exomonk

SpaceX is NOT about going to Mars, it's about Golden Dome. Always was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_s...

Can you request a specific wiki article?

I'd like to see https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...

"While widely shared as a Newton quote, the earliest known source is advertising executive Howard W. Newton, from a 1946 magazine."

Advertisers probably understand people better than physicists.

They're still physically the same Starlink satellites being used for Golden Dome.

Easy: https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/data-cen...

SDA’s “Battle Management Layer will provide automated space-based battle management through command and control, tasking, mission processing and dissemination” to support time-sensitive kill-chain closure. https://www.sda.mil/battle-management

Golden Dome and future missile tracking and ISR will depend on real -time insights, which requires Edge Computing on orbit, running advanced AI/ML algorithms.” https://unibap.com/news/defense-in-the-foreground

sorry can't help you with your user feuds

Not sure what you're trying to say

If you're interested in Musk and the Mars Society history as a front for the U.S. military industrial complex, a good start is https://www.mintpressnews.com/pentagon-recruiting-elon-musk-...

And that was written before Musk won the recent Golden Dome contracts, etc.. so very precient

It's basically nuclear preparedness research.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Dome_(missile_defense_syst...

Space datacenters have the dual-use of tracking and weapons targeting which is needed for a robust Golden Dome architecture (immune to comm link jamming, terabit image sensor processing)

Musk is involved in every aspect of Golden Dome.

That sounds like a product manager's perspective, but I think the falls apart in deep space. When the feedback loop is 2 light-days long and hardware is irreplaceable. The original planned lifespan of Voyager was just 5 years.

Maybe when the next draft of democracy is written it can leverage these tools.

>> We reliably produced distinct scents such as a campfire burn or fresh air!

These are exactly the types of smells people report when they get head CT scans (I've experienced it myself). Always thought it was ozone forming but perhaps it's more interesting than that.

In case people don't know the Collatz Conjecture, It's based on a simple rule: take any natural number n. If it is even, divide it by 2. If it is odd, multiply by 3 and add 1. The conjecture states that no matter what number you start with, you will eventually reach the number 1.

It would seem simple, but many simple iterative calculations get us to Turing machine territory regarding computability.

Actually I recall their were a number of anomalies with Griffin's contracts at NASA. It was widely reported he was chasing away the bigger companies from the COTS program he formed. Saying himself that he assigned the decision-making to Doc Horowitz... Mike Griffin, Doc Horowitz and Elon Musk were close friends and the most prominent founding members of the Mars Society other than Zubrin. In the end all the money went to Griffin's own small company Orbital and Musk's newfound SpaceX.

It was well known in those circles that Mars Society leadership was from Team B and Citizens' Advisory Council (which were the two groups that originally conceived Reagan's SDI, the Golden Dome predecessor). Max Hunter was the force behind reusable rockets with the DC-X. As mentioned, Griffin was effectively SpaceX's early chief engineer leading the guys he poached from the nearby McDonald Douglass Huntington Beach DC-X site (Chris Thompson, Tim Buzza, John Garvey, etc..) The other half of the DC-X team went to Blue Origin of course.

Funny how well the Mars mania took hold and people forget this basic history. It's the only way to make heads or tails of what's going on with Elon these days. He truly believes in SDI, but God help us all if he's in charge of it. It was recently reported he wanted to make Golden Dome a subscription service!

Such standardization will set a design envelope for the Golden Dome weapons..

Counting all those explosions as "flown" is pretty charitable.

.. but I thought it was about Mars! /s

64 tons is if Falcon Heavy is fully expended (nothing recovered) configuration. Even with smaller payload, the center core is generally a lost cause. Falcony Heavy is extremely difficult to launch as I learned when I worked at SpaceX. It turned out that slapping a bunch of Falcons together was not structurally reasonable design choice.

            New Glenn   Falcon 9
    Height  96m         70m
    Payload 45 tons     22.8 tons
    Fairing 7m          5m

New Glenn significantly increases the capacity to Low Earth Orbit, which is what this first phase of the space race has always been about (for Golden Dome, and to a lesser extent commercial internet constellations). All eyes on Starship now.

It's hard to see it being off by multiple orders of magnitude.

So 2:1 for four-leaf:five-leaf?

Seems to reinforce their point that this blog is bs