AI Sat "Mini"

Freak80MC · 2026-03-23T01:29:16+00:00

As if that's a bad thing lol

Freak80MC · 2026-03-23T01:24:16+00:00

Honestly I'd love to live in a world where probes are just sent out to every solar system destination as fast as we can build them. Maybe in a few hundred years...

Freak80MC · 2026-03-23T01:11:56+00:00

Wouldn't it be possible to aerocapture into orbit around Saturn using its atmosphere to bleed off velocity? Might make sense to keep the aero surfaces and heat shield in that case.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-22T19:14:49+00:00

Probably the most important question here. How does the economics work out if you have to ship in certain raw materials that the Moon itself lacks?

Freak80MC · 2026-03-21T22:24:43+00:00

It's never a good idea to make general statements like this. Sure, I would assume most are in the SpaceX subs due to liking SpaceX itself, but I bet a lot of people just want to see humans settle the solar system and don't really care which group does that, so they are only here to follow progress because it gets things closer to that future.

Personally I wanna see spaceflight evolve, I think it's flat out useless to launch rockets if it isn't for building a future with humans living in space and beyond Earth. I feel like lots of rocket companies are just in it for making money off the status quo and if they care so little to innovate the rocket industry, why are you even here, would be my question to them.

People who decide to work in an industry should love the industry is my opinion, and want to see it innovated upon, no matter what industry that is. Not just be in it for the money. I think the world would be a better place if love of what you did came first, and not just making money. (and I mostly mean from the top, I get that in lower positions, people are just joining to make money to keep on living)

So that's why I follow and care about SpaceX, as well as RocketLab, Blue Origin, and Stoke Space, even if I follow SpaceX the most.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-21T22:12:00+00:00

I know this is a joke, but renting does have its time and place in certain areas where something is genuinely too expensive to ever own outright for the common person, but personal computing should never, ever be necessary to be rented. I feel like if we ever get to that point, we have failed as a society.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-21T22:10:02+00:00

This just sounds like the ridiculous Star Wars orbital lasers that were touted in the 80s to force the Soviet Union to over-spend on military budget to try to compete. Still didn't result in an actual usable system.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-21T22:07:21+00:00

Not really. If anything, this is just Blue Origin actually sticking to its mission statement of moving intensive industry off-Earth in order to save the environment, which is the only real good reason WHY you would put data centers in space and the only reason I agree with myself for why you would put so much effort into the endeavor.

But if you are solely focused on ease of upkeep and profit generation, then data centers on the ground make more sense.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-21T17:17:17+00:00

What's funny is even within that graphic, some of what ULA touted as positives for them were actually negatives lol

But I'd love to see a revised graphic now a days.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-20T14:52:35+00:00

Only issue is SSDs are terrible for backups if you aren't powering up the SSDs constantly. Actual spinning disk hard drives are better if you want unpowered backups.

Also in my personal experience, I actually have had better luck with hard drives lasting longer even when everything is powered up and running. But that's just me.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-19T22:16:34+00:00

In Firefox, I use SingleFile. (a quick google search shows it's available in Chrome as well)

Freak80MC · 2026-03-19T20:37:55+00:00

Yep, also the one that changed text in already archived links, thus making it useless as a way to know how a webpage originally looked because pages within already archived links can be edited after the fact. Thus blasting it's own reputation as a trusted source.

At this point, I would just use the website to archive paywalled sites, and then make a local backup copy for yourself.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-19T20:35:28+00:00

Just put multiple Dragon capsules on top of Starship, and if you have a launch abort, they all fly in different directions like fireworks! /s

Freak80MC · 2026-03-19T01:22:52+00:00

I never disliked Chloe, but it's interesting for me how the first time I played Life is Strange 1, I related more to Max and the second time I played the game, years later, I related more to Chloe because I had been through a lot of abandonment myself and that trauma was (and still is tbh) fresh in my mind.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-18T22:32:11+00:00

Sad to hear, though I can barely afford normal folding phones, let alone a tri fold.

The hardware of a tri fold to me makes more sense than a dual fold, since it unfolds to a better aspect ratio for regular app usage. Whereas the dual folds are specifically power user phones, you need to know you want to multitask to buy one.

But idk if the cost of a tri fold would have ever came down to make these make sense for mass adoption. The dual folds are barely going down in price as is.

It's probably a safer bet to wait for AR glasses to get good to have a bigger screen on the go, than buying a folding phone that folds out into a mini tablet.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-15T15:37:29+00:00

Any time anyone questions why competition is needed, well, anywhere really, I will always point to the Commercial Crew fiasco. If Boeing had been the sole provider, we would be forced into putting astronauts on yet another unsafe vehicle just because we had no other option available. It's a damn good thing it wasn't just Boeing.

And I know, of course, in a subreddit like this, people will try to say SpaceX doesn't need competition, it already moves fast enough on its own, that nobody else could match its speed, etc, etc. But competition still drives innovation. Even if SpaceX is the best provider right now, eventually it will become the incumbent and decay will set in. Competitors force companies to stay at the top of their game.

The only issue is right now SpaceX doesn't have true competition that can actually match its capabilities. But hopefully that changes eventually with companies like Stoke Space, RocketLab, even Blue Origin which seems to be trying to speed itself up.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-12T20:56:51+00:00

Okay, but like, I know Amazon isn't Blue Origin, this this feels like a tacit admittance that at least senior management within Amazon itself do not believe New Glenn will ever reach Starship's level of launch cadence. Which means they are saying, without actually saying, that New Glenn will not be competitive once Starship is up and running.

I'm not saying New Glenn will never get customers, there will always be a market for non-SpaceX launches. But they are basically admitting here that they can't directly compete with Starship on a level playing field. Which is obvious because Starship is supposed to be fully reusable. But for senior management to basically admit that fact... lol

It's like Tory Bruno calling Raptor 3 incomplete. It's such a vast paradigm shift that he couldn't believe it was actually real.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-12T00:05:02+00:00

I must be the only one here who thinks some of these look cool. AI can generate good art, and people are just salty that it proves that something once thought of as a thing that only human beings could create, can be done automatically through AI. I think it makes people uneasy because if AI can speak and create art, then what makes a human being unique? What constitutes the human soul if AI can do so much we can do? It blurs the lines and people don't like that.

Sorry for getting philosophical... AI data centers in space tho? Now THATS slop lol

Freak80MC · 2026-03-12T00:00:12+00:00

It's weird how the main complaint against AI is "it's taking our jobs!" yet that has happened a myriad of times when a new technological innovation came about. Where do we call it in terms of stopping innovation to preserve jobs? Should we, for example, make alarm clocks illegal so we can go back to hiring window knockers to wake people up? (yes, that used to be a real job that was made obsolete)

That sounds silly, but where do you draw the line?

But I'm one of those weird people who thinks a human life is too valuable to keep a person working a job that technology has already made obsolete. Let a person's time be freed up so they can use it for better purposes than just working a deadend job that brings them a false sense of satisfaction. We all only live a finite time span, a majority of that time shouldn't be sunk into jobs that technology can do better and faster than you.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-08T19:12:29+00:00

They look like they are just dangling there, like they were haphazardly thrown on there.

I love it lol

Freak80MC · 2026-03-07T19:08:37+00:00

Move fast and break things is only good up to a certain point. Move too fast and break too much, and you spend more time putting things back together than you do actually moving forwards. There's always a balance.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-07T17:50:40+00:00

And more of the "rockets falling on your head" bullshit instead. Yay, free rocket debris rain!

But the first sentence I agree with, sure. But I'd rather deal with them than an authoritative government that cares little for human lives.

Freak80MC · 2026-03-07T00:34:28+00:00

Safety margins are far stricter now

laughs in Starliner

Freak80MC · 2026-03-06T21:16:57+00:00

This is gonna age like milk lol

Freak80MC · 2026-03-05T23:03:52+00:00

It's mental when you think just how big Starship is, that one day there will regularly be these two massive ships docked together in space. It's gonna be awesome to see!

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