Its more of an engineering frontier and that has always been advanced best with capitalism. Unfortunately nothing has come along that’s better.

NASA went private because they wanted to save money. Falcon 9 have achieved so much more than any government ever has. Shows how little you know about spacex or even space in general.

How much of american GDP went towards Apollo? How much is going to SpaceX?

NASA saved a fortune on SpaceX. Elon must be a genius then if he managed all this with no formal education. What a legend.

Starship is overdue so is SLS. It’s rocket science. No one said it was easy.

Again SpaceX is trying to do something that no one else is even trying. This year is just data collection. Also they have been slowed by government, but they would still be behind anyway.

You just can’t face or you are just ignorant to what Spacex has actually achieved. Go look it up.

What has Spacex achieved under Elon musk? Why did Nasa look for private businesses? What other car companies have made EV’s? How many exactly?

Oh wait you just hate him so nothing matters.

Thanks for posting. Love seeing everyday astronauts enthusiasm.

SpaceX is such an amazing company. Sad people can’t see it because they are too interested in circle jerking their hate boner over Elon.

Probably more technically energy. Think you can make plasma with accelerators. But energy is heat anyway basically. Not that I want to make myself out to be an expert because I’m absolutely not. I don’t really know.

This happens because the air heats up so much due to friction that it forms into another state of matter called plasma

Can someone confirm this? I was told the plasma is caused by compression not by friction.

Such an interesting flight.

Everyone thought it was going to explode at somepoint. Even the enthusiastic and hopeful hosts were talking about how long it’s going to last. Then it made it.

Would love to see some photos of it.

But they aren’t reviving anything are they?

Engineer 1 “How do we know how strong this part needs to be?”

Engineer 2 “Um. Shall we test it?”

Engineer 1 “Yea okay.” … “Oh hey we learnt something.”

Some random guy watching “Look at the removeding idiots over there. Testing things. Chumps”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk-ordered-starlink-turned-off-ukraine-offensive-biography

I wouldn’t approve it the turn it off during an active operation.

He did removed Ukraine up on the starlink thing and he seems more pro Russian than I like.

I’m not some crazy Elon is the Anti Christ but he should be judged on Russian.

It’s just a big circle jerk.

Hating Musk is cool and nothing else matters.

If nothing else the CEO of the top rocket company talking about rockets should be a point of discussion. In stead it’s “does that say Elon Musk. Downvote! Hahaha I’m so great. Take that Musk”

I don’t know why I had so much optimism for the project before this flight, even expecting potential multiple failure, then when flight 3 happened I felt less optimistic (emotionally) eventhough it was pretty successful. I dont know why. Reading over this seems to have raised my optimism.

Nothing seems unfixable. The booster needs a bit more control coming down which could be simple software. The ship needs a bit more control in space. Neither of those sound problematic (long term) at all. Also the door might not have worked but I’m sure a space company can fix a door.

Is anyone worried about the shape of starship on reentry being unstable? Reentry capsules self correct aerodynamically, but starship didn’t seem to correct itself and made me a bit worried.

Isn’t it a big government business that hires a lot of people?

What politician would want to cancel that and lose votes?

Has anyone seen one of these go off?

I think one day I’ll make the trip to see one.

I’m super excited for 3.

1 was cool. It got off the pad and pushed into the sky then the failures started happening, 1 engine, 2, 3 etc and still it pushed on. It was like some action movie where the vehicle slowly dies but they people just stick their heads down and keep going. Ultimately it was doomed though.

2 was cool because it looked perfect and was beautiful and they improved massively on the first. But that came across new challenges also.

Hope 3’s great. Least to shut up all circle jerker anti SpaceX crowd that don’t know what they are on about. But I’ll be happy if they don’t nail it till 5 or 6. After that I’ll be getting worried.

There are some top level issues are some smaller (but no less problematic) issues underneath.

They probably need to be spoken about.

The big two are:

Issue 1) Why should I leave, or partially leave reddit?

Issue 2) Why should I go to lemmy?

The issues I have and have heard about.

1. Isn’t it full of tankies and trannies?

2. Do I join lemmy.com or what? There are a load of websites which do I join? How do I join?

3. Is there a app for this?

4. Isn’t it dead over there?

And remember a lot more people read comments than reply to them, or even vote on them. Just because no one asked about something doesn’t mean 10 people didn’t read you comment and think. “I’m not going there because of XYZ”

It would be great if there was mens clubs to just hang out, drink, talk, play games things like that. In fact there was and they were HUGE but men aren’t allowed them now.

It would be great if boys could have that. Almost like a girls scouts but for boys.

This is it.

Men underperform in things like education and work.

Who gets all the help? Women.

There is so much toxic feminism that doesn’t get attention. A male only shelter got shut down by me because the feminists protested so much until it got shut down.

Women get told they need there own spaces for mental health, women’s issues, to have women’s chat.

Men aren’t allowed those things. They are told they never open up, they are toxic they shouldn’t be acting x,y,z and they should be more like girls.

What you are saying is when all thr fallout occurs then they get help. You are fixing a problem when their could be a solution before it becomes a problem.

The only places I have been close to that are “toxic” male places. All boys clubs, drinking clubs, rugby clubs.

But women see them as toxic and label then like that. But if you talk to them you get more toxic than from these clubs they aren’t a part of that tell you how horrible they are.