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Trying to keep *one* Starship filled with “10” additional Starship loads will not happen in that timeframe.

I could go on and on about how ridiculous and unnecessary this scheme is.

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 2h

One of the many problems with this approach is, how do they plan to keep the props superchilled and reduce boiloff? Also, on the ground, SLS and ICPS take over six hours to refill and have to be continuously topped off to stay as full as possible.

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, so if it were only 10…they’re saying they’d need 10 *other* Starship flights just to refuel the *first* Starship parked in LEO.

As someone who knows a little something about cryo loading *on the ground*, I can tell you this is a ridiculously complex and possibly impossible idea.

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 2h

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 11h

There’s a couple of other common themes clearly on display here:

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 20h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 11h

😍😍😍😍

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 11h

What are you even talking about?

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 15h

Starship *is* their lander, which is the wild part.

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 15h

I’m sure they have a SRD; they wouldn’t have won the bid without one.

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 15h

About the only thing they have like that are RCS jets for attitude control.

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 16h

The plan is to have the crew land vertically like in the old sci-fi movies.

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 16h

The idea is for it to land upright and they really haven't demonstrated that yet (water landings don't count).

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 18h

@beckybunzy.bsky.social what that jawline do?

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 21h

i can haz yearnings?

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 21h

Fun fact: The outline you see in the lower left is a walking path in the shape of a shuttle orbiter:

David Grinspoon @drfunkyspoon.bsky.social · 22h

A year ago we launched Clipper towards Europa.
Since then NASA science has been ravaged & threatened by our malevolent administration. By the time Clipper is orbiting Jupiter and sending back precious data we will have different people in power. As perilous as the journey is, that gives me hope.
🧪🔭

The rocket carrying Europa Clipper, rising from the launchpad.

Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 21h

I’m just gonna come out and say it: I need you to hurt/hex me, BB.

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Mike Feher @saxmike71.bsky.social · 21h

This is actually the first time I’ve read in clear terms just exactly how the agency plans to use Starship (*multiple* at that) to land astronauts on the Moon. In my informed yet humble opinion, this feat will not be pulled off for a very long time:

www.cnn.com/2025/10/12/s...