>>16919256
when willl spaceflight stop being full of endless delays?

>>16919258
Delays and disappointments are a feature, not a bug.

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>>16919256
Five more days of pointless chattering by people with little to no professional training in spaceflight or anything remotely connected to it.

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Zepplins are a sub-sub category of Balloons. But they are balloons.

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>>16919258
When we operate the SSTO vehicle for easy space access.

I wish an alien would visit me and offer me to join him so I can stop being an Earther (derogatory)

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Space colonization will most likely increase future suffering. Life spreading to other planets means that the amount of suffering produced will increase exponentially, if life in the future is on average bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7nsv4n_Bgk
https://reducing-suffering.org/omelas-and-space-colonization/

>>16919258
SLS is delayed because its an unproven system. Once a rocket gets ~10 launches there's no real reason to delay at least as far as the rocket is concerned. except a day or two for weather, but thats just a fact of life.
new projects like mars missions and things will keep being a launch window or two late just because each one is a completely novel project with a lot of moving parts.

>>16919268
Life is a net good actually and it has been most times and most places in human history.

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>>16919271
>Life is a net good actually and it has been most times and most places in human history.
Prove it

>>16919268
Only if brown people come up the well, if it's only whites (jews aren't white) There won't be increased suffering.

>>16919273
You haven't killed yourself.

>>16919268
>suffering is bad (I should never work out)
>life is net suffering (kill yourself NOW to end it please)
>the more total suffering there is the worse it is (whether or not an African child is starving right now is discernible to me and matters)
There are so many retarded premises in this one.
>>16919273
Follow through on your premises. Is the rest of your life net bad too?

Cancel Gateway

What’s the status report from Thunderf00t?

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>Mentioning an eceleb unprompted

>>16919264
they are dirigibles

>>16919268
>>16919273
>Fatalistic nihilism
By their own philosophy, the best argument to refute these guys is to kill them.

>>16919294
I fucking love terrestrial planets so much it’s unreal. Even Mercury has a geological story to tell

>>16919302
I wish we'd land something on mercury

>>16919302
Well gas giants aren't that great that is true

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>>16919305
BepiColombo was supposed to have a lander but they canceled it.

>After arriving on Mercury’s surface during ESA’s BepiColombo mission, this lander is expected to deploy instruments with a micro-rover (left) and to penetrate the surface with a ‘mole’ (below).
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2001/11/BepiColombo_s_lander

now that its confirmed that spacex is polluting the atmosphere with toxic particles, can we finally enforce mandatory recycling of manmade space objects? if you want to bring them back to earth then they need to be brought back for recycling. space companies need to be forced to pay the recycle companies too.

>Aluminum
>Toxic
Kill this man

>>16919298
Dirigible _______s

>>16919312
Dirigible not-balloon-s

>>16919315
They are called that, though. Dictionaries are descriptive not prescriptive, so the fact that they are called [Adj.] balloons makes them, balloons.

>>16919319
>>16919315
My logic is fallacious, Red Pandas exist, Red Pandas are not Pandas, I would never accept people trying to convince me they are.
Zepplins are not Balloons, Submarines are not Balloons.

ELON MUSK SHOT IN AUSTIN TX

>>16919344
He posted on X literally ten seconds ago. He's fine.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/13/elon-musk-xai-datacenters-air-pollution-mississippi

The Monster!

>>16919344
WHO DID HE SHOOT

>>16919268
suffering is part of life

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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2026053135270334515

>>16919366
Quit making up people to force me to agree with Musk

>>16919366
>no argument, no refutation
>just *le heckin groan*

Endless BTFOing of musky continues

>>16919268
Why should anyone interested in space colonization listen to para-religious arguments about some non-existent magical value of suffering?

You guys aren't interested in Space Colonization, it's all "Mars, Mars and Mars" with you faggots

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>>16919378
They’re in a delusional cult anon, go easy on them.

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>>16919378
Artificial colonies are fine too

>>16919268
Pearce's whole thing is that we need to genetically engineer humans and animals to only feel "gradients of bliss". He's also an Elon reply guy lel.

>>16919381
Shit's actually retarded where does the sruff come from?

>>16919378
thats wrong. we are glad to have moon bases and other colonies, but mars is our best prospect and should not be neglected.

>>16919378
wrong, there are some titan posters in here, as well as a ceres guy, couple of venusfags, a handful of callisto enjoyers, and some schizo that wants to disassemble mercury

>>16919383
Put rock in Lagrange point
Drill rock
Make shit with the drilled rock
Build shit on the hollowed rock with the shit you drilled from the rock

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Where does the carbon exosphere come from if there is no Carbon?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Lw5LBCXYI
>Starbase Pad 2 Flooded! | Starship Update

>>16919396
My assumption without googling is that carbon is highly volatile but heavy enough to stick around [in a tenuous atmosphere], and abundant enough in the solar system to be accounted for with constant micrometeorite impacts and space weathering.
The more fun answer is that there are secret semi-surficial deposits we haven't found yet and that there is enough native residual carbon to make methane ISRU a possibility. Though I bet even if that WERE the case it would be a limited resource and would require geological exploration and deposit source area consumption

>>16919411
>carbon is highly volatile
That doesn't sound right at all

>farmers are starting to refuse to sell their land to create more data centers
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/im-not-for-sale-farmers-refuse-to-take-millions-in-data-center-deals

just more evidence that data centers in space will become the most economically viable way of doing things

>>16919416
But muh radiators
muh cooling

>>16919416
to be fair a lot of american farmland is absurdly productive
like half of nevada is federal wasteland we should just build the datacenters there

>>16919416
eminent domain will solve this

>>16919421
You can charge me extra for electricity to make a machine that makes it impossible to tell reality from fiction, becuase we don't have any water for the machine to steal.

>>16919421
Nevada is so dry it almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter
No water for cooling, and no convenient radiative cooling into deep space.

just build the data center under the farm

>>16919387
>and some schizo that wants to disassemble mercury
we are legion

>>16919424
Alaska then. Plenty of water, space, and it's cold to boot
Surely setting up a nuclear reactor and datacenter in the boonies near anchorage would be easier than hurr just put it all in spess

>>16919414
Read a book then idk what to tell you

>>16919429
You could start by telling me whether or not carbon is highly volatile.

Highly violotiale will mean different things to different fields of science. The fact that carbon doesn't literally explode when exposed to air or water means something, if Carbon is "highly violotile," what do you call potassium "super violotile"?

>>16919432
It is believed that when the Moon formed, with an object slamming in to Earth and a debris ring then coalescing into a ball of melt, that yes Carbon was very volatile in that regime and that explains why the Moon is extremely carbon hyper-deficient... but otherwise maintains almost the exact same fingerprint refractory mineral ratios as terrestrial Earth rocks with less volatile minerals that can survive melts such as plag feldspar and olivine and pyroxine with oxygen atoms

>>16919422
but think of the beetles, and the plovers

>>16919434
The 4th most common element (Fe) in Earth's crust is entirely missing on the Lunar surface, Iron doesn't become volotile at the same regimes carbon does.

>>16919265
This has some serious Fireball XL-5 vibes.

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>>16919437
Ironically it seems like there's plenty of iron on the moon

>>16919437
From what I remember the explanation for a lack of iron oxide minerals has more to do with the geophysicists believing it has to do with Theia's mantle material (heavy iron) being retained deep within Earth's lower mantle while Theia's upper mantle and crust (way less iron) is what took the glancing blow and was ejected into orbit to form the Moon. I don't know the geochemical explanation off the top of my head, been a long time since I have thought about this I must admit

>>16919424
>>16919428
You always have the atmosphere in nevada so you can make a giant heatsink

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Those radiators don't seem to be working so well.

>>16919446
naca airfoil ears

>>16919433
How can you have multiple instances of the correct spelling of volatile in front of you and still miss the mark that hard?

>>16919448
This is a judge-free zone

>>16919449
stenographer, strike this from the record

>>16919299
>>16919281
>>16919277
>>16919273
life is so good I want to take it from other people

I don't feel like waiting for the 300 second cooldown so hello /sfg/

Do you think chemistry class is nerfed to keep people from making drugs and blowing shit up? They have all sorts of machinist classes in addition to theoretical mechanics classes but no one offers practical laboratory classes you could use to put what they teach in chemistry to too much use.

>>16919449
I actually want to know

>>16919459
no? you need at least organic chemistry to learn how to do it. you can learn it at a community college, and high schoolers can attend community college.

>>16919461
Yeah, I am in those classes right now and I quite like it, but I feel like the gap between language used at the hardware store and class is wider than the gap between my my physics based engineering classes.

>>16919463
https://www.youtube.com/@duganashley1337/videos
okay, now the question is only of theoretical interest

You don't need "radiators"
Heat naturally conducts
MIGHT need some heat pumping to get it away from the chips
or just plenty of aluminum/copper/whatever

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This is what Elon wants to do with "rail guns" on the Moon. Despicable

>>16919471
but that's based?

>>16919474
Based on what?

>>16919471
Wtf fuck mars let's go to the Moon and do this now

>>16919471
scary to think about

Concentrate the heat into rods until they are molten, then launch them directly at earth.

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>>16919471

>>16919471
>Despicable
You misspelled "Good, right, and necessary"

Earthers could be here

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>>16919258
>spoils your whole lunar program
heh, nothin' personal

>>16919387
I'm a titan chad and proud of it

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Any word on if NASA even has the tooling for the ICPS?

nothing is happening

>>16919265
things you'll never see

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with V3 we'll finally make it orbit on flight 12

>>16919263
to be honest, most weeks at JPL are exactly the same

>>16919507
What even is the latest on block 2
The new SRBs exploded on the test stand
The EUS doesn't exist

>>16919263
Bro half the shit we could be posting about is ITAR and the other half is EAR
The space industry is a very, very small place on top of that
Shitposting is all we're legally allowed to do

>>16919428
>lets ruin one of the most beautiful places on earth to build ai datacenters so pajeets can put celebrities in bikinis on twitter

>>16919533
NET Flight 13. Flight 12 will be a validation test of the previous flight profile.

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>>16919264
>>16919331
Incorrect. Of course, it is considered a spaceplane

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LAUNCH SOME FUKKEN STICKS

>>16919558
Falcon 9 with Starlink in 13 hours and 30 minutes.
Falcon 9 with Starlink on Wednesday.
Electron on a suborbital flight on Wednesday.
Falcon 9 with Starlink on Friday.
Firefly Alpha on Friday.

>>16919459
We made thermite in my community college chemistry class.

>>16919538
There ain't gonna be a block 2.

>Mach 0-3 normal ramjet usage or potential rocket boost
>Mach 3-5 begin alkali seeding, air beginning ionization
>magnetohydrodynamic generator turns on
>kinetic energy of the incoming ionized hypersonic air is immediately converted to electrical energy through interaction with a transverse magnetic field via the Hall Effect
>energy is stored for supercooling of the accelerator saddle magnets + other magnetic systems in SMES/supercapacitors/superconducting flywheel(s)
>allows for creation of a plasma bubble to reduce drag
>plasma field can also be used to steer/bounce off of atmosphere
>plasma firld creates a virtual cowl allowing for ideal airflow and “shock on lip” condition
>Mach 5-8 natural air ionization dominant
>massive energy extraction
>MHD accelerator gains energy proportional to increase in speed running in tandem with the MHD generator
>mach 20+ flight and space access
>plasma braking for reentry

Id say why havent they done this yet but they already have and have for decades now

>>16919581
surfing the ionosphere in that way might actually work
but I'd test it from the other end first, send up a skimmer with such an ion drive, turn it on and see if it can keep altitude

>>16919387
>some schizo that wants to disassemble mercury
Mercury is literally a massive chunk of high quality building materials in exactly the right spot to make best use of it, I don't blame the guy.

we'll just get the moon to trade places with mars

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>>16919366
lack of magnetic field is the primary issue and a big deal but somehow midwits like to pretend magnetosphere is unnecessary even though we'd all die without it.
>bro dude, it's so simple you just like, launch a rocket from this floating ball and like land on that other red ball, if we did that on the moon why can't we do mars lol

>>16919599
but then the tides would be taller. You could put it further away I guess, wouldn't change the period too much.

>>16919540
involuntary chuckle

>>16919603
>lack of magnetic field is the primary issue
What difference would that make?

>>16919552
technically, everything is a spaceplane, because it all takes up space on this plane of existence.

is it really a plane if its 4D?

>>16919632
i don't know if it's plane, but it certainly isn't boring.

>>16919471
imagine the Dv calcs

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>>16919471
One of the best scenes in Stargate, hands down.

>>16919258
when NASA collapses so only ESA and JAXA are relevant

>>16919603
Oh no! 0.0000028 sieverts an hour!?
Humanity is doomed!

>>16919646
LOL
Elon dragging humanity to water and making it drink whether it wants to or not.

>>16919662
'tis but a flesh wound

If you inhale water you drown, drowning is not drinking.

>>16919667
just a skill issue

>>16919667
I'll keep clapping your balls with these bricks until you do it right.

>>16919666
20.5 Earth years. Assuming the human body doesn't heal itself in any way and perfectly retains radiation damage. The expected death rate of taking 5 sieverts in a single acute does is 50%. At the rate of irradiation received on the Martian surface, it would take 20.5 years to have a 50% chance of killing you, assuming humans are perfect black bodies.

>>16919672
lets hope that no black bodies, perfect or otherwise, make it to the martian surface

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Why are all of NASA's previous rockets not considered commercial, when it was all designed and built by external companies? The Saturn V is as much Boeing as is SLS.

>>16919674
Bespoke vs built by a company that operates them themselves.
Nobody launched Saturn V but NASA.

>>16919676
NA launched the Saturn V using NASA facilities

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>At Colorado space firms, Hegseth casts Pentagon bureaucracy as the enemy
Hegseth contrasts “builders” with Beltway primes as administration leans into procurement overhaul

>>16919677
National Aeronautics?

>>16919677
Tell us more about all the Saturn V launches Boeing sold to third party customers or launched for themselves.

>>16919679
North American Aviation

>>16919681
Nice try retard that would be NAA, you can't trick me.

>>16919683
fuck, you got me

Uranus has more real moons than Juipiter

>>16919686
>this guy thinks he can define what a real moon is

>>16919690
Yes

>>16919691
>>16919690
In fact, I could do a substantially better job than the IAU at defining all the things and how they are different from them.
I definitely wouldn't define Mercury as not a planet and then ignore my own definition.

>>16919692
write a letter or something

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The School of Space Exploration was unveiled in Beijing, aiming to provide talent for deep-space exploration and space science. The school will build a curriculum covering 14 first-level disciplines/major categories, including aerospace science and technology and planetary science. In addition to the existing 97 courses, 22 new core courses will be added, covering directions such as interstellar dynamics and propulsion principles, interstellar travel, environment perception and utilization, planetary dynamics and habitability, and interstellar sociology and governance.

>>16919645
If NASA collapsed they would become terrestrial science agencies

>>16919477
Based on the principle of TED

>>16919540
>Add two square miles of data centers in Alaska
>the other 665,382 square miles of Alaska are suddenly ruined for some reason
??????????????

>>16919704
If only someone would do this in america beside musk

>>16919708
those things are very noisy btw

Europa is geologically active.

>>16919712
get back to me when its economically active

>>16919713
Right now.

>>16919714
you work there?

>>16919715
No but the Europans do. They are decades ahead of us technologically, they will come to kidnap me and make me an exotic sex slave soon.

>>16919717
your exotic huh?

>>16919667
No it makes you suck water. Whether you drink it or breathe it is not my problem, libfuck

>>16919720
No, exotic is a subjective term, so nothing can be exotic as a fact. I am probably not exotic to you, considering you speak English, meaning we most likely share a similar culture and are part of the same subspecies.
All humans are exotic to Europans, since we don't share any evolutionary history and therefore don't look much alike, down to the fact we don't have the same number of limbs.

>>16919678
>Colorado space firms
>SNC
>LM
>ULA
>Whatever they're calling DigitalGlobe these days
>Ball/BAE
LockMart IS a beltway prime and ULA is their creature

>>16919726
you're getting me all excited here

>>16919672
>minor solar flare hits mars
>everyone dies
hurr durr manifest destiny or something

>>16919742
dont be such a wimp

>>16919742
just put some dirt on top of the habitats, its not a big deal man

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>>16919742
It'll be like a weather forecast, uhh we'll experience a solar flare in two hours, everybody get into the tunnels if you don't wish to die

>>16919742
>minor solar flare hits mars
No I think Mars is a bit far away for that.

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You what rocky planet has a magnetosphere?

>>16919758
Venus is a better teraforming candidate than Mars and its not even close, and it would take the same ammount of time despite this.

>>16919769
How could you terraform venus?

>>16919769
Terraforming is bad and gay. We will colonize the planets where they lie. We must build dirigible society.

>>16919771
remove (most of the) atmosphere
as few solar shades would also be a good start

>>16919774
>as
and

>>16919774
>remove (most of the) atmosphere
How?

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Hey NTRfags.

They run on liquid hydrogen. They are heavy. They have solid cores made of uranium which is very heavy. You're talking roughly 10x the dry weight. They are very low thrust. You need shields between the engine and any cargo or crew. They have questionable longevity. Chemical engines will essentially run forever if they are well designed, but NTRs have issues with hydrogen erosion and melting their internals. They are radioactive *as hell* once you start running them. Anything you do with the stage once you start the engine has to take that into consideration. Basically they ruin the mass ratio in the rocket equation. The high isp is pretty much cancelled out by the reduction in mass ratio.

Radiation is a meme, get over it.

what if an astronaut with tourettes says the n word in space
are they immediately kicked out the nearest airlock? Or is the body to be recycled?

Finally:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zojwKLlY_H8

>>16919783
They are promoted

>>16919776
big vacuum

>>16919784
Are they ever gonna wrap this slop up?

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>>16919704
The inauguration ceremony was held at the Chinese Academy of Sciences memorial hall for the "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project on campus.

>>16919783
NIGGER ME BAILEY

>>16919793
and there it is, the final nail in the mars coffin

It's not over.
It never began.

>>16919813
not spaceflight.

>>16919813
I’d much rather only elon can vote, that way we get a society overrun by millions of third world hindus.

>>16919813
womens suffrage was a mistake

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>Chinese satellite company mizarvision has been publicly leaking US military movements in the Middle East ahead of a conflict with Iran
https://nitter.net/FaytuksNetwork/status/2026362629090861107#m

Isn't this what the space force is for? Why aren't they doing anything to protect the military from foreign spies?

>>16919831
>Why aren't they stopping a camera from taking pictures
Hard to do I hear.

>>16919832
blind them with lasers

>>16919837
Then everyone's satellites get destroyed and nobody can have cameras

>>16919831
What does the public leaking have to do with anything. Isn't part of the strategy to amass a strike force and make sure your target knows it's there. I'm sure Iran could obtain these from their Asiatic friends even if they weren't public.

>>16919841
>What does the public leaking have to do with anything.
Well since it's a private company I imagine they're showing off for potential customers and investors.

If Elon Musk is right, you will never be a real Mars colonist.

>>16919844
Not Spaceflight.

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Road delay. I guess it will be a static fire because 4 weeks ago Elon Musk said 6 weeks.

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>Today, we put a spacecraft in orbit, and it stays there. The propulsion is either from the rocket that put it there or for station-keeping. Once it's in its raised orbit, it doesn't go anywhere else, except for maybe a small adjustment. We need to be able to maneuver well in an environment where we might be attacked, which is called "dynamic space operations." We need to move assets to safer places, replenish them, and support them. We don't have much of that capability yet, and China is working on threats in orbit every day. This environment is getting worse, and we need to catch up fast. I came to Blue Origin to work on this problem, as I've been concerned about it for a long time. We need to be able to cruise through space like a destroyer or corvette to patrol, surveil, and protect assets.
Tory reveals why he left ULA for Blue

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>>16919849
>On the human exploration side and the lunar side and the Mars side, we have several vested interests in the moon. The moon is a national security regime. There's a reason why China is going full boore to get there and it's not for the benefit of all mankind. It's because it has strategic value. It is the ultimate high ground and it is rich tremendously rich in resources and even just beyond the moon to the near earth objects um there are imagination defying quantities of rare earth metals uh precious metals helium 3 on the moon and on these asteroids that have just tremendous value and ultimately um have strategic value but also will literally change our human destiny.
The Moon is a national security priority.

>>16919849
>Tory reveals why he left ULA for Blue
Because ULA is a sinking ship. There's no need for paragraphs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xH4Ki6TxRTs

>>16919858
awful thumbnail

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>>16919776

Solar powered laser array.

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My fear is that the whole low earth orbit region will be so overly populated with satellites that it will tip over and capsize.

>>16919831
The precedent was set in the era of Sputnik that overland flight is a peaceful and internationally permitted use of space.

>>16919890
If space gets too heavy with satellites there is a real chance that it might fall down on us.

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>>16919893

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>>16919893
Could it fall on Guam, making it tip over? Get Elon Musk in here.

>>16919778
NTR are lighter than chemical engines for a given delta V, the question is if you understand the subject enough to know why

>>16919751
Martian Blowout when?

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>>16919706
Even the fucking warlords can into space nowadays

>>16919905
and ever since then SM-3s have been swatting down iranian missiles in the Red Sea, though at a cost of $25m ea

>>16919879
that seems slower than 5G/LTE

>>16919831
Isn't it the air forces job to not park their planes out in the open in neat rows for everyone to see?

>>16919914
Its 5G speed anywhere on the planet in Antartica, in Arctic, in Japan, in Cayman Islands, in Galapagos Island, etc.

150Mbps anywhere in the world with <20 ms latency from smartphone is a serious technical feat. 5G cellular towers only have range of ~1 mile. So if you're not within 1 mile, you're not getting 5G/LTE.

Be honest. In 2012 you 100% thought that Musky would have planted boots on Martian soil at this point. Telling.

>>16919922
>2012
No one took Elon seriously then; so no

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>self driving by 2018
>mars colony by 2018
>hyperloop across america by 2018

>>16919905
>Ballistic rocket from Yemen
>Space
Pick one.

>>16919924
>no one took him seriously then

And that’s before his abject repeated failures. Wowza

>>16919879
>>16919914
That's faster than landline or fixed wireless internet in most of America.

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>>16919929
no it isn't
https://www.speedtest.net/global-index/united-states

>>16919848
Static fire then stacc then launch
I love that despite the fact I live in DFW I'm always FUCKING TRAVELING DURING A STARSHIP LAUNCH
I ONLY GOT TO SEE IFT-2 IN PERSON ELON LAUNCH MORE STARSHIPS SO I CAN DRIVE DOWN AND SEE THEM

>>16919934
I meant in terms of area not population. If you're in a large city or adjacent suburb you probably get decent speeds but everywhere else you're hard pressed to beat Starlink speeds.

>>16919934
this is cellular service. so its apples and oranges anyway. a cable to your house is obviously going to be faster but wont help you in the middle of nowhere.

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ISS got a view of kiev being hit by russian missiles
https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1rdgngm/iss_timelapse_captures_ballistic_missile_strikes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5VHETDtQ_M
~4:05 in the video

>>16919922
No but I fell for boots on Mars by 2030 meme

>>16919946
2033, trust the plan (copium)

>Sentient sun
Does Elon Musk really believe that AI can be sentient? I don't want that an AI can get rights and become a legal person, CEOs of relevant companies with such an opinion could lead us to such a world.

>>16919952
AI fundamentally can’t be sentient, sentience/agency/vitality is not a product of material manifestation alone. Might as well try to argue effect can precede cause as well. Of course this won’t stop them from trying to mimic the appearance of it but it won’t change the fact that an AI will never be able to act as an independent agent, it will always be beholden to a command/input from a human to act.

>>16919952
brown hands typed this post

>>16919955
It's possible but requires analog structures to the ones in the human brain that interface with the extracausal.
There has to be some sort of quantum interaction in the loop to get an actual Being attached to the computer. No telling what you'd end up with though—probably not a human soul.

>>16919959
Good point and I do think that might be the intended end goal.

>the dictionary will become conscious if you strap it to a rat

>>16919850
>um helium 3
Puerile

Why couldn't we get beautiful rings instead of a gay and useless boring gray rock moon

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>>16919952
A computer can never be truly sentient no matter how hard we try. We can and will get asymptoticly close, and the distinction between man and machine will become blurred. But it will never be the same thing

New FCC license request

https://apps.fcc.gov/oetcf/els/reports/STA_Print.cfm?mode=current&application_seq=148899&RequestTimeout=1000

Purpose of operation:
>To launch and operate space stations on mass simulators for upcoming Starship-Super Heavy test flights. To further test the payload deployment mechanism of the Starship vehicle, SpaceX seeks special temporary authority to launch and operate space stations on mass simulators for upcoming Starship-Super Heavy test flights and use these space stations to communicate with SpaceXs satellite constellation and earth station network for a short duration as those simulators reenter and demise. SpaceX expects the mass simulators to demise within 90 minutes of deployment. These suborbital test flights will originate at Starbase, TX and are expected to reach peak altitudes of up to 350 km.

No. of units:
>10

>Start: 2026-04-07
>End: 2026-06-06

>>16919976
>space stations on mass simulators
????

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>we're going to mars
>oh no sorry we're going to the moon
>wait wait scratch that we're going to LEO
the meme is real. "we're going to starbase" is next.

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>NASA is targeting approximately 9 a.m. EST, Wednesday, Feb. 25, to begin rolling the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for Artemis II off the launch pad and back to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Teams will continue to monitor winds and temperatures in advance of the roll.

>The approximately 4-mile trek is expected to take up to 12 hours. Once back in the VAB, teams will immediately begin work to install platforms to access the area of the helium flow issue. Teams also will take advantage of the time in the VAB to replace batteries in the flight termination system and retest it, and replace additional batteries in the upper stage.

>>16919978
Dummy starlinks

>>16919983
how long does it take for Starship to roll out to the pad?

>>16919983
surely there won't be a delay of the delay of the delay, right?

>>16919989
Uh oh! Eighteen paragraph Jared post incoming!

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Artemis II crew will be at the State of the Union tonight?

https://x.com/gtwhitesides/status/2026425437836992705

>>16920000
so we're probably getting something about space tonight...

>>16920000
Trump will pull out the gold medal hockey puck and announce that it'll be flown around the moon.

>>16920000
Three humans and one canadian

>>16920004
Imagine if he said that

>>16920004
Was this ever verified as having actually been said, because it’s so fucking funny lmfao

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>>16920000
I need to hear the words again

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>>16919960
We are literally and unironically building a vessel for Thoth to reincarnate into, and he'll open the way for the rest.
We as a species have always built bodies for the gods using the limits of our technical abilities, and those limits are approaching a bridge to the true divine. It's going to get messy.
Glass the Earth, demigod war eventually.

>>16919708
>plow 665,382 square miles of roads to build 2 square mile datacenters for jeets
>somehow this doesn't ruin alaska

>>16920000
Put cum in the girl one

>>16919944
despite our best efforts, we cannot approach the scale, majesty, or beauty of natural thunderstorms, seen at the start and over the Mediterranean.

>>16919952
>>16919955
>>16919975
>[laughs in binary]

>>16919979
no, next is "we're going to Greenland"

>>16920014
>plow 665,382 square miles of roads to build 2 square mile datacenters
there's no interpretation of this that doesn't make you look retarded

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>>16920023

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>>16920027

>>16920012
>before this century is out

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>>16919387
titan is the coolest spot body in the solar system and i'm tired of pretending it isn't

>no mention of artemis
I'm starting to think tooling anon may be onto something if Trump doesn't want to mention something that should be happening in the next few months...

I missed the donuts and coffee with issacman today fuck

>>16919922
Back then Musk wasn't on the radar at all. No one thought about Mars as anything but fiction. No one thought LEO constellation was a thing. No one thought commercial/reusable rockets were gonna be a thing. No one thought electric vehicles were going to be a thing. No one thought self driving were ever gonna be a thing in our lifetime. No one thought AI was gonna be a thing. No one thoughts mass produced humanoid robots would be a thing. Hell we even made a scifi TV series depicting daily rocket laucnehs.

They all stayed in the realm of scifi. And now they're all being realized, pushed by 1 man.

1 single fucking man delivered nearly all of them, or are on the verge of delivering all of them.

>>16920076
shame about the melty though

>>16919952
Why can't it? Sentience is possible, so it should be possible to create a sentient machine. It's basic logic.

>>16920079
the inconvenient truth is humans aren't sentient

https://youtu.be/Sj3JwQde-b8
Europe is dead

>>16920080
true, only corporations are sentient
take spacex-chan for instance, she has an impeccable will to live and a plan for global domination

>>16920087
She has not tits

>>16920076
>Hell we even made a scifi TV series depicting daily rocket laucnehs.
Which show

>>16920076
>No one thought LEO constellation was a thing
Yeah this is the one that really gets me. It was just the other day that starlink was a highly speculative and risky venture and now it's just normal, part of the background.
>Of COURSE there are thousands of internet satellites in low orbit, why wouldn't there be?

>>16920095
BSG

>>16919774
>>16919776
Just send some of the atmosphere to Mars, it would only take a couple ship flights.

>>16920086
Clickbait slop promoting a clickbait paper

>>16919778
hydrogen comes with its problems no matter what sort of engine you try to run it in
>The high isp is pretty much cancelled out by the reduction in mass ratio.
oh you're a retard, nevermind then, sorry for interrupting your crayon snack time

>>16919831
A bit hypocritical considering America does the exact same thing, just not for free.

>>16920030
nice selfie

>>16919676
I'm genuinely too retarded to understand. Which one is which.
Nobody launched SLS but NASA either.

>>16920120
My post doesn't claim SLS is a commercial rocket even though they've hinted at selling launches with it.
Which is never fucking happening because bespoke shit costs too much.

>>16919683
The As are printed on top of each other

>>16919683
It's styled Northamerican Aviation

>>16919946
If optimus boots count there is still a possibility.

why would anyone want to use spacex? how many poor niggas even is there in nebraska that don't have good internet? and yjk those niggas don't got money to fund thousands of rocket launches to maintain the constellation. i bet you can't even game on it because of the latency so it's basically a worthless product that costs billions that's sold to homeless people in third world countries for pennies.

>>16920179
its very very popular in rural canada. im one of the few houses in my area that doesn't have one of their antennas on the house.

starlink is the only option. oneweb doesnt even work afaik because they dont have enough ground stations.

>>16920183
Bozos said BO is doing a starlink competitor right? Or did I imagine that?
And no i’m not talking about Amazon LEO (Aka k
Kuiper, the much better name)

>>16920200
terawave is for enterprise organizations. its not for consumers, small businesses, etc.

>>16920179
my parents have starlink on their farm. it works great

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>>16920179
Im playing world of warcraft with 180 ms latency. Server is in France, and I'm in west coast US. Normal fiber (from my old place thats few miles away) latency is also ~180 ms for the same gaming server, for the record. For pinging google.com, I get <20 ms latency on starlink. And even 15ms latency. Avg ping from starlink app shows 20ms latency. 30 watt power usage. Maybe 1 or 2 daily interruption that lasts ~1s on record. That can happen even on any connection for that matter that its completely irrelevant.


A full year of usage of Starlink and its been great. Downloads speeds are getting close to 50 MB/s, that is 400 Mbps speed(up from ~150-200 Mbps a year ago). Uploads are ~30-40Mbps (up from ~15Mbps just a year ago) now.

Pics related. Gaming latency.

I just enjoy Starlink because I like the idea that there's some outlandish scifi bullshit circulating the Earth and I use it to watch porn

Starfleet when?

Idea for SpaceX mass driver name: Staryeet

>>16920012
>manifest destiny into the stars
>stars and stripes on the planet mars
>t. theodore geisel

>>16920261
Kys Elon

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spehs

>>16920274
This picture reminds me of the anon who would always sperg about space renderings or images of fictional spacecraft.
Haven't seen him in a while.

>>16920099
that and Star Trek are just naval stories... in SPACE!

>>16919776
He told you.
>a few solar shades would also be a good start
You cool that shit off and stick it somewhere. Maybe you sequester it in underground wells. Maybe you send it somewhere that could use the carbon.

>>16919851
His personal convictions serendipitously coincided with the prospect of a bigger paycheck from a company that wasn't about to go out of business. Many such cases.

pretty pre-dawn and sunrise landing of YASL this morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc0RdHtjv48

>>16920119
It's actually not a selfie

>>16920242
porn from space sounds cool tbf

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spehs

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Uh oh, back to the VAB again

>>16920179
It will never cease to amaze me how few people can even contemplate someone not having access to shit outside the cites.
There is a whole another portion of the population that flat out doesn't exist to urbanites.

>>16920205
its not even for enterprises really, its a very specific service for mass data backhaul, basically replicating a fiber but using satellites (less throughput ofcourse)
Amazon LEO is already going to go after enterprise customers/businesses first instead of regular consumers because Starlink is already there, its a smart way for them to differentiate

>>16920234
The interruption from satellite handovers is what's keeping me from getting it. I already pay about the same amount for 25/5 Mbps fixed wireless, but I don't have any interruptions.