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  • If these are “intentionally obtuse” points, well then welcome to aerospace engineering, its called rocket science for a reason.

    Haha lol you are being intentionally obtuse again. I never said anything bad about NASA I never said they was being obtuse and I never said they were being cringe. You are arguing at a wall because I never made those points.

    A lot of people say a lot of stupid things about Elon and SpaceX and that vastly out weighs the actual issues with this project. Of which there are real issues. Everything NASA says is assumed to be a valid issue. Again intentionally obtuse because I’m not arguing anything else

    I watched that video when it came out and I can’t really be bothered watching it again.

    Haha good day mate. You are trying to make a conversation out of something I’m not saying, you’re not worth talking to. If you want an imaginary conversation please have it with yourself.


  • If NASA is to a point healthy critique is considered cringe, then I doubt we’ll be on the moon for long.

    You’re being intentionally obtuse. I’m obviously not calling NASA cringe and that’s not even remotely implied.

    NASA is running the project, set the tenders and observing the suppliers. No one would expect anything else. Smartereveryday was largely on about culture at NASA from what I remember from that video. That and the lack of hypergolics. If NASA wanted hypergolics on the moon they could have put a requirement “must use hypergolics on the moon”. But they didn’t. That’s why all the relighting tests are being done. If the engines relight to the needed reliability then everything is fine, they have set the standards.

    The Apollo project was tested live. They did all the lab tests but the real world tests were largely done with people in them. Apollo was risky as fuck and would never ever be allowed to happen now. I think some of the astronauts thought there was as high as a 50% of death. The fact you don’t know how risky Apollo was to the astronauts shows you don’t know much about this because you are using the safety of Apollo as a benchmark. Look I love Apollo but it wasn’t a high benchmark of safety.

    With things like this. Testing to failure is pretty norm. NASA uses falcon 9 rockers for crew which was largely tested the same way. They obviously have faith in SpaceX because they out humans in their rockets.




  • Apollo was a huge government project. It was affectively a military, science, geopolitical and political project that had a lot of backing by the public.

    I would argue Apollo is the great project ever and it’s kind of unfair to compare anything to it.

    But the real crux of this matter here is if you get your info from Lemmy or reddit (and not one of the places filled by experts). It’s full of “Lol Elon bad” circlejerking. “Haha the rocket blew up they so stupid”. It’s really cringe. In fact SpaceX, NASA, the FAA, astronauts who will go on the ships, other space companies, experts they all expected this to happen. This is the plan. (Though the FAA did have some issues).

    Ignore the “Elon is an idiot” memes and what you actually find is Elon’s SpaceX is probably the greatest rocket company in the world and all rocket agencies including governmental ones though that SpaceX has already achieved was impossible. People don’t like seeing that and outright ignore the facts.

    Anything could go wrong with this project but I don’t think people would be overly concerned if rockets failed all throughout this year. (But it is expected to be better than that.)


  • The problem is supply and demand not landlords.

    If business could knock down single family homes that were built 100 years ago when the city was 10% the size and put in modern medium or high density apartments the issue would resolve itself.

    We need a land tax or the government to just outright buy huge acres of land and demolish it and build public transport.

    The root cause of this issue is not landlords its land hoarders, whether it is the family who doesn’t want housing built next to them or the real estate company who wants to keep supply constrained. There are more regular people causing this issue than landlords or corporations. No one wants an actual solution to the problem people just bitch.

    Although landlord rules do need improving. Things like being able to rent out a mouldy house should be jail time for repeat offenders. But currently it’s nothing.