RE: https://noauthority.social/@StarProphet/116626145765392793
“Also, NASA's past success was built on solid, hard-core engineering and management methods and practices, not on today's vibe mentality *[attacking reusable rocket development]. I really doubt this can be achieved anymore under the prevailing conditions.”
Note that there’s no day light between tradcon luddite fedi and antifa fedi posters. They even engage in the same defederation tactics.
Note that they’re both ignorant of China’s strong promethean technological advancement.
Putting 150 metric tons in LEO every day with a fully reusable rocket is a tremendously huge geopolitical military advancement.
China isn’t copying NASA SLS, they are copying Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
@65dBnoise Honestly, this has convinced me it's physically possible. (And I was quite skeptical!) It seemed to come through reentry relatively unscathed, and came to a hover just above the water, precisely on target as evidenced by the drone waiting for it. It's the same progression we saw the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy go through. I'd have to give decent odds they can make it work at this point.
“do we have any idea about the quantity of natural resources have been wasted on this fools errand?”
China is copying SpaceX Starship, they don’t need your permission.
Note that these theater kids have no idea what the military implications of a large fully reusable rocket putting Saturn V sized payloads every day would be.
But China knows.