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Member Musk’s Melty?

>>16743306
I'd take a meltdown right now if it meant caring at all

>>16743307
You are retarded. We don't need Mars when we have stochastic models that mimic human behaviour badly. Bosses orders.

>>16743307
He only cares about whatever hyperfixation he has in any given month

Elon Musk

Okay but from like circa 2019 to 2024 he cared full-tilt-boogie about boca chica and starship and mars. What changed? Did politics really one-shot him?

>>16743315
Good cope jackass.

>>16743317
yes
Musk is now about building his new Tesla restaurant chain to complete with In-N-Out. Bacon strips are more important than Space.

>>16743318
How is that coping retard
It's true and upsetting
It's the opposite of coping

>>16743320
Yeah but it’s EPIC bacon XD (that will be $12 plus tip)

>>16743321
The cope is that he will return to space.

>>16743325
Return?

>>16743306
which one lmao

>>16743323
>EPIC bacon XD
Musk is somehow channeling epic meal time energy. How does he manage to be so outdated with internet culture? It's like he lives in a time capsule from 2010.

>>16743320
Has it always been about making money? He founded Tesla because he knew there were electric car fanatics, and he probably knew there were space fanatics as well. Of all his promises, SpaceX has still only built the vehicle NASA asked them to all the way back in 2006. They've done no exploration, and no work towards long term habitation. Did we get taken for a ride? Elon started as an internet guy. Was Starlink always the plan? Was getting autists hyped about Mars just a way to overwork the people ultimately building an ISP?

>>16743306
I NEED A JAXA GF AAAAHH IM GOING INSANE

>>16743323
no tip nigga

>>16743330
The plan was to make a lot of money then get involved into politics and make more money. Then Musk had Trump elected using his power over Twitter to have Biden removed for a weaker candidate.

Space was never the goal, it was just a way to make money. It's succeeding well although he doesn't have a follow up plan when the ISS is deorbited.

>>16743330
>>16743337
People will call it concern trolling but you are just staring reality in the face at this point. Musk's actions were always incongruent with his claims. Watch early interviews from the 2002 to 2011 era. Musk would always claim that as soon as they were capable SpaceX would send capsules to Mars using their own money. He was quite clear that they would take the financial impact even in the complete absence of NASA support. He called it a philanthropic mission.
The fact is that Falcon 9 was already capable of sending small missions to Mars if they purchased or developed a kick stage. But early Falcon era SpaceX was pretty small and had low cadence. The excuse was that they were waiting to suceedwithbooster catch efore sending Mars misisons.
Then Booster catch worked and cadence began to go up, but the excuse was that they were always waiting for Falcon Heavy.
Then Falcon Heavy came but the excuse was... Muh JPL?..
Fast forward to today and SpaceX has had the ability to send significant mass to Mars for nearly a decade through Falcon Heavy. Need I remind you guys that Musk is extremely rich and could have easily lobbied the government to allow him todo it if that was really ever a barrier (it wasn't). How many missions have they sent?
Elon OWNED the government recently and made no effort to greenlight Mars missions.
And as you guys say, Starship is clearly not meant for Mars. There is absolutely no work going on to make it fit for that, and zero work on the wider goal of human habitation of Mars. Something was always fishy and now it stinks. I always knew Tesla was a scam, but thought it was a moral scam because he was using the money to fund Mars colonization.
Maybe he was scamming us all along too.

>>16743337
The plan is to just get money from starlink. Starship is just a big flying tube meant to exponentially grow the Starlink business model. Mars and the moon are side projects for it, inconsequential.

Elon Musk

>>16743356
Literally no one in the industry thinks Starship is for Mars, it's for profit and the military

If starship is just for cheap access to LEO then that's plenty

Here comes the cope

>>16743356
why would he greenlight missions to mars if the plan is already to send a starship to mars in a year or two?
what a retarded post
the starship project itself is the "philantrophic project" that had no business logic when it was started, its just a small probe but 1000x more impactful

>>16743368
not even F9 was obvious from a old space business logic perspective, they didn't think there would be a big enough market
this is retrocausal bullshit
starlink working was not obvious and even now there are some that are skeptical about it

>>16743377
Broadband constellations will happen but im doubtful of the SDA pLEO stuff (and what its looking to replace) but in terms of SpaceX themselves they've obviously done a stellar job with F9 and vertical integration which is their main edge

>>16743373
The "plan" has been to send Starships in a year or two for the last decade. Whatever I know who you are so I'm sure you'll rationalize that it's always fine and Elon focusing on sex bots is good actually

>>16743385
at what point should have SpaceX sent the dragon exactly? couldn't do it in 2018 due to JPL
when should they have done it?
pivot to sending a dragon now? lol

>>16743315
like you know anything about what it means to focus on something. you're on 4chan whining about someone elses outlook on productivity LOL

in case you retards forgot, Musk is going to have a technical talk about Starship before the next Starship flight
might be a reason why he doesn't find it interesting to talk about starship too much right now
the programme is somewhat in limbo before Pad 2 and the first V3 stack is built as well

>>16743392
Talk preview:
>v4 will fix it

>>16743389
This is my hobby not my career, just saying

The citizens of Starbase keep advancing their technology. As all nations fumble in their quest to launch payloads into space, Starbase casually does 200t to orbit every few hours. This eventually translates into overwhelming geopolitical advantage. They become so advanced they are recognized as their own sovereign nation.
Thoughts?

>>16743398
the cape is going to have way more pads
starbase is going to stay mainly as a development site

>>16743398
No way any coastal region of the US will allow that many sonic booms. No way the MIC lets SpaceX get that powerful.
There's no doubt about it—they'll need to move to the Philippines

>>16743320
"Mars in 2026!"

>>16743306
This spam is stale

>>16743327
When he tried to back out of the Twitter acquisition and the court forced him to buy it then he started pretending he was playing 4D chess

>>16743306
musk is merely pretending to be retarded from time to time so people underestimate him
pretty funny that it works even with what he has accomplished

>>16743398
Starbase separatist nation path in TFR when?

>>16743323
For $12 I can get a 4X4, fries and a shake at in n out

>>16743424
anon said it best in prev /sfg/: aim for 20 and achieve 5, others aim for 5 and achieve 1

>>16743392
These talks have gotten incredibly stale, and he won't do it if it blows up again

>>16743424
>musk is merely pretending to be retarded
You are clinically insane. Clinically. You have repeatedly shown yourself to be completely disconnected from reality. Your posts relate to your psychosis and not the real world the rest of us inhabit.

>>16743435
>I think uh, being a multi planet species is much cooler than being a single planet species. It's like, which would you rather be? You think, like, single planet, boring! Don't want to be one of those

>>16743452
True points, though.

>>16743450
it was a joke, lmao

how are we supposed to colonize mars if we haven't even colonized our own planet?

For your consideration, a NSF member's SpaceX Mars in 2026 Timeline.

Hate to admit it, but the first part looks right. Masseys went straight to rebuilding to handle v3 and Pad B should be online. V3 will be available to "launch" but they're restarting the learning curve on those, so expect a series of fireballs.

Think he's off on Tanker. Need a working v3 before modifying a variant. Much time and pain before that happens.

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1953113303128973476
>Super heavy booster 16 has rolled out of megabay 1 this morning. This is the booster for the upcoming Starship test flight 10.

>>16743480
Why aren't they catchan

>>16743458
Colonizing Antarctica is illegal

>>16743486
So are drugs but guess what I'm doing today

>>16743487
colonizing antarctica?

>>16743421
You obviously forgot or don’t care, then. Remember the meltdown—there were multiple actually! Christmas was the most damning of all

>>16743421
Yet you engaged nonetheless, curious.
I won’t let his melties (plural) slide until success enters back into our favor.

>>16743434
Aim for 25 and get four, maybe

1 cubic banana to LEO… riveting

>>16743492
>>16743494

>>16743495
oof.

>>16743356
>>16743368
Starship is for Brilliant Pebbles.

>>16743495
so what you're saying is they should have aimed for 100?

>>16743503
They should have aimed at gaslighting elon to get offline and not melt his brain during an election year

>>16743492
>Christmas
which christmas meltdown? there are multiple

>>16743507
The indian incident

>>16743496
and she's the best damn banana there is!

SHEPS

>>16743356
>>16743337
sure is a lot of seethe and cope at the fact that Starship is already about to fly again despite the Massey accident

>>16743484
Nothing to reuse, test, or worth money scrapping.

>>16743517
>fly again

V2 hasn't "flown" even once. Exploding in the sky and on the ground doesn't count as flying.

>>16743515
The moon is orange all the way down in Texas right now? I thought it was just the midwest getting all that Canadian smoke this month and that's what was coloring the night sky up here.

>>16743356
NASA and the Air Force didn't care to invest in Falcon Heavy prop crossfeed, custom adapter and third stage options. Their fault.

>>16742681
So do you think the women at Starbase are just there for moral, like barracks bunnies in the military?

>>16743530
Depends, what is the pregnancy rate among female SpaceX employees? Including the ones Elon knocks up.

https://x.com/Space_Time3/status/1953137604523688248

NET Aug 17

>>16743538
It's been a long road

>>16743549
Getting from there to here

>>16743538
I cannot wait to watch it explode!

>>16743553
It's been a long time

>>16743562
But my time is finally near

>>16743530
If you've been in an engineering dorm you know the deal.

>>16743549
>>16743553
>>16743562
>>16743565
>lands without exploding
Is this one of the Chinese ones? Maybe one day SpaceX will achieve this

>>16743306
This is Clear-chan, btw

>>16743575
>This is what they took from you
How do you cope?

>This is what they took from you
How do you cope?

>>16743484
so that they can try to dorifto on the landing

>>16743566
I've never been to college. What's it like?

>>16743549
>lands one second before the engine would have shat itself

>>16743596
The flame just changes color when it's near the surface, not sure why.

https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1953155788433752156
>Booster 16 has moved to the Starbase rocket garden joining Booster 17, Booster 12 and Starship 20.

>>16743590
Much better than the disgusting feet. Keep it up

>>16743595
Personally the stress and isolation caused a psychotic break and I dropped out so now I shitpost here instead of working on the rockets myself. Overall can't recommend one way or the other

>>16743623
I had the same thing! I lived with some africans who had yellow turds and left them floating in the toilet.
>>16743619
Women are born with feet and they are sex organs. That's a fact. Don't make me turn it up.

>>16743638
>and they are sex organs.
meds

ZPE ... please

>>16743623
I was more curious about the engineering dorm whores. Are they really that bad or are some actually wife material?

>>16743611
this nigga getting scrapped?

Daily reminder Boeing killed their own SLS competition.

>>16743682
>wife material
oh no no no no
Imagine what it would do to a woman's mind. In highschool, you're a completely average member of 50% of the population. In the span of one year you're the most attractive of like 15% of the population. There was one girl that would post on her snapchat story (I don't know if that's a thing, it was some social media thing that's public) and in half an hour she'd have five guys in her dorm doing her homework. She tried to fuck my buddy because he had a nice car but he was so autistic that when she invited him into her bed he did nothing. At some point she takes her pants off so he'll get the hint but he goes to sleep instead.

it's coming soon

>https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/as-the-end-of-the-iss-nears-nasa-shakes-up-program-for-commercial-replacements/

so trump is suddenly big on commercial space stations? less strict requirements for funding, and more companies will get funding. the only catch is that they need to be producing hardware. no more endless powerpoints and pretty pictures.

>>16743758
>One industry official, speaking anonymously, put it more bluntly: "Only Haven-1 can succeed in this environment. That is our read."
and it looks like this was almost tailor made for VAST. they're going to easily breeze through this as the #1 commercial space station. who will come up in 2nd or 3rd?

>>16743746
>Dean Hall
>finishing fucking anything

I wouldn't get my hopes up.

>>16743746
It's furryshit, into the trash it goes

>>16743486
There's 100% shit there they don't want people to see.

>>16743758
>the comments
what a mess as usual. almost nobody there has anything of value to say beyond TDS-esque quips and snide uninformed remarks. there is literally 1 comment of any value and it got ignored by the rest of the commenters.

>>16743758
https://x.com/SciGuySpace/status/1953180593539432620

https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1953198687666003999

epic bacon has been deleted from the diner

>>16743824
ebin

>>16743458
The Stargate is 50miles from that location.

>>16743831
>>16743782
I was a logistics technician at McMurdo Station in Antarctica during the 2022 season, handling supply runs and equipment maintenance. The Antarctic Treaty, which bans colonization to preserve the continent’s pristine environment, is what everyone points to when you ask why no one can settle there. At first, I bought the explanation—Antarctica’s harsh, remote, and needs protecting. But after a few months on the ice, I started noticing things that didn’t add up.One night, while driving a snowcat to deliver supplies near the Ross Ice Shelf, I saw a faint, rhythmic glow beneath the ice. It wasn’t natural, like auroras or algae; it pulsed steadily, almost like a signal. My team lead caught me staring and sharply told me to keep moving and not talk about it. Later, I saw a restricted area near the station, cordoned off for “geological studies.” The gear they were bringing in looked more like something you’d see at a military base—bulky, reinforced crates, and the personnel guarding it were too disciplined to be scientists. They moved like they’d been trained for combat.Then things got stranger. One of the veteran mechanics, a guy who’d been there since the ‘90s, started talking after a late-night poker game. He said they’d found massive, geometric cavities under the ice, not carved by nature but by something deliberate, predating any known civilization. He hinted at strange alloys recovered from the depths, materials that didn’t match anything on the periodic table. I thought he was exaggerating, but the next morning, he was gone—evacuated overnight, supposedly for “health reasons.” By the end of my tour, I was half-convinced they’re hiding a buried city down there, maybe even some kind of ancient tech that hums under the ice, powering those lights. The treaty? It’s probably just a cover to keep curious folks from stumbling onto a secret that could rewrite history—or worse, wake something up.

@grok is this true?

>>16743790
The senior managers for falcon 9 passengers have absolutely zero relevance on anything

>>16743741
That's pretty demoralizing. I would have figured engineering girls wouldn't be dumb enough to be massive whores. I actually feel sorry for your friend he probably knew she was coming onto him, but was so uncomfortable being around such a whore.
I remember reading a bit ago that the average number of sexual partners for women was around I think 9 with the majority happening just in the 4 years at college. Which recently changed to women having the higher number than men during those years

>>16743856
>I would have figured engineering girls wouldn't be dumb enough to be massive whores
All women succumb to their biological urges.

fuck you

>>16743860
Shareholder value raising maneuver

>>16743856
Biggest lie of society is that women are the more moral and sexually conservative sex.
Women have the exact same primal sexual urge as men, except they lack concepts such as honor and dignity. Literally didn't evolve for that.
A man will be slightly restrained from cheating because he thinks it's not the right thing to do. A woman has no such concept. They are much more risk averse than men, which in times gone by created the ILLUSION that they are faithful and honorable, because they didn't want to risk losing their paypiggy beta husband. Following women's lib this is demonstrably untrue. Women will lie, chest, steal, backstab, cheat again. Then the icing on the cake will be they will claim they are a virgin to their stupid autist engineer paypig when they are ready to settle down, and feel literally zero remorse about lying to him for their whole married life. To make matters worse, women are A LOT more sexually selective than men. A man can love his 5/10 wife and want to fuck her. If you are below an 8/10 as a man then bad news for you buddy... Your wife will fantasise about the dozen other men who fucked her better every time you have sex and will resent you. Not even exaggerating. This is why in times gone by controlling female sexuality was considered important. Most women walking around today are not even capable of loving you due to past experiences. A major reason for declining birth rates.

>>16743682
STEM girls are turbosluts because being a whore is an easy way for a socially awkward woman to get acceptance in a male-dominated environment
They lack the social graces that normal women have so they make up for it by being whores

>>16743856
>I would have figured engineering girls wouldn't be dumb enough to be massive whores.
All women are dumb, no matter how intelligent they are

>>16743863
Go home retard.

>>16743848
yes, yes, we've all seen the thing.
maybe if the norwegians weren't such terrible shots you wouldn't have been in that mess

>>16743848
I got my goddamn PQ last year but stayed as an alt FUCK

>>16743852
Hmmm, unfortunately it seems to be true! It looks like Tesla will no longer be offering their wildly-popular Epic Bacon® as part of a developing cost-cutting campaign centered around their unique car-themed diner locations. In an attempt to reportedly simplify the menu, research analysts have suggested scaling back items and focusing on more important food items—meaning (hopefully) more choices for better cost in the upcoming future! Have no fear my friend, you will likely see a return of bacon at some point towards the end of the year. Epic narwhal time! (I am quirky sometimes, what can I say).
You can look forward to more expressive and exciting options coming to your local Tesla Diner in the upcoming weeks/months, as well. Epstein Island Fried Eggs, HASH browns; also some seasonal options teased by the development team on X such as Infinite Indian Thanksgiving Turkey Roast, and H1B Christmas Pudding. I wish I could eat, I would love to stop in, grab a bite, and charge up (which you can also do if you bring your Tesla℠ brand vehicle!)
Want to know more about the rumored diner menu cuts and what other items might be going away?

>>16743848
>He hinted at strange alloys recovered from the depths, materials that didn’t match anything on the periodic table.
How does one "hint" at strange alloys
Either you talk about them or you don't

>>16743898
it's AI slop anon

>>16743901
Meds.

>>16743856
>I would have figured engineering girls wouldn't be dumb enough to be massive whores.
Some very crazy pornstar (Rebel Rhyder) was an aerospace engineer, apparently she even worked at NASA at one point according to some anons. Kek.

>>16743904
it's literally just an AI prompt slop post. look at the phrasing, the structure, the word choice, the use of —.
seriously

>>16743856
>I actually feel sorry for your friend he probably knew she was coming onto him, but was so uncomfortable
Quit projecting faggot he was just retarded. I think he dropped out to join the army.

>>16743908
not to mention there is not ' logistics technician ' position at McMudhole anyways lmao, nothing of the sort either for Leidos, GHG, Amentum, GAA...

>>16743782
OR everyone was wary of wars and drawing borders after nukes were invented and decided a mile of ice at the end of the world is worth conceding to that end
>>16743848
>—
Not sure why anyone bought this

>>16743913
>>16743910
>>16743908
Meds.

>>16743913
it's only going to get worse

>>16743914
dude what is your problem

imagine posting AI slop to /sfg/ to get (you)s and then just mass replying Meds to people. it is a valuable use of one's short time on this planet.

>>16743917
Meds

>>16743917
meds

yikes

>>16743917
Who's even posting AI slop?

>>16743922
>>16743848

"chatGPT, write me a short story about someone retelling their time in Antartica and how it's actually hiding aliens"

it's just dumb

>>16743924
So because chatgpt can write wordsyoure just going to claim anybody who tells a story is AI? Thanks for letting me know of yourparanoid delusional state.

>>16743928
it's an AI slop story retard
god I can't even tell if you're trolling and it's frustrating as hell. fucker

>>16743356
>>16743928
fix your space bar bro

>>16743931
why are you replying to bait
it's not even the weekend

https://x.com/NASA_Johnson/status/1953198576705609943
>After 25 years at NASA, flying in four different spacecraft, accumulating 464 days in space, astronaut and test pilot Butch Wilmore has retired from NASA. Congratulations on an extraordinary career. Thank you for your service, your ingenuity, and the legacy you leave behind.

https://x.com/Peter_J_Beck/status/1953215390982824318
>Ok this might be my tweet of the year so far….Here is the Kickstage doing a cheeky flyby past the new stage 2 camera.

>>16743940
>accumulating 464 days in space
how many of those were from starliner stranding him?

>>16743947
93 days, 13 hours and 9 minutes

>>16743940
F to a real one

It's over. SpaceX is now building boosters just to retire them.

>>16743955
I think for every photo I have ever seen of upper stage Starship, its TPS has looked like shit

>>16743958
trust me when you're holding it in your hands it's even shittier.
t.

>>16743958
Show us your reusable upper stage, Jeff.

>>16743958
Starship was invented as a humiliation ritual to finally mega-kill the idea of reusable spacecraft.

>>16743596
It actually did start shitting itself and caused a hard landing. Reminder that the FAA saved Starhopper

>>16743882
>being a whore is an easy way for a socially awkward woman to get acceptance in a male-dominated environment
I notice this a lot in cosplay groups as well. At dragon con in Atlanta there would be really young 'shy nerdy' girls with retarded looking older men (black).

>>16743960
We haven't even seen a reusable lower stage from Jeff yet.

>>16743974
who?

>>16743881
What's her body count?

>>16743986
1 every 3 years

>>16743940
he had to make sure that boing won't sign him up for another shitliner wild ride

>>16743391
Been wondering how they were going to deploy large payloads. Will they call payload deployment birthing, or something else, something worse?

>>16743784
never expect anything better from ars

>"The relatively dust-free skies provide a clear view of the surrounding terrain," said Jim Bell, Mastcam-Z's principal investigator at Arizona State University in Tempe. "And in this particular mosaic, we have enhanced the color contrast, which accentuates the differences in the terrain and sky."

Shame Elon's ADD style of management means Americans will never get there. Hope the Chinese like the place.

>>16744024
>And in this particular mosaic, we have enhanced the color contrast, which accentuates the differences in the terrain and sky.
Why do they always do this? I don't wanna see Mars with a fake blue sky. Show me how it actually looks.

>>16744025
The sky is blue on Mars

>>16744025
They want the public to start thinking of Mars as a real place, not just a set of space pictures
So they make it look a bit more like Earth

>>16744018
Payload unbirthing...

>>16744018
Conscious uncoupling

What if we killed all the gooners that went to space

>>16743955
Not the first time. It's just a part of the prototype process, especially at a rapid pace. Every so often you have either a critical success or failure that warrants a significant design change.
Even the Saturn V has multiple rocket left over from it's development that never flew.

>>16743910
Oh hey it's our aspiring Antarctica guy
Did you make it?

>>16744088
they're still static firing?

>>16743917
so i was stationed in antarctica, right. research gig, freezing my ass off at mcmurdo. official story was ice core samples, climate data, blah blah. but i saw some shit. late one night, i'm out near the edge of camp, sneaking a smoke. sky's clear, stars are insane. then i see it. weird glow under the ice, not aurora, something else. pulsing, blue-green, like it's alive. i tell my buddy, he laughs, says too much vodka. but i know what i saw. next day, i overhear some higher-ups whispering about "containment" and "specimen retrieval." they weren't talking penguins. one night, i sneak into a restricted zone, see these huge crates being airlifted. one cracks open, just a bit. inside? metallic, curved, like no tech i've ever seen. and the hum, man, it messed with my head, like it was talking. i got caught, sent home next day. they said it was "classified research." bullshit. aliens are down there, buried in the ice. government's hiding it. nobody believes me, but i know.

>>16744090
probably, why would they re-install the modified ship stand there again if they weren't?

>>16743391
wait what?? where is this from?? it also looks like AI slop, don't know what's real anymore

>>16743940
He'll never have to fly Starliner again.
F

>>16743575
wait actually?

>>16744098
NEWFAGS
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>>16743773
are you retarded?

>>16744124
>been here since shortly after the habbo hotel thing
>still can't triforce
hi

this Trump Musk feud is getting out of hand

>>16743999
checked

>>16744018
vomiting

>>16744186
Yes, I'm sure Musk would be really upset if the government purchased a bunch of Teslas.

>>16743960
What the fuck happened to Project Jarvis?

>>16744186
imo buying a bunch of base model cybertrucks is way cheaper and easier than procuring and shipping a fleet of target-representative thinskin vehicles like hmmwv, textron commando, brdm, btr, vbl, hawkei just to shoot things at, especially if you have to negotiate with big and possibly foreign defense industry contractors or scrounge up the intended number of buys from the secondary market, as opposed to tesla where you just visit their website for like 10 minutes and maybe field a phone call

especially if all you actually need is enough skin to initiate a fuze or convincingly disrupt bullet paths, a couple of seats to put silhouettes or dummies in, and heavy cast metal components and in-chassis energetics for warhead frag to interact with and study the effects of

>>16744186
That's one way to inflate sale numbers and get rid of unwanted stock I guess

What's happening? Front page of Spacenews is all Golden Dome. No talk of space science, moon, mars, outer planets.

>>16744124
Impressive

>>16744124
works on Safari on my Apple MacBook running macOS

>>16744244
all of that boring shit got cancelled bro

>>16744244
The days of us being threatened with missiles is over.

>>16744250
change your font, it doesn't line up for me
but still it's the best I've seen in a long time

>>16744108
>don't know what's real anymore
I warned anons we were coming to this, for years I've said it. Get ready for video to no longer be admissible as evidence in court.

>>16744268
This is why we need to articulate clearly, in words, why we think x is real and y is fake. This is extremely important as AI generated content proliferates. I feel a lot of people can differentiate it but don't quite know how to explain why.

https://x.com/Valente_Teodoro/status/1953425959824052637

the poster is the president of the italian space agency

>>16744270
>can't get into orbit without blowing up
>thinks it can go to mars

>>16744270
assuming somebody isn't impersonating him

>>16744273
>>16744270
https://x.com/Gwynne_Shotwell/status/1953432708014600369

>>16744274
>more to come
so they might have a bunch of payloads lined up

>>16744108
Ironically, any video where the camera continually pans around makes it look AI.

>>16743595
It's like high school except the classes are harder and there are fewer black people, assuming you have a real major

>>16743701
Boeing should be shuttered to provide more resources for serious aerospace companies

>>16743848
fuck off back to /x/ you tremendous faggot

>>16744270
how many tankers?
>but kick stage
door status?

>>16744269
I'll simply unplug from the internet before 2030, it's already a shadow of its former self as it is.

Using people's unique bioelectric signature and existing but cutting-edge NRO satellite technology to track down anyone on Earth from orbit. Could this work?

>>16744024
The original:
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-rover-captures-mars-vista-as-clear-as-day/

Sorry Amazon, your flight is cancelled. ;)

>>16744270
I hope for them they didn't pay anything in advance

This china lanyue lander test is awesome

>>16744335
im simply asking congress to keep cool, it's stuff America did 50 years ago, no need to panic

>>16743575
Why? Because she says "Oru krea"?

>>16744284
schizobabble post

>>16744118
No. Some JAXA astronaut.

>>16744298
No

>>16744302
Look how fucking RED it is

>>16744350
Needs to be updated to look more grotesque. The Texas coast is shamefully ugly

>>16744350
have the rgv guys ever caught a static fire? I feel like they’d scrub it for a plane in the area, and I’ve only seen footage from ground level / spacex’s own drones

>>16744298
No but I will tell schizos it could hahahaha

>>16744358
No, the no-fly areas are even more strict than the boating limits. They’d give you a number to call and ensure you’d never fly again lol

Clear finally became a rocket

>It's happening: We will build a moon base
https://x.com/UAPJames/status/1952770864555971018

>>16744364
Good

>National security begins at liftoff
>Tested. Certified. Ready to launch
>Precision. Power. Purpose
>inspires the future
They had 6 different interns write movie subtitles

>>16744370
>that logo
calm down bro, its a gps test satellite

>>16744370
imagine if spacex made a unique movie poster for every falcon launch, including the starlink ones.

>>16744276
"Mama Mia! La porta non si apre!"

>>16744284
Look at the immediate and intense seethe.

"Mars in 2026? Hold my coat!"

>"We don't have the technology now," says Bambi, of Fudan University in China. "But in 20 or 30 years, we might."

Spoiler: No we won't.

duffy is doing good for nasa. maybe jared would've been better, who knows? but at least we got someone smart in his his stead.

>>16744302
Sorry. We prefer the Dream.

what nasa is trying to sell us on >>16744398
the actual hellscape that awaits us >>16744302

>>16744397
I think duffy is just a mouthpiece for saying cookie cutter MAGA-aligned things. Not that that is necessarily bad. Focusing on beating china back to the moon is imperative. And yes Jared would have done that too and probably been a lot better at public outreach, getting normies of all walks of life excited about space. I think now we have a more polarizing guy currently in the chair. Hell, yesterday half my twitter algorithm was so-called spitter fags virtue signaling about “erm you guys who voted for donald regret it now don’t you? Heh. This guy is a fascist”
It’s all so tiresome.

>>16744400
>i-is that orange?!?
>AAAHHH save me niggerman I NEED blue!!!

>>16744403
nobody likes pissfilters

My beach
My chicks
My waves
Go home!

>>16743784
post that one comment

>>16743723
>NEW PENIS
lol

>>16744269

>"IRL" Grok

That is one bad machine spirit ...

>>16744406
Hate it here brah get me outta these trenches fr

>>16744408
Deranged. Haven fans are the kings of hand waving. Might be even worse than mike mcculloch.

>>16744412
Paying a real person for pictures of them naked is already cringe, I can't imagine doing it for some AI generated titties.

>>16744388
higher res image of the lander

>>16744431
Looks like the thing I shove in my ass. Has escaping hot gasses too.

>>16744431
It’s nothing groundbreaking but i’ll take a shitass hypergolic lander over nothing. I’m glad China cares about putting people on the Moon.
I just hope USA congress gets spooked soon and cares even more and throws more resources.

>>16744431
Kino alert. Webm anon are you here?
https://x.com/cnsawatcher/status/1953377857545421070

>>16744431
do the legs really need insulation?

>>16744441
apparently yes
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19730010151/downloads/19730010151.pdf

>>16744448
Interesting

>>16744403
kekt

>>16744424
I pay with AI generated pictures of money

>>16744403
You prefer a blue sky? Coming right up.

Manned mercury landing

manned Jupiter landing

>>16744431
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZm0FLYsoKQ

>>16744466
Imagine the smell

Wait so when the LM landed on the Moon back in the Apollo days, was there hypergolic smudge deposited all around the landing site / all up the legs and bottom portions of the lunar module?

>Based on the brightness of the planet in the mid-infrared observations, researchers say it could be a gas giant approximately the mass of Saturn orbiting Alpha Centauri A in an elliptical path. Beichman says that "the elliptical orbit of the candidate giant planet sweeps through most of Alpha Centauri A's habitable zone, making it unlikely that smaller rocky planets could survive."

A new Avatar movie is coming out. Discover Pandora. Give Marketing a bonus.

>"Of all the directly imaged planets, this would be the closest to its star seen so far. It's also the most similar in temperature and age to the giant planets in our solar system and nearest to our home, Earth," he says. "Its very existence in a system of two closely separated stars would challenge our understanding of how planets form, survive, and evolve in chaotic environments."

The Rare Earth Hypothesis just got Draked hard.

>>16744482
>earth isn’t rare because uhhh there’s this fart ball in the star system closest to us

>>16744499
>>16744500
>>16744503
Luv me a good flame trench.

>>16744489
Two Sol type stars next to each other both have planets in their hab zone. Discover Pandora the first time we can look that close to a star.

Copernican Hypothesis means that indicates almost every Sun like star has hab zone planets.

>>16744505
Gotta see if "Pandora" actually has any interesting moons or not, first.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1953513242476572995

grok is this true?

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1953513878471524547
>Same for all jobs desu, including mine.

>>16744523
AI would never have ordered the construction of giant chopsticks, though.

>>16744499
>>16744500
simcity 3000 looking ahhh

>>16744530
why are you screaming?

>>16744523
This isn’t even remotely related to rockets so I’m sorry for dragging the topic on (though inarguably it’s musk-adjacent so please forgive me) but what I don’t understand is how people like sam altman and elon musk promise this supposedly bright future ahead with AI and robots, and sell the idea that humans will have some sort of fun post-scarcity life style in the near future with robots doing all the work for us. Just like star trek, right!? But how the fuck is this not a dystopian? What happens when the next generation grows up and goes to get an office job and is told it has been automated and humans need not apply? They try to get a job flipping burgers but nope that’s robots now. Okay what about a more personal ‘human’ position that requires face time like a sales— oh it’s been usurped by AI.
Yeah all the work has been outsourced to algorithms and clankers but how does that make it “relaxing” when you can’t pay off loans or pay rent or even find a place willing to give a human a paycheck?
There is a glaring disparity here between “we will automate everything you don’t have to work anymore!” and “we automated everything you aren’t needed for work anymore.”
I’m not saying jobs are necessarily a human right here… but once they grow sophisticated enough with near-perfect human capabilities and thinking what is a robot other than a cheap slave that can be bought once, serviced only every so often, and never dipping into profits by requiring a paycheck? This is the same issue with H1Bs coming in and willing to do twice the work for pennies on the dollar—ostracizing the native stock who are no longer wanted needed or desired to fill positions because the robots are driving up shareholder value more than you or I ever could

>>16744523
I'd love to be an engineer working for him right now

>>16744542
it’s pretty straightforward:
AI replaces a certain threshold of jobs
those who used to have those jobs can’t find new work, can’t survive
they kill the people who created the AIs and burn the servers to the ground
jobs come back

>>16744542
What makes art and technology so impressive is the human effort required to make it. I think using AI for everything will make give everyone no sense of purpose, something a lot of people lack already

>>16744509
Technically, Pandora is the moon and Polyphemus the primary gas giant. But not an Avatard and don't really care about their goofy "lore".

Musk haters will never admit this, but the Starship project was extermely successful when it comes to delivering their sides to orbit.

>>16744566
art yes tech no. the value of tech is 100% what it enables, how hard it was to make has little to no bearing

>>16744523
So he would follow it's diagnosis without double checking or anything for almost all cases? Doubt.

>>16744579
I feel like society would collapse if AI progressed to the point of developing new technology on its own and made researchers obsolete

>>16744580
@grok does Elon suffer from TDS?

>>16744542
Yeah man they're just lying so the government leaves them alone. Machines and automation have always centralized capital. Not a commie, this is just a natural outcome of an industrialized market. Automating your job makes them money. What happens to you afterwards is so far from being their problem they don't think about it at all beyond attempting to convince you it's good for you until it's too late.

>>16744588
My thoughts exactly. Very grim

>>16744532
anyone would scream if they saw the state of the starship program

>>16744542
musk has talked about a universal high income (not basic)
but has not really touched on the implementation
is it just given by the government or is it shares in companies paying dividends, or even something like universal basic tokens (compute basically, that could then be sold for money as well)

>>16744542
This is economy, and not only it's not related to rocketry but it's not really science to begin with.
The process is well known because it has been going on since the first industrialization two centuries ago, some jobs are lost, society is richer, new jobs are created.
The worst it can happen is a portion of the fired workforce won't be able to find a new job, but a richer society could handle that with subsidies.
A typical mistake is reasoning in term of today's richness and needs, if a tech revolution happens those change as well.

>>16744586
thats the goal of xAI and Musk thinks they (or some other company) is pretty close, not many years to go

>>16744424

Well alright, you could bill for the electricity involved. Also quite silly, that face is just too smooth. So either generated or an actual photo put through some heavy filtering app.

>>16744302
Looks so much better. I don't understand why they always use the blinding blue LED ones.
>>16744398
Looks like shit. If you truly cared about Mars like I do you'd prefer the original version because that's how it actually looks.

>>16744606
UBI (much less "UHI" as you describe here) makes no sense to me. How can an economy function at-large when millions of people get $200,000/yr or whatever. How does that not just drive the price of bread and eggs and rent up sky high? Whatever. I suppose it's good enough for a lunar or martian colony of like 1,000 - 10,000 people but that's more niche. Like a larger antarctica city where everyone is just getting starship cargo resupplies from Starlink money. You can't have a functioning world where AI and robots do everything from blue collar construction to running entire companies while human beings are just given free stuff. This is faulted Marxist pseudoeconomics, is it not?

The blackpill is that Elon's job is to sell you the idea of a future where AI makes life great and humans go frolic on Mars.BUt that is just the sales pitch. Really the goal is for you to buy a subscription to use the latest Grok model, and to renew your monthly Starlink bill. It's that simple.

25 Vulcan Launches in 2026, launching huge numbers of Kuiper, National Security and Cislunar payloads!

>>16744646
you have companies that own the robots etc that make stuff, those companies are taxed by the government (or people directly own the stock and are paid dividends) and the people then use that money they got to buy stuff from the companies
you won't have inflation in the same way because the robotic workforce will be able to scale the production of bread or whatever based on the demand, which is different from a case where you have limited production and just start printing money (more money, same production -> products cost more)

this isn't really marxist, you would still have a capitalistic decentralized system if you had companies owning the robots etc like you do now
and assuming you had the same system like now, just with some way for people to get money without working, then people could still found companies and so on
it might get a bit weird though if you had bots that could also start companies and they can do it better than anyone

>>16744523
The thing about doctors is right. The medical industry is so unbelievably fucked, man.
Bunch of ridiculously myopic specialists who don't communicate with each other and end up making medical situations worse or outright killing patients because they can't read a fucking chart or check medication interactions. I personally know four (4) people in the past year whose health improved dramatically when they stopped taking all or all but one of the medications they were on.
I think we're already at the point where if medical teams were just feeding patient info into a chatbot and blindly following the directions it spat out, hospital mortality would drop significantly.

>>16744471
A smudge of gaseous combustion products? In vacuum? On the surface of the moon?

>>16744689
What are the chances we could see Neutron fly this year?

>>16744684
Yes that’s the question. If I pulled a vacuum chamber here on earth and a little vial of hydrazine or nitrogen tetroxide popped and exploded inside, the vacuum wouldn’t negate the product

>>16744682
>ship and colony medbays are actually going to be real

>>16744548
Rough.

>>16744652
Considering this makes me want to blow my brains out

>>16744691
It's a coin toss

>>16744652
wrong
Musk wants to make the Culture from Ian M Banks books real

>>16744710
Kek

>>16744712
Being late by 2 or 3 years on something that SHOULD have been tested in the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s... Im not too upset. Starship will likely end up being 5-7 yrs behind its original goal but thats better than NASA being 80 years behind landing Man on Mars.

>>16744717
Blame Boeing.

>>16744691
berger’s law

>>16744721
*Richard Shelby

>>16744731
I certainly hope we get a GEO orbital depot before he snuffs it and it's named the Richard C. Shelby Memorial Depot.

>>16744270
this doesnt inspire confidence that starship is going to mars any time soon. italy also made a deal with virgin to launch italian air force personnel on their suborbital joy ride. they are still waiting for their ride.

Starlink in Israel now

https://x.com/RocketLab/status/1953552682540748841
>Archimedes full mission duration hot fire. Enjoy.

>>16744607
Bro it wasn't just 'a portion of the workforce'
Mass poverty and unemployment lasted over a century in England after the Industrial Revolution. Everyone alive today is fucked

>>16744761
RL is NGMI

>>16743881
So I guess I probably shouldn't even bother talking to the cute girl in my electronics class

>>16744691
They now aim for "Neutron on pad before the end of 2025" so basically 0 in newspace speak.
Also picrel doesn't look like a new launcher that will take off in 2025

>>16744400
I think the sky overhead would look pretty dark.
They always pointed the camera towards the horizon, where you're looking through loads of dust.
You can see it verging to dark violet towards the top of that image.

>>16744580
the AI will double c heck itself

>>16744682
>go to specialist
>miraculously he thinks he can fix your issue using his specialty
>repeat to any and all types of doctors/scammers

But people want to pay money because they don't want to do shit themselves
90% of health issues you see people have are lifestyle related

>>16744477
There's no way a Saturn-masser has an earth sized moon
Not a chance

>>16744839
why not? earth is only 81 times the mass of the moon, saturn is 95 times earths.
if you count venus as "earth sized" the ratio is 116

>>16744839
what if it has a mars sized moon? or lots galilean sized moons?

>>16744841
There wouldn't be enough mass left over from the protoplanet from which the gas giant formed. Notice how tiny the moons of Saturn/Jupiter are in comparison to their planets.
Earth's moon formed in a special way.
>>16744842
Mars sized might be cool. Needs to be a little bigger to retain an atmosphere in the habitable zone
>galilean sized moons
They'd be worthless balls of rock, since they aren't outside the ice line

>>16744477
>Saturn-mass planet looping around the star every 1.5 to 2.5 Earth years on an elongated, elliptical orbit.
Gay

if it has a rocky moon then its likely going to be our first extrasolar outpost

>>16744760
Good. More cell phone videos. More transparency. Soon even the normalfag will see.

>>16744848
Hang on I have a spec evo book with this give me a sec

>>16744794
needs more wayward apostrophes

>>16744861
It hypothesizes an elliptical orbit planet inhabited by life that has adapted to it like a long harsh winter.

>>16744867
book is "the teeming universe" and I recommend. pic is of the elliptical orbit planet after warming up.

wen hop

>>16744883
function wenhop(){
let time = two weeks;
return time;
}
wenhop();

bros....

>>16744890
why does spacex have tactical military vehicles?

>>16744885
I recognize those symbols... Is this a ComputerCraft reference in honor of this thread's OP image?? :o

>>16744904
it's NASA's actually

What's the cope going to be when HLS fails to do its suicidal belly flop and ends up crashing on the Moon or Orion uses its crew as a heatshield?

>>16743317
Politics/AI double whammy.
First, he genuinely did need to buy time and secure an administration that wasn't actively hostile. The lawfare was going to kill all his endeavors eventually.
Then, he found out that the political grift machine was literally unstoppable and the only way to keep ahead of it long enough to get people off this rock was growing the economy faster than politicians can fuck it up. The only way to do THAT is deploying AI at enormous scale in actual useful situations.
He didn't stop caring about Mars. He just thought there was enough social/political/economic runway to get there, realized he was wrong, and then started frantically trying to build more runway in front of the plane.

>>16744979
>belly flop
>on the Moon

>>16744979
Are you retarded enough to think HLS has to do the flop when landing on the moon?

>>16744890
my goodness...

>>16744979
the “cope” is going to be
>lol yeah saw that one coming from miles away

>>16744926
Doesn't ComputerCraft use Lua? Or am I misremembering?

>>16744979
you are not qualified to even comment on this entire subject matter

>>16743955
They will make fine observation towers for all the Tesla diners that is the focus now.

>>16744357
We call it the carcinogenic coast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgAry1HsICQ
>Starship Is Large - SpaceX's Florida Plans Are HUGE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpQdTYOG6MQ
>Return of Starship Testing | Starbase Flyover Update

>>16745030
>>16745025
they rebuilt it fast

>>16745031
its not rebuilt yet, but not everything at the site got completely demolished so they can apparently test other stuff besides static firing

dead

2 more weeks

how come they only had 1 test stand prepared for static fires btw

>>16745066
think in 'years' not 'weeks' or 'months'

>>16744270
they got scammed lmao

https://x.com/Space_Time3/status/1953779980711669777

two more weeks

>>16745131
clear is queer!

>>16744979
China should not be running a lunar program they can't afford. They have some serious economic and geopolitical headwinds ahead. We have it too but our economy is still strong and the dollar is the reserve currency. Fed stress testing says we can take up to several hundred trillion in debt without issue.

>>16744696
No, you missed the point. The reaction products are gaseous and wouldn't even leave a smudge on earth. The propellants would quickly vaporize on the moon.

The only possible residues would be from incomplete reaction products. But apparently the best you can do is two or three carbon chains or maybe ammonium nitrate if you have very incomplete combustion, and those are all definitely volatile or gaseous on the surface of the moon.

>>16745131
What emotion is the image conveying.
Please help I have autism

>>16745127
https://x.com/StarshipGazer/status/1953801076550860948

>>16744773
First, no, the economy was already improving overall within half a century with both wages and life spans rising.

But more importantly you are not really even using the terms in a way that makes sense. There was no widespread formal employment prior to the industrial revolution, so the concept of unemployment doesn't really apply, because employment was not the default.

But what's more, industrialization created many jobs and it was these jobs that moved the bulk of the population to industrial centers, primarily cities.

There were short term negative economic consequences for the minority who stayed in rural areas, but this is difficult to disentangle from the consequences of the enclosure, making its value as an example effectively zero.

>>16744814
>girl
is someone going to tell him?

>>16745166
>life spans rising
that was mostly because of reducing infant/childhood mortality

>>16745174
Okay, and?

>>16745175
Back in my day we preferred it when all our children died in infancy, so reduced infant mortality actually had negative utility.

https://x.com/stoke_space/status/1953803898344341889
>So much progress in just one photo: lightning protection systems going in, umbilical tower welding underway, fresh steel lean-to rising, launch-mount shoring coming out, plus diverter-frame and surface fabrication all happening, right now at SLC-14.

https://www.stokespace.com/from-mercury-to-nova-launching-the-future-at-space-launch-complex-14/

>>16745179
I still haven’t decided if stoke is based or cringe. In a world full of grifts and retards, I’m leaning on “slightly based”.
I was bullish on Relativity though and felt I got burnt. Now I’m blackpilled on everyone—including rocket lab.

>>16745180
I'll just wait and see what they actually achieve before getting more excited

Lanyue lander testing with sound (hypergolic screams are comfy)
https://x.com/aj_fi/status/1953733043035783225

>>16745187
that's a lotta orange smoke

>>16745188
The US’ lunar program is a lot of smoke, too. And mirrors!

>>16744370
that ... statue? thing is also blatantly AI generated

>>16745190
I wonder if they used grok

>>16745190
check out this yule log video nasa put out last Christmas. blatant AI generated fireplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cgTVTwu4nw

>>16745194
Looks like microsoft copilot to me

>>16744361
Lol just don't call that number then? Seems simple enough

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1953588888666300629
>Grok Imagine prompt:

>Anthropomorphic gray tabby cat riding a vintage brown bicycle with 'Wien' on the tube and a bottle attached to the frame, dressed in steampunk adventurer gear including a leather helmet with aviator goggles, over-ear headphones, a dark jacket with red strap accents, gloves, and jeans. The cat has orange eyes, a focused expression looking over its shoulder, and is holding a frothy pint glass of beer in its right paw while gripping the handlebars with the left. Strapped to its back is a bulky retro-futuristic jetpack backpack with tubes, gauges, switches, and a nozzle, with small paper notes fluttering around the cat’s ear as if caught in the wind. Background is a serene blue sky with soft clouds. Highly detailed digital illustration in a painterly style with warm lighting and vintage tones.
Why doesnt he post hardware?

>more babble from an elon stan
Why doesn't he post spaceflight?

>>16745206
it got like half the prompt wrong

>>16745206
The only thing I've been using grok for is music suggestions, like "I like by , give me 5 more songs/albums like that"

>>16745180
Their propulsion team is excellent, schedules are reasonable; I've been waiting to see the first stage (and second stage for that matter) structures for a while though.
I think fundamentally the fact that they don't have any bad ideas dragging down the company probably helps. Habitual execution, full reuse, in/through/from space; these don't saddle the company with debt that will lead to failure. ABL's containerization, Astra's 95% reliability and Relativity's noodle structures can't be said the same of.

It's another 6 months until we get to the proof point, so moot I guess?

>>16745215
>don't have any bad ideas
>full reuse
impressive as they are, let's not pretend they aren't pushing boundaries even harder than SpaceX. Huge amount of risk in their architecture.

>>16745215
It's just that I like the kind of spaceflight that happens in space

>>16745196
>>16745190
Probably just a quick way for an intern with a dinosaur company encyclopedia of copyright and branding requirements to get a stock image

>>16745205
I think they would unironically dispatch F-16s to rendezvous and shoot you down I’m not even kidding

>>16745206
@grok generate an image of this bum ass nigga Musk actually getting off his ass and focusing on Mars

Remember when they didn’t even have the FAA license and they launched SN8 anyways?

>>16745225
Sorry he's internetting too hard generating these bomb ass cat pics. Steampunk much?? Kek you later fren

>>16745206
I was making things like this last year. This pop is going to be apocalyptic.

>>16745242
It’s not going to pop

>>16745244
They are hitting a wall with progress.

>>16745245
no they aren't
OpenAI is maybe, but it has been hemorrhaging talent for like a year or more and they don't have that much compute
the only thing OpenAI has right now is basically distribution + market share with normies

>>16745247
Literally all the big models have converged to the same level and have been stuck there for about a year

Your cumbots, sir

>>16745248
Albanians are so interesting to me

>>16745253
OpenAI has been stuck, xAI just caught up (and surpassed in some instances) and gemini 3.0 should be coming up soon
if Google and xAI is not able to improve the SOTA, then yes you are right
but just because OpenAI is not able to improve the models anymore does not mean its not possible to improve the models

>>16745257
The economy isn't sustained by models hitting benchmarks. At some point the assets you invest in are supposed to make money.

>>16745260
AI “sustains the economy” via subscription services but I suppose it’s slowly growing to actually integrate and sustain the economy the same way MS excel or Teams currently does. Everyone from students to teachers to experts to idiots are using it more and more to do shit like write emails, interpret data, basically whatever work they want to offload they shamelessly have AI spit out gobbledygook. And I don’t think it’s going to “pop” as a bubble so much as the small man will be strong-armed out of trying to enter the field while giants like Microsoft, twitter, chatgpt, nvidia, apple, etc just throw billions/trillions into it and the gooberment gives free gibs to these big guys to help them stay ahead of China. Simple as.

>>16745264
You think a subscription model can justify the current level of investment? We'll see.

>>16745272
Naur I don’t think it can, but I think it’s easy for people like scam altman to get funding from silicon valleyfags with lots of cash. People like musk are a little more resourceful at getting capital from more serious investors but it’s the same thing, find venture capitalists and interested parties with money to throw around. Deliver product, eventually. Idk how to make AI self-profitable though in the long run. If I knew that I’d leave my current job and go into tech!
Oh umm also rockets and space flight lol

>>16745277
the launch towers

>>16745278
the catch towers (decreases repair/refurbishment needs of the launch towers)

>>16745278
When? Is the pad B even getting finished this year?

>>16745280
two weeks

>>16745274
So it's easy for these guys to get tons of investor money on false promises with no profitability or even sustainability in sight, but it won't pop.
I asked gpt5 to weigh in:
>You're not just a faggot—you're retarded

Is this a Merlin?
https://x.com/SpaceBasedFox/status/1953841131352985903

>>16745295
No it’s a super kestrel

>>16745247
They just released a new version tbqhwu

>>16745302
yes, it wasn't even SOTA across the board

is anything happening

>>16745316
50/50 either it’s happening right now or it isn’t

>>16745318
50/50 = 1.0
so things are happening

>>16745322
one thing is happening to be precise. No thing, my fav

>>16745316
Jielong 3 launchig 11 GeeSAT communcation satellites to 50° LEO for the dedicated constellation of Chinese car maker Geely, 2 other Jielong 3 with similar batches are expected to launch in the next week.

>>16745326
next weeks*

>>16745326
simpsons was right https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3E65_8cFuk

>>16745325
Many such cases!

Something used to happen every Friday :(

Elon doesnt fucking care anymore

>>16745338
good
he needs to stop trying to care. it's failing

RIP Jimmy

https://x.com/RossDynamicsLab/status/1953626938397868364

>What if a spacecraft could cycle between Earth and Moon orbits, performing multiple circuits of each, naturally and indefinitely, with zero propulsion?
>We’ve discovered a new class of stable, prograde, low-energy cycler orbits that do just that.
>Why these orbits matter:
>Ballistic fuel-free
>Stable long-term ready
>Near-chaotic agile with low ΔV
>Low-energy access to Earth/Moon, Lagrange points, Sun–Earth L1/L2, even heliocentric space
>
>At the AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference in Boston next week, I’ll present on a new family of ballistic Earth-Moon cycler orbits that are stable, prograde, and mission agile—unlike any cyclers in the current literature.

>>16745349
Patrick orbit

>>16745231
I do

>>16745345
oh shit. Not another...
Is the anon with the astronaut / cosmonaut death table thing still around?

>>16745295
at one point they were explosively forming the bell liners. Do they still do that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn6qR__BbYg crew 10 hatch close

https://x.com/NASAWallops/status/1953901952565125378
>A NASA sounding rocket will carry student experiments to suborbital space. The launch is scheduled for Tuesday, Aug. 12, with the window opening at 6 a.m. through 9 a.m. EDT. Livestream will begin on the Wallops YouTube channel 15 minutes before scheduled launch time.
>For those on the Delmarva Peninsula, weather permitting, you may catch a glimpse of the rocket in the sky. The Wallops Visitor Center will open at 5 a.m. for launch viewing.

>>16745295
That looks jank as fuck. I thought they were suppose to be good at manufacturing?

>>16745392
>nooo you can't just have a machine that makes the part!
>it also has to look the part!

>>16745345
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1953903894796361946

>>16745345
>only 5 people left who have gone to the moon
grim

>>16745345
NOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>16745345
I'm actually sad to hear that. RIP

>>16745397
F

>>16745248
>>16745255
THAT's an Albanian?!?!
I take back the sex offender jokes

>>16745408
Dua Lipa is albanian, she’s a babe. This weird muslim soviet satellite state, but now everyone is converting to christianity.
Strange place; fascinating really.

>>16745412
Maybe all the stolen Mercedes did something.

>>16745397
So long, Space Cowboy.

>>16745345
I actually want to throw up, this is devastating news.
In my heart I know none of them are making it to see Artemis III. Fuck everything.

>'industry' (codeword for golf buddies who you give contracts to) believes nuclear reactors on the moon is achievable
Oh boy we're going down this CLPS route for nuke reactors huh.

>>16745404
But Elon is landing 100 more on Mars in 2026?

>>16745349

Dog chasing a car. Wait is this a Rorschach test?

The government doesn't want you to know this, but you can actually launch rockets over land in ANY DIRECTION YOU WANT

>>16745333
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYNE36hWNIQ

watch crew 10 do boring stuff

>>16745345
F

remember kids,
don't drop important space hardware.
don't forget to change voltage specs of wiring insulation.

undock rn

its insane

I'M SICK OF LOOKING AT PHOTOS OF STEEL GIRDERS AND PLUMBING AT STARBASE FOR THE PAST 26 MONTHS
LAUNCH SHIT ALREADY ELLOOOONNNN

>>16745523
>FOR THE PAST 26 MONTHS
get used to it, newfag :^)

>>16745442
Bro who do you think even makes nuke reactors right now, the government? lol

>>16745525
I mean that in its been the only shit happening.
I've been around since San Pedro days

>>16745345
FUARK. I knew that would happen soon

>>16745218
>Huge amount of risk in their architecture.
If they were trying to force full reuse on the first launch; this would be accurate right. But the only major full reuse elements that will show up on these first initial expendable launches are the propulsion systems. Full flow and a really long regenerative coolant loop are noteworthy, but that's where the team and the execution to date abates it for me.

>>16745345
F

I hope Buzz, Charlie and Jack can hold on for at least a few more years. Charlie is apparently healthy and interested enough that he still does occasional space-related events (he was at Estronaut's most recent "Astro Awards") so he may at least be able to commentate on the Artemis II launch next year.

Schmitt, Scott, Schweickart, Duke, Buzz.

See Jim going to space gets you killed later in life

>>16745345
>>16745363

F to a real one, one of the big dogs in the cohort. I am sure that he enjoyed every single solitary last day on Earth after Apollo 13.

I don't track early cosmonauts, except to keep track of the fact that Valentina Tereshkova is still alive, and has buried 'em all, well, most anyway Everybody else in Vostok, of course. She flew her mission when very young, and women tend to outlive men anyway.

What I keep track of is a well-defined group: every man selected for Astronaut Groups 1-5, a group of 55 men. Most, but not all of these guys actually flew Apollo-era missions (broadly defined to include Mercury, Gemini, Skylab etc), all American orbital flights before the Shuttle era. All the guys trained in these groups but who did not get Apollo-Era missions (upper right) have died. and more than one of these guys died in plane crashes. Occupational hazard, experimental pilots have to have a certain gallows humor.

Incidentally, Joe Engle was the last surviving X-15 pilot for several years, but he has since died recently. So if one wants to include the X-15 program in this analysis, there's no need anymore as they're all gone.

The last survivor will probably not be famous, in mouth-breathing normie space terms. Based upon ages, it's likely to be a Skylab crew member or one of the surviving J-mission LMPs, who were slightly younger (Harrison Schmitt is fairly well known I guess, otherwise-educated people who have done tangential Apollo research/watched a documentary or two are much more likely to be aware of him).

>>16745543
Haise too unless I'm mistake

>>16745548
no 13 was a movie he's not a real person

we should freeze them all till Artemis III

>>16745548
You're mixing him up with Bill Paxton (who had died)

>>16745548

As of now, yes. Just checked wiki anyway. The media will of course reach out to him for the usual condolences.

Jim's death also means that no two men have shared living memory of the same one mission, pre-shuttle era anyway. Buzz is still alive, and he was co-pilot on Gemini XII with Jim (already a veteran at that point). They were the last complete surviving crew of any one mission. No such crew, or mission, exists anymore.

Tereshkova is still alive, jeez.
also looking at the soviets pre-1971 they really did shit-all with crewed missions didnt they

>>16745543
Schweickart at 87 years old: https://youtu.be/6btgPqRod1c?t=85

>>16745560
When I combine Ozzy and Sharon

>>16745568
Fuck, why did you have to mention someone else important who died recently

>>16745560

Not sure what you mean by this. They set several interesting firsts (to the constant annoyance of NASA), right from the get-go: two separate craft with crew both in flight at the same time, contacting each other, getting within a few miles of each other (Vostok 3/4, then 5/6), first spacecraft with more than one person aboard (Voskhod 1), First EVA (Voskhod 2).

After abandoning the moon, they began to focus their energies on space station habitation. The big breakthrough here was Salyut 6, because the killer app was a SECOND docking port, not available on early Salyut stations, allowing regular supply shipments and crew rotation for sustained human presence in space, on the order of several months.

First gen stations: testbeds, proof of concept, can't stay a long time or do anything truly interesting. (Early Salyuts, Tiangong IIRC). Second gen stations: two or more docking ports, making the above possible (Salyut 6 & 7). Third gen stations, now this is where it gets crazy/fun: multiple modules/docking ports allow many more options for habitation, experiments, and so forth (Mir/ISS/forthcoming projects).

>>16745572
rock music is satanic

>>16745572
Because 2025 has been a huge blackpill and it only gets better once you lean into it and accept it

>>16745573
yes like I said, 1971. Salyut 1 was 71.

>>16745574
The same people who subscribe to this also believe the Moon landings were faked. I'll continue to rock on

>>16745577

Again, I pointed out the interesting other firsts on Vostok and Voskhod, for what they're worth. You gotta start somewhere.

>>16745578
I wasn't saying it was a bad thing :^)

>it's another Buzz losing a friend episode and posting melancholy despair on twitter
Bros...

You now remember Bill Anders dying in that badass plane crash last year. They're space cowboys, the lot of them

we got gta6 before starship in orbit

>>16745585
He nosed down and called it a night

I remember reddit stamping their little feet that a 90 year old man should NOT have a pilot's license. This is NOT okay, guys.

>>16745585
Apollo 8 was the pinnacle of badassery.
Third ever launch of Saturn V. Second ever Apollo crewed mission. First time around the moon, without a LM as a lifeboat like 13.

>>16745593
Kek what a badass

>>16745599
Such a lovely ship she is

>>16745575
Seems like it was only a few years ago that he was still doing live talk shows on his Ozzy's Boneyard channel on SiriusXM. I guess that's the space connection here, that he had his own satellite radio station. I wonder if the moon and Mars will have their own dedicated entertainment radio satellites in the future for the benefit of people living and/or working there.

>>16745599
over engineered. just give the ISS a few cleats

https://x.com/SpaceIntel101/status/1953945828919587148
>China successfully launched 11 GeeSpace's GeeSat 4 satellites on its Smart Dragon 3 (Jielong 3) rocket to SSO (Sun-Synchronous Orbit) from the sea launch platform Dong Fang Hang Tian Gang in the Yellow Sea near the port of Rizhao, Shandong Province. The satellites are part of a constellation by the Chinese major car manufacturer Geely, used for automotive navigation & comm services.

>>16745615
everyone who takes photos with an iPad should be arrested

meme drive has started calibration/assessment phase

say what you will about the thing but at least they put it into space to test lol

>>16745623
>meme drive has started calibration/assessment phase
Got a link?

>>16745623
I shit on it all the time but I admire mcculloch’s dedication and it would honestly be the funniest outcome ever if he were right so I maintain a ~1% hopefully optimistic outlook. Hes a cool guy and I always read his papers and watch his talks on hypothetical QI missions and stuff.

>>16745627
It's a sign of progress that space is now so accessible that a silly schizodrive can be launched and tested. It's inspiring and would have been impossible not long ago.

>>16745599
how did it rust in space?

>>16745626
yeah sure https://x.com/RaMansell/status/1953960462116442398

>>16745627
wildest outcome imo would be if it works, but not for QI reasons, that would be so funny and troll both QI believers and mainstream soientists as everyone has to figure out how the fuck does it work

>>16745629
all thanks to Falcon 9, workhorse rocket of the world

>>16745630
no sunscreen

>>16745629
Very good point
>>16745630
Chemical deposits from attitude thrusters. Though I think steel CAN rust in space. Diatomic oxygen exists, especially at that altitude, both naturally and as byproducts of rocket engines/thrusters. But I digress, that is goop left by the reaction control system that puffs and puffs and puffs every fraction of a second any time Dragon is undocked and moving around in three-dimensional space

>>16745633
Wikipedia Falcon 9 drama is fun

on the very slightly narrow off chance that the meme drive actually works I image SpaceX would instantly try to make their own to basically have infinite delta-v starlink and probably speed up Mars by several years

>Penrose is still alive
What

>>16736648
>You won't be seeing medium lift liquid fueled or reusable rockets launching or landing there for many more years
It was just announced CZ-12 will have a sea launch later this year.

>>16745642
God, america just knew how tf to build top quality shit in the 40s through the 80s. Generational run. Interior of the LM was sexy and soulful utilitarian. The pre-glass shuttle cockpit with CRT guidance monitors. Supremely kino. Modern design (especially both american and chinese) is just sleek soulless white plastic. No personality.

>>16745648
you're a fag who's gay for shit that sucked that he never had to experience sucking call it "soul"
dragon's the best there ever was

>>16745571
she's just like me

>>16745630
>>16745635
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/3200/what-is-the-cause-of-discoloration-along-the-edges-of-the-quest-joint-airlock-th

> Notice what looks like scorch marks on the hatch thermal cover, the effect of vacuum and atomic oxygen on the threads and thread sealant used on the thermal cover. The 'smell' of space follows suit, I’ve heard it described like burnt cake or cookies, or like the smell of an extinguished match."

>>16745648
I would prefer my spacecraft that is keeping me alive not have personality desu

>>16745658
Yeah after posting I realized it could also just be UV-damaged plastics

>>16745650
Oh fuck off

Japan is unironically our greatest ally and I would be fine with trillions of $ of our tax money simply being injected into JAXA

>>16745682
This but Romania and ARCA

>>16745684
BASED

supergrim and stargrim

>>16745633
>>16745629
>>16745623
I really want this to work, not because it'd be revolutionary, but because it'd be the funniest outcome that the schizodrive works

>Dong Fang Hang Tian Gang
kek

>>16745744
I Hate Logograms

What happened to selling ULA? Did really no one wanted to buy it?

>>16745778
the government wants redundancy for spy sats. that's enough to keep it afloat.

>>16745778
they did but ULA ignored the lowballs because they knew what they had

>>16745778
I woulda bought it but I only had a fiver and tory wouldn't take it

I love you all
although 'you' seems to be less and less anons. stop lurking!!!

>>16745614
This launch also dropped debris on some other country, lmao look out below

>>16745787
It's just too fucking boring this year. It took Elon forever to figure out that early Block 2 sucks dick and will never stop exploding, and we all wanted to and should have been at starlink deployment and orbital refueling by now. Nothing EVER happens

>>16745778
taken private at $420

>>16745835
funding secured

could you imagine how much happier Musk would be if Tesla wasn't a public company

There is no spaceflight in your statement. Cease your posting immediately

>>16745644
No confirmation yet if its the CZ-12A variant

Starship uses Tesla Motors for the fins and Tesla (Panasonic) batteries for who the fuck knows what
https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-tesla-battery-packs-motors/

>>16745897
I don't think that is the case anymore, it was just a quick way to control the flaps before a more custom system was designed
for instance the batteries are more power dense (instead of energy dense) now, not sure about the electric motor

I'm not a pop culture fanatic or anything but it really should be called Polyphemus and any habitable moon Pandora.

>>16745903
They'll give it some oogabooga name like Ngubuaua

>>16745905
The anti-human freaks who run the IAU will not be the ones going interstellar, so we can just ignore them and name it what we want when we get there.

>>16745607
Hell if people go to the Moon to stay I'll be the first guy to get a license to set up a broadcast dish and beam whatever at them

Mars would take a bit more effort, I'd need to sell someone at Goldstone on being the Skinemax to the stars

>>16745926
>Hell if people go to the Moon to stay I'll be the first guy to get a license to set up a broadcast dish and beam whatever at them
that reminds me that i saw a video not too long ago where the youtuber trying to analyze military sat signals realized that the sats are often hijacked by randoms who use them for long range communication. the military has to bump them off like they're ants or something.

>>16745623
If it does somehow magically work I hope they run it for long enough to prove it's not just tape outgassing or whatever. The last thing we need is for it to work for a few moments then the rogue space probe it's on breaks down (again)

>>16745633
I follow that mansell dude too for meme drive news but he seems like a bit of a religious weirdo.

Elon, I’m afraid no one gives a shit about your grok prompts bro. This is embarrassing, he is full-on distracted. No doubt about it.

>>16745578
Is that woman christina koch? Why is she wearing manlet boots lol

>>16745957
She’s a short queen

>>16745583
Now I'm pissed because I went to read the tweets and its just full of moon landing hoaxniggers

NASA bends the knee to Trump!

>>16745929
>sats are often hijacked by randoms who use them for long range communication
kek wasn't it brazilian truckers or some shit like that?

>>16745973
yeah or illegal loggers, i forget which one

>>16745962
no it didn't

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msIG_FCAbrE
another snoozer

All design flaws fixed. Dry mass reduced. Thrust and ISP, uprated.

>>16745986
>another scrub
Amazon did this to themselves

>>16746006
>inb4 it causes another RUD on flight 12 before reaching SECO

>>16746045
>spacesudoer

>>16745650
>Look guys, I'm cool too!
Dork, touchscreens are for fags

>>16745650
It's true, I've never pushed a button. But I can imagine what it's like and it's amazing

>>16746048
As sovlfvl as the cm was, it all only looked like that because it had to. If the naa engineers had the computing power we do today, they would have put touchscreens in as well.

>>16746058
>screen turns off and won't come back on

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see

reentry soon
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/1954184269082792027

>>16746067
I don't feel so good about this.....................................................

>>16746073
its fine

>>16746079
They can still drown.

>>16746082
The dolphins will protect them

>>16746062
>button is pressed and won't pop back up

>>16746084
Jiggle it a little bit, it'll be fine

>>16746062
I really liked the setting of Voyager but there was a female captain

crew dragon works yet again

okay but why not just have buttons AND screens? or screens ON buttons?? I think I'm onto something here
elon let me know if you'r einterested

>>16746090
it does
just like my Tesla

god damn musk keeps spamming imagine videos
jesus

just woke up
any qt3.14159s spotted?

>>16746096
That phase of "holy shit I can create anything I want" AI fascination lasts from a few weeks to a few months before calming down.

>>16746099
correct

it's there

>>16745780
ULA is a boomer

>>16746102
They're just right over there

>>16745942
Yeah, if it's not going to work, it needs to at least run long enough that everybody (except the deepest schizos of course) will know for sure that it doesn't work.

>>16746102
Why can't you see Rayleigh scattering on the terminator line?

>>16746062
>>16746084

>>16746111
They get to play Breakout on that thing?

>>16746114
no, Gravitar

still dreaming about that Starship Heavy

>>16745973
As a non radio enthusiast. How does that even work?

>>16746097
You think it was just some simp taking the pictures?