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“You can’t just shoot a hole into the Moon.”

MISSION OBJECTIVE: Shoot a hole into the Moon.

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/eare-earths-mine-usa-china

Most rare‑earth ore occurs as a geochemical stew, so producers must grind, acid‑leach, and solvent‑wash huge volumes of rock before they bottle a kilogram of oxide. The solvents themselves are toxic; the tailings ponds can leach heavy metals; and any thorium or uranium hitch‑hikers raise radioactivity concerns.

Open‑pit mines also chew through landscapes, consume prodigious energy, and disrupt local water tables. In short, the elements may not be geologically rare, but clean, socially acceptable production sites are. That scarcity, not crustal abundance, keeps supply tight and prices volatile.

That’s an excellent point.

I don’t really know what the launch detection sensors’ capabilities are. However, there’s probably a detectably different spectrographic signature from solid fuel rockets like ICBMs versus Neutron’s methalox.

This is the natural consequence of a business that is not worker owned.

Given the ham-handedness of Indian propagandists in English-speaking social media, if their pilots are of a similar quality, then it may have just been a skill issue rather than a demonstration of the quality of the hardware.

What energy company is a natural monopoly?

edit: are you talking about utilities that produce and distribute energy, or the companies that provide fuel for them? Because a case can be made for mining operations like Exxon & etc to be subject to market competition, whereas natural monopolies like your local electric utility should be publicly owned, i.e. owned by the government, and not have ownership shares traded privately or in public markets.

Its inefficient for natural monopolies to not be owned by the government. Privatization increases cost and decreases quality of service.

Its inefficient for natural monopolies to not be owned by the government. Privatization increases cost and decreases quality of service.

mid tier gaming GPUs have been good enough for a long time - buy once, and you’re set for the next >5 years

Its the students themselves who are criminally conservative, in addition to the schools administrative hierarchy promoting far-right neo-feudalism and calling it capitalism.

Rape, assault, and battery are the accepted norm among the Harvard student body.

For example:

https://www.fastcompany.com/3051357/at-harvard-college-16-of-female-seniors-surveyed-report-having-been-raped

https://nationaljurist.com/national-jurist/news/harvard-law-student-accused-of-homophobic-slur-and-violence-toward-another-student/

lol, as if Harvard were liberal

they’re infamously, thuggishly conservative

a video . . . how ironic

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Fuck your Blue Key.

This administration is a wrecking ball, but if there’s a next one, they’ll be well positioned to rebuild - unburdened by past mistakes that were kept around through momentum and the unwillingness of savvy career politicians to trash their reputations by passing extremely unpopular policy like the current admin is doing.

The Senate Lunch System was flawed from the start. Its not a space program, its a political pork & white collar jobs make-work program.

The goals of those programs are laudable, but the mission profile was optimized for domestic politics rather than achieving the stated goals.

There are cheaper ways than a Lunar Gateway to accomplish building a fusion & rocket fuel refinery on the moon. Orion only makes sense in conjunction with a Lunar Gateway & SLS. SLS is disposable oldtech & a triumph of pork barrel politics over sound engineering.