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  • Such senseless loss of life in the name of religion.

    If they’d died in the Saudi heat to a secular activity - at an F1 race event or inside a poorly A/C’d movie theater or trapped on an overheated bus - would that have been better?

    Well I think religion is one of the few things you can get enough uneducated/dedicated people to die in the hundreds from heat stroke without people being like"I should probably leave"

    All the examples you gave, of course except being trapped on a bus, people would realize there is a serious issue and start leaving once the first handful of people died.

    “I’m not leaving the theater till I see the end of Iron man 2, I don’t care that half the theaters dead and I’m next!”

    EDIT

    the Hajj as a cultural event was originally intended as this class-agnostic unifying practice social event.

    lol, weren’t women not allowed to go alone until recently or still?




  • Russia is well aware that if they use nuclear weapons it’s over for them, will the rest of the world fall too is another question.

    Either way I truly don’t believe they will do it simply because that ends Russia in its current form, and I don’t think we should allow them to be an aggressor just because they have nukes. Russia needs to be stopped and their saber rattling should rightly be ignored.

    Feel free to @ me if you die in a nuclear apocalypse to prove me wrong. Till then let’s keep enabling Ukraine to fight back and continue Russias massive embarrassment and degradation of power and capabilities.













  • ¯_(ツ)_/¯ while starship performance is ass compared to what they want they could still have easily put cargo onboard, you are talking about the most successful and likely profitable spaceflight company in history here you know?

    SpaceX gets a lot of credit from space fans because they have proved the haters wrong time and time again, people just like you were saying the exact same garbage about falcon 9 and reusing the booster, now that SpaceX succeeded at that they practically own earth’s entire launch industry and will revolutionize it again with starship.

    I’m sure we will get lots of “failures” (expected test vehicle losses) along the way for you to doom on, but at the end of the day SpaceX will be the winners like they always are at the end of the day.


  • "Starship did not achieve the speed needed to maintain an orbit around the earth, if it can do so has not been proven. "

    Arguing this point makes you seem either uneducated on the launch or just someone shitting on SpaceX because musk. If you were actually familiar with the launch profile you would know starship nearly reached orbital velocities but did not on purpose, so it could reenter the atmosphere and test the heat shield.

    So you’d be technically right in your statement, however knowing the full details of the situation makes your take stupid.