Scott Manley

I think it would take some actual funding to create a lander more suited to the task than what starship had been designed to do. And when money is around there’s every possibility that other defense contractors will come out to offer their version.

I don’t see the DoD’s investigation of point to point rocket transportation to amount to much in the short term. It’s studying commercial vehicles and while there’s unlikely to be technological showstoppers with starship the utility is niche and starship isn’t designed for this.

Indeed, we have amazing stories to tell, and I can see people who have graduated from watching me talking about space things to actually doing outer space thingshttps://twitter.com/electroboomguy/status/1400873964952383488 …

Having said that, a lot of Starship’s design has its roots in rapid reusability, not necessarily required for this application.

“Quick, make some concept art that doesn’t look like Starship”https://twitter.com/afresearchlab/status/1400891049736814601 …

Almost all the deuterium in the universe was made in the first few minutes. Deuterium in stars gets processed far faster than it’s created by diproton decay.

It’s often stated that Venus once had seas and you might wonder how we know this. The short answer is amount of deuterium/hydrogen ratio, which is hundreds of times higher than Earth. As Venus lost its hydrogen the heavier deuterium was left behind, giving the ratio we see today.

Marvel XCOM seems like a pretty obvious game style - small team with differing abilities. But I’m surprised a studio would spend the money in a license for a game style that’s relatively niche.https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1400587141743353860 …