@shipwreckshow@5149jamesli Fusion research is largely supported as alternative to testing thermonuclear weapons under which there is a moritorium, Congress only passed the National Ignition Facility bc they ratified the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
@IVudvudirina4@ggreenwald No comment on the OP, but this seems a bit rich coming from someone where the local press is reporting on a Qatargate bribery scandal within their own Cabinet to be throwing this out every 5 minutes toward Americans that are talking about American policy
@jingogojoe@Harvey_JD@ForeverScept God you don’t have any radar for the sexlaptops of the world who literally cook up a script for clout & paint their face & pick outfit for a performance to gain clout for $
And you obviously fell for it w your projection fantasy
@Mythos_Noir@614lawstuff@digitalpacifist IMO this architecture however ambitious has by 100 cuts got project rot, is now Tesla FSD; there’s a reason Apollo architecture sent enough to Moon in 1 shot because of complexity
Starship arch now feels more like assemble ISS inside 1 month but w/ volatile crypopropellants
@Mythos_Noir@614lawstuff@digitalpacifist I think the architecture is shit and payload to LEO [ never achieved yet ] has dropped over time even over Musk’s not credible claims [ his consistent lifetime personal trait ] from 300 tons to LEO to <100 tons, hence Starship 2 (?)
Now 10x launches per 1x Starship past GEO
@Mythos_Noir@614lawstuff@digitalpacifist Name them:
recovery of whole stack ❌
economical & rapid refurbishment ❌❌
8-10x launches w/ orbital refueling ❌
… it ever even getting to LEO ❓
— just because Muskrats take man’s word on everything even though his track record there is abysmal doesn’t make it so
@Mythos_Noir@614lawstuff@digitalpacifist There was a Mars mission scoped with 1960s technology for being embarked in the 1970s, and while Super Heavy-Starship is an ambitious architecture, it relies on soooo many unproven and high risk assumptions
@bryan_hemming@ryangrim Because ‘seasonal shift’ thru ‘multi-year tour’ *migratory labor forces* are literally what makes the Chinese economy-go-round? Do you literally know anything about the modern economic history of China? Christ about the most smugly clueless Dunning-Kruger ever. What an idiot.
@Rhineland_2_0@thinkingmuslima I don’t know I have seen a guy covered live who isn’t as much of a walking-and-talking argument for like 1950s high school bullying culture — like someone should seriously give this sack of shit a good beating
@HotSpotHotSpot So just because full-apartheid social regime was legislated and enforced actively at the level of the federated-states [ in the former Confederacy ] and not from Washington DC … then that’s a ‘gotcha’ on it isn’t apartheid?