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"Centibillionaire" wars. I am looking forward to the service that Starlink will provide, but with the current failure rate there is some risk involved with the shear amount of space debris finding its way into low orbit and traveling at thousands of miles an hour and creating a very risky space two or three hundred mile above the earth that could impede future projects and make them risky for decades to come.

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1 posted on 08/28/2021 8:24:21 AM PDT by fireman15
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Bezos is a loser and the money can’t wash it off.


2 posted on 08/28/2021 8:26:07 AM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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lovely how such multi=billionaires (or, in their own communistic lingo, “over-privileged 1% elite spoiled pig blod-suckers”) have never even learned the most rudimentary people skills

we should send them back to kindergarten and require that they receive passing marks on their “plays well with others” report cards!

ps: they deserve each other, ha ha


3 posted on 08/28/2021 8:29:19 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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The Kessler Syndrome is overused by hack reporters trying to instill fear to their readership. Space is vast and the likelihood of collisions are infinitesimal.


4 posted on 08/28/2021 8:29:37 AM PDT by DoubleNickle
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Bezos really is a disgusting human being who has caused considerable damage to the world.


5 posted on 08/28/2021 8:31:02 AM PDT by McGavin999 (biden is not my president )
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Bezos is looking for payback for his roll in helping to get rid of Trump.


6 posted on 08/28/2021 8:34:34 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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Modern day Tesla vs. Edison


7 posted on 08/28/2021 8:36:22 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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Liberal losers are the worst losers.


8 posted on 08/28/2021 8:37:21 AM PDT by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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So if Bezos retired, who is running Amazon now?


10 posted on 08/28/2021 8:42:13 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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Bezos is a dildo just like his little rocket ship, his tantrums are delaying our space program for months.


12 posted on 08/28/2021 8:49:47 AM PDT by Colo9250 (Demand justice for Ashley Babbitt.)
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Bezos started his company in his mom’s basement.
Musk left his home to come to America and start his business.

You can tell by watching them.


15 posted on 08/28/2021 9:02:31 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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This reminds me of Nicola Tesla vs Thomas Edison. Testla was a an inspired genuis. Edison was more a grind it out hack.


21 posted on 08/28/2021 9:23:16 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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contract to put astronauts on the Moon

Do dead astronauts count?
22 posted on 08/28/2021 9:30:13 AM PDT by cgbg (A kleptocracy--if they can keep it. Think of it as the Cantillon Effect in action.)
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Bozos is in the ever-expanding list of people who I loathe.
23 posted on 08/28/2021 9:32:47 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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“with the current failure rate there is some risk involved with the shear amount of space debris finding its way into low orbit and traveling at thousands of miles an hour and creating a very risky space two or three hundred mile above the earth that could impede future projects and make them risky for decades to come.”

The space junk problem is a real threat to future space exploration. I hope we have some great minds thinking of ways to bring it back to Earth (huge magnets of some sort? I don’t know. I’m not a scientist/physicist), or blast it out to space farther.

But I hope we have our best and brightest working on it. I’m sure Trump came across the issue while formulating the Space Force; perhaps that is one of its mandates.

Did Biden cancel the Space Force?

Funny how our best modern presidents are thinking ahead, in space. Reagan had the missile defense program, condescendingly referred to as “Star Wars,” and Trump had the Space Force. You know he was right; China wants to be there, so does Russia, so we’ve got to get there first.

What did Trump get for his forward thinking? Mocked by the MSM and a funny show, “Space Force,” that depicts the head of the agency, played by Steve Carell, as a bumbling moron. He usually gets the job done, but just barely. It’s more a matter of luck than competence.

Biden’s presidency is the same, except Slow Joe has run out of luck and he never had competence.


24 posted on 08/28/2021 10:25:20 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("Fear is a reaction; courage is a decision." Winston Churchill)
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It’s LAWFARE and our side needs to get better at it.


27 posted on 08/28/2021 10:34:57 AM PDT by cicero2k
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That’s ok. Both these guys can afford a few dozen lawyers to duke it out.


31 posted on 08/28/2021 11:13:22 AM PDT by bgill (.Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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Bozo and Blue Origin are so far behind SpaceX that the only way to catch up their technology, to where SpaceX was years ago, is to sue Musk


32 posted on 08/28/2021 11:25:47 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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I am looking forward to the service that Starlink will provide,

There are already over 100,000 subscribers to the Starlink beta program, paying $100 a month fees to SpaceX, after paying $500 for the satellite dish when they first sign up.
And there are another 500,000 eager future subscribers who have paid $100 to SpaceX to register, awaiting when the service will go live in their localities.
So far, user experience has been great as hundreds of YouTube videos from users will testify.

but with the current failure rate

Failure rate of what?

there is some risk involved with the shear amount of space debris finding its way into low orbit and traveling at thousands of miles an hour and creating a very risky space two or three hundred mile above the earth that could impede future projects and make them

So far, no SpaceX satellite has collided with any satellite from any other company or country. The SpaceX satellites have in built collision avoidance technology. This is impressive because SpaceX accounts for a pretty high percentage (about 33%) of all active satellites in orbit.

35 posted on 08/28/2021 12:53:59 PM PDT by SmokingJoe ( )
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