Re:Starlink's Disruption of the Space Industry
by petesergeant on Thursday May 30, 2024 @01:01AM
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I’m always deeply skeptical of appeals to the “laws of physics”. Yes, there are some hard constraints there, no, it doesn’t account for bright ideas for how to make those less important; the laws of physics stop us shrinking vacuum tubes small enough to fit billions on a chip, but it turns out that that doesn’t actually matter
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There’s no working around the rocket equation unless you invent antigravity, which I personally think is a harder problem than transistors.
Re:Starlink's Disruption of the Space Industry
by petesergeant on Thursday May 30, 2024 @07:53AM
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> There’s no working around the rocket equation
Or "Space Travel is Utter Bilge"[0], as they say
0: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AAS...203.2801Y/abstra...