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Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by rbanffy »

doublerabbit wrote: post #74
hersko wrote: post #59

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That warped mine is responsible for an enormous amount of innovation. Wish we had more, similarly warped minds. > Calling someone a pedophile is just one example This clearly outweighs his efforts to bring the electric vehicle, space, and humanoid robotics revolutions.

I for one do not care about Mars, the science, all his expensive toys. I'm here on earth trying to make ends meat. What has his rocket done for me? Who's praising the engineers who are grinding their souls to accomplish? It's not Musk accomplishing this. He just stuck up human with money. Like all. And as an environmentalist in my spare time, why are we trying to get to some red rock of a planet than fixing the clima…

> Who's praising the engineers who are grinding their souls to accomplish?

I always credit the SpaceX team for their accomplishments, fully aware they are successful despite Musk, not because of him. He’s good at getting attention and funding.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by seanw444 »

carabiner wrote: post #132
thimabi wrote: post #70

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Thanks to the wonderful SpaceX engineers who are actually responsible for the company’s achievements. What they’ve been accomplishing recently never ceases to amaze me.

Do people selectively credit the engineers when a musk company has a success, then blame musk when there's a failure? Teslas have quality issues, why don't people blame the manufacturing engineers and technicians instead of piling on the CEO?

> Do people selectively credit the engineers when a musk company has a success, then blame musk when there's a failure?

Yes

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by thoughtpalette »

hggigg wrote: post #130
trompetenaccoun wrote: post #126

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And that's why South Africa is the way it is. I recommend living there for a bit, might be an eye opener for some Westerners.

It's like the US in a decade. (I have been to both and would rather spend a week in Cape Town than Chicago for example)

Ahh more Chicago fear mongering. I've lived here for almost two decades. There's good and bad parts, almost like every other place.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by fernandopj »

nexus6 wrote: post #76
modeless wrote: post #72

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Totally reasonable question. This is the first rocket ever that will (assuming further success) land in its entirety back on the launch pad, refuel, and go back to orbit the same day. Imagine that every time an airliner landed its cockpit was destroyed and you had to build a new one. A fully reusable airplane would be a transformational improvement. That's the level of achievement we're talking about here.

Is there such a need for a heavy launch rocket to launch routinely?

It's a mandate for the next Artemis Mission. [1]

The HLS (Spaceship) will need many refuels at orbit in order to get to the Moon and back. That means at least a dozen of fully-loaded Heavy launches to LEO just so each one of them can load a bit of fuel into HLS. The fuel in orbit can't sit idle for too long, or it deteriorates; I haven't found a limit on days for that, but a week-long launch window is considered a dealbreaker, we're talking a dozen Heavy launches in a week.

It's either a short launch window, or at least 6 Starships built and launched twice in ~10 days. Don't count out on SpaceX building 12 Heavy Starships just for that Artemis mission.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemis_III

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by foota »

dbish wrote: post #86
foota wrote: post #47

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Honestly? I'd first prefer he hadn't gone off the deep end. I feel the same sort of sad that I did when Notch (of minecraft) turned out the way he did.

I obviously don't have any person relation to him, but Elon seems to be deeply disturbed. He went from a pretty normal somewhat eccentric millionaire 5 or 6 years ago to his evil villain arc. Maybe he was like this all along, but I feel like he's been too stressed and too us vs them for too long that he no longer has a grounded view of reality.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by rbanffy »

mupuff1234 wrote: post #81
delabay wrote: post #13

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The cybercab was a bit of a joke, no? Was more hype than a product. And we probably shouldn't be cheering on billionaires going all in on political campaigns (not that he's the first)

> we probably shouldn't be cheering on billionaires going all in on political campaigns

It is, after all, a direct violation of the principle that all political power should come through the popular vote, not back room deals. Politics should operate in plain sight. Always.

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by shkkmo »

oittaa wrote: post #155
bnastic wrote: post #120

Thread devolved into petty politics quicker than expected.

I tried to search faq how to block people but couldn't find any info. How do I do that? If it's not possible, I'm pretty sure this site is breaking the EU social media laws.

Which EU laws do you think mandate a 'block' feaure on HN?

Re: Starship's Sixth Flight Test

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Post by rbanffy »

hggigg wrote: post #56
rob74 wrote: post #50

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> the sort of thing we'd expect from a Russian oligarch Well, Trump aspires to be America's Putin, so that checks out...

Well exactly. It's not exactly as if there aren't enough well defined archetypes, methodologies and historical outcomes that fit this.

And yet here we are.

Let’s just admit we are a terrible species and wish the cockroaches better luck.

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