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by dotnet00 1y ago
An American company, that the American government tried very hard to exclude and kill, built by the very immigrants it's attacking, the one that has twice now been threatened with contract cancelations just because the leader doesn&#x2
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by dotnet00 1y ago
For the transgressions that the current generation had no influence in and can't meaningfully change, yeah, I think they mostly get a pass. Though "zero points" is also probably a bit too harsh. I think Americans should be pr
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by dotnet00 1y ago
New Glenn at least claims to eventually be able to put 45,000kg to LEO. Once in orbit, refueling or docking boost stages can come into play. With Vulcan, I have mainly heard of proposals involving modifying Orion to dock the service module
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by dotnet00 1y ago
2030 is just a little over 4 years away. They have a lot of hardware to develop and test. It takes time to develop good hardware, as the US is also realizing (again). It was about 7 years between the first flight test of any Apollo related
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Do you have any evidence for any of your claims beyond not liking the idiot that owns the company?
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by dotnet00 1y ago
The industry is going through growing pains, New Glenn is almost ready for payloads, Neutron is a year or two away from flying, and other small launch companies are in the process of pivoting to either medium launch or space services. I&#
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I don't think Shuttle's issue was that the material science wasn't there. The issue was the way the design was constrained, and the general aerospace culture at the time (that only began to change with "New Space").
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Blue seemed to be planning to use Boeing for their ISS-replacement proposal, but at this point I expect that they'd prefer to build on their New Shepard experience for a custom design. Starliner isn't really worth trying to fix (e
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Boeing has been pretty blatant about just not caring about performance on SLS, because, by being legally required to keep funding it, there isn't really anything NASA can actually do to hold Boeing responsible for underperforming. IIRC
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I think it's pretty much guaranteed by now, assuming that they don't get ravaged by war/internal strife, that China will have landed people on the Moon by the 2040s, and, to be fair, I'd say the same for the US having la
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I don't expect democrats to be super vindictive to SpaceX, except if they think they can redirect that money to old-space companies like Boeing (which is less about being vindictive and more that most politicians are shamelessly corrup
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Recently I saw someone claiming they voted for Trump because he hugged a flag once, and plenty of Americans proudly claim they voted for Trump so that he would "troll" their opposition.
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by dotnet00 1y ago
If they were serious, they'd properly look into ending SLS after the ones that are being built are launched, cancel the upgrade, go after the company that spent the entire launch tower budget before even starting construction, open up
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by dotnet00 1y ago
They're by far the ones with the most relevant experience and actually flying hardware (human spaceflight, propulsive landing, flight testing hardware for HLS), in the US. I don't think it's going to take them a decade, but t
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I think you can still find those kinds of workplaces if you focus on research-oriented companies in "deep tech" (meaning those designing and building cutting edge hardware rather than advertising/social media). I too had the
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Considering Long Island, I'm guessing these were X-ray optics?
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by dotnet00 1y ago
The comment I replied to was dismissing a research paper describing innovation from a chinese company wrt more effective use of their hardware, by insinuating that it must be propaganda with no supporting reasoning. Of course China has copi
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Yeah, I get that landlords have financial obligations too, which is why I'm torn on it. The mechanism exists so good landlords (who take the responsibility of having a tenant seriously) aren't scammed out by bad renters, but, it s
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by dotnet00 1y ago
This is simply not true, the vast majority of people continued to pay their bills and rent on time through Covid despite financial pressures and suspension of most penalties. The cases of abuse are so egregious precisely because most people
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I don't know how I feel about the concept of late rent fees... On one hand, you did agree to the payment schedule when you signed the lease, but on the other hand, tacking on fees to someone who is already struggling to pay, to support
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by dotnet00 1y ago
This is such a popular coping tactic from Americans when it comes to facing actual competition, especially from China. Everything they do must either be a lie or just stolen American technology, as if there's something inherently speci
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Unsurprising that someone with such beliefs would be too much of a coward to use their real account.
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by dotnet00 1y ago
A popular sentiment related to this is that since we're on the only planet in the universe that we know to have the gift of life (and especially somewhat intelligent life), we have a duty to do our best to preserve it. If we find defin
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Not a citizen, but yes, I've had a shift in perspective lately and noticed a similar shift among other immigrants of keeping backup options in mind rather than thinking of America as a reliable place to be. Even if we view the current
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Yep, it is enough to have sound: https://youtu.be/GHenFGnixzU IIRC we would've actually had audio to accompany video of the skycrane landing, but the mic had an issue at that time.
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by dotnet00 1y ago
The guys doing the cutting are also the guys responsible for NASA having no other options but to try to keep the ISS going as long as possible with any science that can be performed on it. Some of them are probably old enough to have been s
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Seems like a pretty bad idea to be pointing a laser at the sky unless you're a government and can do the stuff necessary to not inadvertently blind pilots.
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by dotnet00 1y ago
Aren't you literally reporting those events when filing the related tax implications? How is it gross for the IRS to know that when you have to tell them anyway to get the associated tax adjustment? You'd just report it the year t
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I guess you're pointing to: "Hossenfelder's more recent content has received criticism for her attacks on academic research[13][14] and for conspiracy theory-style portrayals of the physics community."? She's been l
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by dotnet00 1y ago
I don't know much about Tesla's history, but with SpaceX, that definitely plays a role. While their success can be attributed to their engineering practices, their existence can be attributed to managing to get Falcon 1 to orbit o

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