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Re: No Billionares at FOSDEM

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Post by wormlord » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

boxed wrote: post #193

wormlord wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I care less about his "troll" posts online (implying there is a conspiracy of jews importing people to destroy America is just a troll and not an actual Nazi conspiracy guys) than his manipulation of the US government, mistreatment of workers, and maybe the most egregious of all, being a fake nerd and pretending to like Evangelion.

Ah yes, the rocket guy must be a fake nerd, and that's much worse than mistreating human beings. No flaw in that logic at all.

It was a joke.

Re: No Billionares at FOSDEM

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Post by lamontcg » Tue, Jan 21, 2025, 11:21 PM UTC

inemesitaffia wrote: post #202

lamontcg wrote: post #201

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Air Force was studying RTLS as part of the ARES (Affordable REsponsive Spacelift) program in 2005 (Which was the result of 1992/1994-era discussions on "spacecast 2020"): https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/6.2005-6682 Lars and Beschet wrote their groundbreaking paper on lossless convexification of the powered descent problem at JPL before Lars went to SpaceX: http://www.larsblackmore.com/CarsonAcikmeseBlackmore…

Blue Origin landed first, where was that from? And I don't see any rocket actually coming back with an orbital payload? Where's the demonstrator? Like that quiet supersonic thing Lockheed is demonstrating. Even Lars didn't deliver at the first attempt. So it's not like it was something available off the shelf. Like some cryptography library you include in your code.

NASA was also considering reusable two stage to orbit for the shuttle back in the 1960s. By 1998 NASA was proposing Liquid Flyback Boosters:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980237254/downloads/19...

Those were still winged boosters, but were not helicopter-caught and did RTLS.

Musk didn't invent the concept.

Re: No Billionares at FOSDEM

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Post by inemesitaffia » Wed, Jan 29, 2025, 1:07 PM UTC

lamontcg wrote: post #212

inemesitaffia wrote: post #202

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Blue Origin landed first, where was that from? And I don't see any rocket actually coming back with an orbital payload? Where's the demonstrator? Like that quiet supersonic thing Lockheed is demonstrating. Even Lars didn't deliver at the first attempt. So it's not like it was something available off the shelf. Like some cryptography library you include in your code.

NASA was also considering reusable two stage to orbit for the shuttle back in the 1960s. By 1998 NASA was proposing Liquid Flyback Boosters: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19980237254/downloads/19... Those were still winged boosters, but were not helicopter-caught and did RTLS. Musk didn't invent the concept.

You can write papers all you want.

I know only one company landing orbital boosters.