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Ba-Boom! - Minimalist - 01-17-2025 SpaceX Starship test fails after Texas launch Quote:SpaceX Starship test fails after Texas launch Too bad Musk wasn't aboard. RE: Ba-Boom! - Thumpalumpacus - 01-17-2025 Then there's this: Quote:Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's space company has blasted its first rocket into orbit in a bid to challenge the dominance of Elon Musk's SpaceX. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx24eg7z7zgo I'm all for space exploration, but I'm glad that its privatization is facing issues. RE: Ba-Boom! - Minimalist - 01-17-2025 As long as they don't demand bailouts from their new pal, Fuckface. RE: Ba-Boom! - SYZ - 01-17-2025 Musk and his cohort of super-rich toy boys MUST be prohibited from sending any further, potential space junk into permanent orbit our upper atmosphere. There are currently about 2,000 active satellites orbiting Earth, there are also 3,000 "dead" ones littering space. What's more, there are around 34,000 pieces of space junk bigger than 10cm (4 inches) in size and millions of smaller pieces that could nonetheless prove disastrous if they hit something else—or the surface of the Earth with potential human fatalities. In 1978, NASA scientist Donald Kessler said that if there was too much space junk in orbit, it could result in a chain reaction where more and more objects collide and create new space junk in the process, to the point where Earth's orbit became unusable. This situation would be extreme, but some scientists are concerned that a variant of this could be a problem one day. ![]() RE: Ba-Boom! - Minimalist - 01-17-2025 I'm in favor of shooting billionaires into space. RE: Ba-Boom! - Fireball - 01-17-2025 (01-17-2025, 08:50 AM)SYZ Wrote: Musk and his cohort of super-rich toy boys MUST Needs another rocket with the chump shoveling money into it. Captioned, "Uranus". RE: Ba-Boom! - mordant - 01-17-2025 (01-17-2025, 04:36 PM)Minimalist Wrote: I'm in favor of shooting billionaires into space.Preferably, into the sun. Although it might be more fun to watch Musk slowly starve to death on Mars. RE: Ba-Boom! - Minimalist - 01-17-2025 Either works for me. RE: Ba-Boom! - Dānu - 01-18-2025 I vote Elon test fly the first trip to Mars. Now! |