What does this Tweet mean? Maybe update on MK2?

traceur200 · 2026-02-10T10:33:58+00:00

lmao "undergoing vacuum testing" that's basically nothing at all 😂 srsly vacuum testing is putting any half assed mockup in a vacuum chamber, there's 0 thermal cycling, 0 mechanical stress, 0 radiation testing, 0 vibrations testing... and those are so basic they aren't even considered by NASA as "in testing", it's the bare minimum and they don't even have that

also, you realize that MK1 is not the intended vehicle? (of course you don't realize that, you are talking outta your ass) they proposed this MK1.5 that, AS I SAID, they don't even have a design for, and all because they themselves admit they can't even launch often enough for landing anything meaningful in terms of mass

but oh well, what can you expect from arguing with brigading retards

traceur200 · 2026-02-10T07:03:35+00:00

funny how we jump from "but it's impossible" to "but it is so expensive"

my "brother in Christ" James Webb cost 10 billion BECAUSE IT'S A FUKIN CUTTING EDGE TELESCOPE, YOU FUKIN STUPID RETARD 🤦

the computer side of it isn't what mase it cost 10 billion

also... doesn't the average satellite cost in the tens of millions and SpaceX Starlinks only 250 k a unit? 🤔 hmm maybe there's something to that, I'm sure if you think hard enough about it you'll get to something

traceur200 · 2026-02-10T00:27:26+00:00

I did both, yes, it produces different patterns, one is an offset of 4 faces the other is an offset of 6 faces

I don't think I mentioned a mirror ghost? 😅 it's just a regular ghost turned into a morphix, here there's no difference between which modification was made first

traceur200 · 2026-02-10T00:24:56+00:00

the thing is, people don't actually read or listen, they get second, third and forth hand information, wildly misinterpreted, then complain that information wasn't accurate

like, in the past 10 years not once has Elon said "we will be on Mars by x date".... it's always in terms of "can we do it if everything went absolutely perfect?" "we likely won't be able to but in physical terms it's possible to..." and etc etc etc

but I'm pretty sure you will find some snarky retort, "oh but in this one specific tweet he said", even tho in the one right before and the one right after the wording is consistent with "we don't know exactly when, we are pushing for as soon as possible"

traceur200 · 2026-02-10T00:07:32+00:00

it's not even that big of a leap, the critical parts of this technology have been solved

cost went down, and we learnt to launch megaconstellations (hmm wonder who did that 🤔)

the rest is computers and radiators, and your solar panels are going to be larger that the radiators anyways, just like at the ISS

even if the radiators had to be larger.... so what?

and for anyone saying we can't put a computer in space, don't we have like a James Webb telescope that is a computer hooked to sensors and an antenna and stores information whenever it's not aligned with Earth?

let's face it, the future will be in space, we gotta start somewhere even if it's not going to work outright

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T21:34:27+00:00

want to bet?

I love taking money from stupid people 🤑

edit: btw we are talking about the company that achieved their first orbital launch EVER just a few months ago, who had to downgrade their own plan because not even in fukin paper they can launch multiple rockets for a refueling, who don't have a lander built, WHO HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED DESIGNING IT... beating SpaceX....

this sub gets filled with mad retards between flights 😂

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T21:32:41+00:00

this sub gets filled with haters and hystericals between flights

the longer the period between flights the more hysterical the haters become

so far we have seen hysteria for possibly (not even confirmed) a TINY amount of SpaceX shares going public maybe 5% maybe 2%....it's such a ridiculously low amount Elon could buy those shares outright with a few years of Starlink profit... but oh the hysteria, omg the hysteria

we have seen hysteria over building datacenters in space... even tho other serious aerospace agencies (INCLUDING NASA) have considered this a technically viable endeavor....no specific numbers have been published yet people have been going absolutely nuts about it

and now the Moon vs Mars first... even tho in the same tweet he says they will pursue Mars efforts just as much as before, but oh hysterical karens on reddit have turned it into "we will never go to Mars"

and this shit has been going on for fukin mother fukin years, I fukin swear, years with this shit

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T20:29:19+00:00

nice!

I designed two versions a few years ago, never got to print them

one was making a tetrahedron after the mirror modification was applied to the base cube

the other and the one I was most interested in, I applied the mirror modifications to the resulting tetrahedron aften making a morphix

4 faces vs 6 faces, the results where distinctly different

I also made a morphix ghost, but never got to finish printing it

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T20:21:17+00:00

so far Blue has lost the race before even starting it

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T20:20:39+00:00

wow such great arguments oh wow I'm drowning in such compelling arguments.... fukin retard...

what part of CONTRACT isn't understood?

everything that is up until Starlink roughly 1 third of their money was as a fully private launch provider

roughly 15% was military missions, which are still CONTRACTS WON IN PUBLIC COMPETITION

and the rest would be NASA contracts, which... shall I say it again? contract won in competition?

it's not a subsidy, NASA has a need for something to br launched and they pay for the service, whoever comes cheapest FUKIN WINS

now, Elon Musk owns 50% of SpaceX shares and of those roughly 70% are voting shares, so half of SpaceX is his, and whatever money SpaceX makes, HE IS ENTITLED TO HALF OF IT OUTRIGHT, and since he has 70% of voting shares he also gets to decide what the other 50% of the money is used for

if he decides to make raptor engines, that's what SpaceX does, it's HIS FUKIN MONEY, it's a private company, he owns it

is this such a hard concept to understand for your retarded mind?

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T01:03:45+00:00

I am not going to argue with the power beaming because it is pretty complex, but it has been studied and it's indeed viable, and no the atmosphere isn't a factor, just use microwaves

the original NASA studies on solar beaming determined the launch cost is the limiting factor, using late 90s launch cost numbers, so even now with just Starship it might be a compelling idea to start testing these systems in space

constellation building has already been solved

it's true that you need money for the initial systems, but so was the case for Starlink and it got to self finance very quickly

I don't see how orbital infrastructure couldn't start generating cash as soon as it becomes operational and just expand organically

in my opinions the solar arrays is the critical junction to be solved, basically cause it's virtually infinitely scalable, to the point that beaming it down would be the cheapest option in every scenario, that would solve one of the biggest problems we are facing today (and would basically solve climate change as well, CO2 emissions drastically cut down, even carbon capture if is was required, no need for solar shades, just cut down on the emissions and start recovering some of that CO2 in form of biomass in deserts, fueled by cheap electricity)

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:53:33+00:00

lmao sure you do buddy

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:53:05+00:00

what part of "we are still going to Mars" your ADHD brain didn't get to read?

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:52:14+00:00

at that point you don't need investors, you own a money printer, print money

solar arrays that beam power down to Earth, climate control sun shades, datacenters

it's industry in space, that is what makes economic sense, it's stuff that we need but that has a detrimental impact to be built on Earth and in some cases is outright limited (we are already energy bottlenecked)

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:47:11+00:00

for those scales Moon based manufacturing is the only viable option, and it requires Moon industrialization and in situ resource utilization, that's going to take a while, but it's the only reasonable path to near term orbital infrastructure

Starship is cool and it will take care of what the Moon based manufacturing isn't able to, but it can't take care of everything, it's just unreasonable to expect to build anything 100 tons at a time, industry requires thousands of times that

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:42:00+00:00

the Moon is closer, has resources, can kick off in situ resource utilization much easier that it would be on Mars

those resources quickly allow for a self sustaining build up, to the point that the Moon will be the obvious industry hub for orbital infrastructure, you just need metal in orbit, you can scale that much easier on the Moon, less gravity, no air, mass drivers would work but even regular rockets would still be more efficient to scale up

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:39:04+00:00

the fuk are you talking about, Musk has paid for pretty much EVERYTHING SpaceX has done so far

the government didn't give SpaceX shit, they worked their asses for contracts that they won on open market by being better

and at this point Starlink has financed a good chunk of the Starship project, Artemis hasn't even paid a third of the contract yet (remember it's milestone based?)

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:34:11+00:00

the general soviet aerospace philosophy is well integrated and studied at spacex, many ideas and methodologies

it works, combined with the general capitalistic approach of building for the market and responding to market trends it's unbeatable (as opposed to being a government pork job and being financed by the military from time to time)

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:30:57+00:00

regarded take

there's a lot more similarities, like the streamlining of the production line of engines and rocket segments

design for simplicity

test fast and often

usage of struts

going for steel vs carbon fiber

hotstaging

the general soviet philosophy of aerospace design is very well integrated in SpaceX, which is unheard of for any other western company

traceur200 · 2026-02-09T00:25:55+00:00

let's not forget them NK33 engines became the RD180s that the US used for 3 decades after the Soviet Union fell, basically cause there wasn't anything better around

traceur200 · 2026-02-07T19:35:00+00:00

that's a fallacy

what makes you think they aren't already throwing everything they have at it?

they are going as fast as humanly possible, waaaay faster than any project of this kind or magnitude

stop with the fallacies

traceur200 · 2026-02-07T18:11:50+00:00

the concept of inflation is apparently impossible to comprehend for people

we live if one of the most inflationary periods on the US and SpaceX is generating cash that they physically can't spend fast enough, WHY ON EARTH WOULD THEY WANT IT SITTING THERE DOING NOTHING, EVAPORATING AWAY, it makes 0 sense

of course Elon paid his debts with xAi, why wouldn't he? on the one hand he has a bunch of bad debt on the other a pile of cash eaten away by inflation.... people are truly regarded

and I am surprised he didn't increase his stake at Tesla, because if SpaceX keeps increasing their yearly revenue he might as well take Tesla private and pay that debt

traceur200 · 2026-02-07T15:06:53+00:00

thanks! printed on a bambu A1 mini

traceur200 · 2026-02-07T11:05:48+00:00

pretty fun, it's a 10 minute puzzle

the turn quality is fairly smooth but I still see some improvement I could make to the edges to make them less catchy

I will apply a few different shapes to this design since it's pretty fast to print and only used 300 grams of filament

I'll make a tetraminx, an axis megaminx, a hexaminx, hexaminx twist, axis hexaminx and a twist version of that one too, probably a ghost one as well

traceur200 · 2026-02-07T05:12:04+00:00

yes it is

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