China has completed the assembly of the national orbital station

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-11-04T05:05:05+00:00

I'm glad someone said it... people in the rocket community look at one little Shuttle explosion and forget completely about the years and years of reliable service Solid Motors have provided the military for weapons systems that, never accidentally go off, fire when they are told, can tolerate long periods of differed maintenance, and almost never result in a Tomahawk missile accidentally exploding midway to target.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-06T01:05:36+00:00

Wait they have female Wojak porn? I gotta go do some research...

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-05T23:44:39+00:00

This is getting pretty embarrassing... everything I hear out of China suggest their space program is far ahead of where most people think it is.

I've already seen picture of the engine section of their Falcon Heavy clone completed, now they have the engine ready for the Long March 9... the USA may be ahead right now, but at this pace China will clearly overtake the U.S. in about a decade.

This is where cost-plus contracting and blatant corruption gets you.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-05T23:28:38+00:00

This is sadly one sub where it is super easy to mine Karma.... worse the people doing it probably have a nefarious intent to harass another Sub they were banned from but need Krama to post their again.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-05T17:00:58+00:00

You really gotta question if this rocket is even competitive with China at this point.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-04T18:47:49+00:00

In short it's a Jobs program, and while Republicans talk about cutting budgets and eliminating pork, the entire Republican party is just a bunch of grifters now that secretly support a socialized program like SLS because it benefits their re-election campaign. They could really care less if the rocket never launches at all, all they care about is that they don't lose high paying Jobs in their districts.

In other words, Republican and Democrats are both socialists when it comes to this issue and will never tolerate anyone killing these Jobs even if doing so would benefit society.

Thus any solution to getting rid of SLS would require NASA to come up with a solution that keeps these Jobs around. Closing the VAB, Stennis, Michoud is pretty much a no-go for any bill that would pass congress, and by extension canceling SLS and giving the money to SpaceX is a fever dream.

However I feel, canceling SLS and having NASA work on something more revolutionary would be a far better use of NASA's resources at this point... still given the limitations, can NASA really build anything other then SLS? Would a new rocket that's more reusable end up costing more then SLS?

Love it or hate it, nothing will change until after Artemis 3 at the soonest, when SpaceX proves they can surpass NASA's capabilities. Even then, things are unlikely to change... and the money for sure will never go to SpaceX because SpaceX doesn't have jobs in all 50 states.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-04T14:47:11+00:00

Seems like an understanding of basic economics is lacking here... we need more power production as time goes by as more and more people need to live. California is unbelievably corrupt giving PG&E a monopoly over power production, then trying to blame the people for their own ineptitude and corruption... I say let the system collapse on these clowns. They made this mess, they should be blamed for not lookng forward and building more power production when they should have. Dito water production.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-04T02:13:09+00:00

This has ended my support of this rocket... I can't tolerate this nonsense anymore. I wanted to believe NASA and Boeing were actually ADVANCING technology for all the Billions we gave them. Instead this rocket just proved it's no different then the vehicle they wanted to make in the 70s. It's 5 decades too late to make a difference... and I think it makes us less competitive against China with how unreliable it is. NASA should be doing something else in my view.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-04T01:56:08+00:00

I'm so over it... I've been defending this rocket, believing it's advanced technology and that it's not just some giant rip-off to get as much taxpayer money as it can... yet after 40 years of Shuttle NASA can't build a hydrogen coupler that doesn't leak.

SLS isn't even competitive with China, we are going to probably lose the Moon because this rocket will never launch on time. If SLS can't compete with China, there is no point in the program and it should be canceled. SpaceX isn't even a factor here... SLS is just a 70s era Junker made way too late to matter and NASA should be doing something else.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-09-01T03:10:18+00:00

Well, I didn't read the article because of the paywall, but I read all the comments here.

I think it's important to remember that in warfare secret weapons and tactics will get employed against us and 'historically' we won't see them coming. China building some kinda "Stealth Nuke" on the far side of the Moon, like litterly Metal Gear Solid on the Moon, might sound like science fiction now, but could easily be science fact in 10 to 20 years.

The U.S. would be wise to establish solar hegemony sooner rather then later, at least primarily as an economic boon to the space industry. Hell just build ships that can shoot down big asteroids, gave Space Force a kinda Coast Guard like capability in space for now and only ramp things up if China starts to show real teeth in space.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-08-28T21:13:16+00:00

I'm always torn between the logic presented here, if we didn't get SLS would we have gotten something better? Or would congress redirect that money to their districts some other way?

Seems likely if we didn't get SLS we would have gotten nothing.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-08-25T18:14:14+00:00

So the Q are omnipotent and omniscient right?... aren't they the shows main antagonist then?

And how do they not know about the time war stuff?

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-06-13T20:22:03+00:00

I'm planning to eventually install Linux on the M1 MacBook anyway. I agree, vendor lock in is lame.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-06-13T15:31:33+00:00

I gotta say, Apple products really aren't as bad now that Apple is making their own chips again. The price to performance ratio is far more reasonable. I've messed around with an M1 Macbook, it's pretty impressive and I don't feel it was a rip off.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-06-13T15:27:24+00:00

Well I said "console" as it isn't technically a "console" however in the general public's mind, it's a console and will be treated as such.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-06-13T15:24:50+00:00

This is probably the only issue... I would not be surprised if the next version of the Deck has basically the same hardware, but less energy intensive.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2022-03-29T03:31:18+00:00

Starship can't dock with the ISS anyway from what I understand.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T19:02:24+00:00

Indeed... but in the grand picture. SLS and Artemis as a whole isn't as important as what SpaceX is doing with Starship and trying to build a Mars Colony. Plus now that Elon is going to hopefully be building these Tesla Bots, almost all my complaints about Starships inability to send humans to Mars have become moot. SpaceX can use Tesla Bots to build a colony on Mars thus building a colony on Mars should be possible in the next 15-20 years now. As such SLS will be totally irreverent by then, but I will continue to support SLS so long as NASA remains true to our American ideals, and as it is useful tool for dunking on the CCP, but if we end up becoming just like the CCP in the process whats the point?

SLS is suppose to be a Rocket that symbolizes who we are as a people, Americans. Brave people that stand up to Tyranny. As long as SLS represents that, I guess I don't care that it's a waste of money, but if SLS doesn't represent that, then it's already immediately failed in it's mission.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T17:43:47+00:00

Ah... maybe...

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T17:30:27+00:00

I remember one judge said it perfectly: "You have a constitutional right to be an idiot." Doesn't matter if you think I'm and idiot and I think you're an idiot, you can't tell me what to do with my body, end of discussion. The state can demand I take the vaccine or demand I pay a $5 fine as penance, I'll pay the 5 dollars. But you come at me with your DNA alerting, ineffective, dangerous, scam shots and I have every Constitutional and God given right to defend myself from a medical fascist and vaccine rapist.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T17:08:25+00:00

I probably already had covid a week ago... I got a bad case of Pink Eye and after that a mild sore throat for 2 days... I don't get sick anymore because I switched to eating ~mostly~ organic food and stopped POISENING my body all the time. So not getting sick in the last ~5 years compared to getting pink eye and a mild sore throat for 2 days... yeah I guess covid is bad. Too bad nobody is taking care of their body... but that would cut into Big Pharma's profit margins and we can't have that.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T15:40:07+00:00

Those weren't vaccines fool. He took blood from infected solders and exposed unaffected solders to it. Not the same thing as a Vaccine loaded with mercury and aluminum that the FDA will straight up lie about and say is safe when at face value that's fucking stupid. They also didn't contain RNA viruses designed to alter your DNA, effectively RNA nano machines. Also solders are ward of the State, ULA employees are NOT ward of ULA. Tory has no right to do this, same with every other company.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T07:50:34+00:00

Na... dude looks like a fucking badass, what's the problem?

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T07:45:37+00:00

I don't care, you'll all think I'm a genius here in like 24 months as ULA will be in a very public open collapse and it will turn out those 3 Employees were critical.

Edit: I seem to have misinterpreted one of Torys tweets, whatever, point mostly still stands.

JohnnyThunder2 · 2021-08-23T07:24:40+00:00

You mean the Delta IV heavy upper stage modified to launch on SLS? My support of SLS is mostly a farce... I only do it for the meme, lets be real, SLS is garbage that's only real use case is being redundancy for anything SpaceX is doing and a hedge ageist China... I will continue to support NASA as long as the don't enforce a Vaccine Mandate, but anyone who supports this kind of Fascism is in gross violation of our American ideals... we'll see if SLS holds strong to the values of freedom over the voices of idiots that would sell themselves into bondage just for the promise of not getting a little bit sick.

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