SpaceX (general discussion)

overscan (PaulMM) said:
Could we please stop with this pointless political discussion and discuss SpaceX perhaps.
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Agree so much. I don't even know when the next Fat Albert goes up. Even the space forums would rather discuss (attack) Elon. My opinion is, he is an attention-hungry quack, but a true genius, and Praise God we got him instead of any other country. I don't give a darn that he's a nut. He is advancing the art of space travel. Everybody else is all talk.
I want rocket launches! Chopstick landings! Moon landings! Missions to Mars!
 
While I do get that the politics is how the spaceflight gets greenlighted and paid for, and that the various and sundry personalities are the ones who perform those politics, I'd rather come here to find content about the hardware and goals and dreams and plans and operations.
 
Titus said:
Agree so much. I don't even know when the next Fat Albert goes up. Even the space forums would rather discuss (attack) Elon. My opinion is, he is an attention-hungry quack, but a true genius, and Praise God we got him instead of any other country. I don't give a darn that he's a nut. He is advancing the art of space travel. Everybody else is all talk.
I want rocket launches! Chopstick landings! Moon landings! Missions to Mars!
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Well Hello Titus, as a German citizen born and raised well after WWII, and thus well steeped in the truly inhuman history of fascism, I hate to break it to you that Musk is exhibiting increasingly more behavioral patterns that emulate what happened in Germany almost a century ago. Just be aware that you may choose historical ignorance at your own peril, if you are a US citizen. And yes mods, please censor away as you see fit.
 
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- Two members of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday asked President Donald Trump's Air Force secretary nominee whether he unfairly favored Elon Musk in a classified, multibillion-dollar spy satellite contract.
In a letter sent Thursday, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Tammy Duckworth, both Democrats, asked nominee Troy Meink how his role in the contract solicitation may have favored SpaceX, Musk's rocket and satellite company.
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The Massachusetts and Illinois lawmakers cited a recent Reuters report that Meink, a top official at the National Reconnaissance Office, changed the contract requirements in a way that made SpaceX the company best suited to fulfill it.
Complaints about Meink's role, Reuters reported, prompted the inspector general of the agency, which controls the country's spy satellite programs, to investigate whether Meink had improperly directed the transaction toward SpaceX. Musk's space venture ultimately won the classified contract in 2021.
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One of the people, who was close to Trump's transition team, said Musk pushed the team shortly after the election to pick Meink and that some senior advisors were concerned about the potential conflict of interest. "Musk picked him," the person said. "He went in and said: 'This guy is going to be secretary of the Air Force.'"
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Before there were Starbase Chopsticks, there were tubes ...

Concept art by Frank Tinsley in 1952 apparently for Modern Mechanix magazine.

If I didn't know the SpaceX chopsticks "Mechzilla" had been built and actually worked, it is a question as to which of the concepts I would think is the most outlandish of the two.

EDIT - ahh, it is correctly spelled "Mechazilla"
(look at the size of those railroad ties, railway sleepers, compared to the farmhouse!)
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Looking at the majority of posts, and the number of reports, because of derailing the topic, spreading politics and so on, I cannot help the feeling, that it is high time to lock the whole topic ....

Please, stay on topic, and avoid politics !
... and even as a stated oipion is against yours, and so, of course, completely wrong, respect freedom of opinion, other should do the same with your opinion ! And yes, I know, it's really difficult ...
Please regard this just a general advice.
 
Jemiba said:
Looking at the majority of posts, and the number of reports, because of derailing the topic, spreading politics and so on, I cannot help the feeling, that it is high time to lock the whole topic ....

Please, stay on topic, and avoid politics !
... and even as a stated oipion is against yours, and so, of course, completely wrong, respect freedom of opinion, other should do the same with your opinion ! And yes, I know, it's really difficult ...
Please regard this just a general advice.
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So. . .why not delete all the political posts instead of just some of them?
 
publiusr said:
This paper is concerning:

Overall, with the limited information published by SpaceX about its system and mission scenario and extrapolation from us to fill information gaps, we were not able to find a feasible Mars mission scenario using Starship, even when assuming optimal conditions such as 100% recovery rate of crew consumables during flight.
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Not really, that is SpaceX's problems and not NASA's
 
sferrin said:
So. . .why not delete all the political posts instead of just some of them?
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Given the topic is 221 pages long, purging it of political content is not really feasible.

If anyone feels particularly strongly about specific posts they are free to report them for moderator consideration.

I'll keep an eye on the topic for a while, even though space stuff generally bore me.
 


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