Oh god. If I spent enough time digging through my ancient Slashdot posts, somewhere back there there are posts of me going, "While I loved the strategy behind Falcon 9, I'm really not keen on this plan to make Starship out of huge carbon fibre tanks, that sounds like a really failure-prone solution..." I'm glad they only spent like a year on that idea before deciding it was dumb; somewhere back there there's also a bunch of posts of me cheering their switch to steel ;) . SpaceX still keep having random COPV problems (most of which they don't even make themselves). Not too encouraging for the notion of the cold gas thruster add-on to the Roadster, where the plan is to replace the back seat with COPVs, so you have a COPV right behind your head.

Electron has been getting by on CF, and honestly I'm impressed, but they've also been only working with very small launch vehicles thusfar. We'll see how neutron goes...

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I hate Elon because he's a terrible human being. He has a dozen or so children that also don't seem to like him all that much.

Bullshit. Post some links.

Wonder what Fox News was talking about this morning?

Is the muslim rape gang in the room with you right now?

Garbage regulations like IP create these behemoths. If you want freedom, stop regulating monopolies into existence.

Regullations are evil and the government should let the market decide; except, of course, when the regulations protect them from the market.

You’re the only person thinking about trans children. Is there something on your mind?

In related news Meta has agreed to paint the sickly green reflection pond in DC Meta blue. When asked for comment Mark Zuckerberg replied: Suck it plebs, I can buy justice.

When asked for further comment Trump was quoted as saying: Nobody can ace that cognitive test better than me. I was able to circle the giraffe faster than that loser Obama.

Don't get me wrong, there's a lot to say about printing small rocket parts, such as for the engines. But they were printing basically sheet metal cylinders, which is such an immensely slow and inefficient way to go about it, and it left them with parts that were heavier and less aerodynamic (rougher surface). Crazy that idea ever got any funding.

The one seen over Moscow might have been, with a bit more thrust...

"SapceX has got to be a huge scam too" - SpaceX launches the vast majority of the world's commercial cargo to orbit. The Falcon 9 FT has the highest success rate of any rocket with a statistically significant number of launches under its belt, and is dirt cheap. SpaceX's core operations are roughly breakeven, but that's including subsidizing the development of Starship. Starlink is a money printer.

There are lots of things sketchy about the SpaceX IPO, to say the least, but SpaceX, as a company, has been extremely successful with rocketry.

All these new and experimental reactor designs boil down to requiring a material that doesn't exist.

You are in a cult. Please seek help and deprogramming. Your post is nothing but whataboutism and conjecture.