this (via @patio11 ) is a very good overview of just how much SpaceX starship is changing things
I'm a huge space nerd and have been 100% aware of this and 100% aware of how the world is missing in, in the same exact way I was re, say, Covid in Feb 2020https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2021/10/28/starship-is-still-not-understood/ …
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4/ One of the reasons I'm back to Ari 3 and 4 is I want to finish them before they're laughable retro-fiction. (Tho I was quite happy to see that the article referenced at top of this thread mentioned Caterpillar excavation equipment on the moon, with vacuum rated bearings >>
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5/ ...which was LITERALLY a minor plot point in my novels ; at one point Mike Martin is flipping through a catalog of heavy equipment modifications done to generic CAT stuff, done by a local reseller.
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6/ One kinda derp thing about the article was the guy wants NASA and JPL to get out in front of the parade so they can slap their logos on the side of stuff. No, man. HELL, no. That's like saying DARPA & NIST should've branded products from Apple.https://twitter.com/thepiclord/status/1453766116761800723 …
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7/ One plausible defense of NASA etc was "in 1960 no private contractor could do this, so the gov does it for <mumble> reasons that have positive externalities" now that SpaceX is doing it... NASA plz GTFO
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I'll be over here with Isaac Arthur chanting "O'Neill Cylinder! O'Neill Cylinder!"
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