Looks like a hit job instead of a critique

Someone who fancies himself as a "common sense skeptic"

This isn't even an attempt at a fair criticsm of Starship. So, I'm guessing that this is being published so as to drive some sort of attempt to stop the Starship program.

All of this because Musk bought Twitter. These people.

Musk is running the most prolificly run space program the world has ever seen, and this guy thinks he can be persuasive? It's true, the most recent Starship launch was not 100% successful, but he talks like it is a complete failure, and should be stopped. If this program is stopped, what will replace it???? There's nobody even close to what Musk is doing. What an ass clown.

To compare it with SLS is even more of a joke. Yes, the SLS had a fairly successful launch. But look how much that program has spent. It has spent tens of billions of dollars for ONE launch. It won't launch again this year. This "common sense skeptic" ought to go soak his head.

He said if NASA had blown up as many ships as SpaceX, they'd had lost funding for sure. Yep. They sure would have. But SpaceX isn't paying as much per launch as NASA does. Each NASA launch of an SLS is going to cost a billion dollars or more. All you get is ONE launch. But SpaceX is creating a system that produce these rockets for much, much less. Each lost ship isn't coming out of the taxpayers pocket. SpaceX is funding this research. If NASA cuts it off, it won't stop.

SpaceX almost has it capable of putting stuff into orbit. If he does that, the Starship will be on a self-paying basis. That's far more than anybody else can say at this point. It is after all a private company. NASA is government funded operation. They can waste taxpayer money without consequence. To say the same about SpaceX is absolutely ridiculous.

Ostrich, anyone?

As big as it is, I was wondering how many showed up for dinner. Not that many, but they were well-fed.

Time of universal deceit

3/27/24:

The signs may not have been "truth", but calling it "hate speech" isn't truth either. ( They certainly don't sell it that cheap!)

Someone just put up these signs at the Colorado Capitol. Check it out. https://t.co/RvYJ0A20ic via @Not_the_Bee Comment: This is claimed to be hate speech.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 27, 2024

end update, post of 3/25/24 resumes below:





Telling the truth just might get you in trouble in today's America.

https://t.co/NreCTu5hOO

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 25, 2024

"Nobody does the right thing"

Update of 12/30/11 post 

I was thinking about why the GOP often seems

not to do the right thing, and I remembered this 

.

the original post follows:

The following quote from The Sandmonkey in Egypt reminded me of the scene in the Bourne Identity:

That they will act right, despite the fact that throughout the history of humanity, there wasn’t a single proof that people, by themselves, will act right.

Too many people want to trust and believe politics.  It seems to have happened in Egypt.  That is a big, big mistake.  If war is politics by other means, then politics is war by other means too.

A free people need to be a virtuous people.  That's because without virtue, there is only the law of the jungle.  A free people can choose.  A captive people cannot.  Thus, to be free, you have to master yourself, or be mastered by others.

No accountability: "Soviet level dysfunction"

Quote:

Nobody ever gets held to public account, and systems never get fixed, because that threatens too many people’s rice bowls. This is what a dysfunctional organization — or civilization — looks like. Plus: “This is Soviet level dysfunction.”

Comment:



Let's keep believing in that left-right-center Marxist paradigm, and we'll find that utopia some day.

CDR SALAMANDER: LCS – The Heavy Rotation Nightmare. “On yesterday’s Midrats, my co-host mentione https://t.co/QJbMbQjQxV Comment: Comparison is being made to the now defunct Soviet Union.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 26, 2024

Private calling using the Linphone app and a voip system

This provides extra privacy, but the real benefit is when your contact is using the system too. Otherwise, you could still use it for regular calls. There'd have to be a different motivation for using it, because additional privacy isn't one of them. ( I could think of one, it's cheap)



Be sure to watch the whole video, and if need be, watch it a second time if there's something you don't understand. ( which is possible, so don't feel bad, cuz I watched it twice)

Going to pot

A conspiracy theory that you can sink your teeth into.

Gone To Pot | Raw Egg Nationalist https://t.co/EpMCKhVuO8 Comment : Looking for the reason for lowered testosterone? Read this

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 25, 2024

Orwellian 1984 quote

This will be posted in order to comment upon the phenomenon of refusing to think for oneself, thereby checking one's brain in at the door.



So this is supporting democracy?



Democracy requires the opposite. That's why the 1984 quote is included from the article linked below.

Democrats and Their Media Allies Impugned Biden’s Cognitive Fitness. Now They Feign Outrage. https://t.co/HM31WH4oUN

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 24, 2024

Jihad is a thing too

But you can't say it, lest you offend the jihadists.



This government is nuts.

DEI Top Dogs Warn Intelligence Agencies Not to Use Terms Such as ‘Jihadist’ https://t.co/lq9FiWadU6

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 24, 2024

Turbo cancer is a thing

Not just a rhetorical device. It exists.

Turbo Cancer Deaths Surge in Vaxxed 15 to 44-Year-Olds https://t.co/K1mlCCfM81

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 24, 2024

We never knew that Ronna McRomney was so eeeeeevil

Leftism is a religion. A religion of narcissists, or so it appears. They celebrate themselves as the all-knowing, all-seeing, and all-powerful. All power to the Soviet! ( Two can play that game)

Ronna McDaniel OUT at MSNBC As NBC News Attempts Democrat Damage Control https://t.co/jMDusZ8nlm Comment: Ach du lieber! A Nazi has been allowed into the temple of democracy! She must be expelled!

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) March 24, 2024