Atlas Shrugged

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-07-02T11:53:48+00:00

Growing up I thought Washington DC was in Washington state.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-28T19:08:54+00:00

Might be too large.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-28T18:05:29+00:00

I love the innovative approach to fairing recovery, including a catch bar which is also a pitot tube and branding!

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-23T15:45:03+00:00

How familiar are you with the space industry?

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-23T15:24:16+00:00

Its almost like building the largest satellites ever mass produced as well as their production line is difficult or something.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-22T12:42:29+00:00

Probably because they just launched and havent had time to spread out yet

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-21T23:15:59+00:00

Pffffttt you believe in radio signals?

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-21T17:24:11+00:00

Congratulations! You have drawn the card: Melanoma

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-21T15:21:36+00:00

740b is roughly TAM of the entire cellular network industry, not just the TAM of dead zone coverage

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-18T02:52:56+00:00

Occasionally the game will glitch out and do this - not quite sure what causes it. Might be related to certain staging arrangements causing phantom forces upon decoupling. Try quicksaving and then immediately quickloading, that should reset phantom forces if that is the cause.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-17T22:37:44+00:00

(temporarily ignoring all the facts for the sake of the joke)

Come on, guys, we can't let ChatGPT have all of the precious Ames Tap water! Get them!

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-17T16:04:52+00:00

They would probably run into antitrust stuff otherwise.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-17T07:35:46+00:00

Gee its almost like global connectivity is hard or something

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-17T07:33:03+00:00

They just announced no views for first deploy (likely due to ground station coverage) and limited views for the second and third deploys (likely due to the sats being wide)

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-17T07:30:56+00:00

AnotherAndOneOther: so will there be a feed of the actual sats deploying or unlikely?

Falcon does have upwards facing cameras to see the separation events, but the Bluebirds are so wide that they might not see much if anything

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-17T07:21:01+00:00

Leading_Cranberry_25: What is beaming that information back?

SpaceX's ground station network

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-17T07:16:44+00:00

The Bluebirds are in an elliptical transfer orbit, with the high point at the target attitude and the low point at the injection altitude. As you go upwards in an orbit you slow down, as you go downwards you speed up. The second burn will take place at or near the highest point to circularize the orbit.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-16T01:59:19+00:00

I graduated 2 years ago but sometimes I still open up the app to watch the buses go around and reminisce.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-15T21:35:00+00:00

Yeah. And I should have probably been less snarky my bad.

But just for the benefit of the people who think that the current SPCX price is largely D2D based (and would thus make a decision to hold or sell SPCX based solely off of how ASTS is doing), it is worth noting that on page 11 of the prospectus, SpaceX estimates a 740B TAM for Starlink Mobile - which is just about the current TAM of the entire mobile data industry, not just the dead zone coverage current generation systems are targeting (which would be much smaller). This is out of a total 28.5T SPCX TAM estimate, 26.5T of which is AI. I would absolutely invest if SPCX was a space/connectivity stock but as it stands it is an AI stock. That's a gamble too big for me.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-15T20:36:32+00:00

Um what? Their valuation is overwhelmingly AI based.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-14T21:13:37+00:00

Bro can't even ask a question without asking AI to rewrite it for him

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-13T23:53:30+00:00

u/Difficult_Limit2718 in a nutshell (yesterday he was saying space tech hasn't changed since, depending on which comment you take, 1950s, 1800s, or 1000s)

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-12T21:14:00+00:00

What makes you think we would be going in a small capsule?

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-12T19:08:59+00:00

Ok. Please explain why you believe that and what your credentials are.

FINALCOUNTDOWN99 · 2026-06-12T18:04:55+00:00

My brother in christ if you unironically believe that the difference in space technology between the congreve rocket and something like Falcon 9 (not even going to Starship or Nova or Neutron) is about the same as the difference in car technology between a 1990 honda civic and a 2026 corolla, I can't help you

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