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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
No I assumed the first starship was just a test to see if the landing there would work (that was Musks new plan), and he would send the first loads of [whatever (but not people)] 2 years after that first step worked/didn't work but they fixed the issues. The actual people come 2 years after that in 4 shuttles. (According to Musks latest ramblings I heard, and yes he loves exponential functions (I'll edit in a source if I can find it, but not sure if I will, he talks a lot about a lot of different things, and finding anything about him is hard, so I'm going to have to retrace my steps. Here, he also references reusable rockets, which seems to me like one of those thing which will not be useful re mars for a long long time. Unless we start mining helium on the moon (I'm kidding I saw your earlier post on that). And I think messed up a bit, as he doesn't talk about the ??? step here, so my mind either made that up, or he mentioned that in the past, sorry about that)).
~~My problem is with the whole plan of sending the first rocket there to test if the landing works in 2 years. Which seems like a total waste and a bit useless, and the crazy timeframes after that, the year to fix any problems which come up in the landing before he starts sending cargo. (which is also already strange, I don't think he has really gotten plans what to send, so his six year plan is : test landing, send ???, send people. All while up-scaling the building of more ships). I'd expect him to actually have a plan for the ??? part, and not have the weird rushed timeframes.~~
~~I hope that all this is just because the people at SpaceX just keep him very far away from any real decisions and just distract him with dances and jumping around when he finally is there. Because this sending of an empty rocket first can't be the plan.~~ Seems, I misread his post, as my source doesn't back up my statements, sorry about that. (so it is even dumber, but in different ways than I mentioned).
E: I also wonder if we are even capable of hitting the same place twice on mars, I'm sure it is possible technically, not sure if we can do that yet. How close did the other mars projects hit their targets?