@fatyurilover300 Yeah. That there are so many kids who've been screwed up by society or social media or their parents into believing they're not the sex they were actually born as, and now have to have the nightmare reversed, is indeed ghoulish.
@UnwantedBlog Saving 1-2 billion people from starvation is good regardless of whatever bullshit culture war fumes you are huffing.
But if you must frame it that way: We are more likely to win the stars with 1-2 billion more people (and their descendants) to help solve the problem of how.
@MaxFagin Billions of wealthy, healthy, intelligent and civilized people can reach the stars. Billions of morons who think female genital mutilation is just neato-keen cant. They'll simply drag the rest of us down into the gutter.
Neat. So, I'm left to wonder: can I sign up for the service, and if so, how will they react if I hook their system up to drones and launch my own private war with them?
The clock is ticking, America.
Your tech isn't irreplaceable: one by one, Europeans are building their own alternatives.
๐บ๐ฆ Ukraine and ๐ฉ๐ฐ Denmark just put the first test satellite of a sovereign Ukrainian comms network into orbit.
Less Starlink, more European autonomy. ๐ฐ๏ธ
The Luftwaffe considered using solid rocket-boosted "trolleys" to launch the ME 163 Komet. This would have saved the onboard liquid rocket propellants, but would have added considerable complexity to launch ops.
https://t.co/uda5DmeNjM
"Zenith Star" space-based laser demonstrator for the SDI program. It would have required heavier launch capability than the Shuttle... Shuttle-C, the "Zenith Star Launch System," Barbarian Booster, etc. And it was *small* compared to an operational SBL.
https://t.co/Zc9ISMmS0B
@MaxFagin It's not a desire for more people dying of starvation. It's a desire that we hadn't cranked out so many people who are antithetical to our culture. Now we have to feed *them* too, and *here* not just *there.*
We could have had the stars, but, no, we're now shackled.
I question both the intelligence and the sanity of people who think that you have to either accept infinite third world immigration and cultural collapse, or you're not allowed to write down recipes.
A new Mandela Effect is rising.
Since when does the Soviet flag carry a star above the hammer and sickle?
Many of us remember it clearly without one.
If you recall the flag without the starโฆ you may be from the old Earth.
Shifted into this denser, clown-world timeline.
The memory itself is the proof.
The body knows.
The soul knows.
We are not crazy.
We are remembering.
I miss the old Earth too.
Yet we are here now to hold the Light and anchor a higher one.
Who else feels this?
Generation ships raise no more moral issues than Polynesians hopping on boats to seek out some new island, or Swedish families trekking to South Dakota, or even Somalis fraudstering their way into Minneapolis. Every decision you make is one for your descendants.
@astrooalert Generational ships raise serious moral issues. Later generations never chose to live their entire lives and die confined on a ship floating in space. That is a violation of free will. Roughly 16 generations would be sentenced to life in prison for no crime other than being born.
I support videos like this. Why? Because we've seen them before. Several years ago many wholly useless people kept posting "my day at ConGlomMegaFaceTokTwitCorp" vids, resulting a *massive* rounds of layoffs and firings. History rhymes, baby. Bring one the next verse.
A "Eurospace economist" decides that testing an all-new capability - delivering supplies to the surface from orbit - is "pointless."
This might explain why Europe is so far behind SpaceX (Falcon/Starlink) and why so many of them want to appropriate SpaceX.
@MaxFagin It would have been bad *there* and *then.* But the trajectory we're on now will have the entire planetary population collapse, without any foreseeable means of *ever* recovering.
@yoursnandieni@Redoktober76 You have to understand: nobody believes you. We've all seen the fraud, the unceasing scams, the caste-based thinking and behavior. Most of all, weve all experienced the poor service and sheer incompetence from Indian workers. We're sick of it.
@rwlesq Counterpoint: the longer you've been here illegally, the harder you should be deported. At some point it'll be done via mass driver, accelerating the deportee well beyond escape velocity. The target will be a lunar impact.
Ten years ago the utterly forgettable - and forgotten - SyFy show "Hunters" ended its 1-season run on a cliffhanger. The one memorable thing in the show? The Orion nuclear pulse vehicle the stranded aliens were building in Mexico.
Anybody ever see more on the design?