China successfully tests takeoff and vertical splashdown of the Long March-10 carrier rocket designed to carry Chinese astronauts to the Moonhttps://x.com/latestinspace/status/2021604024986833329
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>>61838215Bullish, SpaceX will now transition into a genetic engineering company. The average Martian colonist will be 6’ 10” and able to derive oxygen directly from perchlorate salts by 2027
>>61838299lmao u r gay
Bullish this will only find use in being the subject of even more pro-CCP propaganda as they continue their long march through CNN and The Globalist.
Spaces has been doing this for over a decade, the Chinese just did a splashdown which is what they’ve already accomplished with their starship so the Chinese are still decades behind
>>61838215Extremely bearish. Why do you think Musk wants SpaceX to IPO now? The SpaceX hype is about to die because investors will soon realize SpaceX is in fact not a special unicorn with secret sauce and fairy dust and massive moat.Blue Origin will soon reuse a rocket, and there is a huge number of of America and Chinese reusable rockets in the pipeline, including Starship-style rockets that use Raptor-style FFSC methalox engines and/or are fully reusable
>>61838215>moonlmao america already did that and are doing it again for shits and giggles with artemiselon is taking niggers to mars and leaving them there, china is so far behind
>>61839370The US is doing the Moon because it needs to prove it still has what it takes to go to the Moon. No one today is impressed by what the US did in the 60's, because all the people who were involved are now dead or retired.Mars was never happening. There's no money in Mars. The only reason Musk talks about Mars colonization is to dupe idealistic engineers into working long hours for SpaceX without commensurate compensation. At best SpaceX might send people to Mars sometime in the 2050s, and that's only if it gets a fat government contract to do it.
>>61839413>Mars was never happening.No... don't say that anon... I wanna go to Mars...
>>61839413The moon was always going to be first before Mars IDK what people are getting worked up about.
>>61839751Musk has long been publicly dismissive of the Moon.He changed tune a few days ago, probably because the wheels were starting to come off the Mars scam as people noticed that virtually all the "Mars" hardware SpaceX has been developing is dual-purpose, and SpaceX still hasn't spent any significant amount of money on developing Mars-exclusive hardware
>>61839710Unless you are a Salvadoran convict or an avid geology enthusiast, Mars will be a worse place to live than Earth even 50 years after the first manned landing occurs
>jeets talking about fireworks from a retarded front man,
>>61838215Video of the splashdown
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>>61839877Honestly, I haven't payed attention much to the exact messages he and SpaceX have about the moon. But, any serious Mars mission will do moon missions first. It would be irresponsible, and possibly catastrophically wasteful to not test out gear and methods on the moon first IMO.
It’s over
>>61840273>It would be irresponsible, and possibly catastrophically wasteful to not test out gear and methods on the moon first IMO.Holy fucking reddit, it's so painful to read what brainlets shat out onto a post.
Bullish. Amerigoys will freak out and provide more funding to SpaceX, Blue Origin etc.
>>61838215>China started mass producing EVs in 2020>Five years later Tesla is fucked>You're here>China start to mass launch their Starlink alternative>Five years later SpaceX is fucked
>>61838215What is the point of all this anyway? Dick-waving in the new Cold War?Sending things to and from space is extremely expensive. Even if there were some huge gold deposit on the moon or mars, that would take sending all the equipment to mine it, people, and all the resources they would need. Simply not enough money to finance something like this. Or really anything other than just a quick trip there and back.Maybe there are insights to be gained about weapons, sigint, and recon technology?
>>61838215I'm highly bullish on this development, as it will spur intense competition between the USA and China. This rivalry will lead to increased government contracts and funding for Elon Musk and SpaceX.As Musk's wealth surpasses $1 trillion, he will channel a significant portion of his capital into establishing advanced education systems. These programs will emphasize Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, and ancient Greek rational thought, aiming to cultivate a new generation of exceptional Americans—true Übermenschen.The United States will implement a form of eugenics, not as a compensated initiative, but as a strategic effort to nurture future leaders capable of guiding humanity as we colonize the stars. These institutions will select men and women from European descent, molding them into an elite force optimized for interstellar exploration and settlement.
>>61839358China's about 60 years behind the US in aerospace. I guess you're saying they'll steal shit from SpaceX?
>>61841727The reason it will be exclusively European is that these men will represent the pinnacle of what our race has to offer. African, Indian, and Asian nations are free to develop their own space programs if they deem it appropriate. However, ours will be unencumbered by DEI mandates or feminist and left wing ideologies.Our homelands have been overwhelmed by waves of immigration, yet the stars now beckon. We can ascend with the finest minds and strongest spirits our people have ever produced—rebuilding thriving societies on new worlds, liberated at last from the parasitic burdens that endlessly extract resources, inflate national debt, and repay us only with suffering, division, and the exhausting drain of futile, emotionally charged outrage rooted in contradiction and illogic. No longer must we drag civilization forward at the pace of its weakest links, nor squander our potential on endless accommodations that yield nothing but resentment and decline.If progress is limited to the pace of the slowest participant, and governments compel us to incorporate millions of low-IQ sheboons to satisfy affirmative action quotas, then we forfeit our true potential and our birthright.Don't let these guilt trip you into giving up our race and potential to build on new worlds free from the people who have only just stepped out caves.
>>61841850oops forgot pic
>>61838215Bezos thinks SpaceX will ultimately end up behind the competition.
>>61840273The moon has almost nothing in common with Mars. If you want to test gear and methods for use on Mars, you'd be far better off testing it in a Mars environment simulation chamber on Earth
>>61841764Chinese companies are today almost exactly where SpaceX was 10 years agoSpaceX successfully landed a rocket in 2015. A Chinese company will very likely achieve the same in 2026 - the tests done so far have achieved very promising results.SpaceX began Raptor engine full system hot fire testing in 2016. Landspace began BF-20 engine full system hot testing in 2025.China is now throwing huge resources into aerospace much like they did with EVs, and Chinese companies benefit from the second mover advantage of walking along a trodden path, so converge will likely take less than 10 years unless SpaceX manages to come up with something new and revolutionary to succeed Starship
>>61841727>>61841850Profit margins on government contracts will be hit hard by competition from Blue Origin and other American companies. Profit margins on Starlink will be hit hard by competition from Amazon Leo, Blue Origin Terrawave, Chinese Guowang, Chinese Qianfan, etc.Also, Musk isn't some kind of grand philanthropist. To the extent he tries to portray himself as some kind of philanthropist, that's just to help him achieve his real goal, which is to endlessly accumulate assets and to procreate.Even if Musk were to try to create some kind of new off-world civilization using only elite genes, he would probably interpret "elite genes" as being his own genes. Rubes like yourself certainly wouldn't be included
>>61842497You seem to know how the system works Tyrone.
Cope
>>61839877>self-sustaining colony on MarsWho the fuck thinks they want to live there, and how long will they last before they sudoku once they realize they were wrong?
>>61838215AFAIK China doesn't sell its launch services to other countries, so it shouldn't affect SpaceX's market in the slightest.Even if China opens that up, how many corporations and governments are going to trust their top-secret multibillion dollar satellites to China?
>>61839877>all the "Mars" hardware SpaceX has been developing is dual-purpose,LOL. It's all single-purpose hardware -- hardware for getting people and other stuff into space. You can use that to go anywhere in the solar system, you dumb fuck.
>>61839974That's AI. A rocket isn't going to settle down and just sit on top of the water.
>>61838215>vertical splashdown>splashdown>splashSplish Splash I was taking a bathwhile watching a chinese rocketit sunk it the tuba glug glug gluganother crappy chinese product!
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>>61844322An empty rocket is essentially a giant metal balloon. It's light enough to float.
>>61844309Yeah, because space is space, it's all the same, rightHave you ever heard of terms such as "delta-v" and "aerobraking"?
>>61844244Some people seem to think going to Mars will be sailing to a new Americas or whateverMusk's official reasoning is that humanity needs to spread out to other celestial bodies to ensure a cataclysmic event won't wipe out all of humanity
>>61842540I know just enough to see the obvious BS
>>61845669I think its more important to settle a bunch of people in canada australia and greenland before settling the moon or mars
>>61845677Won't help whenever the next dinokiller asteroid hits
>>61845730That's a century or more away so we have plenty of time to settle people in hostile environments to create more effective life support technology like the center of australia, the north poles of canada and greenland and shit.
