Recent content by m4n8tpr8b

In my opinion, this is much ado about nothing, this is pure PR. Neither the financial, nor the technical, nor the life support system needs for such a mission are anywhere near to be met, and with the proposed cuts and the war on scientists (including climate scientists and those involved in...

Planting the flag of one country has nothing to do with ensuring(?) mankind. It is either about national pride or colonisation.

With the amount of fuel on board, if it slams to the ground before burning up most of its fuel, the blast radius would be huge. If it ever blows up on the launch pad, it will demolish everything in a large radius. Read up on the Nedelin disaster; a Starship+Superheavy explosion would be much...

Nice dodge. But my questions aren't answered on that page you linked. I did look into a paper of yours before asking the question, and that paper inspired some of the questions. That word salad doesn't explain anything, and it is missing from the page you linked. Light exists in...

What was the point of this quote? What is its relevance? You can't stop with the argument from authority fallacies, can you? Even people with security clearances can err and even they can be cranks. Since the guy was in counter-intel, there was an easy path. Why did you ignore everything else...

Seriously. If Musk wasn't present and the engineers could decide on their own, that's actually a positive. I'm sorry but the public consists of people with different levels of expertise and they could very well have given an explanation, like other launchers do. "Various problems both in the...

Some questions: Define "n=0‑objects(I)". How can n=0‑objects(I) be displaced if they are "the fundamental “stuff” of space itself"? Displacement is something in space. If displacement causes gravity, how does the effect travel to large distances? What causes the deviation from 1/R^2 that is...

Lack of transparency, as usual. I would also be curious how the decision to delay came about (how much interference there was from Elon).

Your quote is from Luis Elizondo, a former US Army counter-intel officer, later in the Pentagon as the Director for the National Programs Special Management Staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He is a crank who misrepresented his involvement in a program terminated five years prior...

This site is really a crank magnet.

While I have the same questions Ken Fabian has, there is also that some of your questions aren't nuanced enough. On Mars colonisation, my answer would combine all of your choices with an additional temporal constraint: yes, definitely, but only after more urgent problems are solved here on...

This site is a crank magnet.

This video with the very clickbaity thumbnail picture (but based on actually interesting research) is completely irrelevant to the cosmology discussed in this thread.

This thread is a catastrophe... I can understand marcin's frustration.

The need for that many launches (and I suspect it will be significantly more than 15 with current Starship technology) is in large part because the HLS is much larger, and to a smaller part because Starship is reusable while Saturn V wasn't. The length of the mission or the polar orbit count...