Born Hunter
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Its not unbelievable, its incredible. They gave up because they achieved their strategic goals of ruining the soviets and regaining the optics of being the best. The ROI of continuing was basically shite. So what do you do for a living that gives you the experience and knowledge to comment on how difficult product development / program management is?
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Based on your career in product development? Putting humans on the moon is amongst the most technically complex programs humanity could currently undertake. It’s comparable to a state spinning up a nuclear submarine fleet or a super carrier strike group where they previously had none and had no other state to mentor them. It takes a top tech company in a truly saturated market 18-36 months to launch a new phone. It takes an entire country 30 years to knock out a next gen nuclear submarine fleet. When the UK got back into the carrier strike game its taken literal decades to get to operat
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The fella was tasked to sort the nations finances out and believes deeply in balancing the books. To then see the same president that tasked him with that go and spunk a load of money that they don’t have probably has something to do with it. Is it betrayal or simply not being a yes man? RFK doesn’t like the oil companies but Trump does. There’s loads of misalignment.
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Who thinks we’ll go back soon with the Artemis programme or another? I think it’s going to happen. Costs of operating in space are/will plummet and it’s becoming more valuable.
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Awesome mate
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I don’t really keep these facts at the forefront of my memory believe it or not but the Saturn V was one big c**t of a rocket with about a million gallons of fuel. That’s unimaginable. Couple that with accelerating through less and less dense atmosphere it’s really not that unbelievable. Get rid of the air resistance and it’s just not a big deal with just gravity to fight, which is a steady and consistent force, unlike the turbulence due to air. Even at an acceleration of 3 g, which isn’t outrageous, you’d get to 25k mph in 22 mins (I think).
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Sound doesn’t really propagate in space so you can’t do Mach anything.
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It absolutely did not travel 1/8th c. In fact if we could achieve even 1/80th c we would be able to do some real cool shit. You’re facts are wrong. It did 25k mph. Light does 670M mph.
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Jesus Christ
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Buy 100k worth of goods from china and sell them to the yanks for 200k undercutting direct supply by 45k
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Manipulating space and time though, outside of ‘normal’ special/general relativity, is fantasy.
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Technically a rocket can do that. In actuality they haven’t done it yet but technically could. The DoD got very excited about Elons super heavy because they could drop 100+ tons of cargo anywhere in the world within 1 hr of launch with comparable cost to traditional air lift (C5 galaxy).
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When they say “create XXXXX number of jobs” I assume that’s not a net increase in available jobs. I.e., yes these are new jobs but how many jobs close down as a result of consumers now spending their money at a theme park rather than the cinema or high street? Will it attract significant foreign investment / tourism? Or is it just redirecting the flow of commerce already here? Frankly I’d rather see BAE set up a new typhoon factory because Turkey suddenly want 100. That’s real jobs and real GDP growth.
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I agree with your sentiment but I think Diego Garcia was secured as a military base for a long time right?
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Apparently the yanks have moved a huge number of strategic bombers to Diego Garcia. Things are possibly about to escalate…
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I’m not sure what the claim is but I doubt the Houthis have hit a US carrier with a missile. Air defences aren’t infallible but I find it unlikely.
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Bit of kickback to this new foreign policy. Portugal have lost confidence in the US as a defence partner and cancelled their F-35 ambitions in favour of the strategically more reliable Eurofighter. Long term this is good medicine for Europe. But US power being reduced to carriers and tariffs is bad imo.
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So, now the first shots in a trade war have been fired do we think this will play out how Trump expected? The UK is placed lovely to benefit from this you’d think.
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If there’s two ships on the seven seas you DO NOT want to crash into each other it’s the one carrying a million tons of jet fuel and the one carrying cyanide!
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I reckon after seeing Hull they were overcome with despair and immediately pointed the ship at the nearest object!
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It’s this kind of wacky shit that keeps me coming back to the forum
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Yeah it would and makes sense normally. But all this time we’ve been told that all the neocons do is rape other countries of their resources and in this war that it’s the encroachment of NATO/EU/‘the west’ that provoked the Russian invasion. This deal is the full realisation of that! I don’t know what the solution here is but what’s being touted is hypocrisy. But even accepting that as now necessary for peace, I think the way this administration is behaving has reduced US power projection to aircraft carriers and tariffs. The day before the Zelenskyy pantomime Trump announced how he would
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Yes please, that sounds delightful.
