Matthew Tortora

Believe you can build a better World

The European mind cannot even begin to comprehend the casual 6 hour road trip fueled by Krispy Kreme and Buc-ees to watch us launch humans to the moon

Mandate of Heaven

Space stocks up today, Artemis II coattails effect.

Watching @NASAAdmin piece together the scraps of NASA-past into an elegant and ambitious plan in Ignition is genuinely awe-inspiring. The organizational and bureaucratic navigation necessary to turn what amounts to a bucket of parts, into a roaring engine is genuinely insane.

@thefficacy lol

@MatthewTortora_ Sorry that we don't support your parasitic movement that rejects science and human decency.

Jared is killing the PR game and these people are acting like petulant children because he’s choosing to go on shows that actually have audiences and not wholesome chungus leftoid streamers and NPR.

On my way down to the cape!

@catalinafrog Not even heroism can stand for itself to these people, it must be in the service of billions of third worlders.

Possibly the dumbest interpretation of project Hail Mary I’ve ever seen

@cormac_mars @dsonoiki Generally speaking, even in our very mixed economic system, value and capital tend to flow towards the producers. If you think about it even for half a second it would make a lot of sense that our system of placing value, will allocate it to the architects of modernity.

@dsonoiki @MatthewTortora_ Elon created my entire industry, millions of jobs, trillions of dollars in salaries People who hate billionaires just don’t understand what an economy is Products & Services, not money. If you don’t have companies & brilliant founders making things, you don’t have an economy.

I drive a Tesla and it’s incredible I can order some shit on Amazon and it will be there before I even put it in my cart Instagram is full of bad bitches I LOVE billionaires ❤️❤️❤️

Just saw a tik tok starship/SLS edit with 100k likes. Do not listen to the cynical losers. People love space. People want to explore the stars.

@GrantObi I freaking LOVE science (doesn’t understand science)

Midwit haters will frame their hating of most things in "science", because they're intellectuals. Computer in radiation bad. Radiation in space? Computer in space bad. There, now there's a "science" reason. That's all they needed, they don't really care about solutions.

There’s people on this app complaining that Artemis II isn’t bigger news but also complain when Isaacman does a spot on Fox News.

@xdNiBoR “Falcon is okay…. Reliability is at 99% it’s not 99.9%” is he serious?

Incredibly funny to see wannabe experts think that they know more than the company operating 10k satellites right now. Yup! They definitely just forgot about radiation! 😭

@xdNiBoR Cynics sound smart, optimists conquer the stars.

@Arinkhalda Is this hardware in the room with us right now?

Trust me bro the way to make a long term manned lunar program work is to stop a multi-year international space project AFTER flight hardware has been BUILT and DELIVERED, and to have the illusion that the privatisation of such a program will make it inexpensive

Interesting, did not know that. I mean sci-fi is a great vessel for geopolitical/political intrigue, see: Dune. Now we’re so near to the real possibility the line can be blurred and something like a paper could be written on it, should be honestly. Obviously it’s not at the forefront of the mission right now like rocket engineering but Mars will be a first-of-its-kind engineered society and we ought to give some thought to how we’re doing that.

@MatthewTortora_ I remember Robinson came out against real-life Mars colonization (at least in the near future) which was disappointing. It was around the time of ITS or BFR. So he may have always been more interested in a political narrative than realistic colonization.

I recently started reading Red Mars and with the release of For All Mankind season 5 it has me thinking alot about future Martian politics and particularly the independence and revolution narrative we see. When actually examining the societal and economic influences it honestly doesn’t make sense. The first Martian’s will be made up of a specially selected group of highly intelligent, highly conscientious subject matter experts, particularly in spaceflight, engineering, and scientific fields, all very intensely rule-based fields. If anything, the first iteration of Martian culture will be very spartan. Poetically fitting for the planet named for the God of War… In this sense The Expanse captures the dynamics more accurately imo, though I think it’s still a little heavy handed in the independence and Mars/Earth conflict realm. Might do a long-form substack deep dive into this.

There is a marked difference at the programmatic level on how a sustaining lunar presence is achieved and maintained. Old Artemis had no defined cost estimates beyond Artemis 3, Ignition does. Old Artemis had no defined surface delivery and launch schedule either, Ignition does. Not even mentioning the developments in actual station building prerequisites like moonfall landers, comms networks, power infrastructure and the like. Ignition assigns a 20 billion budget over 7 years with deliverables and schedules. It cans the distractions (gateway) standardizes SLS, and represents a vast increase in clarity. Idk how you look at that compared to pre-ignition Artemis plans and determine the new plan is the hand-waving one.

@MatthewTortora_ What we have at the time being is handwaving the sustaining presence. They just flipped the sign on handwaving.

The greatest part about Isaacman’s Ignition plan is that there are now truly sketched out plans for post Artemis 3/4 lunar operations. Old Artemis and Gateway supporters always handwaved perhaps the most important aspect, the sustaining presence, away. Now we have something.

If the Artemis launch window holds I plan on being down at the cape until Friday if any mutuals wanna hmu!