The SpaceX fan is an odd breed. Who else is convinced that their media consumption habits (i.e. reading rocket articles) are contributing to advancement of the species?
PSA: Starship's 4th Integrated Test Flight tentatively June 6
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Good. Won’t have to see the absolute crap spilling
from your black hole of a brain any longer
Same problem, you moron. The easiest way to mine asteroids is to go there, see what minerals you want, put them in the payload bay and head home without having to drag that monster with you.
Better than the little selfish, whiney, cowardly twits like you who want to sit on your fat asses and act like you did something that matters
Right? How hard would it be to say “hey this launch was a cluster eff because Elon thought he was smarter than everyone else. But I still believe in the company and it’s mission.“
Instead we get 13 pages from his super fans telling us all this was the greatest success in modern history.
No, dummy, that is you. You are doing that. Right now. And you don't realize it, which was my point. I take it you think it's courageous to read rocket articles? Thanks for your service, rocket article boy.
Just get over yourself, Florida boy. We all know that the real reason that you and the rest of your allegedly “progressive” butt buddies on here are taking swipes at SpaceX.
You don’t like Musk. Fine, I don’t either ever since he decided he was God, got into political shitflings, and bought Twitter. Ever since, his judgement seems to be way off, including his decision to launch Starship without a damper.
He should have stuck to Tesla and SpaceX.
The fact is that you wankers are just risk averse Luddites. Cuz you got a beef with a guy who isn’t.
I didn’t just read rocket articles, I have participated in the aerospace industry as a lawyer and am proud of that. Much better than declaring yourself the UNINFORMED arbiter of the space exploration effort, like you have.
If you don’t have the desire and courage to participate, then sit on the sidelines and STFU.
No, I'll continue to criticize you self-important rocket idiots who see yourselves as saviors of the species. Thanks for your concern, though.
Good luck with that you post-modernist Luddite. Nobody is gonna listen to your little cowardly whine. If they do, this society is in big trouble.
You guys aren’t progressive at all. You are just quitters.
You seem to think space travel is the end all be all for humanity. The level of myopia is off the charts.
I never said that. But it certainly is more important and beneficial than gun possession, oil and coal exploration, racism, military build-up, anti-wokeness, and an attitude that says - “We can’t do this, it’s too hard. We gotta fix Earth. We have to return to the days when exploration is considered a bad thing.”
Christ!
I will happily still bet you on the 6 month launch date, even with your amendment.
Nobody here thinks exploration is bad. Speaking for myself, I do dislike neoliberalism which SpaceX is the poster child of. How long before they're contracting the military instead of the other way around? If the space mines are owned by a for-profit outfit and they're as lucrative as the "first trillionaire" rhetoric we've heard, they'll wield more political power than anyone in history. I certainly don't consider this concentration of power a good outcome, whatever the technology means for the species.
Tell the truth, you're like 15 aren't you?
Not a bright 15, but still...15.
I call bullshit.
We have several attorneys on this board and none of them sound like triggered 15 year olds defending their favorite anime character.
Well, here’s the deal, my good man. I’m not entirely sure why you consider that SpaceX is the poster child of neoliberalism other than that fool Musk being it’s founder. SpaceX is now 12,000 employees.
I believe the space mining effort will be a cooperation between the government and private enterprise. It will have to be regulated. And I think the governments of the world are WAY behind the eight ball in this regard. The Space Treaty of the 1960s is inadequate. We have to come up with some sort of law of the land for space. It can’t be like the wild, Wild West of the 1800s.
No; It's NOT "the easiest". That is WHY people are proposing to bring them back whole to the moon, or to Earth/Moon orbit.
Just because you saw a movie about this, doesn't make that a documentary...
Oh Balemboy. You are just envious of my prose and poetry! Lol
My favorite part of this post was picturing you with a smile on your face as you typed it thinking it sounded so intelligent and grown up. Totally not something a 15 year old would type!
No one is envious of anything that you spew. None. Zilch. Zip. Nada. Belem is actually successful. You are a moron.
You might be the biggest whacko-wanker I’ve ever seen on any board, GOHOX. I take it you and BalemNole got a “thing” going on?
To be fair, you've probably only been on the internet for 2-3 years tops.
No; we will not "do both"
Are you completely ignorant to the risks posed to space travelers once they move outside Earth's protective magnetic field? And the shielding needed to protect astronauts from cosmic rays?
Who will sign up for a ~10-20 year trip to go to an asteroid, with no guarantee you'll even get back? Even JUST going to Mars is a multi-year trip.
And this completely ignores the risks that zero-gravity poses to your health over just "a year" in space.
Space mining is going to be done robotically; they'll use robots to attach the thrusters to an asteroid, and slingshot it back towards Earth around Jupiter. They aren't going to run it like you see in the movies.
I didn’t say it wouldn’t be robotic, certainly initially, you twink. But I can tell you this - No robot is going to be able to latch onto an asteroid, sling it around Jupiter one time and have it rendezvous in Lunar or Earth orbit. Show me how that’s done, rocket boy? Let’s see the flight path and the orbital mechanics that works with that? You won’t cuz you can’t.
Eventually, humans will live in the Asteroid belt, the Oort Cloud, or the Jovian and Saturnian moons and they will all be mining asteroids.
You will be dead.
And radiation shielding has already been determined. But you wouldn’t know that would you, space moron newbie.
Yea but your kids have a functioning brain. Johnny Esquire and Rocketscientist fantasizes about one in the mental asylum that he's in.
You’re an ignorant idiot, who doesn’T know WTF he is talking about, and argues just for the sake of argument. I’m done with this thread.
LOL
No; it hasn't. Not for years in space. They're looking at building moon bases in extinct lava caves/tubes on the moon for exactly this reason. No "lava caves" in any of the rocket designs I've seen...
(although they have discussed using large water tanks to absorb those energetic rays)
