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musk has been publicly hinting for weeks that Raptor needs a complete redesign to actually work, but i'm not seeing spacex going bankrupt. even launched on F9, Starlink is going to corner the market on military contracts and is the reason so many rich nutcases think that mega constellations of satellites are the way of the future.
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i don't see spacex going bankrupt as long as there are people wanting to put their poo poo into space on the other hand we do live in the worst timeline so it would fit if the only eloncorp to go under was the least lovely one
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f9 is a good product but it has a gigantic problem: the satellite launch market isn't growing, at least not outside of china. spacex already has way more f9 capacity than it can actually use, even with starlink. legacy garbage ideas like "having a profitable business model" absolutely do not matter here, it doesn't affect spacex' viability as a company in the slightest. all that matters is the growth story. if the growth story isn't convincing the company is in danger.
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yeah thats the problem with all these private spaceflight companies. theres only so much need for lifting things into orbit and that number isnt growing. its not like there was this pent up demand for things to be put into orbit if only the cost of getting it to orbit would come down 10% or 30% or whatever. so these companies are stuck trying to create new markets like 'space tourism' starlink exists primarily to give its host company some things to put into orbit while they wait (and wait) for actual market demand to appear. the fact that the cheapass cubesats fall out of orbit and need constant replenishment is a feature not a bug
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GWBBQ posted:Starlink is going to corner the market on military contracts I'm extremely skeptical of this. Have they ever gotten any part of its satellite to satellite communication working? (Global mesh, lol). As soon as they fail to meet whatever performance specification the contract stipulated, I'm gonna imagine DoD drops them for whoever they can find.
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Xakura posted:As soon as they fail to meet whatever performance specification the contract stipulated, I'm gonna imagine DoD drops them for whoever they can find. lmao DoD has been pouring billions (trillions?) into a plane whose most reliable feature is killing its pilot.
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the osprey may kill a lot of marines, but it also helps a lot of defense contractors get paid on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,
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Just-In-Timeberlake posted:lmao yeah lol. the only part of a contact the government will ever enforce is payment to the vendor.
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Nov 23, 2021 20:51
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nasa and congress have been cooking the books and throwing money at the SLS despite it being a complete failure in every respect. about the only way spacex gets its contracts cancelled is if they threaten the SLS by creating something that works.
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Chris Knight posted:the osprey may kill a lot of marines, but it also helps a lot of defense contractors get paid on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not, i think in the meme one of the things has to be bad
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the german tesla plant is forming a works council, which will likely turn to full unionization looks like the german tesla plant iwll be shut down in the near future https://electrek.co/2021/11/23/tesla-employees-organizing-union-gigafactory-berlin/
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Chris Knight posted:the osprey may kill a lot of marines, but it also helps a lot of defense contractors get paid on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not, the osprey kills less marines than the helicopters it replaces
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Endless Mike posted:the german tesla plant is forming a works council, which will likely turn to full unionization Can't wait for GröBaZ* Elon to announce this is the worst thing Germany's ever done. * just replace Feldherr with Bazinga
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FMguru posted:starlink exists primarily to give its host company some things to put into orbit while they ftfy
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Didn't starlink get ~$900MM in FCC subsidies too?
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MomJeans420 posted:Didn't starlink get ~$900MM in FCC subsidies too? they sure did lmfao because elon musk is a """" welfare queen """
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i bet he drives a lincoln suv around with wheel spinners and he's playing lil jon real loud
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he's been married four times, has seven kids with different mamas
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lol what does starlink do for the military that existing sat constellations don’t?
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FrozenVent posted:lol what does starlink do for the military that existing sat constellations don’t? allows them to be Billed
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its more bandwidth. satellite internet is always bandwidth constrained. i presume the main use for the military would actually be for off duty soldiers (maybe more important for sailors) to talk with loved ones at home or just gently caress around on the internet.
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FrozenVent posted:lol what does starlink do for the military that existing sat constellations don’t? like, actually do, or in musk's fantasy land do?
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hobbesmaster posted:its more bandwidth. satellite internet is always bandwidth constrained. i presume the main use for the military would actually be for off duty soldiers (maybe more important for sailors) to talk with loved ones at home or just gently caress around on the internet. yeah v-sat does that don’t need a fancy omnidirectional antenna on a ship, they have plenty of space and power
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Sagebrush posted:he's been married four times, has seven kids with different mamas only 3, but the way he got a baby then dumped grimes you'd think otherwise
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FrozenVent posted:yeah v-sat does that if starlink delivers on the satellite to satellite thing it should be an orders of magnitude improvement of the quality of service in the middle of nowhere they won't, but it'd be a solid improvement over any satellite system i've used. i would expect it to be an "additional" connection at best because elon, reliability?
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speaking of starlink, I'm in a FB group for it just for the sake of seeing what happens and a whole lot of people are complaining today because service availability has been bumped from "late 2021" to March 2022 or later.
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the antennas don't work, they had a bunch of rather suspicious deorbits, and they still don't have intra-sat communication working
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Nov 24, 2021 02:33
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are there more lols other than the "don't work in the US southwest"
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i'm not sure how well they work in alaska either, but it's mostly the temperature issues and the massively unsafe installations, ungrounded, and using way to much current over PoE
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more recently, if you used their official tool to update the antenna location on their service map, it would delay your service for another year or two, for some reason oh, and there are still the spectrum issues if any more than a handful of people actually use the service in an area
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infernal machines posted:the antennas don't work, they had a bunch of rather suspicious deorbits, and they still don't have intra-sat communication working
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FSD 10.5 now requires you authorize tesla recording you non-anonymously (prior versions recorded you, but were anonymized) https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-full-self-driving-requires-you-to-accept-being-recorded-on-video-during-use-174892.html
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Nov 24, 2021 16:06
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sweet, now i can train the algorithm and my heroes at tesla will know my face
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*spray paints her teeth silver* WITNESS ME!!! *mashes FSD button* *fully reclines the driver's seat and takes a nap*
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lol https://twitter.com/andraydomise/status/1463342547456122890
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andray domise is great and also, lol. i still don't know if that was intentional on the part of detroit news or not
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lmao
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lmaooooooo
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lmao
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Does elon have to fund the nazi party like ford did, because i think elon would be very much into that.
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