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Thanks for tracking it down, I was to lazy.

The clean them pretty well. For example the clean along the welds to check them. The soot only stays on the parts where it doesn't really matter. Engines are also cleaned. In fact,…

We know for sure that even later in the Block 5 generation the re-usability got better. So that isn't controversial. I would assume their 'favorites' are being pushed in order to g…

Then maybe the journalist should have done that, instead of just hunting headlines.

Space industry average is an utterly useless and idiotic thing used for comparison. Most of those companies make tiny sats, or things like small thrusters. Or even small sub-compon…

My point is this, how do you know their practices are worse if you don't compare. If SpaceX does 100x as many rocket engine test but has only a 2x worse insure rates then what you …

Actually it does. If you assume that doing some a difficult dangerous task like, testing a rocket engine, building a building sized rocket or launching a rocket is inherently dange…

> Along the lines of "we produce more stuff, so cutting corners on worker safety is ok". Well but that really isn't it. Its more like doing X has some inherent danger and if you do…

You are comparing people that work on small sats to people who work on the largest rocket in human history. McGregor is the most active rocket engine test facility in the world. Ho…

> I want to know what this thing is so bad. Its a small space plane used for materials and operations testing.. > Also wonder what are the odds that space force has put people into…

Amazing work by all involved! Thank you.

I'm sorry but is just nonsense? Go where? To Russia or China, that would never be allowed. To Europe? And even if it was allowed, the infrastructure and people are here, this would…

This was long before Trump. And the thing is, depending on how you do the agreement. Europe could produce the engines themselves, they only would need plans and help with manufactu…

Actually there was a big movement for crew launches in the 90s. This died becuase it was gone cost way to much. In the last 2 years there has been a very big marketing campaign by …

Lots of different ESA and Arianespace made lots of arrogant and wrong statements over the years, trust me as somebody that has followed it. Their claims about illegal subsidies wer…

Its not a crazy idea, its a smart idea. There are two things that aim against it, export regulation. These could be overcome but it would require a lot of politics and cooperation.…

You are totally wrong. SpaceX is deeply entangled with NASA and DoD. And their primary IP is protected under US regulation, nobody can 'take it away'. And SpaceX launch site and te…

> The EU should be focused on generating demand like Commercial Cargo/Commercial Crew did The EU has long given up on Cargo supply to ISS and that budget is bound in the Orion Serv…

> not complete things that are being done now at scale by many others... So its kind of wrong to suggest that what they try to do is done by 'many' others at scale. That basically …

Their stock price has been very, very low for a while now. Meaning it would be incredibly hard for them to raise money. Their rocket development program was nowhere close to being …

Its was clear that they were a dead company walking many months ago. It just a slow decline into complete bust.

> The biggest issue for the nuclear waste disposal idea is that it doesn't make any economic sense. No the biggest issue is that its a stupid idea in the first place. Nuclear waste…

If SpaceX was willing to do the work and put in the investment they could absolutely get access to fissile material. The US government evaluates things based on regulations and not…

> is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign. Many people stay at a company for longer then they stay at college. So that doesn't seem that crazy.

Apparently I got something partly wrong: https://twitter.com/arjenroodselaar/status/17183502637346611...