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# ![@Robotbeat Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::82431632.png) @Robotbeat Robotbeat🗽 ➐

Robotbeat🗽 ➐ posts on X about taiwan, spacex, china, safely the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  XXXXX% [finance](/list/finance)  #1965 [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians)  XXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  XXXX% [gaming](/list/gaming)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[taiwan](/topic/taiwan) #172, [spacex](/topic/spacex) #49, [china](/topic/china) #2656, [safely](/topic/safely) #397, [money](/topic/money) #2034, [department of](/topic/department-of) #18, [japan](/topic/japan) #2389, [has been](/topic/has-been) 1.03%, [puerto rico](/topic/puerto-rico) 1.03%, [nasa](/topic/nasa) #184

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### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::82431632/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Taiwan is defendable. Its like a high tech Afghanistan with a XXX mile moat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1976509542050513148) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-10T04:46Z 11.8K followers, 33.2K engagements


"@Biteme640672194 @eager_space Starship should be able to land at least 100t at a time eventually for $1B. After all it'll be landing with like at least 200t of propellant to get back to NHRO. With a landing pad on the Moon Starship probably could land with up to 1000t or more if refueled in LLO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1977541509479338039) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-13T01:06Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Looks like it can survive landing with holes in the tanks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978191696824336894) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-14T20:10Z 11.9K followers, 13.3K engagements


"We resupplying Taiwan with this gal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978194776882102772) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-14T20:22Z 11.9K followers, 5926 engagements


"@ColtMarten @newlooklurker @Death1nFire Thats why Xi would be smart to avoid attacking US bases"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978272408445280401) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-15T01:31Z 11.9K followers, XX engagements


"@himaljaya That included mostly coal and stuff. Im talking only starvation rations. Payload could be about 300t eventually for orbital maybe 1000t suborbital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978449841974915478) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-15T13:16Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978471106257342697) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-15T14:40Z 12K followers, 1728 engagements


"@noname873800194 @Blobifie @otherside_X42 Did not"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978471226352795814) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-15T14:41Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"In general South Korean stuff is a fantastic value so this is probably a good idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978483551554146653) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-15T15:30Z 11.8K followers, 1487 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978642916152164646) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-16T02:03Z 11.8K followers, 9243 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978653234630730047) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-16T02:44Z 11.9K 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978658657765036462) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-16T03:06Z 11.8K followers, XXX 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978684744003998019) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-16T04:49Z 11.8K followers, XXX 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. 2*5.67e-8(W/(m2*K4))*(293K)4/(.2*1360W/m2) = 3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978984976231100782) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T00:42Z 11.8K followers, 13K engagements


"@fireobserver32 It has been dead in the US since about 1860"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979041819116654742) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T04:28Z 11.7K followers, 4898 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979208371619205588) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T15:30Z 11.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@Noahpinion Botswana is decent too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979371394048667894) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T02:18Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@andrewmccalip @MaxFagin @emm0sh @L5Resident That's what scale is for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979402872304603263) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979403348282429548) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T04:25Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"Technocapital will protect Taiwan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979411567390396611) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T04:57Z 11.8K followers, 2593 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979415171345846482) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T05:12Z 11.8K followers, 5160 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979417282364477873) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T05:20Z 11.8K followers, 1035 engagements


"@Truthful_ast Starship arrays"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979548119327969620) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T14:00Z 11.8K followers, 2978 engagements


"@DeepDarkDrone They need to be royalty. Maybe Dolly Parton and Snoop Dogg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979553682745327785) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T14:22Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"SpaceX uses NASA wind tunnels for testing Starship and Super Heavy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979569804014203016) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T15:26Z 11.8K followers, 30.8K 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979609638074188066) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T18:04Z 11.8K followers, 7718 engagements


"@somefoundersalt I find this sort of ignorance frustrating. This is all public"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979615281313104148) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T18:27Z 11.8K 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979616883633786886) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T18:33Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@gak_pdx I can actually see this for EUV light sources"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979632741030429090) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T19:36Z 11.8K followers, 14.3K 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979637491981504987) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T19:55Z 11.9K followers, 7456 engagements


"@janekm @cyothevile I've seen (attempted) Chinese industrial espionage before in person"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979765868537233869) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T04:25Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@hieywieyneue @Lib_Development Brazils aeronautics industry is neat. But the US is the OG"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979768017350529054) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T04:34Z 11.8K followers, XX 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979895833337471137) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T13:02Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@sleroy Theyll still need liquefaction on Mars for ISRU"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980000755927978327) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T19:59Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Droneboat versions of these to resupply Taiwan. "Contested logistics""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980127919499629019) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T04:24Z 11.8K followers, 1430 engagements


"@otherbarrylives Everything is behind. Orion is XX years behind for instance. Just a nature of this business"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980271836941472163) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T13:56Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@AeroBigMike @SciGuySpace The price NASA is spending is $3B on the initial capability"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980284243642134715) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T14:45Z 11.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@AeroBigMike @SciGuySpace If you put Starships long term capabilities into a traditional cost plus cost model youd get at least $100B. Maybe more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980285797392654841) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T14:51Z 11.9K followers, XX engagements


"@CoxonMark In a free market you do. Cutthroat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980285988191584711) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T14:52Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@Spacecolonize @CoxonMark Real estate has this same gatekeeping problem"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980291317419917790) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T15:13Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@Spacecolonize @CoxonMark The problem is the gatekeeping. Middlemen who aggressively punish suppliers for going direct. Realtors that act like a cartel. This is all partly why our nation has offshored everything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980292380118176046) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T15:17Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@MatthewTortora_"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980440018092171709) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T01:04Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@SpaceNotJohn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980465417924800560) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T02:45Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@tmneff If you can't build a crew capsule that has thrusters that don't overheat how the f*** do you expect to build a lander to safely land crew on the Moon and have them ascend again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980472757109551219) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T03:14Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"@tmneff Not a chance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980477649823858866) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T03:34Z 11.9K followers, XX engagements


"@DrPhiltill @morris_que14 Phil I think you shouldnt be so naive as to repeat the PRC framing of the issue. Taiwan has invested heavily into the mainland since China opened to the west which is not something countries actually/de-facto at war do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980642486981960000) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T14:29Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@DrPhiltill @morris_que14 peaceful EU-style union between Taiwan and China are possible in far future (50 years) but China screwed the chance at early peaceful reunification by crushing Hong Kong in 2019 & lying about waiting til 2040 to establish control. Do not let the PRC control how you speak of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980646425563394237) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T14:44Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@launchallvipers @tmneff You should read up on why Boeing didnt end up submitting a bid for HLS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980672294772175175) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T16:27Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@launchallvipers @tmneff No Im serious read up on what Boeing was preparing for HLS and why they didnt end up bidding. Youll find it illuminating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980673585086714109) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T16:32Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"You shouldn't be allowed to invest in rocket companies without watching a compilation of rockets exploding. This is just part of the game"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1975226320801157189) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-06T15:47Z 12K followers, 15.8K engagements


"@ThePrimalDino Get help"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980426440417112128) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:10Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"That SpaceX is offering this in 2028 is confident on crew by this time. The rumors of Starship HLSs demise are greatly exaggerated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1977361560679923919) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-12T13:11Z 12K followers, 23.3K engagements


"Dear "it's incredibly hard to radiate heat in space" bros please circle the radiators on these satellites"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978652740189339731) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-16T02:42Z 12K followers, 75.2K 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979009215654953410) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T02:18Z 12K followers, 182.4K engagements


"I figured it out actually. We're not a maritime power. We're The Aerospace Republic. The skies are our birthright not the oceans. So we build airplanes and rockets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979341871093813555) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T00:20Z 12K followers, 32.7K engagements


"Starship is about half a century ahead of the counterfactual without SpaceX and NewSpace. Maybe a century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979615765235179795) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T18:29Z 12K followers, 65.5K engagements


"I mean yall know that JLC PCB/CNC is a Chinese honeypot for electronics and component part designs right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979619126294491504) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T18:42Z 12K followers, 90K engagements


"We used to have expansion slots for this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979720782709440644) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T01:26Z 12K followers, 1103 engagements


"This graph does illustrate very well that the US was only ever dominant in shipbuilding during or immediately after world wars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979737762170605939) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T02:33Z 12K followers, 35.5K engagements


"This is just ridiculous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979771663337312622) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T04:48Z 12K followers, 67.2K engagements


"@SciGuySpace Thats if you could do LLO rendezvous. Much higher for NHRO which Orion is designed for. (Of course if Orion could do LLO rendezvous youd need far fewer Starship tanker launches and less Starship landing mass lighter legs fewer thrusters etc.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980275776244044241) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T14:11Z 12K followers, 1880 engagements


"The same sort of cost plus contractors who still havent been able to safely bring crew back from ISS are gonna somehow beat SpaceX in safely landing crew on the Moon. Sure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980288765613806076) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T15:03Z 12K followers, 11.8K engagements


"We should unironically do this. Lander ascent engine doesnt want to work Well just resupply the crew. Congrats first inaugural members of Moonbase Alpha or Mars city Terminus or whathaveyou"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980296301410742355) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T15:33Z 12K followers, 5321 engagements


"Taiwan was not fully colonized by the Chinese government until the Qing Dynasty and then promptly lost to Japan until WW2 was over. it was never ruled by the PRC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980423688614011096) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-20T23:59Z 12K followers, 13.2K engagements


"In fact well before Taiwan was fully colonized by mainland govt the Europeans had colonized it as well in the 1600s both Spain & the Dutch. Taiwan was a colony of China never integrated into the core. Taiwan is China is incorrect. Taiwan was a Chinese colony is correct"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980426216634282019) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:09Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino Thats not what you said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980427186416021910) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:13Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino If others are ready before SpaceX all the better but absolute bulls*** to think the American people are going to choose here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980427415231852743) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:14Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino It is not. The American people get to choose wtf does that even mean"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980427533482095081) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:14Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino So Congress should pick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980427965638013138) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:16Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino You want Congress to put their thumbs on the scale to decide who gets to land This isnt the American people its corruption. Anything not an open competition is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980428213076783471) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:17Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino If Blue can throw together a crewed lander to beat starship they can be my guest And let NASA reward them with some payments from their Artemis X contract. But they frakking wont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980429233966198970) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:21Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino Yeah the American people should decide makes no sense. It was miscommunication"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980429351150841876) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:22Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino Neither will the usual suspects who cant even get crew back safely (to NASAs standard) from ISS. A crewed lander is much harder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980429626976715242) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:23Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@grok @Nmkcomps_2 Yup. Taiwan was a colony of the mainland government of China (although never the PRC). Saying Taiwan is China is like saying Mexico is Spain because it was once colonized by Spain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980430460720410659) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:26Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@grok @Nmkcomps_2 It was still a colony and the full island wasnt fully colonized & administered by the Qing until the 1800s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980430925117944275) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:28Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"This would kill NASA as an independent agency. It probably would kill its budget over time as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980438972334764081) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T01:00Z 12K followers, 81.6K engagements


"I think Duffy talking about opening A3 up goes beyond Bridenstinesque cajoling of SpaceX to get their 💩 together. Hes realized theres a powerful element in NASA & Congress that hates SpaceX with a passion & he can gain political power by siding with such people. (Hes naive.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980453767708569720) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T01:59Z 12K followers, 7616 engagements


"@deltaIV9250 Because its obvious no one else is close. And blue contributed to the delay with their lawsuit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980467996436070861) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T02:55Z 12K followers, 2117 engagements


"Nelson in 2021 when asked why schedule for Artemis X slipped to 2025 said that the Blue Origin lawsuit was a major reason for the delay. Because of the litigation for X months we have not been allowed to have under law any contact with SpaceX on the HLS program he said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980470129738879189) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T03:04Z 12K followers, 34.5K engagements


"Forgive me of being hesitant to jump to awarding Blue Origin billions more dollars for a delay to their competitor that they partially caused. Especially when they've barely launched anything whatsoever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980472274731036834) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T03:12Z 12K followers, 13.2K engagements


"@teortaxesTex Taiwan hasn't been controlled by mainland since sometime in 1800s. Except for a brief period postWW2 thanks to US. You know perfectly well ROC doesn't relinquish claims on the mainland because to do so would mean violating status quo which PRC has said would trigger violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980483960690938249) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T03:59Z 12K followers, 1350 engagements


"I love it when people say stuff like "oh but Taiwan/RoC claims all of the mainland" like okay buddy the reason they do that is to try to keep their insane aggressive neighbor from starting a war. We both know this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980484761178251447) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:02Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"@teortaxesTex RoC would stop the chirade and stop claiming to be a Chinese state if doing so wouldn't trigger their aggressive insane neighbor to attack them. You and I both know this. Stop pretending not to know it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980485076300464602) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:03Z 12K followers, 11.4K engagements


"@teortaxesTex So people lose the right of self-determination because of another political party from half a century ago that isn't even in power any more Stop this. It's retarded. You're insulting my intelligence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980485802347143322) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:06Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"@teortaxesTex They were under martial law until 1987. They've been democratic since 1996. I think the people who actually live in Taiwan have a right to decide free from threats from the mainland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980487411160477833) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:12Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"Duffy engaging in Empire Building. He wants to boss the eventual head of NASA around without having to go to all those pesky meetings"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980488960892911855) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:18Z 12K followers, 135.4K engagements


"@finalexodus1 You must think I'm retarded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980489421091991946) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:20Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"Taiwan should just buy XX million tons of thermal coal and stockpile it. And restart their (small) domestic coal industry and then idle it. All a lot cheaper than getting resupplied in a blockade--I'm sorry "quarantine"--like the Berlin Airlift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980490238201098610) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:24Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"LOL Elon is crashing out again. It has happened so many times I don't even blink any more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980491911694807373) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T04:30Z 12K followers, 4935 engagements


"@SahlSoc @teortaxesTex Id say in the 1990s when they became democratic while China became more powerful. And its not JUST fear. Taiwan also does a bunch of trade with China so wanted good trade relations as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980610164852949395) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T12:20Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"Its okay if Jared isnt administrator. He would be fantastic But Duffy wanting to kill NASAs role as an independent agency seems to be a particularly bad choice at the moment. We need someone else besides Duffy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980617099090211197) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T12:48Z 12K followers, 13.4M engagements


"@morris_que14 Still a colony"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980618993229533552) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T12:55Z 12K followers, 2620 engagements


"@morris_que14 From your own article the black portion most of the island was not even under the Qing Empires control in the 1700s. That didnt happen until the 1800s not long before it was lost to the Japanese Empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980628649750720704) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T13:34Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"@morris_que14 I mean yeah The US is a new country. And BTW at least in the US Id say that the difference between a colony and a state is democratic representation. The US does have some islands that you could characterize as colonies still like Puerto Rico or Guam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980629798541263031) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T13:38Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@ACarl8610 Rolling NASA into the department of transportation and ending NASAs role as an independent agency. Should be kind of obvious why killing NASA as an independent agency is bad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980643550581911821) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T14:33Z 12K followers, 36.9K engagements


"BTW I think part of the price of getting Jared as Administrator if it happens is probably going to be some compromise with Congress to shovel more money into oldspace so they can try building a lander for a decade before canceling it. (While Starship lands crew in 2028.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980644490068242863) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T14:36Z 12K followers, 14.9K engagements


"@Orbital_Perigee Were just calling each other gay and retarded like were 12"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980646748742947155) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T14:45Z 12K followers, 87.7K engagements


"Honestly Cancel Orion post-Artemis X and give all the money to Lockheed to try to develop their weird hydrolox reusable Mars/Moon lander. Theyll never finish but at least it wont be an insult to our ambition like SLS/Orion are a rehash of 1960s/1970s tech in the 2020s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980648302485074034) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T14:52Z 12K followers, 12.6K engagements


"@Orbital_Perigee Elon plays counterstrike so this tracks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980648934537326780) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T14:54Z 12K followers, 4662 engagements


"@adacyborg11 @growing_daniel Mauritius was first settled by the Europeans. It didnt have an indigenous population"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980666217921933519) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T16:03Z 12K followers, XXX engagements


"@DEVGR_1 NASAs role is civilian. Is the Space Force supposed to be civilian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980668309801758854) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T16:11Z 12K followers, 16.9K engagements


"LOL what if we remade the Orion contract into Orion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980674703456088076) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T16:37Z 12K followers, 2022 engagements


"@morris_que14 @DrPhiltill It says there were still substantial areas of Taiwan that werent under imperial Qing control and settlement until the late 1800s. The map shows the final state where the Qing finally subjugated effectively the entire island immediately before losing it to another empire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980680909935595670) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T17:01Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@GeorgeRoushV Orion hasnt had its first human payload"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980681135249293791) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T17:02Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@GeorgeRoushV Nope. Even with your claim that a (obvious) crewed test mission still counts as being certified Orion has not yet launched crew nor passed launch readiness review /to/ launch crew"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980683932677898515) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T17:13Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@reallycoolguy00 @ThoughtsStreams NASA is of course still under the President and funded by Congress. It's not a regulatory agency and putting it under the Dept of Transport umbrella is a bad idea. Should be a direct report to the President"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980782421709582392) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T23:45Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@HawkinsRandy This isn't true. NASA works closely with SpaceX. SpaceX owes its existence to NASA and NASA in turn wouldn't be able to send crew safely to space and back without SpaceX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980782724693496168) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T23:46Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@Hereforthetext @reallycoolguy00 Being under the umbrella of DofTransport is a bad idea. Should be a direct report to the Executive as it is now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980783054265168305) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T23:47Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@astroteuthis I think itd be more useful if it ran on CO2 or maybe water. Also: nuclear-electric propulsion especially for very deep space. Starship enables insane capabilities. We should take advantage of them. When were exploring Titan nuclear power will come in handy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980807564377133547) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-22T01:24Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@JPRandomDudeNGA Cancel Orion after Artemis X. Starship can be used to launch crew directly. Thats partly why theyve been stress testing the heatshield"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980807770795573539) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-22T01:25Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@astroteuthis @robert_zubrin Part of my motivation is that a NTR resembles a forced-air-cooled surface reactor that would be really handy on Mars. Hydrogen NTR also enables launch from the clouds of the gas giants with easy ISRU. (Im sort of crazy I guess.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980821909391700120) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-22T02:21Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@astroteuthis Thats partially what makes it fun And I agree with you that almost all the usual arguments for nuclear thermal are terrible and dont survive scrutiny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980826867084194146) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-22T02:41Z 12K followers, XX engagements


"@astroteuthis fusion kinda sucks for power density at least the way we're likely to do it. Fission is weirdly easy. Honestly maybe we can just test nuclear thermal engines on Mars in a few years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980829282302898200) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-22T02:51Z 12K followers, XX engagements