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Comment by hparadiz | original | SpaceX catches the Starship to end Flight 15
[−]hparadiz · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:23 UTC · link
This is the most powerful rocket ever constructed. It has the largest possible payload. The James Webb is tiny compared to what is possible. No other rocket can do that. End of. Please stop. You are embarrassing yourself.
[−]origini · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:27 UTC · link
Ah I see a fanboy.

Okay I get it, discussion useless.

Just to be clear: James Webb was build and designed with nanometer aligned optical system, has to be cooled down while being at L2, can't be serviced and repaired and it was only enough money there to build it once and took 5 years of building and 25 years of planning.

A rocket is an engineering joke inc omparision.

[−]CrimsonRain · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:31 UTC · link
That's why a car salesman could build it with fraction of cost while nasa sucking on thumb and spending 100x more money to launch anything. Cool
[−]origini · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:44 UTC · link
It is an achievement, i'm not disagreeing with it.

I'm disagreeing with the level of it.

I'm also disappointed that we celebrate this and ignore that the richest man on the planet is also involved in reducing usability of starlink in a real war were real humans are dying. And his involvment in USAID, DOGE and co.

[−]CrimsonRain · 2026-11-14 Sat 22:57 UTC · link
Starshield is govt controlled.

Starlink is not allowed for offensive usage.

So take your complaint to govt. Also, nobody is stopping you from using starlink-alternatives.com . In fact, since you hate him, that's what you should do.

[−]origini · 2026-11-14 Sat 23:14 UTC · link
Ukraine is defending itself and just before Trump, US of America put a lot of pressure on my country germany and the europeian union to stop doing business with Russia.

Now Elon Musk, the richecst person on the planet and part of US of America is interfering with his system, which gives him A LOT more power than a single human and non gov should have in a WAR which is not his probably due to some indirect garbage between him and the current US of America Gov.

While the EU is paying for it.

And i do not use anything Musk.

Musk has only direct negative impact on my life, no posive one. He used his money to buy twitter because he couldn't shut up and then leveraged it to manipulate and allow manipulation in our elections in germany (search for Elon Musk and AfD).

He is potentially poisening our atmosphwere with his rocket launches.

And in general, I do care about fellow human beings and i'm pissed in their names for all the people he is responsible for being killed (after all he is also responsible apparently for all the invention of the companies he invested in eh?).

[−]CrimsonRain · 2026-11-14 Sat 23:29 UTC · link
Why does EU rely on a system built by a private person?

Where is EU's innovation? Oh wait, we are busy with bottle caps, stays together like family lmao https://x.com/moritzkremb/status/2107021822155985254

Where is Germany's nuclear power plants?

Where is Germany's industry? Why is Germany axing its own legs and then crying about it? Why did Germany laugh when Trump complained about over reliance on Russian gas? Why is Germany predicted to not have enough gas this January? Why is Germany fucking up the middle class with more and more taxes? All that tax, yet almost nothing to show for. Keine geld!! Economy going to shit. People taking sick days like candy. More people dying to heat than gun violence in USA. Hours of notary to open a company. Effing europoors and you come to complain...

PS: Statistically, when I walk on the streets, every 4 German I meet, there's one nazi (as per your definition I would strongly assume). Look inside first.

[−]origini · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:01 UTC · link
If a private person from another country is the only one controlling space, it becomes a geo politicial and military issue.

So either we should advocate for destroying it, or we are allowed to leverage.

And for all the other things you ar ementioning: Non of them have anything to do to what i said. Its just strawman left and right.

Are you also joking about the Gas and winter? Because Donald Trump, the President of the US of America used his power to start a war with Iran.

More people in USA die from gun and heat than germans die from gun and heat.

And just because there are nazis around the world, i'm not and this is part of my argumentation. If you are a nazi and it doesnt matter to you, of course you don't understand it.

You argue with your Salesman, but don't care of anything negative about Elon Musk? As long as he catches a Rocket eh? Get a spine?

[−]CrimsonRain · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:51 UTC · link
A private person is building things, he "controls" the space because he built things. Nobody stopped Europe from building those things. Again, Starlink is not for military purposes. You have an issue, go complain to US Govt who controls Starsheild.

No, it is because Germany decided to eff up the economy in the name of bogus crap by removing nuclear before enough solar came online.

> heat

Europe*

You, as a German, have zero right to complain when 1/4 (soon 1/3) of your country men are Nazi. As I said, look INSIDE (and stop blaming everyone else).

[−]lostlogin · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:05 UTC · link
> Why did Germany laugh when Trump complained about over reliance on Russian gas?

Any idea that Trump is a perceptive genius with regard to energy security should have been throughly dispelled with the Iran fiasco that rolls on.

[−]CrimsonRain · 2026-11-15 Sun 00:42 UTC · link
A broken clock can be right once or twice a day but that doesn't mean one is not an idiot to deny it (the time; not the clock) _when_ it is right.
[−]HarHarVeryFunny · 2026-11-15 Sun 02:11 UTC · link
You can assemble stuff in space - like the ISS.
[−]hparadiz · 2026-11-15 Sun 02:21 UTC · link
The ISS took 125 Billion and 12 years to assemble. Starship can put the same amount of payload into space in 5 launches for less than 1 billion.
[−]peterfirefly · 2026-11-15 Sun 05:22 UTC · link
And inflatable modules would also help, at least with the living quarters. Not so much for the science modules.