exomonk

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by exomonk 8mo ago
SpaceX is NOT about going to Mars, it's about Golden Dome. Always was. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...
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by exomonk 8mo ago
Can you request a specific wiki article? I'd like to see https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
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by exomonk 9mo ago
"While widely shared as a Newton quote, the earliest known source is advertising executive Howard W. Newton, from a 1946 magazine." Advertisers probably understand people better than physicists.
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by exomonk 9mo ago
They're still physically the same Starlink satellites being used for Golden Dome.
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by exomonk 10mo ago
Easy: https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/data-cen... SDA’s “Battle Management Layer will provide automated space-based battle management through command and control, tasking, mission processing an
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by exomonk 10mo ago
Not sure what you're trying to say If you're interested in Musk and the Mars Society history as a front for the U.S. military industrial complex, a good start is https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-recruiting-el
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Golden Dome (orbital weapon system)(en.wikipedia.org)
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by exomonk 10mo ago
It's basically nuclear preparedness research. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...
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by exomonk 10mo ago
Space datacenters have the dual-use of tracking and weapons targeting which is needed for a robust Golden Dome architecture (immune to comm link jamming, terabit image sensor processing) Musk is involved in every aspect of Golden Dome.
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by exomonk 10mo ago
That sounds like a product manager's perspective, but I think the falls apart in deep space. When the feedback loop is 2 light-days long and hardware is irreplaceable. The original planned lifespan of Voyager was just 5 years.
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by exomonk 10mo ago
Maybe when the next draft of democracy is written it can leverage these tools.
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by exomonk 10mo ago
>> We reliably produced distinct scents such as a campfire burn or fresh air! These are exactly the types of smells people report when they get head CT scans (I've experienced it myself). Always thought it was ozone forming but
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by exomonk 10mo ago
In case people don't know the Collatz Conjecture, It's based on a simple rule: take any natural number n. If it is even, divide it by 2. If it is odd, multiply by 3 and add 1. The conjecture states that no matter what number you s
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by exomonk 10mo ago
Actually I recall their were a number of anomalies with Griffin's contracts at NASA. It was widely reported he was chasing away the bigger companies from the COTS program he formed. Saying himself that he assigned the decision-making t
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by exomonk 10mo ago
Such standardization will set a design envelope for the Golden Dome weapons..
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by exomonk 10mo ago
Counting all those explosions as "flown" is pretty charitable.
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by exomonk 10mo ago
64 tons is if Falcon Heavy is fully expended (nothing recovered) configuration. Even with smaller payload, the center core is generally a lost cause. Falcony Heavy is extremely difficult to launch as I learned when I worked at SpaceX. It tu
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by exomonk 10mo ago
New Glenn Falcon 9 Height 96m 70m Payload 45 tons 22.8 tons Fairing 7m 5m New Glenn significantly increases the capacity to Low Earth Orbit, which is what this first phase of the space r
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by exomonk 10mo ago
It's hard to see it being off by multiple orders of magnitude.
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by exomonk 10mo ago
So 2:1 for four-leaf:five-leaf? Seems to reinforce their point that this blog is bs