Michael Gemar

Toronto. Geek. Space. TTRPGs. Injury prevention. IT. Italian greyhounds. He/him.

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2024-08-10 08:01:38

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@npub1hyl…gpu3 Does specifying other individual years in the ‘70s give notably different results?

2024-08-06 19:45:27

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@npub1h8s…cvp3 It seems *very* optimistic to think NASA will have any definitive thing to say on Starliner in the next few days.

2024-08-06 16:26:03

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@npub17ha…t8va STOP FEEDING KIDS!

2024-08-01 13:40:15

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@npub1h8s…cvp3 Excellent! I was really hoping that there was some way to save this hugely important artifact of human achievement, so I’m eager to learn the details of why we can’t.

2024-05-18 00:06:36

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@npub1hyl…gpu3 Boy, none of those look very utopian...

2024-01-24 20:45:58

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1rv4…ft5j Supporting that sucker is going to be difficult. Much less moving it.

2024-01-18 13:07:36

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@npub1psd…9sr7 Launch is not where the money is made in space, and SpaceX is currently using up all the oxygen in that market anyway. I’m sure that they and BO will survive, and likely ULA will continue in some form (although it’s currently for sale) — these companies have defense/govt relationships, which give them fat contracts. But the plethora of small launcher startups is going to have a bloodbath soon.

2023-12-26 21:52:40

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I’d rather see all this money go into drop-in-replacement carbon/neutral synfuels. It would likely be cheaper, all the infrastructure and CONOPS and handling are already familiar, and we don’t end up with a new, hugely distributed route for nuclear weapons proliferation.

2023-12-26 21:46:23

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub19v5…zwwn I’m cautiously optimistic we’ll get *some* sort of practical fusion in the next decade, and I’m *really* hoping it’s pB11-based.

2023-11-18 15:31:37

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@npub1urf…hseg @npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1nu9…l6r5 SLS has costed taxpayer *billions* more than Starship, and is *hugely* delayed and will be unsustainable to launch with any real cadence. Given its performance, Boeing *should* be sold for scrap.

2023-11-18 15:29:10

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@npub1psd…9sr7 @npub1nu9…l6r5 Also, this system is *vastly* cheaper than NASA’s Space Launch System launcher, and is far more “hardware-rich”, so the design and testing process is radically different. SLS *had* to work right the first time, because each launcher costs so much. As a result, there is a *huge* gap between launches. SpaceX had iterated on their system and re-launched a few months later.
Musk is still a racist ass.

2023-11-18 15:13:59

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@npub1psd…9sr7 I don’t disagree with any of that, but he’s still the owner and public face of the company, and his bad actions in any venue are a potential embarrassment for NASA and the US government. I can’t imagine they’ll be happy with people saying a racist is helping them get to the moon.

2023-11-18 15:04:38

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@npub1psd…9sr7 He built the company, and is certainly its public face. I really have to wonder how long the US government is going to tolerate his antics given SpaceX is a major linchpin in the Artemis program.

2023-09-21 14:35:28

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@npub1psd…9sr7 We have dinosaur eggs from the Cretaceous, and petrified wood from the Devonian. I have a hard time believing that vast swaths of concrete reinforced with artificially-produced steel, and collecting various other technologically-made substances, would be less likely to be detectable than eggs and trees after a similar time period.

2023-08-31 20:33:44

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@npub19kr…8m4r Does Parkinson’s produce these kind of cognitive symptoms?

2023-08-30 18:52:53

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@npub19kr…8m4r So Michelle Obama, a churchgoer married to the same man for 29 years, doesn’t reflect family values, but thrice-married Trump who paid to have sex with a porn star and raped at least one woman is their champion? I know, I know, it’s not about principle or consistency, but about racism and misogyny.

2023-08-26 18:33:38

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@npub153s…cvd9 Forest *fires*? Are those really a thing?

2023-08-26 18:04:02

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@npub153s…cvd9 Is the problem not that trees don’t take up CO2, but that companies lie about how many they plant?

2023-08-24 02:13:14

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@npub153s…cvd9 I doubt the Feds want that fight, with DeSantis running for president. But I can certainly see accreditors acting.

2023-08-18 01:44:02

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 It’s really shocking to me that the game that is supposed to be purely mental has such ridiculous physical prejudices in its governing bodies.

2023-08-17 01:26:41

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@npub1jeq…jglm But…but…Toronto is the centre of the universe!

2023-08-17 01:19:11

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@npub1jeq…jglm Timbits?

2023-04-22 17:24:11

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#[0] #[1] #[2] Just to be clear, *no one but SpaceX is funding this*. NASA is buying the services for a lunar lander for a *fixed price* (which was far cheaper than other proposals).

2023-04-22 13:05:11

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#[0] #[1] Musk is a horrible human being, but SpaceX is *cheaper* than any other launch provider NASA uses. And if the Starship system works (a big if), it will offer huge increases in space travel and exploration capabilities at even lower cost.