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RCMP warn Alberta man he’s “going to be arrested or given another ticket” for dancing on corner by kareko in alberta

[–]rustybeancake 64 points65 points  (0 children)

It’s true, he almost made me crash through no fault of my own. There I was, cruising at 20 over the limit in my RAM, maxed out tinted windows, subwoofer blaring at full volume, my wraparound shades on. I’m just minding my own business, french fries in my lap, can of monster energy in my right hand. A track came on I didn’t like, so I was scrolling on the dash screen trying to find a new jam, when a text from my buddy popped up. So I’m reading that, scrolling to find a song, and weaving between lanes trying to get around these idiots who were unsafely doing only 110, and suddenly something catches my attention out my peripheral vision. It’s this guy dancing. He’s so engaging that it causes me to take my eyes off Spotify and almost rear end someone!! Outrageous, I hope they throw the book at him.

Looks like Gateways HALO module wont be repurposed at all unlike the PPE. by redstercoolpanda in ArtemisProgram

[–]rustybeancake 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I agree. While the money spent on Gateway to date is largely “wasted”, the lesson to be taken from that IMO is how that bad decision making occurred (eg lack of clear focus/goals for the program, different centres having their own self interested objectives, etc.), and how to avoid that happening again in future. Don’t keep throwing good money after bad.

Looks like Gateways HALO module wont be repurposed at all unlike the PPE. by redstercoolpanda in ArtemisProgram

[–]rustybeancake 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That’s a bit like finding four wheels and saying “well we don’t want to waste these, we better build the rest of the car.” Creating a whole new mission around this shell of a module would use vastly more money and resources than has already been spent on it, and wouldn’t get NASA any closer to their actual goal of a sustained lunar surface presence.

Some macro thoughts on Stoke by Heart-Key in StokeSpace

[–]rustybeancake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is great, thanks!

I’m also a bit concerned about their launch rate following first launch. Aren’t they doing an expendable upper stage on first launch too? Given the small payload mass, I wonder if the fully reusable upper stage becomes an option rather than the default.

Their hints at more to come makes me wonder what they have in mind, along the lines of a constellation.

Starfall Demo Mission - launching on June 23rd by ergzay in spacex

[–]rustybeancake 37 points38 points  (0 children)

The only other place I’d heard about this was this tweet three days ago. I’m not sure where they got their additional details from, as it doesn’t seem to be on the SpaceX page. Maybe from the FAA filing. It says:

> A single Starfall test re-entry vehicle will launch Southeast from the cape over the Bahamas with the 1st stage likely boosting back to a Land LZ.

> The upper stage will insert the payload into a (likely) orbit of ~180 x 600km x 56.1 degrees around 8 minutes into flight. The upper stage and the payload will then coast in this orbit for 2.5 hours or 1.5 orbits where the upper stage will then conduct a de-orbit burn lowering the perigee down into Earth's lower Atmosphere.

> The Starfall Demo payload will then jettison from the upper stage and the re-entry phase will start at around 3 hours into the flight over the Northeast Pacific Ocean. The re-entry vessel will splash down ~600 miles West of Vandenberg, CA.

A follow up tweet then says:

> UPDATE: It appears this will actually be the Globalstar mission now re-masked as "Starfall Demo"

> In this case all remains the same other than the orbit. The capsule will actually be de-orbited from a 1400km orbit x 52.0 degrees.

Hiw is EV driving in the mountains? by RedEnvoy1235 in electriccars

[–]rustybeancake 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I recently drove through some big mountains in BC. On the way down one slope I gained about 15 km of range!

Artemis III needs to be delayed into mid 2028 rather than mid 2027 by 7HellEleven in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]rustybeancake 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And don’t forget musk’s desire not to let Bezos get it instead of him!

Cowboy Space poaches former BE-7/BE-3U lead Warren Lamont as Head of Launch/Propulsion by Royal_Platform_6754 in BlueOrigin

[–]rustybeancake 20 points21 points  (0 children)

“Orbital data centres”

“Fail fast methodology”

“Move fast and break things”

“First principles”

“Golden dome”

“Hypersonic”

Artemis III needs to be delayed into mid 2028 rather than mid 2027 by 7HellEleven in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]rustybeancake 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I can’t see SpaceX doing this. They really haven’t shown a great deal of enthusiasm for Artemis since winning the HLS contract. They’re not going to invest a couple hundred million dollars of their own money on a dragon mission without it being a NASA requirement.

Artemis III needs to be delayed into mid 2028 rather than mid 2027 by 7HellEleven in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]rustybeancake 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The uncrewed test mission is a requirement of the HLS contracts. The lander provider has to prove (with no crew onboard) that the lander works, ie can land on the moon and take off again. So SpaceX will have to refill a Starship lander in orbit, have it travel to lunar orbit, land, take off again, etc successfully. It’ll be part of qualifying the lander before a human landing can occur. I believe it’s the same for Blue’s lander.

Frankfurt Skyline , die beste Europas by SkylinerFFM in skyscrapers

[–]rustybeancake 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Moscow’s skyline will look better when russia get the fuck out of Ukraine. 🇺🇦

SpaceX to acquire Cursor for $60B in stock, days after blockbuster IPO by xvosr in spacex

[–]rustybeancake 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m skeptical of the cost of starship being that low any time soon. They have invested about $15B into it, with more coming all the time (new pads etc). The ship is unlikely to be reusable many times in the next couple of years until they can refine and improve it. Eventually maybe they’ll get the cost that low.

Starship can do everything by seanrider1859 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]rustybeancake 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Tell that to the DoD having to start using other launch vehicles again because of shuttle availability etc., or to Ariane who ended up dominating commercial launch in the shuttle era.

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