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[@Robotbeat](/creator/twitter/Robotbeat)
"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


"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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1977211843426058551) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-12T03:16Z 11.8K followers, 10.7K 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 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1977831118180409584) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-13T20:17Z 11.7K followers, 1167 engagements


"We resupplying Taiwan with this gal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978194776882102772) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-14T20:22Z 11.8K followers, 5923 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 11.8K 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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978273424989381028) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978438317403193358) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-15T12:30Z 11.7K followers, 9736 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


"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, 1484 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


"@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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978979675771670983) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T00:21Z 11.7K 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


"@somefoundersalt I think this is the idea of Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1978993850501759079) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T01:17Z 11.7K followers, XX engagements


""Well I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic" Lol why even redact this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979039137043808448) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T04:17Z 11.7K followers, 18K 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


"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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979210107041800347) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-17T15:37Z 11.7K followers, 1432 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


"@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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979409559702671857) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T04:49Z 11.7K 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


"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


"@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](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979579981274722452) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-18T16:07Z 11.7K followers, XX 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


"@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


"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


"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, 1424 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 11.8K followers, 9271 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


"@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 11.8K 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 11.8K followers, 15.8K engagements


"Is it possible to make an Arduino Mega or better using ONLY US sourced subcomponents The bar is really low here but I want to see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1975615204361969730) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-07T17:32Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"Nope. I use a 240V 30A outlet all the time for charging my car and drying my clothes. And my electric stove uses a 50A outlet. That's 12kW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1977540942577201326) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-13T01:04Z 11.8K followers, 1408 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 11.8K followers, 1728 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 11.8K followers, 1099 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 11.8K followers, 23.3K 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


"@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


"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


"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 11.8K 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 11.8K followers, 182.1K 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 11.8K followers, 32.7K 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, 7701 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 11.8K followers, 65.1K 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 11.8K followers, 89.8K 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 11.8K followers, 7441 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 11.8K followers, 35.4K engagements


"This is just ridiculous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1979771663337312622) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-19T04:48Z 11.8K followers, 67K 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


"@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 11.8K followers, 1557 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 11.8K 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 11.8K 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 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


"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 11.8K followers, 6190 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 11.8K followers, XXX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino Get help"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980426440417112128) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:10Z 11.8K 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 11.8K 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 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@ThePrimalDino So Congress should pick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980427965638013138) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:16Z 11.8K 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 11.8K 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 11.8K 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 11.8K 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 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


"@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 11.8K followers, XX engagements


"@tmneff Not a chance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980477649823858866) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T03:34Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 11.8K followers, XXX 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


"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 11.8K followers, 4029 engagements


"@ThePrimalDino Thats not what you said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Robotbeat/status/1980427186416021910) [@Robotbeat](/creator/x/Robotbeat) 2025-10-21T00:13Z 11.8K 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 11.8K followers, XX 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 11.8K followers, XXX engagements

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@Robotbeat "Taiwan is defendable. Its like a high tech Afghanistan with a XXX mile moat"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-10T04:46Z 11.8K followers, 33.2K 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 11.8K followers, 10.7K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-13T01:06Z 11.8K followers, XXX 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, 1167 engagements

"We resupplying Taiwan with this gal"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-14T20:22Z 11.8K followers, 5923 engagements

"@ColtMarten @newlooklurker @Death1nFire Thats why Xi would be smart to avoid attacking US bases"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T01:31Z 11.8K 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

"@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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T13:16Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"In general South Korean stuff is a fantastic value so this is probably a good idea"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T15:30Z 11.8K followers, 1484 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 11.8K followers, XXX 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

"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 11.8K followers, 13K 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

""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

"@fireobserver32 It has been dead in the US since about 1860"
X Link @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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T15:30Z 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

"@Noahpinion Botswana is decent too"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T02:18Z 11.8K 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 11.8K 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

"Technocapital will protect Taiwan"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T04:57Z 11.8K followers, 2593 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 11.8K followers, 1035 engagements

"@Truthful_ast Starship arrays"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T14:00Z 11.8K followers, 2978 engagements

"@DeepDarkDrone They need to be royalty. Maybe Dolly Parton and Snoop Dogg"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T14:22Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T18:33Z 11.8K followers, XXX 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 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"@sleroy Theyll still need liquefaction on Mars for ISRU"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T19:59Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements

"SpaceX uses NASA wind tunnels for testing Starship and Super Heavy"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T15:26Z 11.8K followers, 30.8K engagements

"Droneboat versions of these to resupply Taiwan. "Contested logistics""
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T04:24Z 11.8K followers, 1424 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T15:03Z 11.8K followers, 9271 engagements

"@Spacecolonize @CoxonMark Real estate has this same gatekeeping problem"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T15:13Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:21Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-06T15:47Z 11.8K followers, 15.8K engagements

"Is it possible to make an Arduino Mega or better using ONLY US sourced subcomponents The bar is really low here but I want to see"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-07T17:32Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Nope. I use a 240V 30A outlet all the time for charging my car and drying my clothes. And my electric stove uses a 50A outlet. That's 12kW"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-13T01:04Z 11.8K followers, 1408 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T14:40Z 11.8K followers, 1728 engagements

"We used to have expansion slots for this"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T01:26Z 11.8K followers, 1099 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-12T13:11Z 11.8K followers, 23.3K 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 11.8K followers, 5160 engagements

"@noname873800194 @Blobifie @otherside_X42 Did not"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-15T14:41Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 11.8K followers, 9243 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 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-17T02:18Z 11.8K followers, 182.1K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T00:20Z 11.8K followers, 32.7K 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 11.8K followers, 7701 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 11.8K followers, 65.1K 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 11.8K followers, 89.8K engagements

"@gak_pdx I can actually see this for EUV light sources"
X Link @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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-18T19:55Z 11.8K followers, 7441 engagements

"This graph does illustrate very well that the US was only ever dominant in shipbuilding during or immediately after world wars"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T02:33Z 11.8K followers, 35.4K engagements

"This is just ridiculous"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T04:48Z 11.8K followers, 67K engagements

"@otherbarrylives Everything is behind. Orion is XX years behind for instance. Just a nature of this business"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T13:56Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T14:11Z 11.8K followers, 1557 engagements

"@AeroBigMike @SciGuySpace The price NASA is spending is $3B on the initial capability"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T14:45Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T14:51Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"@CoxonMark In a free market you do. Cutthroat"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T14:52Z 11.8K followers, XXX 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T15:17Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T23:59Z 11.8K followers, 6190 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:09Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@ThePrimalDino Get help"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:10Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:14Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"@ThePrimalDino It is not. The American people get to choose wtf does that even mean"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:14Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"@ThePrimalDino So Congress should pick"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:16Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:17Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:23Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:26Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:28Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"@MatthewTortora_"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T01:04Z 11.8K 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T03:14Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"@tmneff Not a chance"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T03:34Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T04:24Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@janekm @cyothevile I've seen (attempted) Chinese industrial espionage before in person"
X Link @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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-19T04:34Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-20T15:33Z 11.8K followers, 4029 engagements

"@ThePrimalDino Thats not what you said"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:13Z 11.8K followers, XX engagements

"@ThePrimalDino Yeah the American people should decide makes no sense. It was miscommunication"
X Link @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T00:22Z 11.8K followers, XX 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 @Robotbeat 2025-10-21T04:12Z 11.8K followers, XXX engagements

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