@coogan347@vo_ro_na@vegansharts@ajdjnej Depends. In my state they had “college in the high school” which is what you described and also “running start” where you could take your first two years of college at a local cc during your last two years of high school and potentially graduate with an associates and hs diploma.
@VektorError@memecrashes Nobody was saying that self-landing rockets were physically impossible. They were saying that they were economically impossible. NASA experimented with self-landing rockets back in the 90s and basically came to this conclusion.
@ElectroMagField@memecrashes Tbf the term "physics expert" isn't referring to a scarce topic which is why professors in physics don't refer to themselves as physics experts.
Also a systems expert isn't even a scarce topic, it's an extremely ambiguous term.
@MatthewPChu1@MobiusSlit@ContraPoints Sat tv constellations are very different. They have less than a hundred satellites. Starlink has thousands. At the time it was a very ambitious undertaking.
@catgirlprostate I like how this implies that Elon doesn't complain about anything as if he doesn't chronically tweet about any policy decision he doesn't like.
@MobiusSlit@ContraPoints Ngl, that's a pretty reasonable prediction given the information at the time. The demo starlink satellites were almost twice as heavy, and SpaceX didn't have SLC-6 for launches yet.
@seconds_0@shakoistsLog@ContraPoints Because there's actual demand for cheap rockets and telecom satellites. There's no demonstrated demand for space mining and manufacturing.
@JeffTittor@GilmanHill I'm not seeing very many others disagree. A lot of people, even those supportive of SpaceX, believe that that it's overvalued as most of it's value is speculative, a situation similar to Tesla.