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They aren't? When did that change? Must've been Tuesday, or something.

That title was too clickbaity for me to watch the vid when I first saw it. If Earth had all the ingradients to create life 4 billion years ago (which it totally did, so these elements must've been created way earlier) and the physics changes over time then it's not a solution to the Fermi Paradox. If an alien race had a head start of 1 billion years then they could've easily been here by now*. Maybe they got here and we simply didn't check well enough**. So I doubt these constants change over time. When it comes to my opinion, I simply think our space telescopes are kind of s**t when it comes to searching exoplanets with life. Life is very likely to be out there and finding it is a matter of time. However, if the universe has special bubbles then that's just scary. It might mean that one of those is coming our way and we will just dissolve without even knowing. Anyway, I really don't think it's true. It might be some measurement artifact. Nature doesn't like making special places. People do like flashy headlines though. *I also believe there isn't much reason to colonize the entire galaxy and the whole Kardashev scale is very arbitrary and doesn't take many things into account, such as: civilizations that could use fusion to harness as much power as if they would by covering the entire planet in solar panels. **Alien probes might actually be in the solar system. I really like this idea. Edit 38472: I'm done editing this post.

Or maybe photosynthesis is too much of a hassle around red dwarfs. As a plant you spend your already limited resources to grow leaves that don't make much energy. And, if there's any kind of ecosystem (and if we assume there are plants then there are also animals) those leaves are going to be eaten quick. So, harvest energy some other way?

The tiny legs do look worrisome. I don't think there's much that can be done with this design though. Maybe we're just used to seeing big spread out legs on F9. That things needs to be stable on a swaying barge though. As longs as SS has a stable and flat ground to land on it probably won't be a problem.

It looks like a scam at this point.

Tbh, by 'concrete' I meant anything that's hardened. If compressed regolith works I'm fine with that too.

Or just land the first Mars Starship with a concrete-making robot that builds a pad for the next one. Ok, maybe not on the first one, but I'm pretty sure you get my point.

Whaaaaaaaaaaaa...? I must've missed that. What if "just empty the fuel tanks" is the cargo variant? Btw, pretty sure the tweet storm is just an outcome of a wild party. He has at least 2 reasons to party hard right now.

It's probably going to be refurbished for CRS only. There's nothing in that answer suggesting its next mission will be with crew.

Falcon Heavy is not a real rocket and SLS is going to fly first. Boeing will design and build a lunar lander. Predicting the future is hard.

Because it needs to, or because they are desperately trying to prove Orion is needed? They could use any other crew vehicle for this and just rendezvous in LEO.

The Raptor is off-center.

They are not lights and he knows it. He's just going all "PLEASE LOOK AT ME PLEEEAAAAASEEEEEE!" again. You would be flying that thing with a radar. Or rather it would be flying itself.

Didn't Musk say the RCS is pretty much the scaled down Raptor? I think that miniRaptor RCS landing is likely.

Ok. But you could just dock two starships together and call it a station.

Why even build Gateway at this point lol

Wow I completely just missed that whole tweet.

So were reusable boosters five years ago. We are not imagining anything. We are watching a rocket design change a lot. You know one thing that didn't change? The National Launch System. Or rather Ares. Or rather SLS. Oh, wait. It did change: got less capable and more expensive. Now it needs its own objectives because it's not going to launch Mars-bound ships anymore. Because they are not The Space Shuttle Jigsaw Puzzle™ and can be mass produced. If they are mass produced then they are cheap. If they are cheap all you need to do is to replace the bad one with a good one without inspecting the old one. IIRC Shuttles' tiles weren't inspected until some major disaster happened? I might be wrong though. Fair point, I guess. We will see after the first orbital flight and reentry.

I honestly don't feel the slightest desire to read any of the previous posts. Good to see SN5 is almost ready.

Guys, I feel like there has been some really good FACTS presented and my anxiety is kicking in.

I don't get it. So are they trying to prove/disprove something or just doing guesswork? Also, where did they take the 15mln refurbishment cost from?

Such telescopes could probably be cheaper too since they could have solid mirrors like Hubble and be overbuilt in general.

I guess his main goal is to lock himself and all the others on this planet and never go anywhere. WTH are all those new forum accounts being against everything?

Nothing. It's impossible. No. You're right. What is it then?

We will see a silo fly!