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@Bike_and_Bow @CJHandmer @DanielleFong The duck curve describes daily fluctuations in solar generation rather than yearly. It obviously fluctuates throughout the day as the sun rises/sets, but it also changes throughout the year as seasons change. This shows basically the same problem, but over a longer time scale.

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@Blujay38006242 @JEF_300 This was a crucial capability demonstrated by Apollo 12 when it landed less than 200m from the Surveyor 3 probe.

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@pronounced_kyle Shaheds and quads just shouldn't be crammed into the same numbering scheme as fixed wing ISR. Capability scales close enough to size for ISR that S/M/L would be sufficient. Then quads and OWA can (and should) just be separate.

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@KenKirtland17 @mcrs987 Were any of the Starship launches to date not on the critical path for HLS development?

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@SFDeltaActual @Yrouel86 It's not a rescue mission, and the next crew launch was delayed by SpaceX. There's already a Dragon on station for them to ride down to Earth in a few weeks. SpaceX has nothing to prove regarding Dragon operations.

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@Brandon38061015 @SpaceOffshore @elonmusk @POTUS @SpaceX @Space_Station Except there aren't spare Dragons waiting around. SpaceX needed to delay their next flight (to relieve Butch and Suni) due to delays in preparing the capsule. It costs 100s of millions of dollars to fly these missions. This was the only reasonable plan, now unjustly politicized.

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@CJHandmer @pintleinjector He should just telework from orbit.

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@roschroeder @CavasShips There's already a Chesty Puller. ESB 3.
https://t.co/QLuFSvgAz0)

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@13ericralph31 @KenKirtland17 The future is distributed launch. In-space refueling and assembly of multi-part spacecraft will put the entire solar system within reach.

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@Typratt29 @ThomasRGreer @KenKirtland17 Totally agree. Bigger vehicles drive down the cost per kg or per person to orbit. It's arguably the most important metric holding the industry back. Particularly on the crewed side.

Hypothetically, It'll be easier to fill 12+ seats at $10M- ea. Vs 2-4 seats at $75M+ per launch.

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@NotoriousDano @deltaIV9250 Events in the launch process are timed relative to launch time so if they have to go back and try to fix something, they can reset the clock without confusion. Doing an event at the wrong time or in the wrong order could be disastrous.

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@Orillacosmica @DanMosenzon @deltaIV9250 I guess. But 1, again, the vehicles needed to build either are the same,

And 2, I'd be shocked if whatever line there is between "industrial outpost" and "industrial town" wasn't blurred long before the construction of residential O'neill cylinders.

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@DanMosenzon @deltaIV9250 What's the difference between industrializing and colonizing? We need vehicles to land MT of mass on the surface either way.

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@bryan_johnson They're scared you might be right- that all their past and future choices, and whatever factors might be out of their control mean immortality is possible for you, but not them. You're the face of their preventable death.

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@Evan_EveryDay @BellikOzan Which launch holds that distinction if SLS never claims it? JWST on A5?

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@MichoelR613 @spacekoala It's not, but canning the program after the remaining block 1 flights would save political capital for bigger changes later.

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@xdNiBoR

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@politicalmath Elon is the expert at taking things over only to see them overrun by bots.

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@WR4NYGov @jeff_foust Did Elon write that tweet? I think Jeff was pretty clearly looking for a comment from Elon directly. He is the CEO, after all.

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@John05750520 @jeff_foust @WR4NYGov This anomaly didn't involve a booster. The issue was with the second stage. This is the second time in 3 months they've had a second stage failure. It's reasonable to expect the CEO to comment on it personally. Normalization of deviance kills people in aerospace.