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Quoted: “As we have dug into the issues following exiting prior senior management, they have unfortunately turned out to be far more severe than was reported. There is no way to sugarcoat this.” View Quote This to me is the major talking point. So how many of them left because they could no longer hide their ineptitude or inability to manage the aspect of the project they were running? Seems to me, they were painting roses in reports and meetings, instead of the real state of the project. rats jumping ship. |
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Quoted: I've been yelling that from the rooftops for the longest.... Same for Bezos, Google, Zuckerberg, Wally-Mart. You get in bed with .gov and get rich off of the backs of us taxpayers. Fuck all of them. They can't take their riches to hell with them and/or bargain with God. But no, guaranteed on here Arfcom, the worship of Elon remains strong View Quote Let me help you look like less of a fool: https://www.tesla.com/blog/tesla-repays-department-energy-loan-nine-years-early |
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space exploration is only good if it comes up with some foreign species to crush
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Quoted: If the laser takes up that much more space then... launch fewer. Let's be honest, the Starship is essentially a rich man's pipe dream... View Quote Its not just the laser. It is a bigger sat with way more processing power and bandwidth. Starship will be amazing if it works. But I think if they had to they would just use the super heavy and throw an expendable second stage on it. It would cost way more but they have gotten really good at fishing fairings out. But Elon is not just a rich man he is an insanely rich man that can throw a ton of money at the problem. Hell he could probably do a gofundme and raise a billion if he wanted to. People really want to see this work. Lots of people. |
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Quoted: Everyone aspires to exploration, but this is it. It's futile, look at the numbers. The only way to "leave" this planet is to send countless seed satellites to "colonize" another planet. That bullshit sci-fi traveling star systems and creating a colony is just that, bullshit. There is no star colony, it's literally impossible. You can't communicate with star systems, there is nothing out there, it's truly impossible. There is just us right here, there is nothing else and will be nothing else for us. We could send ourselves to other systems, but that doesn't matter, there is literally just us right here, right now, and that's all there will ever be. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Problem is we will never fix our problems at home. Our need to expand past this rock is more important than ever, once the left consolidates absolute power do you really think they will look at space outside of some probes and telescopes? You can’t control people you can’t reach. Everyone aspires to exploration, but this is it. It's futile, look at the numbers. The only way to "leave" this planet is to send countless seed satellites to "colonize" another planet. That bullshit sci-fi traveling star systems and creating a colony is just that, bullshit. There is no star colony, it's literally impossible. You can't communicate with star systems, there is nothing out there, it's truly impossible. There is just us right here, there is nothing else and will be nothing else for us. We could send ourselves to other systems, but that doesn't matter, there is literally just us right here, right now, and that's all there will ever be. That, is an incredibly sad outlook on our future. |
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Quoted: No me but somebody will. View Quote But it literally can't happen. Light speed, it can't happen unless you're light, there's no data there except the photon. Perhaps you can bend space, but you can't bend space, there's not enough energy. If you convert yourself to light and transmit yourself to another world, it will take millions of years. You'll never get there in time. |
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Quoted: The only feasible way of populating other planets/systems, is with a compact set of AI surrogates that care/foster our DNA. Once we become established on other planets, maybe we can beam ourselves or consciousness at light speed using relays to ensure integrity. There's no way for humans to populate the galaxy except for AI bots to farm/host the environment, then raise us from seeds when the time is right. View Quote That big scary ocean will keep us penned up. Nick |
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Quoted: Everyone aspires to exploration, but this is it. It's futile, look at the numbers. The only way to "leave" this planet is to send countless seed satellites to "colonize" another planet. That bullshit sci-fi traveling star systems and creating a colony is just that, bullshit. There is no star colony, it's literally impossible. You can't communicate with star systems, there is nothing out there, it's truly impossible. There is just us right here, there is nothing else and will be nothing else for us. We could send ourselves to other systems, but that doesn't matter, there is literally just us right here, right now, and that's all there will ever be. View Quote You are the single worst Debbie Downer I have ever heard - did you come here to troll this thread with your doom and gloom? Be gone with ye, and let no man remember your name. |
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Quoted: Space exploration is wrong right now, total waste of resources and man power. They claim to know all this cool shit from telescopes and everything is so incredibly out of reach it's worthless. Unless we fix our problems at home, who gives a shit that it would take millions of years of travel to our closest star, or whatever the number is because it doesn't matter. We're stuck here, the other planets aren't habitable. If you want to expend our entire planet to habit mars, go for it, I don't care. You literally need to expend our planet to inhabit mars. View Quote |
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Quoted: its not a pipe dream. what they have now would be probably 1/20- the cost of SLS even if they never successfully land it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If the laser takes up that much more space then... launch fewer. Let’s be honest, the Starship is essentially a rich man’s pipe dream... its not a pipe dream. what they have now would be probably 1/20- the cost of SLS even if they never successfully land it. Starship’s primary purpose is to go to Mars, not the moon. Something tells me SpaceX won’t go out of business in the next few weeks if they can’t “get it up”... |
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Love spacex but Tesla within single digits of bankruptcy in 2018 and now a trillion dollar market cap company and only shows profit withing the last yr due to carbon credits
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Quoted: That actually hurts a lot. I am not of any "kind" and it disturbs me my fellow WY free thinking man is putting me down for thinking. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Your kind has existed throughout history. You’ve always been wrong. That actually hurts a lot. I am not of any "kind" and it disturbs me my fellow WY free thinking man is putting me down for thinking. This is you! And on January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an editorial insisting that a rocket couldn’t possibly work in space: “That professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” |
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Quoted: Space exploration is wrong right now, total waste of resources and man power. They claim to know all this cool shit from telescopes and everything is so incredibly out of reach it's worthless. Unless we fix our problems at home, who gives a shit that it would take millions of years of travel to our closest star, or whatever the number is because it doesn't matter. We're stuck here, the other planets aren't habitable. If you want to expend our entire planet to habit mars, go for it, I don't care. You literally need to expend our planet to inhabit mars. View Quote We were in the Moon during the Civil Rights crisis, riots, MLK, Malcolm X, JFK assassinations and the Vietnam war…. What’s going on today is not that big but the media is projecting it to appear worse |
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Quoted: But it literally can't happen. Light speed, it can't happen unless you're light, there's no data there except the photon. Perhaps you can bend space, but you can't bend space, there's not enough energy. If you convert yourself to light and transmit yourself to another world, it will take millions of years. You'll never get there in time. View Quote Your entire premise is on existing mathematics that is barely a century old. That's a drop is the bucket. So there's zero possibility in any point in humanity's future that any if this can happen? Unless you have a time machine or are a wizard that kind of certainty/absolute sounds dumb. Looksirtrolls.jpg |
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Quoted: You are the single worst Debbie Downer I have ever heard - did you come here to troll this thread with your doom and gloom? Be gone with ye, and let no man remember your name. View Quote No, sorry. I got caught up in my own thoughts. I think I speak truth in my ideas though, and its not a debbie downer situation. If you want to expand/explore the universe it'll be straight forward. Seed the solar system with AI to raise our young. However there's no future for us in space, run your own math, millions of years at minimum. Scientists say our universe will be heading towards either cold/heat death by them. |
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Quoted: This is you! And on January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an editorial insisting that a rocket couldn’t possibly work in space: “That professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” View Quote |
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Quoted: We were in the Moon during the Civil Rights crisis, riots, MLK, Malcolm X, JFK assassinations and the Vietnam war…. What’s going on today is not that big but the media is projecting it to appear worse View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Space exploration is wrong right now, total waste of resources and man power. They claim to know all this cool shit from telescopes and everything is so incredibly out of reach it's worthless. Unless we fix our problems at home, who gives a shit that it would take millions of years of travel to our closest star, or whatever the number is because it doesn't matter. We're stuck here, the other planets aren't habitable. If you want to expend our entire planet to habit mars, go for it, I don't care. You literally need to expend our planet to inhabit mars. We were in the Moon during the Civil Rights crisis, riots, MLK, Malcolm X, JFK assassinations and the Vietnam war…. What’s going on today is not that big but the media is projecting it to appear worse Maybe he liked this one! Gil Scott-Heron - Whitey On the Moon (Official Audio) |
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Quoted: Look at the "math." I didn't say humans can't populate other planets, I'm saying WE can't ever venture to space. The energy and time required is unbelievable. You can live in your sci-fi tv episode all you want. Fact is, you can create life on other worlds, to do that I think you need to create an ultimate AI foster parent/world builder. Then when you've send all of your world builders and AI care takers + our DNA, you'll end up with the same bullshit we have here. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Good thing the pilgrims didn't think like you. The future is out there. Look at the "math." I didn't say humans can't populate other planets, I'm saying WE can't ever venture to space. The energy and time required is unbelievable. You can live in your sci-fi tv episode all you want. Fact is, you can create life on other worlds, to do that I think you need to create an ultimate AI foster parent/world builder. Then when you've send all of your world builders and AI care takers + our DNA, you'll end up with the same bullshit we have here. Don’t equate 2400 AD human beings and their capability with 2021 capability. Our complete knowledge about the Cosmos is still very limited as is your thinking. It’s been quite a short existence since the Roman times and I’m quite sure Ancient Romans while on guard duty looked up to the Moon and laughed at the soldier that said humans would walk on the Moon one day. They too went through tough times as life during ancient times was pretty brutal. |
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Quoted: That actually hurts a lot. I am not of any "kind" and it disturbs me my fellow WY free thinking man is putting me down for thinking. View Quote the cost of spacex is irrelevant. Its mostly private money, with some nasa/mil contracts that they get paid a fraction of old space companies. their annual cost to the taxpayer may be 0.1% of the federal budget. Last week they launched for NASA the world's first test craft to deflect an asteroid in a test. Even if we never live offworld the possible cost vs reward ratio of this is effectively infinite. |
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Email from starlink last week said further delays due to chip shortages.
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Quoted: But it literally can't happen. Light speed, it can't happen unless you're light, there's no data there except the photon. Perhaps you can bend space, but you can't bend space, there's not enough energy. If you convert yourself to light and transmit yourself to another world, it will take millions of years. You'll never get there in time. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: No me but somebody will. But it literally can't happen. Light speed, it can't happen unless you're light, there's no data there except the photon. Perhaps you can bend space, but you can't bend space, there's not enough energy. If you convert yourself to light and transmit yourself to another world, it will take millions of years. You'll never get there in time. Not too familiar with time dilation due to high velocities, are you? |
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Quoted: Your entire premise is on existing mathematics that is barely a century old. That's a drop is the bucket. So there's zero possibility in any point in humanity's future that any if this can happen? Unless you have a time machine or are a wizard that kind of certainty/absolute sounds dumb. Looksirtrolls.jpg View Quote Scientists say space is expanding, we're in the prime for viewing our "13.7 billion" year window of the universe. You can't make more energy than the universe, you can't create energy. If someone creates an energy vacuum to travel faster than space, neat. There's no point, you can't bring a planet of people with you, the required energy is incalculable, it's our physics. Our only hope is to shoot some planet forming robots and our dna to another place. But it will take so much energy and resources, we'd only transfer ourselves. |
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Quoted: Space exploration is wrong right now, total waste of resources and man power. They claim to know all this cool shit from telescopes and everything is so incredibly out of reach it's worthless. Unless we fix our problems at home, who gives a shit that it would take millions of years of travel to our closest star, or whatever the number is because it doesn't matter. We're stuck here, the other planets aren't habitable. If you want to expend our entire planet to habit mars, go for it, I don't care. You literally need to expend our planet to inhabit mars. View Quote There are huge amounts of resources out there just waiting for someone to take them. Get to the asteroid belt and you could send asteroids back to mine at our leisure. The way to make out planet better is to keep pushing out and growing. |
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Quoted: Is there a higher velocity than light? Light doesn't experience time. Time still exists. By the time you get there... View Quote Actually relativistic time dilation is a thing. More Lorentz factor (i.e. higher gamma) equals a shorter perceived journey for the crew of a fast ship. The novel Tau Zero shows a rather exaggerated version of this Information traveling by laser would not take millions of years to reach the nearest planets. The nearest star system, which does have planets, is about 4.3 ly away. A society which listens to people like you as a society that is dying |
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Quoted: But it literally can't happen. Light speed, it can't happen unless you're light, there's no data there except the photon. Perhaps you can bend space, but you can't bend space, there's not enough energy. If you convert yourself to light and transmit yourself to another world, it will take millions of years. You'll never get there in time. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: No me but somebody will. But it literally can't happen. Light speed, it can't happen unless you're light, there's no data there except the photon. Perhaps you can bend space, but you can't bend space, there's not enough energy. If you convert yourself to light and transmit yourself to another world, it will take millions of years. You'll never get there in time. So they'll keep working and find a way to break the law. Jump drives or Warp drives or Gateways or something else. Lots of possibilities. In a worst case scenario you can do generation ships or put everyone in some sort of cryogenic state and thaw them out when you get there. A solution will be found. The trick is to keep moving and growing. |
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Quoted: or IPO and... View Quote Yea blowing smoke. They could raise A ton of money on a ipo and associated bond issued. I tend to think Musk is vaporware but I do believe in the potential of space x and would personally invest in it. Also on a starlink waiting list. I could do a wireless antenna for more money and a slower speed, but starlink is a legitimate offering if they can bring cost down. |
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Quoted: No, sorry. I got caught up in my own thoughts. I think I speak truth in my ideas though, and its not a debbie downer situation. If you want to expand/explore the universe it'll be straight forward. Seed the solar system with AI to raise our young. However there's no future for us in space, run your own math, millions of years at minimum. Scientists say our universe will be heading towards either cold/heat death by them. View Quote Yes, your way is the only way and it’s the only way things could possibly work. Life might be more enjoyable if you dial your ego back from 11 to like 3. |
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Quoted: Scientists say space is expanding, we're in the prime for viewing our "13.7 billion" year window of the universe. You can't make more energy than the universe, you can't create energy. If someone creates an energy vacuum to travel faster than space, neat. There's no point, you can't bring a planet of people with you, the required energy is incalculable, it's our physics. Our only hope is to shoot some planet forming robots and our dna to another place. But it will take so much energy and resources, we'd only transfer ourselves. View Quote "Scientists say......it's our physics...." Lol you totally missed the point of undiscovered physics. Almost like our understanding of physics and the universe changes over time. Weird. You are fixated on solely what we know now. As if we as a species have all it all figured out. smellsliketrollpoop.gif |
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Quoted: But it literally can't happen. Light speed, it can't happen unless you're light, there's no data there except the photon. Perhaps you can bend space, but you can't bend space, there's not enough energy. If you convert yourself to light and transmit yourself to another world, it will take millions of years. You'll never get there in time. View Quote Thousands, not millions. Arranging for the receiving equipment to be operational at the right time is an interesting challenge. |
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"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." -- xkcd
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Quoted: This is you! And on January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an editorial insisting that a rocket couldn’t possibly work in space: “That professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Your kind has existed throughout history. You’ve always been wrong. That actually hurts a lot. I am not of any "kind" and it disturbs me my fellow WY free thinking man is putting me down for thinking. This is you! And on January 13, 1920, the New York Times published an editorial insisting that a rocket couldn’t possibly work in space: “That professor Goddard, with his ‘chair’ in Clark College and the countenancing of the Smithsonian Institution [from which Goddard held a grant to research rocket flight], does not know the relation of action to reaction, and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react — to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools.” Nice to know that journalists with high school educations thinking that they're qualified to comment on anything is a time-honoured tradition. |
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