Mike Crowe

Catholic, Dad, Farmer, Engineer,

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

Me during Covid.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@TheHayride It is a state of wormy laws, secret liens, for example.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@VickiCocks15 @LabPadre I'm saying 9/11 for nationalistic reasons.

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@SkunksWork It's the typical LA shakedown. How long will Space-X put up with it?

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@SpaceNosey They need a lot of upmass for data centers. The LA facility is a great location for launching Sun Sync upmass missions. space data centers are in Sun Sync orbits. Therefore, ....

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@SkunksWork Are you sure that's not the new LNG plant located at the Port of Brownsville, with South Padre Island in the background?

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@TJ_Cooney Thumbs up on Starswamp!

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@ladydesiree Wow! You haven't aged.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@peterrhague Just because something can be done doesn't mean it should be done, but I agree fantasy is miss used in the arena of ideas. Time travel, for example is fantasy, whereas a 10sq-km space habitat is possible, but not feasible. Nice article though.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@peterrhague Having worked in oceanography a good part of my life, I can agree, salt, water and waves are hard everything!

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@peterrhague As I understand from your posts, public opinion in the UK does not influence public policy.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@MarcusHouse Just a "short" flight for you from Taz isn't it? Take the kids to add a little spice!

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@elonmusk I hope this is the opening scene for The AI Odyssey that you promised.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@VickiCocks15 @LabPadre Or is it the start of an underground pipeline from the Cryro plant accross the street?

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@SawyerMerritt I think said "operational satellites" not necessarily that they would be made operational, but he may have just misspoke.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

Nice numbers. I haven't understood why Space-X hasn't pushed getting operational with a reusable booster then, grow into a totally reusable system whilst making $$$.

[Lunar Citizen @LunarCitizens]

A wild fact:

Even if Starship’s Ship is never reused and only the Booster is recovered, Starship could still achieve an estimated $350k–550k per ton to LEO.

Falcon 9 is roughly $4.2M per ton at its listed price.

That means Starship could already be 8–12× cheaper per ton than Falcon 9.

And Falcon 9 is already the world’s most economical rocket. 🚀
#starship

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@ClaudiusNDX Most likely Go Australis is heading in for food and a crew rotation. She's been out there a while.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

Being a regular driver through the I-10 corridor between Lafayette and Baton Rouge, I'm worried about the additional traffic on an already overloaded road.

[Richard Campanella @nolacampanella]

In today's Times-Picayune:

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

@trusited @SERobinsonJr I live on the Gulf Coast. Hurricanes affect homes but because of different construction standards, do little to industrial installations.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

Why not Stennis? It already has a large buffer zone and existing infostructure.

[Hunter Jacques @Hunter_Jacques_]

@SERobinsonJr This is such an unbelievably bad idea hahah

I can’t think of a worse area to try to attract a labor force. Even Mississippi close to where Stenis Space center used to be would be better because at least it’s along major highways.

Man this would be tough.

[Mike Crowe @mpcrowe]

Sometimes rebranding can really add clarity to a problem.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

If you give problems the wrong names, you can't understand them.

If you can't understand problems, you can't fix them.

There are almost no homeless people in America. There are only feral humans.

A homeless person is someone whose distinguishing feature is not having a home. I was homeless once, for a day, when the lease on one apartment expired before the next one was cleaned, repaired, and ready.

I parked a moving van full of my worldly possessions at my university, and slept on a couch in the student commons.

That's "homeless".

"Feral" is when a human cannot live within society, or comply with the basic expectations required for membership.

Yes, they do not have homes.

But this is not their distinguishing feature. Because they also don't have jobs, sanity, sobriety, manners, morals, or hygiene.

Which is why they do not have homes.

If you give them a house, because you think they are "homeless" rather than "feral", then they will simply repeat, within that structure, the same feral behavior.

And soon that structure will be uninhabitable.

Which, for certain people, is the whole point.

A man whose job is to sell 3d printed houses isn't trying to fix the feral-human problem. He's trying to sell 3d printed houses.

And it's one hell of a lot easier to sell them to bureaucrats who aren't spending their own personal money.

It doesn't matter if 3d printed houses suck to live in. It doesn't matter if the feral humans trash them. Nobody in this equation cares about the feral humans, even the feral humans themselves.

And nobody in this equation cares about the taxpayers. If the feral humans are still feral, then the 3d house grifters can sell more gimmick houses, and the bureaucrats can spend more of someone else's money.

If a violent political upheaval becomes necessary, this will be very unpleasant for everyone involved, but at least afterwards, we will all be able to use the feral humans, bureaucrats, and grifters to fertilize the garden of new homes.

Which will be made out of bricks.