Pennomi

There’s no way they will sentence a sitting president.

It’s not hard to max out when doing simulations in Blender, but I know I have a niche use case.

The hard part is that “direct” is subjective and up to interpretation of the court.

They don’t need to go that far. Just force Musk to divest. (And prosecute him for any crimes he’s committed, but that might be asking too much of the government.)

He’s probably got a dumb name, like Bill or Willie.

It’s a bird flu, not bird syphilis.

I think the goals and scale of these efforts aren’t comparable. Best to compare apples to apples.

Yeah the lidar scan was done for other reasons, but this researcher was specifically looking for lidar data to scour through.

You’re right though, this is a much catchier headline.

You are 100% correct! Honestly my response wasn’t for him, per se. It was for Americans who might be duped by reading his comment.

And yet, despite your act of protest, human society continues - because you are not the center of the universe. The trolley problem is not hypothetical this election. Will you support less death or more death?

Wow I found it totally on accident while processing lidar images with my software specifically designed to detect hidden cities in lidar images!

Surprising maybe. Accidental? Ehhhh

That’s certainly true, though arguably Starship development is a prerequisite to the lunar lander, otherwise it could never leave the ground.

It’s really hard to understand why NASA picked Starship over a smaller, more traditional lander.

Nah Elon can fuck right off. He’s easily the world’s most colossal asshole.

How would you measure success? I’d measure it by number of objectives completed. Let’s take the commercial crew program as an example - how many successful crew launches has SpaceX completed vs. Boeing? How about vs. NASA? No American launch system compares to SpaceX in safety and capability yet. (Russia and China might be competitors, but there are political reasons why they can’t be chosen.)

I would absolutely LOVE to see more competition that obsoletes SpaceX. Maybe Blue Origin or RocketLab will step up? I don’t think SLS is really viable though.

Fair enough, other than the idea that they shouldn’t have been paid for the services rendered. R&D is a service just as much as launch is.

I do agree that anything developed using public funds should be publicly owned. Good luck convincing the US government of that though… that would upset the corporate overlords.

Yes, I mentioned that they also receive R&D contracts, along with the other major players like Boeing. The difference is that historically they have received less money yet delivered more.

I think you have a fundamental misunderstanding about how the space program works. NASA pays SpaceX for launch services. For other initiatives, NASA funds research initiatives through multiple companies for redundancy.

If we want to talk about pissing away money for rockets, how much money went to SLS development? Or maybe compare Boeing’s Starliner costs versus Crew Dragon.

Do the research and show me with numbers who the more cost efficient rocket development program is. I’ll wait.

Hard to stop relying on the best rockets in the world. Maybe Blue Origin or RocketLab will step up but it’s hard to see that happening.

Better to just force him to divest than to drop one of the very few good launch providers.

They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.

Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.

Nice idea, but how would you even enforce that?

Honestly this might be the least controversial of Israel’s targets. It would be very rare for me to lament the destruction of a weapons production facility, pretty much anywhere.