Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:42:34 UTC No. 16624956

>>16624953
First for we should harness nuclear rocks to colonize the stars and it’s dumb that we aren’t

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:43:41 UTC No. 16624958

https://www.thespacereview.com/article/4955/1
>AstroForge is unbowed by the failure. The company says it spent just $3.5 million on Odin and is already working on its next spacecraft, Vestri, targeted for launch as a secondary on the IM-3 mission Intuitive Machines plans to launch as soon as early 2026. Vestri will be bigger with improved propulsion and avionics. The company also plans to hire “principal-level” engineers with spacecraft experience to augment a workforce that had more experience on launch vehicles.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:44:50 UTC No. 16624962

>>16624953
>these dolphins just happened to be 300 miles off the coast

This shit is AI as fuck and if any of you had any scientific rigor you would acknowledge that.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:45:59 UTC No. 16624963

>>16624953
I don't get how a supposed "tech" guy like Elon Musk thinks sending people to mars is a good idea when he could build a whole colony of robots and machines there with the technology his companies already have (comms in low martian orbit from starlink, robots and cars from tesla, transport from spacex).

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:46:33 UTC No. 16624964

https://x.com/isaraerospace/status/1902977867849277609

European smallasat launcher launching in 3 days but apparently there won't be a stream

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:47:58 UTC No. 16624967

>>16624964
German launcher

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:50:27 UTC No. 16624970

>>16624963
If only the (current USA president since Obama) would give him more money then we can find out.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:51:33 UTC No. 16624971

>>16624964
>It has been designed to achieve a price point of €10,000 ($11,700) per kg.

10 million dollars a small sat polar orbit only launcher....

truly the next spacex...

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:52:09 UTC No. 16624973

>>16624971
Hahah

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:59:10 UTC No. 16624979

>>16624958
> “Rather than refuel the customer spacecraft, we refuel our own tow truck, which is a system that we control end-to-end,” he said. “Because we can refill our own spacecraft, it drastically reduces our internal cost for these kinds of missions.”
>He dismissed competition from other orbital transfer vehicles, including those that might take advantage of the low-cost launch promised by SpaceX’s Starship. “That would be true if cheap launch existed. There's no such thing,” he argued. “SpaceX does a great job marketing and then raises their prices by 10% every year, and has done that every year for the last decade.”

lol

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:00:04 UTC No. 16624980

Boy, I sure do love Elon Musk, and so does absolutely everyone else in this thread. He's your favorite!

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:02:49 UTC No. 16624981

>>16624979
>*launches everything they make on an F9*

Cheap launch is a myth

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:03:31 UTC No. 16624982

>>16624964
https://orbitalindex.com/archive/2025-03-19-Issue-310/#isar-s-spectrum-might-have-an-inaugural-launch-this-week

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:04:46 UTC No. 16624983

>>16624963
>robots
I'm sorry but even in 1972 + 53 humans are still an order of magnitude more efficient than robots

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:06:47 UTC No. 16624985

>>16624981
if Neutron, Terran R or some other partially reusable system actually starts launching then perhaps cheap launch will become a thing
the guy is right that SpaceX won't bring costs down for customers with Starship for a while, they have plenty of shit to launch themselves for a while
at some point they would probably start coming down the price curve just to maximize revenue and with it profits even if the margins were lower, but on the short term there is really not much point (I guess?)

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:08:22 UTC No. 16624988

When are we getting a Moon colony, spacechads?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:18:12 UTC No. 16624991

>>16624985
Stupid non-argument. It cost roughly four billion dollars to launch a Space Launch System Block 1B. It currently costs a fraction of that for SpaceX to launch Starship—and even with a hefty markup to customers to try and make some money it will still be cheaper than SLS.
The same goes for Falcon 9. For example, they marked up the cost of FH for europa clipper big time—but it was STILL a cheaper launch option for NASA

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:21:57 UTC No. 16624993

>>16624980
>>16624971
As much as I despise Elon, SpaceX is fucking killing it. They profited a great deal from the white flight at Boeing and Lockheed under Obama, but even with that fortuitous start they are doing far better than I ever expected. No matter what you think of the African immigrant welfare recipient Elon Musk, you have to admit SpaceX is impressive.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:22:11 UTC No. 16624994

>>16624991
>It currently costs a fraction of that for SpaceX to launch Starship
You don't know that because there's no starship capable of carrying payload.
>they marked up the cost of FH for europa clipper big time—but it was STILL a cheaper launch option for NASA
It was cheaper, but also taking more time to get there.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:22:39 UTC No. 16624995

>>16624991
I wasn't arguing that F9 wasn't the cheapest one around nor that Starship would also not be and I didn't mention the pork rogget in any way so I don't understand why you brought it up

my point was simply that SpaceX is charging what the market will bear because doing otherwise would just be leaving money on the table and in the short term to bring prices (not cost for SpaceX, but prices to customers) down would require competition

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:23:36 UTC No. 16624996

>>16624991
block 1b doesn't exist and will likely never exist. might as well say launching on FH is cheaper than teleporting it to the correct orbit.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:26:25 UTC No. 16624999

>>16624994
Talking to you feels like trying to teach the special ed class how to read an analog clock
>>16624995
>my point was simply that SpaceX is charging what the market will bear because doing otherwise would just be leaving money on the table
Yes no shit welcome to business 101. They’re still cheaper than everyone else but mark up for profit. A competitor would help bring it down further. Which I see is what you were saying originally

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:33:16 UTC No. 16625004

Starship won't be carrying anything but starlinks for a while

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:33:38 UTC No. 16625005

>>16624993
spacex also came along at the right time when the Shuttle and other launchers were winding down
no COTS program anymore for prospective "new space", they have to jump right into the deep end of launch competition

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:35:30 UTC No. 16625007

>>16624964
Australian Gilmour Space was also planning to launch this month with the first hybrid propellant rocket, but they've been delaying for years so who knows.
I don't think either company really expects to get even close to orbit.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:36:45 UTC No. 16625009

>>16625004
its carrying a huge weight of expectations

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:40:10 UTC No. 16625011

>>16624963
Robots can't even drive on specially created infrastructure and you want them to do a series of complex tasks light minutes away from help?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:44:30 UTC No. 16625014

>>16624956
We should build thorium reactors on Mars and seed with a few hundred kg of uranium from Earth. You can run high neutron flux if you use robotic maintenance crews and use SiC instead of metal in most of your structural materials. Nuclear beats solar by orders of magnitude in terms of mass-to-mars for equivalent power output and it would be easier to make on Mars than semiconductors.

Please tell me why I'm wrong. I already know I'm retarded, so it's not necessary to point it out.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:44:47 UTC No. 16625015

>>16625011
The only jobs modern robots can do is doctor and lawyer.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:45:37 UTC No. 16625016

>>16624963
He is sending robots first, retardkun

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:45:55 UTC No. 16625017

>>16625009
And it's heavy ass can barely leave the launchpad without payload

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:46:23 UTC No. 16625018

>>16624983
New data shows curiosity at 34 KM, and perseverance at 33 KM.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:47:34 UTC No. 16625019

>>16624994
You're trying to be wrong. Just shut up.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:47:51 UTC No. 16625020

>>16625014
you are orders of magnitude less retarded than the average earther

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:48:44 UTC No. 16625021

>>16625015
Doctors are useful thoughbeit

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:49:05 UTC No. 16625022

>>16625014
post your off the shelf, highly mass optimized fission reactors that are ready to go

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:49:10 UTC No. 16625023

>>16624994
ignore the elon dick suckers. You're completely correct.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:50:21 UTC No. 16625024

>>16624964
>apparently there won't be a stream
yeah, no stream, no confidence. buying NO on polymarket. failure is anticipated.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:50:32 UTC No. 16625025

>>16624983
>efficient
let me know when a human has enough strength to move a lot of land without machines

>>16625011
>can't even drive
why would you want a robot to drive instead of having a specially designed car for that? and what is a self-driving car if not a robot anyway?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:50:58 UTC No. 16625026

>>16625015
almost all modern robots are employed as factory workers

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:52:07 UTC No. 16625027

>>16625026
Is that why my new Jeep is so capable?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:52:12 UTC No. 16625028

>>16625026
this has a disproportionate effect on women and people of color, you know that right?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:52:53 UTC No. 16625029

>>16625028
What doesn't?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:54:21 UTC No. 16625030

>>16625029
All in favor of eliminating women and people of color?
Going once? Going twice?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:55:37 UTC No. 16625033

>>16625030
We should just put them into re education camps.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:00:14 UTC No. 16625034

>>16625014
nooclear is obviously the way to go for any serious mars base.

>>16625017
thats not true.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:03:52 UTC No. 16625037

>>16624994
>You don't know that because there's no starship capable of carrying payload.
Are you fucking retarded? The mass production and cheap materials alone means it will always be a fraction of the costs the produce even ignoring reusability.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:04:40 UTC No. 16625038

>>16625034
Nuclear has far too much regulations, better to just mass optimize solar panels

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:04:45 UTC No. 16625039

>no coverage of NROL-57, including a boostback nebula and infrared landing footage
/sfg/ is dead

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:06:38 UTC No. 16625040

>>16625039
nobody is going to stay up late for a falcon 9 launch.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:07:05 UTC No. 16625041

>>16625038
>regulations
>on mars

This really is the dumbest board on 4chan. I might as well be on /mu/

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:08:53 UTC No. 16625042

How would you cool nuclear reactor on Mars?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:08:55 UTC No. 16625043

>>16625041
when you start mining your uranium on mars this will be less of an issue. as it stands uoy have to acquire all your fissile material on earth.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:10:19 UTC No. 16625045

>>16625041
Has to be shipped on Earth, developed and built on Earth, etc
Won't be major industries like that for a long time

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:13:18 UTC No. 16625048

I thought the current admin would decrease regulations? maybe nuclear becomes a bit more realistic after a few years of cutting regulations

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:13:19 UTC No. 16625049

>>16625043
I wonder if there is any uranium in Africa someone could buy for cheap?

The better science experiment is if this magical rock called uranium that just so happens to have the same half life as our planet's age does occur on mars. But of course the obvious energy solution would be solar.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:20:49 UTC No. 16625052

>starship carries uranium to mars
>explodes in earth orbit
>takes out all starlinks

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:23:14 UTC No. 16625053

>>16625042
Just let it be hot if that's what it wants to do.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:23:51 UTC No. 16625054

>>16625038
then change that shit. solar on mars is a dumb idea for anything but some tiny research station, and it can't power serious industry anyway.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:24:38 UTC No. 16625055

>>16625042
Lots of radiators.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:24:52 UTC No. 16625056

>>16625042
use all the heat. problem solved.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:25:14 UTC No. 16625057

>>16625054
Tell that to Elon

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:26:25 UTC No. 16625058

>>16625054
just add more solar panels?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:27:21 UTC No. 16625061

How well would heat dissipate in Mars?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:30:30 UTC No. 16625062

>>16625061
Mars is pretty chilly so it should be fine

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:30:54 UTC No. 16625063

you need to engineering degree to ask that question

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:31:19 UTC No. 16625065

>>16625057
elon knows and he doesn't give a shit. It's obvious to anyone who isn't a /pol/ tourist that he's been steadily losing interest in space. The energy is just not there if you compare current Elon to the one a decade or more ago. Maybe it's the age getting to him? Maybe he's too preoccupied with DOGE shit? who knows, but the "WE GAAAN" energy is so fucking gone now, even if it's supposed to be at it's peak.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:31:52 UTC No. 16625066

>>16625054
solar is the only realistic option that doesn't rely on chaning peoples mind about nuclear
might be easier to change peoples mind as well after the first ships have landed on mars and you can actually tell them the development is bottlenecked by power

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:34:37 UTC No. 16625069

>>16625061
Ask Grok

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:35:57 UTC No. 16625070

>>16625069
I don't talk to nazis

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:36:32 UTC No. 16625071

fuck you

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:37:05 UTC No. 16625072

>>16625058
no.

>>16625066
it'll have to happen. forget all those dumb dreams about faggy solar

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:37:20 UTC No. 16625073

>>16625070
you just did

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:39:16 UTC No. 16625074

>>16624812
This was definitely one of the more strange quarterly videos. The second half is just answering questions from random nigs like "how should a young person get into the stock market?" he also mentions hyperloop briefly. And I hope he actually uses the legion unit in terms of production numbers for Optimus.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:41:11 UTC No. 16625077

>>16625073
lmao

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:44:39 UTC No. 16625080

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/how-jeff-bezos-made-peace-with-donald-trump/

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:46:41 UTC No. 16625083

>>16625080
>billionaire is an opportunist
How shocking

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:48:48 UTC No. 16625085

>>16625080
Wtf I hate the Moon now! Cancel Artemis I want to see baldy mald and go under. Fair weather loser trying to readjust his sails with the wind. You’re in the doldrums now, amazon boy!

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:52:10 UTC No. 16625087

>>16625080
I didn't see Jeff Bezos on the DJ Trump campaign Trail
Guess he missed his chance

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:55:31 UTC No. 16625092

>>16625074
It's not like he's gonna talk about cars since Cybertruck was such a blunder and Robotaxi is still awaiting software and neither is the Roadster anywhere to be seen yet.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:59:11 UTC No. 16625096

>>16625087
he was at the inauguration

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:00:48 UTC No. 16625099

>>16625092
>Cybertruck was such a blunder
best selling electric truck. best selling vehicle over $100k
you lost

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:06:06 UTC No. 16625101

>>16625099
When I was a child my father used to take me to flea markets on the weekend. He used to tell me "ten thousand Mexicans can't be wrong."

The best thing I ever bought was a switchblade.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:07:11 UTC No. 16625102

>>16625099
Planned capacity 250k-500k annually. Selling under 50k. Massive blunder for a company which seemingly can't develop a new car models in parallel.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:14:13 UTC No. 16625110

>9 day booster turn around

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:24:36 UTC No. 16625116

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1903117739729813968

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:25:47 UTC No. 16625118

>>16625116
>didn't get any overtime pay
Isn't that NASA's fault?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:26:50 UTC No. 16625119

>>16625116
Will they ever stop milking this lie?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:28:18 UTC No. 16625120

>>16625116
What, is everyone involved in that pretending to be retarded or something?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:29:15 UTC No. 16625121

>>16625119
nope, they will repeat it until every moron thinks it's the truth

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:36:20 UTC No. 16625123

>>16625096
Thats after the election

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:36:52 UTC No. 16625124

>>16625119
The offer to rescue was made (behind closed doors) and the Biden administration refused.
How is this a lie without any evidence? Its a he-said, she-said situation. So it comes down to reputation.
Who has a better reputation (fewer lies, more honest transparency)
Elon Musk / SpaceX
or
Joe Biden's handlers
We cant know the truth, so stop discounting it as a lie. It may have really happened, maybe not, but thanks so much for making your beliefs known. Any other things you can tell us without evidence?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:39:14 UTC No. 16625127

>>16625124
Elon lies or twists the truth all the time

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:40:22 UTC No. 16625128

>>16625101
>"ten thousand Mexicans can't be wrong."
What the fuck does this even mean?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:43:51 UTC No. 16625130

>>16625127
ok TSLAQ nigger

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:44:46 UTC No. 16625131

>>16624994
Europa Clipper on FH saved NASA several billion dollars, it is fine if it take a few more years to get there.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:45:20 UTC No. 16625132

>>16625124
>The offer to rescue was made (behind closed doors) and the Biden administration refused.
Because it was retarded and wasteful. Why pay for a whole new mission when you can just move crew around on the regularly scheduled rotations?
It's so funny how elon simps flip between "We must cut government spending" and "We must pay elon musk as much money as possible for literally nothing of value"

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:50:14 UTC No. 16625135

>>16625119
cope and seethe
team 47 won

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:55:16 UTC No. 16625137

>>16625135
>cope and seethe
hard not to when space is being thrown down the shitter (somehow even more than it was previously)
>team 47 won
I know you may have missed it, but this is a spaceflight general, not /pol/. Your asylum is a few boards down.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:57:17 UTC No. 16625138

>>16625116
>>16625119
lmao at first it was weird, then it was annoying, now it has horseshoed into being based.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 16:57:40 UTC No. 16625139

Trump LOVES Boeing. SLS is 100% safe.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:01:30 UTC No. 16625140

>>16625139
In that case, China has already won

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:07:35 UTC No. 16625143

>>16625128
Imagine being supposedly smart and not understanding a basic analogy. What percentile did you get on your SAT? Ten thousand educators can't be wrong.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:11:07 UTC No. 16625145

>>16625124
How did Trump help?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:16:06 UTC No. 16625146

>>16624953
>uhm Elon Musk never attempted to go to orbit with Starship

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:21:39 UTC No. 16625147

>>16625145
NTA but by he helped simply by virtue of not being a retarded biden admin cretin with anti-Elon* intentions
*the chief engineer of the company that could have gone and done something earlier

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:23:38 UTC No. 16625148

>>16625146
who are you quoting?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:25:42 UTC No. 16625149

>>16625147
So he didn't pay to rush a mission either. Literally just waited for the scheduled one, right? He deserves a medal.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:26:49 UTC No. 16625150

>>16625148
99% of /sfg/

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:27:48 UTC No. 16625151

>>16625148
Demand for outrage has far outpaced supply. People need to make their own.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:28:29 UTC No. 16625152

>>16625149
You’re not wrong but I also don’t care
>a-a-a political guy is politicking?!?!
Water is wet btw

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:29:58 UTC No. 16625154

>>16625146
Yuri never made an orbit but attained orbital velocity. That metric counts

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:29:59 UTC No. 16625155

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/trump-white-house-drops-diversity-plan-for-moon-landing-it-created-back-in-2019/
>That was then. NASA’s landing page for the First Woman comic series, where young readers could download or listen to the comic, no longer exists. Callie and her crew survived the airless, radiation-bathed surface of the Moon, only to be wiped out by President Trump’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion executive order, signed two months ago.
>Another casualty is the "first woman" language within the Artemis Program. For years, NASA's main Artemis page, an archived version of which is linked here, included the following language: "With the Artemis campaign, NASA will land the first woman and first person of color on the Moon, using innovative technologies to explore more of the lunar surface than ever before."

Berger's malding hard about deistronauts getting pulled from Artemis

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:31:36 UTC No. 16625156

https://x.com/TurkeyBeaver/status/1903129489011622319

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:31:56 UTC No. 16625157

>>16625155
Imagine linking an arstecnica article 5 years after COVID and thinking anyone trusts it n

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:32:08 UTC No. 16625159

>>16624979
>That would be true if cheap launch existed. There's no such thing
This is a classic "SLS is real" kind of quote. If only someone relevant were saying it.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:33:26 UTC No. 16625160

>>16624993
It's not really possible to separate the two, anon. Go read Liftoff and Reentry for homework.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:34:55 UTC No. 16625162

>Zion Don can pull $20 billion out of his ass for Boing while he cuts funding for NASA
It's so joever

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:34:57 UTC No. 16625163

>>16625004
>Starship won't be carrying anything but cash printers for a while

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:36:02 UTC No. 16625166

>>16625124
>pay $320 million just to get a couple astronauts back a few months early
Or
>focus on things that actually matter and let the ISS have a few extra hands to ease the burden on the other astronauts on the ISS

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:36:05 UTC No. 16625167

Alright, /sfg/.

It's time we discuss Rhea.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:36:19 UTC No. 16625168

>>16625042
Liquid CO2
Or water, since there's a lot of it

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:37:09 UTC No. 16625169

>>16625167
It's gay.

Discussion finished.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:37:55 UTC No. 16625170

>>16625042
Mars has lots of cool air.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:39:08 UTC No. 16625171

>no launch stream
How very unkino.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:40:14 UTC No. 16625172

>>16625157
That article is from today retard

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:41:27 UTC No. 16625174

New Astrumkino about best planet dropped

https://youtu.be/yZsStj2yXXA

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:42:42 UTC No. 16625175

>>16625166
If you never bring the astronauts back you'd save even more!

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:45:10 UTC No. 16625179

>>16625174
Executive order reinstating Pluto as the 9th planet, when?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:46:02 UTC No. 16625180

>>16625179
>9th planet
get in line

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:47:27 UTC No. 16625182

>>16625180
It's pretty cool how all these rounded balls of ice and rock can look so different and unique to eachother.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:56:56 UTC No. 16625195

mercury should not be a planet

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 17:58:17 UTC No. 16625199

>>16625182
on the subject of looking different and unique I updated it so that Venus would be true color

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:00:58 UTC No. 16625200

>>16625162
If this new F-47 ends up sucking, a contract gets thrown out to SpaceX to develop a strategic bomber that can deliver a precision nuke to Boeing hq

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:02:00 UTC No. 16625204

>>16625166
>$320 million

I like how this figure keeps going up when it was never accurate in the first place.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:02:14 UTC No. 16625205

>>16625200
Starship IS the strategic bomber

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:03:23 UTC No. 16625206

Oi vey $500 million for two measly astronauts, we had no choice but to say no!

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:06:57 UTC No. 16625208

>>16625200
>just hire spacex to do something wildly outside their expertise lol

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:13:41 UTC No. 16625209

>>16625206
>Government waste
REEEEEE
>Government waste (On SpaceX)
YIPEEEEEEEE

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:16:37 UTC No. 16625213

>>16625209
ummmm sweaty, its good when its my side being hypocritical.
you lost btw lol am I right fellow froggers?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:18:44 UTC No. 16625215

>>16625167
nice looking Rhea you have there anon

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:20:00 UTC No. 16625216

>>16625199
pluto is a planet. end of story.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:24:50 UTC No. 16625221

>>16625167
>random ass rock in space #6755997739
waooooow sugoiiii

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:25:18 UTC No. 16625222

>>16625119
they will repeat the truth until everyone knows it. biden tried to kill our astronauts just for voting for trump

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:32:13 UTC No. 16625228

>>16624982
>propane

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:35:44 UTC No. 16625233

>>16625160
Do you even realize how much of a loser professor you sound like? Nigger I don't have to read your gay takes, I'm living it. This is why no one respects you.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:36:40 UTC No. 16625234

>>16625209
It’s not waste if it’s being spent on spacex
>>16625213
This but unironically

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:47:09 UTC No. 16625241

>>16625180
Ganymede high key a goated solar system body

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:48:08 UTC No. 16625242

>>16625241
more like gaymeds heh

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:51:23 UTC No. 16625245

>>16625155
he is such a fucking faggot holy shit
it just keeps getting worse

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:53:12 UTC No. 16625246

>>16625209
Is telling yourself that a SpaceX launch would have been Boeing priced the current cope?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 18:53:33 UTC No. 16625247

>>16625199
anything larger than earth is a star or a failed star, anything smaller is a moon or a planetlet

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:01:18 UTC No. 16625250

>>16625182
anon, almost all of those celestial bodies are actually plain and boring gray, the universe is way less colorful than what nasa shows us with their 'pictures'.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:01:25 UTC No. 16625251

>>16625247
where does earth fall on this scale?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:01:59 UTC No. 16625252

Many don’t know this but your enemy cannot gain air superiority if you blow up like 5 starships uprange of contested airspace

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:03:10 UTC No. 16625253

>>16625251
earth is a planet

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:04:12 UTC No. 16625255

>>16625182
Geochemistry is the autistic study of this exact phenomenon. Minerals and organic processes, hydrological cycles, fluid interactions with rock. It’s all very fascinating and gets me excited

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:08:42 UTC No. 16625259

Martian avalanche.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:10:57 UTC No. 16625262

>>16625259
this photo is of a beach in santa monica with color correction

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:11:31 UTC No. 16625264

>>16625259
No tectonic plates yet still, time and gravity still working mysterious wonders.
I wonder if the wind lightly blowing for millions of years, ceaselessly sculpting the surface with weathering and erosion, was to blame for this

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:18:37 UTC No. 16625272

https://x.com/Cosmic_Penguin/status/1903050340766978548
>In the last rays of daylight at Jiuquan SLC, the 2nd Ceres-1 to launch in just over 4 days - 1 day more than the latest pair of launches by its nearest Western counterpart - successfully deployed another 6 Yunyao-1 LEO weather measurement satellites (#43-48) to SSO at 11:07 UTC.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:19:38 UTC No. 16625274

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:19:42 UTC No. 16625275

>>16625259
this happened in For All Mankind. it was that young junkie prick spacing out while on drilling duty. im glad they dumped him out in the desert, fucker. always hated that bastard.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:20:40 UTC No. 16625277

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:21:03 UTC No. 16625278

wtf is he wearing

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:22:58 UTC No. 16625279

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:24:49 UTC No. 16625281

>>16625278
he's thick

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:35:59 UTC No. 16625287

>>16625275
Well I just got spoiled. It's whatever though, retard had death flag written on his forehead. Thought he was going to schizo out like his father and actually remove his helmet tho, shame

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:42:04 UTC No. 16625292

>>16625287
>Well I just got spoiled.
sorry bud. figured most would have seen it by now. that was the last series the show was any good anyway. turned the entire 4th series into a commie union dispute load of crap.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 19:57:02 UTC No. 16625295

>>16625259
Billions dead...

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:02:24 UTC No. 16625296

>>16625295
im glad the martian surface is completely sterile and lacking all life because many beetles and stuff would have been harmed by this and it would have been elons fault.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:16:53 UTC No. 16625304

>>16625274
beautiful shot
>>16625277
>>16625279
the shockwave schlieren are very impressive

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:25:17 UTC No. 16625311

>>16624962
>he thinks dolphins have a particular affinity for coasts
land lubber mentality

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:28:47 UTC No. 16625312

>>16625096
>>16625123
>>16625087
He very publicly forbade the Washington Post (which he owns) from endorsing Kamala, pissing off all the WaPo's editors and staff as well as reddit/etc. It wasn't an endorsement of Trump, but at the same time it KIND OF was. After he did it, I don't think anybody was surprised to see him at the inauguration and getting cozy with Trump.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:29:42 UTC No. 16625314

>>16625312
yea but there is a giant world of difference between Elon giving speeches at the rally vs some lukewarm middle ground at your personal news paper

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:30:17 UTC No. 16625315

>>16625132
>wasteful.
Price was not discussed.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:31:25 UTC No. 16625317

>>16625172
retard

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:33:10 UTC No. 16625319

>>16625314
Nobody said that Bezos gave Trump an equivalent level of support as Elon.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:38:55 UTC No. 16625323

>>16625296
Can they bring some beetles with the first attempts at landing Starship on Mars?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:41:22 UTC No. 16625326

>>16624953
Maybe it was just me, but I found the constant talk of the splashdown being "off the coast of Tallahassee" to be annoying.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:41:49 UTC No. 16625327

>>16624988
lots of cats to steal the warmness

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:53:34 UTC No. 16625332

So, i have been away from /sci/ for some time because of how every thread got derailed, but i just watched a video of sunni.
How much do you think her weight is now?
I really wonder about her health.
I hope in the future when the political bullshit is over we get a complete report on her decline in health and what they did to try and keep her from declining.
Because it's obvious that something went wrong with the high calorie intake&weight training.
Looks like her body was eating up itself to keep it alive, the grey hair, arms of auschwitz prisoner.
It's amazing she could even stand up to shake hands.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:55:03 UTC No. 16625333

>>16625332
Do you think thats why the return was so rushed?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:57:05 UTC No. 16625336

>>16625333
i imagine she was doing fine for most of her time up there, and thats why they decided on leaving them up there, but then she started declining fast and it also became a bigger political problem because of the election.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:57:40 UTC No. 16625337

>>16625332
its lack of tan and hair dye

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:57:48 UTC No. 16625338

>>16625332
shes 60
and probably doesn't work out

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:00:26 UTC No. 16625342

>>16625337
>hair dye
that one at least is a decent answer to her grey hair.
Still doesnt explain the twig arms.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:00:38 UTC No. 16625343

>relativity is also setting up shop in texas
at this point texas may become the number state for spaceflight

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:01:56 UTC No. 16625345

>>16625342
show me before and after

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:02:53 UTC No. 16625346

Yet Robert Zubrin, the globe’s leading strategist for landing humans on Mars,
One of the top aeronautical engineers in the U.S.
With his extraordinary series of books
Zubrin is widely considered the supreme conceptual creator of a future Eden-like New World on Mars.

jeezus the glazing is obnoxious

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:05:46 UTC No. 16625350

>>16625345
Any google search with the words "starliner" and "sunni"

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:06:52 UTC No. 16625352

>>16625323
NO. The Martian ecosystem must be preserved at all costs.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:07:25 UTC No. 16625353

YF-102 production line in Baoji (west of Xi'an) to have initial production capability by the end of March. To eventually have the capability to produce 300 engines per year.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/fFryPhH49KNYyxamivStNQ

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:07:42 UTC No. 16625354

>>16625332
no she enjoyed it 100% trust me bro
if it was her choice, she would have stayed there for 8 more months breathing CO2 rich farts

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:11:49 UTC No. 16625356

>>16625354
I'm she she would have gladly died up there too

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:16:50 UTC No. 16625360

>>16624991
When you say an SLS launch costs $4B, is that the marginal cost of an SLS launch, or is it including fixed costs divided by number of launches?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:19:14 UTC No. 16625362

>>16625360
If the annual budget is 2 billion
And it launches once every 2 years
You are left with a 4 billion cost

It's likely a lot higher when you include other stuff that isn't lumped under its budget
Plus the Orion capsule which is just an insane money spending program

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:22:55 UTC No. 16625364

>>16625146
>CNSA
>Academy of Launch Vehicle Tech
This doesn't make sense

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:24:35 UTC No. 16625366

>>16625360
$2 billion of that figure is just for procuring a single SLS rocket

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:25:55 UTC No. 16625367

>>16625362
So it is including fixed costs?

Wouldn't the cost then dramatically drop if SLS launched more often? For example, if it launched each year, the cost would be $2B per launch. Would SLS not be capable of a launch per year?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:27:59 UTC No. 16625368

>>16625366
So the rocket itself is just $2B including fixed costs? Procurement cost must always include fixed costs in some way, because contractors need to be paid for their fixed costs as well

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:30:07 UTC No. 16625369

>>16625367
They'd first have to be able to launch more often. Once a year isn't enough either.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:36:02 UTC No. 16625371

>>16625369
>They'd first have to be able to launch more often.
So isn't then an obvious solution that can radically cut costs of SLS to simply increase its cadence and to get more payloads for it? Right now Artemis keeps getting delayed for non-SLS reasons. One potential payload was Europa Clipper, though I read it would've required major modifications to handle the vibrations of SLS SRBs

>Once a year isn't enough either.
No, but it would be dramatically cheaper. It seems disingenuous to say "we must avoid launching SLS because it costs $4B per launch" if the reason it costs $4B per launch is because you almost never launch it

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:37:29 UTC No. 16625372

>Elon Musk: This is insane

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:42:01 UTC No. 16625374

>>16625278
The jacket that the air force academy gave him like 4 years ago.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:44:00 UTC No. 16625378

Progress on Chinese F9 cloning project #9415

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:55:05 UTC No. 16625382

>>16625353
So how many vehicles does that add up to?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 21:58:48 UTC No. 16625384

https://x.com/NatReconOfc/status/1903143894939840851
>In case you missed it, NRO and SpaceX launched NROL-57 today from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:05:13 UTC No. 16625387

>>16625378
why don't the chinese have any F9 clone operational yet? They're really slacking.

🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:06:04 UTC No. 16625388

>>16625382
About 230, assuming an average engine consumption of 1.3 engines per launch

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:07:55 UTC No. 16625389

>>16625387
They haven't had a suitable engine ready. I think CASC has also been a bit busy with the LM5-8 rollout. Space Pioneer's first Tianlong-3 was supposed to launch last year, however it suffered an accidental premature launch during testing

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:08:24 UTC No. 16625390

>>16625368
Fixed costs like ground systems are in additions to that $2 billion, as is the Orion capsule.

That $2 billion procurement cost grows to something like $2.4 billion once the EUS upper stage starts getting used.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:10:03 UTC No. 16625391

>>16625390
A rocket also has fixed costs by itself, such as all the facilities and employees that are needed to build it.

🗑️ Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:12:00 UTC No. 16625392

>>16625391
>employees that are needed to build it.
Although, of course, when the production line is so busy that every worker is at every stage of production is busy, employees become a marginal cost

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:13:41 UTC No. 16625393

>>16625391
>employees that are needed to build it.
Although, of course, when the production line is so busy that every worker at every stage of production is fully busy, employees become a marginal cost

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:14:04 UTC No. 16625395

Awwwright, I am now ready to receive my weekend full of launches!

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:14:33 UTC No. 16625396

>>16625395
sponge anon, you've changed

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:22:18 UTC No. 16625402

>>16625382
The YF-102R variant is supposed to be reusable. So about 230 launches, assuming an average engine consumption of 1.3 engines per launch.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:24:43 UTC No. 16625404

https://x.com/ISROSpaceflight/status/1903058980395683895
>The LVM3-M5 / BlueBird #6 mission is now set to lift off in May! It will place the first satellite of AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird Block-2 constellation into Low Earth Orbit. The L110 and C25 stages of the LVM3-M5 vehicle have already reached ISRO-SHAR. NSIL is in talks with AST SpaceMobile to launch more of their satellites.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:37:45 UTC No. 16625413

>>16625396
he realized who is the real cause of all these delays....

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:38:03 UTC No. 16625415

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:38:36 UTC No. 16625417

>>16625378
Stainless steel tanks
Methane-oxygen propellant
Off-the-shelf engines from JZYJ
Capture arm recovery
First launch NET 2026 (I assume this would be without any recovery attempt)
Company founded in 2024 by Dr Tang Wen, a former CASC employee

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5136570711804991
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/Qt1FlI_rTFqR-rn035t0Sg
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/W9tluA2hrviqNEvNHb-dBw

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:39:28 UTC No. 16625418

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:41:33 UTC No. 16625419

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:42:04 UTC No. 16625420

>>16625418
Yes.

"Titan" is Oceanus.

The Caelean moons are named after the Muses, rather than fictional fairies.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:46:39 UTC No. 16625421

>>16625419
>spacex has spidermechs now
what happened to the robot dogs?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:50:13 UTC No. 16625424

>>16625421
they got better

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:59:30 UTC No. 16625427

>>16625419
They grow up so fast

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:00:04 UTC No. 16625428

>>16625415
hi beauty, are you single?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:03:47 UTC No. 16625429

Titan colony when? Europa colony when?

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:10:59 UTC No. 16625432

>>16625429
Maybe if you had voted for Kamala, but alas, Trump.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:13:19 UTC No. 16625434

>>16625432
i'm not american

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:18:38 UTC No. 16625436

>>16625419
>>16625427
ghost in the shell shit

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:21:36 UTC No. 16625438

https://x.com/tobyliiiiiiiiii/status/1903220088951779627
>28 former NASA Astronauts have signed a letter to members of the Senate in support of @rookisaacman for the position of NASA Administrator. Jared’s experience and spirit is what NASA needs right now as we face a critical fork in human lunar exploration.
>“We believe that Jared Isaacman is uniquely qualified to lead NASA at this critical juncture.”
>“We urge the Senate Commerce Committee to hold Mr. Isaacman's confirmation hearing as soon as practical.”

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:33:41 UTC No. 16625441

https://x.com/AJamesMcCarthy/status/1903183784935297400
>There is a *MASSIVE* arc of plasma on the sun right now. This is how it looked a moment ago, through a telescope I modified to see the sun's atmosphere. This arc is larger than Jupiter, and could fit dozens of Earths inside it.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:35:58 UTC No. 16625442

https://x.com/booster_10/status/1902978821160083862
>B1088 lands after an insane 9 DAY turnaround since it's last flight.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:39:37 UTC No. 16625444

>>16625442
>9 day turnaround
Still not reaching 24 hours like musk promised, what a fraud

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:42:06 UTC No. 16625446

>>16625441
the sun needs to calm the fuck down. enough of this all fusion all the time BS.

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:46:47 UTC No. 16625448

>>16625429
Not in your lifetime

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:53:31 UTC No. 16625453

Crew swap is fun and based and I simply refuse to believe that decades and decades of camaraderie and companionship will simply disappear after ISS is deorbited. POCKOCMOC and NASA will cooperate, in some degree, with Artemis and ROS. What will it look like? Idk. But I really have a hard time believing we will just throw away all the years of cooperation in the trash

Anonymous at Fri, 21 Mar 2025 23:55:30 UTC No. 16625454

>>16625453

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:08:57 UTC No. 16625460

>>16625438
based rusty

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:10:42 UTC No. 16625462

>>16625460
wtf he’s still alive??

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:35:38 UTC No. 16625477

>>16624953
dolphins attack that ass

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:45:33 UTC No. 16625480

>>16625419
Holy shit the resemblance is uncanny

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:46:34 UTC No. 16625481

>>16625453
Russia has shown no interest so far in signing the Artemis Accords or joining the Artemis Program. Dmitry Rogozin, although a crazy human meme, officially stated that the Accords were "illegal and non in compliance with international law," and was not contradicted by Roscosmos or the Kremlin. ROS is going into a 400 km 98 degree orbit, which seems to be within the capabilities of Falcon 9 to get a Dragon to given that Fram2 is going to a higher polar orbit, but we don't know if the docking ports on ROS will be using the IDSS that Crew Dragon uses or the SSVP standard used by Soyuz and Progress. Orel uses an IDSS-compatible standard, but that's betting that Russia will be able to get both a new station and capsule operational by 2030.

It's not that we're throwing anything away, it's just that we're going in different directions.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:48:16 UTC No. 16625482

>>16625480
that scripted scene in OF takes too long and ruins the flow. I set the host timescale to something fast during it

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:48:38 UTC No. 16625483

>>16625481
I say we kidnap a cosmonaut and smuggle him onto the Moon.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 00:49:39 UTC No. 16625485

>>16625482
It was incredible the first time. Boring to sit through on the N-hundreth playthrough though.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:03:52 UTC No. 16625489

>>16625483
I want Artemis III to land one American astronaut and one astronaut from one of our international partners, just so we can troll China for being the third nation to land on the moon. Bonus points if the American we send is Kjell Lindgren, since he was born in Taiwan.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:06:26 UTC No. 16625491

>>16625489
JAXA astronaut for the third country, to maximize PRC butthurt.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:06:53 UTC No. 16625492

>>16625489
reddit the post

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:23:52 UTC No. 16625496

Surely they were paid?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:27:58 UTC No. 16625499

did they work overtime?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:30:15 UTC No. 16625500

starship is vibe rocketry

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:32:40 UTC No. 16625501

https://x.com/wins_ne/status/1903241508519559480
>Aurora is out in Maine!

Might be getting a bit of a show tonight, everyone

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:33:04 UTC No. 16625502

>>16625496
they were paid in tang

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:33:44 UTC No. 16625504

https://www.aurorasaurus.org/

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:34:15 UTC No. 16625505

>>16625500
Boeing tried this with the X-32

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:35:16 UTC No. 16625506

>>16625499
No, they worked over earth

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:39:42 UTC No. 16625507

https://www.solarham.com/
>WARNING: Geomagnetic K-Index of 6 expected
>Minor (G1) storm conditions is currently being observed at higher latitudes and a watch for moderate (G2) storm conditions is in effect until 06:00 UTC (Mar 22). The strength of the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) is quite strong and the Bz component has been tipping sharply south as well. Aurora sky watchers should be alert once dark outside.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:44:58 UTC No. 16625508

Sometimes I'll be chilling on my porch and see Tiangong fly over and laugh at the fact that there's this big ol' chink station up there but nobody really knows or cares

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:47:51 UTC No. 16625511

>>16625508
china will land a man on the moon before the US gets there and no western media will cover it

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:58:40 UTC No. 16625517

https://x.com/aurorawatchuk/status/1903264799984599550
>Red alert: aurora likely. Issued 2025-03-22 01:57 UTC by @aurorawatchuk

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:02:07 UTC No. 16625518

>>16625517
Perfect time to commit that murder and claim auroral insanity at trial. I mean, why WOULD you just kill a random someone you've never met before?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:13:47 UTC No. 16625521

>>16625022
I don't think the file type is supported :-(

Also, we don't have any factories or habs or mining equipment ready to go either, so your standard might be a little too high

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:16:18 UTC No. 16625523

>>16625496
astronauts dont get paid if they go to the station. they all get the same salary whether they are in space or not

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:18:25 UTC No. 16625524

>>16625042
Radiators, since you can't air cool with no air. You have to keep them clean, though. (Robots with brooms?)

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:18:55 UTC No. 16625525

https://x.com/Edwin_SextonWx/status/1903266793029808426
>Nice, about 5 miles north of Topeka Kansas right now. Was a little brighter to the eye not long ago but I didn't have the camera set up. Nice clear moonless sky perfect for aurora photos!

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:19:26 UTC No. 16625527

>>16625061
Pretty well at night

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:19:38 UTC No. 16625528

>>16625525
>12 years after 2012
makes sense

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:24:52 UTC No. 16625530

>>16625525
So it's about 1000 miles less powerful than the big one last year

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:41:04 UTC No. 16625538

I have a big block of thermal tile for shuttles, with the papers you see in the pic. This block would have been cut down to make over a dozen individual tiles.

This link has a video showing how this block is made. At 1:45 in the video, that's the same block as mine. Well not that exact one but it helps visualize it
https://thinktv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/npe11.sci.engin.systems.shuttletile/making-space-shuttle-tiles/

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:43:03 UTC No. 16625541

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:44:18 UTC No. 16625542

>>16625541
she cute

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:44:46 UTC No. 16625543

>>16625530
Yeah, it's a relatively big one, but it's no where near being a BIG big one

https://x.com/tromeara/status/1903273681377198289
>Warren, VT at 10:15!

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 02:47:01 UTC No. 16625544

https://x.com/WxScholl/status/1903271814383464792
>Incredible night with the Northern Lights continue, visible with the naked eye in Southern Iowa rn…

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 03:33:16 UTC No. 16625565

https://x.com/tylerkwx03/status/1903287783172497539
>Think I got it in Texas!

>https://x.com/Brody_wx/status/1903286923990536596
>AURORA VISIBLE FROM SOUTHERN UTAH!! Near Modena!!

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:43:39 UTC No. 16625586

>>16624964
ISAR has a bad business model

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:46:32 UTC No. 16625589

>>16625378
THEY HAVE A FUCKING FUEL TANK???
i bow...

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 05:39:37 UTC No. 16625616

>>16624964
>The last time a liquid fueled rocket launched from continental Europe and crossed the Karman line was a V2 launched on March 27th 1945

If the launch slips 3 days it will be 80 years to the day lmao

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 05:46:42 UTC No. 16625620

>>16625167
I had a dog named rhea
She was a good dog

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:13:56 UTC No. 16625637

>>16625616
>AI nigger can't even read the AI's answer

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 06:15:03 UTC No. 16625640

>>16625143
it's not an analogy, dude

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:32:21 UTC No. 16625655

>>16625542
Cute?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:40:15 UTC No. 16625657

>>16625655
Must be a US thing.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 07:40:32 UTC No. 16625659

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1903347409280807083
>A look at the sparks flying in the high bay tonight during removal of the roof with cutting torches.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:29:09 UTC No. 16625667

Space is an uncaring and merciless place. It wants everything and gives nothing in return... If I could, I'd be the first to litter in space. A crushed beer can and cigarette butts, as an statement, that the universe deserves nothing but contempt from humanity

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 08:44:29 UTC No. 16625668

>>16625659
>both gigabays are supposed to be ready next year
its so far away but so close at the same time. i envy youngfags.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:04:44 UTC No. 16625669

>>16625442
these legs almost failed to deploy

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:13:38 UTC No. 16625674

Why doesn't James Webb look at TNOs like Eris and Haumea?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:15:35 UTC No. 16625675

>>16625674
its overbooked, there's no time available for people interested in that. we need more telescopes and probes instead.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:22:47 UTC No. 16625677

>>16625675
If scientistniggers stopped caring about distant galaxies that we'll never visit and started looking at objects within our reach we might get more things done.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:25:28 UTC No. 16625681

spehs

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:29:00 UTC No. 16625683

>>16625419
>>16625480
MORPHINE ADMINISTERED

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 09:51:46 UTC No. 16625685

>>16625541
Ever see a girl so cute it hurts? I need a space mommy gf

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:19:19 UTC No. 16625690

>>16625674
space is hard
no, we can't just launch another one identical to it even though we have all the instructions of how to build it. it'll take 10 more years and another 10 usd billion, plus tip.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:37:13 UTC No. 16625699

>>16625677
fuck you, brown scum.
It is the white Man's destiny to explore, it always was and it always will be, even if the current society/government tries to hinder that in every way possible.
The solution here isn't to stop looking, it's to send more telescopes up.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:37:38 UTC No. 16625701

>>16625685
that looks like a dive mommy gf, actually

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:54:47 UTC No. 16625709

>>16625541
i would put her poop in my mouth gladly

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:54:53 UTC No. 16625710

>>16625120
unfortunately they aren't pretending

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 10:57:44 UTC No. 16625712

>Wake up another day.
>Still no orbital Starship.
>Still no Moon trips.
>Still no manned Mars missions.
Life is just suffering at this point, eternal edging.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:03:41 UTC No. 16625715

>>16625419
what do they even use that thing for?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:03:50 UTC No. 16625717

>>16625681

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:06:04 UTC No. 16625722

>>16625712
two weeks

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:11:28 UTC No. 16625723

>>16625722
You said the same thing two weeks ago, you blue bitch.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:12:46 UTC No. 16625725

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:14:35 UTC No. 16625726

>>16625723
in two weeks the two weeks will begin

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:16:56 UTC No. 16625728

>>16625722
i would devour her shit too

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:17:28 UTC No. 16625729

>>16625726
I'm just so tired. I wish I could be frozen and then woken up when we finally arrive on Mars.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:21:24 UTC No. 16625731

>>16625725
thought this said
>two weeks
>one sun

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:21:27 UTC No. 16625732

>painting grass

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:21:43 UTC No. 16625733

>>16625729
same, but don't bother waking me up

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:25:22 UTC No. 16625735

>>16625731
kek

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:26:53 UTC No. 16625736

>>16625729
On second thought, might as well be woken up when biological immortality is finally achieved, or when we become xAI's slaves, whatever happens first. Then I'll replay the 4K Mars landing footage while having another tab open with the sfg archive, somehow with live chat replay to avoid spoilers of course.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:26:56 UTC No. 16625737

>>16625732
do texans really do that?
(or at least pay mexicans to do it for them)

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 11:49:22 UTC No. 16625744

>>16625732
It doesn't look like paint.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:10:50 UTC No. 16625746

>>16625731
one moon

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:13:12 UTC No. 16625747

>>16625732
That's not paint, it's a mix of grass seed and fertilizer to spray over dead grass. And okay, some paint, they add some paint to make it look green while the grass seed grows. And just in case it doesn't. Drought conditions, please understand y'all.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:39:32 UTC No. 16625757

>>16625278
I love the man but his swag is unforgivable

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:46:25 UTC No. 16625761

Hey /sci/, you will get 13 hecking nerd brownie points if you can answer it! [math]\unicode{x1F680}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F680}[/math][math]\unicode{x1F680}[/math]

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:47:25 UTC No. 16625762

>>16625538
How much does it weigh?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:58:17 UTC No. 16625767

>>16625761
wow, thats crazy

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 12:59:10 UTC No. 16625769

>>16625761
Some russian piece of shit.
The guy who designed most likely died in a gulag.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:04:06 UTC No. 16625773

>>16625762
9 lbs 7 oz

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:08:01 UTC No. 16625775

>>16625442
thats insane

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:10:03 UTC No. 16625777

>>16625773
holy shit that's the same as ten thousand and seven hundred plastic straws.
Insane!

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:17:51 UTC No. 16625779

>>16625728
just stop

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:23:00 UTC No. 16625780

We will never have a Titan colony because it would be too difficult to insulate the habitats.

Refute this. You can't. It's over Titanbros.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:28:32 UTC No. 16625782

I stood outside with my rocket out
That’s when I saw him
The Peenarmünde snipping guy

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 13:31:23 UTC No. 16625783

>>16625773
that's a lot of a material that barely weighs anything

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:03:57 UTC No. 16625797

>>16625668
doesn't time go by faster for old folx?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:07:51 UTC No. 16625798

>>16625797
only when we're having fun

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:18:50 UTC No. 16625807

>>16625783
It's a master block that would have been cut down into individual tiles for the shuttle. Dimensions are: 11 5/8"L x 7 1/2" W x 14 7/8"H

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:24:35 UTC No. 16625809

>>16625732
Grass is lame, grow clover and wildflowers instead. Fuck lawns.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:28:11 UTC No. 16625810

>>16625809
Shut up fag

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:29:07 UTC No. 16625811

>>16625773
lmao they really make scales in these retarded units?
what a joke of a country, no wonder it got conquered politically by jews

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:34:43 UTC No. 16625816

>>16625811
Your neighbors speak arabic

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:39:52 UTC No. 16625819

>>16625810
I will not.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:40:47 UTC No. 16625820

>>16625797
>folx
Kys faggot, I bet you're the same tranny that posts xisters too.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:40:48 UTC No. 16625821

https://x.com/ch3f_x_eth/status/1903263885559468152
Musk and shivon are so autistic. The secret service guy in the back is thinking about how strange he is kek

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:41:45 UTC No. 16625822

>>16625821
Are they even romantic or is she there as his secretary or something

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:43:08 UTC No. 16625823

>>16625821
Why is he so autistic?

On another note, is this good for Mars?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:44:05 UTC No. 16625824

>>16625820
>getting mad at a letter
Sperg xisters...

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:46:43 UTC No. 16625825

>>16625821
they’re cute, also lmfao that ss officer with the big exhale and blank stare

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:47:41 UTC No. 16625826

>>16625816
your neighbour is an illegal criminal mutt from south america that your government paid to be there

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:51:33 UTC No. 16625829

>>16625826
Im not going to test janny's patience today and catch a 3-day. Your country does not have independent access to space and that is the most embarrassing thing

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:53:58 UTC No. 16625831

>>16625829
your country would only have oldspace access to space (very intermittent launches, very expensive, practically non-existent) if it wasn't for a certain nigga deciding to make rockets in the US and that's very embarrassing

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 14:57:28 UTC No. 16625833

>>16625831
Lmao no. Even without SpaceX, the US still has SLS and Vulcan and New Glenn. Which are shitty, but still mog everyone else.
Sad state of affairs, I know. But the competition sucks. Ariane 6? Angara? H3? Chink and Indian shitcans? Nice try fag—US dominates the industry

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:00:16 UTC No. 16625835

>>16625831
>you'd be in bad shape if it weren't for that thing that happened
Wow yeah good point
Anyway

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:02:11 UTC No. 16625838

>>16625831
>erm, well if we play make-believe and take away your biggest asset then you would have a worse state of affairs at access to space akshually!
Nice argument.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:25:47 UTC No. 16625853

Harem anime.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:29:52 UTC No. 16625855

> 'Atomic Scientists' consider infinity scrolling cartoons a valid argument:

https://thebulletin.org/2025/03/mars-attacks-how-elon-musks-plans-to-colonize-mars-threaten-earth/

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:30:40 UTC No. 16625856

>>16625855
Wrong highground

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:36:34 UTC No. 16625860

>>16625855
This is so so so so so fucking gay. Musk has been very open about his autism for Mars, being a backup of civilization. An extension of his obsession with technology and rocketry. It's the ultimate goal, and NASA has been peacefully setting its sights on Mars ever since the Apollo program. Elon is just saying
>hey I can help with this! This is something Im good at
These FAGGOTS love the word "colonization" and get horny as soon as they can compare something to 19th century imperialism and colonization.
Anyone who thinks the atomic clock is a real thing gets the fucking AIRLOCK, these people need to be shoved in a locker and have their PhDs nulled and voided

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:38:00 UTC No. 16625862

>>16625811
not yet

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:38:41 UTC No. 16625863

>>16625862
lmao

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:39:11 UTC No. 16625864

>>16625855
>bulletin of atomic scientists
Communists. Always have been.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:41:54 UTC No. 16625866

>>16625538
Put it under an electron microscope.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:44:29 UTC No. 16625867

>>16625860
>These FAGGOTS love the word "colonization" and get horny as soon as they can compare something to 19th century imperialism and colonization.
It's crazy because so do I, but for exactly the opposite reason. Manifest Destiny is awesome, colonization is the human spirit in action, bringing civilization to virgin lands is what we're supposed to do. If anything we've got a cleaner mandate now than ever before, since Mars doesn't have natives we can decimate with smallpox and drink.

It's a free planet, you can just have it.

🗑️ Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:46:00 UTC No. 16625868

>>16625862
your government is literally under full israeli control

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:47:15 UTC No. 16625869

>>16625867
Yeah see but you're doing it the correct way. It's an entire planet welcoming whoever has the ambition to go there.
These people are so stupid though, they see "colonization" as a blanket term for wanting power and territory. They think any and all forms of territorial expansion = le evil. These people, for some reason, think the universal proverbial "map of the world" was decided after WW2 and that we should never ever change borders or add territory ever again for the rest of eternity.
They're communist swine.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:51:45 UTC No. 16625872

>>16625868
holy keks

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:53:37 UTC No. 16625873

>>16625868
Not just government
Circumcisions' in the US is literally because jews are commanded to circumcize their slaves

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:58:38 UTC No. 16625875

>>16625855
meh, this makes some good points. Space colonialism will likely destabilize geopolitics on Earth.
But the authors make a fundamental mistake of overestimating the problem. Space claims are only a problem when there is someone to contest them... and as of now, there are exactly 0 countries on Earth other than USA which have any sort of Mars colony ambitions. China might have said something about that at one point but even they likely don't believe their own words.
OST was made when politicians assumed that the incredibly fast rate of technological advancement wouldn't pause like it eventually did. Surely I don't need to remind everyone that the only country which has landed humans on the Moon is struggling to repeat that achievement 50 years later...

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:59:51 UTC No. 16625876

>>16625809
i live in the region and have clovers in the yard. they die too in texas heat.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:00:40 UTC No. 16625877

>>16625867
Based.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:06:53 UTC No. 16625881

>>16625866
KEK I would if I could

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:10:05 UTC No. 16625883

>>16625869
Every day I learn to hate them a little more than I did the day before.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:25:02 UTC No. 16625889

>>16625869
its only bad when non communists seek to expand.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:53:19 UTC No. 16625901

>>16625855
>Will a very Musk-friendly Trump administration be willing to put the brakes on Musk’s Martian ambitions? If not, will the international community respond? Their main option for a response would likely be sanctions, either on the US or on Mr. Musk’s overseas business interests. But given the size of the American economy, and of Mr. Musk's wallet, it’s unclear how successful this might be against a determined US administration.

why would they? why does this fucking faggot want to?
I hate these people so much and it is precisely why Musk *had to* do this sidequest with the government
people like this made it impossible not to if he wanted to actually accomplish the goal set forth more than two decades ago

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:54:34 UTC No. 16625903

actually making humans spacefaring? yes

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:56:33 UTC No. 16625904

communists would rather everyone live in poverty than everyone have much higher standard of living but some slightly higher than others and there is no lows they will go to get to that state of things and to keep them there

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:57:34 UTC No. 16625905

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1903481526794203189

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:01:14 UTC No. 16625908

>>16625903
>international space law
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:01:58 UTC No. 16625909

>>16625905
Starship is for Starlink

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:03:59 UTC No. 16625911

>>16625905
So it's like 2 years in Elon time?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:05:20 UTC No. 16625912

>>16625908
the article starts and ends with it so I guess its about Musk possibly breaking it at some point and how that is horrible
in the comments there are communists whining how exploiting space for private profit is horrible

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:09:20 UTC No. 16625916

>>16625912
Until only a few years ago, communists earnestly believed that was was Too Hard (tm) to be mastered by anybody except for national governments, which would naturally preclude the existence of capitalism in space. To them, space was meant to be communism's big opportunity to have a space to grow without competition. This in turn was part of a larger progressive secular IFLS cult mentality about achieving the nirvana of "Star Trek future".

SpaceX proving them wrong has completely mind fucked them.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:11:10 UTC No. 16625917

>>16625916
Yup good point

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:15:56 UTC No. 16625922

>>16625905
Are they giving up on V2 cause it keeps exploding?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:24:15 UTC No. 16625937

>>16625922
if v2 exploded any more it'd be al qaeda's space force

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:28:33 UTC No. 16625939

>>16625922
who knows, maybe they are speeding up the introduction of v3

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:30:14 UTC No. 16625943

>>16625922
the exploding will continue until moral improves

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:33:20 UTC No. 16625946

V2 starships were already under construction
Their mission was to fly
They succeeded in their mission

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:34:07 UTC No. 16625948

>>16625946
they have like 2-3 lined up, might as well blow them up too

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:35:03 UTC No. 16625952

>>16625905
>v3
>100 tons
but i thought that v3 would be 200 tons to leo?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:35:59 UTC No. 16625953

>>16625952
lol
by the time they fix all the v3 problems it won't be carrying 100 tons either

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:37:43 UTC No. 16625955

>>16625948
the FAA might start throwing a fit if they have 5 failed launches in a row

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:45:44 UTC No. 16625964

>>16625952
~100t
sounds like it might be less

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 17:47:11 UTC No. 16625968

>>16625952
from what I understand, 200 tons is in semi reusable mode

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:04:32 UTC No. 16625984

>>16625955
why would they?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:05:08 UTC No. 16625985

>this redditor asshurt because Elon reposted his infographic

you made a graphic about his rockets and he can't use it?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:05:33 UTC No. 16625986

>>16625952
>runningthroughwindow.jpg

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:05:37 UTC No. 16625987

>>16625732
It's fertilizer or something. The dye is so they can tell where they've been

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:07:35 UTC No. 16625990

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1903505932966834674
>Large new electrical control building for the new tower 2 tank farm was delivered last night.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:08:56 UTC No. 16625991

what is clear doing

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:09:07 UTC No. 16625992

>>16625855
>Weinersmith
Oh these are the people who write that pozz SMBC comic
They wrote an EDS book about how Mars colonisation can never succeed and if it did it's dangerous and must be stopped

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:09:47 UTC No. 16625993

>>16625990
looks cool

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:10:43 UTC No. 16625994

>>16625992
yeah the book is that its not going to happen and this cope article is that it shouldn't happen when its increasingly likely that Musk will at least try

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:11:43 UTC No. 16625995

>>16625991
food, also does her voice sound different or is it just me

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:11:49 UTC No. 16625996

>>16625991
oh nevermind i should have read the title

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:16:00 UTC No. 16625999

>>16625995
clear is a man

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:18:00 UTC No. 16626001

>>16625667
if an empty beer can reentered would its low mass mean it could be slowed by the exosphere and reeneter without burning up? Would a sheet of paper float down from orbit or would it burn up? OK, then how about a mylar birthday balloon? It surely would not burn up reentering from orbital speed and altitude it would just slow down and then float down to the ground right?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:20:41 UTC No. 16626005

>>16625984
because it shuts down air traffic in the gulf of america for an hour every time

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:21:11 UTC No. 16626007

space sweets

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:24:15 UTC No. 16626010

>>16626005
so what

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:27:42 UTC No. 16626011

>>16625999
i wouyld marry clear if they were a man

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:29:41 UTC No. 16626012

>>16625769
settle down, Zubrin

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:30:20 UTC No. 16626013

>>16626005
I'm sure the deportation flights can be scheduled around that.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:31:48 UTC No. 16626015

>>16626013
Why do they fly them on a plane instead of packing them 10k at a time on a train

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:33:36 UTC No. 16626016

>>16626012
What did you say to me you little shit?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:34:12 UTC No. 16626017

>>16626015
You can't put people into cattle cars because it reminds jewish people of that tragedy, the time they were made to do manual labor.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:35:16 UTC No. 16626019

>>16624953
>Dat ass
>I am so clever
>>16624956
Non unified Standard model physics and the Cult of Einstein will keep humans trapped on earth for another 100 years.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:35:51 UTC No. 16626020

>>16626017
>the time they were made to do manual labor.
Are those fuckers still mad at the egyptians?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:36:11 UTC No. 16626021

>>16626019
Thank you for your input, schizokun

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:36:33 UTC No. 16626022

>>16624963
He's a grifter. He's looking to extract the maximum wealth possible from the tax payer. He can barely make it to orbit, H1Bs will never take us to mars.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:37:33 UTC No. 16626023

>>16625016
Robots are already there. No Musk required: Retardkun.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:38:09 UTC No. 16626024

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:38:23 UTC No. 16626025

>>16625761
>>16625769
i'm guessing rd-119

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:39:56 UTC No. 16626026

>>16626020
Unironically yes. Rome too.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:40:31 UTC No. 16626027

>>16626021
>Says somting stupid
>Gets called on it
>Seeths about it
Clearly you're that jewish guy that tries to crybully and just ends up sounded retarded.
Continue, it's funny as fuck.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:40:54 UTC No. 16626028

>>16626016
https://voca.ro/1l4yJAKmCIPL

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:43:15 UTC No. 16626029

>>16626005
>>16626007
>>16626010
>>16626011
>>16626012
>>16626013
>>16626015
Those time stamps...
Bots or discord?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:43:38 UTC No. 16626030

>>16626029
sfg is three people

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:44:30 UTC No. 16626031

>>16626030
says its 4 people on the bottom right

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:46:49 UTC No. 16626032

>>16625761
Nozzle reminds me of something Rocketdyne would knock out, but it's probably a Chinese copy of something.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:46:59 UTC No. 16626033

>>16626030
Actually they are all me.
It's just you and me here anon.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:47:17 UTC No. 16626034

>>16626029
pills

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:48:15 UTC No. 16626036

>>16626033
ahhh the San Pedro days
those were peak /sci/-space discussion

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:48:40 UTC No. 16626037

don't reply to me or my clearbros ever again

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:49:37 UTC No. 16626038

>>16626016
I said shoo joo

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:50:40 UTC No. 16626040

>>16626036
I miss the quiet times on /scI/ before starman.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:51:33 UTC No. 16626041

>>16626029
this post...
paranoia or meds no longer effective?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:52:57 UTC No. 16626043

>>16626040
now the whole of 4chan is slowly dying

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:56:08 UTC No. 16626045

>>16626043
4chan has been dying for more then a decade now, and i will piss on it's grave for what it has done to me.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 18:59:44 UTC No. 16626047

Lunar E-ZPass Final Reminder:
You have an outstanding lunar gateway toll.Your toll account balance is outstanding. If you fail to pay by March 28, 2025. You will be penalized or subject to legal action.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:04:59 UTC No. 16626048

>>16626043
a certain group of chosen people want it to die so they shit up every thread on every board with their trolling and garbage name calling, it's to drive away users

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:05:53 UTC No. 16626049

>>16625952
Well, you thought wrong.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:07:47 UTC No. 16626050

the end goal is to stretch starship so much it reaches mars on its own

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:11:27 UTC No. 16626051

>>16626007
those clouds...

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:13:46 UTC No. 16626052

>>16626050
So a space elevator?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:14:19 UTC No. 16626053

>>16626052
no a space escalator

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:15:06 UTC No. 16626054

>>16625905
>That will yield ~100 tons to Starlink orbit
It's definitely less than 100 tons then.
Bros, this is bad...

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:15:30 UTC No. 16626055

>>16626053
The kind that grinds up chinese?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:19:24 UTC No. 16626059

>>16626053
Why can't we have a space zipline, that'd be sick

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:19:46 UTC No. 16626060

>>16626050
it would be huge.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:21:35 UTC No. 16626061

>>16626059
You should never go ziplining

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:29:22 UTC No. 16626065

>>16626061
zeplins in space would be awesome

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:34:02 UTC No. 16626066

>>16626029
yes its me and my bots (you)

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:36:09 UTC No. 16626067

>>16626043
probably largely due to being able to say much on X what was previously only possible in small niches (even 4chan /pol/ has had some rampaging jannies every now and then, most famously during 2015)

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:38:16 UTC No. 16626068

>>16626065
Vacuum airships

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:45:55 UTC No. 16626075

The Saturday Space Movie has been decided
(same as last week because i didn't make it all the way through last time but if things get really spicy i might carry on to Apollo 11. what a great movie that is)

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:46:57 UTC No. 16626076

>>16626068
thats the only job i'll be qualified for but i'll still get to see the colors of Venus.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:48:57 UTC No. 16626077

>>16626075
the real thing is better https://apolloinrealtime.org/13/

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:55:47 UTC No. 16626085

>>16626077
i dont have all week here buddy

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:57:22 UTC No. 16626087

>>16626077
damn this is fucking cool

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:00:04 UTC No. 16626090

>>16626085
you can skip the sleep periods

>>16626087
the ~8 hours immediately after the bang are riveting.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:02:13 UTC No. 16626092

>>16626090
i cant actually. my browser wont let me play it :-(

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:03:18 UTC No. 16626093

>>16626092
lol you on IE or something
works on Safari for me

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:03:22 UTC No. 16626094

>>16626092
brave.com

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:09:37 UTC No. 16626096

>>16626093
ff on mint. what am i doing wrong?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:10:53 UTC No. 16626098

>>16626096
what the hell is mint
t. zoomer

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:17:26 UTC No. 16626104

>>16626077
also watch curiousmarc's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUeFwyicV8o

when smoking was allowed indoors anything was possible

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:17:54 UTC No. 16626105

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:21:33 UTC No. 16626108

>>16626105
implessive

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:34:10 UTC No. 16626117

Are you ready for 5.2 kilotons payload to LEO per year?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:40:09 UTC No. 16626120

>>16626117
it went from 150-200 T to “maybe 100”
It’s over

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:40:15 UTC No. 16626121

>>16626016
This guy oozes so much aura

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:41:25 UTC No. 16626122

>>16626120
and it's elon saying which means it's actually lower

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:49:21 UTC No. 16626126

>>16626117
We are not getting to Mars...

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:49:35 UTC No. 16626127

>>16626055
>>16626052

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:00:10 UTC No. 16626131

>>16625905
>honing in on V3
>V2 doesn't even work as good as V1 after two flights
k

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:03:04 UTC No. 16626135

>>16626122
Exactly hahah

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:04:33 UTC No. 16626139

We are reclining.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:04:38 UTC No. 16626140

>>16626135
he's looking into it

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:05:40 UTC No. 16626142

>>16626104
everyone is on zyn now so its like smoking never left

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:12:22 UTC No. 16626146

Interceptor bros.... it's over..... we can't save the lunar outpost from YR4..

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:25:39 UTC No. 16626153

>>16625816
We need to remove Titan's haze layer. We need to see those beautiful blue skies.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:27:07 UTC No. 16626154

>>16626001
I think a paper airplane would survive but nobody's ever proven it

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:29:46 UTC No. 16626157

Just learned about the moon caves, when are we moving in

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:32:59 UTC No. 16626159

>>16626029
board culture, I assume you've never heard of it

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:33:10 UTC No. 16626160

>>16626154
I wonder if Musk could be persuaded to have one of his "civilian" missions release a box of paper airplanes over the US and anybody who found one on the ground could scan a code on it and win a t-shirt or something

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:33:13 UTC No. 16626161

>>16626157
Just as soon as we make farming on the moon economically viable, Heinlein

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:35:28 UTC No. 16626163

>>16626075
best space movie ever right here

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:37:05 UTC No. 16626164

>>16626160
littering. penalty: death

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:39:43 UTC No. 16626166

>>16626160
could you imagine how the FAA would react to that

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:40:59 UTC No. 16626167

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1903547105614143964
>The Fram2 crew completed training this week in California, and early this morning, the Dragon supporting their mission arrived at the hangar at pad 39A in Florida ahead of liftoff next Monday, March 31

Fram happening in less than two weeks

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:42:02 UTC No. 16626168

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:43:10 UTC No. 16626169

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:46:14 UTC No. 16626170

>>16626167
just around the corner from where that photo is taken there are homeless bums hanging out at the railroad track.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:49:43 UTC No. 16626172

>>16626167
***SNIFF***

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:58:58 UTC No. 16626176

>>16626163
>>16626075
How come they stopped making these arter 18?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:02:08 UTC No. 16626177

>>16626167
>gray hairs and pregnant
Grime

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:10:54 UTC No. 16626179

>>16625922
>learn of V2 and V3 in the same announcement
>"durr why are they moving on from V2 to V3?"

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:12:12 UTC No. 16626180

>>16626172
Tasted a girl's pits exactly like hers

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:14:24 UTC No. 16626184

>first post i come back to is degeneracy about pitfags
see you in another 6 months

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:18:09 UTC No. 16626186

>>16626016
You can tell this guy is completely deranged from the way his hair is. Baldness denialism is a classic tell for derangement.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:27:23 UTC No. 16626192

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:28:13 UTC No. 16626193

>>16626192
what are those modules?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:28:25 UTC No. 16626194

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:29:29 UTC No. 16626195

>>16626167
Quick

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:29:57 UTC No. 16626196

>>16626053
Unless you're Killy, you don't have 10,000 years to ascend to the next level of it.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:31:20 UTC No. 16626197

>>16625438
good if anyone can get congress critters moving it former astronuaghts

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:39:14 UTC No. 16626200

>>16626163
i mentioned that. its really the best thing ever committed to film

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:45:51 UTC No. 16626202

>>16626164
imagine if one landed on an endangered beetle

>>16626166
OH THE HUMANITY!

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:49:07 UTC No. 16626203

>>16626176
Kubrick died

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 22:51:53 UTC No. 16626204

>be sure to like, comment, subscribe, and donate to my patreon!

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:05:20 UTC No. 16626210

>>16626204
only youtubers worth watching are eager, marcus house and that's wild.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:06:52 UTC No. 16626211

>>16626210
labpadre is probably the best 'weekly starbase update' youtuber

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:07:59 UTC No. 16626213

Wait so not that I follow many of them, but regardless I always get the the spitter fags in my algorithm, apparently the dkis guy who is acquaintances with truthful got outed as a pedo and lost his job?

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:08:34 UTC No. 16626214

>>16626210
>>16626211
FUCK I forgot BPS.space

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:09:58 UTC No. 16626215

>>16626204
booba

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:10:21 UTC No. 16626216

>>16626213
I don't know about that but I did see DKIS had vtuber shit in one of his videos and it WASNT clear so fuck him

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:16:16 UTC No. 16626217

>>16626214
he's not a space youtuber, he's a rocket youtuber and a terminal californian

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:17:17 UTC No. 16626219

>>16626216
fuck that wojak posting piece of shit

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:17:24 UTC No. 16626220

>>16626217
He's gonna get to space, I believe in him.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:18:28 UTC No. 16626221

>>16626213
it was discovered that several years ago dkis self published a book on Amazon that had a relationship between an adult male and teenage female and some of the members of space twitter took the opportunity to kneecap someone with a higher social status

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:18:37 UTC No. 16626222

>>16626220
we can have a ceremony and pin the 4ASS wings on him when he succeeds and until then he can be a flight youtuber

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:23:25 UTC No. 16626225

>>16626221
lmao

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:33:50 UTC No. 16626228

>no space youtuber who's on the level of Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles
step it up, eager. I know you're retired.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:55:28 UTC No. 16626238

>>16626043
>>16626045
>>16626048
>>16626067
not to say there aren't many other problems, but ultimately it's the 2021 switch away from recaptcha that's killed the site. smallest boards worst hit. the 15-minute timer exacerbated the problem.

Anonymous at Sat, 22 Mar 2025 23:57:52 UTC No. 16626240

>>16626067
>due to being able to say much on X what was previously only possible in small niches
I find X difficult to use because I don't know whom to follow. Unlike here where there are boards and threads

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:02:55 UTC No. 16626243

>>16626240
twitter is laid out terribly. unintuitive and very millennial.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:05:13 UTC No. 16626245

Can someone give me a QRD on what have been the development issues plaguing starship? I've been busy with school. Especially with V1/V2 and the planned upgrades for V3.
also why is the payload mass so shit

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:05:37 UTC No. 16626246

>>16626245
theres no issues

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:08:54 UTC No. 16626248

>>16626240
It takes a while to find an interesting following but just start following pwople who make interesting posts, mute people who come up a lot and make retarded posts

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:09:17 UTC No. 16626249

>>16626245
>give me a QRD for a question that requires a detailed explanation

You have already made it clear you don't pay attention.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:10:51 UTC No. 16626250

>>16626248
I'll give it a try
>>16626243
It seems built for passive consumption rather than engagement. Of course you can make comments but it's not the same as an image board or forum

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:11:20 UTC No. 16626251

>>16626245
I blame the boss

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:12:03 UTC No. 16626252

https://x.com/esherifftv/status/1903585830167343508

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:24:33 UTC No. 16626253

>>16626252
Brah I thought for sure late late 30s or mid 40s [math]\unicode{x1F480}[/math]

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:24:53 UTC No. 16626254

>>16626245
It's working perfectly except for the part where the booster shakes starship harder than a newborn baby and causes the raptor vacs to explode

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:24:56 UTC No. 16626255

>>16626252
>33
>33 Raptor engines
>33 degrees in freemasonry
its all connected or however the /x/ schizo speaks

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:50:02 UTC No. 16626268

>>16626252
>impregnate me elon

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:59:02 UTC No. 16626272

https://x.com/Vincent_Ledvina/status/1903536670907240738
>A strong geomagnetic storm may occur in the next 24 hours, bringing views of the aurora to places further towards the equator. Why is this happening, where will have the best chances, and what is the timing? Currently, the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center has issued a G1-G3 (Kp 5-7) geomagnetic storm watches for the next few days due to the forecasted arrival of an Earth-bound CME in the next 24 hours.
>On March 21 around 16 UT, an eruptive (produced a CME) M1.2 solar flare and filament both triggered CMEs that were Earth-directed. The source regions were near the center of the Sun's visible disk as seen from Earth, and partial halo signatures were seen in coronagraph imagery. NOAA thinks arrival may be closer to 03-23 0 UTC which is perfect for North America-based aurora chasers. Remember to convert your time zone from UTC to your local time. A CME model's impact time is within +/- 7 hours, so knowing this, we could expect the CME as soon as this evening or as late as midday tomorrow (UTC). An 80% chance of impact also means a 20% chance of miss... have high hopes, but low expectations for any space weather event. Geomagnetic conditions are still elevated, and Earth's magnetic shield has already been "pre-conditioned" for further activity should there be another disturbance (like the CME we are hoping will arrive soon). Here is the Kp index for the past day:

If you missed seeing the Aurora last night, you might have another chance

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:00:05 UTC No. 16626273

https://graphical.weather.gov/sectors/conus.php
Cloud cover might not be cooperative

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:00:12 UTC No. 16626274

>>16626245
no, fuck off and get banned you subhuman retard

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:08:38 UTC No. 16626284

>>16626221
>>16626216
he has a new alt where he reposts cunny memes or something
so basically half of /sfg/

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:17:09 UTC No. 16626285

>>16626274
are you gonna cry?

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:46:51 UTC No. 16626294

>>16626238
>from recaptcha that's killed the site
You're low IQ if it takes you longer than the previous captcha
>the 15-minute timer exacerbated the problem.
It only hits phone posters.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:52:50 UTC No. 16626295

>>16626249
It doesn't require a detailed explanation aspie. The engines are poorly made for s2 and vibrate to shit and blow up.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:52:52 UTC No. 16626296

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:54:13 UTC No. 16626298

Apollo 1965

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:55:16 UTC No. 16626299

CMSA's Manned Lunar program 2025

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 01:56:13 UTC No. 16626300

vgh, kino

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:02:28 UTC No. 16626303

>>16626298
Chef’s kiss to human (really american and german lol) ingenuity. This is what weaponized autism looks like

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:04:21 UTC No. 16626304

>>16626299
Surely this is just an engineering pathfinder right? Didn’t realize they made confident progress on Lanyue lander… last I checked the design was still in flux and they were having problems balancing the mass with the lift constraints. Drop tanks were on the table.
My jaw is on the floor if this is flight hardware, but I seriously doubt it is

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:19:28 UTC No. 16626316

>>16626304
its over
imagine the political fallout once trump realized that he sacrificed America's return to the moon as a part of his legacy for a mars mission that he likely won't live to see

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:42:48 UTC No. 16626325

>>16626304
>Lander
"Prototype", absolutely not flight model, that's still at least 3 years away
>Capsule
AFAIK it's the drop test model of the "Block 2" of the capsule (drop test of the revised version happened last year), Mengzhou is quite weird since an earlier version did do an orbital flight in 2020, but since then the design has been improved (especially service module). There's supposed to be an orbital launch of this block 2 next year.
>CZ-10's S1
Partialy-engined Static fire model, very possibly also a "hopper" model as it was announced they'd do hop tests this year. Orbital launch supposedly next year.

They're not landing on the moon before 2029, but they're also probably not on bad track for that target and may even have a bit of margin for the unexpected (just like Chang'e and Tiangong had margins for the various problems of the early launches of the CZ-5).

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:45:46 UTC No. 16626327

>>16626325
The official date China's been talking about is 2030. That could slip, but I haven't seen anything so far to suggest that they're stalled out on any of their major components.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:50:35 UTC No. 16626329

>>16626325
Yup, so it seems. I know they flew Mengzhou block 1 a while ago, but have since beefed it up and increased its size. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if its basically an entire new vehicle and needs a lot more research. And I agree -- they seem to be on a pretty good track all things considered. But they still have a lot of R&D left to do

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:51:53 UTC No. 16626331

>>16626327
They alternate between "before 2030" and "by 2030" in official announcements, the unnoficial target is October 2029, for the 80th anniversary of the PRC, they're not comitting yet to a particular date to avoid embarassment if they miss it.

That's something they usually do. Chang'e 5 (moon sample return) was simultaneously "2017" and "2020" for most of the early 2010s, until they comitted to 2020 around 2016, Tianwen 3 (MSR) was both "2028" and "2030-31 window" until they recently commited to 2028.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 02:53:10 UTC No. 16626332

>>16626331
MSR is something I can see China realistically beating the USA at. Embarrassing, ugh

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:29:31 UTC No. 16626344

>>16626252
Ron Perlman, but with boobies.

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:34:53 UTC No. 16626350

>>16625860
>Mars, being a backup of civilization
when and why did 4chan become reddit?

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:37:57 UTC No. 16626352

>>16626350
I was literally just repeating what Musk has said

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:40:43 UTC No. 16626353

>>16626352
yeah, and most people ITT believe him and idolize him for that
it's literally scifi capeshit, aka, reddit crap

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:40:49 UTC No. 16626354

we need to leave earth so we can nuke the earthers

Anonymous at Sun, 23 Mar 2025 03:54:08 UTC No. 16626361