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  • One of Starship’s engines on the lowest setting would tear the station apart. Regardless of whether they make this based on Starship instead of something more reasonably sized like a Dragon or Falcon 2nd stage, it’ll still need either a new engine design or a big cluster of Dracos. It’ll be something custom.

    Regarding their Artemis work- the payments are milestone based, so they get money as they pass milestones. Engine relights and ship to ship prop transfer are some of the next ones.

    Regarding their other customers- the Starship manifest includes another moon cruise, several satellite launches, and a lot of Starlinks.










  • I think we’re in violent agreement that just sorta looks like an argument.

    I’ll acknowledge that I have a privileged position where I can vote with my dollar for this kind of thing.

    This is a similar discussion for electric vehicles and transit. It isn’t the fault of the person in a 20 year old rusted out Civic that they’re burning gas, because their neighborhood doesn’t have a bus and why the heck would they pay for an EV and they just have to get to work.






  • One of the use cases on Reddit is to tag titles that are misleading/wrong/changed, which doesn’t matter as much here where titles can be edited.

    I definitely agree about community specific tags. Filtering by, for example, community announcements, news, or discussion posts can be pretty helpful on bigger communities. We could self-enforce that for searchability with [terms in brackets], but a drop-down to select tags would be a lot smoother.


  • Let’s do both?

    I completely agree with you that big industrial polluters are the main problem. I also think that having the mindset every day to live more sustainably and reduce personal waste is valuable, even if it’s really just a drop in the bucket overall. It can be eye-opening and a step toward bigger steps like voting, advocacy, boycotts, and conversations with others.

    I would rather do something infinitesimally small than nothing.