el_toast

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by el_toast 2y ago
Same story with shuttle and that's why it looks the way it is and was as expensive as it was. It would have been a completely different vehicle if Congress weren't meddling.
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by el_toast 3y ago
The 'what' could really be anything since the article is vague, from the sensors themselves to the GNCP software that takes that info and controls the spacecraft. If they were patching the instrument(s) then they could have done
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by el_toast 3y ago
A viewpoint I frequently see missing is having a truck is fun, especially when I want to go piss around outdoors. Sure a car is technically more useful/efficient day to day but it's not going to get me over sand, mud, or even slig
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by el_toast 3y ago
Typically your best bet is going with a provider that already produces whatever item, isn't bespoke to that particular program, and has an assembly line of sorts already set up. However the other problem is they are often built in low
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by el_toast 3y ago
This reminds me of a game me and a buddy started playing called 'homeless or math professor?'. Fun times.
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by el_toast 3y ago
Many people will hear the usual story of the fixes (for the plane example) being enormously expensive without really diving into what all goes into that figure. The source code change itself may be trivial, so it's easy to compare tha
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by el_toast 4y ago
No conspiracy or funniness to be had. ITAR is the main limiting factor to releasing images/videos at this point. Next is the download rate and the high res images are not high priority since operations can be run using lower resolution