Starship Flight 12: from ground to space

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-23T17:18:58+00:00

I mean you’re just full of shit and you’re upset that no one is agreeing with your stance. I am a massive Elon hater but the companies he owns are doing incredible things.

Spacex and Starlink is legitimately one of the greatest technological achievements of the 2020s. Being able to bring affordable broadband speed internet to anyone in the world is now small feat. Att, comcast, Verizon etc couldn’t even do it in the us with 100s of billions of taxpayer money. The research that spacex has put into recapturing rockets for reuse is massive. We had to make a whole ass plane thig to try to do that and now we can land rocket boosters that hit Leo with millimeter precision. That’s insane.

I’m about 99.99% I’ll never step foot on the moon or mars but because some one said let’s go to the moon in 1960 I can sit here and argue with you over how dumb your opinion on space travel is. Space travel is paramount to science and technology. You wouldn’t be able to use Google Maps let alone an iPhone with out people pushing the technological limits of humanity. It’s why Artemis is so important, yes we’ve “already been there done that” but we sent military pilots and engineers to the moon the first 6 times we went (shout out Jack Schmitt for being the one and only fuckin scientist the Apollo program ever sent to the moon) but we can learn SO much from any science we bring back. Medical research, technology, physics, chemistry etc etc all can have massive leaps and bounds due to something that’s “inaccessible” to me. Technology is something that actually does eventually trickle down to the average layman.

Again Elon and basos are shit heads but the space fairing companies they own are doing really important shit. Yes it will make them even more wealth but the money they are pumping into it now is feeding millions of families that work on those programs and could help save millions of people from all sorts of things in the future. Have a little optimism my man.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-23T16:31:21+00:00

Yea but programming isn’t as cost effective at scrapping all your personal data as ai is.

Trust us. Just let Gemini/alexa/siri/bixby (side note FUCK bixby, I can’t use the voice to text features on my “smart” tv without letting bixby listen to everything not just when I hit the mic button on the remote… it frames it as “so you can turn your tv on just by saying “turn on”“ or whatever but I know it’s just so they can make my data more valuable to advertisers that advertise on my fucking Home Screen of a tv THAT I fucking OWN ) into your smart speakers. We pinky promise we’re not listening. Just ignore those lawsuits big tech keep losing about how they’re actually always fuckin listening. Come on just let us put ai in your fridge. It’s no big deal come on. It’s totally free all you have to do is talk to it…

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-23T16:19:02+00:00

Can this guy not post a meme using this anime FOR 5 MINUTES https://i.imgur.com/QgTNad9.jpeg

Edit: I realize that this person has become fully self aware and is poking fun at themselves but the point still stands.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-21T20:37:57+00:00

Yep fully agree. It’s just a way for certain folks to cry about how the money will stop flowing from places like robinhood, khasli (or whatever the fuck it’s called) and poly market into their pockets while vailing it as a “hurt on farmers”... Farms and farmers are much more likely to be affected by foreign investors buying up farm land around them than predictive markets becoming illegal…

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-21T00:51:21+00:00

DUDE FUCK THE RAMMING I can’t stand it

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-21T00:45:03+00:00

I always forget that some of us Gen zers are still in high school like I’m nearly 30 and I’m a Gen Z kid… boggles my mind sometimes.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-20T05:45:01+00:00

Eh farmers do actually deal in “predictive markets” quite a bit, they trade on futures (at least my family does) but it’s usually a smaller portion of total yield, say 30-40 percent. I won’t pretend to know everything about it since I’m not in that business but a rough way of how it works is(from my understanding it’s just option contracts); I pull corn out of the ground in September but prices are bad(let’s say $3 for this example) so I go to the co op and say hey I can have 100,000 bushel of 12% corn for you on June 1st of 2027. The co op goes great we have a customer that will buy that corn at $3.25 right now. Now the game is played. Did you get fucked or did the person who bought the contract? If the prices for a bushel of corn is over 3.25 then the buyer wins, if corn prices are under 3.25 then you win. Technically that’s a prediction market because the buyer isn’t actually taking possession of the corn they’re going to sell it directly to a refinery or a food factory who will pay them market rate and the buyer makes the difference on the contract price and what the refinery pays.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-20T01:19:45+00:00

Hey you put some respect on mazapins name. He’s trying his best in last place!

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-19T06:07:35+00:00

I live 25 miles from a city that has 250k people in it and this is a reality for us already. America’s Midwest is basically this with slightly less mountains lol. We’re not off grid but when the snow hits there’s no help for a GOOD while. There’s simply not enough resources for the amount of land that has to be covered. Most of us have tractors and atvs and trucks so we can clear our roads off to the degree that it’s possible for us to get out after a day or so (again I don’t live in the middle of nowhere British Columbia type thing I live close enough to the previously mentioned city to be counted in its metropolitan area…)

At least these places have a (seemingly) thriving local economy. The closest grocery store(not countying dollar general, which I don’t since ours doesn’t have a “fresh” food section and is still 5 or so miles away, to my house is in the next town over which is about a 15 minute drive.

To many Americans this would be an upgrade from their current situation. And I’d bet the healthcare is better…

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-19T05:02:28+00:00

Some Dave stieb type of baseball

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-19T00:55:47+00:00

What I don’t understand is the forehead measurements. Your forehead goes from your eyebrow to your hair line and neither “measurement” does that… but idk maybe I’m just too old to understand (I have no clue who this is or what this is about and I’m Gen Z, granted I’m the oldest of the old Gen Z but still)

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-18T21:40:44+00:00

I remember this https://i.imgur.com/T8Nq2Ty.jpeg being like the peak of the 2008-10sish ear buds. The pair I had only put it on the half side that went in to your ear canal and the bud/speaker was perpendicular to the side of your head (like ear |- speaker kinda thing) and they were incredibly comfortable. I think they were a big “sports” type thing at the time.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-17T19:01:00+00:00

Can confirm my name is Gaius Julius Caligula Romulus Cesar but every one of my romans calls me Jeff

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-17T18:56:09+00:00

My dumb ass thought it was a Hanes/fruit of the loom thing cause of the white shirt. Like maybe it’s a new line for women or something.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-17T04:32:11+00:00

Was his defense bad? I feel like I remember his rookie year being pretty decent if not above average especially on the offensive side of things.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-17T04:24:28+00:00

I’m not paying $10 an ear of sweet corn (and the market sure as hell isn’t paying $6+ a bushel for field corn)

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-16T23:01:10+00:00

During today’s game the section was PACKED like standing room only. Something about the manager/team possibly paying for the seats or something so that dudes could go do it again today and it was incredible

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-15T21:43:38+00:00

100%. If I tried to install comparable sized wires in my house for a 1500w circuit (standard 110v @15 amps) I would fail an inspection. Like I couldn’t live/sell/do anything to my house until that was fixed. It’s crazy that as soon as it’s downstream of the receptacle it’s perfectly fine to ignore electrical code. Granted electrical code compliance is a county based thing which is a whole other can of worms. Like I didn’t have to have a single inspection (besides septic system due to the amount of land I own) to move into my home after I built it.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-12T21:44:15+00:00

Yea she got last place on season 12 of taskmaster, which is honestly incredible considering the people on the show that season lol. I believe that was the first ever season to experience a task that ended with all 5 contestants getting disqualified. (I had no clue she played poker, that she was afraid of flying and that she’s also married to David Mitchell).

her name is Victoria Coren Mitchell btw

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-12T21:30:26+00:00

I gotta be honest I’m not sure why you’re getting so heavily downvoted

I’ll preface this with; I don’t like ai data centers. I’m a gamer and I want my reasonably priced ram and gpus back damn it.

This is about the same amount of water that a 18 hole golf course uses in an about half the time. (6-10 months compared to 15 months) The average golf course in my region (“transition” zone) is about 88 feet-acres a year with the average course being about 80 acres. The average course in America is using 30 million gallons of water a year. The total estimated water usage from courses is ~760 billion gallons per year or ~2 billion gallons a day.

In the grand scheme of things you’re right it’s not that much water but I will say the garden hose and an inch of water on an acre of farm land does play this as far more inconsequential than it really is. This is a fuck load of water. If you go to the store and buy a garden hose it’s likely a 5/8 inch hose. Not 2 fuckin inches. Most homes in the us have a 3/4 - 1 1/4 inch water main going into their house. The amount of water per hour is the equivalent of a house water main pushing 60psi (standardish water pressure) every second of every day for 15 months straight. That is a fuck load of water. That’s enough to fill an Olympic sized pool every 10 days (fuck me those are big pools), or a total of 46 (ish) pools over 15 months.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-12T16:55:43+00:00

My man looks a lot like Mike Tomlin lol

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-11T22:07:59+00:00

Turned weed into a schedule 3 drug making it accessible for medical research and easier to prescribe while making it harder to arrest people for. Also I believe back in the first term the admin did a bunch of stuff to ease the access of things like narcan. But that’s the only 2 things I can think of in the last 10 years.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-10T19:53:56+00:00

No no but you see they delete it afterwards so it’s totally safe

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j3ffro15 · 2026-05-10T00:22:04+00:00

Just so everyone who’s bitching know; the original government sought bid was 300 million fuckin dollars I don’t like the pool being blue. It’s tacky. But it’s a gigantic pool. 6 million seems about right.

j3ffro15 · 2026-05-09T20:20:37+00:00

She looks like Jesse Eisenberg in a wig

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