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Re: Starship Flight 7

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the official BIPM brochure, hours are technically classified as "Non-SI units accepted for use with SI." This puts them in the same category as liters, hectares, tonnes, decibels, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-SI_units_mentioned_in_the_...

I can read Wikipedia too. All the calculations are done in m, s, g, etc. if you want to dumb it down to the public you might as well go in miles per hour, leagues per day, etc., spaceflight is not the place where it is appropriate.

  >I can read Wikipedia too.
I'm proud of you?

Presumably you can also read the official BIPM SI Brochure. As mentioned, it will tell you the same thing:

https://www.bipm.org/documents/20126/41483022/SI-Brochure-9-...

  >if you want to dumb it down to the public you might as well go in miles per hour, leagues per day, etc., spaceflight is not the place where it is appropriate.
1. Quick, call the spaceflight units police.

2. When you ask the regular units police (BIPM), their official decision is that hours are "accepted."

I trust you can read the dictionary definition of "accepted" all on your own.

Re: Starship Flight 7

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In about two years, when these things will be launching hundreds of starlink satellites like clockwork, you’ll just move the goalposts and find something else to criticise. I’m saying this with confidence because it’s the established history of SpaceX critics. Everything from reusable rockets, space internet, full-flow staged combustion, etc.. has had its naysayers that all shut up and found something new to critique…

I don't like Elon. I'm not going to look up the original context of Elon's alleged lies, but from what's written here they just sound like long term project goals rather than formal lies (implying things like malicious intent or fraud). If anything, maybe the only reason he didn't meet those goals is due to his social media addiction.

You say that as if other (presumably non-"addicted") company leadership has achieved similar goals.

The reality is that other companies consider SpaceX's goals so preposterously unattainable that they don't even try.

Or to put it another way,

  > At SpaceX we specialize in converting things from "impossible" to "late."
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