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Today I codify BFR, "Booth's Fallacy of Rocketry" is commited when any statement in favour of a spacex project or milestone is automatically taken as a full endorsement of any spacex or Elon project, timeline, view or a blindness to any possible failings of the same

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@brickmack @GrantObi All the benefits of space based solar
All the issues of space based cooling

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Boy she's going to be mad when she finds out about litteraly any other rocket and what they do with their spent stages

[Korra Katara 🇬🇩 @Nutmeg_Princess]

The impact this has on marine life in the Caribbean… is no one paying attention?!

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@Rusty_Oracle @pbgomez_ You say like raptor isn't a genuine miracle, that engine alone is worth the entire starship program

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@LavaGlacierz @pbgomez_ Neither of the other two contract finalists actually worked, the Blue origin one required equipment to be removed before liftoff to make orbit and the other entry needed to weigh negative mass when empty. Starship was the most developed of the three ideas as the engine existed

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@jessfox12 Is largely bullshit. There's so much to shit on about Elon so why make so much up?

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Starship doomer cope has extended to inventing failures that didn't happen. Only one out of these three is a real accident

[New Wojack City @deusexmoniker]

To give you an idea of how far behind the ball they are, the rocket that exploded some weeks ago, the rocket that ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian ocean, the one that lost it's nosecone but still managed to land recently, THESE ARE ALL STARSHIP

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@KenKirtland17 It just kept getting worse. And it starts with a premise that requires the F9 launch cadence to be decreasing.. which it isn't

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@basspankai That's incorrect, they're constantly maintaining orbit using an ion thruster, this was chosen so if they do break down they re-enter fairly quickly to avoid cluttering their orbital height

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@HoodWinked369 @ninaturner @elonmusk How many space telescopes and mars rovers has spacex launched then? NASA is a research agency you berk

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Bait used to be believable

[Jeebait 🎣 @SuspendedRobot]

@IrateMaxwell This is like saying Toyota built most of the interior of the bz3.

Russia was US's biggest enemy during the cold war.
For the US to be willing to do space research inside a Russian controlled space was an admission of defeat.

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@YouWontFeelThis @HalfwayPost As much as I hate musk and this DOGE is gunning for economic suicide spacex Vs legacy space companies is exactly the private efficiency success story the anti government lobby want to sell you

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@YouWontFeelThis @HalfwayPost Spacex doesn't actually receive government subsidies though. They're contracted for services. And generally spacex has been incredible value for money. They haven't been paid a cent to go too mars

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A truly historic L

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We have endless proof of what fucked Boeing but these credulous morons would still rather defend incompetent MBA management guys and blame fellow workers who just happen to be a different colour

[David Pinsen @dpinsen]

@TheStalwart Hiring DEI incompetents might be of a factor at Boeing.

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@ZontarAlt While this is insane cope the Russian legitimately do have a system designed for 100mt warhead delivery in service

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@Robotbeat Stormwater raining on your property might pick up contamination that water forced through the test stand wouldn't and vice versa

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Unless your rocket exhaust imparts a damaging substance or property to the water that would make it harmful m which the company has to prove it doesn't. Companies can't just say "trust me bro"
Imagine of the rocket was hypergolic or if the company was sneaking waste into it

[Robotbeat🗽 ➐ @Robotbeat]

Yup. Blue is, like SpaceX, just using clean water. They’re cleared to test without it: water just reduces heat damage, acoustic impact, & debris. But they’re punished because, due to magic of red tape, it’s now considered “industrial wAsTeWaTer” & the govt doesn’t do their job.

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@Robotbeat Presumably to prove that the runoff from their property won't have picked up anything nasty. It's probably mostly for industry that might have open bins of nitrates or coal ect. Just got to prove your facility doesn't

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@Robotbeat Cool now prove that + you're not leaking any other contaminants and you can discharge away. And prove the discharge won't erode any important wildlife habitat

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@Robotbeat Sorry misunderstood, but yes a tiny bit of rainwater getting in the exhaust after launch isn't their problem

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@Robotbeat Not after its been through a rocket exhaust. It's wastewater then. How is this so hard to grasp