071
I live in a small farming town. The sort of place where, when the Mars city reaches a million people, their descendants will still live in the same doublewide on the same street. All around are grain silos, big metal cylinders about 30 feet across. I look at them and imagine the space inside, not holding grain against the elements, but instead everything needed to preserve me in the vacuum. I want to be out there

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๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Anonymous No. 16449081

What dildo are you putting up your ass today? I use a B15 shaped one since it increases my chances of going to Mars.

Anonymous No. 16449085

fuck you

Anonymous No. 16449087

fuck you

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Anonymous No. 16449089

https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1849827397924733145

Anonymous No. 16449090

why do the astronomers get to run the show? they're always ragging on elon and spacex but the spaceflight community stays silent and never pushes back.

Anonymous No. 16449092

fuck yourself

Anonymous No. 16449094

>>16449090
they are irrelevant

Anonymous No. 16449096

>>16449075
Are they going to stack S31 on B13 for the next IFT or possibly reuse B12? it did catch on fire so maybe was damaged to the point is not worth risking it.

Anonymous No. 16449100

>>16449096
reusing B12 would delay Flight 6 probably assuming they wanted to reuse it at all

Anonymous No. 16449102

>>16449100
they will clearly never reuse it. were you around for the development of falcon 9?

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>>16448304
All executive power rests in the President, so he could probably do that. Congress might get salty though because he'd be ignoring a fuck ton of their laws.
>>16448499
Did Trumps election break him or was he always a schizo?

Anonymous No. 16449109

>>16449102
didn't follow it as actively as Starship, but your point is that they didn't reuse them until multiple had been landed?
I agree its unlikely, but drawing automatic direct analogues to F9 and assuming they will do everything with Super Heavy program like they did with F9 doesn't make sense
IMO they will refly a Super Heavy much quicker than they flew a F9 for many reasons (for example, getting to reuse is an explicit priority now, they already have experience from F9 which is transferrable to Super Heavy)

Anonymous No. 16449111

>>16449096
booster 12 (and 13, 14 etc) all started construction so long ago (end of 2022, start of 2023) that they're outdated well before they even launch. I wouldn't expect any V1 boosters to be reflown more than once or twice ever

Anonymous No. 16449117

>>16449109
I agree they will refly superheavy quicker than f9, since its a critical priority.
But the first few will be ground tested and take apart for autopsies. I expect they wont refly hardware until mid to late 2025, probably with raptor 3 installed.

Anonymous No. 16449119

>>16448676
>>16448697
>>16448705
you made me look, and it's even more hilarious
it's an Elon Musk / Urusei Yatsura crossover (cross-breeding, rather)
>no Elon! NTR is supposed to be for Nuclear Thermal Rockets!

Anonymous No. 16449121

>>16449117
yeah

Anonymous No. 16449135

>>16449119
>someone drew a doujin of Elon Musk fucking Lum
This was probably commissioned by someone in /biz/'s stock market general.

Anonymous No. 16449136

>>16449117
yeah

Anonymous No. 16449141

>>16449136
>>16449121
Thats insane

Anonymous No. 16449143

fuck you

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>>16449143

Anonymous No. 16449146

>>16449145
hey buddy I think you've got the wrong door, the suborbital thread's three pages down

Anonymous No. 16449149

thank you

Anonymous No. 16449152

come again

Anonymous No. 16449154

fuck you

Anonymous No. 16449156

/sfg/ - Schizo Frenia General

Anonymous No. 16449159

>>16449154
>>16449152
>>16449149
>>16449143
>>16449136
>>16449121
>>16449092
>>16449087
>>16449085
Janny?

Anonymous No. 16449161

>>16449159
Why are you mass replying like a twit?

Anonymous No. 16449165

I've been hearing that Elon is a fascist. How? He just seems like your average cuckservative boomer.

Anonymous No. 16449170

>>16449156
kek, good one, could've been Schizophrenic Frenzy General too.

Anonymous No. 16449172

It's one of those irregular verbs. I have an independent mind. You are walking on a fine line. He is fascist.

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Anonymous No. 16449174

https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1849855523958751286

oh no no no

Anonymous No. 16449175

it's kind of funny since fascism is an economic system that strongly ties together the government and certain champion corporations (post war japan is an excellent example of the purely economic aspects of this) while Musk 100% wants as little government involvement as possible

Anonymous No. 16449176

>>16449174
In this case how fucked SLS would be

Anonymous No. 16449177

>>16449174
selling a business that you are contractually obligated to lose money (to the government) with is certainty a play

Anonymous No. 16449178

>>16449176
possibly not. I wonder if somebody else picking up SLS could run the program better and actually get rockets out the door once a year for sub 2 billion a pop. what a high bar

Anonymous No. 16449179

>>16449176
SLS is good money. They won't sell that.

Anonymous No. 16449180

>>16449174
boeing BUSTED!1!

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>>16449174
>>16449176
>SLS will be killed by Boeing, not SpaceX
God, please make it happen, it would be so hilarious

Anonymous No. 16449184

>>16449176
nah, read the article, they don't want to sell that

Anonymous No. 16449190

>>16449165
Fascist has meant anything somebody doesn't like since I can remember. If playing the boomer right now is required for a political course correction then he'll do that. His big concern is SpaceX and society becoming unable to explore space or Mars due to policies that will accelerate the competence crisis. At heart he's largely just a techbro libertarian but political headwinds are everywhere right now. This is all largely just part of the costs of getting to Mars.

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>>16449176
Realistically what even is the final solution to the SLS question?

Anonymous No. 16449196

>>16449195
Starship

Anonymous No. 16449199

>>16449184
What article?

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Anonymous No. 16449203

I don't yet understand how this is different from the space shuttle. Even with ablative coating underneath you still need to inspect and replace the tiles, right?

Anonymous No. 16449206

>>16449195
my mum told me she donated ยฃ10 to wikipedia the other day. she says she doesnt want it to go commercial lol

Anonymous No. 16449208

>>16449196
But starship is gonna happen regardless, but is the SLS just gonna stay and gonna be the biggest elephant in the room for years to come?
Or will #Drumpf win and he will cancel the SLS because Musk is his bff now?

Anonymous No. 16449209

>>16449203
The difference is that the tiles are a lot cheaper, attach with bolts instead of glue, and over 90% of them are the same shape.

Anonymous No. 16449210

>>16449206
Your mother is gullible. Keep an eye on her to make sure she doesnt get an indian on the line

Anonymous No. 16449212

>>16449208
Stick it in a museum and call it a day.

Anonymous No. 16449213

>>16449208
SLS will be the legally mandated crew bus for Artemis and then be quietly dropped as nobody needs it for future missions once SpaceX and Blorp have their propellant depot systems in place.

Anonymous No. 16449214

>>16449203
One advantage of the Starship is that they can do trial and error to figure it out. On Space Shuttle there was just not so much room for experiments because you always had humans flying with it.

Anonymous No. 16449216

>>16449208
Trump canceling SLS and going with a starship only architecture is a strong possibility I feel. At the rate SLS is going the next one won't launch till 2027 and theres no way SLS will get people to the moon before trumps term is up. The only chance he's got of being the president who sent america back to the moon is with spacex and starship.

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Anonymous No. 16449218

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/rocket-report-sneak-peek-at-the-business-end-of-new-glenn-france-to-fly-frog/
>While the secretive spy satellite agency did not identify the number or exact purpose of the satellites, the Falcon 9 likely deployed around 20 spacecraft believed to be based on SpaceX's Starshield satellite bus, a derivative of the Starlink spacecraft platform, with participation from Northrop Grumman

https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/10/24/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-multiple-satellites-for-the-national-reconnaissance-office-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb/

Anonymous No. 16449219

>>16449203
it is likely to have many of the same issues as shuttle tiles, to a lesser degree.
fewer tile designs = lower (probably 0) lead time for replacement parts
they were designed from the start to be easier to swap out.
not being mounted facing the falling debris dispenser should mean catastrophic large groups of damaged tiles should never form

Anonymous No. 16449220

Wild question for all of you:
Can you hop a Superheavy from Boca to the Cape if you stick a nosecone on top (no SS)?
>>16449203
about 24000 fewer unique tiles
on top of the vehicle, so no debris, let's say insulation foam, can strike it and damage a tile
50 years of material science
>>16449216
I don't think we will see crewed starship launches for quite some time, but we might see F9 and HLS docking in LEO.
>>16449216
Kennedy wasn't even alive when they got their the first time, yet I'd associate him, among the presidents, most strongly with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HZAc7EKFJQ

Anonymous No. 16449221

How do you prevent your colonists from becoming Reds?
Hard mode: no summary executions by airlock

Anonymous No. 16449223

>>16448818
>237 days in space
>longest US crewed spaceflight mission of anytime

Yeah I can see why they'd want that

Anonymous No. 16449224

>>16449221
they wouldnt become reds for the same reason rural people dont become reds. living off the land in a life-or-death struggle prevents this thought process. its only bug men who live in an inner city with no contact to nature that turn red.

Anonymous No. 16449225

>>16449221
>no executions
Cut their genitals off, and send them to the Deimosan penal colony (political enemies get a different colony from regular criminals on Phobos with harsher conditions)
The low to 0G environment ensures they will become fat and unable to start a revolution or do really anything if they do try to rebel.

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Anonymous No. 16449226

https://x.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1849865010367037557

Anonymous No. 16449228

>>16449226
Did one of them have a lump discovered during the checkup that turned out to be cancer or something?

Anonymous No. 16449230

>>16449226
so its nothing? yawn

Anonymous No. 16449232

>>16449174
sell it to spacex it'd be so fucking funny

Anonymous No. 16449235

>>16449232
Why the fuck would SpaceX want that millstone around their neck?

Anonymous No. 16449236

>>16449232
obvious Jeff is the one who wants it. how else will he send people to his space station?

Anonymous No. 16449237

>>16449219
>they were designed from the start to be easier to swap out.
and yet Musk says its no longer easy and that they have to destroy a tile to remove it. something which can easily be seen from NSF cameras

Anonymous No. 16449238

>>16449226
It's Dominick, that ketchup prank is backfiring

Anonymous No. 16449240

>>16449237
destroying it is still pretty easy, removing glued tiles is not so easy

Anonymous No. 16449241

>>16449236
I really doubt even jeff would want starliner.
He might try to separate out the ISS stuff though.

Anonymous No. 16449242

>>16449238
what if this is another prank

Anonymous No. 16449243

>>16449235
it would be super hilarious if spacex took over the program and completely turned it around into a functional capsule within a year.

Anonymous No. 16449244

dragon killed astronaut

Anonymous No. 16449246

>>16449244
you'd like that, wouldn't you

Anonymous No. 16449247

>>16449244
It's over

Anonymous No. 16449249

Kamala cannot let elon get away with this.

Anonymous No. 16449251

>>16449249
she's only going to have any political power for the next few months

Anonymous No. 16449254

>>16449251
plenty of time for Biden to pardon every illegal immigrant in the country

Anonymous No. 16449256

>>16449254
they can still be deported I'm pretty sure

Anonymous No. 16449257

>>16449232
>>16449174
It's going to be someone like L3Harris, who already bought AJR.

Anonymous No. 16449263

What happened to selling off ULA?

Anonymous No. 16449265

>>16449263
No one wants to buy it

Anonymous No. 16449267

>>16449263
they quickly turned from a mediocre company into a useless one.
expect them to be disassembled and have the assets they had left firesold piecemeal

Anonymous No. 16449268

If new glenn successfully flies wouldn't it be absolutely over for ULA?

Anonymous No. 16449269

>>16449249
https://archive ph/505VC
>The discussions, confirmed by several current and former U.S., European and Russian officials, touch on personal topics, business and geopolitical tensions...
>Knowledge of Muskโ€™s Kremlin contacts appears to be a closely held secret in government...
>The person, however, said no alerts have been raised by the administration over possible security breaches by Musk.

Nothing in the article suggests the conversations were kept hidden from glowies. As a security clearance holder he would have had to report the conversations to the glowies, given that they see no red flags it's pretty obvious that he did.

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Anonymous No. 16449272

LOL! Now go home and get your shinebox.

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>>16449272
Por lil bugger

Anonymous No. 16449275

>>16449269
Basically both the Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors as Zelensky and Putin were all blowing up his phone over starlink.

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Anonymous No. 16449276

Just attach the tiles with velcro. You have a big thing of velcro on the ship hull, then you coat the outside with the white goo that the tiles go on. Then when you're replacing the tiles, you're just peeling off this big velcro mat and rolling a new one onto it. Quick and easy. After all velcro is a true space age material

Anonymous No. 16449277

>>16449268
it's already over for ULA, why do you think they've been trying and failing to find a buyer all this time?

Anonymous No. 16449278

Boing

Anonymous No. 16449279

>>16449274
she deserves conselation sex

Anonymous No. 16449280

I've been wishing death on oldspace for a while, but now that it's clear that it's actually over for them I feel a little bad. They just can't compete, even with their backroom dealings.

Anonymous No. 16449282

>>16449279
You deserve mandatory airlocking

Anonymous No. 16449284

>>16449272
Crew Chaser, here we go.

Anonymous No. 16449285

>>16449254
wasn't Musk an illegal immigrant too?

Anonymous No. 16449286

>>16449263
Boeing/Lockheed want more than buyers are willing to pay.

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Anonymous No. 16449287

>>16449276
You've cracked it
>A new material called Metaklett is like hook-and-loop (โ€œVelcroโ€) made out of steel and much scarier. One side of the material bristles with sharp spikes and the other side has jagged steel brushes. Looking something like the mouth of a prehistoric shark, a square meter of Metaklett can support up to 35 metric tons and withstand heat of up to 800 degrees Celsius. Developed at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, researchers borrowed from the traditional hook-and-loop concept to design a fastener for extreme loads and environments such as automotive, building, or military applications.
https://newatlas.com/metaklett-steel-velcro/12824/

Anonymous No. 16449288

Apparently Bezos ordered WaPo not to endorse anyone, unlike in 2016 and 2020 where they endorsed the dems.
Considering he's more involved in B.O. than ever... covering his ass in case of trump victory?

Anonymous No. 16449289

>>16449282
for having a healthy heterosexual sex drive?

Anonymous No. 16449290

>>16449288
The elites are fighting. The old money elites are pushing for Kamala, new money are set on Trump.

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Anonymous No. 16449291

https://x.com/DeItaone/status/1849825786074660915

https://www.semafor.com/article/10/25/2024/nasas-bill-nelson-calls-for-investigation-into-report-of-musk-putin-calls

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Anonymous No. 16449292

>>16449291
https://x.com/semafor/status/1849822945469706687

Anonymous No. 16449293

>>16449288
Bezos will have to be utterly insane to support a candidate that proposes tax on unrealized capital gain.

Anonymous No. 16449294

>>16449285
He had a Canadian citizenship and studied in Ontario, then he transferred to Pennsylvania, I would assume with a student visa

Anonymous No. 16449296

>>16449291
I hope nobody is falling for this russia FUD shit anymore

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Anonymous No. 16449297

https://x.com/CNBC/status/1849871108289499579

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/25/jeff-bezos-killed-washington-post-endorsement-of-kamala-harris-.html

Anonymous No. 16449298

>>16449174
China will buy.

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Anonymous No. 16449299

>>16449288
I enjoy how angry that is making the WaPo people.

Anonymous No. 16449300

>>16449290
>>16449293
Right thanks, sorry for thinking of spaceflight before the more reasonable reasons.

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Anonymous No. 16449301

>>16449297
>>16449288

Anonymous No. 16449302

>>16449296
you hope wrong

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Anonymous No. 16449303

>>16449297
WTF???

Anonymous No. 16449305

>>16448452
This

Anonymous No. 16449307

>>16449226
>they suffered a medical emergency
>everything went well
>STOP. ASKING. QUESTIONS!

Anonymous No. 16449309

>>16449291
Talking is illegal now?

Anonymous No. 16449310

>>16449291
it's going to be like that one time elon smoked pot lmao

Anonymous No. 16449312

>>16449291
Repeating the clickbait headline view that the conversations were concealed from US govt. lol

Anonymous No. 16449314

Journalists are just such disgusting rats

Anonymous No. 16449315

>>16449287
>One drawback to nylon hook-and-loop is that it does not hold up well in extreme conditions. Metaklettโ€™s developers say their material is suitable for use in hot environments, such as the automotive or aerospace industries, as well applications that require great strength such as the building trades. Metaklett could also be suitable for use in chemical environments where disinfectants or other harsh materials would destroy traditional hook-and-loop.

Anonymous No. 16449316

Who do you think *owns* the press? Hello

Anonymous No. 16449317

>>16449314
Takes one to know one

Anonymous No. 16449318

>>16449291
locksneed's and boing's respective CEOs must be quite happy with these recent events

Anonymous No. 16449319

>>16449303
lmao

Anonymous No. 16449321

>>16449316
Jeff Bezos.

Anonymous No. 16449323

>>16449314
Berger is a journalist.

Anonymous No. 16449324

>>16449296
EDS and the left are having a field day with it

Anonymous No. 16449325

>>16449287
>>16449315
How much would a 50 meter slab of this stuff weigh?

Anonymous No. 16449327

>>16449323
Berger is a war criminal.

Anonymous No. 16449328

>>16449323
So is Foust

Anonymous No. 16449329

>>16449297
why should the news be endorsing anyone? its the fucking news.

Anonymous No. 16449330

>>16449328
>>16449323
both have EDS

Anonymous No. 16449331

>>16449327
So is Clark

Anonymous No. 16449332

>>16449330
>berger having EDS
source?

Anonymous No. 16449333

>>16449323
Berger is honestly not great as a journalist, he's just fine and realistic about SX, which makes people think he's biaised in favour of them.
A lot of his opinion and analysis aren't particularly insightful and surface level.

Anonymous No. 16449335

>>16449291
>if its true

Anonymous No. 16449337

>>16449329
they shouldn't but the news hasn't been the news for a long time
even fucking scientific american endorsed Kamala
like 95% of journalists these days are just political activists, which itself stems from the universities which are ideologically captured

Anonymous No. 16449338

>>16449332
Davenport

Anonymous No. 16449339

>>16449327
>>16449328

Anonymous No. 16449340

>>16449332
apparently he used the last section of re-entry to whine about Musks X posts, haven't personally read the book

Anonymous No. 16449341

A reminder that Starlink is not active in Taiwan because it is illegal for it to under Taiwanese law.

Anonymous No. 16449342

Reminder that there is only 1 China, and its the one that launches the second largest amount of roggets in the world

Anonymous No. 16449343

>>16449333
no people liking berger is just a result of him being the few "journalists" left that actually does journalist work rather than failing at everything else and going into journalism because he/she has an english major.
the bar is simply so low that berger is now seen as an exceptional journalist.

Anonymous No. 16449344

Please reminder that West Taiwan will be integrated into glorious Republic of China unity immediately and swiftly

Anonymous No. 16449345

>>16449340
That's quite sad if true. Is there even anyone left that doesn't have EDS now?

Anonymous No. 16449346

>>16449345
Maye Musk.

Anonymous No. 16449348

>>16449342
And only about 25% of those were using cryogenic propellants. Half of China's launches this year still used hypergolics and the last quarter are little solid fuel rockets.

Anonymous No. 16449349

>>16449341
It doesn't pass the smell test. Musk has little to no business exposure in Russia. And there's no reason for Putin to ask Musk to not deploy Starlink at Taiwan. CCP don't need Putin to act as middleman, they are more than capable of dealing with Musk directly, leveraging Tesla's factory at Shanghai.

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Anonymous No. 16449350

So many different and unique worlds.

I want landers to Mercury, Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto, Iapetus and Triton. Now.

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>>16449287

Anonymous No. 16449352

>>16449350
Best /sfg/ poster presently

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Anonymous No. 16449353

>>16449345
Elons has driven every journalist insane
https://archive.is/bTL1E

Anonymous No. 16449354

>>16449350
for real. it's disgusting that in 60 years we've only gotten landers on 4 planets besides earth

Anonymous No. 16449357

Madame President, Elon Musk is on hold on line 2 and Jeff Bezos is on line 3.

How would you react without sounding mad?
Space is gonna take a backseat

Anonymous No. 16449358

>>16449350
if only the solar system wasn't so sterile

Anonymous No. 16449359

>>16449354
>4 planets
based Luna chad

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Anonymous No. 16449361

>>16449297
>Jeff redemption arc

Anonymous No. 16449362

Xi Jinping meets Bill Gates in China, calls him 'an old friend'

The Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates spent little time in securing his first major deal when he visited Moscow on Friday.

As well as speaking to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Anatoly Chubais and the Russian Central Bank governor Sergei Dubinin, Bill Gates pulled off a 1.65 (m) million U-S dollar deal with the country's largest bank, Sberbank.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos kowtows to China's grand poobah Xi Jinping and deletes bad reviews of Xi's absurd book.

Oh to have been a fly on the wall when President Xi sat down with Apple's Tim Cook, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Satya Nadella of Microsoft and other ...

Chinese president Xi Jinping addressed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, billionaire investor Warren Buffett and other top American and Chinese ...

Anonymous No. 16449364

>>16449350
You know how in space games you go to a planet, but it's really lame because the entire planet is identical everywhere. But then it's like that in real life too, Earth is the only planet with variety and biomes

Anonymous No. 16449367

>>16449358
yeah, imagine the space race if venus was a green planet with just some flora

Anonymous No. 16449369

>>16449342
nah chinkland's west taiwan.

Anonymous No. 16449370

>>16449367
It should've been a big rainforest/swamp with dinosaurs.

Anonymous No. 16449372

>>16449367
sexy venus plantgirls

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Anonymous No. 16449373

>>16449367
This would be Venus life.

Anonymous No. 16449374

>>16449364
>But then it's like that in real life too, Earth is the only planet with variety and biomes
Kill yourself video game addicted zoomer retard.

Anonymous No. 16449377

>>16449350
>venus, earth, moon, mars
You forgot Eros, Itokawa, Ryugu, Bennu, Dimorphos, Tempel 1, and 67P.

Anonymous No. 16449381

>>16449377
No one cares about asteroids.

Anonymous No. 16449382

>>16449381
i do :(

Anonymous No. 16449384

I wish I could get my dick hard for space rocks but I just can't

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Anonymous No. 16449385

>>16449382
Me too, anon is simply incorrect.

Anonymous No. 16449386

>>16449384
You're probably brown.

Anonymous No. 16449388

>>16449374
Look at the planets in our system, it's just shitty rocks and sand but a different color on each planet

Anonymous No. 16449389

>>16449384
Not a Steven Universe fan I take it?

Anonymous No. 16449390

>>16449384
bet you can't "get your dick hard" for climbing mountains either, huh shitskin

Anonymous No. 16449393

wwyd if rethuglicans forced a bill thru the house declaring that SLS and all related projects must be cancelled, and their subsequent missions and contracts all given to Starship, as well as the creation of the CST agency?

Anonymous No. 16449395

>>16449388
Look at Venus. Then just keep looking at Venus, hopefully it occupies you so you don't post here again.

Anonymous No. 16449397

>>16449393
sounds kind of farfetched as a many republicans have oldspace contractors in their states
the grift with old space has been bipartisan as far as I know

Anonymous No. 16449399

>>16449350
I really like the version where the Earth surface shows water. It's unexpectedly alien, but that really is what most of it looks like.

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Anonymous No. 16449403

>>16449373
Lies

Anonymous No. 16449404

>>16449397
they will get contracts for the tin cans Starship will carry there as a band-aid

Anonymous No. 16449406

>>16449395
>rocks but green sky
This procedural generation is pretty boring

Anonymous No. 16449407

>>16449321
I really think this was what he meant there

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Anonymous No. 16449409

>>16449297
Nice to see the sore loser find some common ground with Ol' Musky

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Anonymous No. 16449410

>>16449350
With starship you will be able to go anywhere you would want in solar system. I wish they could launch probe to every planet in the solar system in span of 10 years using starships.

Man belongs wherever he wants to goโ€”and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

Anonymous No. 16449411

>>16449406
Reality is wasted on (you)

Anonymous No. 16449412

>>16449323
Berger is a sychophant

Anonymous No. 16449413

>>16449350
Starship makes this possible

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Anonymous No. 16449414

>>16449410
The stars and the planets exist for the children of Europa to discover, explore and conquer.

Anonymous No. 16449415

>>16449374
>crying about video games in any year past 2010

Anonymous No. 16449418

>>16449412
sycophant*

Anonymous No. 16449419

>>16449226
>to protect privacy, condition will not be shared
???

Anonymous No. 16449420

>>16449386
>>16449390
I get what he means. The fact that it's just rocks is a problem. We need to fix it immediately

Anonymous No. 16449427

>>16449420
We should leave the Solar System alone apart from research outposts and orbital stations. My autism prevents me from supporting the terraforming of Mars (one hot airless planet, one hot dense atmosphere planet, one ocean planet with life, and one cold desert planet). I don't want to turn Mars into Earth 2.0.

Anonymous No. 16449429

>>16449419

human space exploration stopped buy an simple organ damage kidneys and bladder

Anonymous No. 16449430

>>16449429
It doesn't even make sense from a privacy perspective is what I'm saying. Don't tell me one of them shat themselves and that's why?

Anonymous No. 16449433

>>16449419
HIPAA laws are ITAR tier serious business

Anonymous No. 16449434

>>16449226
they don't vet astronauts the way they used to
probably had some preexisting condition that wasn't found before

Anonymous No. 16449436

>>16449430
I jokingly asked earlier if the routine checkup found a lump that got biopsied out of "an abundance of caution" and it came back positive for cancer, now I wonder if it really was something like that.

Anonymous No. 16449437

>>16449430
nobody wants their prolapsed anus from the zero g poop vacuum all over the news cycle

Anonymous No. 16449438

>>16449427
The only planet that should be left alone is Earth. One day we'll come back to free it from Earthers, leaving it as we found it as we expand to the stars

Anonymous No. 16449440

>>16449350
So nitrogen and oxygen create blue skies, carbon dioxide creates white skies, sulphur creates yellow skies. I wonder what kind of chemical makeup would make, say, purple skies, or green skies, or red skies.

Anonymous No. 16449443

>>16449440
Oxygen is red/pink

Anonymous No. 16449451

>>16449443
Source?

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>>16449451
>Source?
His ass, oxygen is sky blue, it only becomes red when its Octaoxygen under 10Gpa of pressure

Anonymous No. 16449457

>>16449454
>liquid oxygen
I was talking about the sky. Which by the way is mostly nitrogen here

Anonymous No. 16449459

>>16449454
that looks like it tastes great. can i take a sip?

Anonymous No. 16449460

>>16449451
No Mans Sky.

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Anonymous No. 16449461

>>16449459
forbidden slushie

Anonymous No. 16449463

>>16449454
>>16449461
Find new images for these

Anonymous No. 16449464

>>16449463
yeah hang on let me go photograph my own rp1 and lox real quick

Anonymous No. 16449465

>>16449464
dont whine and complain just do it

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Anonymous No. 16449466

>>16448509
should have kept monkes cock out of his mouth. specially after his failed imperial chimp out back in 2022. nobody forced him to go anywhere near the war and certainly not answer monkes calls. all official starlinks go through dod there anyway minus the ones vatniks smuggle for themselves

he has only himself to blame for succumbing to a severe case of main character syndrome. now he painted a target on himself and is going completely under political lawfare press after the election until he inevitably cracks

Anonymous No. 16449467

>>16449465
based

Anonymous No. 16449469

>>16449451
I saw it in a documentary about the great oxygenation when I was 6

Anonymous No. 16449475

when tesla goes under the whole musk edifice will come crashing down.

Anonymous No. 16449483

>>16449329
>why should the news be endorsing anyone? its the fucking news.

it would just be easier to change the name from "news" to something else, a long time ago

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Anonymous No. 16449485

https://x.com/kemp/status/1849906891310420030

Astra's CEO is trying to claim the Rocket 3 powerslide would have still made it to orbit if not for the FTS.

Anonymous No. 16449486

>>16449466
This anon failed the IQ test.

Anonymous No. 16449487

>>16449485
So it would have been blown up by the range safety officer even without the power slide. Impressive.

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Anonymous No. 16449489

>>16449454
>>16449461
>>16449463
>>16449464
>>16449465

If you don't have even more delicious looking pictures of liquid oxygen first thing tomorrow, you're fired. If you think I won't do it, remember I fired Amber Heard

Anonymous No. 16449491

>>16449486
This anon wears a tiny hat and has a big nose

Anonymous No. 16449494

>>16449489
working for him must be a nightmare kek. like having an abusive dad

Anonymous No. 16449496

>>16448499
>lock him away in a military facility
damn, that's what we do with people who are arrested in america? sounds like something... russia would do

Anonymous No. 16449497

>>16449489
Anon, please, be reasonable

Anonymous No. 16449500

>>16448627
>>16448644
>>16448649
His main claim to fame, the job he is the most proud of, is being the manager of a movie theater
>noooo it's called a planetarium
excuse me, I meant "a movie theater with really boring movies"

Anonymous No. 16449501

SpaceX was 1 second away from aborting the Booster catch and crashing into the ground

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849914261482652113

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Anonymous No. 16449504

>>16449497
Okay, I believe in second chances. You can audition for Amber's old job.

Anonymous No. 16449505

>>16448627
>>16448647
Did elon even say a single word to neil or about neil? Why is neil complaining about manufactured controversy when he's doing it himself

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>>16448697
>robot catgirls
Literally the best kind.

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Anonymous No. 16449507

latest berger hit piece

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/10/why-is-elon-musk-talking-to-vladimir-putin-and-what-does-it-mean-for-spacex/

Anonymous No. 16449508

>>16449501
this cretin supports insurrection. at this point round up every republican citizen and jail them and execute them. they Cannot be rehabilitated. They are fascist scum

Anonymous No. 16449510

>>16449505
He might not do it consciously, but it's an artificial method to keep himself relevant

Anonymous No. 16449513

>>16449507
Immediately to the comments! A title like that is bound to attract the ARSbots, which are distinct from the SpaceX fanatics

Anonymous No. 16449515

>>16448767
>>Some senior engineer probably got asked by Elon how many times can Raptor relight and when there wasn't an exact answer he was told he would be fired next meeting if he didnt know by then.
next meeting....
>So what did you find out? How many times can a raptor be relight?
>"I don' know... we've been relighting it several times a minute since our last meeting but it just won't die"
>you're fired

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Anonymous No. 16449517

>>16449516
miss banks, behave!

Anonymous No. 16449518

>>16449507
>There are no on-the-record sources confirming the regular conversations between Musk and Putin

>the Journal cites "several current and former US, European, and Russian officials."

If the sources are anonymous, the claim that they are officials is also anonymous. You can't falsify it. Oh but you can ask the parties involved for comment. Oh they denied it. Well print the story anyway.

You don't hate the media enough

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Anonymous No. 16449522

>>16449515
>Take a guess, when the raptor reaches that number you're going to wait under the test stand to see if you are right

Anonymous No. 16449525

https://x.com/joroulette/status/1849917452202934572

Anonymous No. 16449531

>>16449367
>>16449370
Somewhere I have an old book that speculates on this. Published late 1950s.

Anonymous No. 16449533

>musk is playing diablo while being debriefed on starship
and sam bankman fried played league while being debriefed on FTX

Anonymous No. 16449534

>>16449525
https://x.com/xdNiBoR/status/1849928786487210428

Anonymous No. 16449536

>>16449507
Let this be a lesson to those here who thought they hated journalists enough. You don't.

Anonymous No. 16449537

>>16449533
two tenets of success:
>always be multitasking
>always be making money

Anonymous No. 16449544

i get the feeling that he should not be broadcasting this phone conversation live, kek

Anonymous No. 16449546

>Should Kamala Harris win the presidency...he and his businesses probably would face heightened scrutiny.
>US regulatory agencies could act with more zeal, and Musk's activities could be more closely investigated for violation of US laws.
>And NASA and the US Space Force could do more to ensure that other US companies can emerge to challenge SpaceX's dominance.

yeah that's a threat

Anonymous No. 16449555

>>16449546
you realize the democrats are already in the white house, right? if it's kamala instead of biden, nothing changes because neither of them give a shit about space policy and never have

Anonymous No. 16449560

>>16449555
musk will go bankrupt under thcurrent pressure for 4 more years.

Anonymous No. 16449561

>>16449555
the left has been on a crusade to cause harm to people they dont like for awhile now. banana republic shit.

Anonymous No. 16449564

>>16449555
You're wrong. They will fuck with spacex even harder, not because they care about space policy (which they don't) but simply to get revenge on Elon Musk for supporting Trump. They will be out to make an example of him.

Anonymous No. 16449567

>>16449560
What pressure? Probes into FSD? You're acting like the feds pulled federal subsidies for his EVs.

Anonymous No. 16449569

>>16449546
>that other US companies can emerge to challenge SpaceX's dominance
What bullshit, none of the space companies can match the launch capability of SpaceX, BO has yet to fly and it'll be years before they can match launch cadence, ULA is not reusable, Small launchers are dead in the water and SLS is fucked. It's not a question of monopoly or anti-trust but simply that SpaceX has out-innovated the competition who is now paying the price for two decades plus of gorging themselves on the pork barrel.

Anonymous No. 16449570

>MAGA mutts angry that actions have consequences
And water is wet.

Anonymous No. 16449573

>>16449570
wrong on both counts

Anonymous No. 16449574

>>16449569
They just need to hire few ULA snipers to make sure falcon is grounded forever

Anonymous No. 16449576

>>16449573
>actions DONT have consequences
>water ISNT wet
backwards MAGAt logic on display for all to see. or should i say putinbot logic?

Anonymous No. 16449579

>>16449507
NASA has zero power to be kingmakers here, they are a dead, inept organization. Money is not enough. You need raw distilled autism, and no one can or will match Elon, probably not in my lifetime. Berger leaning into this proves he's just another journo hack at the end of the day. Sure, he writes stories you agree with mostly so he gets a pass. But he shouldn't. Kill journalists
>>16449546
If this country has free speech he can say whatever he wants and talk to whoever he wants. Is Berger saying our government is tyrannical? Fascist even?

Anonymous No. 16449582

>>16449516
>In July 2024, Banks attended a rally in support of Trump's 2024 presidential campaign in Florida.

literally a based negro

Anonymous No. 16449584

>>16448573
!!!
Huge news

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Anonymous No. 16449585

The day of the schism is upon us.

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Anonymous No. 16449587

You guys thought Falcon Heavy taking Europa Clipper from SLS was big? Wait till Starship takes Artemis 3 away from SLS.

Anonymous No. 16449588

How come Orion TPS issue hasn't been resolved yet?

Anonymous No. 16449589

>>16449179
only if you can deliver lol

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Anonymous No. 16449592

>>16449587
Can't wait for that

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>>16449588
>After the test flight in November 2022 (almost two years after the botched SLS Green Run test), youโ€™ll never guess what happened! The heat shield failed in scary and unpredicted ways. NASA is a publicly funded agency and its information is meant to be publicly available. Despite multiple FOIA requests NASA successfully hid this embarrassing information from the public for nearly another two years, before eventually some photos of the damaged heat shield leaked out. It should be noted that this failure was not unexpected, and had been predicted since the material selection in 2009, but NASA management continued, and continues, to kick the can down the road.
>Thereโ€™s a reason that other capsule programs admittance test the heat shield early in development and then freeze the design. Itโ€™s much cheaper to fix problems before the rest of the system is finalized.
>NASA faces a tough choice here. Theyโ€™ve already spent two years in deliberations, so perhaps with a few more years of deliberations they can concoct some justification for the failure and sign off on the next flight, which is meant to have living humans on board. NASA has a storied history of moving its pen in just this way, resulting in the loss of shuttles Challenger and Columbia and 14 astronauts.
>Or, they can go back to the contractor Lockheed Martin and ask them to restart development of the entire capsule with a different heat shield material, such as SpaceXโ€™s proven PICA-X. This will delay the capsule for many more years and cost billions more dollars.
>Or, recognizing that even if Orion had worked flawlessly itโ€™s still too heavy and too expensive to do anything useful, so cancel it. Success has never been in the set of possible outcomes, so remind me why we continue to burn billions of dollars on this program every year?
NASA thought they could get away with it

Anonymous No. 16449595

Gaganyaan demo flight 1 has been delayed to February-March 2025.

Anonymous No. 16449597

>>16449595
Never ever

Anonymous No. 16449598

>>16449595
Borgars law

Anonymous No. 16449599

>>16449518
You're not hating them enough
This is a pretty common glowie scheme: leak unverifiable allegations anonymously, the press reports it uncritically to avoid missing out on a scoop, and then the government uses the reporting as a factual basis for investigation.

Anonymous No. 16449602

>>16449507
Berger went retard and pushes forward an uncharatible interpretation of a rumor mill. What a fucktard

Anonymous No. 16449608

>sfg reminded that Berger is a journalist

Anonymous No. 16449610

>>16449608
Going political never helps the journos. All it does is kill their credibility.

Anonymous No. 16449612

>>16449507
Even if he did that, which I doubt, why is that such a big deal? Real life is not twitter, where you can block people you don't like and pretend they don't exist.

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Anonymous No. 16449613

>>16449300
Ok maybe that wasn't a stupid explanation
https://x.com/michellelprice/status/1849931875118133640

Anonymous No. 16449614

You all bitch but will continue to read every single one of his articles because you know hes always right in spaceflight insider news.

Anonymous No. 16449615

>>16449593
neither of the shuttle losses are due to nasa kicking the can down the road....

Anonymous No. 16449616

fuck you

Anonymous No. 16449617

>>16449613
Bezos needs to get in the damn ring. why does Elon have to do all the dirty work getting the FAA axed?

Anonymous No. 16449618

>>16449570
An example of actions having consequences is democrats turning Elon from someone who voted for Biden into someone who is campaigning for Trump.

Anonymous No. 16449619

thank you

Anonymous No. 16449621

>>16449507
There's so many incentives to lie about this with vested interest to take down Musk and keep the war going. Supposed Russian agents telling wsj reporter. Supposed US and European officials claiming Musk maybe in contact. But nothing on the record.
This reeks of the old "50 former intelligence officials warn NY Post story sounds like Russian disinformation" nonsense that the Biden admin crafted to win the election by trying to discredit the real story of Hunter Biden and the entire Biden family being corrupt in advance.

So whatever the journos say, its the opposite.

Anonymous No. 16449622

>>16449615
Both were inherent design flaws. The Shuttle they never planned to fix. Orion they kicked the can. Nigger

Anonymous No. 16449623

I love you.

Nigger sneed No. 16449624

Garbage thread

Nigger sneed goes in all fields

Anonymous No. 16449625

why isn't sfg talking about the fact that the booster was 1 second away from crashing into the ground during flight 5???
NSF is covering it

Anonymous No. 16449627

Is anyone thinking what I'm thinking?

Anonymous No. 16449628

>>16449625
so you're saying they correctly estimated the margins they would need?

Anonymous No. 16449629

>>16449625
i posted it >>16449534

Anonymous No. 16449630

>>16449628
apparently elon leaked a spacex meeting during his diablo stream or something

Anonymous No. 16449631

>>16449627
nothing?

Anonymous No. 16449632

>>16449630
im certain he was not supposed to do that kek. pretty careless.

Anonymous No. 16449633

>>16449625
>rocket crashes if not for the timely landing burn
>people die if they are killed
most philosophical

Anonymous No. 16449635

>>16449622
there are always design compromises that might cause problems...

Anonymous No. 16449637

>>16449625
big whoop, falcon is perpetually 1 second away from not getting its legs out in time

Anonymous No. 16449638

>>16449595
When indians have their own manned spacecraft theyre going to surpass russians right?

Anonymous No. 16449640

>>16449625
We already knew SpaceX had extremely tight criteria for an abort.

Anonymous No. 16449641

>>16447139
Now show the radiators

Anonymous No. 16449642

>>16449635
Such as drinking pee and eating poop...

Anonymous No. 16449643

>>16449629
>random xitter link with no description
wow, what a dumb faggot you are

Anonymous No. 16449644

>>16448357
>inb4 space force and artemis
>Artemis has become
Biden administration.

Anonymous No. 16449645

>>16449638
Not really. Gaganyaan is a different design than Soyuz but it's not really better in any significant way. India's overall launch rate is still behind Russia's and that doesn't look like it's going to change any time soon. If India gets their Soorya RLV working and if they launch and complete their space station and if Russia doesn't get ROS operational after the ISS gets shut down in 2030, then India will have surpassed Russia. That's a lot of uncertainly about a lot of things that are at least a decade away from happening.

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>>16449303
Unironically killing Kamala would be the best thing to ever happen to the democrats chances. It would be helping them.

Anonymous No. 16449648

>>16449637
>>16449632
>>16449633
>>16449640
the chines getting ripped off almost destroyed critical hardware for the landing burn

Anonymous No. 16449649

This verification shit has slain any interest I have in posting here. I'm not waiting 15 fucking minutes to post, I'm not giving these cunts my email and I'm not going to spin up a 5 minute mail just to make a shitpost.

Goodbye forever.

Anonymous No. 16449651

>>16449649
bye kyplanet!

Anonymous No. 16449654

>>16449649
for some reason I only get it on mobile but not on PC. maybe this is the total phoneposter death we've all been waiting for.

Anonymous No. 16449655

Phailinsiam: the best planet youโ€™ve never heard of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju1Gdmp-cTM&t

Anonymous No. 16449656

>>16449649
Idiot, its 15 minutes initially then normal 60 seconds. If youre not shitting up threads constantly and switching IPs its fine.

Anonymous No. 16449657

>>16449655
lmao so its a fucking bot?

Anonymous No. 16449658

A Tour of the Lunar South Pole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pnv9ZQ0wfaw&t

Anonymous No. 16449659

>>16449649
good riddance

Anonymous No. 16449663

>>16449657
No idiot you just seethe every time we post it without fail so we (numerous anons) keep doing it because your spastic reactions are funny

Anonymous No. 16449664

Barnard's Star is so back
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiR93GN74uQ&t

>>16449657
we kyplanet posters just really love kyplanet!

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Anonymous No. 16449665

>>16449638
Yes sirs, Saarship veddy special

Anonymous No. 16449666

>>16449663
>we
is this the mythical /sfg/cord that i keep on hearing about?

Anonymous No. 16449667

If you were ban evading, and unable to wait 15 minutes to post between swapping instead of the 3 days, it indicates youre a no attention span zoomer, and maybe its better you dont post here again if so.
>>16449666
>he doesnt know

Anonymous No. 16449668

>new boeing ceo wants to sell the space division
What? Who will buy ULA now?

Anonymous No. 16449672

>>16449668
Nobody. >>16449667

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>>16449664
If he'd just stick to deboonking exoplanet popsci hype and stay off spaceflight....

Anonymous No. 16449674

>>16449668
Lockmart needs to make a play now that BAE owns Ball

Anonymous No. 16449676

>>16449673
name an opinion he has which is wrong. you cant..

Anonymous No. 16449678

>>16449668
It's (somewhat) unrelated. Boeing could sell off its space division and still retain its 50% stake in ULA

Anonymous No. 16449679

>>16449676
Eating poop and pee...

Anonymous No. 16449682

>>16449676
He thinks we should colonize Mars

Anonymous No. 16449684

>>16449238
Kek, it was so gross. It was an ungodly amount.
He should have been blacklisted from returning to Earth

Anonymous No. 16449685

>>16448780
Not being retarded about engine design, ie
>building engines to be robust enough to not explode if hit by a paint chip
>designing engines to be very robust during startup and shutdown, rather than *almost* exploding each time they're switched on
>designing rocket stages with more than zero structural strength margin, despite it adding a few extra kilos of mass, because it's a 1st stage and doesn't affect performance enough to matter
Just little things that could have been done all along but weren't because eggheads were in charge

Anonymous No. 16449686

Total Journo DEATH

Anonymous No. 16449687

>>16449516
>I donโ€™t like these people so here are my sexual fantasies about them
These are the enemies btw. Deranged!

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Anonymous No. 16449688

>>16449679
That's Isaac Arthur, this one is a mere goo gobbler like Tom Mueller

Anonymous No. 16449689

>we have a plan to address that
TOTAL NOTHING BURGER DEATH

Anonymous No. 16449690

>>16449689
Burger or berger?

Anonymous No. 16449691

>>16449587
It wonโ€™t be ready to do that by then, but if you want my honest thought:
SLS will fulfill its stupid contracts, I think it and Orion technically only have inked contracts through Artemis 6 (guaranteed) and the after that Artemis 7 and up are still planned for by NASA, but the contracts arenโ€™t written as such. So I think we will get through Artemis VI with SLS and after that they will shift to lunar commercial crew, assuming New Glenn, Vulcan, and/or Starship can get humans to LEO or lunar orbit or whatever and rendezvous with SLD Natty Team and HLS Moonship

Anonymous No. 16449692

My cock is throbbing at the thought of Muskโ€™s Russian ties finally being exposed

Anonymous No. 16449696

>>16449690
YES

Anonymous No. 16449697

>>16449692
Tory has more russian ties than him lmfao. Also , for those that donโ€™t know about International Launch Services: thereโ€™s a company out there headquartered in Virginia that has sole commercial rights to Angara. And back when LockMart had a stake in them, they had sole commercial rights to Proton!

Anonymous No. 16449699

>>16449691
SLS won't be ready

Anonymous No. 16449701

>>16449692
DEBOONKED BY SEX THEMSELVES
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1849956344691912873

Anonymous No. 16449703

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1849956344691912873

At what point can journos be sued for lies and defamation?

Anonymous No. 16449705

>>16449701
lmao btfo

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Anonymous No. 16449709

>>16449703
>lawsuits
I think the Julius Streicher precedent should be invoked

Anonymous No. 16449710

>>16448357
>revived national space council
>told NASA to fuck off and do something besides LEOslop
>told FAA to streamline its licensing process
>fucked off and got out of the way
Your question is flawed, he doesn't need to "do anything" other than get out of the way which he did and will continue to do. The age of government driven spaceflight has come to an end. The FAA part 450 boondoggle and Artemis budget are the consequences of a rigged election and retarded boomer senators.

Anonymous No. 16449711

>tehran got kaboomed
Will Starlink and subsequently SpaceX be requires by DoD to help in this war like what happened with Ukroid or is it a different set of circumstances here?

Anonymous No. 16449713

>>16449701
>and [Taiwanese] regulators declined to remove a requirement that a foreign entity own 51% of Starlink to operate there
Honestly a masterclass in rewording โ€œwe did not want to follow this requirementโ€

Anonymous No. 16449720

>>16449703
its unlikely. journalists have a huge amount of freedom to make shit up in the US.

Anonymous No. 16449722

>>16448509
straight hit piece, Elon is a true patriot

Anonymous No. 16449723

>>16449701
>>16449703
>Regarding Taiwan, as even the Taiwan government has confirmed, Starlink is not available there because Taiwan has not given us a license to operate, and regulators declined to remove a requirement that a foreign entity own 51% of Starlink to operate there.
can they not even get a reseller or some other deal? are taiwanese airlines and ships not allowed to get it either even if they're in international waters?

Anonymous No. 16449731

>>16449711
He wasn't required to do anything for Ukraine, he did it for free because like usual brandon's State dept was totally asleep at the wheel during a crisis. DoD finally offered to pay for it but then twitter trannies started seething becausewhat else would they do, so Elon declined the money because he was sick of twitter drama which made Shotwell furious. It finally got sorted out but its what lead to this, he was literally doing the job of dementia's joe's secretary of state for him. The Russian ambassador phones you, Vlad is on the line with him and wants to know if you're going to enable starlink over Russian territory which would cause a major escalation. Do you just let it go to voicemail?

Anonymous No. 16449733

whoever buys starliner needs to start launching on falcon

Anonymous No. 16449734

>2016
ITS update is 1h long Mars Musk presentation as main event of IAC describing the Plan (tm)
>2023
Starship update is 10min half assed IAC livestream with no new information
>2024
Starship update is the audio of SpaceX VP briefing musk about Starship dev while he's streaming Diablo

How can it even get worse?

Anonymous No. 16449737

>>16449734
>2025
Starship update is canceled, elon is in jail, and spacex got nationalized by president kamala

Anonymous No. 16449738

>>16449734
its more authentic now

Anonymous No. 16449742

>>16449723
Now you know why non-Taiwanese airlines mainly fly to the mainland or Japan or Singapore.

Anonymous No. 16449744

>>16449733
Starliner will launch on New Glenn, Vulcan, and Neutron

Anonymous No. 16449748

>>16449744
quick way to go the way of boeing

Anonymous No. 16449749

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1849914261482652113
This is so funny
SpaceX VPs giving him the rundown on Flight 5 issues and he just says "wow" while playing Diablo
Also why did he post this, seems like critical info

He said this was the first time the FAA was not the leading factor in the launch date since the start of the Starship program.
They were scared of launching because they didn't have time to review all 100 abort criteria for the landing.
The chimes were covering valves that were critical for the landing burn, so they were worried when one of the covers broke.

Anonymous No. 16449752

>>16449744
I'm pretty sure Shartliner is too chubby for Neutron.

Anonymous No. 16449753

>>16449688
cool starlink train going down the middle

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Anonymous No. 16449755

>>16449701
Wish other powerful people/companies would shit on the media like this. If they ever respond to hitpieces, it's just a short denial or no comment. SpaceX instead brings the receipts and questions the media's integrity explicitly

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Anonymous No. 16449757

>>16449501
>>16449501
>>16449501
>Elon shared flight details about Flight 5 while playing video games on stream

Anonymous No. 16449758

>>16449749
he was definitely high during the discussion and when posting it.

Anonymous No. 16449760

>>16449723
USG wants SpaceX to have full control, not partial.

Anonymous No. 16449761

>>16448843
Hell we should be building chemical rocket propelled spacecraft of that scale. Why not? Build em on the Moon, fill them with 500 thousand tonnes of hydrolox, launch them to Earth-Moon L5 with an EM accelerator system, and from there transfer to Mars orbit or the asteroids. Plenty of cargo mass budget at that point to bring an entire small factory with you in one shot, including ISRU mining and refining hardware.

Anonymous No. 16449762

>>16449516
Kek she's batshit. I remember during the 2018 tesla deathwatch many "leaks" being spread by tslaq about elon were supposedly from her.
>>16449533
But he's a retarded le rationalist wordcel who sucked at league

Anonymous No. 16449765

>>16449734
>2027
Elon retard squealing on the floor pissing
>2030
pile of poop

Anonymous No. 16449771

>SuperHeavy was 1 second away from calling an abort for catch to crash into the ground

Anonymous No. 16449772

>Bezos bend the knee
Good

Anonymous No. 16449773

>>16449654
iPhone? I think they've started changing IPs every millisecond or so

Anonymous No. 16449776

>>16449588
They literally can't. They no longer know how because the people who did know are retired or dead and the new engineers are retarded. On top of this, the few % of engineers that are competent are under crushing administrative burden.

Anonymous No. 16449778

>>16449776
could lockmart outsource it to spacex? dragon seems to have a functional heat shield

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Anonymous No. 16449783

>>16449778
Lunar return heating is much much worse. They could 1:1 replicate the Apollo heat shield though. While a pain in the ass, there's no way it would take several years (as a technology problem not an administrative problem)

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Anonymous No. 16449784

David Limp, Blue Origin CEO, met with Trump

Anonymous No. 16449785

>>16449784
>you're going to Mars too? That's good, we like Mars, and the moon
>ELON, I said Elon, I mean this guy landed a rocket, he endorsed me and he caught the rocket I said I've never seen that I said, no one's ever seen that

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>>16448843
say no more

Anonymous No. 16449793

>>16449783
They did replicate the Apollo shield, thats part of the problem since the tech for that was already decades buried.
Nasa created PICA which is what SpaceX uses. They would have been better off using that,

Anonymous No. 16449798

>>16449789
this is possible with QI drives btw

Anonymous No. 16449800

>>16449798
Whats the status on that meme drive anyways, confirmed yet?

Anonymous No. 16449801

>>16449757
ITAR bros?? He was just casually streaming flight secrets online.

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Anonymous No. 16449809

Just FYI, Musk has completely captured the state of Texas. The TX attorney general works for him

Anonymous No. 16449810

>>16449793
They did not replicate the Apollo shield, for Apollo they filled a honeycomb structure with avcoat but for Orion they just machined huge chunks of the stuff. I don't think they've tested pica for lunar return

Anonymous No. 16449814

>>16448992
Raptor solved this problem, but so did BE-4 and a million soviet engines from 50 years ago.

Anonymous No. 16449817

>>16449784
why is the camera screen cracked

Anonymous No. 16449818

>>16449021
Actually a full flow staged combustion hydrolox engine would be massively simpler and easier than whatever the fuck cycle RS-25 ended up doing

Anonymous No. 16449821

>>16449809
wow a FOIA request...anyone can do that

Anonymous No. 16449824

>>16449821
And you didn't.

Anonymous No. 16449831

>>16449697
>Tory has more russian ties than him
kek, factually true. Someone has to blast this to every single media outlet out there:
>CEO of a large American space launch company in close ties with Russian officials, buys rocket and ICBM technology from them, spending hundreds of millions in taxpayers' money

Anonymous No. 16449833

>>16449203
Replacing starship tiles can be done in hours (per repair op, installing a single tile alone only takes a few minutes). In a worst case operational scenario, Starship undergoes a 2 hour TPS inspection and refurb after landing, goes back to the pad, and gets stacked. Even in this case they would inevitably find a solution to the problem, even if it needed a total change in TPS material/function.

Anonymous No. 16449839

>>16449833
Long term solution is probably some kind of scanning gantry that passes up and down the heatshield and prints out a list of the exact condition of every tile. Would probably not take long at all.

Anonymous No. 16449840

Does Musk have Diddy and Epstein ties? If so, will he get locked up before Mars?

Anonymous No. 16449845

>>16449203
shuttle tiles were like rebuilding a mosaic out of gemstone (each tile cost 2-3 grand and the shuttle had 26,000 tiles). Starship will be like replacing tile in your bathroom. Everything is uniform and easily interchangeable.

Anonymous No. 16449847

>>16449840
Yes and we will thankfully be spared the horrors of an autistic Mars colony named "Terminus"

Anonymous No. 16449854

>>16449810
I thought they were using TUFROC

Anonymous No. 16449858

Why is Elon talking like theres actually going to be a Government Efficiency Agency and that he will be leading it? He doesnt unironically believe Trump will do anything right? The machine always tries to preserve the status quo aswell

Anonymous No. 16449860

>>16449809
Good.

Anonymous No. 16449867

>>16449854
pretty sure the X-37 uses TUFROC. Orion uses Avcoat like the other anon said

Anonymous No. 16449868

>โ€œ(Crew-8 was) the longest duration in space for a US crewed vehicle at 235 days,โ€ Jones said.

Anonymous No. 16449869

fuck you

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Anonymous No. 16449874

Every person I've ever met that disliked Elon Musk was a FLAMING homosexual.

Anonymous No. 16449876

>>16449858
I give it a year tops before Musk falls out of favor with Trump. What does Trump even owe Musk to keep him loyal?
As soon as the election is won Trump could turn on Musk and face no negative consequence.

Anonymous No. 16449877

>>16449858
The veto, and executive actions. Veto spending bills for once to force Congress's hand by wasting their time precious time. Executive actions against the regulatory agencies, which the President is the chief of. Most of the shit Elon wants to change is within Trump's power to change.

Anonymous No. 16449878

>>16449874
You dislike elon musk?

Anonymous No. 16449884

>>16449876
>As soon as the election is won Trump could turn on Musk and face no negative consequence.
Would he though? As far as I know he didn't try to fuck with SpaceX when he was in his first term.

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Anonymous No. 16449890

>>16449886
this but over Moscow

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>>16449886
This but over a lost civilization

Anonymous No. 16449901

>>16449893
god, i wish

Anonymous No. 16449904

>>16449858
Real reason, it makes trump look better and he's more likely to get elected. Which is the bottom line, the government departments will pulled off elon's ass. Elon said that they will not like cutting spending and reducing government and will fight back, so he knows the obvious. I think the actual appointment depends on if republicans get an effective majority, and if they are ok with making a department that complains but has no power. Even if they don't make anything more efficient it may look good politically for doge to exist.

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Anonymous No. 16449908

>>16449893
I bet this feels so good for an asteroid

Anonymous No. 16449909

>>16449906
>>16449893
>>16449886
Why not just Hellstar Remina this bitch instead? Remina never ate Venus or Mercury when it came by, seem like a good plan to me.

Anonymous No. 16449912

>>16449884
In his first term he neither helped nor hindered.
My point is he won't be going out of his way to help SpaceX. He will do precisely nothing for them and probably let federal agencies keep harassing them. He doesn't like Musk so why would he help him when the money dries up?

Anonymous No. 16449919

>>16449587
I will cum. For real, I will literally jerk off if this occurs, the catharsis will be too much

Anonymous No. 16449921

>>16449798
Sabine already dunked on it. It's over

Anonymous No. 16449924

>>16449908
imagine nofap for billions of years and then fucking a planet so hard you end all life

Anonymous No. 16449926

>>16449588
Literally cargo cult lite. All the inventors retired/died 20 years ago and what survived them are the people who are diligent at memorizing standards and norms, and even more recently the DEI-uplifted are making things worse.

Anonymous No. 16449935

>>16449926
funny how you say all this but won't do a thing to fix it.

Anonymous No. 16449937

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2453289-earth-is-now-gaining-less-heat-than-it-has-for-several-years/

Doombros its over

Anonymous No. 16449938

>>16449625
My thoughts after listening to the entire video:

He clearly trusts his team (guy rattling off problems they saw, mentions "we have a solve for that" and elon doesn't ask for detail), the catch was lucky (1 second abort but more importantly that sheet metal that was ripped off had been protecting single point of failure critical valves and if anything had been damaged the landing would fail) but they don't have any problems they seem actually worried about, except for floating a 1 day delay of flight 6 to do a more comprehensive review of something technical in the flight control software. No indication of whether this delay will happen, but asking for just 1 day implies they have a short timeline in mind.

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>>16449587
Meme magic is real. Make is so, /sfg/

Anonymous No. 16449941

>>16449921
not really

Anonymous No. 16449942

>>16449940
>mountain dew
Should be drinking Teslaquila instead

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>>16449942
You should kill yourself now!

Anonymous No. 16449946

>>16449935
Fix it? I'm reveling in it, because SpaceX exists and all these dinosaurs are finally dying off

Anonymous No. 16449947

>>16449942
newfag

Anonymous No. 16449948

>>16448580
Always remember that these are the types of people who would rather rule a molehill than share a mountain. They don't care if it destroys them so long as it destroys others in the process.

Anonymous No. 16449952

>>16449935
Why fix it?

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>>16449297
The seething over this is glorious

Anonymous No. 16449961

>>16449956
she looks hot

Anonymous No. 16449964

>>16449361
I just want him to whip Blorigin into shape and become a proper competitor to Spacex. The problem is it seems like that would take like 10 years minimum.

Anonymous No. 16449968

>>16449956
God why cant I look this cool?

Anonymous No. 16449971

>>16449587
Just wish Falcon Heavy took ESCAPADE away from Bezos.

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>>16449956
he looks like Mr Clean lol

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>>16449971
>NASA pushed its launch back to 2025, which is impossible because the next launch window is 2026 and they just don't want to say Bezos fucked up.

Anonymous No. 16449978

>>16449935
what am I supposed to do to fix it?
>>16449941
it's not real

Anonymous No. 16449979

>>16449977
with such a mismatch in launch vehicle energy and craft size, surely they can bruteforce it even outside the normal window?

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Anonymous No. 16449984

Ship 33 prepping for cryo test

Anonymous No. 16449985

Sounds like Bezos is secretly a Trump supporter. Has ever talked about politics or his relationship with Musk? Musk hardly ever mentions him. But what if they are actually in this together? Maybe Thiel had a secret meeting with them.

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>>16449956
>shoulders broader than hips

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Anonymous No. 16449988

god damn from the thumbnail I thought this whore was wearing only sheer leggings and a shirt that barely covered her crotch but it turns out it was only disgusting brown coloured yoga pants and a strangely half tucked in shirt
does NASA think this is appropriate attire for a presenter?
https://images.nasa.gov/details/jcs2024m000044_Space%20to%20Ground_544_241025

Anonymous No. 16449990

>>16449986
thats not unusual for a man

Anonymous No. 16449991

>>16449303
"A study finds".
Should always be "a study finds".
my favorite.

Anonymous No. 16449994

>>16449988
shes an anchor baby foreign invader that has no reason to be in this country

Anonymous No. 16449995

>>16449988
She looks like she pulled her pants up in a hurry right before recording.

Anonymous No. 16449997

>>16449956
The best place to observe it is r/Politics.
The meltdown is Chernobyl tier.

Anonymous No. 16449998

>>16449990
that's a man??

Anonymous No. 16449999

>>16449998
he's pretty well known in the space industry, he owns amazon

Anonymous No. 16450001

>>16449984
Oh I've never seen the mini tiles, whats with that?

Anonymous No. 16450005

>>16450001
boundary of the lower tank dome?

Anonymous No. 16450007

>>16450001
I think the answer to everything at this stage is "It's experimental" but I guess you could make something up regarding it being right on the delineation point between the bottom of the LOX tank and the engine bay.

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Anonymous No. 16450011

Trump watched the Booster catch.

Anonymous No. 16450013

>>16450001
That looks like it covers one of the major welds between the tank and dome. Maybe it flexes too much for the normal size tiles during launch

Anonymous No. 16450014

Has anyone surmised that the crew member under medical observation is knocked up?

Anonymous No. 16450015

>>16449984
>>16450001

Huh, possibly a new design to combat burnthrough? I hope it helps.

Anonymous No. 16450016

>>16450013
Lotta forces, lotta differential heating between cryogenic fluid and raptors.
Makes sense bigger tiles would be more at risk of popping off due to warping of the skin I guess.

Anonymous No. 16450017

>>16450001
shuttle 2.0

Anonymous No. 16450018

>>16450011
This sounds like the same script he's used on every other podcast this past week

Anonymous No. 16450021

>>16450011
Later on heโ€™s asked about aliens and he said he thinks there are aliens (implied to be intelligent) on Mars hahaha

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Anonymous No. 16450023

>>16449303
based bozo

Anonymous No. 16450025

>>16450011
>Khabib person
What does that mean?
Also, for someone who watched the podcast, did he talk about the Government Efficiency Agency thing?

Anonymous No. 16450026

>>16450025
This is the last election that warmed over Reagan bullshit is going to work, the boomers are all in retirement homes

Same with the Star Wars babble, last time we tried that we ended up with MIRVs and more MIRVs

Anonymous No. 16450027

>>16450022
i can fix her

Anonymous No. 16450030

>>16450021
2:46:57

Anonymous No. 16450033

>>16450018
Can't afford to blunder too much on this big podcast moment.

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Anonymous No. 16450034

First conception in space, lets go.

Anonymous No. 16450035

>>16449979
They gotta loop around Venus now

Anonymous No. 16450036

>>16450022
*pulls the plug*

Anonymous No. 16450037

>>16450035
that's what she's there for

Anonymous No. 16450039

>>16450014
:O

Anonymous No. 16450041

>>16450014
My guess is pulmonary embolism or a minor heart attack. The Polaris mission studied eye problems, I wonder if it's vision related

Anonymous No. 16450042

>>16450041
More like wombonary inseminism.

Anonymous No. 16450045

>>16450042
What are the actual chances here? Has NASA at least tested the possibility on mice or something?

Anonymous No. 16450046

>>16450045
>Has NASA done microgravity research in the station that continues to get funding specifically for microgravity research
No

Anonymous No. 16450047

>>16450045
She's 53 but that doesn't mean a terrible lot if a woman has taken care of their body (i.e. an astronaut).
Womb-havers usually take contraceptives when in space to avoid menstruation but that's not a guarantee at all. Zero-G could theoretically interfere with the pill's effects, allowing an inseminated egg to implant anyway, and/or drastically increasing the risk of ectopic pregnancy.
I'd say it's possible. The reduced egg implantation from the pill is counteracted by Zero-G increasing chances of implantation elsewhere and reducing gravity assisted "drainage".

Anonymous No. 16450048

>>16449713
It's a poison pill regulation, because then China invades Taiwan, and China owns 51% of SpaceX through Starlink. It's great as long as Taiwan's independence can be figuratively guaranteed. It means jack fucking shit once the soldiers cross the border.

Anonymous No. 16450051

>>16449749
They're so utterly far ahead of the entire planet in terms of technology and capability, this piece of "critical info" being out in the public literally cannot harm them. Blue Origin still has only landed a sub-orbital rocket and has no material experience on their docket of orbital class deliveries and reusability profiles, even with all the talent from SpaceX they've managed to capture over the years.

It may seem awkward to share this, but Elon also said in the latest everyday astronaut interview that in the most snarkiest way possible "patents are for the weak." He wouldn't lose any sleep over this disclosure. The only real concern is if this somehow violates ITAR. But his VPs are talking about valves and abort sequences for catching a 70 foot tall booster falling from orbit. Which goes back to the first point of them being so utterly in the next century in terms of technical ability--it could be argued that the disclosure is immaterial until someone other them can prove orbital class VTOL capability WITH payload delivery at Falcon 9 or higher scale.

Anonymous No. 16450062

>>16450025

You just had to Google:

> Donald Trump has announced Khabib Nurmagomedov as his favorite UFC fighter

And Rogan is that MMA zone too.

Anonymous No. 16450064

>>16450014
But why did they need to bring along the rest of the crew? Bedside moral support?

Anonymous No. 16450068

>>16450064
Either procedural reasons or to obfuscate the identity of the woman.
They've clarified since that only one of the four is hospitalized.

Anonymous No. 16450072

Didn't chime break off quite early, interesting that they didn't abort right then.

Anonymous No. 16450081

>>16450072
they said on the call that it broke off as the booster was transonic on the way back down, but I given there was no internal or non cosmetic damage I don't think there would've been any sensors that would've tripped an abort scenario

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๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Anonymous No. 16450090

https://youtu.be/hBMoPUAeLnY?t=2571
Here's the JRE timestamp for Trump talking about Starship Flight 6

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Anonymous No. 16450094

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849940166150086809

Anonymous No. 16450102

>>16449997
https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1gc2zy9/editor_resigns_subscribers_cancel_as_washington/

Anonymous No. 16450108

>>16450102
Ah yes, non-partisan journalism.

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Anonymous No. 16450118

https://x.com/ajtourville/status/1849893690082460121

Anonymous No. 16450128

>>16450118
Clean fucking sweep.
Inb4 Bezos buys boeing just to acquire 5 more Atlas V to launch his kuiper sats.

Anonymous No. 16450130

>>16450094
Luna will be independent, fuck off urfers.

Anonymous No. 16450131

>>16450128
by the time Kuiper gets going I think Starlink will already have secured a very large fleet
maybe Amazon is willing to price dump and compete like that (they have done it previously), but I doubt its going to work

Anonymous No. 16450132

>>16450131
Number of sats is proportional to quality of service so price dump is the only way someone would buy their service in the first place and considering kuiper satellites are going to end up being more expensive I wonder how it will work out.

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Anonymous No. 16450135

>>16450128
Literally how can anyone else compete? Starlink is so far ahead of the game. Anyone else will literally be forced to go through SpaceX to launch as many satellites. I still cannot fathom how badly they are mogging everyone

Anonymous No. 16450136

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1849956030282859009

1:03:00
>Is there a childhood story that inspired you to study rocketry?

Apparently Musk built rockets as a kid

Anonymous No. 16450140

>>16450136
1:12:30
>Whats the next step getting in humanitys way?
>Musk: Going to the Moon or Mars?
>No just generally
>Musk: We have far too much regulation

๐Ÿ—‘๏ธ Anonymous No. 16450141

https://youtu.be/hBMoPUAeLnY?t=2571
Here's the JRฤ’ timestamp talking about ฤ’lon, Starship Flight 6, and Starlink deployment in North Carolina

Anonymous No. 16450143

>>16450140
It's true.
Not just in government either. Workforce contraction has been obfuscated by an enormous swelling in bureaucracy.
HR, culture officers, liasons, policy and procedure shit, supervisor supervisors, manager managers. If you removed all of the new jobs added to the workforce over the past 20 years half of people would be unemployed and humanity would be better off.

Anonymous No. 16450154

>>16450140
1:42:00
>I am a 21 year old working for an aerospace company, what is your advice for a young person to advance their career or even start their own manufacturing company?
>Musk: Think of a product or service that is not being done or could be done better, then do it. Pick one that you feel passionate about. Go make the better mousetrap, go make that good or service.

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Anonymous No. 16450155

Father Elon has spoken. /sfg/ will henceforth refer to Jeff Who as Based Bezos

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Anonymous No. 16450162

>>16450155
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1850063842489008206

Anonymous No. 16450163

>>16450155
wtf i like blue origin now?

Anonymous No. 16450166

>>16450162
Society is healing

Anonymous No. 16450168

>>16449723
>can they not even get a reseller or some other deal?
They COULD but it would set a bad precedent.

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Anonymous No. 16450169

>>16450162
https://x.com/DavidSacks/status/1849917157540573552

Anonymous No. 16450170

>>16449023
>benefit
>switching hot gaserous hydrogen for hot gaserous oxygen is a benefit

Anonymous No. 16450171

>>16449890
Don't leave out London and DC.

Anonymous No. 16450172

>>16450026
>muh MIRV
Boost phase interception LITERALLY (LITERALLY) SOLVES THIS.
THE PEBBLES ARE SMARTER THAN YOU

Anonymous No. 16450177

>>16449749
>playing vidya while sitting in zoom meeting
>occasionally chime in with a "uh huh yeah"
he's just like me fr fr

Anonymous No. 16450181

>>16450155
It's insane how much 4chan shapes the linguistics of the internet.

Anonymous No. 16450184

>>16450155
incoming SpaceX&Blue Origin partnership?

Anonymous No. 16450185

>>16450155
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJAwRTTRdKE

Anonymous No. 16450188

>>16449839
you wouldn't even need a gantry, just deploy 3 drones and scan the entire heat shield within minutes
i mean spacex already has drones flying around during stacking operations, why not?

Anonymous No. 16450189

>>16450188
you can scan it visually and I guess with lidar to get precise 3d information, colour etc
but what if the tiles are broken in a way that is not directly apparent, but would show up in ultrasound or something? Perhaps they just try to design it in a way so that it doesn't matter, you have the backup ablative underneath if one falls off or breaks and then you just need to do some more extensive repairs

Anonymous No. 16450195

>>16450189
We're not in the 1960's any more, you could embed an individual sensor suite to each tile that logs strain, G loading, temperature and electrical conductivity for fuck all additional cost.

Anonymous No. 16450196

>>16450195
>for fuck all
no, that would increase complexity massively for one
and what if the sensors break? you just assume they work perfectly and wait for the ablative to do its thing if the sensor breaks?
might as well just do that without sensors then

Anonymous No. 16450198

>>16450189
pretty much, just have some sensors underneath the primary heatshield so you know if something broke through to the ablatives.
it all really depends on how well they can get the primary ceramic heatshield working. if it becomes extremely reliable through iteration and you can be 99,9999% sure that a tile won't break in a critical area ealy enough in re-entry to significantly damage the stainless underneath, they will probably do away with the small ablative layer underneath.
if it remains necessary, they will probably make the ablative layer out of smaller pieces that can be individually removed and replaced.

my guess is spacex themselves haven't figured out what they want to do themselves because they don't know the answers themselves and have only just been given an invironment in which to test.
you can see they're experimenting a ton on the heat shield with each flight now, they're trying out what works and what doesn't, something the shuttle was never able to do.
convinces me in time that they will build an impenetrable heatshield with extremely low failure rates that will stand the test of time.
some day, someone's gonna leave a starship in a shed somewhere and then launch it 2000 years later in a movie recreation of spacex's early days. and it will just work flawlessly.

Anonymous No. 16450199

>>16450196
You can fit that entire sensor package in a solid state probe the size of a grain of rice. If the sensor breaks, you measure an average from the adjacent 6 tiles and do your risk assessment by proxy, replacing the defective sensor tile during a later service. And re-engineer the sensor to be more durable.
It doesn't increase complexity massively, it increases data massively and the complexity of the tile a tiny amount, possibly a negligible amount with SpaceX's habit of integration.

Anonymous No. 16450200

>>16450198
>yeeeeeep starship was a good hunk of steel
back then they made stuff to last!
>nowadays re-entry vehicles need a goshdarn manicure before they're ready to go again.
>gobbless

Anonymous No. 16450201

>>16450198
They're going to have to start painting these soon due to corrosion too

Anonymous No. 16450202

>>16450201
it's stainless honey.

Anonymous No. 16450203

>>16450199
A strain sensor the size of a grain of rice won't measure strain over the entire tile.

Anonymous No. 16450204

>>16450202
That would be extremely sticky.

Anonymous No. 16450206

>>16450202
starship isn't stainless because i cummed all over it.

Anonymous No. 16450208

>>16450203
No, the strain sensor would probably be embedded in the adhesive in larger strips but it's still functionally zero cost and there's minimal downside.
Thinking about it more the sensor package would probably be better off in the adhesive anyway.

Anonymous No. 16450210

>>16447000
We are near page 9! make a new thread before someone else do it! as we have learned, first thread will stay.

Anonymous No. 16450211

>>16449592
my (kerbal) dream is to put Centaur V inside starship and launch probes and payload this way deep into solar system

Anonymous No. 16450213

Guys, guys.
Methalox rocket, but its fully reusable, 1kt to orbit, Sea Dragon type shit.
We will use 30 meter diameter and 1000 ft tall idfk but massive roggids pls

Anonymous No. 16450214

>>16450213
Fund it

Anonymous No. 16450215

>>16450210
no, it won't.

Anonymous No. 16450219

>>16450210
Go to the nearest airlock.

Anonymous No. 16450259

>>16450199
by break I mean not necessarily stop giving data, but just break giving wrong information (saying the tile is fine when it isn't as the obvious example)
>And re-engineer the sensor to be more durable.
why not re-engineer the tile to do that? less complexity

Anonymous No. 16450262

>>16450208
what adhesive? the tiles are mounted with metal pins

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Anonymous No. 16450267

>>16450266
>>16450266
>>16450266
>>16450266
STAGING

Anonymous No. 16450269

>>16450262
Looking back I'm not sure. I thought I'd read somewhere that the rockwool layer had been replaced by an ablative adhesive, but I don't know where I got that.

Anonymous No. 16450282

>>16450269
they have both the rockwool like before and then in like 50% of the ship they have a black ablative, though I don't remember it being adhesive
then you have places like the nosecone where the tiles are put into place with an adhesive instead of the metal pins

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Anonymous No. 16450287

https://youtu.be/hBMoPUAeLnY?t=2571
Here's Joe Rogan with President Donald Trump timestamp talking about Elon, Starship Flight 6, and Starlink deployment in North Carolina

Anonymous No. 16450310

>>16450287
nobody cares, it's just him repeating the exact same formatted speech all over again, no new information here.

Anonymous No. 16450331

>>16450181
I think about this often. So many examples that have made their way to mainstream linguistics and memes

Anonymous No. 16450365

>>16450155
Apparently he personally told the WaPo staff that they will NOT support a presidential candidate this year. (You know which one. And they were all ready to do it, too.)

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>>16450185

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Anonymous No. 16450376

>>16450198
>someone's gonna leave a starship in a shed somewhere and then launch it 2000 years later in a movie recreation of spacex's early days. and it will just work flawlessly
It'll be done as a recreation of Top Gear does Starship. (Don't tell them about the minor anachronism, it's close enough.)

Anonymous No. 16450387

>>16450376
>just like my reddit show haha
go back

Anonymous No. 16450408

>>16450387
>they'll think I'm one of them if I call something reddit

Anonymous No. 16450417

>>16449878
Why? Do you want to have gay sex with him?

Anonymous No. 16450453

>>16450387
>top gear
>reddit
don't you feel a little embarrassed that you're trying THIS hard to fit in?
you're a newfag, lurk for 2 years and accept that you need to learn before you open your fucking mouth, faggot.

Anonymous No. 16450462

>>16450453
>>16450408
>noooo he insulted my favourite meme show top cringe! i must call him a newfag!
just accept that you have shit taste and move on

Anonymous No. 16450502

>>16448979
First try building an engine that enjoys having extremely hot oxygen flowing through it and then let us know how easy it was

Anonymous No. 16450513

>>16449080
Do the silos store feed and seed?

Anonymous No. 16450531

>>16449206
I donated, too! Just imagine what Wikipedia would be like if it was covered in ads.

Anonymous No. 16450556

>>16450462
>instant damage control
>f-fuck fuck fuck they know i'm a newfag how do i salvage this!
you are a disgusting newfag and you thought that being a contrarian on everything even remotely popular with normalnigs would make you fit in, unironically lurk for 2 years kiddo.

Anonymous No. 16450563

>>16450556
>kiddo
lol

Anonymous No. 16450570

>>16449221
The easiest way to do it is to ensure that everyone has good quality of life and take steps to reduce income inequality. You could also offer free transportation back to Earth to encourage malcontents to leave and forcibly deport anyone with obvious behavioral problems. Even if it's not during a synod, just put them on a "slow boat" to Earth.

In the long term it makes sense to structure Mars as a confederation of small societies with independent governments, but with the right (possibly with some restrictions or requiring some payment) to transfer citizenship from one to another, to allow successful ways of life to peacefully displace unsuccessful ones.

Anonymous No. 16450582

>>16449303
Multiple sources now confirm he feasted on her roasted corpse like an iguana.

Anonymous No. 16450591

>>16449342
The one China policy is also official US policy. The PRC and ROC also agree there is only one China.