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ME5SENGER_24@lemmy.world

226 points

10 months ago

He’s not carrying water for the facists, he IS a fascist and they’re trying to spill that water on everyone in an attempt to undermine people’s freedoms. Fuck him and fuck his kind

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JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee

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10 months ago

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vexikron@lemmy.zip

18 points

10 months ago

And SpaceX. Sorry pretend space nerds, Musk’s company is actually not that great, and none of his rockets will ever go to Mars, due to financing problems, cost overruns, and an insane approach to rocket design.

Dude thinks he can iterative design rockets like theyre computer programs that can just be deleted and rewritten with the only cost being paying someone to write new code.

Real, actual engineering does not work this way.

Not that his approach works for self driving either.

EDIT: lol, apparently this is a controversial post. Can’t let the Muskrats not have their Space dreams.

I suggest anymore more interested check out Common Sense Skeptic on YouTube for more details on how SpaceX and Musk should not be taken seriously.

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Pennomi@lemmy.world

16 points

10 months ago

Are you stupid? Falcon 9 is the single most used rocket in the world, and it’s not even close.

Don’t let your hatred force you to ignore facts. Musk is the most colossal asshole on the planet, but that does not invalidate the excellent work done by Shotwell and her team of engineers.

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Buffalox@lemmy.world

5 points

10 months ago

The rocket that’s supposed to go to Mars is Starship.
I’m no expert, but apparently the design is very controversial, with some saying it’s an extremely risky design.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship

The vehicle is fundamental to SpaceX’s ambition of colonizing Mars.

Pennomi:

Are you stupid?

Please, no need for that:

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Pennomi@lemmy.world

6 points

10 months ago

Firstly, I admit it’s wrong to be so rude, and you’re right to call me out on that.

As you said, Starship is far from proven. It can almost certainly get to orbit in its current state but who even knows if reusability (and propellant transfer) will pan out.

I’m simply sick of people projecting their hatred of Musk on to all the engineers. They assume that because they dislike the man that he must be stupid, and that because he must be stupid, everything he owns must also be stupid. It shows a tribalistic, shallow understanding of the engineering process, when we should instead all be cheering for every success in spaceflight.

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Buffalox@lemmy.world

-1 points

10 months ago

It can almost certainly get to orbit in its current state

No it can’t, they’ve tried twice where it failed very shortly after takeoff. The last attempt was only a month ago, pretty much like some people expected pre launch, because that would be very hard to avoid the way it’s designed. Also Musk himself acknowledged it was high risk, with a good chance it wouldn’t make it. NASA would NEVER have launched with a high probability of failure, the way the Starship program has been going, it would be very unlikely to be allowed to continue. Musk justified the launch with the value of the telemetry in case of failure. Problem is that they lost contact 8 minutes before it visibly exploded in the sky. So they got no valuable telemetry either!!!

I’m simply sick of people projecting their hatred of Musk on to all the engineers.

That’s not what I see, it seems like Musk has become increasingly irate, and he is calling the shots. The engineers are AFAIK almost never blamed.

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3 points

10 months ago

Yep, its widely used, and its mission profile can be replaced with other existing rockets for around the same cost, and you’ve always got Blue Origin you know, mastering the basics /before/ tackling more advanced problems.

Musk and Shotwell are still pretty far from delivering on the level of cost savings per launch that Musk has been touting for over a decade at this point.

Off by about a factor of ten.

Shotwell and her /brilliant/ engineers will never build a point to point rocket system, much less one that is economically viable.

Turns out refurbishing a rocket and reusing it is really time consuming and that process basically cannot be significantly sped up without cutting corners that will lead to losing rockets, or by some totally new rocket design philosophy that has yet to be designed.

SpaceX is the company that recently did not even realize that their orbiter module had disassembled itself until 3 minutes after this occurred, then claimed that they had intentionally triggered the abort system.

Shotwell is a joke, as is Starship. At their current rate of development, at best they are looking st something like a promised human rated moon landing capable craft in a decade plus, after some serious redesigns.

Problem is NASA will have picked a different contractor by then, and SpaceX’s financials are so bad they will likely go bankrupt, or, at best, just stick with the Falcon 9 and maybe try to actually come somewhere close to the launch costs they originally targeted.

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Pennomi@lemmy.world

6 points

10 months ago

I think you’re intentionally cherry picking some tiny quibbles and ignoring the enormous body of evidence that proves their success. For instance, the vast majority of your complaints are about things they haven’t done (despite saying they would). This is normal in an engineering/marketing dynamic.

This is also why I only focus on actual flight hardware when comparing launch vehicles.

its mission profile can be replaced with other existing rockets for around the same cost

Having competition is great and does not invalidate success in the slightest. I’m looking forward to more competition in the industry. I have my eye on Blue Origin this year.

Turns out refurbishing a rocket and reusing it is really time consuming and that process basically cannot be significantly sped up without cutting corners that will lead to losing rockets

You could not have chosen a more appropriate topic. This is something we have hard data on, and it turns out that you can in fact refurbish a Falcon 9 without issues in a very short time. The current record is 9 days. I’m pretty sure they’ve done a couple hundred refurbishments by now.

Shotwell is a joke, as is Starship.

I don’t agree with you about Shotwell, but Starship is certainly a gamble. I have no doubt they’ll get to orbit, but the reuse architecture is harrowing at best. And I agree that Artemis is unlikely to use Starship as a lander.

I suspect using an expendable second stage for Starship (just like Falcon) is the better architecture, but I guess we’ll see if they can pull it off very soon.

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wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world

4 points

10 months ago

What if - hear me out - all the employees at SpaceX are working together to intentionally drive up costs by using it as a playground for wacky off-the-wall ideas that wouldn’t get funding elsewhere, but because they are all in it together, management has no idea because everyone is backing and vetting everyone else? And so people keep pumping money into the company, so the staff just keep on with the status quo. For example, wouldn’t you want to see if a spaceship with a rocket attached suspiciously similarly to a foreskin can make it to orbit - and should it retract in stages, or as one swift break-away movement? Need I remind you that this project isn’t on your dime? Mmmhm, that’s what I thought. Now let’s build the cock rocket.

Maybe the smartest people in the room are the ones we least expect.

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be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social

3 points

10 months ago

Maybe the smartest people in the room are the ones we least expect.

I mean, they are a bunch of rocket scientists. That’s the group everyone has expected to be the smartest people in the room for about a century. 😁

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vexikron@lemmy.zip

-1 points

10 months ago

I thought that was AI people.

Turns out … thats not working out so well.

In everything other than the /lets literally build SkyNet/ department.

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be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social

2 points

10 months ago

But the idiom isn’t “it’s not AI” it’s “it’s not rocket science.” 😉😁

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3 points

10 months ago

This is not impossible, but the problem is that Blue Origin has already created the most phallic possible rocket that actually works.

So at best SpaceX goes bankrupt in pursuit of sloppy seconds.

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pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe

0 points

10 months ago

Elon is a hopeless retard but your take is even dumber

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Quetzlcoatl@sh.itjust.works

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10 months ago

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