Ha! You're too kind. I'd like to thank No Such Thing As A Fish, ofc.

Took me a solid minute to get this. Nicely done.

Hunh. That's what Peter Higgs said, back in 2013. ☝🏼

Buying engines helps but 2 years is still unhinged

Cowboy is trying to make their entire upper stage a data center, so they're more reliant on having their own rocket.

AST... I don't really get why they wouldn't just work with Firefly to make a custom fairing or something. The launch crunch is still real now, and it'll take years to replace the Falcon cadence, but I don't see any way for them to be faster.

These two have a different business case than launch startups. Cowboy and AST are both focused on their satellites (data centers and direct to cell comms, respectively) and a way to launch them.

SpaceX is pulling back from the commercial market, and a big part of Starlink success is the low internal Falcon 9 pricing vs what Amazon and Oneweb pay commercially. Vertically integrating launch can be a huge leg up IF (giant if) they actually pull it off.

Blue Origin has announced their own comms and data center constellations. I wouldn't be surprised if Relativity did the same.

You and I see the same things.

Makes me wonder what we're missing. SpaceX seems to have beat everyone "to the punch", yet all these other companies keep going (and I wish them well, monopolies are problematic).

Is there that much more opportunity that we don't see?

I don't see the difference between these two and starship doing laps around the moon next year. It's all bullshit.

Tbh, I prefer the acronyms. I would much rather have acronyms than have to remember or say the full name of something like that. Sometimes they are overused but I think if you want clarity acronyms are a useful tool.

n00b, I raise you,

a SIGTRAN/SONET - ATN/OSI practitioner.

yes, i made that up. xD

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go home, homer. you're drunk.

EURNAT ATFM & AFS AFTN/AMHS/CIDIN expert here, I only have one thing to say:

Noob.

America is also an acronym: American Mass of Earth Right In front of Ceptentrional-eastern Asia

I used just sit on the banisters and slide down them to get down the steps quickly with minimal effort. We can just build a stairway to the heavens, can't we?

Go recursive with GNU.

the son of Mary has no influence here, brother.

one must invoke the holy name of the Omnissiah, if one wishes to express the truly stupendous amount of disbelief towards this unholy abomination of an acronym.

Jesus.

Hmm, it seems like only the first image in a Mastodon post federates to Lemmy. Here's the missing second panel:

The biggest mystery in this picture is definitely how someone managed to get an entire first stage of a Saturn V all the way to the moon and land it upright on the lunar surface.

"You're on a scenic route through a state recreational area known as the human mind. You ask a passer-by for directions, only to find he has no face or something. Suddenly up ahead, a door in the road. You swerve, narrowly avoiding: The Scary Door."

Prepare to enter the scary door.

The kind of place where there might be a monster or some kind of…weird mirror.

"In the end, it was not guns or bombs that defeated the aliens, but the humblest of all God's creatures, the Tyrannosaurus Rex."

Wish he worked for a better company :/

Haven't seen him host a webcast in a little while. Hope he's doing okay.