🧵 /sfg/ - Spaceflight General
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:33:57 UTC No. 16587022
Deep Impact edition
previous >>16583752
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:36:02 UTC No. 16587029
>>16587026
Smart Rocks is the proposal which preceded Brilliant Pebbles. They're larger and not as clever.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:36:22 UTC No. 16587031
>>16587022
City-destroying asteroids are boring
IFT-8 when
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:37:19 UTC No. 16587035
25 launches this year edition
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:48:08 UTC No. 16587059
>>16587035
>>16587036
>>16587040
>t. H1B's working in the texas plant
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:53:44 UTC No. 16587067
>>16587035
posted it again award
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 19:57:50 UTC No. 16587077
>easy to fire new employees rather than old employees
this boomer run society is disgusting
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:02:13 UTC No. 16587086
Launch when
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:02:44 UTC No. 16587087
>>16587059
hi schizoanon
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:12:20 UTC No. 16587096
its going to be hell at work Tuesday.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:12:36 UTC No. 16587098
>>16587029
sooner or later technology will progress to the level of genius sand
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:13:22 UTC No. 16587100
>>16587097
dont remind me, I have an alt contract right now and I really want to get bumped to primary. Got my PQ all done too
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:14:29 UTC No. 16587101
>>16587096
why?
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:15:50 UTC No. 16587102
>>16587098
no no, next is genius gravel, then we get psychic sand
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:23:09 UTC No. 16587108
>>16587102
Clairvoyant Dust is the real shit
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:23:50 UTC No. 16587109
>>16587096
Real workers report in at 6:45 AM on Monday, with enthusiasm for whats next.
The reason for your firing is clear. Get the fuck out of here and never come back.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:25:29 UTC No. 16587113
Prognosticating particulates
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:26:03 UTC No. 16587114
>>16587101
because the doge idiots are getting my boss fired for no other reason than he's a new hire, despite having been a fed employee before?
It's all bullshit
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:26:50 UTC No. 16587116
>>16587114
oh well
:)
guess he has to find a real job
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:27:24 UTC No. 16587117
>>16587116
the dumb thing is I can't tell if you're trolling or not.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:27:34 UTC No. 16587119
>>16587114
This wouldn't happen if y'all actually did productive work instead of living off the goodwill of taxpayers (which has run out!!!)
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:29:58 UTC No. 16587123
>>16587119
so why fire the new people if the old ones are the "unproductive" ones? idiot
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:32:49 UTC No. 16587129
>>16587113
REALLY smart Regoliths
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:39:50 UTC No. 16587142
>>16587123
You already said he previous was a federal employee.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:44:16 UTC No. 16587153
>>16587059
>mindbroken impotent white minority rage
maybe learn to code?
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:45:56 UTC No. 16587158
>>16587097
not really, temperature is probably much easier to deal with since on mars you're not dealing with dense cold air. and they also have immediate access to the crust which means easier in situ mining. also no snow cover that buries everything.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:51:07 UTC No. 16587170
>>16587123
It's not either/or. You've all got to go.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:53:25 UTC No. 16587174
>>16587098
>>16587102
>>16587108
>>16587113
>>16587129
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/G
https://pressbooks.openeducationalb
>Bright Boulders
>Cunning Cobbles
>Brilliant Pebbles
>Shining Sand
>Shrewd Silt
>Canny Clay
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:57:32 UTC No. 16587179
>>16587174
>Shimmering Shale
>Magnificent Mudrock
>Beaming Breccia
>Clear Conglomerate
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:14:52 UTC No. 16587197
>>16587196
no, just rocks now.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:15:53 UTC No. 16587199
/SFG/ Sunny Flying Geology
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:17:49 UTC No. 16587205
>>16587196
Buran, my beloved...
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:23:50 UTC No. 16587213
i motion that the 2024 YR4 asteroid be officially designated the moniker "Bright Boulder"
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:25:32 UTC No. 16587217
>>16587123
because its easier to fire the probies
if they could fire with some objective performance metric, they would (probably will try that as well later)
the point is to downsize and automate, doesn't matter if the person is competent either if the thing they are doing is pointless or automatable and if its neither of those, they can always hire back a few of the people
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:26:02 UTC No. 16587220
>>16587213
I second this motion
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:27:24 UTC No. 16587223
>>16587199
>Flying Geology
ASTEROIDS!
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:29:24 UTC No. 16587225
Does anyone have a link to the Chinese made space combat videos posted some weeks ago?
They were very detailed and realistic.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:30:38 UTC No. 16587227
>>16587223
I think you mean Astute Asteroids.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:31:57 UTC No. 16587228
>>16587179
just wait until the autistic aggregate gets here
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:33:32 UTC No. 16587232
>>16587228
pretty sure he already made a few posts
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:33:36 UTC No. 16587233
>>16587179
CLEAR MENTIONED
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 21:40:33 UTC No. 16587237
>>16587233
I love my schizo wife
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:19:53 UTC No. 16587271
>rogget launch at the cape 1 day before I'm visiting
please scrub please scrub please scrub
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:30:43 UTC No. 16587288
>>16587272
Is this guy not entertained or something?
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:34:33 UTC No. 16587292
>>16587097
If you just don't take into account small things like breathable atmosphere, protection from radiation, the right amount of gravity and abundant water.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:39:50 UTC No. 16587302
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:41:51 UTC No. 16587305
>>16587292
actually there is a giant hole in the ozone layer above antarctica. these people have been completely irradatiated away. also go outside in antarctica and breathe the raw air for an hour. and in winter you cant last more than a few minutes due to breathing difficulty and frostbite in your lungs.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:46:16 UTC No. 16587308
>>16587114
>boss is a new hire instead of a manager who has been working there for a long time and knows everything works
>white knight for him
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:47:30 UTC No. 16587311
>>16587272
oh no, the multi millionaires scamming the US taxpayers will lose their houses? that's so sad
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:47:56 UTC No. 16587312
>>16587300
take a piece of clothing off and throw it
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:49:52 UTC No. 16587313
>>16587293
>using some tin snips wears somebody hand through to the bone
oh give me a break
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:56:55 UTC No. 16587318
>>16587293
If someone ever interviews me for their book I'm going to tell the dumbest story they will print
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:58:03 UTC No. 16587320
>>16587293
maybe he was taking lots of meth or crocodil to work those crazy long shifts, and didn't notice destroying his hand like that
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 22:59:06 UTC No. 16587321
>>16587309
tell trump it'll help him identify hidden DEI programmes
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:01:55 UTC No. 16587323
>>16587309
By giving all space agencies and rocket manufacturers unlimited freedom and money. Fuck the boomers. This is what I would unironically do if I was king of America.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:04:32 UTC No. 16587326
if POWER is one of the biggest factors of civilization
why are we going to mars where it's 1/4 of earths solar power rather than venus where its 4 times earths solar power
I need BALLOON colonies
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:08:02 UTC No. 16587331
>>16587324
Eh... this might simply be an artefact that Nuclear/Space were relatively new so there simply weren't many 40+ guys who could've studied it at Uni.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:08:14 UTC No. 16587332
>>16587326
a few little nuclear reactors solves any such silly problem
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:09:12 UTC No. 16587333
>>16587331
What is the distribution for spacex?
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:09:20 UTC No. 16587334
>>16587331
also how the demographics of the country looked like before birthrates cratered in the 60's
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:30:18 UTC No. 16587353
>>16587331
>>16587334
these are both correct to a degree, but there was still a conscious effort to make sure bureaucracies were relatively clear of deadwood back then. the best example would be george marshall forcing more than a thousand army officers who were deemed too unfit or too incompetent into retirement in 1940. note: this is spaceflight related because the marshall spaceflight center is named after him.
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:41:19 UTC No. 16587369
>>16587300
Humans have a built-in pressure-fed thruster consisting of their lungs and mouth
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:06 UTC No. 16587376
>>16587369
How much thrust can be applied this way?
It can't be much
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:13 UTC No. 16587377
>>16587321
It will spot potential H1B applicants in India from space
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:59 UTC No. 16587379
>>16587300
expel reaction mass by ejaculating
Anonymous at Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:55:05 UTC No. 16587380
>>16587036
>you requested a psyker, my lord
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:01:15 UTC No. 16587383
>>16587300
Take off your shirt and use it as a peddle. You can see the CoM had moved, proving you can eventually swim/paddle through the air.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:05:29 UTC No. 16587384
>>16587300
wait for the a/c circulation to move you close to a wall
pull out your tape measure and use it to pull or push yourself
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:08:08 UTC No. 16587386
>>16587300
have fun
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:14:21 UTC No. 16587389
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:14:44 UTC No. 16587390
>>16587376
It's microgravity, moron, you don't need much.
Also the air is your reaction mass, so your "fuel tank" is essentially limitless. Getting stuck away from a wall is a meme, strand me in the middle of a pressurized volume the size of a fucking stadium and I'll be fine in 15 minutes.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:23:47 UTC No. 16587395
>>16587390
Nah, you would end up spinning disoriented before you would get anywhere
You are applying thrust way above your center of mass
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:24:54 UTC No. 16587396
>>16587395
>You are applying thrust way above your center of mass
Plank it all the way, baby
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:30:30 UTC No. 16587401
>>16587272
>struggle to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table
Ohhh, give me a fucking break. First worlders will literally complain about everything, they have no idea how fucking privileged they are.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:31:00 UTC No. 16587403
>>16587300
pee
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:41:11 UTC No. 16587409
>>16587390
microgravity, but not vacuum. air will arrest your motion very quickly and you will become exhausted
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:45:25 UTC No. 16587417
>>16587395
The neck can bend, anon.
>>16587409
"No"
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:58:42 UTC No. 16587423
Space sex when?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:45:30 UTC No. 16587462
>>16587423
sex should be abolished. waste of energy, and resources.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 01:57:49 UTC No. 16587468
>>16587423
Probably already happened.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:05:37 UTC No. 16587472
>>16587272
It hasn't sunk in yet that this whole exercise in downsizing is deliberately intended to impoverish political opponents in a very funny "I learned about the political economy from Victoria 3" kind of way. Don't want a class to vote for your opponents? Remove their opponent-provided livelihoods. The midterms will be very instructive in how effective this approach is.
What I'm waiting to see (and to keep this spaceflight related) is what impact this is going to have on NASA's army of contractors. Everything it does is governed by contract language that has to be audited by people at GSA/DCMA. And they were already understaffed before. I expect at least one extremely embarrassing hack of a contractor to happen because there are no auditors left to see if the rules are being followed.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:06:13 UTC No. 16587473
>>16587462
The act of sex is inefficient at procreation. All the moving and heavy breathing. Elon is ahead of the curve as usual.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:19:30 UTC No. 16587485
>>16587423
Elon’s next trick should be spayed sex
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:34:25 UTC No. 16587499
>>16587472
DC votes for democrats like they are in North Korea
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:00:37 UTC No. 16587523
>>16587518
I wonder how much a LM5 costs per launch. It’s the coolest china rocket.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:10:13 UTC No. 16587532
>>16587300
wait for the beans to kick in
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:30:25 UTC No. 16587546
>>16587523
More than China would like. I don't think any of the early cryogenic Long Marches came out in the economic place that China wanted them to.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:32:56 UTC No. 16587547
>>16587523
There was a recent CASC insider who claimed cost of CZ5 between $83M and $110M (I imagine depending on version).
On the low end, we've had US Space Force intelligence claim that their marginal cost was $3,000/kg, or about $75M per launch. Although this estimate has been met with some skepticism.https://arstechnica.com/
On the high end, there were variously sourced estimates around $150M or higher, close to the similarly sized Ariane 5, larger Atlas V or H-IIB... Although I do believe it's a bit cheaper than all of these if only due to lower labor cost (although nowadays chinese skilled labour wage is converging with Japanese or European one)
so idk, "on the order of $100M" seems to be the average.
What is certain is that CZ5 has not had commercial success, and it has only been used for governmental/military programs.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:45:09 UTC No. 16587551
>>16587547
>Although this estimate has been met with some skepticism
Because there was nothing to support the quote was real.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:51:23 UTC No. 16587554
>>16587551
Well the "senior leader of the Space Force's intelligence directorate" is kinda supposed to have his own sources.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:53:24 UTC No. 16587555
>>16587554
The quote in question is the one attributed to him.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 03:53:52 UTC No. 16587556
>>16587546
yeah, CZ-7A is largely considered to be at least twice more expensive than 3B, despite only having 20% higher GTO payload
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:05:51 UTC No. 16587591
He who launches cool rockets violates no law.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:21:15 UTC No. 16587599
>>16587591
So epic and based friend! You just won the internet!
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:25:26 UTC No. 16587601
he who saves /sfg/ violates no board rule
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:28:41 UTC No. 16587602
>>16587601
Kek
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 06:20:10 UTC No. 16587629
it really do be dead lately dont it
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:22:30 UTC No. 16587652
>>16587629
Starship is doing fucking nothing and Elon is busy doing retarded shit.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:26:07 UTC No. 16587653
>>16587629
Nothing is happening and upcoming starship launch won't be exciting as they will probably redo the same mission profile after last failure.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:48:27 UTC No. 16587656
>>16587653
what was the last mission again?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:49:13 UTC No. 16587658
>>16587652
Yeah I feel the stagnation, Starship was never a Mars vehicle, it was only meant to print Earth money with Starlink, and exert political/military control over the world.
Disappointed?
I am too.
Guys, we have been tricked. Its time to find a new hobby, and its not gonna be easy.
This feeling of shame... we should have known better. How can we prevent this from happening again? Its always a bait and switch. They yank the rug, then point and laugh, there are clowns everywhere, and the Benny Hill music plays. This time its on me. Next time, it will be on you. Or maybe it was already on you.
Yet we are still here, tolerating this clownery. Why do we keep doing it /sfg/? We were supposed to be the smart ones, and yet we are the puppets getting our strings pulled for the lolz.
See you tomorrow I guess
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:49:27 UTC No. 16587659
>>16587656
mission profile*
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:55:48 UTC No. 16587663
>>16587656
dummy payload, engine relight and also bunch of tests as it was a new design
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:56:10 UTC No. 16587664
>>16587659
Raptor in-space relight, pez dispenser door and dummy sat deployment.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:00:13 UTC No. 16587666
>>16587658
>How can we prevent this from happening again?
Do it yourself
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:24:51 UTC No. 16587675
>>16587658
you can either do it yourself or you can fuck off, you disingenuous nigger
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:44:29 UTC No. 16587679
>>16587666
>Do it yourself
>>16587675
>do it yourself
This is how you can tell it Euro-O'clock
The projectionists are here
Come on now. Really?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:46:01 UTC No. 16587680
>>16587272
Nothing more entertaining than a plebbitor seething
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:30:28 UTC No. 16587697
>>16587311
>multi millionaires scamming the US taxpayers
Lol, someone is too young to remember 2007, the rich get richer and it comes from the bottom.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:57:26 UTC No. 16587716
i pooped. wow it stanky
fuk a poop
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 09:59:35 UTC No. 16587719
>>16587300
Spray liquid shit from my anus all over the walls, spinning rapidly. feral fecal fan: propellor technique!
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 10:22:56 UTC No. 16587736
>>16587300
I would be safe, I fart frequently.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:15:05 UTC No. 16587767
>>16587757
>lots of ice
>lots of gas
>nothing else
whoop de doo. What amazing worlds, huh. Truly shocking how no one wants to bother sending probes to balls of ice and gas amirite.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:19:10 UTC No. 16587768
>>16587767
Kill yourself libtard
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:08:25 UTC No. 16587798
>>16587697
Oh cool, a class movement. I sure hope no one redirects that energy by blasting everyone with culture war nonsense for a decade
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:09:50 UTC No. 16587800
>>16587658
>starship was never a mars vehicle
sorry but it is, i know this makes you upset
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:32:44 UTC No. 16587821
>>16587656
create the best fireworks shows ever seen and give beach combers something to do for months.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:43:59 UTC No. 16587827
>>16587826
SLS will take us to Mars
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 12:59:49 UTC No. 16587840
>>16587757
Because Uranus smelly.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:53:23 UTC No. 16587887
>>16587757
>find out that all the icy moons not only have life, but advanced civilization
>find out they thought earth was a dead world because it isnt a water world covered in a layer of thick ice to protect from radiation
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:06:32 UTC No. 16587899
>>16587826
are you retarded?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:10:08 UTC No. 16587904
>>16587757
The simplest answer is we haven’t gone back (and have only been one time) because the way NASA’s budget is controlled / the way missions are prioritized and greenlit is very dumb
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:39:12 UTC No. 16587921
>Astronaut Scott Kelly, who's spent almost a year in space, said in a Reddit AMA that this made something rather odd happen to his feet. "The calluses on your feet in space will eventually fall off," he wrote. "So, the bottoms of your feet become very soft like newborn baby feet. But the top of my feet develop rough alligator skin because I use the top of my feet to get around here on space station when using foot rails."
>Don Pettit, who's logged over 300 days in space, said the same thing happened to his feet in a 2012 blog post. "After about two months in orbit your feet molt, and like some reptilian creature the callused skin on the bottom of your foot sheds, leaving soft pink flesh in its place," he wrote. "In the weightless environment, calluses apparently have no use, at least on the bottoms of your feet. However, the tops of your feet become red-rubbed raw and gnarly. And the bottom calluses shed faster than the top calluses can grow. Perpetually raw and hypersensitive, your foot tops can use a bit of padding to ease the pain."
ok im cool with not going to space now
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:40:54 UTC No. 16587926
>>16587757
snobbery at cheapo flyby missions
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:50:51 UTC No. 16587937
>>16587887
more like
>find out they never even knew a universe outside their water existed in the first place because they live under miles of ice and going through that has been as inconceivable and utterly ridiculous to them as going beneath the Earth's crust is to humanity.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:53:18 UTC No. 16587941
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:54:00 UTC No. 16587942
>>16587921
>However, the tops of your feet become red-rubbed raw
Sounds like a skill issue.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:55:28 UTC No. 16587945
>>16587941
Sky crane landers are extremely impressive but they're a technological dead end. They simply don't scale.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:05:54 UTC No. 16587952
>>16587757
A fundamental problem is that you can't do scientifically worthwile ice giant missions without RTGs
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:13:11 UTC No. 16587961
>firefox decides it's time to update
>closes my esefgee tab
>have to go and find this general again
>literally the first post I see in the catalog: 0.33333=1/3
>second post I see: IQ bell curve
I barely made it guys, /sci/ is a shithole.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:15:06 UTC No. 16587963
>>16587961
>he doesn't use thread watcher
do you even 4chinz?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:17:42 UTC No. 16587968
>>16587961
>doesn't have FF configured to restore tabs after quitting
do you even internetz?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:20:52 UTC No. 16587970
>>16587940
>>16587941
kino but skycranes just scream “unnecessary complexity and points of failure”
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:26:36 UTC No. 16587974
>>16587970
>points of failure
Have skycranes failed before?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:28:17 UTC No. 16587975
>>16587974
has SLS failed before?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:33:20 UTC No. 16587978
>>16587970
The problem it's solving isn't complexity, it's mass reduction.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:33:27 UTC No. 16587979
>>16587975
Skycranes have much more track record than SLS, and also the Artemis capsule's heat shield very nearly failed completely the one time it was flight tested.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:38:16 UTC No. 16587980
>>16587979
>have much more track record
>2 flights instead of 1
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:42:03 UTC No. 16587983
>>16587978
refusing to solve the complexity problem is why JPL is losing MSR to a company who is doing what looks on the surface like the exact same architecture
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:44:03 UTC No. 16587984
>>16587980
That's literally twice as much.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:58:09 UTC No. 16587995
>>16587798
When you own the media, it really is that easy!
At any time that is convenient, just hype up an everyday routine police shooting or two, and repeat it nonstop across every single media outlet, tell your presentation puppets to look outraged, surely the good intentions will shine thru and the collective consciousnesses changes the narrative overnight.
Niggers, Faggots, and Liberals will rise up, obliterate and overshadow every good point made by people who started to notice.
Works. Every. Time.
And, its primed to work again
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:58:48 UTC No. 16587996
>>16587921
Spehs gives me roughed up toes
oh noes
i can't believe that anybody goes due to all those spehs woes
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:02:50 UTC No. 16587999
>>16587652
saving America is part of the Starship program
we're never going to hear about another fucking beetle again
Barkon !8v8vr3ErDk at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:05:50 UTC No. 16588003
>>16588001
Life's too short for what ifs faggite pilgrim.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:06:44 UTC No. 16588004
>>16587658
kill yourself, faggot
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:08:42 UTC No. 16588006
>>16588001
I would laugh out loud at Titanfag tears as they seethe and cope
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:27 UTC No. 16588012
>>16588003
It's a genuine fear that keeps me up at night.
>>16588006
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:13:58 UTC No. 16588014
>>16587996
I can't believe we live in a timeline where we'll be checking foot calluses before tossing suspected earthers out the airlock
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:16:15 UTC No. 16588018
>>16588004
I accept your concession, sperg-kun
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:17:19 UTC No. 16588020
>>16588012
> things made of metal on Titan
haha
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:20:10 UTC No. 16588023
>>16588020
What?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:35:07 UTC No. 16588036
>>16588018
>calls you retarded instead of turboretarded
>i-i accept your concession.
you're still retarded, that's still bad, anon.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:38:18 UTC No. 16588041
>>16588036
I'm the retard, but we all think alike here
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:39:45 UTC No. 16588045
>>16588020
As opposed to what, plastic? Wood? Carved stone?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:40:57 UTC No. 16588047
>>16588045
It would have to be plastic
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:42:08 UTC No. 16588049
>>16588045
plastics are super easy on titan because you can just scoop the hydrocarbons up with a bucket
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:56:22 UTC No. 16588059
>>16587999
So he's fixing earth before going to mars?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:58:16 UTC No. 16588062
>>16588059
no he's just fixing issues that would prevent us from going to mars.
AKA going to mars.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:00:46 UTC No. 16588063
>>16588059
its a necessary sidequest due to how shittily things were going
without a stable and non-obstructing US government its impossible to start building a self sustaining mars colony
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:24:21 UTC No. 16588095
>>16587999
>we're never going to hear about another fucking beetle again
Elon realized areoforming earth is much easier than terraforming Mars
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:39:51 UTC No. 16588118
>Today at 10:30 am Teheran time, Hassan Salarieh, head of the Iranian Space Agency, announced that they had launched on Sunday the Navak micro-satellite to Geostationary orbit on an upgraded Simorgh rocket
>Soon after this was retracted and replaced with an announcement that the launch will happen in the "upcoming days"
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:44:05 UTC No. 16588127
>>16587153
>>16587087
>Angry subhuman noises
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:45:46 UTC No. 16588130
>>16587272
>Posting twitter capped on reddlt on 4chan
JFC you retards turn everything you touch to shit.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:49:27 UTC No. 16588136
>>16587999
>>16588059
>>16588095
H1B's won't save America nor will they ever make it to mars.
Elon is grifting American taxpayers to increase corporate profits.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:52:33 UTC No. 16588140
>>16588136
>he's spending billions and decades of his life on a clever plan to somewhat reduce his labor costs
kill yourself NOW
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:58:21 UTC No. 16588149
>>16588130
now post it a screenshot of it on X to complete the circle
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:01:17 UTC No. 16588152
>>16587547
>marginal cost was $3,000/kg, or about $75M per launch.
>Although this estimate has been met with some skepticism
This cost estimate is completely consistent with the other cost estimates, when you consider that it is for *marginal* cost
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:03:58 UTC No. 16588156
>>16587523
More than an LM6A or LM8 per kg, that's for sure.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:06:54 UTC No. 16588158
>>16588152
Right,
CZ-5 launch rate is too low for marginal cost to be representative then.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:09:08 UTC No. 16588163
>>16587556
Out of curiosity, where does this 7A vs 3B cost estimate come from?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:15:47 UTC No. 16588172
>>16587077
>This is a new thing
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:16:17 UTC No. 16588173
>>16587170
A federal government, what's it even good for?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:18:40 UTC No. 16588178
>>16588140
>Reduce labor
Yes, at the cost of innovation and quality
>His plan is clever
His plan is trite even by 1950s standards.
>Spending billions
Yes, grifted from US taxpayers to reduce overhead for private corporate profits.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:21:20 UTC No. 16588183
>>16587117
The dumb thing is very clearly you.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:21:40 UTC No. 16588184
>>16587102
>>16587108
Hyperintelligent molecules
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:21:59 UTC No. 16588186
>>16588127
>grrr i'm angry that you noticed me
stop having such a predictable writing pattern then, spice it up a little.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:23:22 UTC No. 16588191
>>16588184
Mastermind molecules
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:23:44 UTC No. 16588193
>>16588163
We've got some pretty consistent estimate of CZ3B price in the $35M-$40M range,
Some recent examples:
https://x.com/CNSAWatcher/status/16
We also got last year contracts for Chinasat-9C (which should launch soon) and 10A both at 260M Yuan ($35.84M) , I remember reading it there https://m.weibo.cn/detail/502626312
There are other figures that are in the same range, I'll have to find them back.
For 7A I was taking the one from that one Insider I mentioned above (570 Million yuan, $78.5M) ,but there are other coroborating ones too (7 was described as ~$7.2k/kg in a paper a few years ago, which would be a bit under 100 million.
Given how much CALT has backtracked on various promises made over the years for CZ-7 it's quite certain it's not cheap compared to other options.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:29:31 UTC No. 16588205
>>16588193
Why is CALT building 7As then? Why aren't they using those production resources to build more 3B, 7 and/or 8? I just looked on Wikipedia, and according to it there are at least three 7A launches planned for this year
Is this cost the marginal costs, or is the high per-unit cost simply caused by the low cadence of the cryogenics compared to the hypergolics so far?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:41:30 UTC No. 16588218
>>16588178
you're a fucking retarded NPC
please just fuck off and die
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:49:39 UTC No. 16588231
>>16588205
It's more powerful (7t to GTO).
I remember a couple years ago it launched a GSO sat (I think ChinaSat 1E) using a variant of the DFH-4 bus that was reportedly heavier, and sats based on that bus are already at the limit of the CZ-3B's capability.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:50:41 UTC No. 16588234
>>16587899
sir, this is /sfg/
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:57:51 UTC No. 16588250
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 18:58:40 UTC No. 16588251
>>16588246
Confirm my nigga NOW
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:02:54 UTC No. 16588260
>>16588246
This administration isnt playing around damn
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:03:13 UTC No. 16588262
>>16587174
>>16587179
>>16588191
neither smart rocks nor brilliant pebbles are alliterative.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:03:54 UTC No. 16588263
>>16588095
Next step: removing the atmosphere.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:06:06 UTC No. 16588267
>>16588262
Unnecessary Uh-litteration?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:08:18 UTC No. 16588274
>>16588260
>a lot of pretty words with no concrete plans or promises
>isn't playing around
this is precisely how NASA has functioned for the last few decades. Not like you would know anything about that.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:10:57 UTC No. 16588279
>>16588246
imagine how much easier if with their 20+ billion dollar annual budget, they have machinery that was ready to be purchased by SpaceX or any other company
Wheres the automated battery powered open pit mining setup for ice or whatever else?
Wheres the setup for making CH4 from water & atmosphere?
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:10:59 UTC No. 16588280
>>16588246
everything elon has done (in our current political regime) has been worth it to get the isaacman in place
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:29:16 UTC No. 16588316
>>16588246
NASA focusing on humans being able to survive outside the Earth is a good thing
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:41:04 UTC No. 16588334
>>16588246
damn right
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:55:10 UTC No. 16588359
>>16588280
If flooding the country with Indians was good for space, India would have a Moon base already.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:57:02 UTC No. 16588362
>>16588359
saar india is one of only 4 countrys to land on mooon
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:57:27 UTC No. 16588364
>>16588127
Oh you're a chinaman lol
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:58:50 UTC No. 16588366
>>16588246
That's not up to the administrator though, is it? Congress decides how NASA spends its money.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 19:59:34 UTC No. 16588367
Did you guys know about the JAXA mission to land on Phobos and return samples from it? I think it would be pretty cool to see photos from the surface of Phobos.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:02:08 UTC No. 16588372
>>16588274
Spoken like someone who never lived through the 90s/00s spaceflight stagnation. Boots on Mars was barely paid lipservice in passing, and not one administrator gave a shit about manned spaceflight beyond LEO.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:04:48 UTC No. 16588377
>>16588372
The shuttle cost too much to do anything else
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:20:38 UTC No. 16588398
>>16588361
rolled snake eyes on the autism this one
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:30:46 UTC No. 16588410
>>16588372
>Spoken like someone who never lived through the 90s/00s spaceflight stagnation.
Thank God I didn't have to.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:37:02 UTC No. 16588417
>>16588359
somebody's mad!
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:42:42 UTC No. 16588424
>>16588361
>posting reddit
>posting tranny
>posting 2 year old video about grime's kid
go fuck yourself dude
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:46:11 UTC No. 16588427
>>16588398
Simple probability. The more kids the greater the odds
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:46:40 UTC No. 16588428
>>16588424
That kid is the reason Elon is now involved in politics
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 20:50:47 UTC No. 16588431
>>16588428
coulda fooled me, nigger
https://youtu.be/O_azyt1JhI0?t=1097
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:02:27 UTC No. 16588440
I'm going to be fired tuesday. I hope the egg prices were worth it
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:04:10 UTC No. 16588443
>>16588440
USELESS
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:17:28 UTC No. 16588452
>>16588246
any filter which can be overcome with something as simple as ISRU and addressing the interplanetary radiation environment is unlikely to be the great filter
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:20:23 UTC No. 16588455
>>16588452
Settling a second planet is quite the project. I imagine many planets die without achieving it.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:28:50 UTC No. 16588464
>>16588455
no disagreement, but once you've already walked on an extraplanetary body the technical advances necessary to settle another planet just aren't that substantial. we could've established permanent mars habitation 40 years ago if we'd wanted to.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:31:21 UTC No. 16588467
>>16588464
not really. with 80s tech it would have taken like 20% of global gdp for decades to support a not self sustaining mars colony
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:35:31 UTC No. 16588475
>>16588473
what does armored F550's cost
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 21:38:23 UTC No. 16588478
>>16588473
>>16588475
Neither of these are good questions. The only ones that matter are if the products being offered meet the needs of the State Department and at a competitive value for the taxpayer.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:11:10 UTC No. 16588501
Should we bring animals with us to Mars? I mean, when we have a fully functioning city, of course. The first colonists will be going knowing they will have a tough life ahead of them and they have a duty to build so the next generations can live in comfort. Animals are lesser beings so they don't understand this, so we shouldn't take them until the first city is established with open areas and biodomes that allow them to live comfortably. We could probably have a few birds flying around, I'm sure they'd love the 1/3 gravity. Just gotta clean up the bird shit every now and then. At least the low gravity gives colonists plenty of time to dodge the bombs. Fish ponds and aquariums are a no-brainer. We could probably have a chicken pen and a couple cows to feed the city, and maybe the kids could have hamsters or guinea pigs to look after.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:12:03 UTC No. 16588502
yes we will bring women
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:24:50 UTC No. 16588512
>>16588501
>I'm sure they'd love the 1/3 gravity
I hope it doesn't affect their ability to drink. They rely on gravity for that.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:32:06 UTC No. 16588515
>>16588473
This is great, we want more money to Elon
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:44:49 UTC No. 16588528
>>16588398
kek
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:46:18 UTC No. 16588529
>>16588361
I CAN FIX HER (male)
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:48:16 UTC No. 16588531
>>16588501
We should grow them over there. Bringing animals over from earth also potentially brings parasites, or other invasive creatures, like lice or ticks. Imagine a whole world without pests to worry about.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 22:52:52 UTC No. 16588533
>>16588512
I thought about the same thing, but I guess this is only an issue with microgravity?. Iirc, if you were to bring an adult bird into the ISS, you'd have to manually feed it every single time, since they can't do it on their own in such an environment.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:11:05 UTC No. 16588547
>>16588262
>NOOO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO ALLITTERATION
you can't make me do shit.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:13:04 UTC No. 16588548
>>16588473
Based Biden. Greatest President for space (and electric cars) ever
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:18:28 UTC No. 16588551
>Musk's team putting the NRO on blast for absolutely no reason
what a bunch of slackjawed morons
do they bother thinking about anything they do for more than five seconds or is that just the typical attention span problem their generation has
bunch of idiot zoomers who have no idea what kind of significance these sensitive systems have historically, and as regards current situation because they lack perspective
they need a tard wrangler who can review their work before they just dump information on the internet
they're so desperate to look like they're very busy doing all this important stuff that they do a rush job and negligently expose all this shit about an important agency probably were never even familiar with beforehand despite it's critical importance, didn't even know they were intelligence
just embarassing, all for a glorified propaganda talking point generator of a website
when these zoomzooms see the word "reconnaissance", I suppose they only understood the "con", "n", or "AI" part
to think this is the handpicked team of someone who ostensibly cares about space, JUST
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:19:55 UTC No. 16588552
>>16588551
Shut up nerd also plebbit spacing
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:20:00 UTC No. 16588553
>>16588551
Just leave the glowies alone! :'(
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:20:45 UTC No. 16588555
>>16588551
reposting reddit should be a bannable offense
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:31:01 UTC No. 16588558
>>16588557
>Earthers forever chained to Earth
lmao
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:32:30 UTC No. 16588561
>>16588556
NO ONE gives a shit. only shartX must be criticized for this kind of stuff. Everyone else can just launch rockets into people's back yards whenever they want
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:37:39 UTC No. 16588569
>>16588557
10% of these names got fired
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:40:46 UTC No. 16588570
>>16588556
Reminder that one of their mottos is "for the benefit of earth", yet here they are endangering it.
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:50:50 UTC No. 16588577
>>16588361
>Elon Musk femboy version
so erect right now
Anonymous at Sun, 16 Feb 2025 23:52:46 UTC No. 16588578
>>16588501
Convincing women to go will someday be the greatest hurdle for the Mars city (not even slightly joking) so pets are a must
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:01:40 UTC No. 16588581
>>16588578
>Convincing
Why?
Deport some.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:03:30 UTC No. 16588584
>>16588578
All we need to do is take a couple of blonde and blue eyed women forcefully and rape them to create more. Not hard is it?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:05:48 UTC No. 16588585
>>16588584
that doesn't sound very nice
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:11:11 UTC No. 16588588
>>16588585
Women are reproductive units.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:12:14 UTC No. 16588589
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:19:05 UTC No. 16588592
>>16588588
Amazing digits
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:21:39 UTC No. 16588593
>>16588473
Fake news by a Canadian cuck
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:53:19 UTC No. 16588614
By the way >>16588581 and >>16588584 are why >>16588578 is true. Why are Mars heads such freaks
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:57:40 UTC No. 16588617
>>16588614
women will lured in with cash and turned into breeding stock against their will when they get there.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:58:38 UTC No. 16588618
>>16588614
Mars is just escapism for people with aspergers like Elon. The moon is Humanities next destination. Mars 2075.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:59:40 UTC No. 16588619
>>16588614
>Why are Mars heads such freaks
This has nothing to do with Mars, every settler colonies (so not extractive ones where colonists could just fuck natives and slaves) in history had the same problem. This is why the various european kingdoms often had to organise deliveries of young women (often whores taken from mainland) to be wed to settlers.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:01:45 UTC No. 16588621
>>16588618
nah, mars is the main goal, cope.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:11:09 UTC No. 16588624
>>16588578
>need pets on Mars to get pets on Mars
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:12:33 UTC No. 16588625
>>16588624
>he doesn't know about pet rocks
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:17:22 UTC No. 16588628
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:31:14 UTC No. 16588633
>>16588628
man's best friend
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:34:06 UTC No. 16588634
>>16588632
Banks still mad elon didnt let her eat him out lol
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:35:57 UTC No. 16588639
>>16588632
Ah yes, I too, get my 100% reliable information from an account named retardednes.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:46:00 UTC No. 16588645
>>16588578
Artificial wombs are a near future thing
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:56:55 UTC No. 16588648
>>16588614
Ideally we kill all women and install sextsla bots in their place. i actually have plans drawn out for how this can be done
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 01:59:28 UTC No. 16588649
>>16588632
>sour vindictive women
>a reliable source of information
pick one
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:03:20 UTC No. 16588650
>>16588619
Sure but this won't happen lol
>>16588645
Sci Fi slop overdose
>>16588648
>i actually have plans drawn out for how this can be done
PLEASE share this
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:07:59 UTC No. 16588652
>>16588645
based Elon just uses natural wombs as artificial wombs
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:11:11 UTC No. 16588653
>>16588632
The female is the nigger of sex
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:19:35 UTC No. 16588661
Ariane 6 tracking station in St Pierre & Miquelon was damaged in a storm.
There are conflicting report on its impact on the upcoming launch in 9 days. It probably shouldn't delay it but less coverage may mean they could be more cautious on conditions before launch.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:59:36 UTC No. 16588694
>>16588551
the NRO never apologized for forcing the 60-foot payload bay on the shuttle
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:09:52 UTC No. 16588703
>>16588694
>Muh 60ft NRO
Meme
NASA wanted a long one to be able ot fit a space tug (eventually became Centaur G) with a sizeable payload too. They may have been satisfied with one 5-10ft shorter but studies demonstrated that a slightly shorter bay resulted in mass repartition/balance issue.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:11:24 UTC No. 16588706
grok is so based! love that ai can own the libtards hah hah hah
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:32:08 UTC No. 16588723
ok grok is so based . i just asked it who is tgmgm bigest afuxsikibf and it said vguzscvubhuvgxkcsoi!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:33:37 UTC No. 16588724
>>16588694
they donated a pair of classified telescopes to NASA that were sitting on a shelf for decades though, and they appear to be better than Hubble in most ways
>NASA has also suggested that the telescope could be sent to Mars, photographing the surface with a resolution about four times finer than the current Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's HiRISE instrument. From Martian orbit the telescope could also view the outer Solar System and the asteroid belt.
"An unnamed space analyst stated that the instruments may be a part of the KH-11 Kennen line of satellites which have been launched since 1976, but which have now been largely superseded by newer telescopes with wider fields of view than the KH-11. The analyst stated, however, that the telescopes have "state-of-the-art optics" despite their obsolescence for reconnaissance purposes."
>telescope has a much wider field of view than Hubble due to its shorter focal length, allowing it to observe about 100 times the area at any given time as Hubble can
>the telescopes' specifications were presented to scientists, large portions were censored due to national security
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:39:08 UTC No. 16588728
>Boobless
Remember kids, you can't have slaughter without laughter!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:45:04 UTC No. 16588734
>>16588724
donated yet still billions overbudget. only in government
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 03:47:17 UTC No. 16588740
>>16588246
>we choose to go to mars, not in tin cans, but in space force warships
thats how i read it and im okay with it. be the america japan thinks we are.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:17:13 UTC No. 16588759
>>16588706
Hello federal agent. Which agency do you belong to?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:24:53 UTC No. 16588763
>>16588759
check this out:
https://x.com/TRUMP_ARMY_/status/18
lol this is priceless
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:27:47 UTC No. 16588766
>>16588761
if cringe was an ai, you get grok. imagine distilling reddit "humor" with facebook boomer politics and calling it the "best ai in the world". elon "howard hughes" musk has well and truly lost it. spacex still dragging feet on starship, investigation still ongoing. we're fucked
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:32:05 UTC No. 16588771
So what's happening with Eloon Moosk and SpaceX now that he's doing politics?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:36:11 UTC No. 16588775
>>16588759
blow me
Apologize at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:40:34 UTC No. 16588783
>>16588771
they're funneling all DEI money into SpaceX now. Starship will land on the moon this year and a Tesla bot will walk on the moon.
source: I literally work in SpaceX
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:44:33 UTC No. 16588787
>>16588783
Where does your dad work? That is also highly relevant for me to believe you.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:47:00 UTC No. 16588791
>>16588771
>>16588783
He is finally deleting all the D.E.I. Woke Nonsense for school curriculem. This is a
huge win for the patriots
Apologize at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:51:43 UTC No. 16588795
>>16588787
My dad works at Nintendo and my mom is a CIA agent
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 04:58:07 UTC No. 16588800
>>16588795
Is your mom hot? I'd love for her to arrest me, I'd play along and flirt.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:06:56 UTC No. 16588806
>>16588801
Wow this one is great!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:16:38 UTC No. 16588815
>>16588761
I'm excited for tomorrow! Grok is about to blow Gpt4 out of the water!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:21:20 UTC No. 16588821
>>16588815
something interesting will happen one way or another
chatgpt is already pretty good
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:27:48 UTC No. 16588824
>>16588815
a scary smart AI from elon "scary smart" musk! i'm already trembling!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:31:45 UTC No. 16588827
>>16588821
It will be, to put it simply, epic.
>>16588824
I'm not sure I can contain myself. Hold onto my pull-ups, we ain't makin it to the potty tonight boyos
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:37:07 UTC No. 16588831
>eurofag hours have already started
I hope Putin kills you all
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:44:01 UTC No. 16588834
>>16588831
Put a burger in it, mutt.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:44:32 UTC No. 16588835
we can't allow putin to gain access to grok 3. he'll ask it "how do i make a rocket that's actually good?" and it'll tell him "just use methalox and stainless steel". the russian flag will be planted on mars within weeks.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:45:44 UTC No. 16588837
I am so gay I put fingers my butt hole
>>16588831
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:46:57 UTC No. 16588839
>>16588837
sorry meant for
>>16588831
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:47:26 UTC No. 16588840
>>16588831
>Eurofags
Too early for them. These are East, South, and Central Asia hours, with a side of Rooskies.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:49:03 UTC No. 16588841
>>16588835
you really believe that? obligatiry FUCK putler shit
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:57:57 UTC No. 16588842
>>16588841
i don't like it any more than you do, but it's the grisly truth. from now on its name is mapc.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 05:58:59 UTC No. 16588844
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:00:21 UTC No. 16588845
>>16588791
The La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo? What's their plan?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:06:00 UTC No. 16588851
So when is that thing landing on the moon?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:16:56 UTC No. 16588856
>>16588842
wat
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:17:48 UTC No. 16588857
>>16588851
Which one? There's more than one.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:18:13 UTC No. 16588860
>>16588851
Big gemeni? Got cancelled.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:19:21 UTC No. 16588861
Is it Jeminy or Jemineye or Geminaie
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:26:05 UTC No. 16588869
Morning Eurofrens
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:26:38 UTC No. 16588871
>>16588861
Whichever, nobody's grading your homework.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:32:11 UTC No. 16588873
>>16587174
>Google is releasing their new quantum defense system... Omnipotent Atoms
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:39:36 UTC No. 16588883
>>16588851
the firefly one just got into orbit the other day. it'll be there for two weeks before landing. i think the other one is supposed to land around the same time too since they're both aiming for the same lunar day.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:42:11 UTC No. 16588909
>>16588908
NASA consistently passes audits and has a positive ROI for the American people.
Fuck elon, seriously
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:43:58 UTC No. 16588910
>>16588909
it's time to gut this bloated fish. bye bye ISS/Gateway/SLS/Orion. Hello Starship!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:47:01 UTC No. 16588911
>>16588909
>nasa generates $7 for every $1 spent on it
and yet, oddly enough, congress keeps slashing their budget for some reason. its as if nasa is actually a cost center.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:49:58 UTC No. 16588913
>>16588909
>>16588911
>positive ROI
literally how? how is that even possible to measure? lmao it's a completely made up stat
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:51:33 UTC No. 16588916
>>16588909
What was the last thing NASA has personally done for (You)?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:57:32 UTC No. 16588921
>>16588913
my guess is that it's measured by tax revenue
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 07:58:11 UTC No. 16588922
>>16588473
Fred is an unsufferable seething faggot
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:01:10 UTC No. 16588927
>>16588921
The IRS must be the greatest ROI of any agency then. We should fund it more!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:08:54 UTC No. 16588936
poopy shitty fucky wucky
poop pooop sneed sniff snert snaaart
fnnnart poooooop plump butt
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:15:31 UTC No. 16588944
>>16588908
oh oh! can I go first?
I have some insights!
CANCEL SLS
CANCEL MSR
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:26:25 UTC No. 16588958
>>16588911
I wonder if this myth will be preserved or not
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:27:04 UTC No. 16588961
>>16588724
>they donated a pair of classified telescopes to NASA that were sitting on a shelf for decades though, and they appear to be better than Hubble in most ways
And initially NASA said they didn't want them until everyone looked at them like they were retarded. Funny how that got memoryholed.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:30:08 UTC No. 16588963
>>16588909
>SLS
>passing an audit
you glow
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:44:15 UTC No. 16588973
https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/
>The Starlink simulator satellites for Starship test flight 8 have been delivered to Starbase. These will loaded into Starship 34 and are visible here in the Starfactory tonight.
>2/17/25
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:46:27 UTC No. 16588974
>>16588973
You CAN'T just use planks of wood to secure your satellites!!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:55:03 UTC No. 16588980
>>16588973
is that guy shooting a heat ray out of his face?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 08:59:03 UTC No. 16588987
>>16588980
superman up in this bitch
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:22:24 UTC No. 16589010
>>16588980
Even The Homelander has to work in this economy.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:22:57 UTC No. 16589012
>>16588908
There is also one for the FAA
https://x.com/DOGE_FAA
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:36:27 UTC No. 16589018
>>16588578
I need to read up about Bringham Young
Most Old West Towns were complete sausage fest (to a point where dudes had to dance with other dudes), but Mormon pioneers typically had more women than men.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:55:44 UTC No. 16589030
>>16588501
Hyraxes (cat sized elephant)
Quokkas (tiny kangaroo)
Binturongs (big weasel that eats mostly fruit)
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 09:59:29 UTC No. 16589036
>>16588136
>corporate profits.
He doesn't care about that.
No one with billions and billions of dollars of net worth care about money except as a resource to fulfill their ambitions.
Only shareholder beancounters and all the parasites in that biome care about le corporate profits
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:02:59 UTC No. 16589040
>>16588909
>>16588913
>>16588921
there's a section in this paper that brings up the '$7 per $1 invested' figure (SPINOFFS AND SPILLOVERS: NASA). Basically the Midwest Research Institute in 1971 did some truly insane statistics to come up with their magic number.
>look at total change in productivity in the national economy
>subtract the changes that could be attributed directly to capital and labour, and changes that could be attributed to changes in demography, education, health, work-week length, and economies of scale
>the residual is ENTIRELY attributed to R&D with no consideration given to unknown factors not accounted for
>nor accounting for differences between private and public R&D or how private R&D has an earning incentive to produce ROI
scale down the residual proportional to the outlay by NASA ($207b returned through 1987 from a $29b outlay between 1959 and 1969) and you get an ROI of 7. A total bullshit number that if you didn't spend 5 or 10 minutes actually reading through these academic papers nobody would ever question. And this doesn't even begin to consider the differences in the wider value of R&D done in the 60s to enable Gemini and Apollo compared to whatever NASA do now (solar sails? deep space laser links?)
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:06:43 UTC No. 16589043
>>16588908
>>16589012
It's time.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:07:48 UTC No. 16589046
>>16589040
so whats the real ROI for NASA? how do we calculate it?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:17:12 UTC No. 16589052
>>16589018
is that actually true or just apologetic cope to explain away the embarrassment of polygyny? because it smacks of the latter even though he who builds a based harem violates no law.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:23:47 UTC No. 16589058
>>16589040
it's basically impossible to measure, but given these focus only on R&D outlay from NASA and don't include operational costs you can imagine that the real ROI to the general public is much lower and is carried by a few select technologies that became ubiquitous
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:24:21 UTC No. 16589060
>>16589012
We're finally getting the sequel.
>>>/wsg/5815554
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 10:27:54 UTC No. 16589062
>>16589040
lmao that is so much more retarded than I thought it would be
completely pulled out of their ass
but you can't really disupte the fact that some of the things developed were good and that there are technologies and basic research that private companies probably won't do
but the people saying the ROI is 7 seem to mostly use it to try to justify throwing money at SLS and similar bullshit indiscriminately
maybe 20bil thrown at rocket tech would have a ROI of 7 (or better), but throwing it at 50 year old methods is not really rocket R&D anymore, its just a grift
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:12:15 UTC No. 16589088
>>16588501
For food chickens and fish, as pets cats would probably adapt at the smaller gravity and require little food.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:19:20 UTC No. 16589098
>>16589062
You can't dispute that some of the money did some good, but you can argue that it could have been more productively spent elsewhere
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:29:04 UTC No. 16589103
create a space investment agency, and nasa will have to fight with companies and other organizations for the money.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:20:48 UTC No. 16589154
>listening to kranz' autobiography as an audiobook
>narrator pronounces delta v as delta five
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:46:26 UTC No. 16589192
>>16589154
I used to pronounce Saturn V as Saturn Vee
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:52:33 UTC No. 16589200
>>16589154
lel
>>16589192
I can see that as a common mistake. My gripe would be that most people seem to pronounce “wernher” wrong. It’s actually pronounced as ‘verner von braun’
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 12:53:37 UTC No. 16589202
>>16589030
>Hyraxes
AWAWA
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:24:24 UTC No. 16589219
>>16588861
the astrological sign is pronounced gem-in-eye
the space program is pronounced gem-in-knee
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:26:31 UTC No. 16589220
>>16588861
gay-meeni
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:26:52 UTC No. 16589221
>>16589200
yeah. what really chafes is when people capitalize the v in von
>>16589202
AWAWA
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:29:49 UTC No. 16589223
>>16589202
>>16589221
AWAWA
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:32:01 UTC No. 16589224
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:34:47 UTC No. 16589226
>>16589202
>AWAWA
uwuwu
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:03:05 UTC No. 16589235
>>16588769
>cables
VGH
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:04:07 UTC No. 16589236
>>16588851
anon that was 50 years ago
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:05:08 UTC No. 16589237
>>16588908
Casey Handmer is about to get someone fired in particular kek
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:16:05 UTC No. 16589242
>>16588908
NASA has plenty of building it has to take care of even though they dont do anything with it. They should sell them or contract them out.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:42:32 UTC No. 16589250
>>16589040
THE MYTH IS OVER 50 YEARS OLD??
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:51:51 UTC No. 16589255
>>16589250
Without NASA we wouldn't have velcro! pls gib us more money now
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:54:11 UTC No. 16589259
>>16589256
https://x.com/stoke_space/status/18
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:54:35 UTC No. 16589260
>>16589256
they should've focused on payloads instead
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:55:09 UTC No. 16589262
>ess eff gee is now unironically advocating for less space exploration
I have said it before and I will say it again: Trump's victory is the best thing to happen to spaceflight and the worst thing to happen to this general
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:55:39 UTC No. 16589263
>>16589260
>YFW they get to orbit before starship
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:56:13 UTC No. 16589264
hydrogen virtual aerospike integrated actively cooled heatshield
https://www.stokespace.com/introduc
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:56:19 UTC No. 16589265
>>16589262
This general has been dead for a while now. That one anon who spammed it on /pol/ was the beginning of the end.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:57:07 UTC No. 16589266
>>16589262
nobody here is advocating for less
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:00:25 UTC No. 16589268
>>16589263
UHMM ERMMM BUT MUH ORBITALS PEED!!!
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:26:26 UTC No. 16589280
>>16589266
to question elon and trump is implicitly just that
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:43:04 UTC No. 16589289
>>16589262
MSR has always been a stupid idea, axing it in favor of just going there with people to pick up their own damn samples has been the position of /sfg/ since before Perseverance was depositing the tubes.
You shouldn't have to ask about SLS, if you don't know you won't know.
>>16589265
Baseless doomerism, the airlock for you.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:50:58 UTC No. 16589293
>>16589276
Cernan flew primary crew as the lunar module pilot on Apollo 10, where they named their vehicles ‘Charlie Brown’ and ‘Snoopy’ instead of something serious like Endeavour, Colombia, etc.
I’m beginning to think Cernan was just a very unserious cool cat
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:51:35 UTC No. 16589294
>>16589265
be the change you want to see in the General
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:51:37 UTC No. 16589295
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:52:36 UTC No. 16589298
>>16589293
he gives great interviews. seems like a character.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:54:11 UTC No. 16589299
>>16589294
okay, how do I kill every anon here? /sfg/ must finally rest. Maybe it will be naturally reborn a year or two later with people actually interested in space...
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:06:20 UTC No. 16589306
>>16589303
>spacex inhouse ERP
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:15:21 UTC No. 16589310
>>16589303
Bob smith festered so many rotting wounds and set that company back like 10 years, it’s almost admirable
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:17:15 UTC No. 16589311
>>16589303
>in house ERP
rocketlab simply cannot compete.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:21:58 UTC No. 16589315
>>16589311
I think Stoke also has a in house ERP and they have actually been selling it as well
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:24:40 UTC No. 16589317
>>16587926
>"How about a little fire, Scarecrow?"
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:26:21 UTC No. 16589319
>>16588001
I’ll literally die from a broken heart like padme in ep 3 I’m not even kidding
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:30:30 UTC No. 16589322
UBI for mars. dont fall into the trap of cuckapitalism.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:31:07 UTC No. 16589324
>>16589322
UBI doesn’t work
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:32:23 UTC No. 16589325
>>16589315
w-where can i buy it?
does it come with haptic feedback?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:32:37 UTC No. 16589326
>>16588769
looks like south africa
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:34:48 UTC No. 16589328
>>16589299
i are interest in spehs. its just quiet at the moment and too many EDS sufferers
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:36:46 UTC No. 16589330
>>16589324
>humans cant fly
>humans cant go to the moon
>humans cant colonize the galaxy
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:42:19 UTC No. 16589332
>>16589328
this
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:52:19 UTC No. 16589335
>>16589330
It's easier to make a man fly than is to make communism work
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 16:54:44 UTC No. 16589336
>>16589330
Oh come on anon, retarded comparison
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:17:23 UTC No. 16589352
>>16589335
economics is a science just like flight
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:23:32 UTC No. 16589354
berger
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:30:21 UTC No. 16589362
Thoughts on the flag for my Mars country when I eventually hijack a Starship and divert it to Gale Crater to start my own colony and become an emperor? Kinda debating whether to put the red at the bottom.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:33:25 UTC No. 16589368
>>16589352
the issue isn't economics
the issue is ethics and morality
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:35:44 UTC No. 16589370
>>16589362
Fucking gay; minimalism an r/vexillology has been a disaster for the human race. You must go back.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:37:30 UTC No. 16589371
>>16589370
>minimalism
Are you retarded? Have you never seen a bicolour flag before?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:39:13 UTC No. 16589374
>>16589371
don’t care, you have shit taste
Pseuds try not to make a gay minimalist flag utilizing red white, or blue challenge (IMPOSSIBLE!)
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:39:56 UTC No. 16589375
>>16589371
the fuck is that flag
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:40:40 UTC No. 16589378
>>16589371
>here is an example of a gay flag to showcase why my flag is good
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:43:51 UTC No. 16589379
>>16589362
>>16589371
Flags for people who don't belong in space.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:51:13 UTC No. 16589382
>>16589375
spess.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:54:42 UTC No. 16589388
>>16589375
Indonesia
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:55:25 UTC No. 16589389
>>16589362
looks good
>>16589370
this is just a basic flag
r/vexillology flags are special brand of ugly shapes and ugly colour combinations (pic rel) and absolutely seethe when flags have coat of arms on them
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:56:02 UTC No. 16589390
>>16589299
>okay, how do I kill every anon here?
start with yourself, obviously
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:58:30 UTC No. 16589393
>>16589371
I nominate this as /sfg/'s post of the day.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:00:02 UTC No. 16589394
>>16589388
Australian Indononcia.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:04:04 UTC No. 16589396
>>16589352
why would you lie like this?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:25:06 UTC No. 16589408
>>16589389
Thanks anon I will add a coat of arms of Mars holding a spear and shield to further enhance the Redditor seethe.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:29:06 UTC No. 16589411
>>16589408
Attaboy
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:30:59 UTC No. 16589413
>>16589408
wholesome
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:31:42 UTC No. 16589415
>>16589408
the mars flag will have the entire text of its constitution printed on it, and martians with their superior eyesight will be able to read the whole thing from miles away
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:35:50 UTC No. 16589419
>>16589415
the lack of atmosphere will help with that too.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:43:46 UTC No. 16589426
>>16589362
Be realistic. Mars flag wont be commie shit
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:03:26 UTC No. 16589438
>>16589435
reddit allows 13 year olds to have accounts. there's bound to be a ton of people who arent familiar with something like a lunar night.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:04:14 UTC No. 16589441
>>16589408
>>16589415
now we're cooking
added cross to piss off atheists while we're at it
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:09:08 UTC No. 16589443
>>16589441
The Martian city will have a big cathedral built from Martian clay.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:10:31 UTC No. 16589446
>>16589435
when will the first mars crew come back?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:13:33 UTC No. 16589448
>>16589443
no, it needs to be a tower with ISRUed building materials that get more and more rare and complicated to show the progress of the city industrial prowess
the spire should be made out of gold, flash memory and morphine >>16589321
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:13:40 UTC No. 16589449
>>16589443
I dont thinks it likely any church would be built on Mars. Kinda odd for people there to be worshiping a book that gets all the basics of astronomy not only wrong, but completely off, when if it really was divinely inspired it would be spot on, and way ahead of the time period it was written in.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:15:35 UTC No. 16589451
>>16589446
...come back?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:16:56 UTC No. 16589452
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:18:33 UTC No. 16589453
>>16589449
Retard, Christianity is a tool for NPCs to follow good morals and is the only way to get a functioning and prosperous society. Some genius with a pen and paper figured this out two thousand years ago yet atheists still struggle to understand this today despite being so smart. The Mars city will need Christianity or it will collapse. Also Christianity is a way to arm whites against the Jews. The Romans knew this and spread it all over Europe for a reason. The last thing we want is for the Mars city to fall to Judaism.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:31:08 UTC No. 16589460
>>16589457
I do this in KSP sometimes
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:45:43 UTC No. 16589467
>>16589460
it's always good to have a heatshield on top for those times when your launch trajectory sucks and you're going 75% of orbital velocity in thick atmo
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:51:40 UTC No. 16589474
>>16589441
>piss off atheists
fuck off election tourist, this used to be an atheist website
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:06:19 UTC No. 16589487
Christ is King
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:06:34 UTC No. 16589488
>>16589474
The Martian city will be Christian, fuck off.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:08:31 UTC No. 16589490
>>16589488
Musk is not christian, the mars colonists will be high IQ so perhaps a religion won't be necessary
or they will come up with something new, an ideology that will morph to a nigh-religion with Musk being the "prophet"
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:14:40 UTC No. 16589495
>>16589490
>the mars colonists will be high IQ
Musk's goal has always been to open mars colonization to the masses, go back to 2016 ITS, he wants an average western middle class person to be able to afford to go to Mars if they sell their possessions, his model, as an immigrant and an american, is very much historical european immigration to the US.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:16:41 UTC No. 16589500
>>16589495
what is the IQ of the average middle class american that owns a house?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:18:03 UTC No. 16589502
>>16589390
>kill myself
>/sfg/ is still full of retards
now, I know how many brainlets there are in here as of late, but you are outstandingly dumb even amongst them.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:21:39 UTC No. 16589505
>>16589474
Yeah but then that whole thing got really gay so it died.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:22:49 UTC No. 16589506
>>16589502
I believe it was Adolf Hitler who said "Be the change you want to see in the world"
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:23:40 UTC No. 16589507
This is ridiculous. When is Flight 8? 25 flights this year, my fat stinky smelly hairy ARSE.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:29:07 UTC No. 16589510
>>16589435
>what do you mean retarded? these seem like normal takes on lunar and martian colonization
>reads reply
>oh
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:36:30 UTC No. 16589517
>>16589507
Next week maybe, but I wouldn't be very hopeful
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:38:54 UTC No. 16589518
>>16589507
26th
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:41:19 UTC No. 16589523
>>16589500
Probably slightly above 100
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:42:21 UTC No. 16589524
>>16589507
Big fat "maybe" end of month if everything goes right (read more likely early march), end of next week seems earliest possible
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:42:34 UTC No. 16589525
>>16589507
2 weeks
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:46:33 UTC No. 16589527
>>16589507
This is the anon who insisted Raptors had an insanely high failure rate.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:46:35 UTC No. 16589528
>>16589474
i was posting here long before god commanded rebecca watson to take a ride on that elevator
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:15:25 UTC No. 16589550
>>16589370
>/sfg/'s ideal flag design
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:19:28 UTC No. 16589555
>>16589264
smol rokket
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:20:46 UTC No. 16589556
>>16589474
>this used to be an atheist website
this was before it became apparent that it would devolve into gay race communism. when athiests are smart enough to create something that can replace the fundamentals of christianity socially we can talk. even after accidentally killing it's own god in the quest for truth, christianity is the best we have right now. there will be cathedrals on Mars
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:21:39 UTC No. 16589557
🗑️ Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:22:09 UTC No. 16589558
this is a catholic site
no prottie heretics or heathens allowed
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:23:57 UTC No. 16589559
>>16589553
stupid frogposter
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:24:09 UTC No. 16589561
>>16589558
reminder that space is catholic
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:25:20 UTC No. 16589562
>>16589553
steal his look
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:25:52 UTC No. 16589563
>>16589558
nah this is a sight for autists.
normalfags follow other people's religion, all true autists have their own modus operandi, their own self-developed religion and their OWN dogmatism.
i agree that NPC's like you are cattle who would lose touch with reality without a rigid religion/ideology, it's good that you hold onto it firmly and i hope religions make a bit of a resurgence in the west to get all these struggling nihilist normalfags back in step with eachother.
however, i am beyond all of these things, and many others here are as well.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:26:49 UTC No. 16589564
>>16589563
councilfag I can smell you
fuck off
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:31:00 UTC No. 16589565
>>16589453
>Christianity is a tool for NPCs to follow good morals and is the only way to get a functioning and prosperous society
Christianity doesn't make civilisation, white people do. We had epic civilisations before jewsus was shat out and now Christianity has been weaponised AGAINST white people. Go find a church that is openly antisemitic, you won't.
>The Romans knew this and spread it all over Europe for a reason
You are dumb as fuck. Pagan Romans holocausted judea so hard that they are still buttblasted to this day about it. Then jewsus came along and all the cultist cucks spread their death cult religion to the peasants and Rome went to shit bigly
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:40:01 UTC No. 16589567
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:43:34 UTC No. 16589569
>>16589553
frogposters get sent to the asteroid belt
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:47:02 UTC No. 16589571
>>16589569
comfy
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:58:38 UTC No. 16589581
>>16589577
Just like with every comet and asteroid we visited before
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:59:58 UTC No. 16589582
>>16589581
Jobs numbers are more important to a country, no?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:00:07 UTC No. 16589583
>>16589561
Buzz isn’t catholic though I think he’s episcopalian. Which is like double-larp catholic, but still. A licit catholic eucharist wasn’t brought to the Moon, unfortunately.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:09:57 UTC No. 16589594
>>16589577
Why even bother with the gravity assists? Just go straight to Jupiter. Am I retarded?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:15:25 UTC No. 16589602
>>16589594
FH doesn't have the performance
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:18:28 UTC No. 16589605
>>16589582
is sabine the trump of science
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:22:00 UTC No. 16589607
why does BO have so many employees anyways
for 2 non-revenue generating launches a year?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:23:31 UTC No. 16589614
>>16589607
They all work 40 hour weeks compared to 80 at SpaceX so they need double the employees to do the same amount of work.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:26:29 UTC No. 16589618
>>16589614
blue origin employees: ~14k
spacex employees: ~13k
blue origin orbital launches: 1
spacex orbital launches: 450
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:30:36 UTC No. 16589626
>>16589621
We'll be deporting EVERY ocelot
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:30:51 UTC No. 16589627
>>16589614
but the redditors tell me working 40 hours is just as productive as 80 hehe
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:31:30 UTC No. 16589628
ESGFAG ON SUICIDE WATCH
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:36:03 UTC No. 16589634
>>16589621
Now delete the FAA. Do it Elon. You've already gone this far, may as well go all the way.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:37:45 UTC No. 16589635
ATC could be replaced by AI in 2 seconds
And it would function better
None of the bullshit excuses like "Well the controller was busy!" after an accident or close call or something
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:38:49 UTC No. 16589636
>>16589621
cool, remove the gubmint now while we are at it
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:40:46 UTC No. 16589639
>>16589362
I was thinking a nice simple red. The green background is just there to mess with colorblind people (they're not allowed on Mars)
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:41:18 UTC No. 16589640
SIERRA CLUB IN SHAMBLES
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:41:23 UTC No. 16589641
>>16589621
fuck yes
a necessary sidequest
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:41:47 UTC No. 16589642
>>16589621
The madman actually did it
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:42:56 UTC No. 16589643
>>16589635
while True:
print("WE GAAN!")
time.sleep(5)
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:46:12 UTC No. 16589644
>>16589635
>Oooopps, I guess AI hallucinated huh, what a shame about those 132 passengers
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:46:45 UTC No. 16589646
>>16589553
>>16589615
I'll play, what fraud did SpaceX commit?
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:50:00 UTC No. 16589650
>>16589644
?
The job itself is only "difficult" because of the archaic systems involved
Imagine, that recent crash blackhawk happened because in 2025 you can get your transmissions "stepped on" by the person you are talking to
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:52:01 UTC No. 16589652
>>16589621
I have no idea what this is or what it does. I just want to say that I was here when it happened.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:52:02 UTC No. 16589653
>>16589650
Yeah bro, if you implement AI just right it'll never make a mistake
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:53:02 UTC No. 16589654
>>16589652
literally where were you during the whole Starbase launch pad saga
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:53:34 UTC No. 16589655
>>16589644
well, not much different than boing! then, at least it's cheaper
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:54:34 UTC No. 16589656
>>16589652
Basically Elon enemies are dropping like flies, none can stand in his way
All hail Elon Musk the Emperor of Mars
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 22:56:42 UTC No. 16589659
>>16589652
spaceflight, now with 99% fewer environmental impact statements
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:07:03 UTC No. 16589671
DOGE willing Planetary Protection is next
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:07:09 UTC No. 16589672
>>16589656
Dropping like beetles**
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:24:02 UTC No. 16589680
>>16589659
I'll have to torture seals with recorded rocket sounds for fun, now.
Anonymous at Mon, 17 Feb 2025 23:44:48 UTC No. 16589689
>>16589680
felon musk did not do that, it was actually his engineers doing all the torturing. leon only took the credit.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:05:57 UTC No. 16589706
https://x.com/coastal8049/status/18
It's over, we just lost the moon
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:09:23 UTC No. 16589709
>>16589474
>newfriend wants to speak for 4chan
You realize people have been posting on this website while you were still in diapers, right? (I am referring to today).
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:13:39 UTC No. 16589712
>>16589706
blue bros... should i end it?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:22:39 UTC No. 16589716
>>16589706
https://x.com/Firefly_Space/status/
We're good.
🗑️ Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:24:05 UTC No. 16589717
>>16589706
Not a problem apparently.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:29:15 UTC No. 16589719
The absolute state
Error: Duplicate file exists. here. >>16589303
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:53:55 UTC No. 16589729
>>16589680
I stil can't believe that really happened.
When I told people, they didn't believe me at first, but the more I explained the more the look of awareness and confusion began to come over them.
In the end, they just took my word for it. Didn't even bother looking it up, because at this point they have seen the state do much retarded shit that nothing is outside the realm of possibility anymore.
Yes, the government asked SpaceX to kidnap seals, strap them to a board, and put headphones on them so they could gauge their reaction to loud noises.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 00:58:32 UTC No. 16589731
>>16589729
well its not like they can send an email
to the seal representative
to ask their opinion on
sonic booms and boats
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:01:30 UTC No. 16589734
>>16589729
What in the fuck
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:04:41 UTC No. 16589735
>>16589734
we had to find out if there were any hipster seals who were into it
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:19:14 UTC No. 16589740
>>16589621
You may even get tired of winning
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:25:02 UTC No. 16589745
>>16589729
>the government asked SpaceX to kidnap seals
Demanded it, required it even.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:34:35 UTC No. 16589753
>>16589729
>>16589745
afaik It wasn't spaceX that did it personally, but they hired someone to conduct the study
Probably a good bet that whoever required that line item is good friends with whoever SpaceX hired to conduct the study.
It's so absurd that a kickback makes more logical and rational sense than someone oh so totally worried about the wellbeing of seals because of noise.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 01:38:38 UTC No. 16589756
>>16589621
Environmental regulation in the US is so bad that a company recently imported a bunch of pollution from northern Europe to dump in the river that runs through my town. I'm all for Mars but I'd like for my kids to not die from the water being poisoned. How much worse will it get if the EPA has reduced powers? Not thrilled about this.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:09:05 UTC No. 16589775
NASA putting resources towards Mars? Okay, cool!
NASA putting resources towards "Mars" when Elon Musk is pulling the strings?
Oh fucking HELL NO. If you think Elon won't personally fuck with NASA's scientific mission, you're a fool.
Remember everything and I mean EVERYTHING Elon does is driven by personal insecurity. He has these companies under his belt and loooves to feel like a genius that understands all of it. But of course he doesn't understand hardly anything at all, and he knows it.
The reason he is seeking so much power and control is because it's a patch for his lack of real ability. He KNOWS he'd be a failure without smarter people and that drives. Him. Fucking. Batty.
That's why he spends time trying to prove he's good at video games. It's an "easier" target than actual work.
So if he has a chance to put his fingers into REAL SCIENCE and make himself feel like a BIG BOY doing REAL SCIENCE? Oh he absofuckinglutely will.
He keeps seeking power not for money, but to try to fill this void. He does not have real friends. He has the money to have the coolest hobbies in the world, but is afraid to ask anyone and learn so he'll never do that.
He will keep grasping and grasping and never feel fulfilled. Because what he's after was never the real root cause of his misery, anyway.
THAT is why billionaires seek more money. It's not about money, it's about power. And insecure people REALLY don't like feeling insecure and so they seek power and dominion over others because it temporarily satiates that emotional.
That is why they seek more. Wealth has very, very little to do with it.
When you hear people say, "but Elon is so rich, that makes him incorruptible!" Tell them this: "the problem with being so rich that no one can buy you, is that you can buy everyone else. Musk is threatening congressmen by saying he'll bankroll primary challengers. They're afraid of that because politics is their life, career, and identity. So they will cave every time.
It's not
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:09:15 UTC No. 16589777
>>16589745
Reminds me of the NIH beagle stuff. Torturing animals was rejected at the ballot box
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:11:03 UTC No. 16589779
>>16589777
Trips confirm.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:26:18 UTC No. 16589792
>>16589775
I nominate this as /sfg/'s worst post of the day.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:29:31 UTC No. 16589797
>>16589775
Nice Reddit copypasta, jackass.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:31:09 UTC No. 16589800
>>16589797
arstechnica actually
untapped salt mines
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:35:08 UTC No. 16589804
>>16589775
i nominate this as /sfg/'s best troll post of the day
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:36:17 UTC No. 16589805
>>16589800
The best part of arse techinica is how much the rest of the website hates the space portion.
Like, everyone here would call the commenters on Berger's articles a bunch of limp-wristed, tree-hugging, communist faggots.
But if you take one step outside of those articles and look at any other comment section and they'll constantly deride the space portion for how nazi-loving it is and how it should be removed from the site.
It's absolutely wild.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:54:53 UTC No. 16589832
>>16589805
Websites with comment votes invariably descending into self imposed tyranny might be the best argument against Elon's Martian digital direct democracy
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:01:32 UTC No. 16589833
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1gqGvjeB
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:23:57 UTC No. 16589839
>>16589621
Nothingburger, this might slow things down even more because it just removes central guidelines, now every agency has to do everything on their own again which is gonna make projects with multiple agency consultations like SpaceX's more complicated. The law still remains untouched.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:29:13 UTC No. 16589842
>>16589833
generating mars trajectories
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:39:31 UTC No. 16589843
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 04:58:08 UTC No. 16589849
It will be the 28th
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:03:45 UTC No. 16589852
>>16589850
WELL THEN YOU BETTER START AMPING UP THE PACE MUSKY
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:06:40 UTC No. 16589853
>>16589848
if it doesn't launch on the 24th then grok is officially retarded
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:08:08 UTC No. 16589854
>>16589850
So when actually after considering Elon time?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:09:07 UTC No. 16589855
>>16589854
2028
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:12:46 UTC No. 16589856
>>16589850
>Elon's Razor
>Any time Elon Musk predicts a SpaceX Mars Mission date, add 10 to 12 years to that date.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:15:03 UTC No. 16589858
>>16589856
Elon time has been pretty accurate with Starship in the last year.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:26:07 UTC No. 16589863
>>16589850
and neuralink and boring flame throwers and doge lmfao so great hahahahahaha HAHAHAHAHA and PAYPAL
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:38:17 UTC No. 16589869
>>16589850
okay yeah elon is 100% talking out of his ass here trying to raise the valuation of his companies by deceit
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:39:15 UTC No. 16589870
if all goes well, optimus robots will tweet about how they're going to eventually go to mars in 2026.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:45:33 UTC No. 16589873
>>16589869
Optimus is progressing rapidly, you haven't been paying attention
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:46:29 UTC No. 16589874
>>16589873
if progress is so rapid then why hasn't elon impregnated one yet
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:49:31 UTC No. 16589876
https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/repo
>Operation Start Date: 03/05/2024
delayed from the 24th of Feb (two more weeks)
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:53:36 UTC No. 16589878
>>16589876
elon said today "maybe before feb 24" lmao
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:54:14 UTC No. 16589879
>>16589876
>2024
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:06:28 UTC No. 16589885
>>16589639
That's the Bangladesh flag.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:12:28 UTC No. 16589888
>>16589621
How long will it take for this to go into power?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:13:55 UTC No. 16589889
>>16589888
a while. expect lawsuits once the text of the new rule is revealed.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:05:29 UTC No. 16589901
>>16589769
its exciting but also pointless as we wont have a better understanding until april or may, and even then we'd probably have to wait for 2028 to have a real understanding
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:06:01 UTC No. 16589902
>>16589441
>Papyrus
and now you're pissing off graphic designers too
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:06:41 UTC No. 16589904
>>16589897
what if brazil wasnt a shithole and actually kept their space program alive
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:22:07 UTC No. 16589911
>>16589769
It'll just keep going up as the error circle shrinks, then abruptly drop to zero as the circle shrinks further and excludes earth
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:26:48 UTC No. 16589913
>>16589904
https://lmarena.ai/
direct chat, grok 3 is the top one, though the answer seems to cut off
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:32:11 UTC No. 16589914
>>16589863
Dont' forget the bouncy castle!!
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:08:58 UTC No. 16589929
>>16589902
I hoped somebody would notice
Figured comic sands would be too on the nose
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:17:47 UTC No. 16589934
Martian flag challenge: don't have a picture of the planet, or the moons, or a reference to its orbital position as fourth planet
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:19:43 UTC No. 16589936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kH
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:21:16 UTC No. 16589938
>>16589858
Fuck off Elon, and pay your child support
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:30:36 UTC No. 16589942
>>16589528
>rebecca watson
jesus christ that was 14 years ago. preceded gamergate, and was a harbinger of things to come.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 08:35:14 UTC No. 16589944
>>16589934
Spear and shield, referencing the eponymous god.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:19:43 UTC No. 16589959
>>16589934
Mars Society RGB flag
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:41:56 UTC No. 16589965
gradatim ferociter
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:46:14 UTC No. 16589968
PENIS
PEEEEENISSSSSSS
HELP ME
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:47:45 UTC No. 16589969
>>16589965
ieiunium exitum ingens poenitet
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:52:03 UTC No. 16589974
>>16589944
That's a good one for the left quarter
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:52:05 UTC No. 16589975
>>16589969
wonder the refurbishment team is doing right now over at BO
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:53:48 UTC No. 16589977
>>16589959
Looks like a test card
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:55:51 UTC No. 16589982
>>16589976
yes in the airlock over here
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:56:11 UTC No. 16589983
>>16589977
it's based on a book you idiot
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:57:35 UTC No. 16589984
>>16589976
what casuals think the mars colony will be like: ordering pizza while gaming and watching anime
what spacefags know the mars colony will be like: pain, suffering, and no escape
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:58:53 UTC No. 16589985
xAI is going to make non-woke games we can play on our nintendo switches on the planet Mars. the first game will be Trump dress up flash game, the second will be the first republican colony on Mars simulator. Based only
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:01:02 UTC No. 16589988
>>16589984
how bad can it possibly be? i get pizza on nuclear submarine deployments.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:03:29 UTC No. 16589994
>>16589988
there is no pizza
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:03:41 UTC No. 16589995
will mars have neets
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:08:43 UTC No. 16589999
>>16589994
i have eatan it
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:09:26 UTC No. 16590000
>>16589995
neets get the nerve stapler
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:16:04 UTC No. 16590008
>>16589985
Such seethe in this post. Calm down, my man.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:26:26 UTC No. 16590015
>>16589873
Starship is more likely to go to Mars in 2026 than Optimus being ready for anything.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:28:16 UTC No. 16590017
>>16590015
probably, but I don't think its impossible
and they could put some Optimi on Starship that lands on Mars just for the memes, even if its not very useful yet
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:32:43 UTC No. 16590018
>>16589983
I don't care.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:32:56 UTC No. 16590019
>>16589983
And?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:33:33 UTC No. 16590021
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:38:03 UTC No. 16590024
>>16590015
>>16590017
The first round of unmanned Starships to Mars is going to be a comedy of errors and will be hilarious.
My guess is they only get 3 or 4 of them sent off in time, with terrible, thrown together at the last minute payloads that don't stand a chance of mission success.
At least one ship will fail in transit, and another 1 or 2 will fail in landing. If one makes it to the surface, the payload will accomplish jack shit before shutting down and failing after a few months.
But goddamn its going to be fun as hell, and I am all for it.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:47:07 UTC No. 16590028
>>16590024
I don't think they will be capable of sending that many in 2026, you have to remember that they still need shitloads of refuels and rapid reusability is not happening in 2026 either.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:54:56 UTC No. 16590030
>>16590024
What that other anon said, but then at least some supplies should be up there from whatever doesn't RUD on landing. It's also likely that if it isn't broken to dust by an energetic landing, there won't be much fire, due to the lack of atmosphere, so more useful junk will be left behind.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 10:57:39 UTC No. 16590032
>>16590028
Refueling is a bitch as it multiplies the launches by 10X. All they will have to accomplish this will be 2 towers in Starbase and 2 more at the Cape. And there is no doubt will will be seeing our first full-scale accident, which does incredible damage removing infrastructure.
I guess you are right, maybe only a single Starship off to Mars in 26, mostly to deploy some comms and observation stuff in orbit before a low-payload test landing. The rest of the Starships are spoken for, testing while deploying Starlinks, and some Artemis bullshit, if there is anything left of it.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:15:34 UTC No. 16590041
>>16590024
>My guess is they only get 3 or 4 of them sent off in time
yeah, no. Not happening. 2028? Sure, maybe even more than 4. But not next year.
SpaceX is fast, but they're still too slow. Starship is amazing, but not good enough. Refueling, long stay in space and reentry on a different planet are all big question marks that come to mind at the moment and there's no reason to believe that they will be solved in time unless you're the type who honestly believed the initial starship timelines, in which case, I feel sorry for you.
we're almost 1/6th of the way through the year and all that has been achieved is a spectacular RUD before reaching space. Finally, there's no obligation for spacex to actually go to mars, they don't have any contracts and words from a billionaire hold little value, surely people understand something this obvious? Not saying that Elon doesn't want to go to Mars, but neither does he have to tell the full truth about the exact plans and time. The real and current use of starship is obviously to expand the starlink network, as is indicated by the last/next flight's profile. Everything else comes after that.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:44:26 UTC No. 16590067
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:45:08 UTC No. 16590068
>>16590063
Assuming a spinning orbital type station, that sounds reasonable? I guess you can store large amounts of water at the hub.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:47:23 UTC No. 16590070
>>16590032
>Refueling is a bitch as it multiplies the launches by 10X. All they will have to accomplish this will be 2 towers in Starbase and 2 more at the Cape. And there is no doubt will will be seeing our first full-scale accident, which does incredible damage removing infrastructure.
How many launches are they doing NOW compared to how many there used to be? Where is all the "incredible damage removing infrastructure" so far? Where's mah pad RUD on a ground landing already?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:47:51 UTC No. 16590072
>>16590068
>I guess you can store large amounts of water at the hub.
Thats the obvious solution the author never comes to, instead spending an entire section speculating about no fish and a cultural aversion to water.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:50:52 UTC No. 16590075
>>16590063
we need better space news
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:53:50 UTC No. 16590076
>>16590072
It's a bit silly fun to speculate what culture might evolve multiple generations into space colonisation, but that's most of sci-fi. Should keep it out of serious articles though.
Personally, I really want that infinite loop sea habitat on my giant orbital station, with thousands of private tropical islands.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:01:18 UTC No. 16590083
Speaking of fish, did they ever do any experiments on how they adapt to microgravity?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:18:12 UTC No. 16590101
>>16590068
in the O'Neill designs bodies of water are shallow and balanced to prevent strain and wobbling
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:19:19 UTC No. 16590105
>>16590070
Thinking there will never be an accident is foolish, you had F9 booster failure just last year and multiple 2nd stage failures. SpaceX is not perfect
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:25:53 UTC No. 16590110
2030 are you fucking kidding me? Europa clipper won’t even reach Jupiter until 2030? I FUCKING HATE GRAVITY ASSIST MISSIONS
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:41:54 UTC No. 16590117
>>16590110
Plasma magnet sail gets there in a month...but it can't slow down
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:42:41 UTC No. 16590118
>>16589984
>pain, suffering
You're either thriving or you're dead. Mars is not a frontier.
>ordering pizza while gaming and watching anime
You'll have several hundred tons of cargo drops and occasional downtime. Early SpaceX partied while roughing it and moving at breakneck speed.
I don't think you understand what the cargo capabilities of Starship implies.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:54:46 UTC No. 16590127
What is the plan after 2nd tower goes online, will they disassemble 1st OLM?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:57:53 UTC No. 16590130
>>16590127
Word on the street is they'll stress test booster catch failure modes until it's damaged beyond use, then demo.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:58:28 UTC No. 16590131
>>16589984
Intially it will be more an outpost than a colony, so you'll have both.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:59:55 UTC No. 16590133
>>16590127
probably just launch using both of them to get that cadence up, maybe modify the older tower at some point but if it works does it really matter?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:02:41 UTC No. 16590135
>>16589639
red planet in the dark of space
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:03:28 UTC No. 16590136
>>16590135
Can we stop with this? None of you anons have good ideas
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:03:36 UTC No. 16590137
>>16590135
evil japan
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:04:46 UTC No. 16590139
>>16590137
They hate anime and treat their workers well.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:06:38 UTC No. 16590140
>>16590101
Those designs aren't entirely realistic, and those blue areas are inteded as windows.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:10:36 UTC No. 16590144
>>16590139
isn't that France?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:22:27 UTC No. 16590154
>>16589934
Martian flag challenge hard mode: do not make reference to the ground being red
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:25:47 UTC No. 16590156
>>16590140
O'Neill certainly intended open bodies of (shallow) water and his designs are strong enough to have them
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:25:48 UTC No. 16590157
>>16590137
It's not evil, just determined.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:26:30 UTC No. 16590158
>>16589729
looks happy enough to me
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:33:02 UTC No. 16590165
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:33:51 UTC No. 16590166
>>16589571
I am going to drop your ass on Tibet
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:51:12 UTC No. 16590179
>>16590144
france loves anime
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:56:11 UTC No. 16590183
>>16589934
I made this one based on the sunset
>>16590154
Fuck
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:00:32 UTC No. 16590186
>>16589929
you need to create a slight variation, then register it as Cosmic Sands
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:04:40 UTC No. 16590191
>>16590117
aerospike! yet...
>those caster wheels on the fins
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:26:21 UTC No. 16590208
>>16590133
They seem to never stop working on OLM so I wonder how reusable it actually is.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:28:35 UTC No. 16590209
>>16590206
>This is what state worshipping subhumans actually believe
🗑️ Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:31:34 UTC No. 16590212
>ukraine war peace deal may have been reached
looks like russia will be re-joining artemis soon
check. mate. china.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:34:29 UTC No. 16590215
>>16590206
The helicopter accident was a result of the cowboy culture of visual separation being sufficient precaution when entering into a flight corridor of landing airplanes. At fucking night too. Helicopter pilots and GA want to fly free as much as possible and these people paid the price.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:35:40 UTC No. 16590217
>>16590215
Actually it's the result of the president. He's in charge, and it happened on his watch. The buck stops there.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:39:03 UTC No. 16590220
>>16590206
> self declared judeobolshevik
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:39:26 UTC No. 16590222
>>16590206
It's peculiar how they are always so obsessed with credentials, as soon as they see prestigious university name they stop caring about everything else including actual competence
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:43:13 UTC No. 16590225
>>16587022
Saaaaar sisters.... it's..... over....
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:49:03 UTC No. 16590231
>>16590225
>jeets escaped divine retribution once again
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:56:18 UTC No. 16590237
>>16590225
>unsourced
They still haven't updated it.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:59:00 UTC No. 16590242
>>16590237
I believe the impact probability will go up, so it will go up.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:00:34 UTC No. 16590243
>>16590242
Impact probability is always 50/50 tho, it either hits or it doesn't
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:08:01 UTC No. 16590251
>>16590244
ole Berg lost it. I no longer care about him, a traitor to spaceflight...
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:09:13 UTC No. 16590253
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:11:01 UTC No. 16590255
>>16590242
Lads, we can't deny them the ultimate Juggernaut of all time.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:12:13 UTC No. 16590256
>>16590244
Firing new young people seems like a dumb heuristic if you want to make the agency more nimble but what do I know.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:12:45 UTC No. 16590257
>>16590244
>Yes, NASA is clearly losing some capability with these latest cuts. Many of these hires were likely being counted on to bring new energy into the space agency and become its future discoverers and leaders. And their jobs are being sacrificed for no clear purpose. Is it to increase funding for the military? Is it to pay for tax cuts for the rich? There is a lot of anger that the relatively thin budget line of NASA—less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget—is being sliced for such purposes.
lol what a hack
these articles are slowly becoming slop
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:13:11 UTC No. 16590258
>>16590244
The sweeping probationary cuts do seem pretty bad. They've had to go back and fix several.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:13:50 UTC No. 16590259
>>16590256
a reform is needed, people can be hired back later but what matters is speed and momentum now or nothing happens
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:15:05 UTC No. 16590261
>>16590244
Looks like the comments are going to be a rich salt mine.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:18:30 UTC No. 16590262
>>16590261
You know it.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:19:01 UTC No. 16590263
>>16590258
It's really a bad move. Not spaceflight, but the NPS is going to have a really hard time managing the parks and national forests because their headcount was cut so much.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:20:03 UTC No. 16590265
>>16590244
>report on what's happening
>REEEEE BERGER IS EVIL NOW
Stage 2: Anger
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:22:16 UTC No. 16590269
>>16590265
>report whats happening
>whine about "tax cuts for billionaires"
the second one is unnecessary and not objective which diminishes from the reporting
Berger was very objective previously but that has started to slip lately
I wouldn't be surprised if he has full blown EDS in a few years
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:22:43 UTC No. 16590270
>>16590259
>speed and momentum
wow, this new government is really fast at fucking up the country. I'm sure leaders of china and russia are all furiously ejaculating right about now
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:23:17 UTC No. 16590272
>>16590267
two more weeks
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:23:39 UTC No. 16590273
>>16590267
march 4th
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:24:21 UTC No. 16590274
>>16590261
I will never understand why people are so eager to turn nasa into a redundant NOAA
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:24:51 UTC No. 16590275
>>16590267
less than a week, trust da plan
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:25:10 UTC No. 16590276
>>16590269
Why would normal people would be happy about tax cuts for billionaires
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:25:28 UTC No. 16590277
>>16590269
DOGE or whoever is doing the cuts should explain what they are for if they don't want people to speculate.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:26:39 UTC No. 16590282
>>16590274
NOAA is getting cut too. GOP wants no climate science what so ever.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:26:44 UTC No. 16590283
>>16590276
thats not what they are
>>16590277
Berger shouldn't speculate like that
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:28:19 UTC No. 16590284
>>16590274
nasa should be deep space and noaa should be things in space pointed at earth. they should fight it out over who gets to keep airplanes
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:28:56 UTC No. 16590285
>>16590283
>Berger shouldn't speculate like that
doge shouldn't be filled with retards sperging out, but alas!
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:28:59 UTC No. 16590286
>>16590270
36T debt retard with 1T interest
this isn't sustainable
if something useful gets cut then that is worth it, much better than the alternative
useful stuff can eventually be added back in (or added quickly in if its critical and not just "useful")
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:29:15 UTC No. 16590287
>>16590283
>Do sweeping cuts with no reason
>Refuse to give explanations or reasoning
>"Hmmm why are they making these cuts? Could it be for this? Or maybe this?"
>REEEEEE STOP THINKING JUST FOLLOW THE LEADER
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:29:32 UTC No. 16590288
>>16590244
They are confused. They dont know whether to call Trump bad for cutting jobs or to call it nothingburger because "they would have quit anyway".
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:30:03 UTC No. 16590289
>>16590285
deflection and irrelevant, the topic of discussion was the slow crumbling of Bergers objectivity
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:31:03 UTC No. 16590290
>>16590287
they have given plenty of reasons and explanations you just refuse to listen apparently
government getting downsized includes NASA, why should they be exempt?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:31:57 UTC No. 16590292
>>16590289
If he wrote that it was a good thing you wouldn't be sperging out about him, you didn't seek objectivity in the first place.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:34:21 UTC No. 16590295
>>16590292
I do, I want the facts not partisan political commentary from a space reporter
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:34:50 UTC No. 16590296
>>16590294
what are you on about, nigger? /sfg/ has ALWAYS been anti-SLS. This is a dream come true for everyone interested in space.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:35:32 UTC No. 16590298
>>16590294
What the fuck you on about?
/sfg/ has always called for the cancelation of the orange rocket.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:36:02 UTC No. 16590299
>>16590295
Keep telling that to yourself, maybe it will become true one day.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:36:04 UTC No. 16590300
>>16590295
>I want teh factinos!!!
>but not when they hurt my feefees!!!!1!1!!!
back to plebbit with you
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:37:26 UTC No. 16590304
>>16590263
I guess this is where we find out if Elon really is an environment guy, or if it was yet another thing he faked for mass approval. The man is starting to frighten me. I hope for all of us his real goal is actually Mars.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:38:15 UTC No. 16590306
>>16590300
the entire point is for the articles to become reddit tier seething, he is one of the few good reporters
but I guess that is too much to ask
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:39:26 UTC No. 16590309
>>16590296
>>16590298
We are in favor of cutting SLS to make room for more deep space missions, or a new space station. Not just cutting it so the money to go to more welfare programs or tax cuts.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:39:57 UTC No. 16590310
>>16590306
*not to become
fine with you if they start whining about Musk, Trump, billionaires and whatever the fuck else every time SpaceX is mentioned in any way shape or form?
the deterioration has been happening for months now, its getting worse
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:40:03 UTC No. 16590312
It's not cutting SLS is it, it's just cutting random jobs because downsizing or something
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:43:36 UTC No. 16590315
>>16590312
was there a single competently run programme in NASA? SLS, Artemis and Gateway are just the most obvious grift, but that is just the tip of the iceberg
what about MSR, Viper or James Webb costing 10bil instead of the 1bil it was supposed to?
NASA is fucking incompetent, it needs big reforms
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:44:00 UTC No. 16590316
>>16590309
I've always been of the opinion that NASA should focus entirely on practical tech or funding for manned occupation, mostly on Mars. Imagine 20 billion a year well spent on Mars colonization. If getting cameras around some ice balls cuts into our next big step, then it can wait.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:44:40 UTC No. 16590317
>>16590309
>Not just cutting it so the money to go to more welfare programs or tax cuts.
and who the fuck said anything about that? No, berger's seethe doesn't count
>>16590312
it's very plainly obvious that it's the SLS jobs that are being cut. Anyone keeping up with the news for the last week/month/year should have no trouble realizing that.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:45:23 UTC No. 16590318
>>16590306
>he is one of the few good reporters
Was.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:46:10 UTC No. 16590319
>>16590318
so who's left? where do I get unbiased news now?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:46:39 UTC No. 16590320
>>16590317
>and who the fuck said anything about that?
Ok then explain what it's for?
>it's very plainly obvious that it's the SLS jobs that are being cut.
It's cutting all probationary employees. So that's anyone who was hired in the last two years. No idea where you are getting this fantasy that it's only SLS jobs getting cut.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:48:42 UTC No. 16590325
>>16590315
Firing random people will reform NASA how?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:50:41 UTC No. 16590328
>>16590319
>1) When reading/consume any information, always try to understand what the author/writer stands for and then filter that out from the information. What you're reading initially isn't news, its their own politics. So you need to remove the author's politics first.
Not perfect, but it is decent, especially these days when the "news" is just political activism.
>2) Have your own basic core values/understanding of what is good, then filter out the bad from information pamplets.
This is also also very good. For years, Berger has talked about waste/fraud/mismanagement at NASA. Now that the audit has come, he's claiming its bad. You know his value system is compromised by his politics. Your value system hasn't changed.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:51:40 UTC No. 16590329
>>16590325
this is just the beginning
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:53:37 UTC No. 16590331
>>16590328
>Now that the audit has come,
That's not what's happening here
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:54:10 UTC No. 16590332
>>16590309
SLS funding will be cut, a part of it will go to replacement which will be cheaper but not free either, another part will be simply lost
It won't massively increase other lines, it will help their executions, maybe make it so that they can have higher budget peaks, it'll definitely help but don't expect a revolutionary change.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:54:27 UTC No. 16590333
>>16590329
Fire new people, keep the old people who are actually responsible for NASA going to shit. Surely that will help.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:55:31 UTC No. 16590335
>>16590309
SLS/ISS shutdown will cut ~50% of NASA funding, while doing more. Private space station for service will be great.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:55:32 UTC No. 16590336
>>16590333
old people will get fired too, new people will be hired later
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:02:16 UTC No. 16590338
>>16590335
Private stations isn’t going to be a smooth industry. NASA is tired of dealing with the logistics; they simply want to buy astronaut slots and keep it simple. I don’t think any company save for maybe SX and BO have the resources to run an entire Station. It’s a lot of work.
There’s a handful of new space players offering modules as a business—but I don’t think they have what it takes to do all the logistics. This is apparently stressing NASA out behind closed doors because after ISS is done there isn’t a solid game plan right now
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:03:27 UTC No. 16590339
>>16590206
>Federal Government invented the shit that everyone else builds off of
Like, the airplane? Or reusable rockets? Who made the car?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:06:31 UTC No. 16590342
>>16590309
Why the fuck did cross agency support and education become so high around 2007? Seems like you could cut that way down and not sacrifice anything worthy.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:09:10 UTC No. 16590343
>>16590342
It says it right there anon
>Accounting shift to separate and show "Cross agency support"
Most likely was rolled into "Science" before that. Attached the PDF that graph is from if you want to read more.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:13:00 UTC No. 16590346
>>16590338
Right. It couldn't be that the government is doing a terrible job and the private sector will eclipse them in every way. There's no precedent for that at all.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:17:22 UTC No. 16590349
>>16590338
vast is going to cut the cost of space station operation 10 fold
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:20:16 UTC No. 16590354
>>16590346
I’m presenting it as a short-term problem that need solving.
i.e. “NASA’s problem right now is that there’s a problem that’s not yet solved”
Private sector is gonna fix it one day but that’s not now and there’s no outlook on the horizon making me confident that it is going to be any time soon
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:21:19 UTC No. 16590357
Cancel SLS
Cancel Gateway
Cancel Orion
Deorbit ISS
Focus on actual scientific missions
There I fixed NASA
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:24:35 UTC No. 16590360
>>16590357
uhm sweaty, but what's the benefit of sending telescopes and proves to space. We need to build more overpriced rockets instead!!!
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:26:50 UTC No. 16590361
>>16590357
a few MSR-tier boondoggles later all of your budget is gone again
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:31:24 UTC No. 16590365
>>16590361
Shitty good for nothing orange rocket or surface samples from the fucking Mars, what a hard choice to make
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:37:17 UTC No. 16590368
jobs arent being cut at spacex
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:39:27 UTC No. 16590370
we don't really need a national space agency at this point. let the states that are interested in it have their own state agency and kill the bloated corpse.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:40:43 UTC No. 16590371
>>16589266
>nobody here is advocating for less
as we can see, you are very clearly incorrect
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:42:05 UTC No. 16590372
>>16590371
>bait posts
>genuine
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:45:10 UTC No. 16590376
>>16590371
Cultists live in perpetual contradiction. They will never break free of it.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:47:16 UTC No. 16590378
>>16590365
how about using the money efficiently for all kinds of shit instead of one massively costly and retarded boondoggle that is done better, cheaper and faster by a private company
NASA should research memedrives and utilize private companies to spam probes if they are not doing some groundbreaking research
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:47:22 UTC No. 16590379
>>16590376
>Cultists
That's (you).
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:48:18 UTC No. 16590381
>>16590368
whats your point?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:49:20 UTC No. 16590384
>>16590371
giving money to NASA has no intrinsic value by itself
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:50:36 UTC No. 16590385
>>16590384
nuh-uh. nasa gives you seven dollars for every dollar you give them
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:00:03 UTC No. 16590403
>>16590400
do I have to?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:01:39 UTC No. 16590405
>>16590393
I don't see how giving money to some random Alabama contractors is advancing spaceflight if they actually accomplish nothing
there is no intrinsic value as I said
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:02:42 UTC No. 16590408
>>16590403
Yes, I want to ride it to Mars (solo)
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:04:13 UTC No. 16590411
>>16590407
What does Ja Rule think about this
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:04:41 UTC No. 16590412
>>16590407
>female talk show noise
Spare me this trash
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:05:28 UTC No. 16590414
>>16590405
>I don't see
then that's a personal problem for you. Try updating your world model once in a while.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:07:57 UTC No. 16590417
>>16590414
tell me then
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:08:02 UTC No. 16590418
>>16590408
Starship is for Mars, spacecrafts like in your pic are for beyond Mars, I hope Nasa will realize that.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:09:23 UTC No. 16590421
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:13:56 UTC No. 16590427
>>16590418
Copernicus was designed for a Mars trip though, I don't think it could do a Jupiter trip.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:15:42 UTC No. 16590430
20 bil for magnetic solar sails
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:16:35 UTC No. 16590431
>>16590407
does she even know that it's SLS that is getting cut. literally everyone hates it. they really should bring on guests who know what they're talking about so they can inform the audience instead of talking out their ass and spreading misinformation.
>cut sls after artemis 3
>move artemis 4 and beyond to partially or fully commercial
>add support for asteroid defense including a manned asteroid mission
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:17:22 UTC No. 16590433
>>16590407
Lmao, that's like saying "Let's cut funding to Boeing, we already have NASA". So, so terribly uninformed.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:18:04 UTC No. 16590435
>>16590427
True but they should focus on going to Jupiter with spacecrafts of that kind. It's a waste to go to Mars with these when Starship exists.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:18:18 UTC No. 16590436
normies don't even know that SLS exists.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:18:20 UTC No. 16590438
>>16590417
>tell me about the last 60 years of human space exploration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA
here you go zoom zoom, this is a nice beginning point for someone of your intelligence, now fuck off and don't come back
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:19:35 UTC No. 16590439
>>16590407
Democrats have lost all plot.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:21:09 UTC No. 16590441
>>16590431
i take it back, nsf likes sls. forgot about them. but they loved shuttle too, so...
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:21:18 UTC No. 16590442
>>16590407
Double digit IQs are real something
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:24:30 UTC No. 16590447
>>16590438
either you are being extremely disingenious or a fucking retard
money for a specific programme such as Apollo that accomplishes things does have value, though perhaps not intrinsic value either, the value comes from what is accomplished
just giving money to NASA without caring what they do with the money has no intrinsic value
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:29:43 UTC No. 16590450
>>16587022
IT IS HAPPENING! SAAARS WE MUST EVACUATE NEW DELIH
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:29:49 UTC No. 16590451
When Patel unveils the Epstein list and Musk is on there, SpaceX will lose all its contracts. It will collapse and the Isaacman nomination will be withdrawn for his connections to Musk. All funding will be diverted to SLS and /sfg/ will seethe but fully convert to Blue Origin stans
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:31:44 UTC No. 16590452
>>16590450
I am.... so.... scared............ 3.1% !!! IT MEANS ITS OVER
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:31:53 UTC No. 16590453
>>16590451
Yep, two more weeks and Elon is finished
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:32:50 UTC No. 16590455
>>16590452
>number of potential impacts
>7
what? so it could break up into 7 impactors?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:33:09 UTC No. 16590456
>>16590451
Trump has tons of friends and associates on the list, he's not going to release it.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:36:58 UTC No. 16590458
>>16590455
I think they mean there are 7 encounters between Earth and the asteroid over time that could result in an impact.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:37:10 UTC No. 16590459
>>16590447
so you went from
>giving money to NASA is le bad
to
>giving money to Alabama contractors is le bad
to
>actually giving money to NASA is le good, except when it's le not!
who is a disingenuous nigger again? oh right, silly me, that's (you). Now go and read the wiki page again, maybe you will move the goalpost far enough to finally admit you're mentally disabled. Please.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:41:04 UTC No. 16590463
>>16590458
>8.7%
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:42:36 UTC No. 16590465
>>16590463
Retard
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:42:38 UTC No. 16590466
>And their jobs are being sacrificed for no clear purpose. Is it to increase funding for the military? Is it to pay for tax cuts for the rich?
berger chill the fuck out with the alarmist leftist rhetoric. its budget cuts to fix the deficit.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:42:50 UTC No. 16590467
>>16590463
>e-8
I'm afraid your retardation is terminal
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:44:44 UTC No. 16590469
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:45:30 UTC No. 16590470
>>16590459
do you know what the word intrinsic means you retarded fuck?
just giving money indiscriminately is worthless
NASA getting money that goes to something pointless like SLS that then goes to a contractor in Alabama has no intrinsic value
NASA getting money that would go to something like researching new propulsion methods would have value, but that wouldn't really be intrinsic either, the technologies developed would have applications which would give it value
to make it clear to you as you don't seem to understand, cutting money from NASA is not bad by itself, nor giving money to NASA is not good by itself, it matters what is cut or what the money is used for
you could argue giving money to some programmes does not only have no value at all, it has negative value or negative ROI if it causes people to do something pointless (like build obsolete and extremely expensive rockets) because those contractors then lobby and block actually innovative companies from doing things and also lock up workforce to do pointless things
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:56:19 UTC No. 16590476
>>16590265
editorializing is not "reporting on what is happening
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:56:54 UTC No. 16590477
>>16590438
The NASA of the moon landing is gone. It is used by states and contractors to make money. Space is secondary. Pretending otherwise is delusional.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:58:27 UTC No. 16590479
>>16590270
Xi and Putin are very pleased with the US national debt increasing by $13 trillion dollars in the last 4 years.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:59:13 UTC No. 16590480
>>16590452
he...he's standing right behind me isn't he?
>cartoon dog covers his eyes but opens one of his toes to take a look anyway
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:59:24 UTC No. 16590481
now that space is out of thousands of jobs this month, where will they go? spacex is hiring...
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:59:49 UTC No. 16590482
>>16590470
>NASA getting money has no intrinsic value
>only this other type of value
so essentially, your entire spergout is because of pedantic autism?
>do you know what the word intrinsic means
do you? doesn't seem like it but I will entertain the thought. Give me an example of what you consider to be intrinsically valuable. Can you do that?
>>16590477
>NASA's only achievement is Apollo
fucking newfags...
read the wiki page. Please. For your own sake.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:00:13 UTC No. 16590483
>>16590481
spacex is a shitty place to work at
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:01:20 UTC No. 16590485
>>16590479
and they will be even happier when it doubles in the following term
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:02:19 UTC No. 16590486
>>16590407
>old woman going senile
Many such cases.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:04:41 UTC No. 16590490
hear me out...NASAX
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:07:11 UTC No. 16590492
>>16590483
Which is why everyone wants to work there instead of NASA.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:09:09 UTC No. 16590494
>>16590244
i'll defend berger on this a little bit. he's friends with lots of nasa employees. he's probably friends with some of the probationary employees who are essentially getting laid off. is it hypocritical for getting upset over nasa layoffs when he's never shown much emotional concern for boeing or ng or bo layoffs? sure, but it's still gonna hit different when it's the people you know best.
if anyone (me included) wants a quality space journalist who doesn't get mad at republican space policy then we'd be better off putting up the money to pay for somebody to do it full-time instead of just griping whenever berger lets slip in an article that he's not a republican.
>>16590256
>>16590258
>>16590263
one of the unfortunate realities of government is that personnel cuts are harder to reverse than program cuts whenever you have a change in parties. when you take that into consideration it's a rational move.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:09:24 UTC No. 16590495
>>16590482
You've lost the plot. Everyone knows even the most basic parts of NASA are not operating efficiently. They're a government organization.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:09:34 UTC No. 16590496
>>16590482
its not pedantic, its a simple statement of fact which you denied for some reason >>16590393
>Give me an example of what you consider to be intrinsically valuable. Can you do that?
scientific progress in a relevant field, but of course this is somewhat subjective
you think simply giving NASA money has intrinsic value? seeing the number go up on NASAs yearly budget gives you a happy feeling so we should just keep increasing it forever, no matter what NASA does with it (because that is what intrinsic is, by itself, unto itself)
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:12:03 UTC No. 16590499
what NASA does with its budget and how efficiently it executes actually matters
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:15:01 UTC No. 16590500
>>16590492
Which is why spacex has the biggest employee turnover rate among space companies
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:16:51 UTC No. 16590502
>>16590500
which doesn't matter because everyone wants to work there and will often come back and be rehired if they want back into the fold.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:19:36 UTC No. 16590505
>>16590500
but are the people who leave making lateral moves, or taking worse jobs to get away? or is it that if you prove you can make it at spacex for a couple of years then you're getting job offers from fucking everybody?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:21:52 UTC No. 16590506
at least the nasa folk in houston will be okay. the city just built up a large expansion at spaceport houston. lots of companies moved there including axiom and intuitive machines.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:25:18 UTC No. 16590508
>Elon doing cuts to NASA at the same time as Boeing and Blue Origin are laying people off
lmao the space jobs market is going to be fucked
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:25:23 UTC No. 16590509
>>16590500
Ossification of work place gets your NASA or Boeing.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:29:54 UTC No. 16590510
>>16590508
it'll be okay. spacex, blue, and vast are expanding. we could use another heavy hitter though.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:30:34 UTC No. 16590511
>>16590349
Good luck to them I guess
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:30:40 UTC No. 16590512
>>16590510
stoke
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:34:02 UTC No. 16590514
>>16590512
more like cope
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:34:13 UTC No. 16590516
>>16590512
Nova is very a interesting rocket but Stoke is going to be fighting with Rocket Lab over SpaceX, Blue and ULA's table scraps.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:35:23 UTC No. 16590517
>>16590510
it's not obvious today but 10 years from now varda will be a household pharmaceutical name
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:36:41 UTC No. 16590518
>>16590510
>>16590516
Reminder, they will all be fighting over the same contracts and if the gov splits the contracts out, there would be enough to sustain these companies on its own. Each company needs to branch out and commercialize their product to compete or else they will go bankrupt. SpaceX is in a huge lead with Starlink feeding the money into the machine.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:39:28 UTC No. 16590522
>>16590517
>only ~20 STEM jobs available
https://www.varda.com/careers#open-
its over
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:42:03 UTC No. 16590525
>>16590495
>Everyone knows even the most basic parts of NASA are not operating efficiently
and that was always the case, you stupid kid. Yes, even during the Apollo era. And before that. And afterwards too. Just wait til you learn that this is and was the case for every government institution in the history of Mankind.
>>16590496
>its not pedantic
oh it absolutely is, you can't weasel your way out of this one.
>its a simple statement of fact which you denied for some reason
it is so ludicrously pedantic that I assumed it to be a troll post and responded in kind. Look, I don't give a shit whether you want to cry and piss yourself that something is valuable but not in the exact definition you concocted in your head, by all means go ahead
>scientific progress in a relevant field
but even by your own logic, making NASA rich is more "intrinsically" valuable than spending that money on anything else. Unless you believe "scientific progress" to involve buying some MIC cocksucker a new lambo or feeding niglets or whatnot.
>you think simply giving NASA money has intrinsic value?
it has more value than taking money away, yes. Which, mind you, hasn't even been confirmed to be happening.
>seeing the number go up on NASAs yearly budget gives you a happy feeling so we should just keep increasing it forever
take your meds, lad. Take a deep breath and calm down. You seem to be arguing with the voices in your head more than with me.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:44:33 UTC No. 16590526
>>16590525
Good lord. Well I'm sorry you lost your job man
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:48:09 UTC No. 16590528
>>16590525
WEW
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:50:25 UTC No. 16590529
>>16590525
didn't read, you sure seem upset
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:54:21 UTC No. 16590533
>>16590526
>>16590528
>>16590529
hilariously obvious samefag. You truly must feel butthurt to embarrass yourself like this
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:55:16 UTC No. 16590534
>>16590063
It reads like AI
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:58:29 UTC No. 16590537
>>16588186
>>16588364
>More angry subhuman noises
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:02:38 UTC No. 16590538
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8D
>Musk when he sees inefficiency
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:04:04 UTC No. 16590539
>>16590495
NASA has been a grift since the 60s and SpaceX is just another way to leach public funds to give subsidies private enterprise. Both Socialize costs and privatize profits. The ISS has been doing corporate research since it went into operation.
The Dunning krugers and H1Bs that infest /sfg/ are incapable of talking like adults and are oblivious to the economic systems underpinning "SCINECE."
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:05:58 UTC No. 16590540
>>16590525
You seem mad.
Calm down before creating a wall of text that's this cringe.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:07:37 UTC No. 16590543
>>16590540
>uhh I'm not mad ur mad
says the guy sperging out about word definitions for 2 hours
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:12:56 UTC No. 16590545
>>16590541
autism interest generals can not handle bait
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:22:54 UTC No. 16590559
>2.6% that there is a 5% chance it kills a few millions Africans, Latinos or Indians
Meh
I appreciate the sentiment, but it's just not reliable
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:31:47 UTC No. 16590570
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:40:01 UTC No. 16590580
>>16590570
>india's population almost doubled in 30 years
what the fuck is going on chill out
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:43:17 UTC No. 16590583
>>16590580
They really like fucking and really hate condoms
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:49:42 UTC No. 16590587
>>16589985 >>16588706 >>16588723
DeepSeek is top 1 on benchmarks and
>no cost
>no tracking
>no spying
>open source
>local
>offline
>safe
Nobody gives a shit about your proprietary propaganda ad.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:50:43 UTC No. 16590588
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:54:04 UTC No. 16590590
>>16590589
>asteroid about to hit the earth
>elon fires a ton of people from nasa
gwynne should've been in charge of doge
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:54:26 UTC No. 16590591
>>16587022
Thirds world bros........
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:57:03 UTC No. 16590593
>>16590518
>the same contracts
Nova will not be able to bid on most if not all the government contracts that Falcon 9, Vulcan, New Glenn and Starship will be.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:57:25 UTC No. 16590594
>>16590591
wow i can't believe all 8 of those cities are gonna get simultaneously obliterated. nature's power is truly terrifying.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:57:34 UTC No. 16590596
>>16590570
Why is indias so smooth compared to chinas?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:58:03 UTC No. 16590597
>>16590525
SG5?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:00:33 UTC No. 16590602
>>16590596
india wasn't having famines that killed 50 million people or cultural revolutions or one-child policies
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:01:41 UTC No. 16590603
>>16590580
>>16590570
You are now aware that somehow China's population grew larger than India's despite having a lower birth rate. Far more than life expectancy can account for.
Almost like it's another example of China cooking their books.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:02:27 UTC No. 16590607
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:05:33 UTC No. 16590612
>>16590611
https://x.com/SwipeWright/status/18
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:05:51 UTC No. 16590613
>>16590611
for a moment i thought it was nasaspaceflight
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:08:34 UTC No. 16590615
>>16590611
WTF?!?!? NOOOO PLEASE NO I NEED TO WATCH STARSHIP LIVE STREAMS EVERY DAY.... IT'S MY HIGHLIGHT OF THE DAY AFTER WAGESLAVING I JUST WANT TO HAVE AN ORANGE AND AN EGG AND WATCH THE NSF STARSHIP STREAM AND SOMETIMES I WATCH THE MCGREGOR LIVESTREAM AND WAIT FOR AN ENGINE TEST MOSTLY NO ENGINE GETS IGNITED BUT QUIET OFTEN I SEE A BIRD THTATS SO COOL THEN I TELL IT IN THE CHAT!
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:09:18 UTC No. 16590617
>>16590615
national science foundation, not nasa spaceflight
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:09:29 UTC No. 16590618
>>16590611
>>16590612
NSF funded the creation of mass censorship tools. NSF funded the election intergrety program in various universities which pushed the russiagate hoax, where the core evidence ("I heard Trump say") was created by another wing of USAID funded program.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:11:23 UTC No. 16590619
>>16590591
I don't get how they can say "we're not even sure if it'll hit earth lol" and then turn around and say "it's going to fly directly over these 8 cities"
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:11:33 UTC No. 16590620
maybe they can get a job at nasaspaceflight
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:11:55 UTC No. 16590622
>>16590591
Is the impact probability static across the line, or is it less likely towards the edges?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:11:57 UTC No. 16590623
>>16590618
Well good I'm glad they're getting cut
>>16590620
Maybe they can go to hell
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:15:09 UTC No. 16590625
>>16590620
they've got some open spots. i saw on /sfg/ that they fired all of their streamers today.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:15:21 UTC No. 16590626
>>16590622
They can't exactly determine exact time it's going to hit, so chances are pretty much the same anywhere on the line
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:17:07 UTC No. 16590629
>>16590619
>we don't know if it will hit earth
>if it does, these are the places at risk
what's so hard to understand? Read up on how the trajectories are determined if you still struggle with the concept.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:19:27 UTC No. 16590634
>>16590619
spaceflight general by the way
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:19:30 UTC No. 16590635
can't we just redirect the asteroid so that it aerobrakes into a low earth orbit? practice mining on the thing.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:21:24 UTC No. 16590637
>>16590636
my thoughts: she's not bad-looking or anything, but does she really qualify to be the face of the official twitter account for beautiful women?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:22:13 UTC No. 16590639
>>16590636
too old
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:22:32 UTC No. 16590641
>>16590619
We know its orbit but don't have its position in its orbit down, whether and where it hits the Earth depends on when it passes by.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:23:01 UTC No. 16590642
>>16590635
What, how do you propose to slow it down?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:24:03 UTC No. 16590644
>>16590642
with new delhi
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:25:05 UTC No. 16590645
>>16590642
by expelling a reaction mass in the opposite direction of the desired impulse?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:25:07 UTC No. 16590646
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:25:45 UTC No. 16590647
>>16590629
>IDK if I can hit this dartboard but if I do I'll definitely hit the triple ring
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:25:53 UTC No. 16590648
>>16590603
Schizo alert
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:36:57 UTC No. 16590654
>>16590647
Okay. Not sure what this has to do with the topic but that's great buddy, I'm proud of you.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:44:04 UTC No. 16590660
>>16590215
It's the result of radio calls not getting through, so the chopper didn't hear what runway they were lining up on, and also didn't hear "pass behind the crj"
Completely archaic systems that haven't changed in 100 fucking years
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:44:13 UTC No. 16590661
>>16587022
Before we enter the new thread... Which post disappointed the most?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:01:04 UTC No. 16590684
>>16590661
this one. I hope the fag kills xerself
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:12:50 UTC No. 16590696
>>16590661
I vote this one >>16590684
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:13:34 UTC No. 16590697
>>16590696
Seconded, there was a lot of pressure on anon and he completely fumbled it, disappointment of the day.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:18:45 UTC No. 16590706
>>16590660
What are you implying, that he was trying to pass in front as the yielding party? Surely they're not that stupid.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:23:11 UTC No. 16590714
>>16590612
OVER 9000?????
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:27:05 UTC No. 16590721
>>16590714
I yearn for a place that no longer exists
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:27:51 UTC No. 16590722
https://x.com/tesla4k/status/167607
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:34:13 UTC No. 16590731
>>16590722
he said 5 or 15 million a launch
not 50
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:34:44 UTC No. 16590732
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:34:58 UTC No. 16590733
>>16590731
launch cost v price
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:35:37 UTC No. 16590735
>>16590625
Maybe their secret backdoor funding dried up.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:36:42 UTC No. 16590737
>>16590729
The biggest thing I see is SpaceX saving money on not having to do drone ships for certain missions and doing it on land in the islands with premade landing zones. Further this could be a boon for Starship landing on the islands as well
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:41:09 UTC No. 16590740
>>16590737
why would you want to land starship in the bahamas?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:43:01 UTC No. 16590745
>>16590626
At the very least, seems like the entry angle would be different across the line.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:44:37 UTC No. 16590749
>>16590611
A bit arrogant of them to think they should be immune to the uncertainty people in the private sector have to deal with throughout their careers.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 21:46:28 UTC No. 16590752
>>16590740
For when there's heavy storms and you dont want mission delays
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:09:05 UTC No. 16590780
>>16590702
from google translate
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:10:56 UTC No. 16590781
>>16590780
Looking for a space plane? Elon’s working on it in south TX rn
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:11:38 UTC No. 16590782
>>16590242
Impact probability did indeed go up: 3.1%
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:12:52 UTC No. 16590783
>>16590782
It’s only an issue if it’s 100% right?
🗑️ Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:16:06 UTC No. 16590785
>>16590780
Grok transcription and translation
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:17:06 UTC No. 16590788
>>16590783
Yeah, but as the orbit is refined, it'll probably reach 100% or 0% very quickly.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:17:33 UTC No. 16590789
>>16590784
I don't know what this graph means
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:17:49 UTC No. 16590790
>>16590783
you should start to worry when it's 50%
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:20:09 UTC No. 16590794
>>16590790
Chance it reaches 50%?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:20:32 UTC No. 16590795
>>16590794
50/50
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:21:30 UTC No. 16590796
>>16590789
This plot shows how close we expect asteroid 2024 YR4 to get to Earth on 22 December 2032. It is measured in Lunar Distances (LD), where one LD is the average distance between Earth and the Moon – roughly 384 400 km.
As new observations of the asteroid are made and we continue to study its trajectory, we gain a clearer understanding of how close it will get to our planet.
The dot at the centre of each blue line represents the orbit that best fits the observations available up to that date. The grey line at 0 on the Y-axis represents Earth, with a width of roughly 12 756 km.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:21:38 UTC No. 16590797
>>16590794
Either it will or it won’t
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:23:51 UTC No. 16590800
>>16590795
so that means that the real chance of an impact is actually 25%?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:28:49 UTC No. 16590801
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/18
>I am hearing *unconfirmed* discussion that NASA was spared from today's probationary employee cuts at the 11th hour. Working to verify.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:30:11 UTC No. 16590802
>>16590064
goon base alpha
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:36:09 UTC No. 16590806
>>16590801
>release a whole ass article bitching about it
>it didnt even happen
"SOURCE I MADE IT THE FUCK UP" BERGER
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:38:24 UTC No. 16590809
>>16590064
Women is a art
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:40:04 UTC No. 16590811
>>16590438
What has NASA done since Apollo apart from some probes and rovers?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:40:52 UTC No. 16590813
>>16590811
the aqueduct?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:42:25 UTC No. 16590814
>>16590729
also a few minutes earlier will be a Rocket Lab Electron launch for BlackSky. Should be live in a few minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:48:32 UTC No. 16590824
>>16590752
wouldn't it still be quicker to wait a day or two for weather to clear than to ship it back to starbase/ksc?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:50:08 UTC No. 16590825
>>16590824
For future when multiple starship launches per day happen and weather delays wont impede launch/landing
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:50:37 UTC No. 16590826
>>16590783
It's an issue if it's under 100%
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:51:17 UTC No. 16590828
>>16590813
have your (you), i chuckled
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 22:51:50 UTC No. 16590829
>>16590821
>globally, there is about 1 commercial flight taking off every second
>space flight can't even manage a launch every 5-10 minutes
It's so over.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:02:29 UTC No. 16590831
>>16590830
Short answer yes long answer it’s very very complicated
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:04:07 UTC No. 16590835
We get signal (Starlink launch)
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkJzYDm
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:04:20 UTC No. 16590836
>fl studio default drum kit
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:12:51 UTC No. 16590847
BAHAMAS DRONE LANDING LET'S FUCKING GO
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkJzYDm
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:14:01 UTC No. 16590850
POLAR ORBIT CREW MISSION AAAAAAAAAAAAAH
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:20:52 UTC No. 16590857
>>16590846
this nigga wearing lipstick
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:20:56 UTC No. 16590858
>>16590814
Electron launched, just about to stage
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:21:19 UTC No. 16590861
>>16590814
A bit delayed but here
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:23:58 UTC No. 16590866
uh oh, that doesn't look good
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:24:57 UTC No. 16590869
Staged.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:29:24 UTC No. 16590872
>>16590858
kickstage separated, now coasting for the circularization burn
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:30:43 UTC No. 16590875
the future is now
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:34:22 UTC No. 16590880
EuroClip flyby of Mars on 1/3, then Blue Ghost lunar landing on 2/3.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:34:29 UTC No. 16590881
>>16590274
>What does NASA even do?
>UR JUST MAD LOL, NASA DOES SO MUCH STUFF LIKE EARTH OBSERVATION WHICH IS ALSO DONE BY A NUMBER OF OTHER PRIVATE COMPANIES ALL ACROSS THE WORLD BUT ONLY NASA IS GOOD ENOUGH TO DO IT, AND ALSO THAT'S THE ONLY EXAMPLE I HAD BUT YOU STILL GOT OWNED!!1!!
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:35:14 UTC No. 16590882
How much extra performance does this give them?
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:37:21 UTC No. 16590884
>>16590274
because human space exploration being done better by capitalist private companies rustles their communist jimmies
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:37:51 UTC No. 16590886
>>16590882
POLAR ORBIT CREW DRAGON
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:39:09 UTC No. 16590888
>>16590878
it's a pity the timing was a bit bad in terms of views. Would have loved a clear sunset bathing the basin
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:42:23 UTC No. 16590896
>>16590284
>>16590274
>>16590881
the original 1958 act that created nasa listed one objective for them to pursue as
>The expansion of human knowledge of phenomena in the atmosphere and space;
and there are good arguments that earth science is something better left to other bodies today, but it's not the result of mission creep. it was there from the start.
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:50:37 UTC No. 16590899
>>16590140
covering your windows in water is a time honored tradition
I can't find the episode of Zeta Gundam where this was depicted
Anonymous at Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:59:44 UTC No. 16590904
I do not like SLS that much, it is clear too much money was laundered through it.
But scratching the entire program and assets now would be an enormous waste.
Just aunch that shit first, then cancel the program.
Anyways, if they were *really* serious about fixing the deficit they would raise taxes on GM and other ridiculously wealthy companies like Blackrock, and if they threaten to liquidate or relocate simply nationalize their industry and assets then start selling the goods and services overseas as a national product as a way of paying down the debt.
Yes reducing the size and bloat of the federal government, along with the abuse of it's programs, is critically important.
But if you don't also increase revenue it won't actually amount to that much. You can't realistically raise income taxes that much, and most in the current admin want to see income tax eliminated altogether, so what remains is taxing corporations.
If they won't pay up, they will be seized and their executives will be looking for a new job.
>>16590702
>space carriers
this is new information for me
what kind of craft would they be carrying, and how exactly would they be landing and taking off
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:01:04 UTC No. 16590905
>>16590899
I don't think so. I can recall two times the transparent part is blast open in Zeta Gundam, once to escape after capturing Gundam Mark 2, and the other is collateral damage while protecting a neutral colony. But neither has water covering the window.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:02:12 UTC No. 16590906
>>16590850
>>16590886
explain yourself RIGHT NOW
are they really going to release uncensored photos of the north pole from space
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:04:11 UTC No. 16590908
>>16590906
Fram 2, it's been in the works for a while
This chinese dweeb is doing it to try to get laid with his waifu, the blonde (won't work)
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:07:12 UTC No. 16590909
>>16590904
The artemist II mission is just a test launch, whats the point of that if you are going to cancel what it is testing?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:08:17 UTC No. 16590910
>>16590904
Sunk cost fallacy
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:09:04 UTC No. 16590911
>>16590908
sick, I had no idea
now, WTF exactly does yet another happy landing have to do with the feasibility of that mission plan going forward
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:10:14 UTC No. 16590913
Aruba, jamaica, oooooh I wanna take ya
Bermuda, bahama, coooome on pretty mamma
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:11:17 UTC No. 16590914
>>16590906
I’ve never seen an unadulterated photo of the north pole from space now that I think about it… strange
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:29:26 UTC No. 16590925
>>16590904
the only enormous waste with SLS is keeping it going for another day. we could launch 15 falcon heavies for the cost of launching 1 SLS and still pocket some change.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:31:20 UTC No. 16590927
>>16590925
There is a sunk cost for the Artemis 2 and 3 SLS as they are already paid for.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:35:02 UTC No. 16590928
>>16590927
no, they aren't. the personnel cost of keeping facilities and pads up and running, conducting launch operations, stacking artemis 3, is still all in the future. we're going to have to develop something to replace SLS-orion anyway, so why not use all that money to get the development started now?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:48:42 UTC No. 16590932
>>16590927
Nah it’s still cheaper to put them in museums as trivia piece displays and commit to never launching them.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:51:23 UTC No. 16590936
>>16590927
its more than a year away
thats like 4 billion dollars
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:56:18 UTC No. 16590941
Trying to come up with every solution besides rockets because they simply aren't good at them. Their only hope is getting that space elevator shit going.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 00:57:19 UTC No. 16590942
>>16590941
meant for >>16590937
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:01:00 UTC No. 16590944
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:03:50 UTC No. 16590945
>>16590928
First, there's no guarantee that you get that money. You can't just take appropriated funds from one corporate welfare project and send them somewhere else. If you cancel the contract and the funds go up in smoke, and you have to start the appropriation fresh. Second, while the EGS and personnel costs aren't trivial, they're no where near as bad as you're making them out to be. And you've still got a pair of multi-billion dollar rockets that are paid for, mostly built, and almost ready to fly.
Third, if you do cancel them, you set Artemis back to where it was when the Ares V got canceled. You've still got to pay to develop a new launch architecture and after the complete failure of Ares and the near-complete failure of SLS you're going to have a very hard time asking for that line item, even before you consider how cut happy things are in Washington right now. A 3rd attempt would have to be based around cheaper commercial options and that wouldn't have anywhere near the political support that the old Shuttle contractor consortium had, so good luck lobbying for the new plan. This is also the sort of multi-decade shitshow that gets Artemis' members to start abandoning the project.
I don't like SLS, but keeping it around for A2 and A3 lets the program cut the worst parts (Block 1B/2, ML-2, EUS, RS-25E, BOLE, Gateway, etc, et al) while still keeping its momentum and giving it 4-5 years of runway to get the SLS replacement from concept to the launch pad.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:04:10 UTC No. 16590946
>>16590927
there are two options and both are good:
>cancel SLS entirely
save a few billion a year, kickstart the development of commercial options for lunar settlement immediately. Downside is that your first manned lunar landing is now late 2028 at the earliest, probably 2029 onwards
>keep A2 and A3 as is
costs more in the long term, but you probably get to see a manned landing before the end of trump's term. Downside is the risk of more delays. A2 has already slipped 18 months in the past 12 (prior to January 2024 artemis 2 was scheduled for EOY 2024), and there's no reason to think that A3 won't see its own delays
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:08:14 UTC No. 16590947
Watch Jared be pro-SLS
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:15:56 UTC No. 16590951
>>16590947
Starship Launch System
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:20:31 UTC No. 16590957
I support any SLS that launch with the entire Senate on it.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:27:16 UTC No. 16590963
>>16590957
Elon Musk is the senate.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:28:19 UTC No. 16590964
>>16590957
It likely wouldn’t be able to. 100 Senators, let’s say each weighs an average of 80 kg (180 lbs). 80 x 100 would be 8 tons. We’ve already maxed out SLS 1b’s potential to LEO.
Shit rocket.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:35:51 UTC No. 16590971
>>16590967
i-is there more of this? any nsfw stuff?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:45:20 UTC No. 16590980
>>16590971
How new r u
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:54:17 UTC No. 16590986
>>16590800
no it's still 50%
it either does or doesn't
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 01:54:33 UTC No. 16590987
>>16590945
> A 3rd attempt would have to be based around cheaper commercial options and that wouldn't have anywhere near the political support that the old Shuttle contractor consortium had, so good luck lobbying for the new plan. This is also the sort of multi-decade shitshow that gets Artemis' members to start abandoning the project.
if you think the political risk of pro-SLS congressional blowback is so great then that means there's also the risk that if we don't kill SLS ASAP then they'll find a way to keep it going. and the move IS coming for that. they wouldn't be paying mike griffin money to go around making speeches about how we need block ii otherwise. and punished bridenstine is waiting in the wings.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:11:26 UTC No. 16590999
>>16590956
Seems like a burial shot now. SLS being entombed in the VAB for eternity.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:13:34 UTC No. 16591002
>>16590999
Bury the whole thing for future archeologists to discover.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:14:24 UTC No. 16591003
>>16590987
I'm not worried about blowback. Richard Shelby and the other old apparatchiks are all gone, and the only thing the rumors seem to be debating is how much of SLS is going to get cut. My worry is if you just cancel everything there'll be no real interest on the hill with replacing it with anything, no matter how economical the plan is. It's easier to reform and restructure a program than it is to burn the whole thing down and start over. Flying out the last of the Block 1 SLS has a financial cost but it seems like its the healthier choice for the program overall.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:14:28 UTC No. 16591004
>>16590964
It doesn't need to be orbital
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:14:30 UTC No. 16591005
>>16591002
yeah, just like Buran, preserved forever under the collapsed roof of its hangar
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:23:35 UTC No. 16591013
>>16591002
>this rocket could never have flown
>it seems like a sort of cargo cult imitation of a real rocket
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:33:31 UTC No. 16591020
>>16590801
I guess someone told Elon that he was about to fire people working on the Starship tiles with SpaceX.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 02:38:42 UTC No. 16591021
>>16591013
>experts agree that this display was obviously built for ceremonial reasons, possibly as part of a now-lost ritual
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:01:36 UTC No. 16591034
>>16590905
Green Noa doesn't have water over the windows, but Tanenbaum does and I think a few others
not all of the colonies are built to the same design
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:04:34 UTC No. 16591037
when the fuck is starship launching?
why is this fucking thing not launching twice a week already
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:06:16 UTC No. 16591040
>>16591037
UHHH SAR?
PLEASE SEE THIS POST!!!!
>>16590267
IF YOU ASK AGAIN I REPORT!!!
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:13:52 UTC No. 16591045
>>16591037
first half of march
t. knower
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:22:02 UTC No. 16591048
>>16591037
Keep marching.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:22:33 UTC No. 16591049
>>16591037
Elon is busy disassembling the United States Government, give him a minute
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:46:09 UTC No. 16591061
>>16591037
unironicly 8 days
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:47:21 UTC No. 16591062
>>16591061
source?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:48:36 UTC No. 16591064
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:49:56 UTC No. 16591065
>>16591062
here >>16591061
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:52:37 UTC No. 16591067
Is there seriously no way to fly faster within the next century that we'll be stuck within this solar system?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:55:11 UTC No. 16591070
>>16591062
grok
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:56:16 UTC No. 16591071
>>16591067
>Is there seriously no way to fly faster within the next century that we'll be stuck within this solar system?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 03:57:53 UTC No. 16591072
>>16590928
>so why not use all that money to get the development started now?
Because, especially for Artemis II, the remaining costs associated with using SLS will be cheaper and faster.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:04:21 UTC No. 16591073
>>16591072
what good is artemis ii going to do us if we're still gonna need a demo mission for whatever the sls-orion replacement is?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:08:36 UTC No. 16591075
>>16591073
Orion isn't going anywhere unless you want to spend the time and money developing a replacement crew vehicle that can handle Lunar return velocities.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:12:13 UTC No. 16591076
>>16591075
cool but my question stands
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:23:16 UTC No. 16591081
>>16591076
>What good is sending a crewed Orion to the Moon going to do if we are going to continue sending crewed Orions to the Moon?
A mystery.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:26:04 UTC No. 16591083
>>16591076
If you cancel SLS after completing artemis 2, you've demoed the orion capsule and service module which does most of the work beyond LEO/MEO. Any SLS replacement only needs to demonstrate that it can push a boilerplate orion to the same altitude, and at any point you can abort the mission and use the orion service module to reenter. If your SLS replacement architecture includes in-space docking (such as what berger has suggested with a separate centaur v launch), that would probably require its own test flight. But the cost of that test would still be peanuts (think $150-300m) compared to the cost of just one core stage, and on launchers with significantly more heritage
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:33:47 UTC No. 16591087
>>16590946
The SLS and Orion could be completely deleted and it would make no difference in timing for a lunar landing
Starship makes its own way to the moon and could be manned from launch or LEO
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:38:46 UTC No. 16591090
>>16591087
Getting to the moon is that easy in rocketry, but getting back isn't. Orion is the only crewed vehicle at this point in time that has demonstrated atmospheric reentry after returning from the moon. Dragon would be the next best option but it has been optimised for LEO - its heatshield hasn't been tested at lunar return velocities, and would require modifications ala Dragon XL to even have the delta v to make it there and back
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:42:21 UTC No. 16591093
>>16591090
Why are we doing a foot prints and flags mission to the moon in 2025? They can stay on the moon indefinitely while a lunar base is built up.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:43:29 UTC No. 16591094
>>16591093
Actually it's in 2027.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:50:27 UTC No. 16591095
>>16591094
*2028
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:54:22 UTC No. 16591097
>>16591093
>They can stay on the moon indefinitely while a lunar base is built up.
Except the cannot for the same reason NASA rotates crew on the ISS every so many months, even spending most of your day exercising doesn't spare you the deteriorating effects of long periods in low/zero gravity.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:58:51 UTC No. 16591099
>>16591097
They can sleep in 1g centrifuges
Or lift heavy weights
.16g is a very different thing to 0g
Would have been a useful thing to test on the ISS though
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 04:58:55 UTC No. 16591100
>>16591097
zero gravity, yes, but we don't know much about long term effect of 1/6 gravity. could be completely fine.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:06:22 UTC No. 16591105
>>16591097
I thought they rotate because of solar radiation allowed per year.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:09:08 UTC No. 16591107
>>16591105
microgravity does weird things to your bloodflow and fluids
>>16591097
no way, lunar gravity will be totally fine just wait
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:11:50 UTC No. 16591108
>>16590967
>>16590980
S-sorry obsolete-chan!
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:31:30 UTC No. 16591116
artemis 3 is
send 4 people to lunar orbit
and then have 2 people land on the moon
for a 30 day stay
is it fucking 1960's right now? They didn't have solar panels back then so long stays were impossible
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:34:23 UTC No. 16591119
>>16591116
>solar panels
>during the lunar night
kill yourself newfag
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:35:04 UTC No. 16591120
>>16591119
literally just land in perpetual day at the south pole
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:40:12 UTC No. 16591121
>>16591119
quick google says the moon is 50/50 just like the earth so what is the issue
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:49:07 UTC No. 16591123
>>16591117
what's the japanese word for scrubbed
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:52:53 UTC No. 16591124
>>16591121
14 days of darkness. You would need 1000 tonnes of batteries to live of stored solar energy.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:59:31 UTC No. 16591127
>>16591124
You head up a vat of molten salt using solar concentors and use the residual heat to generate power.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:02:06 UTC No. 16591128
>>16591123
スクラブ
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:05:35 UTC No. 16591130
>>16591123
nakadashi
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:32:57 UTC No. 16591133
>>16591123
Owari Da
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:35:15 UTC No. 16591134
>>16591116
Anon a 30 day stay is ~10x the duration of the longest Apollo mission.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:36:23 UTC No. 16591135
it"s called the SENATE LAUNCH SYSTEM
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:39:02 UTC No. 16591137
>>16591087
STUPID NIG STARSHIP BLOWS UP BEFORE EVEN GETTING INTO ITS SUBORBITAL TRAYECTORY AND YOU THINK IT WILL BE NOT ONLY A MANNED STARSHIP, BUT A LUNAR MANNED STARSHIP? LMAO YOU MUSKRATS ARE REALLY STUPID YOU FAGS WERE THE SAME THAT SAID THAT WERE GOING TO HAVE CITIES ON MARS AT THIS POINT, DO YOU EVEN WATCH THE IFT LAUNCHES? WHEN YOU FAGS GONNA ACCEPT THAT STARSHIT AND MUSK ARE FRAUDS!!!
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:41:24 UTC No. 16591139
>>16591137
sir you need to calm down
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:43:02 UTC No. 16591142
>>16591134
??
because they used hydrogen fuel cells for power
we have solar panels now, there is no limit on duration of stay
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:47:13 UTC No. 16591145
Penile rupture sasugas torn rectal lips
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:56:58 UTC No. 16591148
>>16591137
Sir
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:19:21 UTC No. 16591154
>>16591142
>there is no limit
2 weeks?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:23:09 UTC No. 16591156
>>16591124
Toss 20 off-the-shelf tesla powerwalls in the cargo bay and make sure they're topped up before you launch. That'll run life support, comms, lights, and computers through lunar night no problemo.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:51:22 UTC No. 16591163
rape mars astronaut girls in their butts
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:52:46 UTC No. 16591164
>>16591163
No! Rape them in the pussy
The population must increase
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:54:00 UTC No. 16591166
>>16591164
sam, a deviant critter i am
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:57:19 UTC No. 16591169
rong malch 9
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:59:32 UTC No. 16591171
Why is Berger defending slow shitty NASA grifters and middle managers
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:01:26 UTC No. 16591172
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/18920
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:04:38 UTC No. 16591174
>>16591172
Howard Hughes transformation. I'm gonna be sick
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:05:45 UTC No. 16591175
>>16591173
This is insane
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:08:11 UTC No. 16591176
>>16591156
too much weight. not enought density.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:08:38 UTC No. 16591178
>>16591175
Yeah
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:09:09 UTC No. 16591179
>>16591176
it's ok it only costs 100$ per kilodop
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:31:21 UTC No. 16591189
>>16590407
Whoopi looks less black than I remember.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:44:27 UTC No. 16591195
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/18921
>10 Earth-Mars transfer windows are needed to make Mars self-sustaining, ideally at least 20.
>1/4 to 1/2 century.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:45:33 UTC No. 16591197
>>16591195
>two we- *ACK*
F I F T Y
Y E A R S
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:57:42 UTC No. 16591200
>>16591197
Two score years
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:59:12 UTC No. 16591202
>>16591201
This administration has been a constant embarrassment
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:01:27 UTC No. 16591205
https://spacenews.com/rocket-lab-an
>The notable aspect of this launch was that the Falcon 9 first stage performed a droneship landing in waters near the Exuma Islands in The Bahamas. It marked the first time SpaceX conducted a landing there and the first Falcon 9 booster landing in the waters of another country.
>SpaceX said landing the booster in The Bahamas opens up new trajectories for Falcon 9 launches from Florida. That includes the upcoming Fram2 private astronaut mission, which will fly to polar orbit. It also provides alternative landing locations for launches in the winter months when weather conditions in the North Atlantic can be unfavorable.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:04:01 UTC No. 16591206
>>16591202
this has been so much better than I thought possible
also seems like Jared put in a good word, that was the first thought that came into my mind when I saw the tweet from Berger
>It was not immediately clear why. A NASA spokesperson in Washington, DC, offered no comment on the updated guidance. Two sources indicated that it was plausible that private astronaut Jared Isaacman, whom President Trump has nominated to lead the space agency, asked for the cuts to be put on hold.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:13:42 UTC No. 16591213
But sfg told me that these NASA cuts was a good thing
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:15:26 UTC No. 16591214
Grok 3 just destroyed chat gpt 3
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:16:34 UTC No. 16591215
>>16591201
They are hopefully just waiting till friday to keep the backlash low. These NASApigs get what they fuckinh deserve
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:18:11 UTC No. 16591217
>>16591215
kek
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:41:30 UTC No. 16591231
bump
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:42:39 UTC No. 16591234
>>16591214
I too saw the Fireship video
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:47:10 UTC No. 16591236
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:00:19 UTC No. 16591242
>>16591214
who cares. AI is a passing fad.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:03:38 UTC No. 16591245
>>16591242
>AI is a passing fag the confused geriatric yells for the 10th time in 4 years
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:04:37 UTC No. 16591247
>>16591242
you said that 5 years ago and you will say that again in 5 more years
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:05:51 UTC No. 16591249
>>16591245
>>16591247
name one real thing its done
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:08:42 UTC No. 16591253
>>16591249
I've used it to make many pictures of big titty elf girls
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:09:34 UTC No. 16591254
>>16591249
writes code for me
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:15:59 UTC No. 16591262
>>16591214
https://grok.com/
you can try it, not sure if you need an X account and to connect it though
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:19:17 UTC No. 16591267
>>16591249
Even right now sometimes you ask for reservations by phone without even realizing you're speaking with an AI bot.
The speed of development has been remarkable so far, and it doesn't need a lot before becoming a staple tech used everywhere.
To make this a little more sfg related AI robotics is lagging behind but they are making progress, and space robots could have a huge impact in any kind of space colonization.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:25:11 UTC No. 16591271
>>16591213
They are, if it's true that Jared delayed them he's a rat as is Trump.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:26:20 UTC No. 16591272
>>16591249
I haven't had the need to browse a porn booru in over a year
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:02:29 UTC No. 16591303
>>16591283
give me one good reason we can't have chemsex on the way to mars and on mars
you can't
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:05:59 UTC No. 16591308
>>16591303
Zero gee body fluids will short out electrics
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:23:49 UTC No. 16591316
>>16591315
was this the uncontrolled second stage from a recent launch?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:23:55 UTC No. 16591317
>>16591308
why aren't the electronics sealed against water
why don't we have a dedicated sealed area for sex/showering
with a starship we can have a dedicated chemsex room
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:24:43 UTC No. 16591318
>>16591315
Life would be better if we had these happening more often
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:28:27 UTC No. 16591321
>>16591316
yeah
didn't think it would be this huge
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:34:17 UTC No. 16591326
>>16591315
>those who watch the first real space war will see shit like this all the time
K I N O
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:35:47 UTC No. 16591328
>>16591317
>dedicated sealed area for sex
That's what the Bigelow module on ISS is for. Seems like it would be trivial to add to a Mars Starship.
>>16591318
Sure, as long as you're not under it.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:37:13 UTC No. 16591331
>>16591303
Demented queers who fuck for 48hrs at a time won't make a good space crew
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:05:30 UTC No. 16591355
>>16591303
No queers on Mars
Everyone must breed
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:06:09 UTC No. 16591357
This week. Happening
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:17:24 UTC No. 16591362
>>16591357
this week (nothing) happening
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:19:26 UTC No. 16591365
which new country could falcon 9 land in next?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:33:24 UTC No. 16591372
>>16591357
Happening what?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:36:35 UTC No. 16591375
>>16591365
china
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:44:10 UTC No. 16591377
>>16591375
Chinese village *
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:51:37 UTC No. 16591380
>>16591315
>Dresden
kek
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:58:53 UTC No. 16591383
>>16591328
>That's what the Bigelow module on ISS is for
EXPAND
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:00:49 UTC No. 16591384
>>16591315
>>16591321
https://x.com/poznan_moment/status/
>this large a chunk made it to the ground
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:03:09 UTC No. 16591386
>>16591381
They don't, no one does.
But we must do the pantomime of pretending it will so it won't be canceled.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:04:23 UTC No. 16591387
>>16591303
>>16591283
I know I will regret asking but what's chemsex?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:04:47 UTC No. 16591388
>>16590846
Ginnie from Harry Potter finally getting a real job in the muggle world
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:08:14 UTC No. 16591389
>>16591383
>I'M INFLOOOOOTING
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:08:30 UTC No. 16591390
>>16590914
>unadulterated
what do you mean by that>
https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/news/no
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:20:36 UTC No. 16591391
>>16591387
sounds like an extended period of drug fueled gayness
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:23:30 UTC No. 16591394
>>16591384
is that a COPV?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:23:59 UTC No. 16591395
>>16591384
wtf
that's pretty bad
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:24:10 UTC No. 16591396
>>16591394
Yep. It's one of the few parts that routinely survives reentry in a rocket.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:24:50 UTC No. 16591397
I know she’s a retard but what even was whoopi goldberg’s point the other day? Does she want spacex to stop flying?
See, this is why I couldn’t be elon. I would ground F9 against NASA’s contracts for like 6 months, intentionally, just to prove a point.
>Oh sorry everybody, we will NOT be going to get butch and suni and we will NOT be resupplying the Station. After careful consideration of Whoopi’s position, we felt it would be a conflict of interest. We’ll give these duties to Starliner for the time being :)
Dumb bimbo bitch
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 13:31:30 UTC No. 16591402
>>16591397
>what even was whoopi goldberg’s point the other day?
"Elon Musk bad"
that's literally it
she knows nothing about spaceflight and does not care her audience knows nothing about spaceflight and does not care either
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:19:48 UTC No. 16591431
>>16591395
UMMMM NO SWEATY??? ITS TOTALLY FINE ELON CAN DO WHATEVER HE WANTS. HE COULD FUCK MY WIFE AND I'D SAY "SURELY THIS IS HELPING US GET TO MARS!!!"
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:24:04 UTC No. 16591434
f9 second stage production is the limiting factor for launch cadence.
they deleted too many parts and processes in making it faster.
that's the reason for the failures.
it's the same spacex that decided to press tanks with preburner exhaust.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:24:19 UTC No. 16591435
>>16591397
She called SpaceX a government agency. It isn't worth anything but a laugh
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:25:05 UTC No. 16591437
SpaceX probably needs to open up a second production line for Falcon 9 second stages and double up on the personnel building them to improve their quality control. They're clearly past their limits at 100+ upper stages a year, and they're going to need to open a second line and scale back production on a per line basis to correct it.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:27:19 UTC No. 16591439
>>16591434
>>16591437
Well yeah, that's why they're making starship. Partial reusability is a meme, because no matter how good the first stage is, needing to mass produce anything significant for every launch is just never going to be practical. Blue Origin and Rocket Lab will face the same problems if they don't catch on, but i doubt they will. Full and rapid reuse or bust.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:38:33 UTC No. 16591446
>>16591176
That's old school space and that's why starship is a big game changer.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:39:48 UTC No. 16591447
>>16591439
There's no law of physics preventing mass production of high quality expendable rocket stages.
It's just a question of ROI vs a fully reusable stage.
Figuring out fully reusable heat shield might be hard enough to make it an even trade
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:44:21 UTC No. 16591449
>>16591365
the bahamas
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:52:23 UTC No. 16591451
>>16591437
They're cash positive as is and they have Starship on the horizon. They don't need to do that at all.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:04:37 UTC No. 16591460
>>16591451
If they're gonna get grounded for failing reentry burns or ascents, they will need another production line to improve quality control while still increasing the annual flight rate.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:12:44 UTC No. 16591463
Didn’t a chunk of ariane 6 land in africa just last month? Who cares about a falcon copv
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:18:19 UTC No. 16591466
fraudenron scambust is literally hitler incel chud literally unfuckable and the stupidest person alive thoughever
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:29:16 UTC No. 16591473
>>16587022
YR4 bros....... the happening is cancelled........ the impact probability will go....... down
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:31:35 UTC No. 16591476
>>16591128
>ラ
I'm proud of myself for being able to get it from this.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:33:18 UTC No. 16591477
>>16591128
sbarkoid
gb2xwitter
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:39:39 UTC No. 16591482
>>16591201
Elon read my post. Very cool.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:54:16 UTC No. 16591502
>>16591431
you could not afford Elon's sperm sample. It probably goes for a million per cc
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:01:10 UTC No. 16591512
We should take the set of actions most likely to maximize the lifespan and scale of conscious.
>conscious
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:02:39 UTC No. 16591516
>This isn’t an ideal situation. And humanity has never tried to stop an asteroid impact for real. I imagine that if 2024 YR4 does become an agreed-upon emergency, the DART team (JHUAPL + NASA, mostly) would join forces with SpaceX (and other space agencies, particularly ESA but probably others) to quickly build the right mass kinetic impactor (or impactors) and get ready for a deflection attempt close to 2028, when the asteroid makes its next Earth flyby.
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:13:22 UTC No. 16591523
>>16591521
simply invent teleportation
easy as
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:14:32 UTC No. 16591526
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:18:47 UTC No. 16591528
>>16591516
>ars commenters are all pro asteroid impact
wtf!?! I love ars now?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:19:26 UTC No. 16591529
>>16591528
they're far left and hate the US now so they'd rather the world be destroyed than let the other side win
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:22:45 UTC No. 16591532
>>16591526
>>16591523
holy shit i ain't reading all that
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:31:26 UTC No. 16591539
>>16591532
read it nigga
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:31:35 UTC No. 16591540
>>16591523
>>16591526
>King
This is about a writer in Maine and features underaged sex. I don't even have to read it.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:32:23 UTC No. 16591542
>>16591397
You cannot reason with leftists.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:32:36 UTC No. 16591543
>>16591540
how could I resist marketing like that?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:35:49 UTC No. 16591545
>>16591532
>stephen king
yeah one shouldn't read all that.
just his pedo phenotype proves there's nothing of value
ugly people deserve imprisoned
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:36:09 UTC No. 16591546
>>16587022
It's page 9! Let's make a new thread, there will be for sure no autists who will be mad.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:37:51 UTC No. 16591548
>>16591546
there is no reason to make a thread yet
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:41:02 UTC No. 16591553
>>16591546
do it to own the libs
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:41:36 UTC No. 16591554
>>16591545
its a good story sir
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:42:03 UTC No. 16591555
>>16591546
Page 10 and 11 exists.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:53:06 UTC No. 16591569
>>16591540
It's among his early scifi work, which means it's just the ramblings of an insane man. Just a cynical stream of consciousness with no editing. Holy shit I despise this man and his work
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:53:10 UTC No. 16591570
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:56:05 UTC No. 16591571
here me out, we deflect the asteroid so that it guarantees a hit on india
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:57:50 UTC No. 16591573
>>16591570
kek, alright you got me.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:59:40 UTC No. 16591574
So was the NASA decision to delay the Starliner crew on Dragon return by a year political or not?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:02:37 UTC No. 16591577
>>16591574
idk but i heard that spacex is constrained on their available crew dragons. there is another one being built though which should help alleviate some congestion.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:03:51 UTC No. 16591578
>>16591574
It was money saving decision
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:08:02 UTC No. 16591579
>>16591574
it was political bring Calypso home empty
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:11:01 UTC No. 16591580
>>16591577
>something something starliner late and broken something
The same reason that they got stuck up there is the reason SpaceX needs to make a new capsule.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:15:32 UTC No. 16591584
>>16591571
Just one?
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:19:00 UTC No. 16591587
>>16580054
>>16580054
>>16580054
>>16580054
Actual new thread
🗑️ Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:20:56 UTC No. 16591590
>>16591587
> page 9
nigger
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:22:05 UTC No. 16591592
>>16591590
racinst!, 90 lashings
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:24:28 UTC No. 16591594
This might be obvious to many of you but it is worth pointing out to those of you who haven’t realized:
2024 YR4’s impact chances formally surpassed the previous record, held by 99942 Apophis (which peaked at a 2.7% chance of impact calculated in december 2004)
OSIRIX-REx, now christened OSIRIS-APEX, will visit 99942 Apophis and perform a maneuver similar to the one it made during sample collection at Bennu. It will go right above the surface and blast it with its thrusters, blowing the surface regolith off for observation.
Will be cool. Fun use of an extended mission in my opinion
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:24:47 UTC No. 16591595
>>16591249
me goon.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:26:47 UTC No. 16591599
>>16591594
>Apophis
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:28:26 UTC No. 16591602
>>16591594
inb4 there is no surface regolith and its just a big chunk of stone
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:34:31 UTC No. 16591607
>>16591602
this would also be valuable information to learn
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:38:31 UTC No. 16591611
>>16591594
Apophis is actually on a direct impact course, which is why OSIRIS-APEX will smash into it "accidentally" in a clandestine redirect that they don't want us to know about in case it fails.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:44:38 UTC No. 16591620
>>16591594
This is what a nothingburger looks like. The odds will increase until the uncertainty region gets squished to somewhere in the middle and no trajectories hit earth.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:46:27 UTC No. 16591622
>>16591594
Nations are getting really interested in lunar and NEA capabilities again because there is significant economic vaue to be gained here. I remember 15 years ago ULA had a paper that talks about how to redirect asteroids into stable orbits in order to retrieve or mine them.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:52:02 UTC No. 16591625
>>16591620
it doesnt matter, it only matters if its still 1% or higher come april/may. at that point the world will come together to build a project to deflect the asteroid. it wont be until 2028 that we know if we can launch the mission or not.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:52:28 UTC No. 16591627
>>16591622
>how to redirect asteroids into stable orbits
is this actually feasible? I feel like the only asteroids you could direct this way would be too small to be of any economical use.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:54:51 UTC No. 16591629
>>16591622
tired: deflect asteroids onto stable orbits for mining
wired: target asteroids into desolate regions on earth for exploitation
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:55:30 UTC No. 16591630
>>16591627
Aerocapture and then nuking it so it will orbit Earth.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:55:40 UTC No. 16591631
>>16591627
you would need something as large as EUS (with solar electric propulsion) to do it
folks at Maxar have dollar signs in their eyes already
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:59:58 UTC No. 16591633
india in 2028: if the world does not deflect the asteroid then we will use our nuclear weapons to ensure that the world feels their share of the pain and suffering as those affected by the asteroid
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:03:11 UTC No. 16591634
>>16591633
> they can only nuke china and pakistan
go nuts jeetys
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:05:19 UTC No. 16591635
>>16591633
I can live with us having an excuse to genocide india.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:07:07 UTC No. 16591636
>>16591570
>>16591573
that's not staging, that's RTLS!
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:18:27 UTC No. 16591647
BAKER NEEDED
STAGER NEEED
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:22:00 UTC No. 16591651
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:26:04 UTC No. 16591655
>>16591651
finally the real thread.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:30:18 UTC No. 16591666
>>16591651
Fake thread (decoy) do not enter. Standby in this thread for the real thread link. (Do not share)
-Operator
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:28:28 UTC No. 16591766
>>16591546
t. mad autist projecting.
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:45:26 UTC No. 16591790
>>16591554
It reminds me of something Ray Bradbury might have written. Not typical Stephen King
Anonymous at Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:31:00 UTC No. 16591852
>>16591545
he looks similar to bob lazar