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Slotducks posted:did you bilk billions from the taxpayers via government subsidies before/during/afterwards?? SpaceX is by far the cheapest method to do what NASA wants. You can argue we shouldn't be funding space exploration, but we are, and it's not really bilking if you're chosen because you're the cheapest. You want to talk bilking, look at Boeing and ULA.
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big nipples big life posted:nasa had nazi scientists, space x just has one as an owner.
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CommieGIR posted:I'd argue NASA is far, far more transparent, because legally they have to be. SpaceX is more visible, not more transparent. you're right. transparent was the wrong word. CommieGIR posted:SLS has already proven itself, and NASA tests more thoroughly than SpaceX. But regardless - NASA already plans to set aside SLS. Its not likely to be used long term anyways. this is not wrong but remember that funding can be pulled at any time. and a big price tag makes it easier to justiify. america put away fully constructed saturn 5s instead of flying them
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ColdPie posted:SpaceX is by far the cheapest method to do what NASA wants. You can argue we shouldn't be funding space exploration, but we are, and it's not really bilking if you're chosen because you're the cheapest. You want to talk bilking, look at Boeing and ULA. Well to be fair: NASA didn't have to blow up a SLS to prove it worked. They chose to take a far less risky, maybe more expensive, course to test and finalize rocket design. And SLS flew and completed its mission. Yes, its more expensive - but when you are building a system to carry human beings, you do not go cheap for the sake of being cheap. hot cocoa on the couch posted:this is not wrong but remember that funding can be pulled at any time. and a big price tag makes it easier to justiify. america put away fully constructed saturn 5s instead of flying them SLS will fly again, the next one is already being assembled, but long term NASA is betting on Starship at least as a heavy lift platform. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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"I'm in awe at how much debris flew at me and destroyed a car, congrats Elon on your continued success!"
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CommieGIR posted:long term NASA is betting on Starship at least as a heavy lift platform. Our space program is sooooo hosed
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How many people at SpaceX do you think told Elon this exact mess would happen, and how to prevent it, only to be ignored and/or fired?
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CommieGIR posted:Well to be fair: NASA didn't have to blow up a SLS to prove it worked. They chose to take a far less risky, maybe more expensive, course to test and finalize rocket design. And SLS flew and completed its mission. sure, at least 1 more time. but is that what the us paid a fuckin grip for, a couple dozen bil for 2 launches of a very well tested rocket? then on to spacex? will block 2 ever fly? i hope so but i dunno. even the 5 planned launches aren't certain, in my mind e: getting too far off topic. don't want to seem like i'm too critical of SLS, i just worry about the future of competitive space flight and todays successful launch of starship reminded me of that fear hot cocoa on the couch fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Our space program is sooooo hosed SpaceX will likely debug and fly Starship, but I'm not too worried, its likely other launch operators will continue to build and launch rockets or will arise to compete with SpaceX. Neddy Seagoon posted:How many people at SpaceX do you think told Elon this exact mess would happen, and how to prevent it, only to be ignored and/or fired? Lets be honest: He gutted Twitter's teams and is trying to build a "Moderate" (read - More Right Wing) AI because he thinks current Machine Learning is too Leftist. So yes, he's likely fired a couple people who questioned him.
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Apr 20, 2023 18:40
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So about those legacy checkmarks
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kazil posted:When are the checkmarks going away Elon?? He's too scared to actually do it and "legacies" are calling his bluff so he's just going to keep saying "WE'RE DEFINITELY GETTING RID OF LEGACY CHECKMARKS THIS TIME" every three months to try to sucker people in.
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If you don't think world's first flying grain silo is a success, I don't know what to tell you Or is spaceship actually a water tower? I forget
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the boca chica launch facility is in very bad shape. even a lot of pro-spacex observers thought a flame trench was needed. not really likely the government is going to be ok with spreading particulate matter and concrete all over federally protected wetlands during every launch. this will probably set back starship development for many months, at least as of now there is no alternative pad it can launch from. a flame trench would take a very long time to build and permit. whether or not the launch provided valuable data, the launch infrastructure damage is a catastrophic & very expensive failure.
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Concerned Citizen posted:the boca chica launch facility is in very bad shape. even a lot of observers thought a flame trench was needed. not really likely the government is going to be ok with spreading particulate matter and concrete all over federally protected wetlands during every launch. yeah the damage to the launch facility is a big setback despite the success of the launch. iirc there's something about the aquifer/water table being too close to the surface to properly build a proper blast diverter. boca chica probably wasn't the best place to build a super heavy launch facility e: yeah that's it. the space thread is talking about it now hot cocoa on the couch fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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How unfortunate, now what children’s fantasy will we waste money on next Flying cars I guess
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Concerned Citizen posted:the boca chica launch facility is in very bad shape. even a lot of pro-spacex observers thought a flame trench was needed. not really likely the government is going to be ok with spreading particulate matter and concrete all over federally protected wetlands during every launch. An Elon Musk company skimps on basic infrastructure and it comes back to bite their rear end? This is unprecedented.
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CharlestheHammer posted:How unfortunate, now what children’s fantasy will we waste money on next It's pretty clear that his next big project is artificial intelligence that can spew racial slurs.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:yeah the damage to the launch facility is a big setback despite the success of the launch. iirc there's something about the aquifer/water table being too close to the surface to properly build a proper blast diverter. boca chica probably wasn't the best place to build a super heavy launch facility Destroyed launch facility, destroyed Starship, big success for SpaceX and Elon Musk because now they know what not to do you see!!
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Underwhelmed posted:Musk already hard at work on FTFY
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lol checks are disappearing
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:yeah the damage to the launch facility is a big setback despite the success of the launch. iirc there's something about the aquifer/water table being too close to the surface to properly build a proper blast diverter. boca chica probably wasn't the best place to build a super heavy launch facility Yeah they should've built like the launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, where they build up the launch pads because they have largely the same water table issues.
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Apr 20, 2023 19:08
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Is not building proper infrastructure part of creative accounting to get the cost of the rocket down?
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  lol e:  gonna guess elon is making exceptions for certain accounts
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lol did they bitch out or is it a bug where it's showing unremoved checks as elon simps?
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E the Shaggy posted:It's pretty clear that his next big project is artificial intelligence that can spew racial slurs. I like how regressives are mad about AI because they asked it a fanfic question of "what if a nuke has a password and its the nword?" (also never mind the reverse of the question, what if the password is "who won the 2020 prez?" or any other non regressive gotchas.)
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lol checks are coming back, showing up verified then paid, lots of crashing
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big nipples big life posted:lol did they bitch out or is it a bug where it's showing unremoved checks as elon simps? I could see Elon telling someone to give them those as a humiliating own
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davidspackage posted:I could see Elon telling someone to give them those as a humiliating own That would be kind of funny though so there's no way he would come up with it.
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Oh my God, they are just glitching in and out of existence right now. I was just one on Twitter page and watched them appear and reappear as I scrolled around.
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LeBron James still has a check and it says its because he paid, which is a lie. So is Elon paying for his checkmark?
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Pretty sure he's giving certain celebrities free Twitter Blue
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There's no way King would actually pay after publicly poo poo talking the service so much. Why would he hit his own rep like that?
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Dirk the Average posted:Is that a dude in a body suit? I've only seen this clip, but it looks like the damned thing is mounted to a pole, so it's not like it needs to be a person; the hard part is getting the robot to balance, and being mounted on a pole negates that entirely. Hook up a few motors to move the limbs around, program in a little routine, and it's not exactly difficult to get it to move. It would take some time, but a few competent engineers could put that together surprisingly quickly. The way they expressed it was confusing: previously, they did a lovely bodysuit thing onstage. The thing pictured was not the bodysuit.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:An Elon Musk company skimps on basic infrastructure and it comes back to bite their rear end? This is unprecedented. No, the rocket performed as expected. How were they to know the onboard AI would see a small bird and treat it like a child?
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Mark Hamil and the Eve6 guy both lost their checks. The moron actually did it on the weed number day. He's almost certainly given Lebron and King paid checks as some kind of sick own. https://twitter.com/Eve6/status/1649116505181917184?s=20
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RonPaul-ItsHappening.gif definitely loving it up in wonderfully creative ways. Are they doing them all manually or do you think he made some poor engineer cobble together a lovely script to do it? Somehow I doubt anyone had the foresight to make it a one-click operation when this was originally made.
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ben shapino posted:Lmao Lol!
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10 mins ago when I started catching up on the 180 new posts in this thread, my tick was still there. By the time I reached the end of the thread it was gone. All the legacy blues I follow are currently all celebrating the loss of their verified status. Not seen anyone crying about it, only relief that its gone. E: this is legitimately hilarious: https://twitter.com/jessehawken/status/1649115090795257857?s=61&t=lCUtLD2mloWN4vLs8kjQ2w Imagine being so petty you take the pope's blue tick away. Parkingtigers fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Apr 20, 2023 |
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