volkris @volkris@qoto.org
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
@ScriptFanix yes, an awful lot of bridges failed before engineers learned how to build them better.
@lkngrrr NASA has failed to accomplish this stuff, though.
And my experience with federal agencies doesn't make that a surprise. The politicized, bureaucratic, inefficient agencies fail left and right, and that shouldn't be a surprise when you think about how they are overseen.
So nationalization? Why in the world would we take something like SpaceX that is actually succeeding and fold it into a government that is failing before our eyes?
@jann hi welcome to research and development of novel systems.
This is just the expected process of developing something new like this.
@6G@mastodon.social well it's about balance.
The benefits to humanity of launching things into orbit outweigh the costs.
@6G@mastodon.social @drrjv it's a success because it met the goals that they set ahead of time.
They did not expect this rocket to go to the moon. That was never the point, that was never the goal. This is an engineering process, and this launch was about developing data that would help them refine rockets for the next launch.
So yeah this was a success because it proved some of the developments since the last fight, and it set the stage for the next round of improvements before the next flight.
This is how engineering of a new complex system works. One step after another.
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As usual we turn to @ScottManleyHimself for a breakdown of todays #SpaceX #Starship test flight and possible causes of the RUDs.
@Syulang how in the world do you associate apartheid with developing rocket engines in Boca Chica?
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There seems to be a great gulf between space industry followers and people who don't usually follow space industry news but do so they can bash Musk. Reminds me of that time someone was utterly convinced that private companies had no business working in space when NASA is the one that nurtured this public private partnership for greater efficiency. Government can't do everything folks. It's not God. 🙄 #SpaceX #starship
@armandalb well that's not quite right.
This booster was never designed to be reusable. From the beginning the plan was for this booster to be lost.
I'm positive SpaceX technicians know why the second stage lost contact. This is just shoddy journalism trying to generate some clickbait saying otherwise.
SpaceX set its goals ahead of time and then they met them. They did exactly what they said they were going to do with this mission, so it is a success, by their own metrics.
Yeah, if there were human astronauts involved it would have been a catastrophe, and because SpaceX was just doing a test flight, that's exactly why there weren't human astronauts involved.
This was only the second test of a new system that everybody knows is still in development.
@Gustodon I don't know if you know what trolling is.
Like, when an engineer builds the bridge that you cross to get to the store, you know that's not trolling right?
Well that's what we're looking at now.
@YusufToropov yes, that's the joke.
@Gustodon well they're learning how these brand new technologies operate as they are getting to space in the first place.
At this point they have had two flights that operated within expectations. SpaceX said ahead of the flights that they didn't expect them to get to orbit, so they accomplished their goals of learning how to operate these systems.
@GrrlScientist environmental regulators conducted assessments and found that the test would not impose undo hardship on the habitat.
@marcusjenkins no, the math doesn't really work out that way.
@LiberalEd@mastodon.social I'm sure SpaceX does know. It's just that reporting is really terrible these days so journalists are publishing these really terrible headlines.
Well, the reporters get clicks. We're talking about them.
@ahimsa_pdx analyses like these are silly because they misunderstand the way the Senate was designed. They look at the wrong chamber of Congress.
The House is supposed to be representing people, not the Senate. To say that the Senate is not representing people is, well right, it's not supposed to.
It's like complaining that hammers aren't good screwdrivers.
@lauren fact is there's nothing to stop people from throwing mud either way, so at some point it doesn't even matter.
Haters are going to hate.
@antares Rock and a hard place since he risks losing pro Israel voters if he does otherwise
volkris
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I once saw a woman on TikTok who only had one hand. One of her arms ended at the wrist. And she made a video explaining how she puts her hair into a ponytail with just one hand.
It was interesting! She was so brave to share that. I appreciated her answering a question I never knew I had. So I gave her the token of the realm: a like.
Reader, when I tell you how many amputees I saw after that. Good LORD. It took weeks for me to convince the algorithm to stop.
This is what TikTok does.
@trans_caracal thank you for making #fediverse into a lovely place for discussion and education.
I think the most pressing and fundamental problem of the day is that people lack a practically effective means of sorting out questions of fact in the larger world. We can hardly begin to discuss ways of addressing reality if we can't agree what reality even is, after all.
The institutions that have served this role in the past have dropped the ball, so the next best solution is talking to each other, particularly to those who disagree, to sort out conflicting claims.
Unfortunately, far too many actively oppose this, leaving all opposing claims untested. It's very regressive.
So that's my hobby, striving to understanding the arguments of all sides at least because it's interesting to see how mythologies are formed but also because maybe through that process we can all have our beliefs tested.
But if nothing else, social media platforms like this are chances to vent frustrations that on so many issues both sides are obviously wrong ;)
Joined Dec 2022
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