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BillHicksScream t1_jczkunr wrote

Reply to comment by lughnasadh in 10 months after its launch by SpaceX, a $10,000 satellite made by students with off-the-shelf materials and powered by 48 Energizer AA batteries, is not only working, it's demonstrating a way to reduce space junk by lughnasadh

No. Thats not how development works here. The list of problems for humans operating in Space has only increased. Nor has there been any required breakthrough in a new method of energy usage, something to escape orbit and move through space cheaply. You will notice there is no fusion/warp/new element powered minivans.

There is no huge demand to fuel development anyways. Unlike the airplane, whose development is fueled by four factors: a cheap, common energy source, WW 1+2, lots of commercial & governmental uses to pay for development and the #1 reason: Flying is possible. Birds exist.

But there are no alien spaceships, which would tell us Star Trek is possible.

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Fit_Manufacturer_444 t1_jd08r8d wrote

The downvotes on this comment shows how uneducated and braindead it is

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BillHicksScream t1_jd111ff wrote

Humans like to dream. Its part of what makes us great.

But Neil Postman was right. We are Amusing Ourselves To Death - and Space is just one thing that's pretty cool to dream about. https://youtube.com/watch?v=3G8a4Tdnab8

And I can see now how Musk + Co. are intentionally selling fake future dreams to avoid the expensive work of dealing with the looming negative ecological & social disorder.

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Emble12 t1_jd24ocq wrote

You don’t think a decrease of cost to orbit by a literal order of magnitude is a significant development?

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BillHicksScream t1_jdayw5n wrote

>by a literal order of magnitude

LOL. You even repeat Musk's inane phrasing. Vaporbrain.

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Emble12 t1_jdbe038 wrote

Ah yes, because Musk invented basic maths? Jesus.

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BillHicksScream t1_jdd2qtc wrote

LOL. "a literal order of magnitude" makes no sense. It doesnt work as English and the current state of development is so primitive there's nothing to compare.

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Emble12 t1_jdec2ks wrote

When you decrease something logarithmically by 10, that’s reducing by an order of magnitude. “Literal” is used because the phrase is often used in a hyperbolic sense. I was specifically referring to the difference between the Shuttle/SLS and Falcon 9.

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