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Sooo no actual elaboration on what exactly you’re referring to and no evidence that it’s bullshit then

Hey I heard from you guys that the laser communications was musk bs. Now it’s used widely

What makes this time any different?

Falcon was treated the same way as starship is now chief.

And I’m just gonna ignore the schizophrenic ramblings you put after that

Failures have become less likely. And it’s still very much a prototype vehicle lol

Having a 50% success rate is actually quite good considering that starship is not some bog standard expendable launcher

What is?

I get that but many are just taking it as current which is why it’s very important to ensure people understand that there’s are much bigger fishes to fry

Spaceflight emissions will need to increase by orders of magnitude to impact the same as even minor emissions such as videogames for example

Still both are absolutely dwarfed by ODS emissions from chemicals

It’s not approaching those scales just yet

Currently ozone depletion from spaceflight is 0.1% with 0.012% being from entries. it’s more mass than micrometeorites for just aluminium but aluminium alone doesn’t deplete ozone it’s oxides that do

Micrometeorites don’t produce Al oxides like satellites

Yup

They’re definitely a fun company to follow. All are as a whole

More competition is good competition

Hating him is one thing. SpaceX is very different

Yeah that’s true for many. But not true as a whole

Neither compete with the other and both have benefited greatly from the work they’ve done. Many simply hate SpaceX because it’s different from the cost+ structure

And you’re basing this on….

which part?

None. Because he doesn’t make or own them lol

If you mean SpaceX, for non test articles it’s probably 5 total in off nominal situations

With test articles near enough to 20 but that including early tanking tests

Oh definitely, space is hard and that was a VERY hard lesson

Must have been a wild experience

Bro has me blocked lol

And Covid makes a ‘return’ every flu season. So are you referring to that or are you implying it’s going to become like 2020-2022 again?

I’m literally not lol. Crazy how you want to immediately make this about Trump ngl

So how does this apply to if their programs are long term or not?

That stat is from the first gen sats which have started retirement (5 years since launch)

Newer Version 2 sats are expected to operate longer. Prop limits the current batches to 6-7 but SpaceX is preemptive in disposal

The guys a self taught maniac too (in the good way)

Built a rocket powered bike for example just…because why not?

Overall their biggest market is satellite manufacturing. They’re make pre made buses and sats that customers can buy and modify

As well as satellite components like solar cells and reaction wheels

Another funny thing is that he said he’d eat his hat if they developed a new larger launch vehicle and made their current vehicle reusable. To announce the former, he literally ate a hat

They’re not really a direct competitor. They’re in the small launch market but hoping to enter into the medium

Funnily enough Beck crashed out a few years ago because of SpaceX starting their ride-share program which ate up their market share

I think you are significantly underestimating the impact political whims have on NASA.

They’d love to think long term. But you can’t convince politicians that it’s worthwhile.

SLS and Orion are obviously not long term assets. They’re the cap for Artemis’s long term goals

SpaceX obviously is thinking long term. If they were only focused on Point A to Point B at a competitive rate they’d have stuck with Falcon 9 and Heavy

Well I mean Apollo was never long term. It was a short program to meet political goals

Shuttle was thought up with the idea of being long term but due to many reasons never became so and wasn’t far reaching

It’s no problem I’ve been there myself lol

Saturn V, nearly killed the crew numerous times. POGO wasn’t fixed and came back repeatedly

You can hate musk and also not spread blatant bullshit especially when NASA and SpaceX are allies not competitors no matter how you try to make them be.

You guys are no different than the MAGA lot. Period. Anyone who isn’t a mindless political droid can see it

You’re just in denial of it in the same way they’re in denial that they’re just like you

Horseshoe theory has never been more real and it shows