SecretRaginMan

@MongoTheGeek @gatorgar @SpaceX No. Elon wanted to buy Russian rockets for what would have been a vanity project of having a tiny greenhouse on Mars. They rejected his offer and literally spit on him. So he founded SpaceX and made his own rockets. The rest is history.

@gatorgar Didn't @SpaceX start out flying old Russian hardware? And wasn't the Falcon 1 derived from it?

Interesting that starship/super heavy v3 adopted the same style hot staging ring as the Soyuz (and N1!) Soviet engineering can leave a lot to be desired, but when they brute force their way to an optimal solution, it’s usually pretty optimal.

@CSI_Starbase @Krishell1985 America. We don't rely on third world oil. We import from our hemisphere and refine it here and export that. Even if we stop importing we have enough reserve here to ramp production up to make the difference. Autozone is being ridiculous.

@Krishell1985 Name a country where that is possible.

In today’s example of things the MSM is failing to warn people about…👇🏾 This is going to lead to a lot of blown motors as people try to substitute things that don’t belong in their cars.

Three years since the first flight of Starship, the next generation is here. New ship. New booster. New engines. New pad and new test site. SpaceX engineers are working to solve one of the most difficult engineering challenges in history: developing a fully, rapidly reusable rocket

@Mafivo199564 @p9cker_girl It means racism. It means xenophobia. It means cultural appropriation. It means colonialism. It means cultural genocide. It means you were the bigots all along. You erase the work of others to draw over it with crayon because you believe you are better than they are.

@p9cker_girl I swear none of you know what localisation means

Crunchyroll really needs to stop recruiting localizers off Tumblr or Reddit. Go For It, Nakamura! English Dub is giving Chronically Tumblr DOWN🥴

@INiallAnderson Well, my brain did a Windows error noise until I remembered that barges were originally meant for transporting cargo, not landing rockets on. Then it made sense.

Its concerning how many people think this is to land ships on....

@tunkoer @Yrouel86 @JerkPup @DJSnM @tunkoer blocked me. Hilarious.

@tunkoer @Yrouel86 @JerkPup @DJSnM "Vastly different mission"? In what way? Are they not both for commanding and maneuvering spacecraft in space with 6 DOF? NASA once didn't deem flight proven boosters as safe for satellites let alone humans. Now they do. Standards change as high quality data is gathered.

Every time this comparison is made people disingenuously act as if Crew Dragon hasn't successfully completed 19 missions so far (20th ongoing) as if SpaceX didn't know what they were doing. Also the interface has been developed in close collaboration with astronauts.

@tunkoer @Yrouel86 @JerkPup @DJSnM Yet they are willing to fly Orion with humans without testing the life support system beforehand. NASA's opinion change will when Lunar Starship lands on the moon autonomously for its test flight. They "aren't willing" until the politics change. The politics have changed.

@SecretRaginMan @Yrouel86 @JerkPup @DJSnM Sorry I was talking about the HLS. SpaceX is in disagreement with NASA about manual backup controls in the HLS. They settled on touchscreen controls in Crew Dragon because it had extensive flight heritage with Cargo; NASA aren't willing to certify that for moon landing now.

@DakotaAstroWolf @agentdrozd "Tourists"? That's a Crew Dragon flying NASA astronauts to the ISS. No complaints from real astronauts just technophobes on X.

@agentdrozd Honestly for like....tourist paying for a ride who dont actually have to interact with the vehicle, the flat screens showing whats going on is understandable. But if im having any manual control over anything I want switches, buttons and knobs.

Surely I cant be the only person that prefers the real astronaut buttons and switches over the iPad kid open mouth cough with fart ahhh touch screens.

@DJSnM @CommiNathan @NASA @SpaceX Appeal to tradition fallacy. x.com/pinhyee/status…

@CommiNathan @NASA @SpaceX Just saying, I know what one pilots prefer.

Just sayin’

@Truthful_ast Lots of people seem to have forgotten the performative outrage over SpaceX's 45,000 sat Starlink constellation plans. "Light pollution" this and "space junk" that. Now they only remember current thing which is the datacenters. Goldfish, these people.

Where’s the outrage for this? oh right… it’s not related to Elon and is Blue Origin so people will remain silent.

@spce_enthusiast @Truthful_ast No, don't gaslight. They raised hell about the 45,000 or so in the original Starlink constellation. We're not talking about the gosh darn datacenters thing. "But the light pollution and junk in the sky!?!?!?" They ain't gonna say shit about Bezos "space junk", are they?

@Truthful_ast Tbf, that's just slightly more than the number of sats in the final Starlink constellation And not 1,000,000 orbital datacenters

I HATE AMERICAN LOCALIZATION AND VOICE ACTING SO MUCH WHY DO YOU FREAKS DO THIS. WHY DO YOU INSIST ON BUTCHERING AUTHOR INTENT? A SIMPLE EHE CANT EVEN BE DONE? CAN YOU NOT ACT? CAN YOU NOT PRETEND FOR 30 FUCKING SECONDS YOU ARENT THE CENTER OF THE GOD DAMN UNIVERSE AND THAT YOU ARE MERELY A COG IN A WHEEL, NOT A CREATIVE INSPIRATION TO THE REST OF THE WORLD? THE AUTHOR WANTED EHE. WHY IS THIS HARD TO RESPECT? ARE YOU SO SELFISH, SO PATHETHIC, SO AFRAID OF OTHER CULTURES AND SOUNDS AND CUSTOMS AND SPEECH PATTERNS? ACTOR. IT IS IN YOUR FUCKING JOB TITLE. ACT. PRETEND. HOLY FUCK. IT ISNT FUCKING HARD TO DO AN E FUCKING HE.

@Venator170 @Hohounk @cindy_rubash @Gameverseman @NASA @NASAArtemis Dishonest. SLS uses infrastructure built under Apollo while you are only counting SLS plus Orion plus HLS. Comparing Saturn V and the CSM and LEM modules, you get a proper representation. Oh, and tech is SUPPOSED to be MUCH, MUCH cheaper >50yrs on . . . everydayastronaut.com/artemis-vs-apo…

@SecretRaginMan @Hohounk @cindy_rubash @Gameverseman @NASA @NASAArtemis Ah yes, 93 billion is far more than 318 billion. Common knowledge. Also, Apollos first crewed mission and first moon landing were two years apart. Which is on schedule to be exactly what Artemis will do. (Apollo 1 was also 8 years before 11)

Update on our Moon mission: Following a Feb. 12 confidence test, teams are reviewing data and will examine findings before setting a timeline for the next test, a second @NASAArtemis wet dress rehearsal this month. March remains the earliest potential launch window. Read more: go.nasa.gov/4qACRDu

@Venator170 @Hohounk @cindy_rubash @Gameverseman @NASA @NASAArtemis Less, actually. Faster, too. In the time it took to launch SLS once Apollo landed on the Moon multiple times. And Apollo had to build a lot of the now legacy infrastructure SLS takes for granted.

@Hohounk @cindy_rubash @Gameverseman @NASA @NASAArtemis Wait till you find out how expensive Apollo was

Just to be clear here, NASA declared its recent test a "successful wet dress rehearsal" despite missing its T-30s target by almost five minutes, botching the dreaded Orion hatch close out procedure, and managing to achieve up to 16% H2 due to copious leakage at the fueling interface. For reference, the lower flammability limit, and system requirement, is just 4%, beyond which this nightmare fuel can burn and detonate in air. The "wet dress" was so successful, in fact, that they have to do it all over again in the unspecified near future. But before that, the same team ran a "(no) confidence test" on the leaky fueling interface which failed badly enough that they buried it until 8pm on the following Friday. The SLS ground support budget runs at $650m per year, and they've had 1173 days since the last test to get this right. Coincidentally it also took 1173 days for Hyman Rickover and his team to ship the world's first nuclear power reactor, wrapped in a fully functional submarine, for about a third of the total cost of the SLS's botched ground support equipment, in the 1950s. What a difference a serious team makes! Furthermore, we are assured that the engineering on SLS/Orion is so rigorous and the team is so elite that it's totally okay to test fly this turkey with four currently living astronauts on it, not to Low Earth Orbit like some kind of participation trophy Starliner repeat, but all the way around the Moon, on a completely unique, untested configuration. On the same week that a key SLS contractor's solid fueled booster rocket engine, launching a critical national security payload on a flagship national rocket, managed to explode, for the second time in three flights, for no apparent reason. I'm going to say it. What do @CAgovernor and @SenTedCruz have in common? They both want to be President and they both will apparently go to the hilt to defend the worst national flagship infrastructure contractors in the history of the entire world. Why are they determined to ally so overtly with such conspicuous losers? What can they possibly be getting from such a raw deal? How can they possibly be so desperate? We can choose to roll the dice with four lives on Artemis II. If they survive the launch, they can snap some really cool photos with their newly certified iPhones of the Moon shooting by out their window as they follow a trajectory that Apollo 13 took only under extreme duress. They can fulfill Artemis II's (I kid you not) "science objectives" by performing a visual inspection of the Moon that you can do yourself in the comfort of your own backyard with a $200 pair of binoculars. But when (not if) something goes horribly wrong, I do not want to hear "no-one could have seen this coming" or "we followed a rigorous flight rationale process" or "we checked all the boxes" or "this was the best we could do". At this point, the safest thing about the SLS and Orion is that they're so FUBARed that it might not even be possible to get them to T-0. Astronauts and taxpayers deserve far better.

@Fat_Electrician We turned our education system into a cargo cult.

“Hey, people who graduate high school and go to college tend to have better life outcomes. So to improve everyone’s lives, we’ll just stop failing students and lower standards so much that you only have to show up and exist to get a diploma. Then we’ll back it up with guaranteed predatory student loans so everyone can go to college.” 20 years later… “Why are test scores down?!?!”

The real problem with "hate speech" laws is their definition is always merely: "speech I hate to see". Their "misinformation" laws define misinformation as: "information contrary to my current political viewpoint". It is nothing more than censorship of any and all opposition.

I wish Hollywood was brave enough to greenlight this. It's like Deadspace meets Pocahontas. I want to watch that.

@Abcight @MadamSavvy Of course a pronouns-in-bio would be in support of colonialism. Which is what localization is: you remove the original culture and supplant it with your own. It's racist and demeaning as it suggest the foreign culture is inferior to yours. Why bother importing it then?

This had better be fake because that is exceptionally soul sucking that once again, localization strikes. I really, REALLY, REALLY. Hope this is fake. Because they don't use this language in the chinese version, she just calls her a dumb robot. Cant ever just have people do their stupid job. I also went and listened to the english voices of Jahoda and Ineffa....what the hell man, for all the talent in the world, who the heck signed off on all that.