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Not sure Tenstorrent agrees.

Seems to me that making it hyper-converged, with all storage make it make sense. Ultra dense compute alone isn't ideal. Oxide rack has the features of blade but is hyperconverged w…

Agree. But I think that Shuttle didn't do intermediate tests of these things is part of the reason it never lived up to its potential. During development they lost fact of what the…

This not actually a good reason. First of all, of course you can't get anything better if you never ask for anything better or consider alternatives or put any money into anything …

> By your own data, Apollo had 65% more money than SLS/Orion. I would say by my own data Apollo has to do 800% more work given the point on where it started. > My point is, Apollo …

The “% of the federal budget” comparison is mostly a rhetorical trick. It can matter politically, sure, but it’s a terrible way to compare programs across time. Apollo happened bef…

I think you are just talking out of your ass. Please provide some sources. The milestones and options are all defined in the original contract and each milestone is assigned some m…

I would agree. The heatshield is tricky. But they have shown they can survive without parts of the heatshield. But its a problem for rapid re-usability. That said, I think Starship…

This is just nonsense. First of all, the companies in the 1960s were all there for profit and all made profit. And the politicians in power back then also tried to get contracts to…

This complete nonsense. The Apollo team was much, much, much, much larger then any V2 team. And mostly Americans. And their testing procedures were actually very high quality. You …

How many of those traffic accidents could have been prevented if traffic engineering was a serious engineering profession and road deaths were not simply accept as a 'fact of live'…

The budget is actually not that much worse. If you adjust for inflation. On avg NASA budget was about the same as now. But now we do more things now. But between Constellation/SLS …

No it doesn't. Because literally anybody who knows anything about NASA and follows the Space industry in detail has known about most of the issues since 2015 or even in 2011 when t…

I think this claim of being 'way too complex' is a bit over the top. Sure it was complex for the electronics and some other aspect in the Soviet Union, but not by that much. N1 act…

Except of course that SpaceX is launching Astronauts right now and has a perfect safety record and operate the safest space vehicle ever built.

Wrong. Both were lost because of a fundamentally BAD ARCHITECTURE. And that architecture was bad because the NASA engineers who designed it, had never designed anything like it bef…

False. SpaceX development of Starship is much cheaper then SLS despite using more test vehicles. The claim that building hardware rich is more expensive is not really shown in the …

True but we know for a fact that it doesn't consume 4-5 billion $ a year for the last 15 years like SLS/Orion because SpaceX couldn't afford that. If you actually do some basic mat…

Starship is irrelevant. SLS was dumb already in 2011 when Starship doesn't exist. Its a dumb system and was never the right system. NASA own analysis showed that. People who defend…

Difference is SLS has received 2 billion $ a year for 15 years in a row, while SpaceX get that much once and has to actually cover any extra cost themselves. Why do people just tot…

The SLS and Orion project have been so incredibly deeply flawed from the start. Its a huge mistake that they exists. The were bad designs to begin with and they are badly executed.…

Electric buses have been a thing for many, many decades. They are called Trolley bus and they work great. And its better in a number of ways then battery buses. Specially inside of…

Most memes and most application of memes were not that funny. Scrolling reddit 10 years ago is not that different from TikTok just with pictures instead of videos.

No . No . No. Please No. Absolutely fucking not. Shipping hydrogen is literally one of the dumbest things you can ever do. Its pure and utter nonsense that is only getting pushed f…

> trucks, buses or trains Trains no, electrify everywhere is clearly better. Maybe for really old legacy branch lines, batteries. Trucks should as much as possible move to rail, mu…