The head of the FAA's commercial spaceflight division will become a political appointee.
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Trump orders cull of regulations governing commercial rocket launches
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Well, THAT isn't a great idea.
All "political appointee" means is "toady who will do what he is told and gets a cut of the 'deal'"
I hate that orange prick so fucking much. I'm not sure I've ever loathed a person the way I loathe him.
All "political appointee" means is "toady who will do what he is told and gets a cut of the 'deal'"
I hate that orange prick so fucking much. I'm not sure I've ever loathed a person the way I loathe him.
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Finally, it is Pythom's chance to shine!
https://meincmagazine.com/science/202...ts-rocket-with-questionable-safety-practices/
https://meincmagazine.com/science/202...ts-rocket-with-questionable-safety-practices/
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Oh man, I'm headed to Wyoming to buy me the biggest fireworks commercial rocket I can find! Next Friday night is going to be off the hook!
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Huh, and after SpaceX fucked up their test stand and can't use it for the near future but still promises to have Starship ready for Artemis III. How odd.
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Trump desperately wants results. His erstwhile collaborators desperately want less regulation. Pretty much none of these 'decision makers' appreciate that not rushing things is what can lead us to success, and none of them give a shit about externalities.
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So when people inevitably die from these reduction in safety procedures, or significant amounts of the environment are torched due to a failed rocket, do the people get to sue Trump directly? No? Oh that's right; the government shields the president from any wrongdoing, regardless if the actions are done in or out of office.
He's literally saying "fuck everyone and the world; money matters more", and I'm willing to bet Bezos and Musk bribed Trump behind closed doors to make this happen.
He's literally saying "fuck everyone and the world; money matters more", and I'm willing to bet Bezos and Musk bribed Trump behind closed doors to make this happen.
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That ship sailed 8 months ago. Everything that this regime has “fixed” was not broken.
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And here I foolishly thought that the Constitution required the president to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed". I guess I was wrong.
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Rockets are not yet at the reliability level of airplanes. Airplanes travel millions of miles per yer without incidents. Rockets still often explode and break up, raining hazardous debris over populated areas. When rockets are as reliable as airplanes, then we can talk about deregulating them.
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Flown rockets since 1964. Started with Estes solid fuel models and then went bigger.
Used to launch in Kansas in some desolate places.
Patriot Act and adjacent rules now make flying almost anything a giant PITA.
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Oh look, right out of the Project 2025 playbook; today’s executive order significantly advances the broader strategy it articulates... deregulate aggressively, centralize executive control, bypass procedural safeguards and fast-track conservative ideological aims.
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Always has been. Only now, it's with Putin's hand shoved up his ass.
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The reason why that's the case with airplanes is LITERALLY aerospace regulations from the FAA and similar agencies across the world.
Removing regulation from rockets is literally cementing that this will never happen, at least in USA, or at least taking back USA space safety decades behind the rest of the planet.
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The list keeps growing : Musk, Bezos, Putin, Epstein, Maxwell, & etc
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Loathing "that orange prick" is useless unless it leads to action by making sure you vote and get others to vote. If our vote is nullified by his minions then that makes all that oppose him outlaws, and outlaws have no rules.
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As we continue to live in this libertarian fantasyland (aka normal and intelligent people's nightmare), what could go wrong?!
Also, while we're busy disregarding consequences, can we run the next starship "test" flight over mar-a-lago?
Also, while we're busy disregarding consequences, can we run the next starship "test" flight over mar-a-lago?
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timeline404
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We’re living in the era of ‘move fast and break things,’ except now the things we break will be atmospheric and potentially land on my house.
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Orange Fuhrer needs Muskrat's money to stay out of jail.
Bezos is quickly shaping up to be a buff Dr. No figure. He might be an amoral bastard but at least he's not propagating Nazi ideology in America, Europe and in cyberspace. I can't believe I have to choose between two icky billionaires but Bezos is smart enough not to paint a "kick me" sign on his butt whereas Muskrat is a coked-up idiot.
Get the vote out for the midterms and get less insane billionaires on the Dems' side. Trump and the GOP need to be rendered toothless before they destroy the country.
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I’d like to think that rockets being launched from anywhere in the US, exploding mid flight, and the crashing down and destroying a city that is entirely Republican voters would be enough to get Republicans in Congress to impeach and remove Trump. But then I remember the reality that we are in and it would just be another Tuesday for them
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Also look at today’s political takeover of the Smithsonian by requiring it to purge undesirable exhibits.
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I like these articles on deregulation, please keep 'em coming, Ars.
When was the last one? Ah yes, the submarine guy whose cut-corner submarine imploded.
I shall prepare popcorn for the i-told-you-so moment on this one, there's bound to be one, notwithstanding that the case for a smoother, shorter launch permissions process looks solid.
When was the last one? Ah yes, the submarine guy whose cut-corner submarine imploded.
I shall prepare popcorn for the i-told-you-so moment on this one, there's bound to be one, notwithstanding that the case for a smoother, shorter launch permissions process looks solid.
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Destruction of apolitical civil service, executive nullification of the rule of law, politization of the supreme court, rampant gerrymandering, control by oligarchy, corruption everywhere, and setting an authoritarian precedent. This is how you kill our democracy.
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Mr. Clark, with all due respect, I beg that you relent of your neutral-to-a-fault reporting voice and acknowledge that this insane presidency and administration would burn the world alive and screaming for a dollar if it meant $1.0001 tomorrow.
Curtail environmental reviews? This has nothing to do with toxic/hypergolic runoff and everything to do with "you're fucking right we'd burn Florida to below sea level if it meant we never had to hear the name 'Epstein' again."
Curtail environmental reviews? This has nothing to do with toxic/hypergolic runoff and everything to do with "you're fucking right we'd burn Florida to below sea level if it meant we never had to hear the name 'Epstein' again."
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