It’ll take months to get something to the sun. Better to bring the sun to it and vaporize it with Oxy Acetylene

At least you won’t have to eat for the rest of your life.

Everything is edible once.

Oh sweet child, truth social is the official White House communications channel now.

But like half of airline fires have been caused by things in the cargo hold.

The cargo hold is typically under the passenger compartment.

So in reality, there’s a 50ish percent chance that the pilots are just saving their own life.

It can’t make it worse

First corporate war when?

Okay, how about the fact that the Soviets congratulated the US on the first moon landing.

You know, the two opposite sides of the Cold War, and the other side admitted they were beaten?

That seems like pretty good proof

It’s irrational to believe people get into metal tubes everyday and just go to the other side of the world.

The average man cannot verify a plane is capable of flight.

That’s what you sound like.

That rocket is going to the moon tho

Getting anything to the moon takes a lot of thrust.

Also because of having less stages than Apollo, the core stage needed to be quite powerful to get the stack all the way from the surface to the outer edges of the atmosphere.

If starship works, it’ll be great.

Right now starship has delivered precisely 0 grams of anything to any orbital level.

The commercial moon trip that was planned for that Chinese billionaire was canceled due to a lack of confidence and nasa has reopened the lunar lander contract because of how far behind starship is.

The entire design paradigm of starship as a lunar vehicle is also highly dubious. Requiring double digit launches of refueling tankers, that have never been tested or demonstrated as possible, just to get to the moon is not exactly cheap or low risk. If we’re generous and say that launching anything to LEO on starship costs the same as a falcon 9 launch(74 million), and it will take the 16 refueling launches to get to the moon that NASA conservatively estimates, and there’s no boil off of fuel between refueling launches or scheduling delays requiring extra launches due to boil off, then the total cost of a moon mission with starship is now 1.18 billion dollars. The SLS, Frankenstein creation that it is, costs roughly 2.4 billion for a launch. SLS is double the cost on paper, yes. However there is a few massive points in its favor: it has flown twice without blowing up unexpectedly, it does not require over a dozen launches of other rockets to do its only job, and it has actually delivered a payload to the moon. Starship right now can claim none of these things.

Even if starship just becomes a heavy launch to LEO vehicles, it currently has no way to deploy any meaningful cargo to Leo besides fucking starlink satellites. So it can’t even be used to construct the lunar gateway or an orbital tug.

Please stop huffing Elon’s vaporware.

You know, I’m not even sure I’ve heard a straight line about what exactly they’re trying to do and what precipitated starting the war.

There’s been talk about wanting regime change and halting the Iranian nuclear program. But both of those things have been around for what, like 20 years? And the nuclear deal was being worked out over a decade age before trump threw a fit and ripped it up.

Most wars have a very clear “they did this to us so we have to do this to them in order to secure… blah blah blah.” But with Iran we didn’t really get that. I just woke up one day and the headlines were “surprise, he started another war in the Middle East, checkout this new TikTok trend”

At least bush had the intelligence to lie about WMDs. Trump just threw a fit and seems hell bent on collapsing the global economy for no reason other than the US hasn’t been bombing as many brown people as it once did.

They’re now opening the contract for a different lander for the 3rd Artemis mission. Because Musk lied and said starship was capable of doing anything.

NASA is legally required to do the Artemis missions. Congress has already paid for all the planned missions. The SLS rockets need to used.

It’s just the Aero glass from win 7 on an iPhone. I don’t mind it

He has 34 felonies.

I dont think he cares about the law guys.

The pentagon has been dodging audits like fucking Neo for over 50 years.

I have a hunch that a good chunk of that trillion dollars they get every year just kind of evaporates. You know, you order 8,500 tomahawks from your Raytheon buddy, he sends 850 and pockets the difference. No one questions it because surely we’re not going to get into an extended ground conflict so who’s gonna notice.

We’re probably just like the Russians, just with better advertising and fresh paint.

I would, but he’s like really far away and my boss barely gave me my wife’s birthday off.

If someone were launching ICBMs, the only missile to re enter the earths atmosphere, the war would be a lot spicier.

And I’m pretty sure the only one stupid enough to launch ICBMs would be the idiot in the Oval Office. He’s already dropped the biggest non-nuclear bomb in the US arsenal, I’m sure he’s got a lil hard-on for dropping the biggest bomb we have.

AI slop