This is one part of it. The other part is that one more typical Republican is obviously giving up on common sense just to follow his MAGA leaders. Believing that a human Mars fly-by might be feasable within the next five years should disqualify anyone from being taken seriously. - ThreadSky

karinspace.bsky.social • 14 days ago

This is one part of it. The other part is that one more typical Republican is obviously giving up on common sense just to follow his MAGA leaders. Believing that a human Mars fly-by might be feasable within the next five years should disqualify anyone from being taken seriously.

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petebrooksbank.bsky.social•14 days ago

There are people on the NSF forums who seriously believe there will be humans flying to Mars in the next transit window and I'm not even sure where to start digesting that level of hysteria. Is there another place where the discussion is less delusional?

karinspace.bsky.social•14 days ago

Honestly I don't know as I have withdrawn from about every social media space group and prefer to only keep direct contact to industry people and the very few experts I trust. The Space Hipster group on Facebook used to be very good, but even there the standard is declining.

esghound.com•14 days ago

I waded into the social media landscape in rocketry/space only recently in the last 4 years and looking back at old posts from 2015 or so it's quite stunning how the monkeys have taken over the zoo

neutrinocatcher.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was there... the day the will of men failed.

Sorry, I meant I was there in 2007, & later when all became "IP/ITAR/proprietary" by default, instead of "shit I can study actual NASA docs and technical drawings", they said it was for the best.

So much burned at the altar of "commercialization"...

petebrooksbank.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was a big fan of Philip Sloss and his NSF articles on Orion/SLS precisely because they were very technical, but now NASA have clammed up and everything out there is politicised frothing at the mouth at the thought of giving everything to Starship. "Launch on 420 lol" memelords have taken over. Ugh

karinspace.bsky.social•14 days ago

NASA at the moment didn't even send somebody to testify in today's Artemis Science Comittee hearing. I just listened to the whole thing and it was mentioned at the beginning that they were invited to do so, but refused.

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