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1. Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 07:13:11 JST Charlie Stross

   It's worth noting that the $6Bn cost overruns on SLS boosters and engines—the overruns ALONE—probably cost more than the entire SpaceX Starship program (for a fully reusable launcher with a much larger payload), currently running at an est. $2-3Bn/year total vs. $25Bn/year for SLS: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/13/congress-prepares-to-continue-throwing-money-at-nasas-space-launch-system/

   • Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • Prof. Sam Lawler (sundogplanets@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 07:13:10 JST Prof. Sam Lawler

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     @cstross Possibly because SpaceX ignores every environmental rule ever created (and takes advantage of the fact that there are effectively no rules at all in low earth orbit) and passes the cost on to the rest of us who have to breathe the air and attempt to use Earth's orbit for things besides Starlink?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 07:13:56 JST Aral Balkan

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     @cstross But they’re not run by a transphobic fascist billionaire douchebag so there’s that.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 17:59:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Ed Davies

     @edavies @cstross Damn, I guess the settler colonial project isn’t going that well then. Who’d have thunk it.

   • Ed Davies (edavies@functional.cafe)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 17:59:17 JST Ed Davies

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     • Aral Balkan

     @aral OTOH, SLS is the fault of a bunch of transphobic fascist multi-millionaire douchebag congress critters playing silly buggers with other people's money so it's not entirely a win.

     @cstross