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Just some last thoughts in case people are interested why US human spaceflight is in the shitty place it is right now. During the Clinton era, NASA decided the replacement for the Space Shuttle needed to be more efficient and cheaper, and decided on the X-33/Venturestar program, which was...

The thing that bothers me most about NASA is certainly the lack of vision. In its early years, the space program flourished because Werner Von Braun had a vision of going to the Moon. NASA has been visionless ever since. Whether you like him or not, Trump at least tried to instill a sense of...

That's a great example of how wrong the system has gone. Most of NASA wanted to cancel the SLS program in the first year of the OBama administration, but Shelby and Nelson pushed back hard and kept those dollars flowing. That's why SLS is often called the "Senate Launch System". The rocket is...

I think you have all that exactly right. The problem is that when we developed the Cost Plus system for complex project development, we removed all the risk from the private companies and moved it to an unaccountable government. That totally broke the system. People were noting this for...

NASA has the highest public approval rating of any federal agency. It has for decades, despite employees generally receive only 70% the pay they would in the private sector. However for comparison's sake, NASA is about a decade and a half behind schedule on this, and 970% over budget; compared...

It's not mine and yes, it was disabled a couple months ago. Look for updates. They come out each patch.

If Toys forms an LLC, he can pay himself and any staff he desires quite apart from his own taxes. That's also the best way to do a Kickstarter, which could easily be combined with. It's not uncommon for such to exceed a million dollars income in a couple days. Key though, is to have a) a...

There's nothing wrong about theory crafting ideas years in advance. They get refined by the observations here in the forums and Montoya then has them in mind for the future. That should be enough. And I will reiterate most strongly, all players should have handles they did not write, and...

I think I said several years ago I think it is a great idea to leverage TEST's size b y having a $1/month org dues, but for that, we should try to have supplied some things that other orgs cannot. For example, with that kind of cash a real micro-jump calculator could be developed and handed to...

Until CIG nerfs the ability of ships to get where vehicles can go, or nerfs ship ability to target ground vehicles, I don't see a future for them. Just too vulnerable. While riding a boke flat out you might be hard to target due to relative speed, but otherwise, it's just a bullet magnet. I...

Just a player methinks, but lets hope CIG hires them.

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Personally, I would not want to be in any ground vehicle unless CIG makes it much, much harder to find, target and kill from the air. They probably need to introduce ground clutter. There are no ships that can't kill a dozen ground vehicles easily, except unless they have lots of missiles...

I like that except I am still waiting for the definitive work exploring the use of the Nox and eventually the X1 Force. The latter is supposed to come with 2 shields, and a gimbled S1 hardpoint. To date i have never seen anyone put the Nox through its paces as a suppressing fire platform, and...

Yup. Still a hard choice, but keep in mind 2 Ursas require 4 players crew for best effect, and a single Spartan requires just 2. Crew requirement is a huge issue in evaluating best methods. Most players would balk at being assigned an S1 turret, but feel useful with an S2 turret.

When the Spartan appeared I was one of the underwhelmed. I didn't see an advantage over a pair of Ursas. Both had a pair of S1s in a turret and a place for the gunner, and a pilot. The Ursa carries 4 and the Spartan 8. Two Ursas take up the same space as a Spartan, so I reasoned the Spartan...

Em, you seem to think I said the opposite of what I said. Maybe you’d like to go back and read again. Did you look at the cartoon?

We did fine for a bunch of posts until someone started slandering others and making snide comments about unauthorized thinking. Call the covid police. Arrest someone quickly! It is problematic others hold these views. They should not be allowed to exist! Every time a crazed post-modern...

That's not true. When Filloni and Favreau took over they told Kennedy what she was not allowed to do with the new StarWars story she was working. She was planning to make a female uber-jedi--more powerful than all others--and F&F told her no. She has apparently lost that project now too. Aww...

I have no problem placing blame squarely upon Kathleen Kennedy for shitting on the fans in order to support her post-modernist ideology. It is what philosopher and intellectual historian Steven Hicks calls "third stage", where post modernists are actually seeking compensatory justice. She...