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We will have to see, NASA has a huge RnD budget and massive capital (both physical and human) that is frontloaded on it (so it brings the costs up). But this pays dividends strategically for the US to create spaceX et al commercial ecosystem downroad as well to begin with. Govt agency vs...

Should we make this the dedicated US Space News thread (i.e not just SpaceX but also NASA et al.)? Here is recent IG report on NASA findings (problems/issues) with the Artemis program, that gives larger indication of the challenges in general in this larger frontier of endeavour...

Behind the scenes footage released a few months later after it was filmed @Gessler @Zapper et al. 3 SWiFTs, 2 HAPS prototypes, 1 Rustom-1/Archer NG, and one TAPAS with ELINT payload

Then we have things like this going on too....

Indo Uzbek exercises

@Gessler later I will be going through this, within it ISRO's Director for Liquid Propulsion says that the upcoming 'Soorya' rocket will have 32 tons to low earth orbit, ~3x of the capability of LVM3 Around this slide: Around the 52 minute mark: He also said that in "1 or 2 months," they...

Nah, we have enough checks and balances in society to keep this crap under control compared to levels achieved with actual total despots. Even within just this state there is heavy anti-incumbency and two parties jostle in and out (they split from each other and are bitter about that etc)...

yah, total idiot family dynasty in politics (from my state too sadly). The dad had some fascination with stalin and named his kid after him and now we are stuck with this numpty with this barbaric name. Our people are f'kin stupid, its nuts. Anyway when their political radicals blah blah...

Well every language in the end is something of a sprachbund given history and context and absorption rate (into colloquial and then vernacular). Longer it spends in the vernacular phase, the likelihood it gets standardised using the grammar rules. This is seen in Tamil (and all our Dravidian...

Recent convo I had on agglutination with some Turkish friends: Me: its pretty fascinating to compare tamil and turkish for their agglutination. its the same order and everything. Konusuyorum (konusu + yor + um) vs pesukiren (pesu +kir + en) for i am speaking (english which has limited...

At around the 22 minute mark, the backstory of K9 thunder in Indian SPH requirement is explored.