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@BanhmiBrieoche @yellowparenti i meant 2013 but i did misplace my closed timelike curve

@windshieldsvr @yellowparenti I'm assuming you mean 2033. If so. I strongly disagree. 2043 is possible but i don't think its likely. But i hope so! That would be cool

Slave mentality 🥀 It gets to a point where its just sad

@BanhmiBrieoche @yellowparenti i suspect the mars base will be running by 2013.

@windshieldsvr @yellowparenti Can *later* be grown into a colony. I do Agree a mars mission will need something much more akin to a base then a moon mission but my idea of a mars base is a structure that supports multiple visiting crews through handover periods

@BanhmiBrieoche @yellowparenti The first people who go to mars are going to need a base, said base can later be grown into a colony.

@windshieldsvr @yellowparenti Cargo starships can get to mars but theres a huge jump between sending stuff to the mars and having a colony. You need alot of equipment developed, built and tested and prove out alot of stuff. And things don't go perfectly, a mars base in 2040s/2050s is possible Very possible

@FlyingVVFlying @haprho @CapacityKing @bikinatroll the altimeter of an airplane does not know where the surface of the earth is

@haprho @windshieldsvr @CapacityKing @bikinatroll Earth is a topographical planar stationary system regardless of your feelings. You can treat the Earth flat and stationary per thousands of miles. Don't need to talk about it much. You can fly and figure it out.

ht: @bikinatroll

@BanhmiBrieoche @yellowparenti I never said they were analogous, but when the tech level is present I see no reason why it'd be waiting until the 2040/50's. If starship HLS can get to the moon, then there's no reason why unmanned cargo starships can't get to mars.

@windshieldsvr @yellowparenti Ofc the point of the Artemis program is proving ISRU and deep space operations close to earth. But it doesn't mean mars missions are completely analogous to moon missions because of Delta V requirements

@BanhmiBrieoche @yellowparenti I don't really get this. the DV requirements for taking payloads to mars are lower then that of the moon. If Artemis IV is possible in 2028 then building a base on mars is equally possible at the same time pending ISRU technology for a return mission.

@yellowparenti Depends on the timescale. I can't imagine anything resembling a colony either pre 2050 lol

@SwiftieofCain spacex rockets are actually really cool and awesome

Was bound to happen in a capitalist world, but eveyone, from dystopian novels to thinkers like Marx, thought it would be because of one guy monopolising a very sought-after good. So we truly lost the plot that it's some guy exploding rockets. There's a French solution to this...

@FlyingVVFlying @haprho @CapacityKing @bikinatroll all pilots know airplanes maintain altitude using barometric pressure

@haprho @windshieldsvr @CapacityKing @bikinatroll Why lie? You can lie all you want. The reality is you fly perpendicular and parallel to the plane. Never accounting for earth curvatur or spin?. No matter the size of aircraft. Meaning it's not dependent on equipment. So why lie about that??

@FlyingVVFlying @haprho @CapacityKing @bikinatroll real pilot here why would you expect to account for r=3960mi & ω=0.0007rpm

@haprho @CapacityKing @bikinatroll Why would you lie about such a thing ? If you've actually flown, you'll know that you don't account for it. What dog in the fight do you have to be dishonest?

believe in the hail mary

@FlyingVVFlying @RondureGyre @pamuszynski @Xentrik85 the airplane flies level using barometric pressure

@RondureGyre @pamuszynski @Xentrik85 Meanwhile, all aircraft flies, parallel and perpendicular to the plane of Earth. Regardless of your feelings.

If the Earth is flat, why can't we draw it on a flat map without distorting the proportions? Not only do you have to ignore aircraft route times and distances, but you also have to deny the distances travelled by millions of people every day.

@ZeteticV3 it isn't. It fluctuates by minute percentile depending on latitude. You would not expect a significant change with a rotation rate as low as one rotation per day. (This has been measured in numerous experiments on the ground and in flight).

@FlyingVVFlying @pamuszynski @Xentrik85 i love fake pilots

@pamuszynski @packers_owner_j @Xentrik85 I fly aircraft you don’t adjust for earth curvature or spin and your map isn’t reality! At local level, you have accuracy at global level you don’t! The Earth is so massive like you say you claim that man can map it all I know, man man can’t! ! there is no 8 inch/ mile squared!

@KenKirtland17 starship all the way down...

Hey so now that HLS pushing Orion is the plan for Artemis I think NASA's Mars plan just got a lot simpler. We have our Transit Hab and Transfer Stage! Now we just need an descent and ascent vehicle...

@Pudgy890633 @HJarsz most space people know this is a fake picture

@HJarsz The only thing immediately obvious is that space cowboys get offended when we call out a fake picture for what it is.

Ball, oval or oblate spheroid? I wish they could make up their mind.🤣 Thanks for the Friday fun Astonomy Guy.

@ryzerth In 2070 or so my raid 0 array will consist of an entire satellite constellation and there's nothing you can do about it

As someone who studied spacecraft design, this is the single dumbest thing I've ever read on here. Thread (1/x)

@trustedfragger @alexboge AI datacenters in space are not an idea exclusive to Elon, if it was such a stupid idea multiple entities including the CCP wouldn't be racing to have their own solutions.

@alexboge Brother, spaceX engineers didn't miss anything. They know this is stupid. It's Elon who blurts out half witted ideas with impossible timelines just to boost spaceX IPO valuation. And he did it many times before. If this will come it will be much smaller and much much later.

A lot of people have already jumped on the technical errors here, and I’ll get to those. But what bothers me isn’t that he got the physics wrong - it’s that he was so confidently, publicly wrong without a moment’s hesitation. That’s the meta-failure. JerryRigEverything has a very specific lane: destroying brand new phones on camera. People love it. It's genuinely entertaining. But that lane doesn't come anywhere near spacecraft thermal engineering, vacuum physics, or orbital systems design - and that's exactly where he planted his flag here. And I get it, a little. He saw something posted by a company whose founder he clearly and passionately despises. That's a powerful bias trigger - it shortcuts the critical thinking path before it even gets started. Motivated reasoning is real and it gets everyone sometimes. But here's what that shortcut cost him: he announced to 14 million subscribers that SpaceX engineers had missed something blindingly obvious - without taking 30 seconds to ask "Has anyone smarter than me already dealt with this problem?" The answer is yes. Emphatically. Repeatedly. For 65 years. Every satellite ever launched operates in vacuum. The ISS manages 100+ kW of heat rejection in vacuum. The James Webb Space Telescope radiates waste heat so efficiently it approaches 6 Kelvin. The entire discipline of spacecraft thermal engineering exists specifically to solve the problem he thinks nobody solved. Confident ignorance driven by motivated reasoning - and it's a dangerous failure mode at 14 million subscribers. [2/2 to follow]

@HarperDean935 @peterrhague which space reactors have scattered nuclear material on populated areas.

@peterrhague Yes, and they stopped doing that because several of them failed and scattered radioactive material all over populated areas. Holy shit how are yall this fucking stupid. You'll also notice how a nuclear reactor is not a sensitive CPU. In fact, getting hot is the entire point.

The Soviets put nuclear reactors in space you idiot

@ZacksJerryRig the international space station and satellites are infamous for having no processors onboard

You know the reason your Stanley or Hydroflask is so good at keeping your water cold is because there's a vacuum inside the walls of the thermos. Heat can't conduct in a vaccum. And "radiated" heat is ineffective at the temperatures processors operate at. This satellite will be like plugging in your gaming PC without a CPU cooler. It'll be dead in minutes.

@AeroBigMike burn slower?

I’m extremely curious how (or if) this will be done given starship’s engines exceed the limits of the IDSS on Orion/Starship.