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sure okay posted:Space exploration is so selfish at this stage of humantiy. The super-rich have to start building Elysium because they can no longer deny how much they've hosed this planet. Luckily for the rest of us, they're trusting Elon Musk to do this.
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Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1725606073619407331?s=20 Of all the brands that have taken a stand now Apple is arguably the one that needs to advertise on Twitter/X the least. They could not bother advertising on there at at all and I don’t see how it would have any effect on their brand presence. The fact they have been advertising on there, all the way up until this latest outburst, as well as carving out an exception for “Twitter” to rename to “X” on the App Store, when previously (maybe even still now) a minimum of 3 letters were required, makes me question Apple’s true principals when it comes to this stuff.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:For Elon, this was the day he was humiliated on the internet, in front of thousands of viewers as the rocket he'd put his name and brand on exploded in total failure. Remember, even after they get it working this is musk's grand plan 
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Hi, I'm Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League, here to remind you that it's ok to hate Jews as long as you hate brown and queer people more
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sure okay posted:Space exploration is so selfish at this stage of humantiy. We could solve wealth inequality right now, if "We" wanted it. But we don't. It's not space travel or exploration that causes that. Which is a drop in the bucket compared to other things.
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Nov 18, 2023 18:27
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Hardcastlemccormik posted:If they’re going to go for it, they should have really gone for it. SPACESHIP DOES A BIG SPACE CUM AND DIES
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Azhais posted:Remember, even after they get it working this is musk's grand plan I'm sure that 6 months of biweekly launches won't mess with anything important living in the sensitive habitat that every launch wrecks.
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Nov 18, 2023 18:30
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Azhais posted:Remember, even after they get it working this is musk's grand plan The depot surely is meant to stay in orbit so each subsequent moonshot only requires the depot having fuel in it? Right? They're not going to rebuild the depot every time?
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Nov 18, 2023 18:32
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Stupid legacy media reporting starship blew up just because starship blew up
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Elon gripping his phone to the point it cracks, desperately forcing himself to write anything even remotely positive about something that isn't X, Diablo, or watching minorities bite the curb
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Nov 18, 2023 18:39
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PostNouveau posted:The depot surely is meant to stay in orbit so each subsequent moonshot only requires the depot having fuel in it? Right? They're not going to rebuild the depot every time? That's just to fill the gas depot for the final moon rocket iirc, not building the depot
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Nov 18, 2023 18:40
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kazil posted:Stupid legacy media reporting starship blew up just because starship blew up ah yes, that left wing rag known as the Wall Street Journal
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Nov 18, 2023 18:43
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smoobles posted:Title or tagline ideas: #Book
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Yacc's book has to walk a fine line: Highlight her accomplishments in a disaster, but also not disparage Musk or anyone else seriously, lest she hurt her chances at the next CEO job.
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Nov 18, 2023 18:54
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Hardcastlemccormik posted:Reminder This is the saddest thing posted in this thread thank you
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Nov 18, 2023 18:55
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kazil posted:Stupid legacy media reporting starship blew up just because starship blew up I don't understand. Elon has constantly said the New York Times always lies...so are they saying the rocket exploding was a failure?
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sure okay posted:Space exploration is so selfish at this stage of humantiy. I don't agree, but I think it is a reasonable position to take. To add some perspective, you could fund NASA's entire budget for almost four years for what Microsoft paid for Activision. The SLS rocket is widely seen as a massively overpriced, decade-long boondoggle, and it has cost roughly the same as what one insane rear end in a top hat paid to run a stupid social media website into the ground. It's good to question how we spend our collective resources. But I'd also suggest there are better targets to go after before you start cutting into science research. All that said, every aerospace education program should have "Whitey on the Moon" as required reading. (Maybe they do! I don't know.)
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Hardcastlemccormik posted:Reminder Sorry about your premature ejaculation problems.
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space hotels is laughable. a hotel the size of an airliner, and that's all you get to do or see on your trip. you can't leave, can't even go outside for fresh air, you're eating nutrient paste for breakfast lunch and dinner and you can't take a proper shower
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Nov 18, 2023 19:18
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smoobles posted:there was simply no reason to word this headline in such a horny way The writer is having a hard time with no nut november. He's days away from becoming Tech Knight in Gen V.
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Juul-Whip posted:space hotels is laughable. a hotel the size of an airliner, and that's all you get to do or see on your trip. you can't leave, can't even go outside for fresh air, you're eating nutrient paste for breakfast lunch and dinner and you can't take a proper shower
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Nov 18, 2023 19:22
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with a capsule hotel you can still step out for a stroll, check out a bar, eat real food, have a smoke
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Nov 18, 2023 19:23
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Philonius posted:Yeah, seems like the payload made orbit, so this can be counted as a win. The sooner SpaceX goes under the sooner the talented people there can move to a company run by an adult
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Azhais posted:That's just to fill the gas depot for the final moon rocket iirc, not building the depot  But we went to the moon without an orbital fuel depot. Wait, why are we doing this at all? What are we gonna do on the moon?
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Nov 18, 2023 19:43
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Poor rocket thought of the woke mind virus and died.
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Juul-Whip posted:space hotels is laughable. a hotel the size of an airliner, and that's all you get to do or see on your trip. you can't leave, can't even go outside for fresh air, you're eating nutrient paste for breakfast lunch and dinner and you can't take a proper shower I don't know, people like going on cruises. I guess booze would be too risky in space so maybe not, after all.
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Juul-Whip posted:space hotels is laughable. a hotel the size of an airliner, and that's all you get to do or see on your trip. you can't leave, can't even go outside for fresh air, you're eating nutrient paste for breakfast lunch and dinner and you can't take a proper shower You'd build a space hotel station. It could be "fairly" big. Obviously not much. The entire hook is going to space and then having sex in space. Everything else is gravy. The gravy is in a tube.
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Nov 18, 2023 20:04
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So you could match the experience with a 30 minute ride to space then spending the next day on the vomit comet.
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Edmund Sparkler posted:I don't know, people like going on cruises. I guess booze would be too risky in space so maybe not, after all. Looking forward to the first space drunk managing to somehow throw a stool through one of the windows. Physically improbable? Sure, but when there's a drunk there's a way
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PostNouveau posted:The super-rich have to start building Elysium because they can no longer deny how much they've hosed this planet. https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4?si=EqCrjAaqCUCOGtAH
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Kit Walker posted:Looking forward to the first space drunk managing to somehow throw a stool through one of the windows. Physically improbable? Sure, but when there's a drunk there's a way That will happen literally the first time they send any Finn to space.
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One hard part of a Mars mission is leaving Mars after you land. Part of what makes that hard is that you need a whole bunch of fuel to blast off, but that fuel is heavy so you also need even more fuel to blast off from Earth in order to have enough fuel to blast off from Mars. Due to the lower gravity, it'd requires less fuel to blast off from something orbiting the Earth from far away, like the moon. So people obsessed with Sci-fi depictions of future Earth having a solar empire like Musk want to have a place on the moon to blast off from. That place either makes its own fuel somehow, or gets fuel sent along with space tourists or whatever over time. The details aren't important because they treat Sci-fi novels as accurate predictions of the future so anything that blocks us creating an exact replica of a Sci-fi franchise's world building such as something being "literally impossible" or something "having a better, non sci-fi solution" are just problems smart engineers can solve.
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Further Reading posted:One hard part of a Mars mission is leaving Mars after you land. Part of what makes that hard is that you need a whole bunch of fuel to blast off, but that fuel is heavy so you also need even more fuel to blast off from Earth in order to have enough fuel to blast off from Mars. Are they planning to build a moon base or "just" a refueling station/launchpad?
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Further Reading posted:One hard part of a Mars mission is leaving Mars after you land. Part of what makes that hard is that you need a whole bunch of fuel to blast off, but that fuel is heavy so you also need even more fuel to blast off from Earth in order to have enough fuel to blast off from Mars. Are there better solutions? This one kind of makes sense if you need to go to Mars. Which we don't.
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Kit Walker posted:Looking forward to the first space drunk managing to somehow throw a stool through one of the windows. Physically improbable? Sure, but when there's a drunk there's a way "Hey where's this door g-*FSSSSSSSHHHH*"
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PostNouveau posted:Are they planning to build a moon base or "just" a refueling station/launchpad? the goal of Artemis is to build a long-term presence on the moon as a midpoint
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The ISS has the living volume of ~3 average American homes. IIRC it usually crews 6-7 with the max onboard being 14. It's resupplied every 45 days or so, although it supposedly keeps supplies on hand for up to six months of crew,  what qualifies as 'crew' and 'up to six months'. Most notably the ISS is also a big-rear end kludge with a lovely design thats focused around research stations.A space hotel designed specifically around rich people being able to look outside, that was resupplied weekly, could comfortably hold 20 billionaires and 5 crew for seven day stretches. A Falcon9 launch costs 63 million now? Would 20
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Elman posted:Are there better solutions? This one kind of makes sense if you need to go to Mars. Which we don't. The main kicker here is we don't need to go to mars, yeah. That being said another sci-fi solution could be to have a space factory that takes all the materials mined from asteroids and builds the shop + extract the fuel there to minimise what needs to be launched from earth. That could be on the moon or could just be a space station. That requires a decent space mining industry and might also have benefits outside of making going to mars easier, but people like Elon don't like that plan as it's much less likely they'll live to see the mars mission it could lead to. FurtherReading fucked around with this message at 20:36 on Nov 18, 2023 |
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Until there's a real reason to go to space, not much will happen. Science/exploration is a reason, but it runs as a deficit, so not popular. You need to make money. And thus tourism is the first and easiest option. Then mining. Then construction. Then after that you've got cities of people working and living in space.
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redshirt posted:That's a drat cool clip. Until we have learned to live sustainably with the resources on this planet we have no right to leave.
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