You have no idea what I'm talking about. Put it this way: I know more about your religion than you do.

This is Bernie we're talking about. He wants to ban everything that doesn't directly benefit the bolshevik revolution. Sure, they're not actually a majority or even close to it, but when did losing an election ever stop a socialist party once it gained any meaningful measure of power?

Not exactly, but still within the ballpark.

I believe there's more to this than you're aware. The biggest thing is likely the fact that SpaceX already had multiple other rockets ready to replace it. Blue origin does not. Now imagine the cost of a one-off car vs a mass produced car. New Glenn is more akin to the former, falcon 9 the latter.

That particular falcon 9 was also the first to use what's basically (but not quite) supercooled fuel in order to hold more fuel overall. The RUD was related to that. The concept worked by the way, the very next falcon used it, but without the flaw that caused the RUD.

The way blue origin works is the same way old space works: Design the rocket from 0% to 100% before you test anything. If you want to try anything new that might improve the rocket, you'll have to prove the concept first, then wait one or two years for the rocket we build at that time.

It's not really an apples to apples comparison. You wonder why SpaceX doesn't treat a lost rocket as a big deal where everybody else does. Well, this is why. Same reason you think starship is some sort of joke or vanity project: You're expecting the very first rocket to be fully developed and production ready with all planned features implemented. SpaceX does not.

Blue origin is older than SpaceX and were better funded at the beginning. The first booster SpaceX landed was never reused.

Remember also that around 2018 or so, blue origin poached many SpaceX engineers with the promise of better compensation (which is an interesting story in itself, the short version is: they were promised shares that went up in smoke, they ended up with much worse compensation.) They likely picked up some of that knowledge that way. But it's moot: The problem at blue origin isn't engineers, it's management.

Not really. The reason SpaceX makes constant iterative changes is because it keeps each per-unit cost much lower and much easier to replace, and overall progress goes much faster and lower cost. You're likely unaware that blue origin is in fact the older company that was better funded at the start. SpaceX is and has been leapfrogging blue origin, not the other way around, even though SpaceX is and has been already ahead.

Starship has enough payload to orbit capacity to carry a dead weight New Glenn to orbit. That's just how much of a different scale we're talking about here. And did I mention it operates at a lower cost?

There's a reason SpaceX can (and does) shrug off RUDs where others can't: A complete loss of vehicle is maybe a 3 month setback for SpaceX. For blue origin, ESA, ULA, others, it's much longer.

Your hate boner for Elon will only allow you to believe none of this is true, but the results speak for themselves. You like to go out of your way to praise China even where it is unwarranted, so you might want to look at who the Chinese players in this are trying to copy.

I think GP means they fail to deliver on time or on specification, so contract goes to SpaceX, and this wouldn't be the first time exactly that has happened. SpaceX is already the lower cost, more reliable choice by a very wide margin; the reason the others get the contracts is to more or less throw them a bone and ensure there are future options available.

Blue origin is kind of the exact opposite of SpaceX -- very top heavy, highly bureaucratic, little to no interest in efficiency, optimization, or cost reduction, no desire to get anything done in a timely manner. While they did land a booster, which is no small feat of engineering, it's only a third of what makes it economically viable: They need to produce the boosters at scale and turn them around quickly after each use, and for that to make any sense they would also need to find or create an economic demand to meet that supply. Space tourism just won't cut it unless you can get the cost much lower and do more than a ten minute suborbital microgravity flight. For the money, tourists can do way better than that without even passing the karman line, let alone going suborbital or even orbital.

Short of that, they're going to run into exactly the same problems that NASA, the ESA, and a host of others pointed at when pooh-poohing Elon for wanting to do it (and for whatever reason, the ESA is now trying to chase after Falcon 9, will manage to replicate it 5 years after it's already obsolete, only to find out at that time that they won't be able to come anywhere close to replicating SpaceX's operational costs or launch cadence.)

Roughly 3.2 million. Though the housing costs there aren't too dissimilar to Phoenix, which is where I'm originally from. But you know what? They're a hell of a lot better than Los Angeles pricing, with more modern infrastructure and construction. Everything out here was built in the 1950s, most of it referred to at the time as "cracker box" housing, which means even for the 1950s, it was cheap shit construction, generally of worse quality than today's manufactured homes.

Rents here that are priced at about what you're used to don't include a washer, dryer, dishwasher, refrigerator, ceiling fans, air conditioning and often not even a microwave. If you're in a house, it's just one bedroom within a shared crackerbox that was later converted to a mcmansion with the original crackerbox core intact. The only way to get anything remotely decent is through word of mouth, because people with the better, more reasonable stuff don't list it anywhere or do a formal lease. The last thing they want is rsilvergun squatting in it.

What difference does it make with you?

They install it? Bad intent
They remove it? Bad intent

There's nothing they could possibly do that you'd consider a win aside from changing their letter from R to D and set up a politburo. Then you'd consider everything they do to be a win. That's just how much of a shallow simpleton you are. You're a waste of time. Go whine up some other tree. And take a fucking bath.

You're witnessing how any given issue can become partisan. Politicians here in California want it in the name of safety, (see, for example, Gavin Newsome's comments) and apparently rsilvergun thinks it's necessary to follow rich people around (to what end, who the fuck knows with him, there's no rhyme or reason behind anything he says or does.)

I've been keeping an eye on something similar with 3d printers.

https://planet3dp.com/legislat...

I don't care what the motivation is, a good thing is a good thing no matter how you slice that cheese. From where I sit, the grass looks greener there. Capital flight from here and New York is largely landing there too. And you guys are getting rid of property taxes. Plus you guys have several of the world's best dive sites. Looking greener and greener every day. Wanna trade?

I don't understand the government here.

https://planet3dp.com/legislat...

Among other things, California will effectively ban open source slicers like orcaslicer, require locked bootloaders, ban "jailbreaking" them, etc.

What difference does it make? Derps are derps. You never know what they're going to do, and there doesn't have to be rhyme or reason behind any of it.

They definitely are, and they're definitely irrational.

I recall a conversation here not long ago where some derp was making a big shit over what is, at the end of the day, a trivial amount of carbon with the incredibly stupid argument of "more carbon is more carbon". IIRC my response was something to the effect of "you know, if you off yourself, that would reduce carbon output too. Less carbon is less carbon." And that's to say nothing of rsilvergun, drinkypoop, et al who literally want to see bad outcomes for the neuralink patients simply because it's somehow connected to Elon. Pretty fucked up to want to deny any hope at all for patients with tetraplegia or locked-in syndrome for any reason at all, let alone an irrational hatred for just one guy who isn't even those patients, but I've come to expect that shit out of them since long before then.

Besides, the likely reason for this is the fact that most of these launches were for starlink. The current iteration of starlink isn't intended to be around for much longer, and what replaces it physically can't be sent to orbit with Falcon 9 or even Falcon Heavy.

Talking to your steaming cup again I see. Though if it has maggots in it, that means you're reheating it. Why would you do that? If anything, heating kills off the parasites you have such a soft spot for. And why wait for the maggots at all, especially considering they usually eat those same parasites?