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Comment Re:Publicity stunt (Score 1) 44

Anything the moon has the Earth has in much greater abundance.

Including gravity, which turns out is a major obstacle. One reason to go to the moon to to test build a Moon stalk, which is a lot easier to test and build on the moon than a Terrestrial Space Elevator. A Moon stalk is within our technological grasp and space will probably provide the technological opportunities we need to create new materials technology that would allow us to create a Space Elevator. That would dramatically reduce mass to orbit costs.

Comment Re:Be funny if they skipped the flyby (Score 1) 44

I was thinking the same thing. Or maybe near the pole, to look for water.

Absolutely this is the goal. Oxygen is four times the mass of methane IIRC, produce it in the moon and you eliminate launching a lot of mass into space from Earth. That's why B.O's second stage is hydrogen fueled and their lunar lander project is testing tech to extract oxygen from lunar regolith. If you look at their tech closely you can see how they're trying to build an orbital supply chain for fuel.

Comment Re:Lets Race! (Score 1) 44

The Chinese government is doing basically what the US government did back in the 1960s. Set a goal, make it happen, fund it properly...

and hope their hydra-zine fuel launchers don't come down on a village or a city. The Chinese successfully combine the worst aspects of capitalism and communism together in terms of their regard for the everyday Chinese citizen. It's a terrifying thought that that may control access to space or the moon. I hope they change their ways.

Comment Re:Lets Race! (Score 1) 44

Blue Origin demonstrates that. Panned for being "behind" SpaceX, but when they fly stuff it tends to work and suddenly they caught up.

A day or so ago Blue Origin had a launcher explode on the pad for a spin prime test IIRC. I'd bet it was probably the second stage considering the last launch also had a second stage failure that failed to put it's payload into orbit and we've had no news on what happened to NG-3's second stage or where it's coming down.
That's not a criticism of Blue Origin, New Glen is needed. It's context on how second stages are hard to produce because they have to operate in zero gravity. So far N.G has had two, IIRC, second stages operate, however this last failure will probably put them back by about a yes.

So B.O is externalizing big risks launching customer payloads knowing this is the case, reason being is their competition for Starlink, LEO has federally mandated deadlines for them to launch otherwise they loose their license to operate it.

Now contrast this with SpaceX's approach, 12 launches whose multiple goals include testing second stages in zero gravity environments that destroy the hardware as an expected result. So even though they haven't launched a commercial payload yet with StarShip, the real payload is the operational experience they get from each launch.

I think B.O will catch up because they have a re-useable first stage for a stack that offers greater flexibility than SS however SX is simply proving that there is no substitute for the experience of operating space craft in space.

Comment The need for Cunts (Score 2) 163

Modern unions are not the same as the old unions.

Maybe they have to be as big a bunch of cunts as the cunts they go up against. Last time I checked cunts were ruling the world. We're seeing leaders with psychopathic characteristics, you're probably going to have to be a cunt just to go up against a more cunty set of cunts or the cunts will walk right over you.

The old unions fought the important battles, and their goals are mostly enshrined in law not just union contracts.

They died as well, for workers rights and human right and were used and deceived by another bunch of cunts. Some here have fought against unionization without the consideration that maybe, just maybe, people in tech who wanted to try would see these flaws and find a better way to outsmart the cunts. If only for the cunts amongst us, they may have succeeded.

Kennedy once said "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable"
loosely translated
"Cunts that make you be a cunt makes everyone have to be a cunt."

Comment Re:At Some Point They'll Need a New Excuse (Score 1) 59

When these too-big-to-fail bloodsuckers can no longer support themselves and need a government handout they

will blame people for not being motivated enough to want to work.

The thing about AI is it is showing the world how morally bankrupt these corporations are, it's a true mirror for how much they value ordinary human beings. Fix incorporation law and expose them to the liability they create then watch them cry how it all AIs fault and that people are just not loyal anymore. It's more than they deserve.

Comment Re:100% understandable (Score 1) 108

Also, a nuclear plant gives local employment. A data center has very few workers once built.

Well if we're looking at tech to put AI data centres in space, space based power won't be far behind .

An possible avenue of terrestrial nuclear power obsolescence maybe that we're going to need as much nuclear power as we can get in space where we really can't do solar because it's so far away. That is a consideration within the service lifetime of any type of reactor you'd build today along with the possibility it may kill the very community it employs.

It maybe that the two combined create options that no one really saw coming.

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