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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Up the HIGNFY

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

all the while claiming it is peak feminism because some rich guy's trophy wife went to space and most articles don't even mention the two real scientist women on board.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I don’t mind sending billionaires to space. My issue is bringing them back to Earth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Tax wealth, not work.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't really celebrate any holidays or even my birthday. But if that rocket with bezos or musk or some other cunt goes up in flames, i make that a new tradition

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

My friends and I all do a shot on November 29th for a similar reason haha. I'd celebrate for the reasons you mentioned as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Fireworks in the name of the cunts

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also just ignore the part where their carbon emissions just surpassed several countries yearly output combined with that one launch

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I hate rich fucks as much as anybody, but this particular vehicle uses liquid hydrogen and oxygen for propellant, so no direct carbon emissions from the fuel.

The spacex superheavy is the biggest rocket stage around and has somewhere around 1.7 million kg of methane in it at launch. That results in about 4.7 million kg (4675t) of CO2 when it's burned. That's the same as the yearly emissions of 338 average americans, or 962 people at the global average.

Rockets are big, flashy and make a lot of smoke, but the numbers really don't amount to much when compared to the sheer scale of more mundane economic activities.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I can guarantee that that hydrogen was not produced sustainably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

ergo "direct"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

To copy paste an earlier reply of mine:

I was talking about the direct emissions of launching a rocket. The indirect emissions are obviously vastly larger and might as well include everything in the wider economy that enables stuff like this. Just maintaining the necessary industrial capacity is already a huge strain on the planet. That's what I'm after with these comments. The rich fucker joyride is a largely inconsequential yet overtly visible result of a bloated system hiding in plain sight. The aerospace sector as a whole is just the tip of the iceberg of a global industrial society in ecological overshoot.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That you for stating the obvious and completely missing the point.

"oh ye technically we didn't cause extreme mass emissions just now"

is not an excuse for extreme mass emissions. Until someone figures out how to get sustainable hydrogen production to work for a scale useful for more than a few cars this is simply not a sustainable approach. And from what I understand, it likely won't anytime soon

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Sorry, I suppose I'm a bit too used to idiots going off about the smoke plume caused by the rocket carrying an Earth observation satellite or such. When there's anything to be gained, the costs of the endeavour should be measured up to that. Here there's no gain for anybody (unless one of those fuckers onboard has enough braincells to be able to appreciate the overview effect enough to affect their future behaviour for the better), so it's a net negative no matter how much the cost for the planet is. My intent was not to excuse anything about this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Yes, the comment I replied to is technically right in that there are some tiny countries out there. Or they would be, if the rocket in question would've been a vastly larger rocket that burned a carbon containing fuel. The New Shepard tourist joyride is tiny for a rocket and its exhaust is water vapour.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So hydrogen creation is carbon neutral, didn't know that! /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Although I doubt it, hydrogen can be produced using renewables.

It's still going to be significantly "greener" than using methane as a propellant, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where did they get all the hydrogen? How did they make the rocket. While it may not emit much carbon on launch day, it will have taken a shit load to produce it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I was talking about the direct emissions of launching a rocket. The indirect emissions are obviously vastly larger and might as well include everything in the wider economy that enables stuff like this. Just maintaining the necessary industrial capacity is already a huge strain on the planet. That's what I'm after with these comments. The rich fucker joyride is a largely inconsequential yet overtly visible result of a bloated system hiding in plain sight. The aerospace sector as a whole is just the tip of the iceberg of a global industrial society in ecological overshoot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hydrogen is usually produced from natural gas with all the carbon being released as CO². So just the direct cost of making the fuel is already terrible.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wtf is going on with his bicep

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He’s probably on human growth hormone and testosterone replacement therapy for “longevity”. Maybe he doesn’t workout enough though, so he won’t have the overdeveloped physique of typical anabolic abusers. Just the extra testosterone and hgh can cause muscle growth on their own, doesn’t mean you get huge all over though.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Lizards actually don’t have biceps, that’s called a glusquai and Bezos’ is pretty standard for the species

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Who is she and what is going on with her face?

Edit: is it Michael Jackson?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

We will never know. No helping lemming. And we are to lazy to search ourself. Well, no big deal I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

It's obviously also photoshopped and staged.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's funny because he's so obviously and publicly going through mid-life crisis. He underwent this physical transformation by becoming this swole guy at the same time he divorced his normal wife to get with this plastic lady.

He's one of the wealthiest men in the history of humanity but falls for the same crap a 50 year old used car dealer would. I love it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I hate bezos with a passin, but he didn't pick his new wife by looks. I hope.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Allergic reaction to space bees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

and his wife?

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