M0oP0o

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M0oP0o , (edited )

Even ignoring all the other aspects of one working and the other not; The big one is even with the musk grift the cost to taxpayers is orders of magnitude different.

SLS is Over US$2 billion excluding development (estimate) per launch. While Space X just upped their cost estimates in 2022 to $67 million per launch.

M0oP0o ,

SLS cost to develop so far: US$23.8 billion nominal

Falcon 9 cost to develop so far (note this was for falcon 9 1.0)(estimate): US$300 million

Once again, not even close.

M0oP0o , (edited )

For more fun I started to look at some of the other development costs of Space X rockets.

Starship (the big spender) : $5 billion to $10 billion

Falcon Heavy : Over $500 Million

Falcon 9 : $300 Million

Falcon 1: $100 Million

Like I dislike the kirkland brand Dr.evil as much as the next dood, but I think boeing might just have a spending issue.

M0oP0o ,

I am arguing in good faith, this is what I could find on the prices (and since this is a private (not publicly traded) company I do take it with a grain of salt). I think you might have a bit more emotionally tied up in this then you are willing to admit.

M0oP0o ,

Yes, it is clearly in the billions. I also get angry that Boeing, Northrop Grumman (the $50k for a hammer people) and the like keep getting a free pass wasting truck loads of money without delivering.

M0oP0o ,

Blue Origin

From what I can find At least $2.5 billion. So maybe kirkland branded Dr. Evil (musk) is better at spending then Temu Dr. Evil.

M0oP0o ,

Same for Boeing, Rocketdyne, Northrop Grumman and the like. Why are they getting a pass?

M0oP0o ,

Its the Costco store brand, not really relating it to a city in a foreign nation. But the reason bazos is Temu brand is just since its funny. Feel free to call them <insert what ever> brand Dr. evils though.

M0oP0o ,

Yeah, but NASA does not actually make rockets anymore. All of these companies get money from NASA not instead of NASA.

M0oP0o ,

Agreed.

M0oP0o ,

Space Launch System (SLS) is a joint project of Roketdyne, Boeing and Lockheed Northrop Grumman. My issue is that Boeing is not getting enough shit and the other two are not even known.

edit, got Northrop and lockeed mixed up.

M0oP0o ,

Well I did call him the Giant Tiger Dr. Evil but no one got the reference.

M0oP0o ,

It was nice to see the line go down

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/6de68376-7a7d-4bfb-9360-24ec57b64b91.png

M0oP0o OP Mod ,

Like I get it the shuttle looks cool. But it also set records for the most expensive to orbit costs, while it had the purpose of saving money getting things to orbit.

I am just baffled why a program that costs more then the entire Apollo program (both adjusted for inflation) is somehow the poster vessel for space flight.

M0oP0o OP Mod ,

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/4402e40a-85fb-44c3-b50f-b442c2248f6b.jpeg

So many made, but this one bugs me.

M0oP0o OP Mod ,

Nope, nothing but prompt

M0oP0o OP Mod ,

Yeah the thing is I did leave it out. There is a reason I put it in there.

M0oP0o OP ,

I decided to do a bit more then just "hot" and "active" and its the same across all of them except "controversial" and "Most comments".

"Most comments" has some .world posts in it but does not match using another instance. The only one that seems to line up is ironically sorting by "controversial",

This is really getting weird and is making it hard to use Lemmy for me. Like I like some of the posts listed but I can not believe the largest instance is not posting anything. To make me more confused this also started at the same time Mander got really slow, and to add to the weirdness refreshing the page gives entirely different sorting of posts maybe one out of five times.

M0oP0o OP ,

Thanks for the reply (I was worried no one would) but would that cause the weird behaviour I am seeing? The timing does not seem to match but it could make some sense.

If what you are saying is the cause then Lemmy as a federated whole may now be effectively split up due to sync issues?

M0oP0o OP ,

Used to have .world but for this I just test without logging in.

M0oP0o OP ,

Oh wow, yeah its like night and day. Well now I guess I have to figure out a fix.

Sad times if I have to find another instance, again.

Any ideas what can be done longer term to address this (in general)?

Since I can't see anything here I will check on .world

M0oP0o OP ,

Thanks, I have been watching the graph of the lag behind time and its nice to see it now at 6.1 days.

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/112c72e5-c907-4feb-97f4-69aa6be655a1.png

M0oP0o OP ,

Yeah, first time I have been cheering for line go down that I can think of.

M0oP0o Mod ,

In the bingilator:

"A banana that is part Banana and also part banana that contains no money" one try since I meant to type "monkey" but this is better.

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/1fd14645-7212-44a8-b604-09c0bca5016a.jpeg

M0oP0o ,

They know where I am in my 1986 Fiero? In an area where the nearest traffic camera is at least 50 kms away? Where the police don't show even if you call them?

Would I ride a train, sure but they are all freight haulers now and would you believe it even easier to track?

And my bicycle? its great, love it. but I am not able to make my 250km commute on it and although I have used it in the winter -50c is not conducive to cycling.

M0oP0o ,

Hmmm wonder if you could make it work with bumberstickers? Like have the custom plate P TABLE and then complete on ether side?

M0oP0o ,

There is also a record of where I live, my height, eye colour and a whole list of things. People will still be able to find me on my bike easier then in my car since I can't be that far from home on it.

You assume we all live in cities, we don't. I like how my town is set up and is walking and bike friendly, but still most drive. This post was about privacy but you got on the ol' soapbox about mass transit. Do you really think getting on a train/bus/tram you are not being/can not be tracked?

Leave your city, spread out and enjoy a bit of nature.

M0oP0o ,

Facial recognition needs a camera. Common but not everywhere.

The issue is police not respecting privacy at all, this does not change when on a bus.

M0oP0o ,

Yes, same with a bus, train, bicycle or on foot. Also not really relivent to privacy.

M0oP0o ,

But NATO is already bordering russia?

M0oP0o ,

Dang green, you hot!

Also, grey... you have betrayed us.

M0oP0o ,

I mean this in all good intentions but a lot of these examples don't really work.

The hunger games is a mess and I do remember the "good" side was also super not cool.

Star wars is even worse since the rebels even after winning things got much worse, so yeah now I cheer for the empire when watching the old movies.

I even back in the day thought the machines had a better point then the humans in the matrix movies.

No one watched Divergent, so who knows?

And in V for Vendetta the whole hook is the story gets you to sympathize with a literal terrorist. Like really a main point of the story is to question authority and not blindly follow like this post expects people to do.

Wild.

M0oP0o ,

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/1/how-real-is-putins-threat-to-nuke-the-west

Or do you mean the ones made on state TV in 2022 that the Kremlin now says never happened?

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-putin-didnt-threaten-use-nuclear-weapons-us-took-him-out-context-2024-03-14/

M0oP0o ,

It's what plants crave!

M0oP0o ,

Hmmm I am kinda in this situation now and I have to say I still want to work just not for other people (unless I know them well). I actually am trying to be more active and working on my own stuff makes me feel good and gets me off my ass.

M0oP0o ,

As is tradition.

M0oP0o ,

Well now I have a new favourite type of warship: "large anti-boat ship"

It is magnificent.

M0oP0o ,

In that political and economic situation? Naw, you first find someone else to blame.

M0oP0o ,

As is tradition (now anyway)

M0oP0o Mod ,

So I could not get the Bingilator to do what I had in mind, got upset and put in "Night time Sailor moon being very night. The night is very night. photo realistic synthwave style" 45 tries (including the fails).

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/723010f8-fd54-4f0f-9e60-15ce48715cb5.jpeg

M0oP0o Mod ,

Nice, but like many of mine the hair got weird

M0oP0o ,

I would think it would be like when Canada and Mexico did not break ties with Cuba after the Cuban revolution during the cold war. You know that time when the USSR and USA tensions where way higher then today? So political rumblings?

M0oP0o Mod ,

https://mander.xyz/pictrs/image/1fe7f1b3-0288-4511-a4da-a18df00124f2.jpeg

Prompt in the bingilator:

"Sailor moon as a planet inverted and seen from the inside of the planet looking out." Six tries.

M0oP0o OP Mod ,

We don't count down votes (yes I can see them), you won and I don't hate this. I think you came up with an interesting Moon take.

Not sure why you think I hosted this?

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