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trusting a dude who is compromised by interests in China up to his eyeballs to do anything involving national security seems unwise
literally can't make who you are talking about
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Could you elaborate for those of us who don’t typically follow space news? Has Space-X had some trouble recently?
I can’t tell if you’re being cute and trying to carve out some exemption here when it’s clear what I’m talking about I think but let’s operate on good faith. The owner with an 80% voting control of the company has had some very serious issues in judgement lately not limited to the Twitter fiasco but has also made a number of public moves that were very friendly towards what the US has called their biggest national se…
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Could you elaborate for those of us who don’t typically follow space news? Has Space-X had some trouble recently?
Musk has had some trouble recently, but I thought it was pretty well known that Shotwell pretty much runs the show at SpaceX & has for some time. I may be completely incorrect, but I think Musk is mostly just a mascot/figurehead/hype-man for SpaceX & has been for a bit. Regarding most of the day-day stuff that is, he probably still has some input on very long term matters. But I think if Musk were to die in a mysteri…
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literally can't make who you are talking about
They don't have a fake Russian Kompromat file to justify the foreign boogieman narrative this time around but they'll believe it if it suits their ideology ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
And there was plenty of evidence other than the file that indicates that it happened.
trusting a dude who is compromised by interests in China up to his eyeballs to do anything involving national security seems unwise
He is 1/10th as compromised as Tim Apple, and the DoD uses iPhones.
Elon has demonstrated in both his public and private life that he can be very flexible with his ethics and morals if it furthers his business objectives. Tim by comparison has been pretty consistent.
Sooner or later the US Government will realize the Starship will be a good launching vehicle for the ballistic missile defense. Currently a midcourse ground base interceptor booster [1] weighs more than 20 tons, costs a few tens of millions, and carries one single kill vehicle [2] that weighs about 64 kg. A single Starship would be able to carry more than 1000 such kill vehicles. If Russia launches a few hundred miss…
1) That way you would have a single Starship launching a single kill vehicle in more than 1000 pieces. In order to be truly independent, each kill vehicle needs significant delta-v on its own, which lowers the number of kill vehicles by two orders of magnitude.
2) Starship has pretty weak engines for this task. While the missile used to launch the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle reaches ~10 km/s in less than 4 minutes, Starship launch profile suggests 8 km/s in ~9 minutes. When a nuclear strike is incoming, you don't have those minutes to waste.
3) Starship uses liquid fuel, which means it can't wait on the launchpad ready to launch at a moment's notice very long. Missiles use solid fuels for a reason.
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They don't have a fake Russian Kompromat file to justify the foreign boogieman narrative this time around but they'll believe it if it suits their ideology ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yevgeny Prigozhin admitted that he interfered in US elections. And there was plenty of evidence other than the file that indicates that it happened.
All of the social media campaigns attributed to Russian agencies weren't even backing one party. They hit both sides. All they cared about was generating social conflict.
They rebranded Starlink so they can sell it to the government for 10x the price.
Governments want it 100x more than the public, so they might be under charging.
trusting a dude who is compromised by interests in China up to his eyeballs to do anything involving national security seems unwise
He is 1/10th as compromised as Tim Apple, and the DoD uses iPhones.
Sooner or later the US Government will realize the Starship will be a good launching vehicle for the ballistic missile defense. Currently a midcourse ground base interceptor booster [1] weighs more than 20 tons, costs a few tens of millions, and carries one single kill vehicle [2] that weighs about 64 kg. A single Starship would be able to carry more than 1000 such kill vehicles. If Russia launches a few hundred miss…
Three things: 1) That way you would have a single Starship launching a single kill vehicle in more than 1000 pieces. In order to be truly independent, each kill vehicle needs significant delta-v on its own, which lowers the number of kill vehicles by two orders of magnitude. 2) Starship has pretty weak engines for this task. While the missile used to launch the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle reaches ~10 km/s in less tha…