BaratundeJan 28, 2023

“If NASA is Amtrak in space, then SpaceX is the Fyre Festival with rockets, a glamorous effort led by a hype man who promises that every logistical problem will melt away if we can just get people to the destination.”

#BARS! I’m reading this piece making the case against human exploration of #Mars, and it’s crushing my childhood dreams and also making too much sense. This line above though! Have you read the piece?

https://idlewords.com/2023/1/why_not_mars.htm

#space #nasa #spaceexploration

Why Not Mars (Idle Words)

Show threadBrian DearJan 28, 2023
@baratunde Fyre was vaporware. SpaceX is FedX of space. The very opposite of vaporware. Forget Musk and his Mars bs; SpaceX is quite effectively run by Gwynne Shotwell. She makes it all happen and she's a superstar. I'm typing this from a computer connected to a router connected to a little flat dish on the roof that's talkin' at 80mbps to a satellite put there by one of those Falcon9s. Nobody else would sell us decent internet until SpaceX came along and offered it to rural New Mexicans.
Show threadK`Tetch
@brianstorms @baratunde shotwell is crushing it right now.
But when the sad E crashes and burns twitter to the ground, what then? Boring is dead, tesla is public and legal stuff is ongoing there over his actions, which leaves spacex where he WILL be desperate to prove he's not a loser.
Also, you want rural internet, talk to your reps, they're the ones stopping it.starlinks only good for maybe 700k people in the US. There's 15m unserved.
Jan 30, 2023 at 11:40amWeb
Show threadBrian DearJan 30, 2023
@ktetch @baratunde Heh. Talk to legislators. Yeah. Been there, done that. In New Mexico, you don’t talk to legislators, you show them money.