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@WholeMarsBlog Doing the opposite of whatever that insufferable numbskull says would be a great way to invest!
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@Emmett__Osborne @WholeMarsBlog I was prepared to accept either outcome
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@WholeMarsBlog I had too many bottles of Teslaquila!
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@RonWyden Why does ur pp look like u just came?
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@thesheetztweetz @BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX @Arianespace @ArianeGroup @roscosmos @northropgrumman @ulalaunch @torybruno @isro @RocketLab Actually, 41 tons for SpaceX in Q3 & aiming for 80 tons in Q4. That said, China launch mass to orbit is extremely impressive.
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@Erdayastronaut @thesheetztweetz @BryceSpaceTech @SpaceX @Arianespace @ArianeGroup @roscosmos @northropgrumman @ulalaunch @torybruno @isro @RocketLab The Starship fleet is designed to achieve over 1000 times more payload to orbit than all other rockets on Earth combined.
Almost no one understands this.
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@skorusARK Really just comes down to iron cathode for medium range vehicles & stationary storage vs nickel cathode for long range vehicles
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@SciGuySpace Dragon enters like a shooting star
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Sometimes they’re a little 2-dimensional
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@Rainmaker1973 And that is a very tiny fraction of the ~4 megatons of mass that the sun converts to energy every second
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@Space_Station @SpaceX @Commercial_Crew @NASA @esa @JAXA_en @astro_kimbrough @Astro_Megan @Thom_astro @Aki_Hoshide Still blows my mind that this is real
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@Tenjin37151 @Space_Station @SpaceX @Commercial_Crew @NASA @esa @JAXA_en @astro_kimbrough @Astro_Megan @Thom_astro @Aki_Hoshide As described in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (great book), a linear accelerator would be great for the moon.
Earth’s gravity is too high & atmosphere too dense for accelerators to be a good solution vs reusable boosters imo.
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@SawyerMerritt There are many other good causes, but this is my main reason for accumulating capital.
The resources I consume personally are very low.
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@Rainmaker1973 Interestingly, however, average power density of the sun is comparable to a compost heap (humans are more power dense than the sun) – it is just very, very big
