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  • Video games with apparently sentient NPCs.

    Custom ARM SoCs from AMD and Nvidia for laptops, tablets and handheld consoles, running customized Linux to avoid Microsoft’s fees.

    YouTube switches to unskipable server-side ads injection directly into the original video stream, rendering adblockers ineffective. Others soon follow.

    Mainstream media starts releasing news in TikTok style videos where the bottom half of the screen plays random Minecraft / satisfying to watch slop.

    End to end encrypted communication is quietly outlawed following some terrorist attack, using national security fearmongering. You’ve got nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide.

    China inevitably invades Taiwan, TSMC burns their fabs down to protect their IP. Samsung and Intel fabs become the most cutting edge process nodes on next cycle, China catches up, profits go up all around.

    Google kills Search and now Gemini is their only search engine. Others soon follow.




  • Same here. Let’s hope they aim for a light orbital rocket that can be mass manufactured and reused, for example, or at least a Falcon type rocket that also had a hopper test vehicle initially

    Edit: Reading Honda’s own post about the launch they seem to be implying that they want to develop a vehicle that can achieve orbit, but also to use it for transportation purposes?

    It’s too early to make assumptions, but they do clearly state that they are aiming for something that can reach 100km in altitude in a vertical fashion. They also say they hope to achieve suborbital flights by 2029.












  • One answer per paragraph, let’s break it down.

    They absolutely have learned a lot by flying the prototypes. They caught one of the largest 1st stages ever made with the freaking launch tower, twice!

    The entire cost of the starship program so far is much less than the Saturn V, adjusted for inflation. They can keep blowing them up by the dozens and it’ll still take years to get to the Saturn V budget.

    They did transfer fuel between tanks in space a few flights back as a small scale demo, the hardware exists.

    Corruption definitely exists within the government. However, let’s not kid ourselves by believing the starship is being funded for the lunar or Martian missions. They’re being funded because they can deliver hundreds of tons of military payload anywhere on the planet within minutes.

    The last launch did reuse a booster that was caught 2 launches ago. Starship reuse will come once they can reliably send it, which will probably take a few more catastrophic failures.

    If you want to talk about failure rates, how about the Falcon 9, the most successful platform ever made? Also the invention of modern computer science thing was mostly on DARPA at that point for military applications.