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I don't know anything about Common Sense Skeptic but Thunderf00t has a well known hate of Elon musk and tries to trash pretty much everything he does. I watche
by KiwiJohnno 5y ago
I don't know anything about Common Sense Skeptic but Thunderf00t has a well known hate of Elon musk and tries to trash pretty much everything he does.
I watched a bit of the Common Sense Skeptic video and heard several completely incorrect claims in the first couple of minutes. It not even remotely close to an impartial look at starlink. Just for a start, they can't use the list cost for falcon 9 launches as the internal cost to SpaceX, and then add in estimated SpaceX costs such as employee salaries.
And as for laser interconnects between starlink satellites - Its already happening. The last few launches have been starlink sats that utilize these laser interconnects.
- kortex 5y agoThunderf00t is such a strange fellow. He's clearly quite bright and has some fantastic takedowns of pseudoscience and scammy things, and even disproves a claim about dipoles from a Veritasium video. But then he goes off with these screeds like the Starlink one as if like they are going to scale up v0.5 without any revision or cost improvement. In the name of "skepticism" or "rationality". But a real rational look at the situation would maybe give the ops and biz folks at SpaceX a bit more benefit of the doubt that they can project out profit/loss over multiyear timeframes.
- mlindner 5y ago> Common Sense Skeptic He is the same as Thunderf00t in video content. Exactly the same type of video alarmism and selectively picking outdated data or extrapolation assuming no progress/changes.