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by nickik 6y ago
People need to stop with this idiotic idea that Shotwell is some firefighter constantly holding Musk back. This is a meme at this point. Shotwell and Musk are working together very closely and have for 10+ years. Shotwell is often just as a
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by nickik 6y ago
That might be true but its a bad standard to use. There are lots of highly competitive car companies of gigantic scale already existing. Rocket launch was a far smaller market that was basically run by governments only for all practical pur
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You are simply embracing yourself at this point. Prime minister and minister of the interior? Clearly not military positions. Minister of War and Minister of the Navy is a civilian position as well. Armies are lead by Generals, Navy by admi
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by nickik 6y ago
> You have to deliver regardless of the hype, and frankly, Tsla hasn’t. Based on what exactly? They have fast growing revenue and growing operation income, good margin, huge new investments and an exiting product product pipeline with 10
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by nickik 6y ago
> Musk recently admitted on Twitter that Google is far ahead, so he finally seems to face reality. Wrong. He didn't say that about self driving, he said that about overall use of AI. > Some acquaintances in the industry have said
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What clickbait nonsense. This is clearly what they are saying about the current system for the current Testers in California. This by no means means that they are not attempting to develop a Level 5 system and it also doesn't mean even
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by nickik 6y ago
> Lithium mining is an insanely tight bottleneck in LI battery production If anything lithium refining and production into high quality is far closer to the bottleneck. > mostly outsourced to countries where we don't think much a
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by nickik 6y ago
While the Young Turks clearly had some more interest in making the empire more Turkish, before WW1 pretty much anybody in the government called themselves Ottomans, not Turks. Turk was mostly use for the poor elements. And they were not mil
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by nickik 6y ago
For those interested, Ronald G. Suny is an Armenian born in the US who has written on the genocide and its a much better if you are looking for 'In Depth' information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho9bBn3fqYs
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by nickik 6y ago
A lunar space elevator will never happen. First of all the gravity is unstable. And even if you do so, the main advantage of an elevator can also be had with an accelerator, there is no need to build an elevator. Because there is no atmosph
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by nickik 6y ago
> It's what (little) the Senate will pay for right now. Their one choice. This is no correct. The typical NASA move in this situation would have been to extend the analysis phase and pull the competitors along. Also, the selection s
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by nickik 6y ago
Apollo was more then just a lander, it was a gigantic new rocket, a capsule, a service module a lander and an accent stage. SpaceX is by no means a small company, its arguably the most successful space company ever. They are also the most v
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by nickik 6y ago
It isn't. If you are instantly going to reduce orders you try to reduce your own cost and save money. Some automakers said we rather order to much then to little, and those producers have far less problems.
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by nickik 6y ago
Well, maybe. Here is the thing, during the peak of the pandemic Elon Musk stated that he sees everybody else reducing orders, they were not gone do that. They said they will continue to go full board ahead and put in orders expecting contin
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by nickik 6y ago
Worked for the mafia.
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There are millions of tons of thorium on earth and on Mars. We can have sustainable energy (and thus basically everything else) with basically 60s technology.
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by nickik 6y ago
> > The Starliner is a Boeing product. > ULA is Lockheed Martin + Boeing. You still seem to misunderstand. Yes ULA is LM+Boeing. However the Starliner has nothing to do with ULA. Its simply a Boeing project. Just as the Orion is LM
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by nickik 6y ago
You are seriously misinformed. ULA is just a launch company. They don't have a human spaceflight program. First of all, ULA doesn't have that many more launches then SpaceX and by the end of this year, SpaceX will overtake them. U
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by nickik 6y ago
Funny I remember people telling me this like 6 years ago how BO would soon dominate. Bezos was actually concerned about quick iteration. They had a smaller rocket planned but because of SpaceX success they wanted to 1-up SpaceX and build an
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by nickik 6y ago
Soyuz as a rocket just had a failure in 2018. Russian Space program had massive issues with reliability. Soyuz as a capsule has a fine safety record but most capsules have a good record. Lets remember that somebody in the Soyuz manufacturin
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I didn't know they could actually do the accent in flight. Do you have a source about that? Apollo is seriously insane, they thought of everything and pulled it off.
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by nickik 6y ago
Well, call it a personality cult if you want. However there is also a anti-personality cult where people shit on everything he does. If you are well known you have haters. It is very common that these people claim Musk is only a marketing a
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by nickik 6y ago
I just finished reading the selection statement. And the National Team demanded significant upfront payments. NASA also identified significant risk because the LM Orion derived assent module would be far behind in development compared to th
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by nickik 6y ago
This is already known. Austronauts launch on SLS/Orion and transfer to moon orbit, transfer to Lunar Gateway or Starship and then land on the moon. Starship launches from surface back to lunar orbit, gives astronauts over to Orion and
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Don't for a second think that Doge to the moon was not literal. This is his whole thing, 'say crazy stuff on twitter', actually do it.
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I think we are all curious about that. NASA didn't plan for this. Its a lucky break that SpaceX 'over-delivered' to an absurd degree. There must be people inside NASA that are over the moon about this. You can now fly a full
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by nickik 6y ago
BO might have that, but the other companies, LM and NG didn't. Even for Bezos its a tall order to spend billions for the LM and NG systems. I think he would rather spend that money on BO to develop whatever he wants to develop next. I
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by nickik 6y ago
> I'm getting very nervous about manned propulsive landings. Humans will land on earth in Orion capsule not Starship. So there will only be a tanker that has to do the flip. On the moon, there is no flip. The Appollo didn't hav
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by nickik 6y ago
My point it it was part of Russia for 400 years and people there clearly identify more with Russia. Then it was transferred to Ukraine totally undemocratic-ally for 60 years. The plebiscite that was done might not have 100% kosher but most
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You should look up what the US did for Russian election. The US was deeply involved. > Russia invaded Ukraine The Crimea was part of Russian empire for 100s of years and even in the Soviet Union it was part of Russia, not Ukraine. It was

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