We did 2.7 million in a calendar year at one point very recently I believe. Not everything can go on a falcon 9 there are diameter limitations.

Is it actually savings or do they just launch more s*** given an increasing budget?

Meanwhile, what did all that public tax dollars sunk into SpaceX really buy?

#13 | Posted by jpw at 2026-06-04 02:56 PM | Reply | Flag:

Launch costs down from $14k/kg to $3k/kg, for hardware that fits a Falcon 9.

Definitely would have, but in the 50s-70s. It's Personal Rapid Transit in prototype form. It was prominent in Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Scientific American, and Housing and Urban Development studies on the concept, and concepts and prototypes introduced by Boeing, Rohr, Disney. Walt Disney genuinely believed he was prototyping the transportation systems that would replace cars.

A good name for the sociological theme is Individualization of Infrastructure. People want the benefits of public transport, but implemented in a private cabin experience.

NASA could have done what he has done

#8 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-06-04 07:00 AM | Reply | Flag:

No, they could not. NASA does not do massive amounts of iterative destruction testing. They explode far less. They're also hamstrung by politics.

Also, Musk hired NASA engineers. He cherry picked top talent from the existing rocket industry.

Monorail!

#3 | Posted by Angrydad at 2026-06-03 09:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

Not just a one way cruise missile with basic machine vision. These things showed up, began loitering around the area, and were seemingly dispatched on targets of opportunity by humans remote desktop'd in.

and what I said would happen is already in play. ADCOP construction greatly accelerated in the UAE. 80% of pre-war oil flow by October, none of it going on a ship through Hormuz. Infrastructure hardening and new pipelines are already underway, zero red tape.

What's that mean in the long run? Without being able to threaten the strait, Iran's only option is nuclear weapons.

I bet it helped even more that Mr. Toad was not in control of the U.S. Military yet.

#60 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-06-03 12:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Joe Biden was the President of the United States during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel."

Objectively, they bet on a weak president that would do everything they could to restraint Israel. Then Jan 20 2025 came around.

It probably helped a lot that the Iranian surrogate Hamas hadn't yet carried out the Oct 7th attack.

Men who worship Trump, a man who wears liquid foundation, is *obsessed* with ballrooms, dances to gay anthems from the 70s, plays music from Broadway musicals, talks fondly about Arnold Palmer's enormous penis, and gushes about how hot Jaxson Dart is, are questioning James Talarico's sexuality?

#14 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-05-31 02:31 PM | Reply

I don't know why I feel like I have to point out the obvious here, but one of them has gone through a bunch of wives, which is very normal for a politician.

The other has never had a spouse and has produced no children, which isn't very normal for a politician. He might date his female staff, but it's unconfirmed.

You have to be straight af to win the Texas senate. He needs to roll coal and knock somebody up.

Remember those threads about how the US doesn't have the large, dedicated minesweepers it needs to send to the gulf?

It's because medium unmanned surface vessels took over that job. MCM USV. It works so well it's being ramped up.

What changed: Slow, propeller driven "drones" acting as cruise missiles and our hegemony let them build a hefty MRBM arsenal with minimal interference.

Did Iran close the Strait of Hormuz as fmr Pres Obama was negotiating with Iran?

#50 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-01 08:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

The Strait didn't close during the "tanker wars" in the 80s because the US Navy escorted tankers during Operation Earnest Will as fought of the Iranians.

It's been 3 days since the last, small scale trade of strikes. In the last 24 hours Iran has claimed it was going to break the American blockade. They have no chance of that.

Trump did something we're supposed to do? That's the shocking part.

"Yes, the United States and Ukraine shared a generally warm and improving relationship for years leading up to the 2014 Maidan revolution. This bilateral diplomatic "thaw" was characterized by multiple formalized agreements and deepening ties."

You have to thaw them out before you flip them.

Governance

Instead of navigating standard county zoning, developers are partnering with the Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA). Approved in April and May 2026, this state-authorized framework streamlines the approval process while capturing local property tax increments. The Utah Office of the State Auditor now tracks this progress using a dedicated public dashboard.

The Military Installation Development Authority (MIDA) is an independent state economic development agency in Utah. Established by the legislature in 2007, its primary mission is to support military installations and veterans by facilitating public-private partnerships to develop underutilized military land.How MIDA WorksMunicipal Powers: Within its designated project areas, MIDA effectively acts as an independent local government. It controls land use, planning, and zoning decisions rather than the surrounding county or municipality.

Not a great time to be a tanker. A team that won the Tank Olympics for Russia died in the opening days the Ukraine invasion to Javelin fire.

Would you trust an AI model that you didn't train?

#16 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-29 08:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

What kind of model? I've trained 10 million in the last 14 days. If you can make a context aware bigru model with a better accuracy, f1, log loss, and precision than mine, and it passes real world validation, yes.

It could do 10 million after double checking the card. It's not the 8 title fights that lunatic Trump promised. Still good. Topuria vs Gathje, Periera vs Gane, O'Malley vs Zahabi. Hokit vs Lewis.. that one is sad, Lewis really needs to retire, but he can still sleep anybody he touches. There's only 7 fights but most of them are fan favorites.

Paramount +?
So, no one will see it?

#63 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-05-28 05:21 PM | Reply

6 million live viewers, probably. About what Colbert got at the end of his run after Trump made him popular again.

That's assuming you're using hundreds and not sending them $250 Trump bills.

How many pallets would that be?

#4 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-05-27 01:08 PM | Reply |

265 pallets, 13 trucks, and 8 C-5 jets unless its repackaged as dense air cargo then you can get it down to 2 C-5.

Big PPVs don't happen anymore. That business model died out.

Is this low brow ugly spectacle being broadcast on network and/or cable "free," or is it exclusively PPV?

#59 | Posted by dutch46 at 2026-05-28 01:40 PM | Reply

Streamed free (with ads) exclusively on Paramount+

Should have been a polymarket bet for that...

Did anybody in their lifetime expect to see Rosanne Barr dancing at a Ken Paxton rally while singing gloria?