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It's hard it's harder to start a rocket startup on no money, but even a rocket startup you can start on not much money because what you do is you adjust for how much money you've got.
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SpaceX is retiring the rocket that made cheap launch possible in order to fly its own satellites on a bigger one.Their words
The company that is almost exclusively responsible for the dramatic increase in launch availability in the 2020s has signaled that it intends to wind down Falcon 9 operations as quickly as possible in favor of the larger Starship rocket.
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They're the only uh power in Europe that doesn't need to maintain a large standing army because if Britain could maintain a competent navy, no army's going to reach British shores cuz they're going to be drowned at sea.
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One Battle After AnotherTheir words
One Battle After Another. Great. Especially Sean Penn. And it reminded me of a Wes Anderson movie for some reason? Like one that he would have made had he followed the Bottle Rocket path instead of the Rushmore Path. (A+)
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Orion is too heavy for any rocket that exists to carry it to low lunar orbit and bring it home.Their words
Even for $5.2b per launch, Orion is so overweight that there does not exist a booster nor an upper stage that can launch it to Low Lunar Orbit and return it to Earth.
NASA’s Orion Space Capsule Is Flaming Garbagecaseyhandmer.wordpress.com
5 October 2025
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Yeah, I mean I used to think it was versus, but now I realize that they combine really well. It could be rocket fuel for for your growth.
19 September 2025
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So the Navy hired the shoe runners unit from the SS, paid them money, and then gave them drugs, different kinds of drug combinations, methamphetamine combined with cocaine and chewing gum and all kinds of things. So this is a big thing, you know. And there are documents to it.
15 August 2025
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China is surrounded by 15 countries who are mostly hostile to it, right? with no good like mountain ranges or rivers or anything to really separate them. And then they get all their oil, almost all their oil from the Middle East, right in countries that they don't control, don't have strong diplomatic relationships with on fleets of oil tankers that they can't defend because their navy doesn't have the ability to to operate effectively in the Indian Ocean.
5 September 2024
From one piece Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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American shipbuilding has been uncompetitive for a century; it is not a recent decline.Their words
The situation we face today, with U.S. ships costing at least twice as much to build as ships built elsewhere, is not a recent development; it’s been the norm for at least the past 100 years.
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The U.S., on the other hand, never appears to have been strongly motivated to make its shipbuilding industry an international success.
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The U.S. Navy estimates that China’s shipbuilding capacity is 232 times our own.
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Wartime shipbuilding surges have never left America with a commercial shipbuilding industry afterwards.Their words
But the U.S. again failed to transform its enormous shipbuilding effort into a successful commercial shipbuilding industry.
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Shipbuilding is labor intensive, and we see a repeated pattern of it moving to countries with low-cost labor: from Britain to Japan, then to Korea, then to China.
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Rocket EmojiTheir words
To quickly type emojis, I use Rocket Emoji. It is so good to access emojis promptly.
23 January 2024
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China built half of the world’s ships (by gross tonnage) in 2022, while the US had 0.2 percent of capacity: in practice, this meant that while China builds hundreds of new ships a year, the US builds three to five.
3 January 2024
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Specialized suppliers need multiple shipyards in one location to steady their business.
14 December 2023
From one piece Jeff Bezos: Amazon and Blue Origin | Lex Fridman Podcast #405 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Building a factory that turns out rockets at rate is at least as hard as designing the rocket in the first place.Their words
So you need to have all of your manufacturing facilities and processes and inspection techniques and acceptance tests and everything operating at rate. And rate manufacturing is at least as difficult as designing the vehicle in the first place
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And so the only way to improve safety is to have an escape system. And historically, human-rated rockets have had escape systems. Only the space shuttle did not, but Apollo had one. All of the previous Gemini, etcetera, they all had escape systems.
3 December 2023
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