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No worries various groups will create or increase their own space investments. Nothing spacex did was a miracle just well executed engineering, despite an whims
by jajko 2y ago
No worries various groups will create or increase their own space investments. Nothing spacex did was a miracle just well executed engineering, despite an whimsical idiot steering it from far enough.
Correction globally will take some time, but it will be a permanent one. You don't develop your own space program to scrape it in few years. Europe is there with pretty healthy space program, China may become more open to others, India is way beyond initial successful steps. Reusable rockets are great when they work, but again thats just (at this point well tested) engineering.
China just needs to sit and smile how US is handling them global leadership one big chunk a day. Maybe in 4 years we can send elon permanently on mars with 8 billion middle fingers raised as a 'salute', to start future setup that The expanse showed us or to die there miserably.
- immibis 2y agoIsn't it predicted that if three or four companies do what SpaceX did, we get Kessler syndrome?
- kragen 2y agoNo, Starlink satellite orbits decay too rapidly to cause Kessler syndrome.
- immibis 2y agoNot all of them want their satellites to decay quickly.
- kragen 2y agoI was talking about what would happen if three or four companies did what SpaceX did, not what would happen if three or four companies did something else. I agree that there are things that three or four companies could do, or even one company could do, that would cause Kessler syndrome.
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- M95D 2y ago> Nothing spacex did was a miracle just well executed engineering There were so many failures that I wouldn't call it "well executed". More like "work hard until it happens to succeed".