Maybe people will finally stop praising SpaceX?
this post was submitted on 12 Aug 2024
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Edit: and it looks like this entire story may have been based on a typo.
I mean, it depends how egregious / serious this violation is and how crucial it is to the rest of their overall successes.
Elon sucks, but for the same amount of money, NASA can either launch 150 tons of science missions 1 per year on SLS, or they can launch 170 tons of science missions every 2 weeks on Starship.
Quite frankly I don't understand why they've gotten the level of hate they've gotten (and why some people seem so intent on finding ways to hate them), other than their association with their dumbass ceo.
Elon sucks, but for the same amount of money, NASA can either launch 150 tons of science missions 1 per year on SLS, or they can launch 170 tons of science missions every 2 weeks on Starship.
Maybe the latter is like, bad for the planet?
Hmm, did you read that article before posting it?
Because Im struggling to see how Starship, a fully reusable spaceship made out of stainless steel, is going to deplete the ozone the way that aluminum satellites do when they are deorbited and burned up....
What exactly do you think SpaceX is regularly launching into space? Because it isn't Starship.
You literally quoted me talking about Starship, and the article OP linked is about Starship.
SpaceX is going to launch the ~4000 satellites it has permits for, starship doesn't change that in any way shape or form.
or they can launch 170 tons of science missions every 2 weeks on Starship.
Your words? Because, again, it's not Starship they're launching every two weeks.
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Did you even read the article? It says in the article that the mercury waste is actually way below the legal threshhold.
One of the major initial concerns—the wastewater’s mercury content—stems from what experts believe may be egregious typos within SpaceX’s records. Lab reports indicate polluted waters contained 0.113 μg/L of mercury, while subsequent summaries appear to misplace the decimal point to show 113 μg/L. If the former measurement is accurate, then Starship’s wastewater contains roughly 1/17th the legal mercury limit.
About people just mindlessly hating on SpaceX: SpaceX is really important for the US society as it provides vision and a specific type of stimulation that would otherwise be hard to get. What makes you think the moon landings of 1960s/1970s were great achievements, but spaceflight today is not?
You telling SpaceX to stop operation is like a fish telling a bird to stop flying, because swimming is sooo much better.
What makes you think the moon landings of 1960s/1970s were great achievements, but spaceflight today is not?
probably because we literally invented digital computers for the purposes of doing it. The amount of technical construction and mathematics knowledge required to design build and manufacture the hardware of that era is lost, the space shuttle is one of the most incredible technical achievements of the US to date.
SpaceX doesn't even use large rocket engines because they're hard to build and impractical, but we managed them perfectly fine in the 70s
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