A funny story about how SpaceX dealt with clandestine toilet issues on the recent Micturation 4 flight. This kind of thing is SpaceX's kryptonite—if you look at what breaks on ISS, it's a slog of unglamorous maintenance issues with no cool engineering fixhttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/26/science/spacex-toilet-nasa.html …
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The real story arc of Breaking Bad wasn't "high school chemistry teacher turns into the devil", but "self-funding research chemist designs and builds industrial scale pharmaceutical plant"
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I will be honest that my favorite scenario is where an elderly Musk retires to the small colony of a dozen obsessives eking out a living on Mars, and then that gets hit by the planet-killer asteroid.
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My question for the "Mars is plan B for humanity" crowd is, what's plan C? Unless you like blimps and acid rain, there's no other planet we can colonize to play dodgeball with planet-killing meteors. Why not just chart the solar system with robots and work the actual problem?
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And that's not traveling either super fast under constant acceleration or with a giant turning when to simulate gravity, but can still withstand all the forces that would be on it.
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I definitely agree that we should focus on exploration at scale with fleets of probes. If the dividend of SpaceX focusing on human space flight is insanely cheap flights around the solar system, won’t this all be worthwhile for probes too?
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I think NASA just needs to shift away from the single-unit boondoggle projects (JWST is big yikes), and focus on probes/telescopes at scale. That can be done with more funding for sure. That should siphon from the SLS budget instead of comm crew/ISS
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