NASA paid for the promise of a super cheap, high-availability, super heavy lift vehicle that could land on the moon and on Mars.

Rapidly reusable boosters and ships for refueling in orbit is the most important part of that promise, the landing on the moon and Mars part is relatively easy in comparison and has all been demonstrated by NASA themselves in the past.

Of course that’s all just why they pretend to develop such systems, the true reason being American military presence anywhere on the planet within minutes.

It’s at the bottom of Google’s first page too

Don’t you have to touch the bow above the thing raising the strings to play the violin…?

Someone tracked it until splashdown, so by using the camera angle and landmarks they can pinpoint the exact position it fell in and fish it out, it was pretty close to shore!

I sense you’re trying to spin this in favor of one presidential candidate over the over.

Fuck Trump and all his MAGAts for a million reasons.

When it comes to Israel, they own the leadership of the WH, the HOR, the senate and the MOD, regardless of political affiliation. USA (and most of Europe) is currently Israel’s bitch, regardless of who’s supposedly at the wheel.

Open wide, America, Bibi’s balls are getting dry and your taxpayer dollars are the saliva that will moisturize them

I’m Greek and I always thought it’s derived from the words olo (whole, entire) and kafsi (to burn) so as to mean something that burns completely. A quick Google search seems to confirm this but I’m admittedly not an expert on the matter

The Saturn V could lift 141t to LEO…once. Also it’ll be at least another 5 years before we reach a stable max power version of Starship.

For example the Falcon 9 v1.0 first flew in 2010 and the current Block 5 version first flew in 2018 with more than double the LEO capacity when fully expendable.

If they configure Starship as fully expendable it can lift 250t to LEO (per SpaceX, so grain of salt there to be fair).

As for the shuttle, I love it to bits and I’m sad it had to be grounded. It was refurbishable but not really reusable and the massive liquid fuel tank was discarded in each flight.

That can’t be right! 2016 was just… Fuck I’m getting old so fast

Disclaimer: Fuck Elon Musk and all the shady shit he’s been pulling off.

That said, this is one of the most impressive things I’ve ever seen in terms of the potential it holds to shape the future.

Up until 5 short years ago we had:

• No main booster recovery
• No rocket nearly as powerful as this one
• No successful flight of a full-flow stage engine
• Nobody even considering the catch with chopsticks thing
• No private company testing super heavy lift vehicles (BO is about to enter the chat as well)
• No push for reusability at all

This was all built on top of the incredible engineering of NASA, but this one launch today has all of the above ticked.

This is like making the first aeroplane that’s able to land and be flown again. SpaceX uses this example as well, like, imagine how expensive any plane ticket would have to be if you had to build a brand new A380 every single time people wanted to fly and then crashing it into the sea.

Going to space is EXPENSIVE. If this program succeeds it will both massively reduce the cost to space and spin off hundreds of companies looking to do the same in various ways.

Look at any new rocket currently in development, they all include some level of reusability in the design and that’s all thanks to the incredible engineers of SpaceX paving the way, first with Falcon 9 and now with Starship.

We’re talking industrial revolution levels of progress and new frontiers in our lifetimes, which is very, very exciting.

In his official statement, president Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho said “The people are right to not trust a science they can’t pronounce”

The “Go to your room and think about what you’ve done” approach is weirdly appropriate here

Greece here, we invite people to our homes all the time, even if we don’t know them very well.

In response, Ron DeSantis announced plans to lose another lawsuit to Disney over woke climate propaganda, which clearly is the reason God is angry and is punishing Florida.

In all honesty he probably doesn’t believe any of what he publicly says. Trump probably offered him less government scrutiny for his inherently dangerous projects (tesla self driving, SpaceX experimental rockets etc) as well as the billionaire tax breaks and he’s just trying to get him elected for his own personal profit. I’ve never seen a billionaire’s life be affected by a government decision, they all do as they please anyway (unless they’re in China or Russia)

At this point just keep going back every week, eventually they’ll get used to you and you’ll be the “Tuesday homeless free pizza” guy. Free pie is free pie, 4 of em a month is like a 5% income increase on minimum wage where I’m from

Mao Nodong

Still. If it’s competitive with the new AMD releases in terms of handheld gaming metrics, which means more fps but good battery efficiency, then at least AMD won’t be able to jack the pricing up too much.

You might wanna check behind you for an astronaut holding a gun

That guy really puts the Dic in Icelandic