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Closeup of Ship 34's payload section. IFT-8 orbital velocity test flight is planned to have a test release of 7m Starlink simulators during flight.

Standing behind Ship 34 is Ship 35.

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT8 #Starlink

'Russian nuclear first strike' isn't quite flat Earth, but it's close enough that I'm not going to give it any further consideration.
:emergency: HEADS UP :emergency:

With the unfortunate news that seal.cafe will be shutting down next month, we have opened detroitriotcity.com back up to active registrations in case any seals out there want to make alt accounts on a new instance before their home closes. Get in! :loli_wave2:

Ship 34 getting ready for IFT-8 orbital velocity test flight. With Ship 35 (IFT-9) sitting behind it.
(Photo from Ryan Caton)

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT8 #IFT9

Megabay 2 door rolling up, revealing Ship 34. Getting ready for the IFT-8 orbital test flight.
(Screenshot from NSF Livestream)

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT8

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

Ship 37 nosecone. February 28, 2025.
Ship 37 is scheduled for the IFT-11 orbital test flight.

#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT11


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I read Weyrich's essay not long after it was published and it was so convincing that I never took warnings of a dangerous authoritarian Christian movement taking power in the US seriously again. In fact it's why I haven't read The Handmaid's Tale to this day.
Paul Weyrich throws in the towel on the Moral Majority:

https:// ontology.buffalo .edu/smith/clinton/culturewar.html
@pirin04 Also note the generic name. Perfectly acceptable to your glowie supervisor.

There is also the woman question metric: Glowie shill accounts avoid attacking women because most of them work for girlbosses.
Elon is right about one thing: On the cosmic scale of time, it is absolutely critical that we begin exploring and colonizing the stars. I don’t like to think about it, but one day, this beautiful little planet that we are riding through space and time will be uninhabitable. Space- and that breathtaking velvety black expanse full of shimmering ghost lights- are our birthright and they are the only way our species will continue to survive in the coming eons. I can assure you that there will never be any exploration of space or colonization without White Engineers. We are not only fighting a war against our own planned extinction as a people, but on the grand scale we are in a race against time that is measured in millennia and planetary-level extinction events. All that ever was and all that will ever be is contained in the life on our Earth. There is no hope for the continuation of life anywhere else without us. Do you think filthy pajeets and haitians are capable of inventing and building those necessary technologies to sail through the Heavenly Black Sea and plant the seeds of life untold lightyears away, elsewhere? Our extinction would cause the hope of all life- intelligent or not- to eventually die with us. Meaning: All species of plants and animals would then be stranded forever on a planet that would eventually die.

We aren’t just fighting to save ourselves. There’s so much more to it than that. The reality of it all is much more stressful. We are at war with the nameless forces of extinction, entropy and chaos…with higher stakes than anyone could presently imagine. Our end would eventually amount to the end of everything. Remember that The Stars are our birthright. And that we carry the literal weight of an entire world on our shoulders.

No pressure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtlgYxa6BMU
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