Rob Speed

If we can love Apollo-era NASA despite von Braun, we can love SpaceX despite Musk.

Bluesky has one of the most deranged cultures of actively opposing rationality that I've ever seen.

Maybe Titan is covered in methane because the outer Solar System acts like a massive cryogenic still, and it's in just the right spot for hydrogen and carbon to form molecules.

I'm sure many of you have seen the videos of the flood in Nepal and Tibet. I just learned that one which showed people running before being overtaken was actually moving *up* a tributary river.

A glacier collapsing into a steep valley explains it. The suspected source of the flood was at an elevation thousands of meters above the floor of the river. That's an incomprehensible amount of potential energy, able to melt the tumbling ice in minutes.

Surely the flash flood in Nepal and Tibet isn't *just* due to snow melt. The scale seems too large for that.

I feel like I should've seen this coming. The problem with Cape Canaveral and Boca Chica is that vehicles returning from orbit have to approach from over populated areas.

I demand pictures of pets.

If someone does a coward's reply (blocking after posting) on Bluesky, you can't even see what they said?

So NASA are saying it’s not a big deal, scientists are saying it’s not a big deal But wait! Sports journalist Johnny from Bloomberg says it’s a huge deal so I guess we should panic

SpaceX switched Crew Dragon recoveries to the Pacific specifically to avoid this.

Poe's Law hitting hard. Still not sure if people like this are parodying the January 6th nutjobs.

SpaceX is spending tens of billions of dollars on Starship so they can get some of the money from a $3 billion fixed-price contract. Makes perfect sense.

It defaulted to "Threshold", but I was gonna do this one anyway.

Yes. It has launched 9 times so far this month.

This is literally what CURRENT LAW requires. It’s in the Constitution! www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

NASA has benefitted *massively* from SpaceX. Where do people get these ideas?

Remember when SpaceX said that Starlink satellites have a life expectancy of 5 years? Futurism apparently doesn't.

A Toadies song is playing and it *isn't* Possum Kingdom!

Sure would be nice if they could get back to doing this again.

I'm reminded of the responses to the Falcon 9 recovery test failures.

Trump made *one* good nomination, but we just can't have nice things. spaceflightnow.com/2025/05/31/p...

@trusktr.bsky.social This demo doesn't work on mobile. The skateboard is hidden behind the configuration panel. docs.lume.io/examples/ska...