But you aren't going to hear any of the media who made a huge deal out of the heat shield story following up or any of the YouTube community who fanned this fire 🔥. Just observing. Off the soap box, Kirk Out. ###

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🧵 Remember you had an uproar about the Orion heat shield even AFTER NASA delayed Artemis II by a year and a half to look at some char liberation they didn't like. There was a cadre of people including two former astronauts saying Artemis II should fly unpiloted...

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Mainstream press got hold of the story along with the YouTube community and that drumbeat was insistent. An incoming NASA Admin let each side make their case days before launch. It came down to who do you believe more. Artemis II launched with a modified reentry profile. It worked...

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I’m not saying everything in China is replicable but I do think one lesson from there is that there are advantages to building big disruptive projects with limited chance for local pushback

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ah we are going to get some nice reverse disparate impact where having too many black people is evidence of anti-white discrimination

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