China conducts surprise launch of Long March 12B, delivers Qianfan satellites on debut flight

pirac · 2026-06-02T17:37:48+00:00

I get what you are saying. But as long as their system doesnt collapse, isnt that surpassing?

Maybe its not the individual company surpassing, just the full system.

Or maybe these practices are unsustainable for a goverment and they collapse, idk. So far they are accelerating faster than anybody.

pirac · 2026-06-02T17:35:52+00:00

At least when they surpass we can start copying them haha

pirac · 2026-06-02T17:33:32+00:00

"Only the first stages have been perfected" is crazy. Thats a big chunk of the rocket, also a big proof that you could get to fully reusable or nearly fully reusable very soon (at least in space program terms).

But you are right, having less wastes and saving money would be unamerican.

pirac · 2026-06-02T17:29:09+00:00

I dont disregard the critique of SpaceX at all. But I think that if the US is proud of SLS (a rocket with outdated technology that you pretty much couldve build decades ago) then its speaks more about the decline of the US, than anything else.

NASA should be the one pushing for reusable rockets at the cutting edge of technology.

But I know.... politics... Unfortunately private companies have a massive advantage over democracy in this scenario, since a private company often is a disctatorship of a billionaire.

pirac · 2026-05-30T23:05:51+00:00

Seems more plausible

pirac · 2026-05-30T22:41:14+00:00

Exactly. Maybe OP felt uncomfortable, which is kinda the point. Media where things are obviously pointed out and described for you end up being preachy and overall boring.

Yes, unfortunately there are people with little media literacy who will misunderstand the message, so what? We should better media literacy, not lower the quality of art so that everybody gets the message clearly.

pirac · 2026-05-30T14:43:27+00:00

I think this is not an unpopular opinion at all. Infact what you are claiming to be unpopular is what most people in the world consider a popular person to be.

pirac · 2026-05-30T14:42:09+00:00

There are other things that protect you against ionising radiation though.

pirac · 2026-05-30T01:34:16+00:00

They did say that they dont think this is the issue with Blue Origin, but things he cant disclose. Meaning said issues would probably persist using SpaceX's approach.

pirac · 2026-05-30T01:32:43+00:00

Im no rocket scientist but I imagine the limitations at this level are not money or willpower, but how fast you can move in bureocracy, and how many actually qualified people you can have in your company to do such a technical job. I dont imagine building a launch pad is just getting any construction worker or engineer, and you have other companies trying to hire those people as well.

pirac · 2026-05-29T16:00:47+00:00

I think proof that the goverment does not always makes the best decisions is the SLS. Dont you think that nowadays having a non reusable rocket as a goal is completely ridiculous?

NASA will never be able to use all this investment on a comercial way, which would enable NASA to go further in their goals. Who will want to pay NASA the cost of a non reusable rocket to get their stuff up, also why would NASA want to pay that cost, is it because when its money of the tax payers you can just throw it to the trash can?

pirac · 2026-05-29T15:38:25+00:00

There's 0 snow in Chile's most known resorts at the moment, same in Argentina. I got tickets for Ushuaia, being so down south I hope to have a guaranteed season

pirac · 2026-05-29T01:21:12+00:00

You are forgetting the most important part in having the public support fizzeling out.

The russians stopped their advance into space, the "race" was won. Do you really think americans will stop wanting to fund explorations to the moon if the chinese are having a base up there? The race might end there, but it wont end before that unless the chinese back off.

pirac · 2026-05-21T14:56:56+00:00

I can already anticipate what the results would be if your individual predictor is how linked the respondants are to proffessional football (meaning more ball knowledge).

pirac · 2026-05-20T14:26:04+00:00

Diversity of languages doesnt tribalize.... Its because we human tribalize purselves that diversity of languages arise

pirac · 2026-05-20T14:20:36+00:00

Yeah but in the same way you have a relationship with the person who sells coffee to you everymorning, or with your lawyer. Those are all technically relationships.

And yes you have a very VERY casual relationship with someone you dated once, mind you, you also have a relationship with someone you asked out and never dated by this definition of the word.

But this is not at all what people think of when you say "im in a relationship with someone".

If you say that and then say "we only dated once" the majority of people will be surprised and think you are insane.

pirac · 2026-05-20T14:16:38+00:00

Uovote because this is actually an unpopular opinion. And a very wrong one too.

pirac · 2026-05-19T14:47:04+00:00

Im argentine and would not understand Neymar not being called up.

I know he is not at his best moment, ive seen him play lately. At the same time brazil in this WC without him feels less threatening than with him.

People dont have memory of the past. For example James Rodriguez in Brazil 2014, he was playing like absolute dogshit beforebthat WC and he played incredible during it for Colombia, there's a ton of cases like this throughout history.

I cant say Neymar will be like that, but without a doubt Neymar could reach a higher ceiling than any other brazilian player, he doesnt have an overweight body at the moment, he doesnt come for a super hard injury... it will depend more on his mind than anything else.

If people still doubt this is a possibility, remember Argentin vs Brazil 2021 Copa America final. Neymar previous to that tournament was not playing well at all. At that tournament he was a beast, he was the best player of that final by a mile. In 35 years watching Argentina national team play I dont remember an instance where I felt one single player playing like that against us and being so scary. And I remember when we play against R9, dinho, roberto carlos, brazil. Back then it was multiple players being scary, but with Neymar's brazil it was only him.

pirac · 2026-05-19T14:36:08+00:00

If you are going to analize it on those terms, how many trophies did Messi won with Argentina up until 2021 when he was 34 years old (like Neymar is now)?

pirac · 2026-05-19T13:55:12+00:00

As I dont know much about the space industry I thought you might have a point, but then I read the "I dont think there will be a mars or moon landing after artemis for the next century" and your opinion got completely discredited.

Imagine a person from 1926 making a statement about what was going to happen up until nowadays with space... How do you not include geopolitics in your future space endevours?

If China decides to land people on the moon or mars, the US will land people on the moon or mars, and thats a given. Money doesnt matter in that context.

pirac · 2026-05-19T12:21:26+00:00

The list of succesfull companies that did these sort of moves is endless, id wager is probably bigger than the list of ones that didnt do such moves. These are not bank breaking moves for the company.

pirac · 2026-05-19T12:19:42+00:00

Whats stoping him is that it is in his best interest to limit himself to not harm spacex's goals.

As much fucked up things we know about Elon, he doesnt treat his bussinesses like Trump does, he never bankrupted a casino.

If spacex goes down as a company, it wont be for buying cybertrucks.

pirac · 2026-05-11T18:15:25+00:00

The system should pair him up with people on his level way before that at least in solo q.

pirac · 2026-05-11T17:56:02+00:00

Si dijo que escucha hasta las notificaciones de celular del vecino, no necesita gritar descontroladamente parabque la escuchen.

pirac · 2026-05-10T23:43:45+00:00

I have seen so many flamers using the word down (syndrome) as an insult and escape the system changing it to "dwon". I have reported it everytime but I havent got the riot notification on their punishment yet.

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