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Comment Re:9WM? (Score 5, Informative) 30

NINE MEGAWATTS

It's an electric rocket system. They've aggressively eliminated all possible hydraulics. Gimbling rocket engines and flap articulation is all electric in Starship V3 and booster stage. So is cryogenic recirc. All that stuff has to react rapidly to achieve the agility necessary for the insane flight profile they have; slow gear trains won't cut it; so they have dozens of the most powerful direct drive actuators our species has yet devised.

Also, 9 MW isn't all that much. It's about 12,000 HP, or what you get from a modest gas turbine, or a few diesel locomotives. Naval vessels use gas turbines of that size for on-board power generation.

Comment Re:Safety sells (Score 1) 26

This is not even remotely true.

Tesla shuts off before crashes
https://electrek.co/2025/03/17...

Tesla can't detect things even the most primitive AEB systems will stop for
https://www.theswansonlawgroup...

Idiots who Elon wouldn't piss on if they were on fire suck billionaire dick
https://slashdot.org/comments....

Comment Re:Wealth redistribution? (Score 1) 91

Why do you react so angrily to disagreement?

Oh look, you're morally bankrupt and stupid. Already knew that, though.

I promise you that letting Jesus into your life will make it better.

Oh, THAT is the specific kind of creeper dipshit you are. I wondered. I do not want or need Jesus to save me from what Jesus is going to do to me (send me to hell) if I don't love him. Your god is the most pathetic abusive substitute for an abusive spouse ever imagined by sad little men.

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