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For the first time, SpaceX not only launched its mammoth Starship, but also returned the booster to the launch site and to caught it with a pair of

SpaceX will launch the mammoth Starship on Sunday in a launch window that opens at 5 AM PST (7 AM local time) from the company’s Starbase site in southeast Texas. This flight, which will be the fifth in the Starship development program, is coming a little sooner than expected: the Federal Aviation Administration had previously said that it did not anticipate issuing a modified launch license for this test before late November.

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    23 days ago

    It’s also an irrelevant.

    Humanity can do two things at the same time, we always have been able to. So to say we shouldn’t do thing X because thing Y is still a problem is fundamentally misunderstanding how progress works. If you genuinely think along those lines then we probably shouldn’t be making video games either because climate change is still a problem.

    • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
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      23 days ago

      I say we stop doing home cooking channels. There are enough recipes. That energy needs to go to fighting climate change.