nickik

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by nickik 3y ago
Thanks for tracking it down, I was to lazy.
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by nickik 3y ago
The clean them pretty well. For example the clean along the welds to check them. The soot only stays on the parts where it doesn't really matter. Engines are also cleaned. In fact, one landing failure happened because left over cleanin
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by nickik 3y ago
We know for sure that even later in the Block 5 generation the re-usability got better. So that isn't controversial. I would assume their 'favorites' are being pushed in order to get engineering information on those flights,
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by nickik 3y ago
Then maybe the journalist should have done that, instead of just hunting headlines.
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by nickik 3y ago
Space industry average is an utterly useless and idiotic thing used for comparison. Most of those companies make tiny sats, or things like small thrusters. Or even small sub-components. And even those that build larger things, build them at
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by nickik 3y ago
My point is this, how do you know their practices are worse if you don't compare. If SpaceX does 100x as many rocket engine test but has only a 2x worse insure rates then what you suggest: > should also have vastly more experience
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by nickik 3y ago
Actually it does. If you assume that doing some a difficult dangerous task like, testing a rocket engine, building a building sized rocket or launching a rocket is inherently dangerous, and no amount of safety will get the injury rate to 0.
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by nickik 3y ago
> Along the lines of "we produce more stuff, so cutting corners on worker safety is ok". Well but that really isn't it. Its more like doing X has some inherent danger and if you do more of X then its likely more people are
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by nickik 3y ago
You are comparing people that work on small sats to people who work on the largest rocket in human history. McGregor is the most active rocket engine test facility in the world. How are their insure rates compared 'per rocket engine te
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by nickik 3y ago
> I want to know what this thing is so bad. Its a small space plane used for materials and operations testing.. > Also wonder what are the odds that space force has put people into space and brought them back at this point, Literally
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by nickik 3y ago
Amazing work by all involved! Thank you.
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by nickik 3y ago
I'm sorry but is just nonsense? Go where? To Russia or China, that would never be allowed. To Europe? And even if it was allowed, the infrastructure and people are here, this would be a decade long transition. This is just so utterly a
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by nickik 3y ago
This was long before Trump. And the thing is, depending on how you do the agreement. Europe could produce the engines themselves, they only would need plans and help with manufacture. This isn't unprecedented in the space industry. Its
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by nickik 3y ago
Actually there was a big movement for crew launches in the 90s. This died becuase it was gone cost way to much. In the last 2 years there has been a very big marketing campaign by various austronauts and people from ESA to push the idea of
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by nickik 3y ago
Lots of different ESA and Arianespace made lots of arrogant and wrong statements over the years, trust me as somebody that has followed it. Their claims about illegal subsidies were always utterly hilarious. It was literally just them appea
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by nickik 3y ago
Its not a crazy idea, its a smart idea. There are two things that aim against it, export regulation. These could be overcome but it would require a lot of politics and cooperation. Second, Europe has NIH syndrome and until reticently were
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by nickik 3y ago
You are totally wrong. SpaceX is deeply entangled with NASA and DoD. And their primary IP is protected under US regulation, nobody can 'take it away'. And SpaceX launch site and team are essentially purely American. Its crazy to s
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by nickik 3y ago
> The EU should be focused on generating demand like Commercial Cargo/Commercial Crew did The EU has long given up on Cargo supply to ISS and that budget is bound in the Orion Service module. And Crew wont happen in Europe anytime s
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by nickik 3y ago
> not complete things that are being done now at scale by many others... So its kind of wrong to suggest that what they try to do is done by 'many' others at scale. That basically isn't the case. SpaceX and RocketLab lab a
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by nickik 3y ago
Their stock price has been very, very low for a while now. Meaning it would be incredibly hard for them to raise money. Their rocket development program was nowhere close to being finished or fully funded. And even if they could develop the
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by nickik 3y ago
Its was clear that they were a dead company walking many months ago. It just a slow decline into complete bust.
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by nickik 3y ago
> The biggest issue for the nuclear waste disposal idea is that it doesn't make any economic sense. No the biggest issue is that its a stupid idea in the first place. Nuclear waste is fine and perfectly reasonable to handle here on
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by nickik 3y ago
If SpaceX was willing to do the work and put in the investment they could absolutely get access to fissile material. The US government evaluates things based on regulations and not who is popular on twitter.
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by nickik 3y ago
> is more complicated than my college admission process, it’s a bad sign. Many people stay at a company for longer then they stay at college. So that doesn't seem that crazy.
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by nickik 3y ago
Apparently I got something partly wrong: https://twitter.com/arjenroodselaar/status/17183502637346611...
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by nickik 3y ago
Manufacturing is done by Benchmark in Raleigh, NC. Its outsourced. First rack shipped to costumer Jul 1, 2023: https://twitter.com/oxidecomputer/status/1674901883130114048 Here is a picture an incomplete rack: ht
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by nickik 3y ago
Because anybody that is actually informed about SpaceX knows that the 'Musk isn't involved, its all Shotwell' is a line that Musk-haters have been using for 10+ years now. Of course everybody who leaves SpaceX tells a differe
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by nickik 3y ago
Sure but an organisation doesn't just fall out of the sky. They were once 7 people in a room. If Musk was new CEO that just came in 2 years ago of course he wouldn't get much credit. But Musk has been leading SpaceX for literally
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by nickik 3y ago
Literally on the main page there is a picture of a big computer. And then it says: Oxide Cloud Computer No Cables. No Assembly. Just Cloud. Contact Sales How much easier can they make it? They clearly want to sell computers.
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by nickik 3y ago
Similar in some ways different in others. But in terms of not being a PC architecture. Yes it is. But in many other ways its not at all like a Mainframe.

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