And we have liftoff

[Dribble]

And we have boom.

Seriously....how many hundreds of millions is this country gonna give a failed program? This really isn't rocket science

 

[Rotadom]

What is the last discovery we've made in space that had benefited us on earf?

 

[Dribble]

All I know...is our Govt can't pay its bills...and yet we have given 15.8 billion in public funding to SpaceX since 2003. Guess how much Tesla has received. If we get something for that investment...cool. But 20 years down the road...I don't want to see "boom".

 

[LLCox]

Rock on Elon

 

[RoryN]

Prototype. First launch ever of the world's larest rocket. If it's successful, it will end up saving billions of dollars in space travel and make pretty much everything NASA has obsolete.

Elon is a douche, but Starship is legit. Still can't believe the thing stayed intact after max q, engine flame outs, and spinning. Trust me: SpaceX is most pleased this morning. And they have another one already waiting in the wings...

 

[Soccerfanpen21]

It was exciting to watch it all happen. The shot of the booster where you could see the engines going with the few spaces not burning kind of gave me the idea it wasn't all going well.

 

[Dribble]

Prototype. First launch ever of the world's larest rocket. If it's successful, it will end up saving billions of dollars in space travel and make pretty much everything NASA has obsolete.

Elon is a douche, but Starship is legit. Still can't believe the thing stayed intact after max q, engine flame outs, and spinning. Trust me: SpaceX is most pleased this morning. And they have another one already waiting in the wings...

We can't pay our bills. I can think of a million better uses of the money. If a private company wants a low interest loan...cool. If a private company wants funding...seek private sources. Use of public funds without a say is fucking stupid. Space travel. What a fucking joke. We can't even stop polluting our planet.

 

[RoryN]

We can't pay our bills. I can think of a million better uses of the money. If a private company wants a low interest loan...cool. If a private company wants funding...seek private sources. Use of public funds without a say is fucking stupid. Space travel. What a fucking joke. We can't even stop polluting our planet.

We can't stop doing a lot of things. It's 2023, and we still have public officials with wet dreams about lynching people, and young men painting the walls with the blood of slaughtered 9-year olds.

Space travel is the one thing mankind is actually overachieving at. If that glimmer of hope is extinguished by certain people who don't get the importance of everything involved in that endeavour, I guarantee you will see dire consequences. And the anti-science Right will surely applaud them for their efforts.

 

[jaF0]

It's all Joe's fault!!!!

SpaceX's gigantic Starship rocket blasts off and then explodes in its first test flight​

NBC News on MSN.com|52 minutes ago
The rocket — the most powerful ever developed — is set to play a key role in NASA's Artemis program, which plans to put humans on the moon in 2025.

 

[Dribble]

Not with SpaceX. Do some research on how those satellite network he launched for cheap fat internet are working out. Slower and slower....now well over $100 a month. But if you buy our "new" satellite dish for $500 you will get what you had 6 months ago.

I would love for one person to tell me want we will gain from this rocket in the next 50 years that we couldn't have achieved in other ways. One. Should be simple. Don't Google. If SpaceX is "legit" tell me within one minute how.

 

[RoryN]

I would love for one person to tell me want we will gain from this rocket in the next 50 years that we couldn't have achieved in other ways.

Money.

A successful Starship means we can achieve the same and better benefits of space exploration we have previously, at a ratio of almost pennies on the dollar in the future.

Your turn: go read up on this machine and see what the point of it is.

 

[Dribble]

Money.

A successful Starship means we can achieve the same and better benefits of space exploration we have previously, at a ratio of almost pennies on the dollar in the future.

Your turn: go read up on this machine and see what the point of it is.

Money....sure....

It launches...it lands.

What will it provide. What new technology will come from it? Will it feed kids? Will it prevent Covid? Will it clean up the planet? Will it help us control CO2?

 

[RoryN]

*shrug*

Would you rather taxpayers pay $50 to send people and payloads to the moon, or $5?

Those are your only choices. Pick one.

That's (one of) the points of Starship.

 

[Dribble]

*shrug*

Would you rather taxpayers pay $50 to send people and payloads to the moon, or $5?

Those are your only choices. Pick one.

That's (one of) the points of Starship.

Stupid people don't see this for what it is. Why did we go to space in the first place? Why did we go to the moon? To lay claim on it over Russia. What is this new "endeavor"? Same thing....except it is about claiming territory in space over China.

Personally....I see no reason to go to the moon. Or to Mars. Why? What comes from it? What will we gain from it that we can't gain elsewhere?

Focus on real issues. Solve them. Then we can talk about space.

 

[RoryN]

What will it provide. What new technology will come from it? Will it feed kids? Will it prevent Covid? Will it clean up the planet? Will it help us control CO2?

Gee, I dunno...has the study and science of space travel ever provided valuable solutions for mankind to problems like those, or valuable new technology that we now use on Earth?

(Yes. That's why it's done.)

 

[Lazaran]

We can't stop doing a lot of things. It's 2023, and we still have public officials with wet dreams about lynching people, and young men painting the walls with the blood of slaughtered 9-year olds.

Space travel is the one thing mankind is actually overachieving at. If that glimmer of hope is extinguished by certain people who don't get the importance of everything involved in that endeavour, I guarantee you will see dire consequences. And the anti-science Right will surely applaud them for their efforts.

The thing about some of the more “ambitious” (vain?) efforts to “commercialize space” is that we really don’t possess the technology to make it consistently safe or reliable. Natural complacency and cost controls are problems as well: Even the tiniest fuck up is catastrophic in space travel: Cutting corners to save money, plus normal maintenance failures, equals a recipe for future disaster. - I believe the Space Shuttle program exposed the problem quite dramatically and tragically.

For now, the human, monetary, and material resources required to APPROACH viability for commercial travel to the moon, Mars, etc, would clearly be better spent improving and sustaining life on earth imho.

 

[KeithD]

What is the last discovery we've made in space that had benefited us on earf?

That Donald Trump had no media coverage out there?

 

[RoryN]

Why did we go to the moon? To lay claim on it over Russia.

Oh - you're one of those. Yeah, I'll be bowing out of this discussion.

You could, of course, read up on what scientific leaders, who have led advances for mankind in various areas, think about the importance of space exploration, but your mind is made up. Like you said, 'stupid people don't see this for what it is". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[Dribble]

Gee, I dunno...has the study and science of space travel ever provided valuable solutions for mankind to problems like those, or valuable new technology that we now use on Earth?

(Yes. That's why it's done.)

Really? Name one thing from the Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Shuttle missions that has resulted in benefitting man on a day to day basis. One.

I have heard this shit for 63 years. Fuck...I wanted to be an astronaut growing up. I own 3 telescopes. I love space. But I am also a realist.

Name one example of a technology that has been a direct result of space that couldn't have been done by not going to space.

Technological advancements take vision. Creativity. Cooperation. Show me any of these originating from SpaxeX. It is nothing but a scam

 

[Dribble]

Run away

Truth hurts huh

 

[Grendelpuppy]

Money....sure....

It launches...it lands.

What will it provide. What new technology will come from it? Will it feed kids? Will it prevent Covid? Will it clean up the planet? Will it help us control CO2?

The technology of the Starship will and already is enabling cheaper access to orbit, the moon and the planets. With cheap access to the moon, we can mine the moon and launch materials into orbit at near zero costs. Once we have cheap materials in lunar orbit, we can build Solar Power Satellites in geosynchronous Earth orbit. The reliable energy can then be beamed down to Earth to power industries, cities and housing. Unlike Biden's windmills and solar farms, Solar Power Satellites in GSO actually produce reliable power 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, (excepting a few minutes at midnight twice a year, but only one satellite at a time.)

 

[jaF0]

^^^ 'Rumper, we can't even 'beam' power across a room and you and your Orange Brain think we can 'beam' it thousands of miles?

 

[astuffedshirt_perv]

And we have boom.

Seriously....how many hundreds of millions is this country gonna give a failed program? This really isn't rocket science

There's actually a theory that the solution to the Fermi paradox is that other alien civilizations are run by unimaginative cheapskates like Dribble. As a result, those civilizations decided space was too hard/expensive to explore and instead turned inwards to porn and VR gaming.

 

[jaF0]

We already sent redneck four wheelers to the Moon and Mars to run donuts on virgin soil. We don't need to be screwing up other places as bad as we did this one.

 

[phrodeau]

^^^ 'Rumper, we can't even 'beam' power across a room and you and your Orange Brain think we can 'beam' it thousands of miles?

Yes we can; Tesla did it. Nikola, not the car company.