Lauren is the most abused of the bunch.

Not as big of a disaster as fucking Wojak. Those things are a pox on sapience itself.

My experience is backwards.

"Wait, the same person that made Thalasin is behind that digital circus thing that's going viral?!"

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Osprey made a whole book about YPG armored vehicles.
www.ospreypublishing.com/us/kurdish-a...

The only thing that's changed in the past two weeks is that THR and Gizmodo picked up a report made by YouTube.
bsky.app/profile/er1s...

*BE-4 for the first stage. My bad.

Typo on my end. I meant BE-4 for Vulcan's first stage.

Excerpt from Dennis R. Jenkins's "Space Shuttle: The History of the National Space Transportation System — The First 100 Missions", p.460 "Considering that Space Shuttle Main Engines cost $38 million each at the time, it rapidly became evident that the launch cost of a Shuttle-C would surpass the $500 million mark in the third year of flight if it had to procure new-production SSMEs or GPCs [Space Shuttle Main Computer]. This made any cost advantage of Shuttle-C minimal compared to Titan IV, negating most of its rationale for existence. Even compared to the baseline Space Shuttle cost estimates, the recurring costs of Shuttle-C were not considered sufficiently lower to amortize the considerable development expense. An increasingly tight NASA budget, and stiff competition from Space Station Freedom for what limited development funds were available, combined to spell the end to Shuttle-C during the FY91 Congressional budget deliberations."

Launch of Delta IV Heavy's Exploration Flight Test-1, carrying an uncrewed Orion space capsule, December 5, 2014

And that's precisely why Shuttle-C was eventually cancelled: it kept many of the STS's complexities, while adding new ones.

Compared to Titan IV, you weren't saving any money for NASA's (and especially USAF's) heavy-lift needs. Everyone was better off with a new system: EELV/Delta IV.

While I'm not arguing about "having a new engine solely for the sake of innovation", it is telling that ULA went for Blue Origin's BE-2 for Centaur rather than keep Delta IV and its SSME-derived RS-68 in production.

Fuck off, bot.
Blocked.

Is Elon a fucking moron that fried his brain on ketamine, Xitter and his own bloated ego? Absolutely.

Will Starship be able to deliver on all its promises? I do not know, but I certainly hope so.

Falcon 9 launches Northrop's Cygnus cargo spacecraft to the ISS, April 11, 2026.

And we know for a fact that SpaceX is capable of delivering on astounding feats of engineering.

Falcon 9 flies at least twice every week. It has had 44 launches this year alone, all of which have landed the first stage booster safely back on a barge.

This picture is from two days ago.

Plus designs that don't get finalized, but rather are iterated and fully overhauled on the march, adding additional time to the program.

Artemis II's RS-25 engines are the same ones that flew on the Space Shuttle. Their basic design dates back to the 1970s.

Starship, on the other hand, is a much more ambitious program. Perhaps too ambitious:
- Two entirely new vehicles (SH/Starship)
- Full-stack reusabilty
- New common engine
- Novel propellant
- Orbital refuelling
- Intended for mass production

"Failure" means dead astronauts, hearings in C-SPAN and a nixed program. NASA and SLS cannot fail, even if that means delaying the whole thing for years.

I still remember Foone mocking the JWST back on Twitter. And it was entirely justified! It had been fully assembled for years before it launched!

National Launch System concept, 1991

The basic "Shuttle components in a disposable stack" idea goes back decades. The National Launch System proposal dates to Bush Sr's administration in 1991.

There's also the costs and institutional risks associated with both NASA (especially Michoud) and the prime contractors.

Components of Ares V

First of all, Berger does access journalism.

Now that we set that aside, comparing SLS with Starship is unfair from a technical standpoint. The former is very much derived from the planned Ares V from Bush Jr's Constellation program.

Not good enough for NASA. They classified CFT as a Class A mishap (“unexpected aircraft or spacecraft departure from
controlled flight")

www.nasa.gov/wp-content/u...

Nemzeti Választási Iroda - Országgyűlési képviselők választása Választási szervek - Nemzeti Választási Iroda

It's amazing that, after 15 or so years of Fidesz government, Hungary still holds free and fair elections.
Comes to prove the supreme importance of impartial institutions: vtr.valasztas.hu/ogy2026

"They" is being generous. That franchise is almost entirely Cameron's baby.

Maybe that's the case, but Bernie still lost two presidential primaries. There aren't enough voters for the stuff he is selling.

Because leftists are too dogmatic and refuse to compromise.

For instance, the Chilean Communist Party refused to join the rest of the political forces for the 1988 referendum. Instead, they kept supporting armed extremism right until the formal return to democracy in 1990.

Cover of APSI Magazine (Chile), late 1983, with a picture of a rally by the Democratic Alliance. Below it there are various portraits of political opposition leaders during Pinochet's dictatorship. Headline reads: "Forum: Unity of the Opposition"

We knew that already.

Why isn't NASA selling them? It makes no sense.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Yud say that LLMs were a dead end for artificial intelligence before they began to proliferate?
And didn't change an iota of his spiel after the GPTs became useful enough for commercial use?

The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.

No, it isn't.

In fact, it is slightly unfair to Zitron because, unlike Yud, he hasn't spawned a series of kooky cults, each more kooky than the previous one.
www.wired.com/story/deliri...

Goddamnit, I replied to a fucking bot.

Below on the thread.

1. Media writers don't care about animation unless it's Disney or a mega-hit on the scale of KPDH. Especially a show that looks made by/for edgy preteens (it only *looks* that way; it's NOT a show for kids).

2. Outlets write from what's fed to them by PR people/networking, and Glitch does zero PR.

All of the discussion is taking place in social media platforms: YouTube comment/reaction videos, Twitter, our very own BlueSky, Reddit, 4chan...

I don't know why is there such a gulf in the discussion, but I can theorize: