Ten minutes after liftoff, SpaceX cut its own live feed on the Starfall demonstration flight. No orbit confirmation, no payload description, no further commentary. It was the kind of silence usually reserved for national security launches, and it was enough
  • NM_Gringo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11 minutes

    Just as soon as Ketamine Man gets his rockets to stop blowing up or looking like crispy critters when they ditch in the ocean.

  • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    Hasn’t this clearly been the plan for years, surprised this is a a surprise to anyone. When musk was talking about delivering payloads anywhere in the world in under an hour, he’s wasn’t talking about getting you toilet paper quicker (or solving world hunger)

  • ArcaneGadget@nord.pubEnglish
    7 hours

    “What is the most resource inefficient way we can come up with, to get supplies to the frontline.” I hate theese tech-bros so much…

    • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4 hours

      It’s not the worst idea. The road between your basecamp and the frontline can easily be blocked by enemies, but the line between a satelite and your frontline is not easily blocked. For simplicity I’m assuming our hypthetical enemy doesn’t have an abundance of relatively cheap ground to air missiles, like every military in the world has.

      • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 hour

        Why would you want this over just airdropping supplies?

        Also I’m no military need, but if the road between your basecamp and the frontline can easily be blocked then I don’t think you actually hold that territory and may have over extended yourself and no matter how many supplies you drop/“Enemy” “combatants”/civilians you kill, you’re likely losing the war (see Rhodesia (LOL) or Vietnam)

  • Soulphite@reddthat.comEnglish
    7 hours

    Sure, lets jump straight to MILITARY and not… oh say, I dunno… space exploration? Typical military industrial complex bullshit.

    Sick of this fucking timeline.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 hours

      Dude, you realize the whole ‘going to the moon’ thing was just a way to convince the public to fund ballistic missile technology? And the whole reason for the shuttle was to steal Russias satellites? One of the biggest use cases for space is war. Space travel won’t feed anyone.

      • cy888@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3 hours

        Ballistic missile tech already existed.

        It was modified for use in the Mercury program.

      • robear@lemmy.zipEnglish
        6 hours

        We can already feed everyone. We just choose not to. Space travel has nothing to do with it, but we should do it anyway.

        • Peppycito@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2 hours

          I’m for space travel but I think the commercialization of space will benefit a very few.

  • harrison_fnord@reddthat.comEnglish
    7 hours

    Ok this is it. Last straw for me. Imma go do something now.

    Technology has failed us. Time to build some emps, time to stop paying taxes.