MiroslavPokorny

That not how science works.

Hope is not physical reality.

Something is only successful when success is delivered.

Peace to the men and families of Apollo 1.

Sorry Apollo 1, 4, 5 and 6 were unmanned, 7 got men to LEO, 8 orbitted the moon and 9 landed Neil and Buzz.

Starship is up to 15 and is not man rated nor has it achieved a moon orbit or moon landing.

Which is the more successful ?

> You're saying a development rocket that is pushed past the expected limit fails? Amazing...

Where did i deny it was not a work in progress ?

So why pretend it is a success until it is ready ?

> Nearly all 'landings' have exploded, because that's what happens when you intentionally land a 30 story building full of fuel in the open ocean

Thanks for agreeing with me.

Do they even work ?

There have been many examples of their delivery vehicles blowing up most of the time in recent tests as confirmed by satellite photos.

Did it help in Iran ?

Americans need to stop thinking that leaders act alone and everyone under them only accepts orders.

Nothing will change because those currently enjoying their privilege because of their position dont want that to change. If it kills millions of others, they simply dont care. It doesnt bother the current batch of generals to send thousnads to die on a daily basis why would that change tomorrow if Putin dies ?

The Soviet economy was like today mostly based on exporting resources such as OIL. There was no total sanction encorcement.

THere may have been some sanctions but ther eality is the USSR economy would fail if the west stopped trade with them. The USSR collapsed because their exports value collapsed in the 80s.

Since America claims its the land of the free, that means the American military personnel and related companies are all freely helping enforce government policy.

How many generals have resigned ?

Every time Trump wants to harm Ukraine and demands starship service be reduced or denied, every single American complies. They are just as guilty as the command, because they freely help.

If you study past and current Russian territorial advances you will find they are precisely compatible with my observations.

You didnt read my response. I simply repeated what PUTIN said, im not talking about actual reality. The two are very different. In Russia only one persons opinion or will matters and thats PUTIN.

I dont recall seeing protests from the Russian public demanding that the government perform the 1999 Ichkeriya war.

So losing up 100 starships to reuse one that gets to the moon, is saving money ?

Starship is finished - jsut ask Elon, thats why he sold it.

Because it blows up more than gets into orbit.

Let me know when Starship makes it to the moon. Apollo got there after 2 launches. and only had 1x problem and everyone got home.

With Russia losing its best defense, namely the Americans, hopefully Ukraine will be able to continue its recent attacks to the best of their capabilities. This war might have been over if Ukraine was able to attack Russia from the beginning.

This is untrue. The world market mayber be fractured and many countries may not directly buy OIL from Russia, but its all connected. India and China amongst many others for example are major customers of Russia. If their supply of oil is reduced they still need their oil and they will buy from the other suppliers.

I am not a Putin supporter and i hope he rots in hell, the sooner the better, but that doesnt change the fact that he does wish to recreate the USSR and its satellite state system.

Im sorry your home country cant be left in peace but those are the facts.

Putin has said the dissolution of the USSR was the greatest political tragedy of the 21C.

Even if you dont refine locally, they still need to transport and store. Nobody anywhere on earth is pumping directly from the ground to a waiting ship across thousands of kms.

It never ends - thats the problem all of Eastern EU knows very well.

Wasnt it supposed to be on Mars like 10 years ago ?

Russia contributed about 1/4 of all oil products in the past. The damage they are rightfully taking will take years to fix. Nobody in the west will be selling the replacement equipment for a long time.

Prices are not going down for a years.

Ukraine has the right to defend itself as best it can.

They have the right to defend their homes and kids first above your right to drive a car. Go buy a bicycle.

Of course they would, but we dont live in a fair or peaceful world.

Whats to stop Elon getting greedy and changing the price ?

Close by what definition ?

Waymo and others are hardly FSD, they have hoardes of Phillipinos ready to take over as reported by papers like the NYT.

Why would Putin care what ordinary Russians think ?

Every single Russian citizen is scared of Putin, because they know he owns everything including their lives.

They also know that most of the dead and fighting are not even European white Russian, most of the unfortunates are from the many other cultures and peoples that have been conquered.

Russia believes they have to attack their neighbours, because they believe they need to push all the way to geographic boundaries like the sea or mountains.

Unfortunately this is how dictators think. Nobodies die for their ambitions and tahts what we see.

Putin believes he needs the boundaries to be what Stalin took after WW2 from the old and sick Roosevelt who gave him too much of Eastern Europe.

You dont understand the mind of the dictator especially a Russian dictator. They have always been paranoid about their neighbours, this is a tradition that goes back hundreds of years because of geographic luck they have no defensive boundaries.

The UK famously has the sea, which has helped it for a thousand years. Its no conincidence that the boundary of Spain and France are the Pyrenees or France and Italy are the Alps or China and India have the Himalayas.

Powerful countries like natural boundaries like this because they are always worried about the other side. Russia for all its size has mountains or water stopping others. Putin wants Ukraine because he wants to push RUssia back to the USSR boundaries which were mountains in Europe. WHen Russia controlled and had roops in East Germany the open plains were narrow, today they are thousands of kms. Yes Im not defending Putin his violence and aggression and changes to Finland are all his fault, but thats not whwat im discussing.

He wants the boundary to the sea and mountains. Unfortunately he doesnt care how many millions die, all he cares about is his imperial amb itions.

WRONG.

Dictators have always been paranoid about everyone else, this is why they are always extremely careful about personal protection.

What you dont appreciate is that Russia is a multi tiered society. Im not denying a small number of thousand European Russians have died, but the only cities or peoples that Putin fears are Moscow and St P. So far only a few thousnad have died from there and basically everyone in those cities knows they are effectively spared from being forced into the army.

Most of the dead and fighting are from places you and me have never heard of, that is cities and towns and regions filled with the many other non European peoples that are under Russia. Russia is a land of over a 100 peoples, there are dozens if not more different cultures and languages. Those are the people being killed.

The European type Russians in Moscow and St P know this, and they wont dare protest because they are not the wons dying.

Past hits were on a much smaller scale and limited to a single tank or other construction. These new hits are on a completely new level, the fire covers an area that must be kilometers. In the past the fire fighters had a chance to stand near and try and their luck.

The current fires are on a completely new level that make humans ants as the fire reaches into the sky. No fire fighting force even from those from countries like mine would have a chance, and we Australians know when fires are that scale theres nothing we can do but run. These fires are like the bush fires we have seen.

Lets hope Ukraine can continue to attack all other refineries because i hope theres nothing stopping them.