Starlink hop. Maybe.
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Skip to 8 hours 11 mins
Specifically,
Take-off: 8:11:35
Landing: 8:17:40
Explosion: 8:26:14
Apologies that I can't directly link to a timestamp. Clean footage of the event will be uploaded later.
"Mars just got a little bit closer today".
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I did not post this earlier, because, it might be a scrub, but...
Right now - within the next couple hours - the SpaceX Starship might hop.
Max altitude, 10 km.
It'll (hopefully) launch, flip, and land.
Nobody knows when it'll happen. Here is a live stream. It might happen in the next few hours.
Weather... eh.. mostly OK, ish.
This might be the first flight and landing of the spaceship that takes humans to another planet.
Or, it might explode in an interesting way.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2021, 18:11, Reply)
Launch window is still open for a couple of hours.
It stopped the launch, because of a fault;
Test flights are cautious.
There's a couple of hours left.
(, Wed 3 Mar 2021, 20:47, Reply)
elon musk, one of the wealthiest individuals on the planet, is just blowing shit up for fun and profit
shits and giggles - change my mind
like yeah, i could end third world poverty and global inequality, but, y'know s'plosions an stuff are cool
let's go pollute another planet
pass another choir boy - this one has split
this kind of behaviour has historical precedence
media love its profitability
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artifus is doing it all wrong, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 0:31,
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Why waste time caring when it you can act out fantasies and be praised for it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 4:04,
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160 billion / 700 million
If Musk gave all his money away, the starving millions could get about $230 each.
That'd feed them for a few weeks, maybe. It would not solve poverty.
{rough figures, based on [1] [2] - except, in reality, a) he couldn't get all that money liquidated, b) distributing it would likely cost most of the $230}
But you know what does help them? Global, cheap communications via Starlink.
And innovations that come from spaceflight - such as, space blankets, invented by NASA. And smoke alarms, and the jaws of life, and freeze-dried food, and artificial limbs, and hearing aids, and fireproof clothing, and laptop computers, and mobile phone cameras, and oh so much more.
(, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 7:31, Reply)
Bit more complicated than just sharing the money out.
Reasonable healthcare, contraception, clean water, etc
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 14:34,
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The real solution is for people
to stop having children when they already cannot feed themselves. No amount of money will ever make that happen.
How about you level the same charge at the Catholic Church, which likely has considerably more money than Elon Musk, has an established network of outlets already positioned to help communities around the world, claims to be all about pastoral care while tithing the shit out of people, and which actively campaigns to ensure poor people make as many more poor people as they possibly can?
I'd say they're a much better candidate, in terms of capacity to help, in terms of self-proclaimed responsibility, and in terms of actual culpability.
(, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 10:45, Reply)
Elon Musk can't guarantee everlasting life though, the ultimate insurance scam.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 14:30,
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Stop the poor breeding. Got it.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 15:27,
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The negative influences of churches vastly outweighs the benefits.
Don't get me started on that. Or do, if you want. But I will rant.
I'm a bit to the right of Dawkins.
Religion is the root of all evil. Belief makes no sense whatsoever, and is the antithesis of science. Religion keeps society back in the dark ages, of witchcraft and magic. Teaching religion to childen is child abuse.
Catholics are exactly the same as flat-Earthers, and should be treated as such. There is no evidence of a God, like there is no evidence that the world is flat.
Flat Earth is relatively harmless, because very few people believe in it. But religion is incredibly harmfull, because billions of religious people get to vote, and that's scary. If someone believed that Santa Claus was real, you probably wouldn't want them to be allowed to vote on the science budget. But for some bizarre reason, if people believe in Jehovah or Allah, it is deemed acceptable. I do not understand why.
(, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 16:46, Reply)
Why?
Why have a technological marvel commentated on by Homer Simpson? Why not have someone that can do more than keep up a constant stream of verbal diarrhoea?
I must be too old to understand.
(, Thu 4 Mar 2021, 16:47, Reply)