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    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 259 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

    Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin' dare ya.

    Edit: we want Falcon 9's landing guidance software too.

    [–] evidences@lemmy.world 100 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Open sourcing the falcon 9 software would almost definitely be a violation of ITAR.... On second thought it would be fun to see him go to prison.

    [–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

    Nothing could possibly go wrong open sourcing a ~~missle~~ rocket guidance system...

    [–] gnutard@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    No, not just open, free it entirely. License the code under a GPL license.

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

    It'll probably be MIT... just like the rest of the corps.

    [–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I want a world where anyone can go to space. It the thing I wanna do the most. But I'm not rich and I'm no super smart and I have awful health.

    [–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 45 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I know what you mean, but if it’s any consolation, you are in space.

    [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I want to be in space by myself

    [–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago
    [–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    How do you know you aren’t alone?

    [–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Because of all the noisy motherfuckers around me all the time.

    [–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 2 points 10 months ago

    My dog barks at walls and is constantly reminding me of the inevitability of our ultimate demise.

    I’m sure she hears things.

    [–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

    I mean, you right lol

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.

    Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing...there was a British one I can't remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.

    Edit: here is is and I was mistaken it's not a SCRAMjet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon_(spacecraft)

    [–] KISSmyOSFeddit@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Space planes carry along heavy-as-fuck wings, control surfaces and a lot of other bullshit that's only useful inside the atmosphere, and which massively increase fuel consumption for every single maneuver while your space plane is actually where you want it to do stuff - in space. And the only benefit is that the atmosphere helps lift and fuel your vehicle to about 10% of orbital velocity. The other 90% it will have to accelerate just like any other rocket.

    The SpaceX approach is much better: Land and reuse all parts of your rocket, but don't carry them with you further than where they're useful. Rockets leave the atmosphere where wings would work within a few minutes anyway.

    [–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

    Yeah but...most people's grandparents aren't going to be riding rockets. This isn't sustainable for widespread access to space.

    [–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Do you really want countries like North Korea, Iran and China having access to software that would certainly be used for missile guidance?

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Why not. If everyone has it, everyone will be afraid to use it, because they know everyone else has it, but what they don't know is how many have developed a working prototype.

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Ehh, mutually assured destruction has worked so far, but there are some crazy assholes out there who might not act rationally.

    [–] 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

    Yeah, that is true.

    [–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

    Yes like in America gun violence never happens because everyone has guns.

    Hmmm