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 No.11165[Reply]

What is keeping this charade going? Why would anyone think it's the next big thing. VR headsets still make most people motion sick.
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 No.11172

>>11171
I mean cloudflair isn't the only upstream provider that exists. Just the largest. You are right about web 2.0 (but you didn't have to be a dick that hurt my feelings) but I think you haven't spent a lot of time lurking around the underbelly of the web where a whole community of small self hosted sites exists. There's also gemini and gopher which are making a resurgence. I mean just cause most normies use the path of least resistance doesn't mean the internet isn't exactly what marx was speaking of anyways. It's still that. That's how I am able to have cable tv and any movie, show, anime, etc etc I want free for ever.

I don't disagree with you really but I think you have a far to pessimistic angle on it.
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 No.11173

>>11165
VR will have many niche applications like relaxing environment simulator for hospital patients, Submarine crews, long-haul travel, and maybe even as pacification for refugee camp situations.

VR-entertainment could have already been a small commercial success, if it was offered as an arcade-service.
Imagine arcade-machines that are composed of a powerful computer, vr-goggles and various mechanical force feed-back-simulation-harnesses. People could rent time on a VRcade-machine. Valve's VR with an enthusiast set-up comes closest to this currently.
I had hoped for VR tourism.

For the general public a VR set up has to be self-contained in the goggles, with several hours of battery run time.
The only way to make this happen with appealing optical quality in a compact and energy efficient enough way is to make dedicated asic chips for each entertainment experience. Which basically means going back to physical cartridges.
If one were to build an opensource ASIC-chip ecosystem with a complementary development stack it might be economically viable.
Since more of the logic is expressed in hardware, it is much faster and energy efficient, however the ability to patch bugs after release is also much more limited, and the biggest hurdle for this is probably going to be achieving the necessary quality control.

Facebook is a dying empire, and Metaverse is Zuck's attempt to keep it going. It's mostly just a second life remake, but it's probably worse because all the digital-real estate pay to play shit will kill any escapism potential this might have had. For some reason the metaverse graphics look worse than what second life had over a decade ago. Also are you willing to trust Facebook with all your senses ?

I don't think that VR or 3d entertainment will really die, eventually somebody will find a way to make it work.
Maybe when optical interconnects for data-lines on circuit-boards go into general production, it might become possible to make a consumer grade general purpose computer have low enough latency to drive vr-goggles.
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 No.11174

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The reason is is that apparently there was a working business model for the metaverse already working in underground VR Chat rooms.
This guy talks about the underground furry sex scene that existed for a while in VR Chat. It was kicked off by a VR Chat application that allowed people to exchange Wownero (a fork of the crypto currency Monero) with each other via an in game wallet that worked by simply handing cash to each other as you would in real life.
This set off an explosion in virtual prostitutes, night clubs, headlining dj's and other alternative lifestyle/night life services. This guy says that people were making real money, as much as several hundred dollars a night either sucking virtual dicks as a furry or spinning records on a turntable for a party.
This made Wownero explode in value for a short period of time, which you can see for yourself, until the VR Chat Wownero Wallet developers pulled the plug the plug on their application. Which killed the scene and crashed the price of Wownero.
I can validate exactly none of this but it seems really plausible and would explain why so many companies are going to hard into the paint on VR metaverses.
https://odysee.com/@TheCastle:8/2022-03-03-17-16-28:7
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 No.11184

>>11174
any more stylish anime dick pics?
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 No.11187

As mentioned before in other threads, it's likepy that metaverse is really just a money laundering scheme.

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 No.11116[Reply]

I heard the claim that hidden services don't leave the Tor network by Doctor Mike Pound ( http://grwp24hodrefzvjjuccrkw3mjq4tzhaaq32amf33dzpmuxe7ilepcmad.onion/watch?v=lVcbq_a5N9I https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=lVcbq_a5N9I ) and by speakers on a talk uploaded on The Tor Project's channel ( http://grwp24hodrefzvjjuccrkw3mjq4tzhaaq32amf33dzpmuxe7ilepcmad.onion/watch?v=VmsFxBEN3fc https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=VmsFxBEN3fc ) and I do not understand how it is possible, since as far as I understand it, the Tor node immediately before the hidden service must decrypt the data before sending it to the hidden service, making it have the same weakness as a typical exit node. As far as I am aware, a hidden service hides its location with a regular Tor circuit from a rendezvous point and regular Tor circuits leave the Tor network, so surely the network for the hidden service must leave the Tor network as well.
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 No.11160

>>11158
You also for got that every node is encrypted and only the node Infront of the node behind has the encryption keys.
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 No.11161

>>11160
>You also for got that every node is encrypted and only the node Infront of the node behind has the encryption keys.
Nope because then you would have to know where the onion site is to build a circuit directly to it. It's a 3 hop circuit from client to rendezvous node, 3 hop circuit from onion to rendezvous node and neither side knows where the other is.
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 No.11163

>>11161
No you don't. That's retarded. The chain only needs to know the existence of the next link.
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 No.11164

>>11163
If clients can pick the whole chain up to the hidden service they can just pick 3 nodes they control and the hidden service is not hidden anymore.

>That's retarded.
You're not as smart as you think you are.
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 No.12512

>>11164
is correct and you can verify this without reading through the protocol simply by clicking the small circuit icon at the very left of the browser's URL field.
I didn't know this but what anon says makes sense.

>>11153
Voluntaryist is correct too
You have the private key of the destination so nothing is decrypted between hops except for the IP address of the next hop.
Tor isn't RetardRetroShare where "end-to-end-encrypted" file transfers are only encrypted between nodes and each node can read the content of the transferred files. (This actually got someone convicted in court in a country where by law you are not permitted to transmit illegal content if you can read it and therefore know that it is illegal.)

The NSA can conduct timing attacks on tor (control the guards, watch traffic) but this becomes more difficult the more people use it, even if it's javascript-using normie scum.

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 No.11143[Reply]

i need a cheap, portable, low storage laptop but the cheapest ones at my local walmart are fucking chrome books? Are chromebooks ok if you put linux on them or are they just garbage all together? What can I do?
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 No.11145

I think you have to reflash the bios to but linux on a chrome book which can get tricky.
What is you r budget, I'd just save up and get the cheapest system 76 laptop or get one at Costco.
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 No.11146

>>11144
Based digits
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 No.11147

bought a refurbished thinkpad twice, worked out fine for me both times. battery life kinda sucked though.
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 No.11148

>>11147
I have a think pad but they are too bulky and obnoxious. I'm trying to not seem like a massive dick head in public with a giant laptop
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 No.11149

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>>11143
Linux Chromebooks are great! I have a Toshiba Chromebook 2 that runs gallium OS and it's been a nice little machine for several years now. It's getting a bit old so I'm considering replacing it at the end of the year. Here are a few things you should know before getting started.
1. Make sure you get a machine with a compatible processor. I believe only x86 intel CPUs will work.
2. You will likely need to flash in firmware and possibly remove a write-protection screw. Have a screwdriver that can manipulate little laptop screws.
3. Upgrading the SSD is STRONGLY recommended. Most Chromebooks come with 16GB ssds, grossly insufficient for a proper PC. You can get a 256GB ssd for as little as $40. Make sure it is the correct size for your machine. Suffice to say, be sure to get a machine with a removable ssd.
4. Do NOT install Gallium OS. Although my currant machine runs Gallium OS and most old websites will point you to it, it is an abandoned project (no updates in nearly 3 years). I'll probably install Debian with XFCE, but the anything distro with a lightweight desktop environment should be fine.

Here's a site that will walk you through the changing the firmware, it also has a list of comparable devices.
https://mrchromebox.tech/#home

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 No.10297[Reply]

I have over 100,000 photos and a lot of them are unnecessary and I want to get rid of them.

I need a windows program that can help load all the images without hanging up. Sort alike google photos but without the uploading but with the date based cataloguing
Any recommendations?
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 No.10540

>>10405
nice
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 No.10585

>>10539
Why are you here then? If your life gives you enough opportunities to take 100000 photos then you're wasting your time on a *chan.
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 No.10846

>>10382
hydrus works offline, you just tag them with it to organize them
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 No.11132

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>>10297
On Linux, PCManFM has thumbailers for anything. From pictures to PDF, DJVU, WebP.

Another one is SpaceFM.
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 No.11133

Bleach it has an option to delete duplicate files.

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 No.11106[Reply]

More people should use the pleroma and full up the shout box with fun activity.
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 No.11119

>>11118
It's not really social media though. Most people who use it have a chan culture aspect about them.
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 No.11122

>>11119
If you have a profile (it doesn't matter if it's privacy friendly or anonymous) and there is some sort of point system, it's going to have a social media culture. It's not twitter, obviously, because 90% of the users are not normies.
You can't discuss freely like in an ib because anyone can read what you wrote 5 months ago. Or even worse, try to doxx you to win the conversation or refute your argument.

Social media is pure toxicity and the fediverse didn't change anything.
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 No.11123

>>11122
You clearly have never used a fedi instance and clearly know nothing about privacy in the first place. The point of an anonymous handle is exactly so you can't get doxx'd. That just isn't true because what breeds the type of toxicity you are so paranoid about is having an identity that can be traced. You're wrong. Arguably the ability for me to point out that you are a sour retarded fag who doesn't know jack shit because of my anonymity here is as toxic if not more so than social media. Fedual is a pseudo anonymous culture
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 No.11124

>>11123
>The point of an anonymous handle is exactly so you can't get doxx'd
Being able to know what you said 7 months ago, it's a form of doxxing. Your profile is public and anyone can do it.
If you have an identify and a point based system, most people are going to try to be popular in there. This is why I said private social media will remain toxic, the fedi didn't change the culture.
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 No.11125

>>11124
Oh I guess I should re-read what you said, but, still I don't think the same culture you are talking about applies to the fedi and you're expanding your definitions so much that you can basically apply anything to it. I disagree with that and I have been lurking the fedi for months now.

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 No.9372[Reply]

how do you glowproof your PC? Do I need to learn how to set up Gentoo? I feel like I'm being watched every second by glowuyghurs, winglows 10 and hackers. They're mining all my data. They're watching me. How do I stop that? I also feel like if I wanted to transfer my files to another computer they would just embed their viruses into my files and infect the next computer. How do you stop it?
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 No.11113

You can't really glow.proof it but you can make it a pain in the ass for them
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 No.11115

>>9372
It is not possible to truly glow-proof a modern PC that is connected to the internet. These machines are so complex that there will always be some vulnerability somewhere. This is especially true when dealing with the feds as they are known to sit on exploits they discover so they aren't patched [https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2016/08/the_nsa_is_hoar.html]. There are some vulnerabilities that go down to the processor level, like Intel IME [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine]. No computer can be assumed to be 100% secure.
The best most of us can hope to do is opt out of dragnet surveillance. This can be done by not giving out personally identifiable info: IP, govt. name, home address, traceable email/phone, credit card, etc; general avoidance of big web services; and don't use windows, android, or any other corporate or state produced OS. If your worried about targeted surveillance from the Feds, only real chance is with Tor or non-US vpn but even that's not a sure thing. Probably the single best thing you can do is to encrypt your hard drive, because that denies them the option of simply breaking down your door and seizing your machine to gather evidence. However none this is 100% effective, there will always be a vulnerability somewhere, your best bet at beating the feds is the fact that they have to economize their efforts and probably won't use their most exotic stuff on you unless you're a state actor or a violent terrorist.
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 No.11120

>>9372
1. me_cleaner or old processor without ME
2. coreboot
3. source-based distro like guix or gentoo (preferably without binary blobs
4. mandatory access control, containerization, sandboxing and the like
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 No.11121

>>11120
also 5. LUKS encryption

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 No.11110[Reply]

Liberte Linux ( https://dee.su/liberte ) is an ultralight (~210Meg ROM, ~192Meg RAM, x86 Pentium Ⅲ) that has both Tor and i2p, first to have UEFI safe boot and laptop mode tools, which are a requirement for my needs and maybe even yours
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 No.11112

Literally never heard of this can't tell if spam or not.
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 No.11154

>>11112
>Literally never heard of this
It is very old (around 2011 timeframe).
From the days of Arab Spring and Operation Darknet.
You can tell from the old headless suit Anonymous logo and the copyright dates on the website.
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 No.12514

arab spring was deep state op why are you shilling an NSA/CIA distro?
idk what operation darknet tried to achieve but certainly not the shutting down of child porn sites or they would have spent their energy informing people about the world's largest social network for pedophiles:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=O13G5A5w5P0 (Youtube is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, and it's Being Monetized (2019))
See also Tracy Twyman

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 No.10995[Reply]

I recently opened up my own HTTP page and it's incredibly trivial and easy. I know Luke Smith is a faggot but he has solid advice on starting a web page. Using his tutorial on landchad.net I was able to get the site up and running in about 3 hours. Then in 2 days with some on the cuff learning of basic HTML and CSS I had my own perfectly respectable we space up and running in no time.

https://leftychad.net you can also do this and I believe that an ecosystem of interconnected webspaces each self hosted is far superior than the soy model of imageboards implemented by our other peers. Just host your own website and you won't have to deal with faggy mods banning you.
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 No.11098

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>>11096
This is another thing I am back and forth on. On one hand I agree that people will be pushed in a more radical direction. On the other hand, Karl Marx ans Engles, specifically, did not have to deal with what we have to deal with today and I think they underestimated how nefarious capitalism truly could be.
I mean, think about it, we have think tanks like citizens united and nut cases like Alex jones and fox news all working as reactionary wings of the federal government trying to convince people that the answers are jews and mexicans and not the system itself and, to a degree that isn't arbitrary, it's working.
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 No.11099

>>11095
Something to think about; The Democratic party works very hard to keep third parties off the ballot

This shows a certain weakness that might be exploited, at the very least they're occluding Engel's barometer I reckon
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 No.11100

>>11099
>Engles barometer

What do you mean friend?

Yes they do fight to keep third parties off the ballot but they are so successful…

To qoute Lenin: What is to be done?
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 No.11101

>>11100
>Yes they do fight to keep third parties off the ballot but they are so successful…
>To qoute Lenin: What is to be done?

That makes the process undemocratic. If they expend a lot of effort to prevent a third party, they are telling you that a third party might be effective. Despite many attempts to create third parties, this has failed.

It could be that it is possible to create a third party and that failure was lack of political appeal.
A third party would have to position itself as "neither DEM nor REP" and pander to the the politically disenfranchised people who no longueur vote at all, and those that are taken hostage by either of the 2 big bourgeois parties.

It could be that the game is entirely rigged and bourgeois politics is 100% spectacle without political substance.
In that case you have to create your own separate elections, that they can't rig. And the battle for democracy then becomes a 2 stage battle. First winning the masses over to consider your new election system the most legitimate one, and the second to actually win the elections inside your own system, without rigging it.

If you went for a new system it would probably be easier to have just an election lottery. Everybody would be allowed to sign up and representatives would be chosen by the luck of the draw out of all the people that signed up. This system is simpler to set up and much less vulnerable to manipulation, and the bourgeoisie doesn't get to use their advantage in promoting political candidates, because there is no electioneering. This would be set up as an opinion poll that seeks to gain influence. if you gain traction with this you could ad more democratic features like polling everybody that signed up for their policy preferences.
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 No.11103

>>11101
I think the best way to do something like that would be to organize people into labor unions again on principles like this as the ultimate goal. Sortition on top of these sounds quite nice.

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 No.3025[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

I've decided to make my script open source. Enjoy.
https://pastebin.com/raw/pajZ4N2x

Edit: This script has been banned on leftypol, hobby, tech, edu, games, gulag and anime. But you can still post with it in this thread, I guess.
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 No.10936

>>10891
This is bunkerchan in all but name
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 No.10988

Make pls
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 No.10989

Yeap
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 No.11092

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>make fun novelty
>mods kill its use
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 No.11093

>>11092
You can post wojacks here

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 No.10628[Reply]

Russia is building a new spaceship they call Zeus, it's made by Roscosmos and it's a nuclear powered space tug.
It uses a regular chemical first-stage booster for going to orbit, but once in space they say it will be very fast and out run anything using chemical thrusters. Apparently Russia never stopped working on space reactors, and they do seem to be on track for meeting their timeline to get this thing operational in 2030. It's apparently meant to out-compete Spacex starship in interplanetary travel in speed and cost. It's not a direct nuclear propulsion it's a nuclear reactor powering a plasma thruster, so it's less hardcore than direct nuclear propulsion like an Orion-drive but it's also more realistic that it will actually take flight.

Does anybody know how well this will work ?
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 No.11074

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>>11073
forgot pic
So these numbers represent the potential for starship at its peak. even in the unlikely event these numbers end up being off by a factor of 10 that would only make the sls 100x more expensive rather then 1000x more expensive. The cost savings would allow public space to focus on making and launching more nuclear ships, maybe hundreds, rather then paying out the ass just to get a couple ships to space. Spacex is going to mass produce the starship like it was an automobile, the plan is for a starship to roll off the assembly line every 72 hours. Every 72 hours a new starship capable of launching 3 times a day every day for years, thousands will be built do you not get it?

People are sleeping on this because they can't wrap their heads around the absolute scale of it, the brain simply refuses to accept it, we've been so conditioned for low expectations, happy with a couple space telescopes every few decades and maybe 2 or 3 rovers on mars, a few flybys. That's not a space age, that's a few toys and some neat pictures.

The approximate total mass to orbit, everything put into space, throughout the entire history of space travel to the present day is roughly 15 million kg. A thousand starships launching 3x a day could put that much mass into orbit in 2 months. 70 years worth of payload capacity in 2 months. 6 times the entire history of man in space every year. 60x times everything put up there so far in a decade.

There is essentially no limit, the public space program won't have to hold itself back anymore. All the space telescopes and space stations and nuclear whatevers, rovers, human colonies. Whatever the fuck we can come up with and build we can now afford to put it up there. That is a space age, and we're on the cusp on it now.
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 No.11075

>>11073
>Have you seen the cost of the sls? The latest public space heavy rocket, the costs are astronomical.
It's still private contractors that build this, so the price of this also is about subsidizing private industry.
It's not an actual example of public production because the factories that build it aren't public.

>Having nuclear balls is great but not so great when you can barely afford to put any of them into space.
It's about physics, chemical energy is not very concentrated compared to fission energy. Spacex Starship needs 9 launches to put one Starship into orbit and fully fuel it. (8 fuel launches). And with that it still can't go as far or fast as the nuclear fission powered ion-thruster in OP

>Affordable heavy lift rockets are needed, and only elons balls could provide that.
Spacex is still is de-facto subsidized by the US public. For example US Air-Force payed over 300 million to launch a spy satellite, that's approaching Space-shuttle money. That's no where near the advertised launch-cost price-tag in Spacex marketing material. Even outside of such extreme aberrations Elon Musk promised that reusable rockets would make it 10 times cheaper, but the reality is that reusable rockets economize to the tune of about 10% cheaper. That's a solid efficiency improvement considering that fundamentally it's the same technology that's been used for the last 50 years, but it's also 100 times less savings than what the Musk-fans use in their mental calculus.

It's a strange choice of words to call engineers and workers at spacex "balls"
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 No.11076

>>11075
Ok fair point about the private contractors. But if the factories were public would that actually change anything? Governments are famously bad at balancing any kind of a budget. And politics gets in the way to the point where to get approved the programs have to satisfy the demands of multiple politicians.

Spacex Starship will only need multiple launches to go beyond orbit, it can do orbit on its own. Think about it, would need to get into orbit in the first place to be refueled.
>Still can't go as far or fast as the nuclear powered thrusters
That's not the point, how are you getting those nuclear thrusters into space affordably?

The space shuttle cost $54600 per kg to orbit
The Atlas V costs $8100 per kg to orbit
Russias Angara rocket is the second cheapest option at $4000 per kg to orbit (only 2 launches to date)
The Falcon 9 is $2600 per kg to orbit
Falcon heavy is $1500 kg to orbit
https://aerospace.csis.org/data/space-launch-to-low-earth-orbit-how-much-does-it-cost/

You said Spacex is only 10% cheaper, it's more like 70% cheaper.
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 No.11077

>>11076
and the atlas v at $8000per kg is the second cheapest option available to the United States. 10% of $8000 is $800 so when people say spacex is 10x cheaper ok they're wrong, it's only 5x cheaper. But when they say 10x cheaper they're talking about a hypothetical fully reusable falcon 9, a project that was set aside to focus on the much more promising Starship.
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 No.11078

>>11076
Of course that $20 per kg is the potential of the Starship program at its hypothetical peak with economy of scale and mass production. It won't cost $20 per kg on the first launch. And even if those estimates are off by a factor of 10 (unlikely) that's still $200 per kg ie 40 times cheaper then Atlas V rather then the projected 400 times cheaper, either way if Starship works, whatever it ends up costing per kg, it's going to be massively MASSIVELY more affordable then anything else.

People like to shit on Spacex because they saw some bullshit ragetubers lying on youtube for clicks and it satisfied them for some reason.

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