God, don’t get me started on orbital data centers.

Either you cause kessler syndrome by launching a million microsats, or, you just I guess invent scifi level orbital engineering, and come up with a scifi solution for thermal regulation.

Also like, server databases require, you know, on site maintenance.

… its a very dumb, expensive idea.

Uh, no.

No rocket development program since the 1970s has blown up or lost as many rockets as Starship/HeavyBooster’s development cycle has, proportional to how many rockets they built, flights they attempted.

And the entire fundamental design concept to be reliant on mass orbital fuel transfer, which has never been done, and will require a hell of a lot more development than drawings on napkins and CG renders… that’s Elon’s idea.

How many rockets has BlueOrigin lost?

Elon spent decades telling people he is an engineer.

When he roleplays as one, billions of dollars go up in smoke.

True… I’m just awed by the unprofessionalism of it.

These peoples means are going to justify their own end… they will forever be pariahs, at best.

Sort of.

Its… like 2, but I guess analagously a ‘pants-on-head’ situation.

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

The Sherman DD (Duplex Drive / “Donald Duck”):

Raised vents.

Pants/Skirt on Head.

Mechanical Flippers.

The bottom is already water tight, what you do have to is worry about water getting into the vents and of course making it into a psuedo ship hull shape.

Definitely not a good idea in anything other than pretty much placid water.

It reflects the current regime in the USA, who just started WW3, to make their apocalypse happen.

So it doesn’t reflect the whole world, but it certainly affects the whole world.

… Like, a Canon printer/photocopier?

So its just projectile vomiting generated images of the scene you likely intended to describe?

I mean yes, leopards and faces, but, goddamn.

US Police will break your window… but they typically won’t drag you through the now broken window, they’ll open the door, unbuckle you or cut the straps.

Fucking hell.

What’s underneath Hell?

How low can the bar be?

Real Time Raytracing.

Oh god that hadn’t even occured to me.

Yeah… yeah.

I dunno, send it back to the dealer, have them do it lol?

I’m sure car mechanics will just be a-ok with handling hydrazine, rofl!

I can’t even find barely any independent mechanic that’ll touch a gas-electric hybrid, they’re too ‘complicated’, apparently.

The ‘CyberPod’.

I must be at another level of cynicism than you, because I want to replace ‘tragic’ with ‘uproariously hilarious’.

Wheres’s that China vs US/California mass transit system map, change over last last two decades, map/meme thingy mabob when you need it…

Cool, I don’t care.

You’re just explaining why we are cucks to pedophiles, doesn’t change that every permaonline political slacktivist in the US is still a cuck to the pedophile class.

Either do something actually useful, or remain a cuck as the horrors only get worse.

I just wanna point out that even the chuds are pissed at mostly the right people at this point.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_QjJFQnA3gc

Like, look at this recent spate of videos.

If anybody wants to attempt actual politics, well, fairly good deal of common enemies, strange bedfellows and all that.

No effect, I already have that status modifier.

Its part of my ‘self-awareness’ peristent class ability.

Operation Epic Temper Tantrum.

This is the idiot nepobaby manchild actively throwing the most destructive hissy fit in the history of the world.

And he knows that is what he is doing.

And, he knows that we know that is what he is doing.

… and we’re all just letting him do it.

Because “what’re you gonna do about it?”

Mob boss shit.

He has a fuck ton of nukes, by the way.

Had to be talked out of nuking a hurricane, in his first term, back when he had staff that would push back against him, before he started stroking out, wondering aloud if he would make it into heaven.

… They’re not wrong, you are misunderstanding what they are saying.

Conservative MAGAs hate liberals, they actively want them to die.

Leftists also hate liberals, and either also actively want them to die, or don’t care if they die.

Thus… if a bunch of liberals get drafted and die in a war… the conservatives will be thinking “good, force them to do our bidding”, and the leftists will be thinking “if these clowns aren’t going to revolt against their ‘sacred institutions’ at this point, they never will, fuck em.”

They are agreeing with the comment they’re replying to, that the internal political management strat that Putin uses in Russia would also work in the US.

Also, for anyone confused: A US liberal is a centrist.

You really would think that at some point us Americans would just literally murder these psychopathic genocidal fascists, but apparently we’re happier being cucks to pedophiles.

In fairness, the Falcon 9 / Dragon capsule systems are solid and reliable, with good track records.

So its not literally all SpaceX stuff.

But… yeah, the Starship/HeavyBooster is what happens when Elon is in charge, utter shit show.

And also, the Falcon 9 family never actually got close to the cost reductions Elon initially said would be delivered by the re-usability paradigm.

It would have to be roughly an order of magnitude less expensive, for a ton to orbit, than what it currently is, to match what he said it would achieve.

as 18107 says, yeah, at various Musk companies, their have been people whose main job was primarily to distract him from getting involved very directly, but this has apparently stopped being a thing.

Just go find the conversation he had with some of the high ups on the Twitter team, when he took it over.

He just knows buzzwords, beyond that, probably most of the people in this thread are more intelligent than he is, on literally any subject… he has no idea how anything works beyond a very big picture / conceptual level.

… Elon said he was gonna put monopropellant / cold gas thrusters from the Dragon capsule into the Roadster, at one point.

https://www.maxim.com/rides/elon-musk-says-new-tesla-roadster-will-actually-fly-and-hit-60-mph-in-under-1-second/

Musk said the production version will be revealed later this year ahead of the start of production in 2025 and that it will have the previously announced SpaceX package, which will use cold gas thrusters to help the car accelerate and also “fly”— or hover for short distances.

“I think it has a shot at being the most mind-blowing product demo of all time,” Musk said.

Its almost like this guy just fucking says shit, snd idiots believe him, for some reason, even though he’s got a well established track record of lying about things that make basically no sense to lie about…

“I’m a world class Diablo player.”

… as well as an entire solid decade of making grandiose business / product promises, and then delivering basically 1% of what he promised.

AutoPilot/Full Self Drive is totally real guys, it’ll be perfect in a year or two… for a fucking decade.

Dude’s blown up or otherwise destroyed about half as many heavy lift launch vehicles as the entire Apollo program, and so far hasn’t even achieved orbit, much less with a payload, muchless tested the orbital refueling that his entire Starship system totally fails without.

Remember how we were gonna have rockets replace private jets?

Remember how the Boring company was gonna pay for itself by selling the dirt it dug up as bricks?

How’s Hyperloop doing these days?