I had assumed it was relatively dead these days, but okay, I’ll go check it out again.

First thing I thought of.

I still miss Fark.

Rhymes with gluten!

Republican congressmen got shot up at their own baseball team practice and still voted for the NRA. They don’t value their own lives either.

No value but shareholder value in the USA.

Like the AI bros imagining AI will cure cancer, Space bros seem to think orbital garbage collection is a business model on the horizon. At least that was the response I got when I tried to talk to my friend at Blue Origin about Kessler Syndrome (which we’re pretty darn close to).

It almost seems like a ruse to justify creation of a monopoly. These companies are more like competitors for Lockheed and Boeing than SpaceX. Europe has fast-paced, dynamic space startups too, but these hulking behemoths aren’t them.

I don’t understand what Leonardo is bringing to this, as far as competition with SpaceX goes. Thales and Airbus cover some of the hardware, payload, and launch capabilities I guess, but none of them are satellite Internet/ communication providers…

It’s kind of going on the reverse. The US is kind of being subsumed into Musk Inc.

I appreciate the friend behind her helping her carry it. Solidarity.