I actually support Kessler Syndrome. Get it started and those TESCREAL fuckwits in the USA won’t continue with their idiot fantasy of colonizing Mars and will have to focus on making the Earth survivable.
I was a big proponent of space exploration, still am to some degree, but I did think it was the path we should be on. Travel to Mars, mine the asteroids ect. I followed spacex and starship development and really thought it was awesome. The first starship test launch, when I thought I’d be cheering left me with a hole in my gut. Here was a billion liters of methane burning to get this hulk of a thing off the pad, and the design is that’s supposed to happen several times a day.
methane burns clean! It just makes water vapor!
When the second test flight blew up it dumped so much methane (and oxygen) into the sky it showed up on weather radar. (Good thing they flew it outside the environment /s.) I still follow the development because the engineering it mind boggling and watching it won’t stop it but I’m absolutely convinced that the mad rush to become “a space fairing civilization” is just to be the first cunt to grab all the wealth. We’ll have a burning hulk of a shithole planet just so we can get to a frozen, barren shithole planet and make a bunch of fuckwads gigaires.
SpaceX engineering isn’t that impressive, NASA was testing “landing” rockets a long time ago, but it turns out there is so much stress on the parts of a rocket, you need to rebuild the entire thing anyway, something that the pricing of the launches reflect
Problem with that theory is that colonizing Mars is already out of reach, so adding another level of impossible on top of that won’t do anything to dissuade those people. They’ll just make a pretty CGI of some whatchamacallit cleaning the orbit.
I actually support Kessler Syndrome. Get it started and those TESCREAL fuckwits in the USA won’t continue with their idiot fantasy of colonizing Mars and will have to focus on making the Earth survivable.
I was a big proponent of space exploration, still am to some degree, but I did think it was the path we should be on. Travel to Mars, mine the asteroids ect. I followed spacex and starship development and really thought it was awesome. The first starship test launch, when I thought I’d be cheering left me with a hole in my gut. Here was a billion liters of methane burning to get this hulk of a thing off the pad, and the design is that’s supposed to happen several times a day.
When the second test flight blew up it dumped so much methane (and oxygen) into the sky it showed up on weather radar. (Good thing they flew it outside the environment /s.) I still follow the development because the engineering it mind boggling and watching it won’t stop it but I’m absolutely convinced that the mad rush to become “a space fairing civilization” is just to be the first cunt to grab all the wealth. We’ll have a burning hulk of a shithole planet just so we can get to a frozen, barren shithole planet and make a bunch of fuckwads gigaires.
I’m conflicted.
SpaceX engineering isn’t that impressive, NASA was testing “landing” rockets a long time ago, but it turns out there is so much stress on the parts of a rocket, you need to rebuild the entire thing anyway, something that the pricing of the launches reflect
Problem with that theory is that colonizing Mars is already out of reach, so adding another level of impossible on top of that won’t do anything to dissuade those people. They’ll just make a pretty CGI of some whatchamacallit cleaning the orbit.