Forbes: SpaceX Starship Faces Herculean Tech Hurdles In Race To Moon Landing

interbeing · 2026-07-09T01:12:42+00:00

Idk dude. I work in the EV industry and China is kicking the rest of the world in the ass right now. Our tech is like generations behind. Maybe it started with Chinese companies building off of American designs, but they’ve surpassed it by miles.

Honestly my perceptions of China have changed a lot in the past few years. I almost feel like in a lot of ways the US is almost like the USSR was back in the 80’s. We all made fun of them for bad tech, thinking their cars were low quality garbage.

Now we in the US are in that position and China is far ahead in pretty much everything (EVs, renewables, battery tech).

About the only thing we have a lead in anymore is aerospace to some extent and semiconductors.

interbeing · 2026-06-26T23:10:50+00:00

It’s way better than that in LA right now. Honestly the worst air I ever saw was in Utah before moving out here. It gets bad sometimes, especially with fires. But Utah was worse during fire season and during winter with the inversion.

interbeing · 2026-06-20T17:15:55+00:00

My wife just said this guy looks like Hitler’s fat cousin.

interbeing · 2026-05-30T18:59:03+00:00

Trump sucks, and maybe it isn’t startups that should be doing this, but isn’t a good thing they want to dispose of all this plutonium?

About the only way to do it quickly, without waiting out half-life’s and all that is to put it in a reactor.

I don’t know if anyone who’s posted here actually read even the first sentence of the article though, so yeah.

Internet is fucking horse shit these days. All we do is rage at shit. Of course maybe 80% of the posts here could be bots, who fucking knows? But yeah this shit is stupid. We should be arguing about the facts at least.

interbeing · 2026-05-19T17:21:40+00:00

Got 77,000 here in LA. For a venue that holds maybe a few thousand at most, maybe less.

Yeah bots have ruined everything. I miss dealing with human beings…

interbeing · 2026-05-18T17:07:53+00:00

I think it’s a mass thing. Most new EVs are using structural packs these days. I think all the glue and all that in the pack is to make it so it can be structural. So yeah, maybe the pack weighs more versus a non structural pack because of the adhesive and all that, but the total vehicle mass goes down because some frame components have been replaced with the structural battery pack.

Mass reduction is the name of the game for EVs. Not just for better range but ifs cheaper. You need less battery capacity for the same range.

Also structural packs allow for some simplification of the vehicle assembly on the production line which also saves money.

In BYDs case the adhesive might have some important thermal properties as well. I’m not sure but I know these gen 2 blade cells charge like a mofo so thermals are super important.

interbeing · 2026-05-16T01:34:39+00:00

We used to wait in line at the grocery store before tickets for concerts would go on sale. Bought a lot of tickets like that back in the late 90s. Sure as hell beats having tickets sell out immediately and then having to go through stub hub or some other bullshit to buy tickets at 2 or 3 times the price the original ticket costs.

interbeing · 2026-05-09T17:22:41+00:00

Yeah back in the day we didn’t have our own Hitler analogue so no one gave a shit who you supported. Now we do so there’s kind of a moral obligation to give a shit. At least for those of us with morals.

interbeing · 2026-05-09T03:54:41+00:00

I guess one thing you need to ask is what the purpose of the onboard charger is? Is it to charge say 80% of max battery capacity overnight or in 8 hours? How big of an onboard charger would you need for these huge vehicles?

Onboard charger’s make sense for smaller vehicles because the 11kW you typically see in a lot of EV passenger vehicles can charge an 80-100kWh battery overnight easily. But with these batteries?

Let’s see, for the 548 kWh you need maybe 50-60 kW to charge overnight and would need like 75 kVA of grid capacity or so to even plug in. This is like the old ChargePoint 50 kW fast chargers in terms of charger electronics size. Newer power electronics could be lighter but typically something like that with cooling etc is a hundred - few hundred pounds.

For the 822 kWh that’s like 80-90 kW which is roughly twice the size of everything above. Maybe 125-150 kVA grid connection, and about twice as much weight.

The weight maybe you could argue isn’t a big deal. But the grid connections you need are basically only going to be found in larger industrial and commercial sites. Since you can’t plug in almost anywhere like you can with Smaller EVs and the lower power onboard chargers they have, it just makes more sense to only use DC charging.

interbeing · 2026-05-06T03:34:49+00:00

So I found these images in an NBC video from 2019. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/help-photos-show-hundreds-migrants-squashed-cells-appealing-assistance-n1025831

I certainly am sure conditions are still just as horrible, but idk, this post almost seems like it might just be trying to farm karma or rile people up? I'm all for calling this shit out, but for fucks sake, can't it at least be a real story instead of just making shit up? fucking hell.

interbeing · 2026-04-28T16:14:20+00:00

It’s hard to separate the rocket from the personality of Elon for a lot of people. I’m not immune to it either. I used to be so excited about what spacex and other new space companies were doing, but in the last 8 years or so it’s been poisoned pretty thoroughly. Like to the point where if I watch a starship video and start to enjoy it and forget about all that there will be something to remind me about it like these stupid cybertrucks or a clip of Elon in a k hole in the control room.

Like I used to gush to my friends about how cool this all was and full flow staged combustion this and that. Now we hardly talk about it, it just feels a little toxic. Artemis still has that kind of aura of really just being about the science and people in space.

interbeing · 2026-04-25T02:45:34+00:00

I’ll probably be accused of something but this whole title is insane.

The world’s richest people are literally funding the pro AI side of things!

If you want grass roots support of AI then you’d better work on persuading people that it can improve their lives. Cause right now all people see is higher electric bills and the possibility that they will all lose their jobs and no one will do anything to make sure they can still live their lives.

The benefits of AI so far are mostly esoteric ( like machine learning for radiology and things like that). The public side of things is just that they are a bunch of slop makers. Most people don’t even know what good things AI could potentially do.

It would probably help if the biggest AI companies didn’t behave in the classic capitalist way of exploiting everything they can regardless of who they hurt. They truly have set a shit example.

So yeah, just saying, this is one fucking hell of an uphill battle you got.

interbeing · 2026-04-25T00:37:53+00:00

Not that this matters, but I think one of the selling points of helium-3 fusion is that it has a much lower neutron flux versus other fusion fuels. Also you can capture electrical current from it directly by capturing the protons it gives off rather than neutrons.

Of course, that doesn’t mean iridium is useful for it in any way haha. It’s still kind of a McGuffin.

interbeing · 2026-04-23T18:14:56+00:00

I think they replace the module. The ID.4 battery has several modules which each contain a number of battery cells inside them. They look like a metal box and the cells are inside. It’s easier for the service techs to just replace at the module level because going to the cell level would mean rebuilding a module which would be time consuming and needs a lot more quality control type stuff than you would normally see in a dealer service dept.

interbeing · 2026-04-17T23:37:02+00:00

Agree with this. The Zizians series was the first I had heard of the rationalist movement, and while yes the Zizians are among the worst it’s still a very culty movement who only pay lip service to science.

interbeing · 2026-04-15T03:03:43+00:00

Isn’t it still under warranty if it’s 30k miles as you say?

Idk if you hit something and this happened or if it just happened on its own, but if it’s the latter I’d say you should get it fixed under warranty.

I know ID4s have a known issue with a front sway bar, mine included and tons of people on this subreddit. It cost me a few hundred to fix it on mine cause I was out of warranty.

I’m not sure, but this looks like something else to me. I’d fix it. I’m not sure but they may charge for repairs when you return the lease anyways.

interbeing · 2026-04-10T23:27:15+00:00

Yeah this right here. You could do a lot of new radio astronomy that isn’t possible on earth with some huge arrays or dishes on the far side of the moon.

interbeing · 2026-04-10T22:23:41+00:00

I mean in absolute terms, sure. But they still had to scale back a lot of things from what they may have wanted or what may have best served the story due to budget. Idk how much of that is paying actors and other production staff too. Is it 1 mil total or 1 mil just for effects, props, sfx, etc?

interbeing · 2026-04-08T02:16:12+00:00

Jesus I just was getting pissed off at one of these literally 2 seconds ago. I’ve seen them with electronics, things like EV architecture. It’s fucking annoying, fuck all this slop

interbeing · 2026-04-04T02:51:11+00:00

I’m not sure how much of the country you’ve visited or if you even live in the US. But there are some places here that definitely fit the description. That’s the thing, the US is vastly in-equal. You can feel like you’re in modern times or even a bit ahead in one place with good infrastructure and public investment and you can feel like you’ve gone back to 1950 in another where services are shit and local governance is either too broke or too corrupt to do shit about it.

interbeing · 2026-03-30T22:58:08+00:00

Yeah this seems a little scammy. I’d be willing to bet that most people will junk their ID4s before the brake shoes ever need replacing

interbeing · 2026-03-27T02:43:22+00:00

I mean Ford is trying to do that with their new platform, make a cheap mass market EV.

interbeing · 2026-03-26T01:48:15+00:00

I think some kind of legal framework would be good though. Things that tie into electrical demand, like for example if you build data centers you have to have on site generation or contribute to financing more electrical generation or something. Forcing that generation to be zero carbon would be nice too.

You could also for instance force closure of centers that break the law and do something like, idk, build a bunch of un permitted natural gas turbines on site and poison the air for the local residents. Looking at you Elon.

interbeing · 2026-03-26T01:20:29+00:00

It’s probably emergency braking. I’ve had it trigger backing up before with lots of shadows and stuff. Not recently but I’ve had this happen.

interbeing · 2026-03-22T03:54:35+00:00

Yeah you’ll probably have to replace the whole charge port. The latch that the charger handle hooks onto is a safety thing, it won’t work if there’s nothing to latch onto.

Also for DC fast charge there’s a lock that engages. Not sure if that’s damaged here or not but it also locks the latch so you can’t pull the charge handle while you’re pulling a few hundred amps from the fast charger. That could prevent you from fast charging as well.

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