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@Robotbeat "@Blobifie This is awesome. Shuttle got hit with a piece of foam and the heatshield damage killed the crew. Starship gets multiple holes in it and survives"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T14:40Z 11.7K followers, 1726 engagements

"@fireobserver32 It has been dead in the US since about 1860"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T04:28Z 11.7K followers, 4883 engagements

"@Noahpinion Botswana is decent too"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T02:18Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Why is Trump making them Wade in the water though LMAO there are docks in Puerto Rico. And you know you could use airplanes"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T05:12Z 11.7K followers, 5106 engagements

"Looks like docking hardware for orbital refilling. Interesting that its on a pez dispenser (Starlink) ship. Which is consistent with the idea theyre gonna try to send one of them to Mars (&/or have them do dual duty as tankers)"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-13T20:17Z 11.7K followers, 1163 engagements

"Looks like it can survive landing with holes in the tanks"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-14T20:10Z 11.7K followers, 13.3K engagements

"@klaehnr You need on the order of double the delta-v. And yeah obviously aerobraking not aerocapture. Aerobraking at Mars has long been demonstrated"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T02:44Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

""Thanks to each wave of new arrivals to this land of opportunity we're a nation forever young forever bursting with energy and new ideas and always on the cutting edge always leading the world to the next frontier.""
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T03:06Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@tenshi_1997 Only the body of the satellite is radiating heat from the satellite bus. There are no deployable radiators"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T03:11Z 11.7K followers, 3600 engagements

"@GeorgeWHerbert The real issue is SEP is normally really expensive. Xenon is over 1000x more expensive than Argon and supply is extremely limited. Starlink changes the game for SEP makes it once again competitive even with chemical rocket reuse & refueling"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T04:05Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@bwwgpro1 Not for bus heat"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T04:26Z 11.7K followers, 1742 engagements

"Maybe it's autistic of me but I tend to take things literally on purpose. The knowing wink the ironic eye-roll. I don't have time for it"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T04:49Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@_TamaraWinter @_brianpotter I mean the Jones Act is basically why we have any commercial shipping built here (besides barges). It rounds to zero so probably not even worth doing"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T15:33Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Starship is about half a century ahead of the counterfactual without SpaceX and NewSpace. Maybe a century"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T18:29Z 11.7K followers, 59.4K engagements

"Dear "it's incredibly hard to radiate heat in space" bros please circle the radiators on these satellites"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T02:42Z 11.7K followers, 75.1K engagements

""Well I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic" Lol why even redact this"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T04:17Z 11.7K followers, 18K engagements

"@DeepDarkDrone They need to be royalty. Maybe Dolly Parton and Snoop Dogg"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T14:22Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"SpaceX uses NASA wind tunnels for testing Starship and Super Heavy"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T15:26Z 11.7K followers, 25.9K engagements

"@JeffNeelzAgain @DLaneBreckenri1 @Erdayastronaut It absolutely will. Only terminal landing done without the Raptors. And if you have a pad no separate thrusters at all"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T16:07Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@somefoundersalt I find this sort of ignorance frustrating. This is all public"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T18:27Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@somefoundersalt A coherent Mars mission architecture would be retarded because in actuality itll be Starship Blue etc that will build the Mars landers & transfer vehicles. Just like they did for HLS instead of the s***ty X stage reference lander architecture NASA made. NASA is aware of this"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T18:33Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Not to armchair engineer too much but SpaceX should literally just buy these Stirling cryocoolers (they make space rated versions) & use them for Boiloff mitigation (& densification) on their depots. They work below boiling point of CH4 & O2 (unlike H2) dont use too much power"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T19:55Z 11.7K followers, 7000 engagements

"@janekm @cyothevile I've seen (attempted) Chinese industrial espionage before in person"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T04:25Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"I don't understand Europeans who hate America so much that they want an authoritarian state to conquer and subjugate other nations simply because it might make the US look weaker. Serious mental problems"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-10T01:14Z 11.7K followers, 1199 engagements

"Taiwan is defendable. Its like a high tech Afghanistan with a XXX mile moat"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-10T04:46Z 11.7K followers, 33.2K engagements

"We resupplying Taiwan with this gal"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-14T20:22Z 11.7K followers, 5922 engagements

"@Death1nFire Might be considered the same as using a nuke"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-14T21:09Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"In general South Korean stuff is a fantastic value so this is probably a good idea"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T15:30Z 11.7K followers, 1482 engagements

"@alancornett The reason you might not be able to do the Sahara is sovereignty"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T02:10Z 11.7K followers, 2914 engagements

"@newlooklurker @devahaz Pretty tough without US command and control. They'd probably be able to coup the state government either directly by force or the usual way of influence campaigns affinity fraud and bribes"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T00:15Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@waschatchsquach The radiators are about 1/3rd the size of the solar arrays"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T00:43Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@somefoundersalt I think this is the idea of Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T01:17Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@flowirin @shadowcrewtroll The math doesn't change. Sunlight collection is by area. Radiator is by area. Volume irrelevant to the steady state result"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T01:18Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@DanielSMatthews Starlink doesn't use heat pumps. It just radiates its waste heat from the body of the satellite. It doesn't push any of its waste heat to the solar panels (other than just the normal heat they receive from sunshine)"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T01:41Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@flowirin @shadowcrewtroll You would likely use fluid cooling loops although it's not the only way"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T01:42Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@DanielSMatthews The thermal diodes don't help in this case. The LLM is over-complicating the situation"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T01:49Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@mpatrickwalton Radiative shade is super easy and not even beneficial in this case (you can just orient radiators parallel to the Sun's rays or paint them visible white). They don't have the same solar access as in a sun-sync LEO. Unless you build a tall tower they have lengthy night time"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T02:07Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@wanderingincode Weight is closer to parity but depends on construction details. At 60C radiating temperature heritage radiators are like 6kg/m2 (this is counting both sides already) about 100Wthermal/kg. For composite radiators about a factor of X better or about 300W/kg"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T15:30Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@andrewmccalip @MaxFagin @emm0sh @L5Resident That's what scale is for"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T04:23Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@andrewmccalip @MaxFagin @emm0sh @L5Resident note that Starlink really does make it seem more feasible. They are using solar cells that they bought for probably like XX cents per watt from Taiwan. They're making stuff with sheet metal in automotive quantities. They're launching for $1000/kg soon $100/kg internal costs"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T04:25Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@andrewmccalip @MaxFagin @emm0sh @L5Resident I just know they got a shipping container of cells from Taiwan. Public info from import documents. They also bought a German solar stringing line for terrestrial panels that they must have modified to make the Starlink cells"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T04:28Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@MaxFagin @emm0sh @L5Resident @andrewmccalip I mean it already is. Distribution and transmission dominate costs nowadays. Thats one possible advantage: siting and interconnection approval delays on the ground"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T04:48Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@MaxFagin @emm0sh @L5Resident @andrewmccalip And I think theres no way to be sure about this. You have to do it to find out. Starlink couldve been beaten by I dunno fiber build out to rural areas or 5G or solar airplanes or something. But it wasnt"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T04:49Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"I'm not generally a fan of orbit-only missions to Mars but. This is one of the most interesting I've seen and the duration is only XX% longer than the current human spaceflight record of XXX days so should be doable. Hopefully humans have already landed by then though"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-12T03:16Z 11.7K followers, 10.7K engagements

"Starlink satellites are cheap. Could be adapted as cheap solar-electric-propulsion stages for pushing payloads from LEO to LMO. The slow boat to Mars may take 3-4 years but would reduce launches for cargo negate need to send a ship along & you could use the arrays on Mars"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-16T02:03Z 11.7K followers, 9215 engagements

"@somefoundersalt Thing is "Data centers in orbit" is a feasible goal for basically one company: SpaceX. They own Starship &Starlink. Everyone else using solar panels and launch options literally 1000 times more expensive don't have a chance. Blue Origin Relativity and Stoke could eventually"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T00:21Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Had to leave the "why don't we build ships any more" thread because half the answers are "Jones Act" which makes no sense. Like people didn't think before tweeting that they just knee-jerk. (I'm probably in favor of getting rid of the Jones Act but doing so wouldn't help)"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T15:37Z 11.7K followers, 1432 engagements

"Taiwan makes like XX% of AI chips. AI underpins probably $10-20 trillion of the market cap of the most valuable companies. That pays for a lot of defense. Its in a lot of peoples interests for Taiwan not to fall or even be attacked"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T05:20Z 11.7K followers, 1019 engagements

"@hieywieyneue @Lib_Development Brazils aeronautics industry is neat. But the US is the OG"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T04:34Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@ColtMarten @newlooklurker @Death1nFire Thats why Xi would be smart to avoid attacking US bases"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T01:31Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@ColtMarten @newlooklurker @Death1nFire A preemptive strike against all US bases wouldnt be decisive. Thered be substantial capability still. Many US assets are mobile and thus would survive. Wed also see the strike being prepared as satellites are ubiquitous now. Cant do a sneak"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T01:35Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"Im certain Starship will succeed and I think it will be joined by several other vehicles going beyond the Moon in many lifetime. At very least from China and probably Blue Origin as well"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T12:30Z 11.7K followers, 9736 engagements

"Getting flak from aerospace engineers for point out the fact that for a given electrical load in space you need (2-sided) radiators 1/3rd the size of your solar arrays. A straightforward calculation of Stefan-Boltzmann's Law. 25.67e-8(W/(m2K4))(293K)4/(.21360W/m2) = 3"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T00:42Z 11.7K followers, 13K engagements

"OK it's actually insane that the US which is the greatest maritime power ever builds basically zero commercial ships. What is wrong with us"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T02:18Z 11.7K followers, 180.2K engagements

"Technocapital will protect Taiwan"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T04:57Z 11.7K followers, 2575 engagements

"@Truthful_ast Starship arrays"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T14:00Z 11.7K followers, 2913 engagements

"@somefoundersalt Griffin also screwed the US out of the Moon for a decade or two by not using EELVs for constellation and spending the lander money on a launch vehicle (Ares now SLS) we didnt need"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T18:04Z 11.7K followers, 6964 engagements

"I mean yall know that JLC PCB/CNC is a Chinese honeypot for electronics and component part designs right"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T18:42Z 11.7K followers, 76.8K engagements

"This is just ridiculous"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T04:48Z 11.7K followers, 36.1K engagements

"@whitherapathy @iridium_tea @kirv89 @gak_pdx Its not totally useless. The kind of experimental & analysis work a PhD does is useful training in some cases (although occasionally counterproductive for other things). A lot of it is a trial by fire though"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T13:02Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements

"@sleroy Theyll still need liquefaction on Mars for ISRU"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T19:59Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements