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Why We Can’t Have Nice Space Things

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  1. This reminds me of the stuff they put the first astronauts through, the ones in the Mercury program.
    How much of that was actually related to possible things that could be encountered during a flight, and how much of it was scientists saying “We’ve got these young male subjects in good shape, who are willing to do anything to stay in the program. What can we put them through?”
    In this case, the other flights out of Vandenberg are mostly military. And the only health, safety and environmental regulations the military obey are the ones they want to.
    So SpaceX gets all the silly stuff the frustrated regulators can’t do for the other flights.

  2. It’s idiocy like this that confirms my opinion about the size and usefulness of the US bureaucracy. A massive reduction in the bureaucracy would be disruptive for a while, but things would settle down and start running much better before long.

  3. …requiring @SpaceX to asses whether their rockets could potentially hit SHARKS and WHALES is side-splittingly hilarious. 🤣

    Let me pull a Scott Adams here and say the government and SpaceX could have saved a ton of money on this study by just asking me first.

    The answer is of course, is yes it could but not likely. Esp. after Starship becomes fully reusable.

  4. Aren’t the sonic booms, telling the seals, whales and whatever, that humans are going to space. It seems it would make them happy.

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