The real conspiracy is that the moon landing was just a way to get the public to be enthusiastic about devolping weapon systems.

Well done.

I’d rather on the moon. It’ll melt all the cheese and there’ll be fondue lakes!

The thing is spacex’s whole falcon 9 architecture needs something to do. They very quickly cleared the backlog of satellites waiting to launch and now they’re waiting for space start ups to materialize and want to launch things into space. The majority of falcon 9 launches now only launch starlink. It’ll get even worse if they can make starship work, they’ll have a huge capacity with nothing to put in it. Ai data centers in space are an attempt at justifying the entire concept of starship or at the very least employ the falcon 9 team.

This and spacex going public tell me the return on investment of a space based internet provider maybe isn’t profitable enough to fund a rocket development program. Their big cash cow, being the ISS taxi, is winding down and now they’re looking for suckers with money.

Carrot Top

Hmmm you can try what the other engineers I’ve met do, belittle and second guess anyone who ever does work for you. Make sure they know that they are below you because they do work and you are way more important than that. Make sure you drop comments about how much money you make and tell them about your ring.

This seems to work for the folks at the nuclear plant near me. Those guys really see themselves as Big Men. Give it a shot!

Seems to be working for the right wing. Replace ‘church’ with ‘government office’ and ‘nun’ with ‘elected officials’.

How much watery piss before it becomes pissy water?