Had me excited there for the first half, ngl…

Like, you know he’s not personally involved in the design or manufacture of these things right?

Just don’t look up who made the design changes to stainless steel, aerodynamic flaps or tower capture.

The(y) didn’t pioneer reusable rockets

They did pioneer reusable orbital liquid fueled rockets, closest before that was the space shuttle’s SRBs (solid fuel, dumped and fished out the ocean).

and they’re not cheap either. They’re expensive,

They are incredibly cheap to operate by rocket standards, the reason why they haven’t lowered the pricetag is:

a. Would absolutely be an anti-trust against them if they didn’t stay close to competitors (monopoly by simply being too good is a thing)

b. Capitalism baby, they have no real competitor so they can make a crazy profit (and because of point A they basically have to unless they want to be sued to oblivion).

and they’re floating on government grants

Contracts* They have government contracts. Government requests a service, SpaceX provides the service, SpaceX gets paid, simple as that. They have gotten subsidies to expand Starlink, but every ISP gets that and even then they have been declined it countless times because AT&T, etc. have lobbied against them.

SpaceX s(ti)ll hasn’t done anything hat wasn’t done better long before.

I’m sorry, what other rockets and space capsules can be reused? What other rocket can be returned directly on the launch pad?

They do party hard (wh)en a rocket of theirs explodes, which I never saw NASA do.

Because they see milestones being completed in the testing program, it’s about where it exploded (it was gonna explode either way, planned or unplanned).

They managed to get their super duper new heavy rocket in an uncontrolled spin in low earth orbit! I’m sorry, Noy impressed by results that are less than half of what -again- NASA did in the 60’ and 80’ of the last century.

NASA sent a 50m tall, 9m wide second stage that was designed to be fully reusable with full-flow staged engines and then transferred super-chilled fuel between tanks? Cool! Which system was that? Would love to read about it!

I knew the reference at “Allo”

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GrapheneOS is a really easy process, hardest part is unlocking the bootloader (which isn’t hard at all).

Rest of the process is just clicking 3* buttons on a website and you’re done.

*Some buttons you have to click multiple times

Were it so easy…

Should be “GNOME mutter what”

Isn’t this illegal?

Can’t find any reference to anyone dying or getting injured, but in terms of pad damage it definitely takes the cake.

The first Starship may have put a hole in the pad, but the N1 obliterated it.

Fully reusable super-heavy rockets with multiple full stage combustion engines running on Methane have been done before? You mind sharing sources because I can’t find any.

Closest thing I can think of is the Soviet N1 rocket (about 2/3 the thrust of Starship) which the Soviets really struggled with and ended up abandoning, and it wasn’t even close to being reusable.

You do realize that SpaceX is (currently) the only manufacturer that’s trying not to dump their rockets into the ocean (or wilderness/villages in the case of Russia and China respectively), right?

What bugs? At this point we don’t have an explanation for the first-stage RUD, looking at the overlay it seems there were issues re-lighting the Raptors which could be for any reason.

From what I saw, the hot-staging went perfectly with the RUD happening when the ship was already in space.

My personal favorite is the one that defaults to “off”, but when you go to the detailed page it puts “legitimate interest” on every single goddamn option with no “disallow all” option.

Here you go

Microsoft even copied KDE’s motto “Simple by default, powerful when needed” in their Windows 11 announcement.

Banned open source software because of security concerns. For password management they require LastPass or that we write them down in a book that we keep on ourselves at all times. Worth noting that this policy change was a few months ago. After the giant breach.

And for extra absurdity: MFA via SMS only.

I wish I was making this up.

Hold on, what? I thought Nikola ended after their giant fraud?

All hail GrapheneOS

Nope, I definitely jumped the gun.

It was Manjaro.