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Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Re: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Post by frikskit »

3938848484 wrote: post #10
nolok wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh hard disagree there, the way I see it there is no more squabble between France and Poland than there is between Texas and California or between Spain and Romania compared to New york and Virginia. In fact, I would say we have LESS of it. The only thing we need is to actually stop ignoring the forest for the tree and see that the world moved on beyond our petty local borders and we're lucky enough to have found a s…

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That was not a useful metaphor, but by all means try again (if you want) and teach us something interesting (and concrete) based on your unique experience.

Re: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Post by embedding-shape »

3938848484 wrote: post #6
nolok wrote: post #4

Congratulation and great news ! For Europe, but also the world, space access is one of those frontiers we can (and I believe will) see truly opened in my lifetime and I find that truly awesome. Interestingly there still seems to be a difference in approach between "few launch, expected to go well" in europe and "many launch as trial and error" in the US, with other countries falling somewhere in between those two lim…

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> no motivation to work together.

You have to be absolutely blind if you can't even read history going back just a few decades, which makes it evidently clear that we have more motivation to work together than pretty much any continent out there. Doesn't help that we all know that the two world wars we've had so far, has come from our continent, so yes, we have a lot of motivation to work together.

Re: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Post by embedding-shape »

3938848484 wrote: post #10
nolok wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh hard disagree there, the way I see it there is no more squabble between France and Poland than there is between Texas and California or between Spain and Romania compared to New york and Virginia. In fact, I would say we have LESS of it. The only thing we need is to actually stop ignoring the forest for the tree and see that the world moved on beyond our petty local borders and we're lucky enough to have found a s…

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Must be incredibly humbling experience to not realize EU is a union of independent countries and the US is a federation of states until you work for one of the delegations, wasn't it? Most of us pick up on that even without professional experience about it.

Re: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Post by amelius »

gagan2020 wrote: post #7

There will be some chain reaction up there in near future, in our lifetime only. Congratulation to the team. These milestones are necessary to advancement of human race as we need new planets to occupy. But, we needed clear path going forward. I am both pro to advancement but with caution kind of guy.

Let's first be a competitor to Musk's short term commercial plans.

Re: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Post by gagan2020 »

amelius wrote: post #16
gagan2020 wrote: post #7

There will be some chain reaction up there in near future, in our lifetime only. Congratulation to the team. These milestones are necessary to advancement of human race as we need new planets to occupy. But, we needed clear path going forward. I am both pro to advancement but with caution kind of guy.

Let's first be a competitor to Musk's short term commercial plans.

It's a race but who will bell the cat and be impartial? That should be the question.

Re: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Post by 3938848484 »

embedding-shape wrote: post #15
3938848484 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Must be incredibly humbling experience to not realize EU is a union of independent countries and the US is a federation of states until you work for one of the delegations, wasn't it? Most of us pick up on that even without professional experience about it.

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Re: Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight

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Post by nolok »

3938848484 wrote: post #10
nolok wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Eh hard disagree there, the way I see it there is no more squabble between France and Poland than there is between Texas and California or between Spain and Romania compared to New york and Virginia. In fact, I would say we have LESS of it. The only thing we need is to actually stop ignoring the forest for the tree and see that the world moved on beyond our petty local borders and we're lucky enough to have found a s…

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The European parliament and US congress are both just as united and fragmented.

We disagree internally until we find a common posture that we adopt.

I'm not sure why you talk California public sector instead of something involving multiple states that have differing views, that makes your comparison useless, that's why I say US congress.

Note that your misunderstanding of the situation and lack of knowledge about it is not rare per se, to give an exemple that's why a fair amount of brexiter politician were surprised the EU didn't break itself in internal fight over the UK deal (while they were used to the inside squabble when they were a member, and they failed to notice the similarity with their own parliament compared to their country).

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