History, Politics And Current Affairs

With those new room temperature ambient pressure superconductors, the power problem feels like a lot less of an issue now.

My cynic instincts say its apathy.
They aren't paid to care so they don't care, plus any dime spent on anything means they and their patrons can't embezzle it instead.

I'm irrelevant enough to qualify so here.

while it did lead to total failure, the fact that those engines got put through concrete hell and only a handful died to it is frankly astonishing while I'm not a rocket scientist either, I feel like there are very very few rockets that could endure similar punishment with equal grace as Super Heavy...

How did the SpaceX engineers not anticipate that the rocket exhaust from a rocket twice as powerful as the Saturn-V would need a flame trench and a water deluge system? iirc the desire to not have a trench was pure Elon, a thing he probably regrets now that starbase and everything else within a kil...

It’s an incredible story of her damage and survival. Some absolutely amazing stories of heroism and seamanship. https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tf83V2kdAXM&si=EnSIkaIECMiOmarE i'm very impressed by the technical details and research in this. IIRC Drach is/was an engineer before starting the youtube...

This is getting to be a really bizarre year, and we're only in February

While he can be lambasted for his insufficiently elegant speech until the cows come home, I'm more concerned about why he would hold such a pessimistic stance in the first place. the worst I had seen previously was 2027 I'd honestly prefer the idea that he's talking out his rear, as that would be fa...