Thursday, June 19, 2025

Does He Know What “Money Laundering” Is?

Because I don’t think he does. Neither does the “solution” he is backing do anything to help rural hospitals. Pretty sure it was the American backed regime change that put the Shah on the Peacock Throne, which ended with the regime change Sen. Tillis now wants U.S. soldiers to change again. And the music goes ‘round and ‘round…🎶 Giving Elmo another excuse to babble about “human consciousness” being “interplanetary,” thus mixing bad ‘70’s mystic babble with unscientific ‘50’s science fiction. First, outside of Mars, which we can’t inhabit, what planets do we go to? The gas giants? The frozen trans-Neptunian rocks? The burning clouds of Venus? 

We don’t have “warp drive.” “Class M planets” are not a scientific designation (or a reality). We are creatures of a specific biosphere and ecosystem, and unless those conditions are reproduced exactly somewhere within reach (and there ain’t no other such place in this solar system, which our reach doesn’t exceed yet), forget this “we shit the bed, time to move on,” ignorant claptrap.

If human consciousness disappears, it disappears. But it won’t be because we didn’t colonize Mars. Although human consciousness probably would improve if we sent Elmo to Mars. 🤔

(Elmo also excuses his failures as being part of the “learning process.” If NASA had taken this long to learn, Alan Shepard would have died an old man without ever making a suborbital flight in a space capsule. It reminds me Tesla is the most over-capitalized company on the planet, and with all that money they’re still making crappy cars, a truck nobody wants, and a self-driving taxi even the state of Texas doesn’t want on the streets. Why do people keep throwing money at this boob?)
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  1. ntodd2:02 PM

    Seeing lots of Elon boyz cope on social media about Ship 36 (oh no, now we're not getting to Mars in '26, like that was even realistic before). I am one who generally appreciates the learning process, and that failures teach a lot (I've even been accused of "defending" Elon at times), buuut...we're now into Block 2, which is/ought to be iterative, with the bulk of learning already done.

    To your point, sure NASA had probs with the Redstone, and Atlas, and Agena, and other boosters/vehicles in the early days. They were the early days, so it's not unexpected, and they learned wicked fast. Fast enough to be confident putting men on top of the Saturn V after only 2 launches (both successful, notwithstanding a few issues).

    This is is the 4th Block 2 ship, and the fact that it blew up BEFORE the static fire test itself, suggests they didn't learn nothin', which is pretty shocking to me. Seems like they've gone backwards...

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  2. Rmj3:30 PM

    That’s exactly how I take it., did they start from scratch? Even NASA didn’t do that.

    As I say, Tesla has more capital investment than God, but they still make the same damn car, nobody wants their “truck,” and Waymo actually has a robotaxi on the road. Seems there’s a common thread here…

    (And the “kids” who thought they’d be in Mars soon: how do they want to die there? Radiation exposure? Suffocation? Dehydration? Starvation? Would take longer to get supplies there than they would last. And who’s gonna go first and “make camp”? It would be an undertaking equivalent to D-Day, if the Channel crossing took a year, and they had to bring their own food, water, oxygen, and room sized spacesuits to walk around in without spacesuits on.

    I’m pretty damned sure they haven’t thought this through.

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  3. Craig10:57 PM

    "Human consciousness" is an interesting tack to take as it worked really well for a former Confederate soldier from Virginia turned gold prospector in the desert Southwest near the border with Mexico. John Carter and a fellow prospector were pursued by Apaches into a cave where the Apaches were reluctant to follow. They found a compass there about the size of a cell phone which Carter fiddled with and somehow inadvertently activated. He lost consciousness and when he woke up he was on Mars which the locals he met called Barsoom. The adverse effects of space travel were obviated by the apparent fact that the astral plane of the teleportation he underwent had also conferred upon him some strange form of immortality. It's all in the future history books. Look it up. I'm much more intrigued by John Slough's FDR (fusion driven rocket) than by Musk's Starship base at Boca Chica. The FDR runs on b-b gun pellets made of a D/T (deuterium/tritium) alloy ignited by strips of foil peeled from lithium spools into a magnetically contained pulse plasma combustion chamber. The vaporized lithium D/T admixture is expelled through a nozzle at the far end of the highly magnetized combustion chamber each time a pellet explodes, roughly once a minute. It's a variation on the old Orion Project which was canceled sixty years ago when the Atmospheric Nuclear Test Ban Treaty was signed. They'll have to take it out to a LaGrange point to really test it. When I graduated from high school LaGrange had a slightly different connotation. Deuterium appears to be more plentiful than water on the lunar surface. The father of Edgar Rice Burroughs was a captain in the Union army.

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  4. ntodd11:16 PM

    Hmm...interesting that your bring up Barsoom, because I think SpaceX might be close to unlocking the secret of the Ninth Ray.

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  5. Rmj11:22 PM

    Well, if we’re gonna find Dejah Thoris, things might get interesting.

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  6. Craig6:29 PM

    It's spring loaded with a pusher plate that doubles as a radiation shield. H-bombs have one hell of a recoil.

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  7. Craig6:42 PM

    The D/T pellet is about the size of a golf ball when enough lithium plasma has adhered to it to trigger fusion.

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  8. Craig7:05 PM

    The tricky part is deploying enough solar panels to power up the array of electromagnets.

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