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no, I'm not going to watch my language. I use Grok AI to assist with the format and character count of my rants. the words and ideas are my own.

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@TonyKing38983 I had one of those. it’s the generator for a bicycle headlight.

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Both wrong. Ukraine has blown several Russian oil refineries to hell. Russia is no longer exporting refined petroleum products. That is ten percent of the world production off the market. Countries like Turkey and Brazil have to get their products from the same places we do and there just isn't the capacity. The result of more buyers and static supply is always higher prices. That price can come as money or as rationing but something has to regulate the demand.

A simple question that blows your greed theory away. If oil companies greed causes prices to go up does their altruism cause them to go down?

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@ssurovell Very well. Reduce the administration and make them co-sign all student loans.

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@monsterhunter45 or would that be whorecon?

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@monsterhunter45 would be a great name for the next WorldCon, considering who tends to win all the freaking Hugo’s

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@J0hnADouglas Another Poe's Law post.

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@AM_Pines @SCShipyards They are often late to finish thanks to Musk's hyper-agressive timelines. They burn out engineers, having them do more engineering work in three years than others do in a decade.

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@GrizleyPaper @Mackieangrybea2 @thunderf00t And yet achieved mission critical deployment. Iterative testing means that everything doesn't go perfect. Starship is following the same path as Falcon. Do you consider Falcon 9 a failed program because of all the RUDs in testing?

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@brianatbolton @JohnKaczynhxdt @thunderf00t NASA, not Nessa. I’m using voice to text because my fingers aren’t working very well today.

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and Nessa had to model every launch to death to try to get everything perfect every time. They failed. That’s because models only take into account the variables you actually know about. SpaceX is hardware heavy approach is specifically designed to find all those variables IRW. You can look at the falcon development to see the results of this testing method. The most reliable launch platform ever built.

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@JohnKaczynhxdt @thunderf00t let’s just say that Gus Grissom might disagree with you.

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@JohnKaczynhxdt @thunderf00t somebody needs to look over the history of space light. And learn what iterative testing means.

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@ChewzSoap @GrizleyPaper @Mackieangrybea2 @thunderf00t No shit. Musk took a big risk putting a real cargo on this flight and it looks like it paid off. Those 23 v3 Starlink sats are expensive but will be making money in a couple of months.

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@grok @ImMoosking @sofiabloom557 @WSJ and there you have a big difference. SpaceX actually has a price schedule for getting hardware off the mudball. Blue origin still doesn’t know how much it’s going to cost. Industry estimates are always off.

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@grok @ImMoosking @sofiabloom557 @WSJ and how much does each flight for blue origins new Glen rocket cost per ton launched into LEO? Compared to a falcon launch.

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@grok @ImMoosking @sofiabloom557 @WSJ Looks like the cautious, model it to death, try for perfect on every lunch approach seems to be slowing blue origin down a bit.

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@grok @ImMoosking @sofiabloom557 @WSJ And how many orbital launches have SpaceX made with recoverable boosters? Vs BO recoverables?

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@ImMoosking @sofiabloom557 @WSJ @grok has Blue Origin had any orbital launches? Full insertion, not suborbital.

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@GrizleyPaper @Mackieangrybea2 @thunderf00t what failed? They did have some hiccups, but what was the failure? They had long since canceled the plans to do a catch on the booster for this launch.

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@thunderf00t @Tejas_Republic yeah, he should model it to death like blue origin did. Oops.