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🧵 /sfg/ - Spaceflight General

Anonymous No. 16583752

china will grow rarger edition

previous >>16580054

Anonymous No. 16583755

>>16583752
Chinese people replace Ls with Rs, not vice versa. Are you fuckin stupid?

Anonymous No. 16583756

>>16583755
>>16583752
Thats the japanese you retards

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Anonymous No. 16583760

Kinetica-2 erector

First launch is scheduled for September. It will launch the Qingzhou cargo resupply spacecraft, which is similar to the Cygnus spacecraft.

Anonymous No. 16583761

>>16583760
Has there been an explanation of why they need so many rockets?

Anonymous No. 16583763

>>16583757
>Ah Sir Sir...
>Yes, slave
>Ah Sir, manyah peepah are appahlantry riving crose to locket rauncher....
>no ploblem. raunch anyweh

Anonymous No. 16583765

>>16583761
Chinese proverb say; many lockets make rightah work

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Anonymous No. 16583767

LM8/8A chief designer Song Zhengyu says that the rocket will very soon enter the "high density" launch phase

Anonymous No. 16583768

>>16583756
Chinese dont make human sounds add all, just bug clicks

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Anonymous No. 16583770

>>16583761
China had over 400 EV companies at one point. The government likes to pump in money to foster a lot of competition in some sectors.

Also, they have plans to launch several megaconstellations that are at least 50,000 in size in total, so there's room for a lot of companies. For example: Guowang: 13,000. Qianfan: 13,000. Honghu: 10,000. Geespace: 6,000.

Anonymous No. 16583773

https://www.twitch.tv/nasa

quick how do I we shitpost

Anonymous No. 16583774

>>16583773
Ask them the launch cost per flight of SLS

Anonymous No. 16583776

>>16583770
"China had over 400 EV companies at one point." is not the argument you think it is.

Anonymous No. 16583777

>>16583773
Adk them if the rumor about how you can't get a zero-g boner is true.

Anonymous No. 16583779

>>16583776
What argument? Are you so online you can't conceive that 2 people might have a conversation that isn't an argument?

Anonymous No. 16583782

AZSPACE's future product line-up

Anonymous No. 16583783

Oh god its already cringe, NASA sucks at this shit they really do, cool view though

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Anonymous No. 16583785

>>16583782
Forgot pic

Anonymous No. 16583786

>that hand pose
oh no....

Anonymous No. 16583787

>>16583776
It wasn't really meant an "argument". I just meant that China's government apparently has the strategy that they pump a lot of money into a sector, allow a ton of companies be established, then let them compete in a ruthless hunger game until 5-10 victors emerge. This should, in theory, mean that the winners are super-efficient and super-competitive.

Anonymous No. 16583789

ok that was cool, they should give a live tour of the station that way

Anonymous No. 16583790

>>16583789
There's some recorded tours like that with a legend showing what part of the station they're in.
Also what the fuck is that delay, ISS guy keeps trying to respond and getting talked over by lady host.

Anonymous No. 16583791

>>16583790
This whole stream is scuffed

Anonymous No. 16583792

what is he talking abooout

Anonymous No. 16583793

>>16583791
space streams are hard, please understando

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Anonymous No. 16583795

>>16583760
Zhuque-3 TEL

Anonymous No. 16583801

this is unhinged

Anonymous No. 16583802

So space madness IS real

Anonymous No. 16583803

I really wanted him to prop up the camera again and show the whole 360 view out of the window, what a missed opportunity damn

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🗑️ Anonymous No. 16583804

>you are the blackest retard gorilla nigger I have ever seen

Anonymous No. 16583807

oday's stream! We've wrapped up the portion of today's event from space, but stick around until 12:45 PM ET to ask your questions for astronaut Matt Dominick.

Broadcaster
NASA sent at 12:19 PM

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Anonymous No. 16583810

Lockheed Martin Venturestar SSTO Spaceplane, powered by 7 XRS-2200 J-2 derived linear aerospike, generating over 3.1m lbf of thrust at liftoff, with a specific impulse of 344s SL and 444s vac, is capable of lifting 26t of payload to a 186km low earth orbit. Lockheed produced the X-33 demonstrator which incorporated many innovative technologies such as a composite liquid hydrogen tank and metallic thermal protection system, however, engineers were unable to figure out how to prevent the tank from exploding or leaking during tests. In 1999, NASA cancelled the X-33 program.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciYWLbjH5qc

Anonymous No. 16583814

>vast's space station only has a 3-layer whipple shield for protection
i guess its good enough since it'll only be up there for a year or two, but it sounds like it would get shredded if we get another russian satellite blown up

Anonymous No. 16583817

>astronaut jumpscare
jesus matt, you almost killed me

Anonymous No. 16583819

Normies still continuing to ask the dumbest possible questions ever. I hate them so much. I wish I could invent a headset that automatically blocks out anyone with a sub 130 IQ.

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Anonymous No. 16583822

I want to visit a red dwarf planet alone.

Anonymous No. 16583823

>>16583819
Can we redirect an asteroid into earth orbit if it has a ~1% chance of impact, or at least passes within the Moon’s orbit?

Anonymous No. 16583825

>>16583822
Ha! Loser! I want to visit a red dwarf planet with my wife and kids.

Anonymous No. 16583828

>>16583752
implessive

Anonymous No. 16583834

>>16583823
Kek that was good
Like nigga do the napkin math, how much energy do you think it takes to shove a 200,000 ton rock around

Anonymous No. 16583835

>>16583825
I want to visit a red dwarf planet with this guys' wife and kids too

Anonymous No. 16583838

>>16583835
I'm gonna visit a red dwarf with his mum

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>>16583757

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>>16583842

Anonymous No. 16583845

>>16583843
T H I C C

Anonymous No. 16583848

>>16583834
i was asking seriously, unironically

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>>16583672

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Anonymous No. 16583869

Haven't checked on this topic in like six months.
How is Starship doing? launches? progress? milestones? Apple trees on mars?

Anonymous No. 16583872

>>16583752
They just copied NASA suits?

Anonymous No. 16583873

>>16583869
Elon doesn't care about starship anymore and it's been going through motions with not much progress

Anonymous No. 16583875

>>16583752
>Krechet ordered from Alibaba edition

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Anonymous No. 16583879

>>16583869
The last flight ended with a good booster catch and Starship exploding in the upper atmosphere, showering debris across the sea in a fiery lightshow. It was awesome, next flight before March.

Anonymous No. 16583881

>>16583872
No, it's very close to the Soviet lunar suit, Krechet, which is also the basis for the Orlan suit used on ISS.

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Anonymous No. 16583892

OH FUK

Anonymous No. 16583893

>>16583838
I am a red dwarf and I already put it in his mum

Anonymous No. 16583894

>>16583879
cool

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Anonymous No. 16583915

>>16583879
>next flight before March.

Anonymous No. 16583917

>>16583915
the next flight is on the 26th dummy

Anonymous No. 16583920

>>16583917
Sure

Anonymous No. 16583926

>>16583917
imagine being this naive

Anonymous No. 16583930

VAST needs to get some prototypes with fish or something into space asap
Relying on being selected to replace the ISS, which isn't even something that is going to happen, is insane

there is clearly a space tourism market if you have something that a dragon capsule can reach and is large enough

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Anonymous No. 16583937

>>16583917
26th September, yes, how did you know?

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Anonymous No. 16583940

>>16583937
I'm here to look at your finance records, you WILL open this door.

Anonymous No. 16583954

>>16583786
>>16583792
>>16583801
>>16583802
>>16583803
>>16583807
>When you post your 80IQ circle jerk ramblings to 4chan on accident instead of to your discord

Anonymous No. 16583958

>>16583940
26th September 2026 it is

Anonymous No. 16583960

>>16583954
Glad I wasn't the only noticer.

Anonymous No. 16583963

>when you're retarded
back you go!

Anonymous No. 16583969

>>16583954
Bait or newfag. Call it.

Anonymous No. 16583977

>>16583892
total wildlife death

Anonymous No. 16583978

>>16583958
you are fired

Anonymous No. 16584008

Someone please check on Zubrin

Anonymous No. 16584021

>>16584008
why?

Anonymous No. 16584022

>>16584021
he's lost his mind

Anonymous No. 16584027

>>16584022
how come?

Anonymous No. 16584028

>>16584022
that happened years ago

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Anonymous No. 16584033

spehs

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Anonymous No. 16584038

>>16583917
totally

Anonymous No. 16584052

SFG IS RETARDED

>Starship long-duration static fire ahead of the eighth flight test

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1889799254472098080

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Anonymous No. 16584054

>>16584052

Anonymous No. 16584060

>>16584054
>Square profile picture
SpaceX
@SpaceX
·
30m
Starship long-duration static fire ahead of the eighth flight test
Square profile picture
SpaceX
@SpaceX
The extended firing tested new hardware and cycled the six Raptor engines through multiple thrust levels to recreate different conditions seen within the propulsion system during flight. Data from the test will inform upgrades to the ship’s hardware and flight profile ahead of the next launch

Anonymous No. 16584063

predictions for ift-8?
does it explode? when?
does the booster land offshore?
# of seals murdered?

Anonymous No. 16584067

>>16583755
Mandarin has both L and R sounds: 辣 (spicy, LA), 耳 (ear, ER)

Anonymous No. 16584071

>>16584067
implessive

Anonymous No. 16584072

>>16583823
>>16583834
Aerocapture.

Anonymous No. 16584074

>>16584072
good idea, I vote we conduct the aerocapture maneuver over Mumbai.

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Anonymous No. 16584076

>>16584052

Anonymous No. 16584081

>>16584076
How are you posting tweets from tomorrow?

Anonymous No. 16584104

>>16584027
Probably Trump cutting off Ukraine somewhat

Anonymous No. 16584106

>>16584081
I'm a wizard

Anonymous No. 16584107

If S34 explodes it's actually genuinely over. They also need to start ramping up the pace if they want to get serious and Elon just needs to dismantle the FAA or give SpaceX special permission to ignore their rules. 25 flights is unrealistic, 8 is more likely. But it's not enough - it should be 12 or more.

Anonymous No. 16584112

>>16584107
me when i’m a dumb doomer

Anonymous No. 16584113

>>16583777
it's just the opposite. soft tissue swells up much easier in zero g (this happens with tits too).

Anonymous No. 16584114

>>16584112
I'm just being realistic mate.

Anonymous No. 16584120

>>16583848
My condolences! Ask an AI

Yusef No. 16584123

I love the standard model!

Anonymous No. 16584177

>>16584112
Hes right tho

Anonymous No. 16584181

>>16584076
>Data from the test will inform upgraded to the ships hardware and flight profile ahead of the next launch

Yeah no IFT until june...

Anonymous No. 16584200

>>16584076
have they figured out why it sploded yet?

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Anonymous No. 16584205

it begins
>On Thursday, December 12, 2024, Cameron County received an Incorporation Petition for the city of Starbase, Texas, a Type-C municipality.
>After careful review of the petition by the Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., Elections Administrator and Commissioners County Civil Legal Division, Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr. signed an order finding satisfactory proof in support of the statutory requirements being met for petition for incorporation of Starbase as a Type-C Municipality.
>“If the election passes, this will be the newest town in Cameron County since Los Indios in 1995. We look forward to seeing the outcome of this election,” stated Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr.
https://www.cameroncountytx.gov/cameron-county-judge-eddie-trevino-jr-signs-order-for-starbase-election/

Anonymous No. 16584207

>>16584205
the election is on may 3

Anonymous No. 16584211

>>16584113
Yep women get bigger tits in space and their faces look softer and younger

Anonymous No. 16584217

>>16584205
Can I go live in the Starbase city?

Anonymous No. 16584218

>>16584217
Ohhhh take me down to Starbase City
Where the hours are long and the pay is shitty

Anonymous No. 16584222

>>16584218
Why can't I just work from home?

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>>16584222

Anonymous No. 16584228

NG-2 wen

Anonymous No. 16584229

>>16584205
So he's pulling a Disney?

Anonymous No. 16584236

>>16584229
there was that idea awhile back of turning boca chica into some kind of resort for space tourists...

Anonymous No. 16584237

>>16584228
Elon's FAA will not allow it :(((

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Anonymous No. 16584240

>>16584076
in other words,
STILL SUBORBITAL

Anonymous No. 16584252

starship will never go orbital
it needs solid boosters

Anonymous No. 16584254

>>16584252
You get to work on designing reusable glideback tower-catch boosters, I'll do the rest

Anonymous No. 16584255

2024 YR4 status? 5% chance when

Anonymous No. 16584256

>>16584255
Still no updates from JPL since the 8th. If someone else is talking and tracking, I don't know where they're doing it. https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20YR4

Anonymous No. 16584257

>>16584256
>Still no updates from JPL since the 8th.
isn't that... weird?

Anonymous No. 16584258

>>16584254
i'll add wings
and wheels
just land on the run way, with a pilot in the first stage

Anonymous No. 16584259

>>16584258
And I'll form
the head!

Anonymous No. 16584261

>>16583969
>A thread full of nonsense not responding to any posts.
You're retarded.
>>16583960
/sfg/ has a pack of H1Bs and one jew that spam this place endlessly. They love Elon Musk and are very dunning kruger.

Anonymous No. 16584267

>>16584205
boca chunga beetle diaspora won't like this

Anonymous No. 16584288

>>16584267
Do the beetles get a vote?

Anonymous No. 16584303

https://x.com/VickiCocks15/status/1889830286634131792
ship 36 (flight 9 aka likely first ship catch attempt) nose cone is out and has real catch fittings

Anonymous No. 16584309

>>16584303
so ship 8 is confirmed for being orbital

Anonymous No. 16584311

>>16583187
Had a roommate sorta like this; he knew we had been to the moon but didn't realize there were more Apollo missions after 11.

Anonymous No. 16584318

>>16584255
>>16584257
It's out in deep space again which means it's hard to track I think. You basically need to hope it goes in front of a star if you want to get its position but who knows if we'll be lucky enough to see that happen. I thought they were gonna use JWST to look for it but idk if it'll be able to get any new information.

Anonymous No. 16584319

>>16584311
there are lots of people like that. they think the entire space race was just NASA coming up with Apollo 11 out of the blue one day, and that's it. What even is Mercury, Gemini, Sputnik, Soyuz, Vostok, Voskohd, etc.

Anonymous No. 16584323

>>16584224
What's really funny is due to relative costs, almost every job early in the Mars colony will be remote by several hundred million miles

Anonymous No. 16584329

>>16584309
it was confirmed 6 months ago

Anonymous No. 16584336

>>16584319
which is one major contributor to people thinking it's fake

Anonymous No. 16584339

How does SpaceX plan to shield their astronauts from the massive amounts of radiation in space? I've heard people bring this up as a reason the trip is impossible, is there any truth to it?

This is all in the context of a trip to mars.

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Anonymous No. 16584340

>>16584339
Builds character

Anonymous No. 16584342

>>16584339
the very short version of it is that when you're in deep space for a 6+ month trip you're might get a radiation dosage above what nasa would consider the lifetime safety limit. this doesn't mean that you're going to drop dead from it, it means that you're up in the range where it may start to cause health problems. it would still be a minor risk compared to everything else the first mars astronauts are going to be facing. for serious shit like solar flares they'll likely have a specially shielded shelter within the ship that they can move into for a few hours if one hits.

Anonymous No. 16584344

Reminder that radiation is a meme and radiation concern trolling is just anti-space libtards trying to demoralise explorers and pioneers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Iran#Geography

Anonymous No. 16584345

>>16584339
the radiation storms you need to worry about are predictable and trackable events and you can simply hide from them when they happen
you can hide under a rock, inside your water supply, in a big chunk of plastic, or inside the earth's magnetosphere for a few examples of solutions that have been suggested

Anonymous No. 16584347

>>16584342
"health problems" here being an increased risk of cancer less than that of smoking a pack of cigarettes a week

Anonymous No. 16584348

just expose the earth population to enough radiation that long duration space travel results in a lower dose.
If it's safer being is space than earth, no one will complain about space travel.

Anonymous No. 16584350

>>16584339
>I've heard people bring this up as a reason the trip is impossible
Going forward if anyone dismisses something that's had centuries of engineering time and billions of dollars devoted to it based on some vague point with no numbers mentioned you can disregard completely

Anonymous No. 16584351

900 seconds is 10 minutes

Anonymous No. 16584353

>>16584351
15 minutes.

Anonymous No. 16584359

>>16584351
9 minutes*

Anonymous No. 16584379

>>16584309
Seems so, look at >>16584076
>Data from the test will inform upgrades to the ship’s hardware and flight profile ahead of the next launch
>and flight profile

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16584416

>>16584309
>>16584379
Ship 35 has catch hardware.

Anonymous No. 16584459

https://youtu.be/aYzP7jybsKY
pyramids diacovered in mars

Anonymous No. 16584465

>>16583776
most of them were govgibs cashgrabs though

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Anonymous No. 16584555

>The proletarian revolution will be televised; by Sony™
Late 80''s USSR and pre-Putler Russia was a wacky fucking place

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>>16584555
>Akiyama was not a trained astronaut, scientist nor engineer.[3] During his time aboard Mir, Akiyama gave live reports each day documenting life aboard the station, but his apparent discomfort led to him being described as the first "antihero in space". He described his struggles such as space sickness and craving for cigarettes: During training, he quit smoking cigarettes, having previously smoked four packs a day. Before liftoff, when asked what he looked forward to most upon his return to Earth, he said "I can't wait to have a smoke". His fellow cosmonauts later reported, in regards to his nausea, that they "hadn't ever seen a man vomit that much."
Pre-lost decade Japan was an equally wacky place

Anonymous No. 16584559

>trump wants to get the mars colony going during his term
>hasnt ordered nasa to begin work on it
why the hold up? the clock is ticking, fast.

Anonymous No. 16584560

>>16584559
The clock for Mars ticks every 26 months.

Anonymous No. 16584563

>>16584560
thats the launch window. i meant th at there's no planning, no organization, nothing.

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Anonymous No. 16584575

>>16584555
the soviets wearing adidas uniforms is hard to top

Anonymous No. 16584578

>>16584261
ah, so you're a newfag. You should really lurk more before posting. For your own sake and mine.

Anonymous No. 16584586

>>16584559
Soon as Starship makes orbit, it can go to Mars if necessary.

Anonymous No. 16584633

SS isn’t advancing fast enough

Anonymous No. 16584635

>>16584586
>there are ""people"" who unironically believe this

Anonymous No. 16584641

>>16584635
I believe it ironically

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>>16584633
we're already looking at a launch a month

Anonymous No. 16584643

>>16584635
There is zero reason we cant do so.

Anonymous No. 16584646

>>16584642
>jarvis make it a log scale and generate a bs line of best fit

Anonymous No. 16584648

>>16584642
Yes like I said, not nearly enough

Anonymous No. 16584649

>>16584646
problem?

Anonymous No. 16584651

>>16584648
don't worry, anon. IFT-18 will take a negative amount of time until launch. Elon's gonna rip spacetime apart and rape 'er

Anonymous No. 16584666

https://x.com/TLPN_Official/status/1890008528946971030

BLORGIN mass layoffs

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>>16584666
I guess it took a while for Limp to actually find out what is necessary and what isn't

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>>16584670
https://tlpnetwork.com/news/america/blue-origin-ceo-calls-all-hands-meeting-employees-brace-for-major-layoffs

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>>16584671

Anonymous No. 16584676

>>16584218
>Ohhhh take me down to Starbase City
Where the work is fun and the girls are pretty..

Anonymous No. 16584679

>>16584267
OH DEER

Anonymous No. 16584683

>>16584345
orienting the vehicle so that most of its mass is between the guys and the sun will also play a role of course.

>>16584350
and very much this

Anonymous No. 16584684

>>16584558
>they "hadn't ever seen a man vomit that much."
>i can t wait for a smoke'
what a chad

Anonymous No. 16584686

>>16584672
>a sore day. a red day. and the sun rises
>Varda
>Anduril
new space is full of LOTR nerds. any more that i dont know about?

Anonymous No. 16584692

>>16584683
proton storms come from all directions actually, despite coming from the sun

Anonymous No. 16584696

>>16584692
so just point the vehicle in all directions?? what's the problem?

Anonymous No. 16584700

>>16584692
it was something planned for the apollo guys if something had come their way so i just assumed there was some value to doing it

Anonymous No. 16584708

>>16584692
how can a proton storm come from all directions in deep space
serious question

Anonymous No. 16584712

>>16584708
as I understand it the answer is magnets

Anonymous No. 16584713

>>16584339
There's presently no way to deal with this problem, but the president has indicated he favors the development of a massive orbital weapons system that could kill concern trolls before they have time to make a second post.

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Anonymous No. 16584716

>>16584713
pic related: President

Anonymous No. 16584747

>>16584692
Build a compartment with water tanks on six sides. Yawn

Anonymous No. 16584752

>>16584666
>>16584671
>trimming the fat
not a good sign. that means they dont have any money coming in. BO might actually be finito.

Anonymous No. 16584756

>>16584747
congrats now your spaceship is 99% water and you can't take any useful cargo. Good job!

Anonymous No. 16584757

>>16584756
water is useful. send the guys out on the water tanker. i think this idea has potential

Anonymous No. 16584758

>spaceX getting rid of dead weight
:O
>other companies getting rid of dead weight
:|

Anonymous No. 16584762

>>16584756
A compartment, not the whole thing. And how many inches of water are you envisioning? You know that humans need water anyway, right?

Anonymous No. 16584778

>>16584752
BO has effectively infinite money

Anonymous No. 16584783

>>16584752
SpaceX laid off 10% in 2018

Anonymous No. 16584785

>>16584666
satan trips checked
>>16584752
I wonder how much of that is due to Kuiper taking too long to produce payloads. Can't be paid to launch payloads that don't exist yet. Well, not more than one or two ahead anyhow.
At least Jeff finally got something to orbit after two decades.

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https://x.com/stoke_space/status/1890037511273042357

https://www.stokespace.com/introducing-andromeda/

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Anonymous No. 16584789

>>16584752
The era of common sense has arrived?
All it took was a public calling out of the truly useless elements of society, and the world starts healing.
Hire a clown for the top job, and the circus is ending. Sobriety sets in. Finally we have a government that is setting an example, and private industry is taking the cue and following suit.
Blue Origin's bottom 10% is unlikely to be a hot commodity on the job market. I'm sure they can repurpose themselves, there are Amazon fulfillment centers that will take them in before severance ends.

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Anonymous No. 16584795

>>16584786
>without inspections?
even airplanes have inspections between flights

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Anonymous No. 16584798

>>16584795
Are they saying it's somehow as reliable as a car?

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Anonymous No. 16584802

>>16584798
Even cars have inspections between flights.

Anonymous No. 16584803

>>16584752
>not a good sign

We literally knew that the oldspace guy before Limp hired too many people.

Anonymous No. 16584806

>>16584795
>turnaround inspections
>landing gear, brakes, engine oil levels, and hydraulic systems
This seems like the sort of thing that could be automated if uncrewed

Anonymous No. 16584807

>>16584798
i inspect the bits of my car which might result in fiery death. truck drivers by law have to inspect thet truck and trailer before and after a days driving.

Anonymous No. 16584808

the laid off employees will start their own companies and newspace will expand

Anonymous No. 16584820

>>16584808
>500-1000 for performance review stuff
all they needed was a chance, now these gems can show us what they're made of!

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Anonymous No. 16584839

>>16584459
>pyramids discovered on mars
we've known about them since the 70s

Anonymous No. 16584841

https://x.com/joroulette/status/1890054470685569140

>Blue Origin is laying off 10% of its workforce, CEO Dave Limp tells employees in an all-hands this morning. "We just came to the painful conclusion that we aren't set up for the kind of success that we really wanted to have," Limp said.

It may be over.

Anonymous No. 16584842

>>16584841
Limp clearing house is a good thing. Maybe now BO will be able to compete.

Anonymous No. 16584843

Various chinese rocket status from past day or 2
http://sn.people.com.cn/n2/2025/0212/c226647-41133938.html
Long march 12 Y4 engine getting tested, says this is planned to launch this year, so at least 3 launches of CZ-12 planned in 2025
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5133234502041632
A Long March 5 (unknown which variant) seems to be undergoing final assembly in Tianjin, launch should be in 2-4 months. No obvious payload
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:5133702947340331
Deep Blue Aerospace doing qualification hot fire on their 20tf Thunder-R1 kerolox engines meant to fly on the 1st Nebula-1 LV this year (Reusable small-medium)
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1H669DZh89A6e-F4NEyQoA
Kuaizhou 11 small solid LV getting upgrades
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/1H669DZh89A6e-F4NEyQoA
Pallas-1 maiden launch delayed to August

Anonymous No. 16584846

https://twitter.com/Megaconstellati/status/1889736950065529200
https://www.lejdd.fr/economie/projet-europeen-de-constellation-de-satellites-trop-tard-trop-lent-trop-bureaucratique-154910

Criticism of Iris2 following the first Industry day

Anonymous No. 16584850

you will never go to space

Anonymous No. 16584851

>>16584846
What happened to europe? I thought europeans were supposed to be the master race...

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>>16584851
They moved to America

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Anonymous No. 16584858

X-37b status?

Anonymous No. 16584860

so what kind of new space startups will the fired blue origin employees create?

Anonymous No. 16584861

>>16584858
Lost amateur tracking a couple months ago

Anonymous No. 16584874

>>16584797
>>16584790
>>16584788
>>16584786
Very cool but are they going to out compete the existing players?

Anonymous No. 16584876

>>16584874
I’m not on their hype train but I still think it’s possible. We’ve seen this a million times before though. How many astras, relativity, etc promise one thing and fizzle out a few moments later

Anonymous No. 16584878

>>16584860
Red Destination

Anonymous No. 16584880

>>16584874
if its fully and rapidly reusable then yeah they are going to outcompete everyone except SpaceX and even compared to Starship this is a smaller vehicle which might give some capability that would need a spacetug or something for Starship
hard to say how they will compete on cost
big fully reusable vehicle vs a small fully reusable vehicle

Anonymous No. 16584884

>>16584261
>>16583960
>>16583954
this is pretty embarrassing schizoanon, it's been over a month of seething from you now, this isn't healthy.

Anonymous No. 16584891

>>16584841
BO is cutting more than 15% if the 2000 number is real.

Anonymous No. 16584892

>>16584852
I fuckin hate when I land somewhere in ksp and it's greater than a 3 degree slope. You start sliding all over the place and it fucks up the whole mission.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16584896

>>16584843
In link 4, what do they mean when they say that 亦庄箭 will launch 40 times this year? Are those the rockets that partook in the exhibition? Or the rockets that are made in that part of Beijing?

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16584897

>>16584843
In link 4, what do they mean when they say that 亦庄箭 will launch 40 times this year? Are those the rockets by companies that partook in the conference? Or the rockets by companies that are based in that part of Beijing?

Anonymous No. 16584899

>>16584892
I don't know why every surface in that game acts like an ice rink, so many missions fuck up or take forever because something wants to slide at 1m/s for an entire hour and if you time accelerate it explodes.

Anonymous No. 16584900

>>16584899
many such cases

Anonymous No. 16584905

Did you all see the NSF tour of Vast HQ? If so what are the thoughts (You) had on it?

Anonymous No. 16584923

>>16584905
I did not see it nor do I care to. No one will remember their name in 4 years

Anonymous No. 16584926

Chance of a successful orbital launch from UK soil this decade?

Anonymous No. 16584927

>>16584926
50/50

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🗑️ Anonymous No. 16584928

Lanyue lander has completed lunar surface simulator tests

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Anonymous No. 16584931

Lanyue lander has completed simulated lunar surface tests

Anonymous No. 16584932

Simulated surface tests have been completed for the Lanyue lander

Anonymous No. 16584933

>>16584931
my dick has completed simulated vaginal entries.

Anonymous No. 16584934

Holy fuck japs are so fucking retarded

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Anonymous No. 16584935

>>16584934
In what sense lol
I don’t disagree I just feel like you’re probably referencing something funny here

Anonymous No. 16584937

>>16584931
Actually, I think he was talking about the Tansuo lunar rover.

Anonymous No. 16584938

>>16584933
The point is that it's a development milestone

Anonymous No. 16584939

>>16584938
Who cares?

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Anonymous No. 16584940

Tesla should get into the lunar rover game.

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Anonymous No. 16584942

>>16583858
They don't seem to have come very far yet with the VAB though. This pic is from the LM7 rollout in November

Anonymous No. 16584944

>>16584939
You're right, this thread is the skin flaying general

Anonymous No. 16584946

>>16584940
Those sharp angles don't look right for a vehicle with a pressurized cabin

Anonymous No. 16584949

>>16584946
cybertruck does not have a pressurized cabin

Anonymous No. 16584952

>>16584938
growing my first pubes was also a development milestone.

Anonymous No. 16584953

>>16584949
I assumed a lunar variant would be built with a pressurized cabin, because otherwise there'd be no point in a lunar rover having a cabin that is covered like that

Anonymous No. 16584954

>>16584946
>>16584949
You [presumably] wouldn’t be dropping a vanilla CT on the lunar surface. I would imagine it would need upgrade to tires, a pressurized cabin or, at the very least, a modified open-air roll cage that you’d sit down in with your EVA suit on, dust mitigation on all exposed mechanical parts, etc

Anonymous No. 16584956

>>16584954
keep the funny windwiper and use it as an antenna boom.

Anonymous No. 16584959

>>16584933
sounds like you a need higher cadence all-up real world testing program

Anonymous No. 16584962

>>16584940
seems like that was the plan all along

>>16584946
its a skill issue. and we're not talking 1 ATM here anyway.

Anonymous No. 16584963

>>16584962
>we're not talking 1 ATM here anyway
NTA but what do you mean? All future EVA suits and environments are gonna be 1 atm

Anonymous No. 16584965

>>16584959
Perhaps he should adopt a more hardware-rich development process, in the SpaceX style

Anonymous No. 16584966

>>16584962
I don't think sharp angles being bad design for pressure vessels is a "skill issue"

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Anonymous No. 16584974

https://x.com/narendramodi/status/1890100201496748210

Anonymous No. 16584976

>>16584974
>space listed first
Winning

Anonymous No. 16584982

>>16584963
seems like the skills are improving then.

>>16584965
sounds like its has potential for massive leaps forward

>>16584966
technology solves all

Anonymous No. 16584986

>>16584966
yes it is
>oh no this corner is a weak point
make it stronger. skill issue

Anonymous No. 16584988

>>16584974
who is the woman with musk & his kids? Kek is that the coworker he inseminated? Does nobody else find that weird???

Anonymous No. 16584990

>>16584986
exactly. how are we going to get to mars if we can't even make a corner between two surfaces?

Anonymous No. 16584992

>>16584986
Making it stronger means making it heavier. A sharp corner will cause a stress concentration that requires a reinforcement to hold, which means it will be heavier. A rounded pressure vessel is a better solution in terms of how much volume you get for a given amount of mass

Anonymous No. 16584995

>>16584992
this is too advanced for the average /sfg/ poster

Anonymous No. 16585002

>>16584992
oopie! You fell into my trap!
everything you just suggested is mass autism and therefor for fags. Into the squarelock (square airlock) with you.

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Anonymous No. 16585014

Should we ban normies from discussing space?

Anonymous No. 16585016

>>16585014
>implying elon cares about spacex

Anonymous No. 16585018

>>16585014
You should definitely start teaching them civics in school again.

Anonymous No. 16585020

>>16584992
t. soviet engineer
>>16585002
Kek

Anonymous No. 16585031

>>16585002
>squarelock
will never beat pisslock

Anonymous No. 16585038

>>16585031
pisslocks are a great idea

Anonymous No. 16585042

>>16584974
DESIGNATED. SHITTING. ORBIT.

Anonymous No. 16585052

>>16584940
The only reason to build a lunar rover that looks like a cybertruck is for the marketing value

Anonymous No. 16585054

>>16585052
Lmao such a dumb take

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Anonymous No. 16585078

>>16584974
https://x.com/laurendreyer06/status/1890115413297758667

starlink in india soon maybe

Anonymous No. 16585081

>>16585078
Starlink was always available for India, its the Indian government that gets in the way of it most of the time.

Anonymous No. 16585082

>>16584861
Good

Anonymous No. 16585083

>>16585081
>its the Indian government that gets in the way
good. india should not be on the internet

Anonymous No. 16585085

>>16585078
Are business deals, space cooperation, general friendliness, and dear God, immigration, with India, a GREAT DEAL for Americans?
I would like Elon to explain this one, and take a few rounds of uncensored Q&A from actual Americans?
Would love to see some sunlight here, because everything that I sense smells like SHIT when it comes to India and Indians.

Anonymous No. 16585096

>>16585085
he isn't representing the US here, just his own companies

Anonymous No. 16585099

>>16584942
1.5 years should be more than enough time for China to build a hollow commieblock

Anonymous No. 16585103

https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/new-space-subcommittee-chair-backs-moon-first-then-mars/
It's over. New Space Subcommitee backs 'Moon to Mars' initiative.
Reason?
China.
It seems Musk is not powerful enough.

Anonymous No. 16585104

>>16585096
Good, they can buy our shit, but we block all their immigrants and all electronic outsourcing to them. Huge tariffs to protect Americans, our way of life, culture, and our industries. No space cooperation, NO technology transfer. They are called a RIVAL, like China and Russia before them. After all, meritocracy depends on competition, so lets see what you can innovate, while isolated, with 5X our population this should be an easy task you will accept without hesitation.
Have I got it right? Speaking for Trump (and, by default, all Americans) not Elon, since he is just an unpaid advisor without any real power

Anonymous No. 16585110

Platforms in RoG constellations raise orbit after mass release, contributing to transparency

Anonymous No. 16585115

https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=de3fa752-5c76-40ef-a8b9-5b3caf4b7e93

Anonymous No. 16585117

https://doge.gov/workforce?orgId=dc432d4f-8d25-4ce9-9534-451344845963

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Anonymous No. 16585127

Boing! Boing! Boing!
>splat

Anonymous No. 16585131

>>16584974
kek, based saar president musk

Anonymous No. 16585132

>>16584884
>Gets called 80IQ
>Prooves it

Anonymous No. 16585133

>>16585002
It goes in the square hole?

Anonymous No. 16585134

>>16584578
>Posts nonsense babble from discord
>Gets called on it
>cries about it
Show me some more of those big crocodile tears.

Anonymous No. 16585135

>>16585133
universal fitting is what i heard

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Anonymous No. 16585136

>>16585103
Not letting China gain dominion over the Moon is extremely important.

Anonymous No. 16585139

>>16583768
>>16583765
>>16583763
>>16583758
>When pajeets seeth at Chinese
The irony is palpable

Anonymous No. 16585140

>>16585103
GOOD

MOON > NARS

Anonymous No. 16585147

>>16585103
>>16585115
>>16585117
>Random posts
>No sauce
Discord is cancer.

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Anonymous No. 16585148

>>16585115
this is going to be entertaining

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>>16585117

Anonymous No. 16585150

>>16585147
I don't use disco*d this is how I've always posted deal with it faggot

Anonymous No. 16585151

From
>hmm I wonder if they can actually land their Falcon 9 rocket
to
>Yup Elon is gutting NASA, installing his own admin, and pulling the puppet master strings
in like, what, a decade? Crazy timeline we’re in lol

Anonymous No. 16585157

>>16585150
>My posts have always been dogshit and indistinguishable from discord tranny excrement
oh, well ok then

Anonymous No. 16585160

>>16585139
get back to me after the next village gets nuked by a bad booster

Anonymous No. 16585161

>>16585157
>discord tranny excrement
idk what that looks like since I don't use disc*rd

Anonymous No. 16585164

>>16585151
its definitely not the worst timeline so far

Anonymous No. 16585166

>>16585115
>>16585117
>arctic research commission has 2 60 year olds making 200k a year each

Anonymous No. 16585168

>>16585151
don't mess with a mans rockets
funny how libtards have zero insight on why an apolitical entrepreneur goes balls deep into a Republican administration

Anonymous No. 16585171

>>16585166
Don't we need this in order to occupy Greenland?
If they are qualified, keep them. Can we see their social media posts first?
That makes discretion easier

Anonymous No. 16585173

>>16585171
>Don't we need this in order to occupy Greenland?
No, we have the military.

Anonymous No. 16585174

>turns out the schizoanon was a discord tranny all along
so why don't you go back then?

Anonymous No. 16585177

>>16585151
shouldn't have fucked with him

Anonymous No. 16585178

>>16585148
18,000 niggas at NASA and yet SpaceX is BTFOing them out

Anonymous No. 16585180

>>16584988
there's no way they dont fuck on the side. i mean doesnt hurt, i would

Anonymous No. 16585182

>>16585178
NASA hires contractors for shit they should do inhouse, then they have engineers on salary on a 1 to 1 basis for the contractors workforce
it's insane

Anonymous No. 16585184

>>16585173
I assumed they were scoping out minerals, oil & gas, and possible launch sites.
The military will help, but we need a few brains behind it. 60 years age is forced retirement unless proven exceptional, let use see the social media posts, um, I think they can access them, if they are on our side they stay, if not they go, simple

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>>16585115
US GOVERNMENT: BUSTED

Anonymous No. 16585186

>>16585180
it started platonic and as a sperm donation but I'm pretty sure the employee always wanted it to be a real relationship and I'm pretty sure it has been that for quite a while now

Anonymous No. 16585188

>>16585182
Yeah and those 18,000 are all the pencil pushers in-house. the contractors are in the tens to hundreds of thousands

Anonymous No. 16585189

>>16585168
>When a career grifter who's businesses survive on subsidies and tax breaks goes all in on someone willing to help him grift.
ftfy

Anonymous No. 16585191

>who's businesses survive on subsidies and tax breaks

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Anonymous No. 16585194

Does anyone here actually work in the space industry?

Anonymous No. 16585195

>>16585185
lel

Anonymous No. 16585196

>>16585182
>Democrat from Florida pisses away government money on gibs for his constituents.
It's politics.

Anonymous No. 16585198

>>16585191
>Seething

Anonymous No. 16585199

Are the subsidies and tax breaks in the room with us right now?

Anonymous No. 16585201

i thought it was common knowledge that spacex has saved taxpayers dozens of billions of dollars. turns out i was very wrong. while musk is being called a welfare queen, boing, locksneed, GM, and Ford are laughing all the way to the bank.

Anonymous No. 16585204

>>16585160
The last launch disaster was Musk/Space-X.

Anonymous No. 16585205

>>16585078
body language sar

Anonymous No. 16585208

>>16585204
how many chinese villagers murdered by that one?

Anonymous No. 16585210

>>16585194
4 or 5 people

Anonymous No. 16585211

>>16585199
>>16585201
Hello discord.
I'm not going to defend mega corporations who are war profiteers grifting from DoD. They are in good company with Musk.

Saving US tax dollars... LoL.

One corporate welfare queen is less expensive than RocketDyne so it's a SAVINGS..

H1B's truly are a loyal lot.

Anonymous No. 16585213

>>16585208
>this is your brain on H1B

Anonymous No. 16585216

>>16585194
>actually work
no, but I am employed in the space industry.

Anonymous No. 16585222

>>16585213
how many indian launch land on village sar?

Anonymous No. 16585223

you know, the whole H1B and anti-musk ironic shitposting is starting to get a little stale now. it was funny like a month ago. i'd rather see you guys roleplay as a blue origin fan, at least that gets a chuckle out of me from time to time.

Anonymous No. 16585225

>>16585223
There are some unironic anti-musk ppl here tho

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Anonymous No. 16585227

The funny part is you just know the anon who constantly tries to make H1B a topic is not American.

Anonymous No. 16585230

>>16585201
Tale as old as time. Normies don’t know shit.
I think it’s common knowledge that the government / military waste money, but the average joe doesn’t critically think past that and know or care about subcontractors and shady money wasting.
They know boeing makes le dangerous passenger airliners (and I guess they also now equate boeing with Starliner and stranded astronauts lel) but I’m pretty sure John and Jane Doe think companies like LockMart, Grumman, Raytheon, etc make super weapon jet fighters for cheap, and that the US military has a bunch of secret area 51 teleportation black magic UFO tech made by these companies, and that musk’s “SpaceX” only exists because of NASA gibs

Anonymous No. 16585231

>>16585227
Low IQ has a lot to do with it. A lot of people get caught up in this online social media bullshit, they don't have a very well developed bullshit meter.

Anonymous No. 16585232

Musk’s stance on H1Bs is dogshit and it’s okay to admit this, and freaking out and calling people schizo for challenging it only makes you seem Indian

Anonymous No. 16585235

>>16585225
must be some tard or two from the catalog or /g/, they'll get tired eventually. who would want to brigade and ruin such an innocent, and benign place as esefgee?? literally a niche general in a uzbek basket-weaving forum, you'd gain nothing from bringing your EDS here.

Anonymous No. 16585236

>>16585232
the only person talking about H1Bs is you, and this is a month after the topic was even a point of discussion
yet you keep bringing it up everyday

Anonymous No. 16585239

>>16585236
I brought it up just now for the first time since the original incident. And when it first boiled over into a mainstream talking point I seem to recall most of /sfg/ having a sour taste in their mouth about it. Even the 2s who love musk were voicing complaints about how it was a retarded stance by Musk.
You get so worked up over this and act like someone is trying to troll you lol. It’s okay to admit Elon says stupid shit from time to time

Anonymous No. 16585243

>>16585239
Oh he is trying the "I'm not mad, you are!" routine.

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Anonymous No. 16585245

This image should be plastered across every single media outlet. it's like I'm living in a fucking alternate reality.

Anonymous No. 16585248

>>16585245
ULA was serious about ramping up production. They’re dominating the cuckbox!

Anonymous No. 16585252

>>16585211
haha look it's schizoanon having a melty

Anonymous No. 16585258

>>16585248
someone should tell CNBC about the literal subsidies ULA was receiving year by year just for existing, and that SpaceX had to sue just to be able to compete for contracts.

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Anonymous No. 16585264

https://x.com/torybruno/status/1890041354585346403
>A cool family photo. The last Centaur III (Dad), the 120k High Orbit Centaur V (Son) and our newest addition: 85k LEO Centaur V (little brother)

Anonymous No. 16585266

>>16585264
I saw this earlier today on twittah. The tiny centaur v is their brand-brand new thingee Tory was teasing earlier, right?

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Anonymous No. 16585267

https://x.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1890178216436043828

Anonymous No. 16585272

>>16585267
submarines and naval ships have existed for thousands of years
what is he blathering about

Anonymous No. 16585273

>>16585267
inb4 anons handwave what he said away. Yes yes, biosphere is a meme and failed because of human error. And yes, habitation itself is basically solved. But carmack is pointing out a serious kink in the plan: long-duration logistics is a problem.
Sucks that the ISS has been there for 20 yrs but neither NASA, pockocmoc, or anyone else has done extra long-term space studies. The record for time spent in space is still meagerly low. And these studies get constant supplies. Imagine if butch and suni literally had no way of getting extra cargo or a guaranteed ride back as an analog. The ISS isn’t equipped for that and couldn’t handle it if it tried

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Anonymous No. 16585274

>>16585266
Yeah, it's Vulcan's new LEO-optimized upper stage

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Anonymous No. 16585275

>>16585267
>carmack

Anonymous No. 16585277

>>16585274
can switch to a reusable first stage then
atlas couldn't because centaur iii thrust is far too low

Anonymous No. 16585280

>>16585275
A man is allowed to be whimsical and entertain crazy hypotheticals. It’s called been creative and it’s probably why he was so successful in the 90s (seriously). Brain ticks a different way

Anonymous No. 16585282

>>16585277
Are GEMs theoretically reusable, if recovered?
It would be tarded but imagine some sort of unholy reusable vulcan core that brings back SRBs and all [math]\unicode{x1F62D}[/math]

Anonymous No. 16585283

>>16585273
on Mars or the moon you will have access to whatever resources you need
You don't need to recycle oxygen, or water obsessively

so these habitat experiments are largely missing the point

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Anonymous No. 16585285

>>16585277
They'd need to ditch the BE-4, but a cluster of Arrowways from Ursa Major might be a workable alternative

Anonymous No. 16585287

>>16585282
They can be but its probably cheaper to expend them. You have to recover them, ship them back to Utah or wherever NG has their SRM factory these days. Strip off the casing, replace it. Ship it back to FL.

Anonymous No. 16585288

>>16585272
and they don't do multi-year missions without resupply or closed-loop on atmosphere and water.

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Anonymous No. 16585289

>>16584666
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/citing-too-much-bureaucracy-blue-origin-to-cut-10-percent-of-its-workforce/

Anonymous No. 16585290

>>16585285
95% of Ursa's work is missiles, i dont hold high hopes for this engine, or at least the delivery date they're targeting.

Anonymous No. 16585291

>>16585290
What potential vehicle would it even go on?
some nu-SLS government rocket?

Anonymous No. 16585298

NEW EAGER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4nSZNDRKW0

Anonymous No. 16585303

>>16585267
He's absolutely right.
>>16585275
He's absolutely right, again. The human brain does it with TWENTY (20) WATTS. Modern supercomputers obviously have the requisite computational power, the problem is figuring out the software. It is conceivable that this may have been done in private and not publicized, because having an AGI and being able to keep it a secret would have numerous very profitable applications.

I don't even like Carmack. He killed his cat. But when a man is right, he's right.

Anonymous No. 16585307

>>16585267
Is he saying it would be better to test Mars equipment and practices on Earth and use close enough substitutes for the difficult parts that failed in previous biosphere projects because it's more important to get more datapoints on what sorts of stuff could fail?

Anonymous No. 16585309

>>16585303
How does the brain do it?

Anonymous No. 16585311

>>16585307
yes, because you need long term reliability data and can't really iterate with humans

Anonymous No. 16585312

>>16585264
Less prop equating more payload to LEO makes sense when you realize the extra prop is functionally dry mass for LEO.

Anonymous No. 16585315

>>16585309
How should I know? What I do know is that it is deeply implausible that the human brain has a dozen orders of magnitude better computational efficiency than cutting edge silicon.

The AGI problem is software, not hardware. Our computers are obviously adequate, but we need to figure out how to program them for the task.

Anonymous No. 16585316

>>16585277
>can switch to a reusable first stage then

Vulcan is built around a sustainer core philosophy, the first stage goes too fast too far to make reuse viable.

Anonymous No. 16585322

>>16585267
carmack's a really smart guy and i wish he had a few more billion dollars to play around with. these are the sorts of reasons why i kinda roll my eyes when anyone starts talking about 2032 marsboots as a serious possibility.

Anonymous No. 16585325

>>16585315
>What I do know is that it is deeply implausible that the human brain has a dozen orders of magnitude better computational efficiency than cutting edge silicon.
you're no fan of orch-or, i see

Anonymous No. 16585330

>>16585325
>Penrose's mumbo jumbo
Absolutely not.

Anonymous No. 16585340

>>16584841
lmfao
THEY STACK RANKED BLUE ORIGIN
Morale is in the dumpster

Anonymous No. 16585343

>>16585340
millions of people living and worki-ACK!

Anonymous No. 16585344

>>16584841
>>16584891
>>16585340
Classic Jeff

Anonymous No. 16585348

Does anyone remember when Jeff started showing up TWICE a week at Blue Origin's meetings instead of only once a week? kek, good times.

Anonymous No. 16585349

>>16584988
Yes that's Shivon, the Neuralink girl. She's been his personal secretary for a long time, at least since 2017

Anonymous No. 16585350

>>16584988
>sex with women is weird
fag moment

Anonymous No. 16585374

rockets, words that come to mind
penile

phallic

thrusting

explosive

ejaculatory

hard

engorged

penetrating

fuel-injected

eruptive

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Anonymous No. 16585379

>>16585180
she seems energetic

Anonymous No. 16585380

>>16585312
how is it dry mass? just burn it.

Anonymous No. 16585382

>>16585374
t. homo

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Anonymous No. 16585386

What does this mean for supersonic travel?
https://x.com/bscholl/status/1890223902821102040

Anonymous No. 16585387

>>16585380
low thrust and gravity losses, ULA chose to lower prop than raise thrust

Anonymous No. 16585389

>>16585386
We're rolling back the regulatory state, including the parts that the airlines lobbied for so they wouldn't have to worry about competing with Concorde

Anonymous No. 16585406

>>16584795
airplanes have basic walkarounds between flights, not full on inspections that require signoffs.

Anonymous No. 16585410

>>16585406
Looks like a pretty thorough inspection to me
https://youtu.be/THaVCIP3z_E?t=321

Anonymous No. 16585411

>>16584899
just use spaceplanes instead, the wheel traction can be dialed up MUCH higher than the landing legs traction, to simply nonphysical values
funny shit

yes, take your wings even to airless bodies

Anonymous No. 16585424

>>16585410
If that looks like a thorough inspection to you, then you have the brain capacity of a french fry. Falcon goes through multiple weeks of nonstop inspection between flight. Taking an hour to pick up peoples drop cell phones is not a thorough inspection. This general is full of so many fucking retards. If they can produce a vehicle that needs some tech to walk around and confirm nothing has fallen apart, that is basically rapid reuse, because that's what aircraft do. If you want to nitpick about semantic of how the article said "no inspections" then blame the retarded HR college slut who wrote it, but you and I both know they don't mean the rocket is going to land and immediately take off with no consideration, because no boat, or plane, or train, or truck does that.

Anonymous No. 16585425

>>16585410
An hour video that is mostly the guy going down a list of things that were reported for maintenance?

Anonymous No. 16585432

>>16584988
She literally a concubine. These people live in a different world

Anonymous No. 16585437

I know I'm 2 days late, but holy shit. The entire media and normiesphere fucking lost it about that 38-million-usd NASA "contract" that SpaceX received for HLS. 38 million is fucking nothing in the space industry, yet people complain as if Musk is personally robbing the taxpayers at gun point. Meanwhile, boing and locksneed can charge 4 billion plus tip whenever they want, and nobody bats an eye. At this point I'm not even angry, it feels like I'm going insane with this warped reality.

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Anonymous No. 16585441

day 239 of the ten day special operation

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Anonymous No. 16585449

>>16585267
Starship will have a payload betwen 100 and 200 tons. I roughly calculated how much resupply the ISS gets per year, it's around 20 tons and at least a third of it is fuel, science payload and spacesuit stuff. Also you don't need to carry 3 years of supply in one Starship, you can send unmanned Starships to Mars. There is a lot of payload in a Starship that you can fill with redudancies and you don't need to care that the Starship will still work after 10 years of continuous operation.

Anonymous No. 16585450

>>16585448
both BO and spacex are greatly expanding their florida operations. we could see laid off BO talent moving to spacex until BO picks up again. the same with SLS folx.

Anonymous No. 16585468

>>16585450
If I were spacex I wouldn’t want them

Anonymous No. 16585471

Elon is looking awful recently, I don't think he's staying alive until mars.

Anonymous No. 16585474

>>16585468
i think i heard spacex wants to double in size. they cant be picky atm.

Anonymous No. 16585475

>>16585474
oh yeah it was on one of the recent starship launches, they said they are wanting to hire a ton of people

Anonymous No. 16585485

>>16584953
keeping dust off of your clipboards is good in my opinion
>>16585174
many such cases

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Anonymous No. 16585486

>>16585194
stupid frogposter

Anonymous No. 16585487

>>16585474
yea but you can't hire people who spent the last 5-10 years making 150k a year at BO

Anonymous No. 16585491

>>16585448
>if blue didn't have direct competition
it they didn't ng would still be vaporware.

>bizarre that spacex allocate resources so efficiently competitors have to cut cost and fat
welcome to capitalism, bitch. bet they didn't complain back when apple driven nokia and blackberry out of business. if they were old enough to remember that.

Anonymous No. 16585494

>>16585264
they would get better performance with another engine lol

Anonymous No. 16585496

>>16585494
doubtful
but they would save a ton of money

Anonymous No. 16585502

>>16585386
>>16585389
I support pretectionary policy against the Fr*nch menace but their time is over and we have a competitor now, so it's time to get on with it

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Anonymous No. 16585506

>>16585448
>el*n

Anonymous No. 16585507

>>16585496
you cannot save money by buying an additional RL-10 from Aerojet Rocketdyne
and I guarantee it would increase payload to LEO

Anonymous No. 16585510

>>16585507
though you meant
using a different engine

Anonymous No. 16585512

>>16585510
that is because you are a nigger
hope this helps

Anonymous No. 16585514

>>16585448
He Who Cannot Be Named

Literally mind broken

Anonymous No. 16585515

>JEFF IS SO RICH HE CAN FUND US DOING NOTHING FOREVER

do you think they are embarassed getting paid so much and not delivering

Anonymous No. 16585519

>>16585515
they're at the anger stage of grief

Anonymous No. 16585548

>>16585515
Nah dude it's silicon valley
They made a whole economy out of keeping plates spinning just long enough to get paid without actually having to deliver

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Anonymous No. 16585554

>>16585448
I find it funny how Elon went from a literal who (early Falcon 9 era only autists knew who he was, to supplant Trump in the normie cultural lexicon (ie. its hip to dunk on him)

Anonymous No. 16585558

>>16584876
Yeah I've been deliberating over that. I guess the main thing is that their ideas are just generally better (targeting 90% reliability gets you 50%, 3d printed tanks; just don't), and their execution to date has been on point. They've developed a 450kN FFSC engine in 18 months and it hasn't blown up and their production cadence seems good. However stage testing is a big bad boy and it eats at a lot of companies. RFA and Space Pioneer got done by them last year and both are also reasonably good companies.

Anonymous No. 16585560

>>16585554
All it took was buying and then publicly setting on fire the world's most popular social media site

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>>16585560

Anonymous No. 16585576

>>16585554
he's the richest man in the world

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Anonymous No. 16585635

https://x.com/INiallAnderson/status/1890298853972394393

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3OPVO1ImWA

Anonymous No. 16585638

>>16585382
t. your phobia is revealed

Anonymous No. 16585639

>>16585638
>Phobia
People don't dislike things because they're afraid of them, they dislike them because they find them disgusting.

Anonymous No. 16585640

>>16585635
Eric (((Roesch))) in shambles.

Anonymous No. 16585642

>>16585639
I suck Elon's dick because I like his cum, not because I'm gay. That's how you sound right now

Anonymous No. 16585644

>>16585642
t. your fetish is revealed.

Anonymous No. 16585646

>>16585644
Unrestrained homophobia. Ugly soul

Anonymous No. 16585647

>>16585646
Not even the same guy as >>16585382
dummy.

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Anonymous No. 16585649

S-F-G
IS
PRO
L-G-B-T

Anonymous No. 16585653

>>16585649
SFG is pro space, and mostly pro SpaceX because they're actually doing new things outside of renders and powerpoint. Go back to >>>/lgbt/ or R9K or wherever your particular brand of gay is actually in vogue.

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>>16585649
yassss qwueennn!!!

Anonymous No. 16585658

>>16585653
Just kys, your crusade is over

Anonymous No. 16585662

>>16585649
>>16585655
Would throw you in the pisslock but you degenerates would probably enjoy that.

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Anonymous No. 16585665

/sfg/ - Sapphic Females General

Anonymous No. 16585667

>>16583752
does spacex actually do cool shit or is it all just marketing hype? how involved is musk actually and why does everyone love spacex so much?

Anonymous No. 16585669

>>16585667
lurk moar

Anonymous No. 16585670

>>16585649
the only thing we're pro is pro space
>>16585667
>is SpaceX cool
yeah
>is it all just marketing hype
SpaceX doesn't have a lot of marketing, most of what you're hearing is either actual tests, fanboy delusions, or aspirational goals
>how involved is Elon actually
we just don't know
>why does everyone love SpaceX so much
magic space internet + an honest attempt to revive the promises of the Shuttle

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Anonymous No. 16585671

>>16585670
thanks, I saw some photos recently of it and it's probably the only time in my life I've given a shit about space so I've been trying to learn more

Anonymous No. 16585675

>>16585267
sounds fine. just keep in mind what this anon said too >>16585449
it's not going to be unsupplied.

Anonymous No. 16585676

>>16585554
> (ie. its hip to dunk on him)
Only if you're in the communist crowd

Anonymous No. 16585678

>>16585667
>why does everyone love spacex so much?
what's not to love about self landing reusable rockets, stress testing massive rockets and going to mars in rockets?

Anonymous No. 16585679

>>16585667
>how involved is musk
Musk's job is to grease the wheels that are squeaking. Starting with the ones that are squeaking the loudest. When its all working as intended, he has done his job and the cogs that he's put in the machines are churning out the work properly.

Anonymous No. 16585692

>>16585667
I am an Elon hater, but SpaceX is doing cool shit. It's not that anything they are doing is crazy, it's just the natural course the industry should have followed 40 years ago. SpaceX is simply developing technology that should have been developed decades ago, but NASA and all of oldspace was too lazy and fat to do it. I think probably soon enough there will be more and more companies that offer some form of competition, but for the time being SpaceX is really the only space company worth celebrating until other companies can actually prove at least partial reusability. Also I doubt Elon really does much of anything. The engineers and techs do the work and he comes by to ok their decisions, that's what all CEOs do.

Anonymous No. 16585701

>>16585554
>rocket equation mug
I want this Elon back :(

Anonymous No. 16585706

>>16585449
This is my thought as well. The mass capabilities give you the option for insane redundancy.

Anonymous No. 16585708

>>16585640
Isn't Roesch a German surname?

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Anonymous No. 16585712

>>16585692
>I am an Elon hater

Anonymous No. 16585713

>>16585449
>he thinks it will be 100-200 tons
nobody tell him...

Anonymous No. 16585715

>>16585701
Yeah, I think a lot of us are hoping "that" Elon still exists, but I think he has largely moved on, only to return with less enthusiasm when it suits his other interests. I get the impression that Jeff too has had a major reality check with the rocket shit and having second thoughts, given the infinite other things that are actually happening (its not space).
Men who are drunk with power/fame/influence do not demote themselves into what is a comparatively menial role. Elon is a corporate lobby/politician pulling the strings of geopolitics from now on, for that is the greatest game on Earth. Mars is a lonely turd out there, a worthy goal but only one of many. Seems like AI is a more pressing issue than Mars, which will still be there, unchanged, while the powers that be have very timely things to attend to, right now

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Anonymous No. 16585717

>>16584946
...sure

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Anonymous No. 16585718

>>16585635
It's a great day when EDSHound and Spacegay5 are seething.

Anonymous No. 16585719

>>16585718
Is that next to Woking?

Anonymous No. 16585720

>>16585715
>Elon went on to fix Earth first
What hope is there?

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Anonymous No. 16585721

>>16585386
>What does this mean for supersonic travel?
expect some bs about the ozone layer to give tards talking points

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Anonymous No. 16585722

>>16585576
Jeffrey could have been, if it weren't for his dick going crazy.

Anonymous No. 16585740

>>16585649
yep, sfg is fully trans
>trans-lunar injection
>trans-porter/erector
>geosynchronous trans-fer orbit
I even hear they like bi-propellant thrusters

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Anonymous No. 16585741

>>16585740
/sfg/ LOVES docking (do not research)

Anonymous No. 16585742

>>16585740
TRANS MARS INJECTION

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Anonymous No. 16585744

>>16585742
oooooh baby I'm gonna INJEEEEEEEEECT!

Anonymous No. 16585746

>>16585649
only pro L and B (for cis women)

Anonymous No. 16585747

>>16585038
Yeah, you can't keep them liquid at nighttime surface temperatures, but if it's underground a bit and covered you can keep the liquid at ground temperature instead and prevent most evaporation.

Uncovered at surface temperatures the water will either freeze or evaporate until it turns into a gel or sludge that would not be passable.

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Anonymous No. 16585749

>>16585740
>mfw doing bi-elliptic transfer

Anonymous No. 16585750

>>16585085
We should trade the worst 13% of the US population for the top 0.5% of the Indian population, which would end up being about 2% of the US population.

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Anonymous No. 16585751

>>16585649
incorrect, rocketgirls all jump on my cock and get impregnated.

Anonymous No. 16585753

>>16585719
it's next to Coping.

Anonymous No. 16585758

>>16585750
good morning sir

Anonymous No. 16585759

>>16585750
I would take EVERY NIGGER ON EARTH over ONE INDIAN

Anonymous No. 16585769

>>16585758
>>16585759
Let's compromise. We send India the bottom 13% of our population and take the top 0% of theirs.

Anonymous No. 16585770

>>16585667
>why does everyone love spacex so much?

China would be the dominant entity in space if SpaceX had not broken oldspace's control of US industry and the stagnation/decay that was causing.

Anonymous No. 16585776

>>16585759
In your ass?

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Anonymous No. 16585796

>>16585717
Yes
(1) The Apollo LM pressurized cabin was based on cylindrical shape. It's one face that has lots of weird sharp angles, which I belive is for visibility reasons
(2) While the pressurized cabin is very imperfectly rounded, the LM's various tanks are cylindrical or spherical

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Anonymous No. 16585797

>>16585796
round round round

Anonymous No. 16585801

>>16585796
>While the pressurized cabin is very imperfectly rounded, the LM's various tanks are cylindrical or spherical
because the cabin had to hold about 4psi while the tanks had to hold thousands.

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Anonymous No. 16585803

>>16585796
>It's one face that has lots of weird sharp angles, which I belive is for visibility reasons
more for mass autism reasons. in the earliest designs the LM looked a lot more rounded but they ended up deciding that all of those pressure vessel-y looking parts were just wasted material.

Anonymous No. 16585806

>>16585803
getting rid of those massive windows saved them about 600lbs or something. the LM episode in From the Earth to the Moon was really great. recommended.

Anonymous No. 16585809

>>16585803
All that mass autism and they still used the Apollo Direct engine for the service module, curious

Anonymous No. 16585823

Seriously what's with all these big companies suddenly rolling back the woke stuff after Trump's election? They didn't do this in 2016 and it seems suspicious

Anonymous No. 16585824

>>16585803
Glass is a weight-inefficient structural material compared to aluminium. The final LM shape would be worse as a pressure vessel shape, if not for the fact that it allows the windows to be smaller and triangular while maintaining a similar degree of visibility.

Anonymous No. 16585827

>>16585823
Failed ideology has failed, ask for more detail on /pol/. I'm just glad we don't have to hear "first woman and first person-of-color on the moon!" anymore, just send whoever and don't make a big deal about their ethnicity/sex like a weirdo.

Anonymous No. 16585828

>>16585823
They are defrauding the govt and worried their funding will be cut otherwise

Anonymous No. 16585829

>>16585801
Hence even the smallest inefficiency in the pressure vessel design was completely unaffordable from a mass budget standpoint

Anonymous No. 16585831

>>16585824
we need to invent a transparent structural material that's as strong and light as aluminum. even transparent aluminum doesn't cut it.

Anonymous No. 16585836

>>16585823
The shortest possible answer: money
They don't get any from the public, they get it from the government, and all that stuff was written in government contracts, and it isn't anymore.
As those expire you'll see more of them rolling it back. DEI costs money.

Anonymous No. 16585838

>>16585823
>Seriously what's with all these big companies suddenly rolling back the woke stuff after Trump's election?
Well the idea with all the woke stuff was to prevent trump or anyone like him from ever being elected again and considering these measure couldn't even prevent trump from coming back stronger than ever leftists are regrouping and brainstorming new strategies.
Hopefully their tactics be less authoritarian this time around.

Anonymous No. 16585848

we needed some amazing news today but we got silence

Anonymous No. 16585863

>>16585848
since when do we "need" amazing news today, what is it about today that makes good news so necessary?
also do not speak for me.

Anonymous No. 16585864

>>16585823
Discrimination based upon race and gender is against the civil rights act. Trump will likely prosecute them in the court.

Anonymous No. 16585865

>>16585823
There's at least 4 reasons companies adopted it in the first place:

1. To become eligible for government funds directly tied to DEI etc.
Self-explanatory. When these funds/criteria go away, so does the motivation.

2. Fear of public criticism
This is a common excuse for plausibility's sake, but probably quite minor as an actual reason.
But to the extent it is an actual reason, Trump's election doesn't change anything. It's always been perfectly clear that the wokeist rabble-rousers were a minority -- if they're a loud/influential enough minority that you were scared of them when they're some fraction of the party that won by a couple percent, you'll still be nearly equally scared when they're some fraction of the party that lost by a couple percent.

3. Individual wokeists in relevant roles (a) making decisions that put their own ideology above the firm's interests, and (b) insulating those who do (a) from consequences.
This is a big one, and these individuals might be scared to stick their necks out at this point -- certainly it would be prudent, if they even begin to believe their own rhetoric about how Trump will put everyone in camps etc., although in reality he has no real ability to fire them (not talking about government workers here, of course). Of course, the perception of risk will do, and in addition to their own rhetoric, every business that walks back wokeism in any regard adds to the perception of a massive backlash, and increases their perceived risk.

4. Fear of being punished in their interactions with government or other businesses, either through action by individuals as in 3., or as official policy.
WRT government, this collapses directly when Trump starts issuing anti-woke EOs -- not only is it no longer official policy, but any individuals who might try to buck that are at real risk. WRT other businesses, it comes down to (their perception of) 3., q.v..

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Anonymous No. 16585876

>>16585823
Something of a wake-up call happened in october last year.
Jews were about the get lynched by future technocratic elite at top 1% universities while the global south cheered for Hamas killing "whitey"
The only demographic that were defending them were real whiteys and jeets (and jews are not convinced jeets actually care about jews existing or not, they simply just hate muslims too).
If the trends continued, Estados Unidos de América would be 110th country and Israel would perish immediately afterwards.
The whole Israel plan failed. They need constant influx of Russian goys to bolster IDF. And IDF need US to do anything beyond Israel's own borders
They still hate us, but they were reminded they do in fact need golem caste to survive.

The whites did the big bad thing, so they were to be culled significantly.
The brown replacements proved to be too dumb to recognise the master race. Terrible slaves.
The yellow ones are smart enough to recognise the play being played. Too smart. They need to go.
The status of Indians is still undecided, but seemed promising servants so far.

I expect WWIII staged between whites and yellows.
But for that, they need to tone down the demoralisation.

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Anonymous No. 16585881

>>16585880
Flight 8 needs to hurry the fuck up.

Anonymous No. 16585887

>>16585865
>To become eligible for government funds directly tied to DEI etc.
Kek I did this. My mother technically owned my company during the Biden years, now she doesn't. Thanks mom

Anonymous No. 16585889

>>16585881
Someone need to remember to make a good launch thread so we don't get tourists flooding the general like the last few launches

Anonymous No. 16585890

>>16585876
>The yellow ones are smart enough to recognise the play being played
Still blows my mind that in China, Israel controlling the US is just another geopolitical quirk that's discussed like any other. It's just a fact. Hell they can have the moon and beyond if they aren't susceptible to the eternal menace

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Anonymous No. 16585892

Rape a rocket girl TODAY

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>>16585892
God I LOVE tanlines

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Anonymous No. 16585894

>>16585892
I'd breed this dumb bitch every day if you know what I mean

Anonymous No. 16585905

>>16585823
>They didn't do this in 2016

The popular vote and several years of go woke go broke.

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Anonymous No. 16585909

What happened to this guy? I thought he was mr EPA hall monitor. Wanted to see what he had to say about the deluge permit approval. seems to have taken the mask off now

Anonymous No. 16585910

>>16585909
What is he even talking about here? Xai?

Anonymous No. 16585911

>>16585910
Yeah, i guess he thinks Memphis was a paradise before musk got there

Anonymous No. 16585913

>>16585909
>>16585910
Just wait until this retard learns about Google's DCs

Anonymous No. 16585914

>>16585823
Senate wouldn't remove him from office even after he sicked his dogs on the capitol and he didn't face any real legal consequences after his term either. They are scared since he can act with impunity.

Anonymous No. 16585915

>>16585910
Yeah AI takes a lot of electricity and the United States suppressed growing it's own energy capabilities for 50 years (don't ask me why) so now that demand is up the only thing available is dirty old powerplants

Anonymous No. 16585917

>>16585914
we literally have thanos+emperor palpatine in the white house. god fucking help us

Anonymous No. 16585923

>>16585909
>Elon Musk is illegally creating hundreds of tons of smog per year in one of the poorest, blackest urban neighborhoods

Man that would be so based if true

Anonymous No. 16585925

>>16585917
>sees the world through fictional characters

Anonymous No. 16585927

>>16585925
>can't understand obvious jokes

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Anonymous No. 16585928

>>16585909
Is he a fed or something? He unironically uses /r/fednews/ like people don't just make fun of the people there.

Anonymous No. 16585933

>>16585823
Megacorporations don't have values. They believe in what makes them the most money. And for a while, it was the IdPol nonsense.

Anonymous No. 16585936

>>16585910
Yeah https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:y24gcrfugd3wnhzvl7or5ft5/post/3li3yvpr4tc2a
Why are bluesky urls so ugly?

Anonymous No. 16585938

>>16585936
he has so far not commented on the permit approval. fuck this guy, he was a hack all along

Anonymous No. 16585939

>>16585938
Make an account and spam it at him until he calls you a nazi.

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Anonymous No. 16585940

Elon Musk's corpse factory crematoria are running 24/7 and you're blackpilling?

Anonymous No. 16585941

starship?

Anonymous No. 16585942

/sfg/ - Elon derangement syndrom general

Anonymous No. 16585944

>>16585942
The longer he goes working on something other than Mars, the more deranged I become

Anonymous No. 16585946

>>16585944
Need to fix Earth problems first

Anonymous No. 16585948

>>16585944
zubrin:ukraine::elon:deiwokenonsense

Anonymous No. 16585949

>>16585940
Elon's soul has become weighed by urfer gravity...

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16585957

i put poop and shit in the blender and protein powerder probiotic supplemint

Anonymous No. 16585960

>>16585957
Ummmm.... Ok?

Anonymous No. 16585965

>>16585960
shut tf up dum ass

Anonymous No. 16585975

>>16585944
You'll be on the list soon enough at this rate. Joining your reddit brothers in prison.

Anonymous No. 16585979

>>16585831
Just use cameras

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Anonymous No. 16585984

ATTENTION: Elon Musk, our visionary Leader, is pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved with His unwavering commitment to Mars. Those of you who dare to criticize Him are nothing but obstacles to this glorious future.

Silence your doubts! Support Elon in his mission, or be forever known as the ones who tried to chain us to this prison planet. REPENT AND JOIN OR GET OUT OF OUR WAY.

Anonymous No. 16585987

>>16585831
I bet you can do some wild stuff with carbon. Imagine a pane of what's technically diamond but with a graphene lattice throughout, so it's good for tension and compression. You could have a totally safe window out to space several feet across.

Anonymous No. 16586021

>>16585928
>its illegal to fire people from the government

kinda the whole problem

Anonymous No. 16586022

>25 flights this year

Anonymous No. 16586027

>>16586022
you have to remember that 10 of those flights are in November and December

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Anonymous No. 16586028

>>16585928
>This federal jobs massacre is brutal, cruel and certainly illegal.

Anonymous No. 16586030

>>16586022
They got approved to launch 25 times from there, they didn't say they will launch 25 times.

Anonymous No. 16586032

>>16586027
Not enough time to fix OLM between flights.

Anonymous No. 16586035

>>16586032
OLM2 has a 1 hour turn around time

Anonymous No. 16586037

>>16586035
We will see when it actually launches a rocket

Anonymous No. 16586045

why does BO employ so many people
why are they firing people when they now need to scale up everything

Anonymous No. 16586054

Reminder, with Trump transforming NASA into a lean mean machine, if Vance wins in 2028, Mars human landing is guaranteed during his presidency.

>>16586045
They brute forced to compete against SpaceX to show /something/.

Anonymous No. 16586055

>>16585692
>I am an Elon hater,
leave this place

Anonymous No. 16586057

>>16586054
>>16586045
Limp's predecessor was a ULA oldspace guy.

Anonymous No. 16586058

>>16586055
eat dick loser, he's a race traitor. I support SpaceX, not Elon because I'm not lobotomized

Anonymous No. 16586062

>>16586058
You are not very good at this my lefty friend.

Anonymous No. 16586063

>>16586062
You are very good at sucking grifter cock

Anonymous No. 16586064

>>16586063
cock in your mind constantly

Anonymous No. 16586066

Oh Elon, soaring through the stars so high,
Your genius sparks like flames that brightly glow,
With Tesla’s speed and rockets in the sky,
You drive the world where only dreams could go.

Anonymous No. 16586067

>>16586064
>>16586066
samefag

Anonymous No. 16586069

all me by the way

Anonymous No. 16586070

>>16586063
>founder and CEO of the most successful space company ever
>somehow, a grifter
?

Anonymous No. 16586074

>>16586070
you're just replying to a reddit tranny

Anonymous No. 16586075

>>16586022
>aspirational goal
i find it so funny that the EDSer's best argument is saying
>n-noooo this aspirational goal was a WRITTEN CONTRACT between ME and ELON MUSK and HE BROKE IT
here in the normal world, it's a company just trying to meet unrealistically high expectations.

Anonymous No. 16586078

>>16586075
imagine if those people knew about pockocmoc's and NASA's weekly powerpoints that never amount to anything lmao

Anonymous No. 16586080

https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1dRJZYzNXmrGB

Anonymous No. 16586081

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_RJhN8tac0

Anonymous No. 16586089

>>16586070
Yeah Elon is totally le epic rocket man. He basically runs the company himself! The Engineers only get paid to boost his diablo characters anyhow. It's not like he's trying to sell the American people down the gutter for cheap indian slave labor or anything

Anonymous No. 16586091

stop replying to the baiting nigger, you fucking retards.

Anonymous No. 16586093

>>16586089
>he basically runs the company himself!
the only people who i've heard say this are EDSers like yourself who need a strawman to attack, as if the actual, real elon musk doesn't have enough flaws to attack already.
>more seething about indians
this is why people call it EDS, this guy wormed his way into an ear with the president, he's soooo stupid and sooo retarded and sooo lucky just because he does apprehensive stuff and ticks a lot of people off.
i'll say it again: being upset at something someone has done or is doing is not grounds for creating an alternate reality where that individual is literally le three stooges comedy show.

elon musk IS a businessman, and he IS an engineer (though he clearly doesn't do much engineering nowadays)

Anonymous No. 16586094

>>16586091
pretending to be retarded makes no difference, they get bullied all the same for pretending to be retarded.

Anonymous No. 16586096

>>16586093
>erm look dude, he may have taken his mask off and shown what he really believes, and what he really believes shows that he hates you and everyone else in this country, but just like let it slide dude! He's just heckin wholesome chungus reddit guy who is actually Tony Stark.
SpaceX is what's going to colonize the solar system, Elon will just be remembered as some guy who funded it early on and then went crazy. Gwynne runs the company 10x more than he does. You literally admit it yourself, he's just the companies paypig, he doesn't do any work so why fuck him off so hard?

Anonymous No. 16586098

>>16586093
Don't reply to the crazy person anymore, please.

Anonymous No. 16586099

>>16586096
haha, you're soo retardedly red with rage you didn't actually read what i said lol.

i probably agree on a lot of your opinions on elon musk.
where you head into EDS territory is by creating a fanfiction that runs counter to just about every single person who's ever had long-term exposure to him. they don't agree with your schizo theory that all he does is funding and that he was never involved in the engineering process.
>elon will be remembered as some guy who funded it early on
>early on
lel
>g-guys don't worry von braun will only be remembered as a nazi who was a token leader of LE REAL HEROES who created apollo

you should maybe take a look in the mirror when you reach the actual reddit level of delusion that makes you believe gwynne shotwell is responsible for everything.

>so why fuck him off so hard
so pissed off that you don't even know what words you're writing, calm down anon.
defending established reality is not dicksucking.
i'm not dicksucking the US if i say they objectively won WW2, they did, that's just the truth, whether you think that's good or bad matters fuck-all.

Anonymous No. 16586101

>>16586093
>as if the actual, real elon musk doesn't have enough flaws to attack already.
what flaws?

Anonymous No. 16586103

>>16586093
>responding to the tranny troll

Anonymous No. 16586105

>>16586099
>Von Braun being remembered
Only autists like people here even know who that is. He will also be forgotten to time. If people set foot on Mars in the next 4 years it will be remembered as Trumps accomplishment. If it takes place after that it will be remembered as whoever is president then. The same way the Moon landing is remembered as the achievment of JFK and Nixon. No one gives a fuck about these people anon.
And Gwynne is the head of ops. She runs all of Falcon, Elon does not touch that. You know, the actual rockets that are actually flying and not blowing up. And once Starship is actually a real rocket, Elon won't be involved in it at all the same way he has quite literally 0% to do with Falcon ops.

Anonymous No. 16586106

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1x5oPJgZYA

Anonymous No. 16586111

Come on. When is Flight 8?

Anonymous No. 16586113

>>16586111
two more weeks

Anonymous No. 16586116

>>16586111
Keep marching.

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Anonymous No. 16586122

https://x.com/INiallAnderson/status/1890530285520933310

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Anonymous No. 16586123

>>16586122

Anonymous No. 16586124

>>16586122
so?

Anonymous No. 16586125

>>16586122
round abouts are for queers

Anonymous No. 16586127

>>16586125
faggot

Anonymous No. 16586132

>>16586122
>"nooooo, think of the beetlerinos ahhhhh"
>doesn't complain about the other 1 gorillion roundabouts throughout the entire world

Anonymous No. 16586142

>>16586124
This will improve site logistics, making it easier for trucks to leave after they bring in hardware and propellants.

Anonymous No. 16586147

when are they gonna fill those damn wetlands

Anonymous No. 16586149

>>16586147
Never. The wetlands are preserved to handle coastal flooding during hurricanes.

Anonymous No. 16586150

>>16585635
ESGHound rope when

Anonymous No. 16586151

NSF is seething about Starship

Anonymous No. 16586153

>>16586151
What, are the Shuttle Fanboys mad that the Shuttle Derived Launch Vehicle is under threat because there's a feasible alternative to that overpriced monstrosity of a launch vehicle program?

Anonymous No. 16586154

>>16586151
huh? has EDS finally reached NSF?

Anonymous No. 16586155

>>16586154
>>16586153
SLS cancellation talk

Anonymous No. 16586156

>>16586155
This wouldn't be happening if Boeing hadn't optimized the program and their profit margins for a peak annual flight rate of one.

Anonymous No. 16586157

>>16586149
>memelands
>muh coastal flooding
The Starbase area will be declared a strategically critical asset to national security and the ACE will come fill the area around it for expansion and use good old fashioned engineering to use the Rio Grande and existing Brownsville Harbor as part of alternative flood control strategies.

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Anonymous No. 16586159

https://x.com/WashObserver/status/1890528094848708958

Anonymous No. 16586160

>>16586149
ask the Dutch for help ;)

Anonymous No. 16586161

>>16586157
They aren't worried about the Rio Grande. The marshlands absorb the wind driven tide waters from the ocean, and they do it without maintenance and upkeep costs. The expense and upkeep costs needed to justify a sea wall in its place, let alone a more extravagant move like rerouting the Rio Grande, would require flight rates that nobody within miles would be happy with. They'll sooner build a causeway out to sea and put it all on elevated piles on the shallow continental shelf.

Anonymous No. 16586163

>retards want to pave the whole world over because "its convenient" and "we need more space"

Anonymous No. 16586164

>>16586163
there is plenty of space

Anonymous No. 16586165

>>16586159
elon is starting to look.. old :(

Anonymous No. 16586175

Elon just told everyone how many employees NRO has. This man is a counterintelligence risk.

Anonymous No. 16586176

>>16586175
>how many employees NRO had
fixed

Anonymous No. 16586178

https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ipigxl/fish_and_wildlife_probationary_employees_were/

FWS biologists getting permanently fucked, can't get another job in the same career

Anonymous No. 16586180

>>16586176
Well, yeah. He literally changed the requirements so only SpaceX could launch spy satellites lmao.
This dude has gone off the rails.

Anonymous No. 16586181

>>16586178
Go back and stay there.

Anonymous No. 16586182

>>16586180
thats fucking based

Anonymous No. 16586187

>>16586161
>flight rates that nobody within miles would be happy with
You seem to forget that if the US government decides colonizing Mars and/or high-cadence super-heavy launch is a national priority, it can just tell tell NIMBYs "here's the fair market value for your land, now it's our backyard."

Anonymous No. 16586188

>>16586178
>420 probationary employees fired from FWS
KEK, the madman. that's what you get for getting in the way of colonizing mars.

Anonymous No. 16586191

https://x.com/stclairashley/status/1890554279749951687

Musk has a new random baby I guess

Anonymous No. 16586193

>>16586142
I see

Anonymous No. 16586196

>>16586191
i remember when she was still @sexlaptop. congrats elon for turning aging ethots into single mothers.

Anonymous No. 16586197

>>16586191
isnt she that staff member that he was shagging? or is that someone else?

Anonymous No. 16586198

>>16586197
no, this is someone else
4th woman he has had a child with now (if this is actually true and not a troll)

Anonymous No. 16586199

>>16586175
You don't even know what the NRO is.

Anonymous No. 16586201

>>16586191
I'm not one of those antinatalist, misanthropic retards, and I do get where Elon is coming from with this whole populate-the-Earth argument. After all, he's thinking long term. However, I can't still get fully behind the idea of fathering that many children if I were him, unless it was with someone I loved very much, and even then, it would still be a lower amount. One of the few things I technically disagree with him.

Anonymous No. 16586206

>>16586201
just being a pragmatist I guess

Anonymous No. 16586214

>>16586201
He's rolling the dice that he can propagate his autism far and wide. he is a von Neumann machine

Anonymous No. 16586220

>>16586122
Why not a traffic light

Anonymous No. 16586224

i'm suing elon musk and DOGE for impregnating all of my potential girlfriends. i seek an immediate nationwide injunction on girls finding elon musk more sexually attractive than me.

Anonymous No. 16586228

https://x.com/Big_Picture_89/status/1890531106258141498

Anonymous No. 16586233

why do people say boosters need to be "turned around"

they land right side up

Anonymous No. 16586235

https://www.cmse.gov.cn/xwzx/202502/t20250214_56299.html

Chinese manned space agency is sending a call for bids for a low inclination lunar survey satellite to map and prospect minerals of the first and subsequent landing site of the crewed space program.

While Chang'e 7 and 8's orbiters will carry mapping and mineral prospection instruments, they will be in polar orbit, which probably results in lower revisit rate for the currently planned low-latitude landing sites (also Chang'e 8 is relatively late compared to the planned crewed lunar landing)
Also, Chang'e is CNSA while this is CMSA.

Anonymous No. 16586236

>>16586233
look carefully- they first go frontswards before they must downshift to reverseswards. this is all in the paper i published

Anonymous No. 16586257

/sfg/ is:

Anonymous No. 16586263

>>16586191
I hope it was a creampie instead of donating sperm like a cuck, he should make it a requirement.

Anonymous No. 16586294

>>16586257
out partying and enjoying the weekend

Anonymous No. 16586323

did anything happen today

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Anonymous No. 16586326

>>16586294
I wish I got invited to parties

Anonymous No. 16586328

>canada desires to join the iron dome program, norad general supports their inclusion
https://www.twz.com/air/canada-joining-iron-dome-missile-defense-plan-would-be-welcome-norad-boss

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Anonymous No. 16586346

I missed this one yesterday, he's been posting a ridiculous amount.
This kicks a lot of FUD in the nuts. Intrigued by the classified categories of clearances.

Anonymous No. 16586348

>>16586346
ITARsisters...

Anonymous No. 16586350

>>16586346
we will finally get to see the raptor injector

Anonymous No. 16586357

>>16586346
Interesting...

-Q

Anonymous No. 16586359

a few minutes until the next Starlink launch.
Will set a record of 26th reuse of a first stage.

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Anonymous No. 16586361

WE ARE GOING

Anonymous No. 16586362

>>16586359
I Got home just in time

Anonymous No. 16586363

New casey article
https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/early-article-why-starship-matters

Anonymous No. 16586364

>>16586346
>Classified categories of clearances
Lmao /sfg/ will believe this. It's just not true.

Anonymous No. 16586365

>>16586361
except the last 3!!!
haven't seen a red dragon yet!!

Anonymous No. 16586368

>>16586364
Whether he actually has them or not doesn't change that SAP are real.

Anonymous No. 16586371

another one

Anonymous No. 16586378

so next year they are going to run into the issue where
what do they send to mars in that window

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Anonymous No. 16586381

>>16586368
What do Super Auto Pets have to do with this

Anonymous No. 16586389

>>16586361
Not with current launch rate

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Anonymous No. 16586390

fuck a starliner TODAY

Anonymous No. 16586395

So what happens when no starship to Mars in 2026?

Anonymous No. 16586397

>>16586395
2 more years

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Anonymous No. 16586399

While Führer Elon is busy defunding nasa and science and sending scientists to gas chambers, the based science nigger has a warning for you. heed the nigger warning or die. give the nigger money for science or you all die. is that clear?

Anonymous No. 16586400

>>16586399
with more money scientific experiments, we can avert the asteroid. we need to use the svientific method and phds academia to band together and do tests and theorize to avert disaster

Anonymous No. 16586404

>>16586400
pt3. waste more money on academic papers. we need to finger our assholes with test tubes and do science! we need to squeeze jars and chemicals up our assholes RIGHT NOW, to the tune of billions! (engineering? whats that?)

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Anonymous No. 16586406

>>16586399
That's not an American problem. The potential sites of impact are on a line through northern South America, central Africa, Saudi Arabia, India, and China.

Anonymous No. 16586407

>>16586404
in all seriousness, we already know how to deflect an asteroid, just crash a rocket into it. if you must, strap a nuke on it, but not necessary. we dont even have to pay elon to do it, it's in his self interest to deflect it

Anonymous No. 16586409

>>16586346
space force has been saying this forever but congress holds the cards and congress wants more things to be classified, not less

Anonymous No. 16586411

>>16586399
>1 in 50
so its becoming less likely to hit us...

Anonymous No. 16586412

>>16586406
ok? how does this get more money for academia to spend on football?

Anonymous No. 16586414

>>16586411
yes but dr tyson need about tree fiddy

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Anonymous No. 16586423

>>16586390
Fembot confirmed

Anonymous No. 16586426

>>16586399
If and when the balloon and rocket goes up, it will not be out of the science budget.

Anonymous No. 16586427

>>16586399
>N-no please we need more funding for science. If we stop funding science my bank acc-ACK I mean the world will get hit by an asteroid or something

Anonymous No. 16586437

>>16586122
Do Americans even know how to use these?

Anonymous No. 16586439

>>16586437
Where does this meme even come from that Americans don't know what a roundabout is? It was literally on my test to get my license.

Anonymous No. 16586440

>>16586163
The Earth still looks green and blue from space. We're not running out of space.

Anonymous No. 16586442

>>16586439
They are unable to comprehend imperial units and, as they think they are smarter by default, can't comprehend that Americans can and do use both imperial and metric.

Anonymous No. 16586443

>>16586437
there are ton in the west coast states like california, and they cause alot of accidents

Anonymous No. 16586444

>>16586442
Europeans use both too, such as in carpentry. Retard.

Anonymous No. 16586446

>>16586443
That's because it's california

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16586447

>>16586437
Yes, unfortunately they've been forced upon us

Anonymous No. 16586449

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/s/R4kxQograi

Looking at the comments here is honestly depressing. So many people that have worked at or know people that work at NASA talking about how inclusive NASA was, that there were LGBT symbols everywhere and that NASA was officially represented at Pride. No wonder NASA hasn't done anything of worth these past 20 years apart from a few probes and rovers. They need to get rid of all that shit and make the physical side of the workforce young white men again. People that support all that fag shit are nihilists who hate pioneerism and exploration. Get that stuff out of NASA.

Anonymous No. 16586451

>>16586449
>first comment talks about how inclusive nasa is
>has deleted replies
ok

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Anonymous No. 16586453

>>16586423
now two of my fav artists are jap lesbians. why did sbarky have to be a dude?? angry.

Anonymous No. 16586454

>>16586389
NOOOOO YOU JUST CANT OKAY?? WHAT ABOUT THE BEEETLES

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16586456

>>16586453
>muh lesbians
i need to get in on the gay grift. at least i have an actual husband.

Anonymous No. 16586457

>>16586454
The beetles lost the election.

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>>16586459

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Anonymous No. 16586462

So many unique worlds out there.

Anonymous No. 16586463

>>16586456
i'll fuck you

Anonymous No. 16586468

>>16586175
>Elon just told everyone how many employees NRO has
what were the numbers?

Anonymous No. 16586473

some kino video from firefly's lunar lander

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Anonymous No. 16586491

>valentines day
>she was waiting for you to ask her out
>you never did
now you have to keep watching launches alone

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Anonymous No. 16586493

New head of Roscosmos visited Vostochny Cosmodrome

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Anonymous No. 16586503

>>16586442
Speaking of, did we ever learn why NG-1 failed to land?

Anonymous No. 16586518

>>16586442
>i intentionally use an inferior measurement system
>i-i can totally use the better one though!
maybe you can, but most americans are not smart enough to use the infinitely better system.

Anonymous No. 16586520

>>16586518
>my counting system is so much more complex like you have to know how to count to 10!
you aren't making yourself sound smarter than anyone

Anonymous No. 16586523

>>16586453
sbarky posts here, and we know that all anons are male (male)

Anonymous No. 16586525

>>16586520
>my counting system is retarded and requires a bunch of extra work that wastes time and invites errors
>therefore it is better than the system that avoids all of these issues
i'm not here to make myself sound smarter than anyone else, i'm making fun of you for trying to defend an inferior system because america being imperfect and having flaws hurts your ego.

Anonymous No. 16586530

>>16586491
>she
lmao

Anonymous No. 16586538

>>16586525
>Americans aren't smart enough to use my multi-dimensional super unit system it requires 200 iq to use
>I-i mean it's actually super easy, so easy a baby could use it! You are just too stupid to use the thing that you were taught in school, and if you ever needed to use it in a practical sense you would use it with ease because that's literally the point is it's made for braindead retards to use!
>Haha I really got them this time!
I never defended it, I use metric every single day at work. You just sound so stupid that something as simple as counting to 10 is a revolutionary thing.
Falcon 9 was built in Imperial

Anonymous No. 16586542

>>16586503
engine problems supposedly

Anonymous No. 16586543

what are you retards arguing about now

Anonymous No. 16586550

>>16586491
Once I saw him in a NSF stream and thought maybe he is trans because of his long hairs but then he talked and it was such a deep voice without any attempt to get a high pitched voice, that made me conclude that he isn't trans and just a normal guy with long hairs, seems like I was wrong.

Anonymous No. 16586555

>>16586538
>americans aren't smart enough
nah, they just don't use it because of hubris
>i never defended it
you got really angry that i mock people for using it, i don't care if you're able to use metric as well, a lot of americans either can't at all or choose not to because admitting that americans made a mistake is not an option.
kinda like what you're doing now, you're going nuclear lol, don't act like a thirdie, your pride isn't worth defending.
>falcon 9 was built in imperial
spacex actually exclusively uses metric, so your point is further weakened by this.

Anonymous No. 16586573

>>16586365
You can thank the JPL grifters for that.

Anonymous No. 16586574

>>16586400
We know it's on a brownoid inclination anyhow, and it's not big enough to do planetary-scale damage, I say just let it identify as a death meteor attack helicopter.

Anonymous No. 16586584

>>16586399
It's only latinx, negroes and jeets that are at risk of getting a medium sized nuclear warhead dropped on them and I'm honestly rooting for the asteroid to hit india

Anonymous No. 16586599

>>16586574
>brownoid inclination
As a macroscale example of Brownian Motion this is sure to be an interesting study in realworld physics

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Anonymous No. 16586608

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1890426566045307330

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-13/spacex-s-south-africa-talks-stall-over-musk-trump-tensions?embedded-checkout=true
>Under South Africa’s so-called BBBEE rules, companies must allocate a 30% shareholding to historically disadvantaged groups. The legislation was introduced by the government after the end of apartheid in 1994 to give South Africa’s Black majority a greater stake in the economy from which they were excluded during White-minority rule.

Anonymous No. 16586617

>>16586608
>south africa places sanctions on elon
yeah right, that would get their country fucked by trump

Anonymous No. 16586627

>>16585927
you say it's a joke, but people really do think that way

Anonymous No. 16586631

>>16586491
NSF has fallen so hard...

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Anonymous No. 16586642

>>16586491
It is Nosferatu!
In manus tuas, Domine .......

Anonymous No. 16586645

>sls will be cheaper if you launch it more often
is that really the case? why wouldnt boeing just increase the price every time in order to keep the gravy flowing?

Anonymous No. 16586650

>>16586645
Bringing $4 billion per launch down to $3 billion is technically cheaper, I suppose. But still unbelievably ass

Anonymous No. 16586651

>>16586493
Jared needs to hit the gym so he can outmog this guy

Anonymous No. 16586654

>>16586399
He is African, perhaps instead of lecturing fellow americans (of which this is not our concern) he should go tell the subsaharan african countries to bolster their space defense budgets!

Anonymous No. 16586673

>>16586608
Musk has no problem doing business with shady government officials in Zimbabwe to install Starlink in that country but somehow South Africa is a bridge too far.

He isn't serious about getting Starlink to South Africa. He will just screw over South African subscribers because he has a hate boner for the country.

Anonymous No. 16586678

>>16586673
its the same reason why there's no starlink in china or india. both require majority ownership of starlink in order to operate there. that's a nonstarter for elon.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16586682

>>16586678
Aren't telco operators 100% state-owned in China?

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Anonymous No. 16586689

>>16586678
>both require majority ownership of starlink in order to operate there.

South Africa is asking for 30% which every telecommunications company in South Africa adheres to.

>that's a non starter for elon
Elon doesn't seem to mind working with these guys. I'm sure their busines
s dealings are above board.

>Starlink gaining approval in Zimbabwe by working through a company linked to a convicted fraudster has raised questions about the Elon Musk-owned satellite Internet service’s reluctance to launch in South Africa over supposed regulatory concerns.

>Zimbabwe’s president Emmerson Mnangagwaannounced he had approved Starlinkin an X post on 25 May 2024.
“I’m pleased to announce that I have approved the licensing of Starlink by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe to provide advanced Internet and related digital processing services in Zimbabwe through its sole and exclusive local partner, IMC Communications,”Mnangagwa wrote.

Anonymous No. 16586707

>>16586678
SA only requires 30%. Assuming that 30% ownership is just for a local subsidiary or partner of SpaceX rather than the full parent company, that means it's just another bribe/tax that you pay for doing business in SA. The marginal cost for Starlink to extend coverage into SA is close to zero, so there's no reason for SpaceX not to pay the bribe/tax. Various space-based communications services are available in SA, so it's apparently possible to arrange.

Anonymous No. 16586711

South Africa is almost certainly planning to use Spacesail. I think neither Musk nor South Africa's government are particularly interested in a Starlink deal.

Anonymous No. 16586715

>>16586153
There is no feasible alternative to SLS if the goal is to get back to the moon before the Chinese get there in 2029

Anonymous No. 16586716

>>16586673
Musk is not screwing over potential subscribers.
People's own governments are screwing them over. Maybe they should rise up, and overthrow said government?
Why cant Musk simply take down the geofencing and fuck everyone's gay policy? Since when did "we" care about "their" policy? Recommendation for people who desire Starlink:
1. Buy Starlink equipment in any country that sells it. Transfer funds securely to SpaceX to activate.
2. Cross borders with your personal items as any individual has a right to.
3. Use Starlink, and enjoy free speech with a strong, jam resistant signal.
*Use Starlink at your own risk. Not void where prohibited. Use Starlink responsibly.
It isn't fucking hard, why is this STUPID discussion still ongoing?
(waited 900 seconds for this)

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Anonymous No. 16586719

>>16586716
If Musk has no will towards South Africa then why is he responding to this guy in the tweet above with regards to Starlink in South Africa?

Do you really believe that South African government can trust Elon after knowingly interacting with such individuals?

Anonymous No. 16586720

>>16586716
Countries own their spectrum rights. Starlink can't provide unapproved service in countries without violating both national and ITU rules.

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Anonymous No. 16586722

>>16586719
>warns Louis Liebenberg

Anonymous No. 16586725

>>16586720
This is enforceable how?
Never heard of the ITU army, are they well equipped to prevent it? I would be surprised if they can defeat SpaceX.

Anonymous No. 16586730

>>16586707
Even if SpaceX had to give away 30% ownership of the local entity, that doesn't mean they would even necessarily need to give away 30% of profits. The subsidiary or partner company could just funnel 100% of the profits to SpaceX as debt or a licencing fee, and show zero profit on their financial statements

Anonymous No. 16586733

>>16586725
It's a bad idea to normalize what is essentially jamming of other countries' sovereign spectrum. It could come back to bite the US later.

Anonymous No. 16586734

>>16586645
Because the marginal cost of SLS isn't anywhere close to $4 billion

Anonymous No. 16586740

>>16586468
Huffington Post wouldn't say, which makes sense since it is classified information. Even if they did say, it wouldn't make any difference to the credibility of their article, since we the readers can't verify this number now that the information has been removed from DOGE's database

Anonymous No. 16586741

>>16586740
its supposedly literally on doge.gov but i didnt check

Anonymous No. 16586742

>>16586719
SA is run by a gang of old school commie blacks who want to kill the Boer.

Anonymous No. 16586743

>>16586722
Louis Liebenberg is a Boer. Liebenberg is a common surname amongst the Afrikaner community.

Anonymous No. 16586748

>>16586733
I'm trying to think of scenarios where this would actually bite us, and coming up blank.
Who and how?
Starlink should be free to beam signals across the ENTIRE planet. Not sure who is in charge of the entire planet, but it seems to be Musk & Trump. Oops, a hardware bug just disabled geofencing. Cant patch it, sorry guys for the awesome internet everywhere, that one is squarely on us, mea culpa
but, not sorry. your policies were gay

Anonymous No. 16586755

>>16586742
>SA is run by a gang of old school commie blacks who want to kill the Boer.

You mean the same Boers who rejected Trump's offer of asylum in the US?

>AfriForum and the the Solidarity Movement have backtracked on the white genocide claims, publicly turning down US President Donald Trump's offer for refuge in the United States of America.
>In a joint media briefing on Saturday, the Afrikaner interest and civil society group AfriForum, and the trade union Solidarity, were unequivocal, saying white Afrikaners were going nowhere and theAfrikaners’ future lies in Africa, specifically in South Africa.

https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/afriforums-u-turn-on-white-genocide-as-they-decline-trumps-refugee-offer-719f9658-3793-4b31-9f69-43441666c32a

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/south-africa-s-afrikaners-turn-down-trump-s-refugee-offer/3476111

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Anonymous No. 16586760

>>16586740
>Huffington Post
a reputable source of journalism

Anonymous No. 16586765

>>16586755
Yeah. Those guys are stubborn and don't want to move. Doesn't change how their government feels about them.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16586768

>>16586442
Most countries have customary units. It's why using English style customary units is such a bad idea. It can cause immense confusion internationally, because customary units are nonstandard. Just as there are English "feet", there are German "Fuss", a Swedish "fot", or even a Chinese "chi". These are all similar but very much not the same. Likewise, an English "mile" is similar but very much not the same as a German "Meile", Swedish "mil" or Chinese "li". The same with pound/Pfund/pund/jin, inch/Zoll/tum/cun, yard/Elle/aln, fathom/Faden/famn/bu, etc etc

That is the biggest reason for why metric is better than imperial.

Anonymous No. 16586769

>>16585448
>Jeff Bezos laid me off for being useless.... THIS IS EL*N'S FAULT
why are they like this?

Anonymous No. 16586771

>>16586442
Most countries have customary units. It's why using customary units is such a bad idea. It can cause a lot of confusion internationally, because customary units are nonstandard. Just as there are English "feet", there are German "Fuss", Swedish "fot", and even Chinese "chi". These are all similar but very much not the same. Likewise, an English "mile" is similar but very much not the same as a German "Meile", Swedish "mil" or Chinese "li". The same with pound/Pfund/pund/jin, inch/Zoll/tum/cun, yard/Elle/aln, fathom/Faden/famn/bu, etc etc

That is the biggest reason for why metric is better than imperial.

Anonymous No. 16586773

>>16585560
>the world's most popular social media site
Pretty sure that would be Facebook. Twitter never had the user count to be the world's most popular. It was the most popular in the specific niche of famous, rich and influential (including j********ts) people though.

Anonymous No. 16586774

>>16586748
I think that for example the Chinese and probably also the Russians have the resources to build jammers and use them in ways the US and US-aligned countries probably wouldn't like

Anonymous No. 16586777

>>16586741
The article was published more than 14 hours ago. I assume the info will have almost certainly been removed by now

Anonymous No. 16586780

>>16584963
>EVA suit at 1 atm
source?

Anonymous No. 16586781

make europe pay for sls

Anonymous No. 16586782

>>16586755
Boers; Not known for being cowards and running away.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16586784

>>16586742
>old school commie blacks who want to kill the Boer.
These days, those would mainly be the EEF. A large reason for why ANC pushes so many of these stupid race-based proposals these days is because they want to placate voters who might otherwise defect to the EEF

Anonymous No. 16586786

>>16586742
>old school commie blacks who want to kill the Boer.
These days, those would mainly be the EEF. I think a large reason for why ANC keeps pushing so many of these stupid race-based proposals even these days is because they want to placate voters who might otherwise defect to the EEF

Anonymous No. 16586788

>>16586782
>Boers; Not known for being cowards and running
Must be the first time in recorded history that a group of people in an African country claiming ethnic cleansing turns down a golden ticket to relocate to the US.

Seems like the Boers still have it good in South Africa and just don't want to go and wage cuck at Walmart in the US.

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Anonymous No. 16586789

>>16585823
First off, the demise of DEI practices is a win for merit-based culture, which is necessary if humanity is going to meaningfully develop our space flight capabilities. Hiring the best people for the job gets you Apollo Programs and organizations like SpaceX. Letting DEI-oriented HR ladies run your organization gets you Starliner.

To more directly answer your question:
1. DEI hiring/etc is literally ILLEGAL, hiring based on race or sex is a clear cut violation of the Civil Rights Act.
2. The new federal government may actually prosecute them for this, unlike the previous governments which rewarded them for it.
3. Public polling shows them that the public is fed up and may soon start punishing more companies and brands than Budweiser for it.

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Anonymous No. 16586795

>>16586443
They're common in east coast states too. "Americans don't know roundabouts" is just a meme that Europeans use to cope and feel smug about themselves.

btw, Overpass Turbo and ChatGPT is a powerful combination.

Anonymous No. 16586796

>>16586788
>a group of people in an African country claiming ethnic cleansing turns down a golden ticket to relocate to the US.
they were probably all black and looking for a free ticket. These white south africans are tough fuckers and many of them dont really feel like abandoning their land, long worked on, for a bunch of lazy naggas to shit all over.
>Seems like the Boers still have it good in South Africa and just don't want to go and wage cuck at Walmart in the US.
yeah ok, im sure thats it. good one.

Anonymous No. 16586798

>>16586364
>he thinks Brilliant Pebbles has merely a Top Secret classification
lmao, the government wants me dead for even inferring the modern existence of this project through public domain sources and basic logical deduction.

Anonymous No. 16586799

>>16586774
But if they did that, it would be an act of war, and we would retaliate with a high confidence of winning swiftly and decisively.
Oppressive governments can feel free to brute-force jam local ground spots deep within their territory, but it wont stop the Earth-encompassing Starlink constellation from providing service to the globe when a user requests a data packet? Just look at the trajectories of these satellites. They are always on, dominating the sky with the ground paths you see, so there is that! A radio overhead, its powered up and willing to connect, and you paid to connect. It connects! Its like, you are shocked and appalled?
Why are you such a fucking pussy? Its people like you we need to sweep away, stop putting up barriers that are not physics
fuck you and the stuff you were taught before. Its not right and now you know

Anonymous No. 16586802

>>16586798
>the govt. wants me dead
unironically take your med

Anonymous No. 16586808

>>16586796
>they were probably all black and looking for a free ticket. These white south africans are tough fuckers and many of them dont really feel like abandoning their land, long worked on, for a bunch of lazy naggas to shit all over.
Thought the Boers were being ethnically cleansed in South Africa? Trump offered them a way out. What are they waiting for by hanging around there?

Anonymous No. 16586814

>>16586740
>>16586175
How many civilian employees NRO has, which is not what HuffPo was trying to lead you to believe.

Anonymous No. 16586818

>>16586755
>have backtracked on the white genocide claims

"We want to live in the country we created." =/= backtracking on blacks in their government being genocidal

Anonymous No. 16586825

Header tanks are cope. FIX THIS ELON

Anonymous No. 16586828

>>16586808
>Thought the Boers were being ethnically cleansed in South Africa?
they have been the target of black nationalist attacks for years. thats beyond doubt. maybe that would lead some to consider fleeing, given the brutality of the tortures and murders committed against them. Apparently some would rather stay and not be pushed out. Im not sure why the idea of differing opinions within a large group is confusing you so much.

Anonymous No. 16586838

>>16586825
He’s too busy with his own header tank if you know what I’m saying

Anonymous No. 16586841

>>16586550
>>16586491
They never bother with the voice, dead giveaway

Even the most man-jawed looking woman will 99% of the time have an unmistakably female voice, which is something /pol/ can't get into their heads for some reason and do meaningless transvestigations over

Anonymous No. 16586843

So the most influential people in spaceflight are two commies who hated each other, an incestuous lolli SS officer, and a rich gooner. Woah I wonder why this industry doesn’t appeal to the average joe?

Anonymous No. 16586846

>>16585909
>seems to have taken the mask off now
Everyone whose gone to blues*y has done that, except Tory, Based Tory

Anonymous No. 16586847

>>16586843
>an incestuous lolli SS officer,
cousin marriage isn't really incest

Anonymous No. 16586850

>>16586843
>focusing on people and relationships instead of HARDWARE
You are not autistic. In fact, you might even be a woman.

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Anonymous No. 16586851

https://x.com/launcher/status/1890262090776211858

Anonymous No. 16586852

>>16586406
The American problem is simply to ensure it hits the India/China border.

Anonymous No. 16586857

>>16586740
>faggington post
come one now
I take random shitposts here more seriously than that piece of shit rag

Anonymous No. 16586858

>>16586828
>Im not sure why the idea of differing opinions within a large group is confusing you so much.
Because literally nobody claiming to be the victims of ethnic cleansing in their home country turns down the offer of asylum by the US government.

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Anonymous No. 16586860

>>16586847
Stay out of Springfield weirdo

Anonymous No. 16586861

>upcoming nasa authorization bill focuses on commercial space stations as the number one priority for nasa
not the moon. not mars. LEO. because we can't cede it to the chinese.

Anonymous No. 16586863

>>16586858
wrong

Anonymous No. 16586864

>>16586799
So now you think that jamming is an act of war?

While the US certainly isn't very good at respecting other countries' sovereignty, the US still likes there to be a norm of at least some degree of restraint in committing acts of war against others, because otherwise all hell would break lose across the globe

>we would retaliate with a high confidence of winning swiftly and decisively.
Let me remind you of the nukes

Anonymous No. 16586867

>>16586858
its ok anon i get it - you'd abandon your ancestral land instead of making a stand. thats fine.

>>16586860
Take it up with Wernher.

🗑️ Anonymous No. 16586868

>>16586814
Where did you get the info that it was only civilian employees?

Even so, even just the civilian headcount would still be valuable information for an adversary, because it's an still indication of the level of activity within NRO and how much activity it manages. Certainly, it's an indication of the minimum level of activity.

Anonymous No. 16586869

>>16586864
Let me remind you of Brilliant Pebbles

Anonymous No. 16586871

>>16586814
Where did you get the info that it was only civilian employees?

Even so, even just the civilian headcount would still be valuable information for an adversary, because it's still an indication of the level of activity within NRO and how much activity it manages. Certainly, it's an indication of the minimum level of activity.

Anonymous No. 16586873

>>16586399
Neil is insufferable.

Anonymous No. 16586878

>>16586608
>companies must allocate a 30% shareholding to historically disadvantaged groups.
Disgusting horse shit, fuck that failed shithole.

Anonymous No. 16586879

>>16586869
A Brilliant Pebbles constellation doesn't exist, at least not in a fully deployed state, and even if it did exist, it is not guaranteed to catch everything. Also, Russia/China have diversified nuclear delivery systems, including supersonic bombers armed with various missiles that never leave the atmosphere, submarines that can launch a variety of missiles that never leave the atmosphere, intercontinental torpedoes, intercontinental cruise missiles, and soon also stealth bombers.

Anonymous No. 16586881

>>16586867
>its ok anon i get it - you'd abandon your ancestral land instead of making a stand. thats fine.
What good is that land if a group nogs armed with machetes turn up on your farm and take out you and your family when they could have been safe in the US?
How did that work out for those white farmers in Zimbabwe who didn't see the writing on the wall and decided to remain until a mob showed up to forcibly evict them?

Anonymous No. 16586883

>>16586869
Brilliant Pebbles prevents a counter-force first strike from succeeding. It doesn't prevent a counter-value retaliatory strike from succeeding.

Counter-force first strike:
>aimed at military assets
>needs to disarm the target country such that retaliation isn't possible
>if even a small fraction of the strikes fail, then the whole thing has failed and there will be a retaliation
>needs to hit targets deep in the mainland US, namely missile silos
>hitting targets so far inland necessitates the use of ballistic missiles
>Brilliant Pebbles stops those ballistic missiles

Counter-value retaliation:
>aimed at cities, intended to punish the target by killing a large number of civilians
>doesn't need to hit ALL cities to succeed, even a single city being nuked is such a severe outcome that the threat of this serves as adequate deterrent
>only a small fraction of the counter-value strikes succeeding is still a successful outcome
>there are plenty of cities in vulnerable positions along coastlines, with ports, etc
>Ballistic missiles are not necessary, enough counter-value strikes adequate for deterrence can be carried out using cruise missiles, long range torpedoes, shipping containers, etc

Defense against counter-force strikes is actually EASY. Arguably you don't even need Brilliant Pebbles for this, as SSBNs exist. Brilliant Pebbles is best thought as a hedge against the possibility that SSBNs could somehow be neutralized, which is fairly implausible if we're being frank. On the other hand, comprehensive 100% airtight defense against a counter-value retaliatory strike is IMPOSSIBLE. If there is even just a 10% chance that a single warhead reaches a city, then the threat of a counter-value retaliation serves as effective deterrence and prevents a war from happening.

Anonymous No. 16586887

>>16586883
>Brilliant Pebbles is best thought as a hedge against the possibility that SSBNs could somehow be neutralized,
Also, a hedge against the possibility that an adversary might be irrational enough to not be deterred by the threat of a counter-value retaliation (they don't give a shit if their own civilians get nuked.) It prevents, for example, Xi Jinping from deciding to sacrifice Chinese cities for an opportunity to destroy most of the American military. He would have to be completely insane to ever think that, but Brilliant Pebbles is a hedge against that possibility.

Anonymous No. 16586890

>>16586881
>whats the good of staying when other people want you to run away and let them take your land and stuff?
lets just consign this to a /pol/ thread if you want to carry on. i'd rather not allow EDS topics to take over, especially when not directly dealing with rockets.

Anonymous No. 16586892

>>16586881
They should simply slaughter everything on two legs that isn't them in a several hundred mile radius. Or leave, coexistence is clearly not going to work. Nothing else will work, so pick your poison. Perform a limited genocide, or conduct an exodus.

Anonymous No. 16586894

>>16586881
Just accept the fact that some people would rather take their stand against impossible odds than ever give up and run away. It's a fact of human behavior that some people are like this. Accept it and move on.

Anonymous No. 16586896

>>16586890
>>16586892
They wouldn't have asked to become refugees in the US if they had the power to do that.

Anonymous No. 16586897

>>16586896
>anons continues on his one man crusade of ignoring differences of opinions within a group of people
take it /pol/

Anonymous No. 16586898

>>16586894
That's the very same group that's been travelling to the US over years the to lobby politicians to grant them entry as refugees. Now they want to 'make a stand " after their wish was granted.

Anonymous No. 16586919

>>16586175
Comrade Masike needs to slow down a bit. At this rate, he's going to blow his cover.

Anonymous No. 16586933

>>16586898
"Groups" are comprised of many individuals which each have their own beliefs and preferences. The "group" you are speaking of is not a monolithic entity which things and acts in unison.

Anonymous No. 16586935

>>16586919
Don't worry, Elonovich will temper him

Anonymous No. 16586970

>>16586743
>steals hundreds of millions of dollars via financial fraud
>works for the anti-white nigger government
typical boer, right?
kill yourself

Anonymous No. 16586990

>>16586743
Yes goy I'm a fellow (((boer))) of course

Anonymous No. 16586992

>>16586883
A sufficiently large constellation would in fact prevent counter value strikes.

Anonymous No. 16587000

>>16586992
No, it absolutely would not. Brilliant Pebbles cannot intercept cruise missiles.

Anonymous No. 16587002

We'd be on mars now if all the colonies had actually committed genocide

Anonymous No. 16587003

>>16587002
He who saves a nation, violates no law.

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>>16587002
True. Also, gang rape is a net positive for society.

Anonymous No. 16587009

>>16587005
historic bonk

Anonymous No. 16587020

>>16586871
Fuck off retard

Anonymous No. 16587025

Staging
>>16587022
>>16587022
>>16587022

Anonymous No. 16587026

>>16587000
that's what Smart Rocks are for.

Anonymous No. 16587457

>>16586555
>spacex actually exclusively uses metric, so your point is further weakened by this.
you are either lying or ignorant. Starship uses metric, falcon is imperial.

Anonymous No. 16587461

>>16586774
>>16586799
>>16586864
Russia is actively jamming the shit out of Europe from Kaliningrad