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Post by rkomorn »

emmelaich wrote: post #2

Yet two days after this post, Starship delivered astronauts to the ISS. Seemed to work ok.

Starship did? You'll find many people very surprised by this bit of information.

Edit (to be a little more useful): did you mean Crew Dragon?

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/human-spaceflight/wa...

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Post by atonse »

I had a hard time taking this person seriously after the first couple of juvenile sentences.

Is this a thoughtful analysis or “I hate Elon so will dunk on SpaceX” type essay?

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Post by pstuart »

dannyfreeman wrote: post #3
emmelaich wrote: post #2

Yet two days after this post, Starship delivered astronauts to the ISS. Seemed to work ok.

Starship isn't rated for human spaceflight

But isn't that the goal? Regardless, the TFA posits that it's physically impossible to do what he promised to do. I'm not a rocket scientist but I got the gist of the problem (reentry is a bitch).

I'm a geek who's long been fascinated by space exploration and way back when, I drank the Elon koolaid. Knowing what he does with with his wealth puts me in the unfortunate position of cheering his failures. It sucks, but he's a threat and should not be further empowered.

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Post by timschmidt »

This is "performative skepticism" with a dose of negativity bias and argument from incredulity.

"Performative skepticism is a rhetorical strategy that mimics scientific skepticism but is used to protect certain beliefs from critical examination. It often undermines evidence-based knowledge"

https://ojs.bilpub.com/index.php/prr/article/view/455

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_incredulity

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