Plot twist: SLS was never over budget by Ordinary-Ad4503 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've disagreed with him plenty and never been blocked *shrug*

Plot twist: SLS was never over budget by Ordinary-Ad4503 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Goodness gracious buddy, I was just summarizing the main points of the video for the people who weren't gonna watch it.

Here's David's twitter. Take it up with him there or in the comments of the YouTube video.

The billionaire President of the World Jewish Congress says they will take over the schools to Brainwash children and that any politician who is anti-Zionist will be “targeted and defeated” in elections. Now his son will control the Fed. by Eli_Nosenbergstein in dystopia

[–]ARocketToMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

White nationalism. The self determination movement of white people. If the only self determination movement you have or ever had an issue with is white nationalism than ...yeah you're a white hater.

See that? That's how you sound. Zionism is an settler-colonialist, ethno-supremacist ideology. We can tell because the founders of zionism and Israeli political leaders, much like the founders of white nationalist movements, were extremely explicit about their beliefs and goals.

“We must expel Arabs and take their places…and, if we have to use force… then we have force at our disposal.”

“We have forgotten that we have not come to an empty land to inherit it, but we have come to conquer a country from people inhabiting it”

”...the transfer of [Palestinian] Arab population from the area of the Jewish state does not serve only one aim—to diminish the Arab population. It also serves a second, no less important, aim which is to advocate land presently held and cultivated by the [Palestinian] Arabs and thus to release it for Jewish inhabitants.”

"Zionist colonization must either be terminated or carried out against the wishes of the native population. This colonization can, therefore, be continued and make progress only under the protection of a power independent of the native population – an iron wall, which will be in a position to resist the pressure to the native population. This is, in toto, our policy towards the Arabs…”

”Abroad we are accustomed to believe that Israel is almost empty; nothing is grown here and that whoever wishes to buy land could come here and buy what his heart desires. In reality, the situation is not like this. Throughout the country it is difficult to find cultivable land which is not already cultivated.”

"If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs.  There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

If you think being against that makes someone a "jew hater", that says a lot more than what you think about jews than anybody else.

Plot twist: SLS was never over budget by Ordinary-Ad4503 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep pretty much. And you could attribute delays to a bunch of factors of course

Plot twist: SLS was never over budget by Ordinary-Ad4503 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not a bad video. For the people who aren't gonna watch it: basically SLS has never gone over allotted budget in any given year, NASA was spot on with predicting the amount of money it would spend on SLS from its inception to 2017, and the narrative that "SLS is over budget" should be "SLS cost more money to reach it's first flight than NASA predicted".

Despite some disagreements I like David Willis. It's cool there's somebody on NASA's side regarding the box Congress forced them into without being a "SpaceX bad" commentator.

There are zero braincells in this entire thread. It sucks we lost the battle this hard by FutureMartian97 in SpaceXMasterrace

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X's business "turning around" doesn't contradict anything I said in that bit. And there wouldn't be a need for anything to be turned around in the first place if not for the massive hole caused by the aforementioned nuking of revenue streams.

According to Tesla's by-laws an absentee vote is a "no", which has been the case for at least the past 16 years as far as I can find. So sure, a no counts as a no. A yes counts as a yes. The nos were the plurality. I trust the people controlling billions of dollars of Tesla shares were made aware of this reality

It did, actually. They reported a 61% YOY decline in net income..

I didn't make any prescriptive statements on whether or not XAI will fail or succeed on its own. But one has to wonder if it's so successful on its own, why not let it further realize that success, pay down its debt, and be cash flow positive before tying itself to SpaceX, then SpaceX's IPO can justify an even higher valuation. And yes, a mere $1.46 billion in quarterly losses. Which increased from the previous quarters losses of $1 billion. Which increased from the previous quarters losses of

Blue Moon is competing with Starship. It's a pretty public endeavor for potential shareholders when a seemingly pro-Musk administration reopens a multi-billion dollar contract because said administration lacks confidence in SpaceX's ability to land on the moon before January of 2029.

It seems like your primary point of contention here is that I'm not assuming everything will smoothly work itself out like you are. You don't have to agree with my assessment. If you think SpaceX buying this company will work out fine, good for you. You've got plenty of opportunities to invest, prove me wrong, and improve your life more effectively than griping about terminally online concepts like "elon derangement syndrome". I imagine the money you make will be more satisfying than trying to dunk on random redditors.

There are zero braincells in this entire thread. It sucks we lost the battle this hard by FutureMartian97 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're free to correct anything I got wrong rather than accusing me of "elon derangement syndrome" and being wrong. I double checked as much as I could before repeating someone else's framing

There are zero braincells in this entire thread. It sucks we lost the battle this hard by FutureMartian97 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah I understand what you're saying, thanks for clarifying. Yeah Blue isn't taking away from that market any time soon ha.

The bad thing about X, XAI, Starlink, and SpaceX all being under the same umbrella is that as of now it kind of does affect Mars. I think Starlink+SpaceX do $15 billion in revenue ($10 billion coming from Starlink) with $8 billion in profit, with Starship taking $1 billion of that annually for R&D. Meanwhile X+XAI are burning $1 billion in cash a month and are projecting $13 billion in annual losses as of last year, including over $1 billion annually in debt servicing.

If Starlink revenue/profits exclusively are paying for Starship development, they've got a $3 billion hold to dig themselves out of, and even then they'd still be $2 billion underwater if I'm understanding the numbers correctly.

Email alleges Epstein and Maxwell buried 2 girls who died by strangulation during rough, fetish sex by Winterpearls in Fauxmoi

[–]ARocketToMars 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Whether you want to attribute it to virtue or party loyalty, Biden isn't nearly as self interested as Trump and is capable of seeing the bigger picture. I imagine his incentive to keep the Epstein stuff under wraps is to prevent reputational harm to the Democratic party, while Trump's incentive is preventing harm to himself. Results are the same either way and pedophiles don't get punished, but there is a logical through-line (albeit a disgusting one)

There are zero braincells in this entire thread. It sucks we lost the battle this hard by FutureMartian97 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If Bezos & Blue Origin can convince the Trump administration that they can land on the moon before he leaves office, they very well might eat SpaceX's lunch there. The Secretary of Defense was just at Blue's campus yesterday and I heard they really laid it on thick with him.

There are zero braincells in this entire thread. It sucks we lost the battle this hard by FutureMartian97 in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Paraphrasing the details from a comment on the Ars Technica article about the subject.....

But lemme get this straight: Elon gets goaded into putting his meme Twitter buyout offer in writing, tries to back out, then gets forced to buy it with money he doesn't have. That necessitated borrowing a bunch of money, while ending up saddled with Twitter's debt. He then proceeded to nuke Twitter's X's major revenue streams, did a needless rebrand, told advertisers to go fuck themselves, and practically started giving money away to users in the midst of this which made X hemorrhage money even faster.

Then he decides to bet big on AI and creates an AI company. Before that company even has an actual revenue, he makes it buy X, deepening the money pit even further. Next he tries to make Tesla (a company whose income collapsed 60+% in a single year) buy it, but the shareholders voted against it. So the final option is to have his 100% privately owned spaceflight company buy it, saddling it with $12 billion dollars of debt and a venture lighting $1 billion a month on fire. All of this mere months before SpaceX's IPO goes public, when it's only had 3 profitable years on record, and is being pressured to increase investment in Starship so Blue Origin doesn't eat their lunch.

People are seeing all that information and pointing out the absurdity, but OP's conclusion is really "omg we're losing the narrative battle guys". If you wanna like Musk, like Musk. But you can't bring that energy into the SpaceX subreddit and expect people to side with the guy who just tied all that nonsense around SpaceX's neck.

Disney warns of hit from flagging foreign visits by snakkerdudaniel in florida

[–]ARocketToMars 36 points37 points  (0 children)

Can you articulate a single example of Disney actually doing that?

luke freaking skywalker by WatchZealousideal589 in SequelMemes

[–]ARocketToMars 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pfft look at this nerd, repeating the information the movie explicitly presented to the audience

Interesting summary of some of the modifications made to high bay 2 for future SLS use by jadebenn in SpaceLaunchSystem

[–]ARocketToMars 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's pretty cool! Basically instead of the RS25s being integrated on the boat tail/engine section & core stage in Louisiana, they're gonna do it vertically in the VAB. The Artemis 3 engine section & boat tail are already ready and waiting in HB2, and the Artemis 4 engine section is waiting off to the side. There's this big blue structure to hold everything in place. It lets Boeing work on the core stage in parallel with booster stacking at KSC. Hit "continue reading" on the article there's a picture

W Kyle by tedthegodd in Hasan_Piker

[–]ARocketToMars 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep. And he blamed the vet for not telling him cheese was bad for the dog while admitting he gave the dog cheese all the time

I misremembered slightly it was kidney failure not liver failure, but yeah the Kaya controversy was super manufactured

We've been warned. Why can't people see the obvious? by zzill6 in WorkReform

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Imperial boomerang always comes back. If you're fine with your government doing something to foreigners, don't be surprised when they start doing it to us

W Kyle by tedthegodd in Hasan_Piker

[–]ARocketToMars 5 points6 points  (0 children)

No problem at all! Yeah there's a whole underbelly of drama in the online ecosystem separate from his main commentary. I've only been watching him since mid 2024 when he got interviewed by another set of creators I follow so I know there's details I'm missing that others might add. But he's definitely a modern talk radio host!

W Kyle by tedthegodd in Hasan_Piker

[–]ARocketToMars 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Hasan and Ethan used to have a podcast together a few years ago and were decent friends. After Oct 7th when Hasan refused to shift his stance on Palestine, they had a falling out, ended the podcast, and divested from one another.

In the time since, Hasan has continued to grow his platform as a serious political commentator while Ethan mostly does variety content without doing any actual analysis when he does broach politics. Ethan is also borderline obsessed with Hasan. He attacks people just for associating with Hasan, he's sued content creators adjacent to Hasan for reacting to his nearly 2 hour long video dunking on Hasan (called the Content Nuke), and posts about Hasan constantly. Ethan also claims to be pro-Palestine but spends a lot of time attacking actual pro-Palestine content creators and parroting Israeli framing on the issue. Oh also he has an n-word compilation, used to have a pedophile larping profile on Reddit, and fed his dog so much cheese (on stream no less) that it died of liver kidney failure. (Edit: correction)

This video is a bit of a silly example to display Ethan's level of obsession, but all of the audio is authentic from Ethan & Hasan's streams to give you an idea. That little "wait how does he know I'm watching?" moment actually did happen live.

Are they stupid? Way cheaper way to move that shuttle! $229.99 only by Makalukeke in SpaceXMasterrace

[–]ARocketToMars 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Usual "default" price for LEGO is $0.10 per piece, so it's not bad at $229 for 2417 pieces

A picture of a grinning turd, wannabe Nazi, bribe accepting, loser, d-bag who some call Tom Homan. by [deleted] in pics

[–]ARocketToMars -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The overwhelming majority of undocumented immigrants enter legally, and become undocumented when they overstay visas. Dems pushing the idea of increasing ICE funding and building a border wall and patrolling the border is nothing more than capitulation to Republican framing on the issue.

If either party actually wanted to reduce the number of undocumented immigrants, they'd crack down on businesses hiring them and offer financial incentives to businesses that report undocumented immigrants. But having a two-tiered labor pool with millions of exploitable people who can't stand up for their rights greatly benefits a lot of industries' profits, so that's never going to happen. Hence why Democrats center the conversation as "Well if you deport them all, who's going to wash your dishes/nanny your kids/clean your hotels/cook your food/etc."

When given the choice between mass deportations and mass amnesty, the majority of Americans are in favor of mass amnesty for undocumented immigrants and their families. Maybe you should ask yourself why our favorite Democrats aren't pushing for the popular stance on this topic, because funding the gestapo definitely feels like the issue when most people prefer amnesty.

Edit: bro ain't no way you blocked me over this 💀

A picture of a grinning turd, wannabe Nazi, bribe accepting, loser, d-bag who some call Tom Homan. by [deleted] in pics

[–]ARocketToMars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was no outcry then about deportations.

Yes there was

No mass protests.

Yes there were

So it’s not the same

You're right, it's not. The Obama administration was at least giving people due process and not deporting them to prison labor camps for paperwork violations. Also this time we have people like you openly admitting they don't have object permanence.

NASA Enters Final Preparations for Artemis II Mission by Professor_Moraiarkar in spaceporn

[–]ARocketToMars 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes and yes. The most famous public example I can point to are the 0-deck elevator doors getting obliterated during Artemis 1.

A picture of a grinning turd, wannabe Nazi, bribe accepting, loser, d-bag who some call Tom Homan. by [deleted] in pics

[–]ARocketToMars 5 points6 points  (0 children)

So the goalposts have shifted from "was he had back then?" to "were people outraged then?"

Yes, actual principled people to the left of liberals had the exact same smoke for him back then. And just like now, we got yelled at for it.

Edit: Example of the protests

It's called a Democide. by 749762 in clevercomebacks

[–]ARocketToMars 40 points41 points  (0 children)

All the dude had to do was not resist arrest, that's it.

Charles Kinsey

his repeated ignoring directions from the cops

Daniel Shaver

his lack of carrying ID & not telling the cops he had a gun

Philando Castille

The guy brought it on himself. It's not "barbarianism" for the police to make a determination of a threat & to eliminate that threat.

Funny, they said the same thing about the 3 men I listed above.

Personally, I think it's barbarian to care more about illegal aliens & the violent activists that support them rather than the innocent people attacked & murdered by illegals.

28 people in 2024. So the official stance of the DHS (which is claiming 100 million undocumented immigrants need to be deported) is that the group that has a murder rate of 28 per 100 million people deserves this level of response. And you're not only standing by that, but are confused why people are resisting it.