BastingChemina

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[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 74 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

What are they going to do, invade Ukraine ?

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Torture and money will give you a ton of information but not reliable information.

Because in the first case the person will say anything to make you stop and in the second case the person will say anything to make you continue.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Le nord de la France c'est tout de qui est au dessus de Valence, non ?

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 9 points 4 weeks ago

These damn fans !

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 weeks ago

I have a synology NAS with all my documents and family photos. I'm using the synology drive app on Linux and synology photo on android.

All of that is backed up on Backblaze

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 15 points 1 month ago (5 children)

No, NASA has the budget. They already spent $50 billion on the development of SLS and Orion, Starship development cost is estimated to be around $10 billion.

So in theory with the money they spent on SLS they could have built 5 starship program.

The problem is that NASA has to follow political interests, sometimes the political interests align with technical interest and we get great things like the Apollo program.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Imagine you want to build a cabin in a very remote place in Alaska.

Getting there is quite difficult, you did it a few times in the 60's but the path is so bad that you had to throw the truck away each time (around $45,000 per trip, for the truck + gas)

You are still planning to build your cabin but having to buy a new truck for each trip is not great, plus the fact that only one company can make this SLS truck so you can't get more than once a year.

Building a cabin in these circumstances is close to impossible.

Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused. The trip from the hardware store to the build site now only costs you around $100 for the gas plus truck expenses AND you can now do the trip to the hardware store multiple times a day !

Now building the cabin becomes way more accessible.

Replace the Alaskan cabin with a scientific base on the moon or Mars and multiply the amounts by 100,000 and you have an approximation of the situation

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

In the meantime Arianespace divided by 3 their number of rocket launches

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 month ago

It reached the altitude of 96km, not space but not far either.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I find the video from afar really incredible too. You can see this giant, skyscraper sized rocket just falling down the sky at incredible speed.

https://x.com/i/status/1845444890764644694

PS: how can I link a twitter video without redirecting to the website ?

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)
[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 month ago (7 children)

It was Saturday evening around 10pm, three restaurant employees went into one of the client car to "try it out", the client (65 years old) was clearly speeding, lost control of the vehicle, left the road and hit a traffic sign.

My bet is that all of that has nothing to do with the fact that this was a Tesla, the only difference is the fire but this is the same for every electric vehicle.

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