The Space Goat

A child of God ✞ Electromechanical Engineer at BlackBox Energy Systems. Libertarian. I love my wife @HannahBartley4 ❤️

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I'm deleting Twitter.

Not my account, just the app. Maybe not permanent. But when I stop and think about it, it adds nothing to my life. The bots are getting out of hand. My excuse used to be "I use it to follow space news," but that's what Scott Manley is for.

Goodbye.

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@snarkyslang @Bojanglablonic @Samsam143435923 @iLoveJaneAdams @Channel5iveNews Bots*, sorry. Fat fingers.

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@BeersNBullshit @staxioms @iLoveJaneAdams @Channel5iveNews ⬆️ We need more of this attitude in this country. We can respect each other without agreeing.

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@DudespostingWs We were willing to do things that took longer than 4 years. To build things bigger than ourselves, that would outlast ourselves, even if we'd never see them completed.

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@TJ_Cooney Cub Cadet

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@DudespostingWs That was uncomfortably close to those rocks. He could have easily killed that guy.

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@robert_zubrin Yeah, they're basically large foam hobby RC planes with more communications tech and a payload. This war is showing us that the future of warfare is cheap- a weapon is only viable if it is manufacturable at huge scale.

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@ZChris13 @DrPhiltill Agreed. The importance it places on something is based on the amount people talk about it. It's a language model, not something with any kind of understanding. It just speaks with such confidence and tries to repeat what others have said that it seems like it knows things.

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@PedroPengu @SpaceX @Starlink Many cell towers may be eventually decommissioned, but maintaining a tower isn't that expensive and Starlink is limited in how much bandwidth per area it can service, so more urban areas will always mostly use ground infrastructure.

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@jeff_foust You can't do anything cost-effectively without collaborating with China. Instead of feeling so threatened by China maybe we should just deregulate industry so we can start catching back up? They're not evil, they're just out-competing us in a fair market.

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@LauraLoomer @vast @NASA To build and maintain a full-time space station NASA needs money that it's not going to have. This switch is just making sure that there still is at least something. Also, it's basically impossible for a company to be commercially viable without working with China on some level.

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@shagbark_hick Okay but how? I believe society should be built such that cars are not a necessity. However, the US is not built that way, and outside major cities it is pretty much essential for most people to own a car, largely because of zoning. This is simply not an option most have.

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@SecDuffyNASA @SpaceX Not if NASA gets the planned funding cuts.

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@Girl56Texas @cb_doge AI slop makes me wish this app had a down vote button

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@ajbutler45 @Erdayastronaut Most upper stages are intentionally designed to fully vaporize on reentry. Starship is designed to do the opposite. Even if it breaks up, large chunks and thousands of tiles are raining down over a wide area.

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@trashjuicebox @83dollaroring And, importantly, they're not rotten to the core by government pork like Boeing.

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@trashjuicebox @83dollaroring This. At this scale they need to shift to act more like Blue Origin- no one would describe them as agile, but their ethos works well for larger projects like this. BO would have done well to be more aggressive early on, but for something of this scale, gradatim ferociter.

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@GenJeFT @LanceScott328 @DJSnM Right, like in my hybrid the brake actuator is controlled by a computer but if you press it hard enough it's just directly linked to the simple ABS system. Sometimes it randomly switches to all-hydraulic backup as a safety measure, which is annoying but I appreciate it.

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@GenJeFT @LanceScott328 @DJSnM Precisely the reason that making aircraft increasingly fly-by-wire is a bad trend. Software can be done safely, but it must be kept simple for safety-critical applications. The more lines of code, the more opportunities for these things to happen.