Peter Hague
@peterrhague
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Solutionist. Astrophysics PhD and scientific software engineer. Dad of 2. Let’s colonise the solar system together. Please visit the link below to read my blog:
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Joined April 2009
Mass Value Report for January 2025 is out. Being updating my predictions for Falcon, New Glenn and Starship this year, as well as analysing the performance of this years Moon landers.
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A worrying number of people siding with the dad who had a temper tantrum and assaulted a child. Don’t punch kids you pathetic psycho.
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The thing everyone liked about Boromir is how he was completely and unambiguously good at all times. People also liked the simplicity of Gollum who was never torn between good and evil at all.
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The GDP per capita of Uganda is $964 and only 8% of the population has indoor plumbing.
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He actually said there was a shared culture between them going back to the ancient Romans, and anybody who thinks that is a ridiculous statement is invited to examine the front of the building he was sitting in when he said this.
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There is a mask off moment when you realise that a huge number of people long for a totalitarian police state, provided it only targets their enemies.
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If you are in a position to turn your nose up at military rations, you are by definition not starving. This stuff is just dense calories designed to be transported in large quantities in unrefrigerated cargo planes. It’s not supposed to be winning any Michelin Stars.
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An island where it rains constantly is going to import water rather than build a reservoir.
💧 Britain to ship in water from Norwegian fjords under drought plans.
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"And then the planes started falling out of the sky for no apparent reason"
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I alluded to the NHS experience being shocking, here is what happened. This is "the envy of the world". My wife has been ill so tried to get a GP appointment. Normal process of phoning at 8:30am and staying on hold for an hour to speak to someone.
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It was 7 minutes to midnight during the Cuban missile crisis. It is hilarious watching them inflate their scaremongering to try and maintain relevance.
NOW - Doomsday Clock has been set to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to annihilation.
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That’s my secret. I’m always angry at people who claim to care about climate change whilst shutting down nuclear power plants.
This is a BIG deal - the first of Indian Point's nuclear reactors is shutting down this month & New York State is moving toward a 100% #RenewableEnergy future! . Be sure to check out @Beyond_IP and their incredible campaign! #BeyondIndianPoint
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The article admits its less than $2 a cubic metre, and the conversation they had was about drinking water. Yes, that is absurdly cheap, and it’s absurd anybody on this planet lacks clean water to drink. Nobody would be trying (badly) to dunk on this if anybody else had said it.
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“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I've upset some people, who follow me for space/tech/science, by supporting Israel in the current conflict with Hamas. What did you expect though? Do you think that the society that builds this sort of thing and lives there is going to be a violent, bigoted theocracy like
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@figar0x I would deal with it without punching a child, because I’m a normal person and not an internet hard man?.
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A paralysed man in a chair guiding a civilisation for millennia with the power of his mind has a bit of a Warhammer 40k vibe to it.
First human to receive the Neuralink brain implant used it to stay up all night and play #Civilization6 . “It was awesome”
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It’s absurd to expect scientists to appear on Joe Rogan. Do you really expect someone with a PhD to be prepared to explain his area of expertise and answer tough questions about it for 3 hours?.
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SpaceX can't fly Starship until November at least. This is nuts. How are 60 month delays to satisfy these requirements even remotely justifiable?
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I don’t want to hear any more of that “we don’t build cathedrals anymore” crap. We build them alright, and they *fly*
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Look… who are we to say their anti-capitalist ideology is wrong? Maybe they are right and we are the ones who are mistaken. Tell you what, to settle the matter, let’s divide Germany in half and let them rule one half for say, 40 years? And then we can check back and see if.
The Anti-Tesla activists brake through the police lines and reach the fence of #Gigafactory. Police seems disoriented. #DisruptTesla #Grünheide
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Is space now a fully Republican thing? That seems less than ideal.
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I am absolutely fine with people choosing not to have children. But if you do that and then become dependent on the state in later life, it is mathematically speaking a free rider problem. Those without children should be diligently saving - they have a lot more spare cash after.
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I hate this tactic with a burning passion. Its a cynical hack on the fact that the police have effectively suppressed violence in the general population. They can fuck with you as much as they like, flaunting their power to do so, and be confident if you touch a hair on their.
Locals push trolleys into protesting vegans blocking the meat aisle at Sainsbury’s. Outside of London everyone is fed up with these lunatics.
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You try this crap at the Pentagon they will be identifying you from dental records. Why is the UK government such a soft target?.
🚨 NEW: The UK Ministry of Defence has been vandalised by pro-Palestine protestors .
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NASA ground controllers are figuring out what this noise from Starliner really is.
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No, a child’s understanding would be ignoring the result of the closest thing to actual experiments we have done with national politics, because the results were very conclusive and bad for your ideology.
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The private school policy brings out the worst in Labour supporters. The undisguised glee at being able to make life harder not for the super rich (school fees are pocket change to them) but for the middle class. The ones who have typically done better than them through hard work.
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They put a McDonalds next to Checkpoint Charlie. That’s like ideological teabagging.
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Watch carefully for dishonest critics of Starship moving the goalposts. After IFT-1 they said that 30 engines couldn't be reliable. We have now had 2 back-to-back flights with zero failures on ascent. After IFT-2 they said that the dynamics of the boostback were fatally
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“Russia owning our base load electricity supply is fine though”.
NEWS: Former German chancellor Angela Merkel said today: “If a person like Elon Musk owns 60% of all satellites orbiting in space, then that has to be a huge concern for us.”. What's the concern, exactly? There is no concern – It's just vague and baseless fearmongering, as usual.
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I said I wasn’t going to post on this anymore but this interview is jaw dropping. The politicians and media insist that “two tier policing” is nothing more than a far right conspiracy theory - then the police openly admit it’s true on Sky News. Nobody else gets to choose to.
West Midlands Police discuss disorder that kicked off after misinformation spread online. The Sky News crew covering the unrest in Birmingham were followed by a man holding a knife and wearing a balaclava after broadcasting live.
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@danwaterfield Also “here is what will happen to your body in a few years. Don’t freak out”.
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@jamesrbuk @theipaper This is mental. There are no grounds to prosecute him. Why are you fixated on having your political opponents arrested?.
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I’ve always struggled to understand people who think that describing the harsh conditions on Mars is some kind of slam dunk argument against colonisation. But I think I get it now. These people don’t understand what’s keeping them alive here on Earth. They take for granted the.
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The heuristic of "always side with the oppressed" is going to make you turn against progress because more advanced, open societies will always have the technological edge and enable their more primitive opponents to claim to be "oppressed" when in fact they are merely outclassed.
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This is the sort of thing that happens to people when they’ve lost a war.
Parents who attempted to rescue their children were arrested when the police arrived
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This is obviously going to piss a lot of people off. But it addresses a serious problem. Old people without kids claiming money off the state is a classic free rider problem. It can’t be maintained forever. Plummeting birth rates and increasing demands from the old is already.
JD Vance says Americans without children should “face the consequences and the reality” and not get “nearly the same voice” in democracy. Vance: “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children.”
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CERN press conferences are about to get a lot more interesting.
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How psychologically well adjusted men who don’t think of themselves has hard for punching children would deal with it. Open the door. Yell a bit (it’s fine to be pissed off and let them know it). Send the boy home immediately. Discipline the daughter and contact the boys parents.
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The scaling back and scrapping of HS2 is one of the biggest symbols of failure in this country. But especially this - failing to have a direct connection between Manchester and Paris for want of a short tunnel in London. Brunel would’ve constructed this in a weekend as a side gig
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At the start of the 20th century, recurring famine was a big problem for humanity. Fritz Haber came up with a tech solution. Lenin came up with a political solution. Compare and contrast the results since.
The most insidious form of climate denial is no longer, "It's not happening," but the belief that incremental or tech solutions will solve this crisis. 1/6
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This is like watching the emperor of Rome decide if a gladiator should live or die
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I've always resisted the idea that federal agencies are intentionally sabotaging SpaceX, but given how much good faith engagement the company had with state and federal agencies prior to getting rug pulled like this, things do look a bit sus.
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@maxtempers I just don’t think most British people want to believe it’s real. Just can’t face it.
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“Hah, those dumb Americans. We are so much smarter than them!”. Do yourself a favour, mate. Don’t look at the last 20 years of GDP figures. Or count tech unicorns, or space missions, or Nobel prizes. It’s fine though, we still have smug BBC comedy to cope.
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One of the worst parts of the UK tax system is the 40% income tax bracket. Not the 45% one that kicks in at high income, but the wall you hit the moment you get into the middle class. To get the economy growing we need to encourage the great mass of productive people who are hit.
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JSON is a really complex format. You need an IQ of at least 131 to understand it apparently
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Acquisition of signal from Starship:
Splashdown confirmed! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on an exciting fourth flight test of Starship!.
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So now Mars is back on the menu, lets think about getting people there. Musk targetted 100 people per Starship, but lets be conservative and say even with a stretched version coming its more like 50. If you were able to send 5 Starships towards Mars, that means 250 people get to
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Defending Elon Musk is my least favourite activity on here. He’s a billionaire, why bother, right? But his detractors are often just so far off the deep end, such as accusing him of endorsing Medvedevs fever dream instead of laughing at it, that people need to be talked down.
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Oh, and one more thing. Did I mention the hospital she visited is physically collapsing? One of these shoddy concrete jobs they did and only found the money to replace once bits of the ceiling started falling on people.
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So the FAA watch the nozzle blast straight off the end of an SRB in flight and say "yeah, you guys are fine", but SpaceX doesn't fill in their fishing license properly and they get a 60 day delay? . Maybe there are legitimate reasons we aren't privy to, but it sure looks like.
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I think Musks read of the situation in the UK is wrong - civil war is very unlikely - but what I object to more is the virulent immune response from the British establishment. They demand a monopoly on narratives and are incensed at some uppity yank with money just speaking to a.
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That’s $87k for my American friends. This is the wage at which the British commentators consider you a member of the wealthy elite who needs to be soaked with taxes. UK and US incomes were comparable 15 years ago btw.
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It will be interesting to see the public reaction to @blueorigin recovering a booster for the first time - might not be on their first launch, but I’m sure they will get it in short order. Once another company is doing reuse, it’s not longer going to be just some crazy thing
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Silver chloride and ammonia have been produced since antiquity, and the camera obscura is similarly ancient. The only real tech barrier to photography was a lens to allow enough light in to form an image - and Europe has been able to make them for about 800 years. Medieval.
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I plug my kettle into the wall and it immediately starts dumping 3kW into the water. Let’s not romanticise low energy living. Low energy living is poverty.
Inspired by solar furnaces, this parabolic mirror concentrates light onto a focal point, and can be consequently used for more mundane tasks in place of industrial purposes.
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My son's homework is to write an argument for why he thinks the Moon landings were real or faked. The children can choose what position they take. Am I going to have to have a conversation similar to this one?
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Images coming out of Israel prove something that a huge swathe of western society simply don’t get: weakness is not virtue. The “oppressed” are so because they lack capability, not will. Every group that claims to be a victim of history would’ve done the same or worse to those.
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@ZyMazza Don’t know why the French wasted all that money restoring Notre Dame whilst this exists.
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Elysium was a gorgeous, but stupid film. Literal social commentary is that greedy rich people are hoarding. healthcare? Like there is a pile of healthcare and they are keeping it all?.
Beautiful render of a rotating space station inspired by 2013's 'Elysium'. #space #art by Greg McKechnie.
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So after @elonmusk laid out the plan for 5 Starships to Mars in 2026, I went to crunch the numbers. Happily I was already working on this, but now I’ve got a specific number to work with. So 🧵 time…. Here are the three upcoming Mars windows. 2026, 2028/29 and 2031.
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Very powerful people stand to lose a lot of money if SpaceX wins. Remember that when reading hit pieces against them or Musk
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@Hezbolsonaro Nobody is mad about anything. This meme is basically just observational humour about family life.
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In April, Tesla released a step-by-step plan to completely decarbonise the world economy. It was detailed, data-driven, and credible given that the source was a leading manufacturer of EVs, solar and battery technology. It was ignored by the press and environmental activists.
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Why does Britain keep inventing stuff and then just giving up on it?. * First commercial nuclear power plant was ours. Now we need the French to build new ones for us.* We (in collaboration with France) beat the US to supersonic passenger transport, and then stopped trying and.
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Someone else posted it and I assumed it was fake. Nope. This histrionic nonsense was actually published by the Guardian. I am not sure if they really believe that platform owners should be on trial, or if its just a shallow pretext because they want Elon Musk on trial because
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Pfft, typical Musk vapourware! Never going to happen! /s.
SpaceX is still in the early stages of developing advanced micro-satellites operating in large formations. Announcement in 2 to 3 months.
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NASA doesn’t dare whisper such ideas any more, and ESA never did. Why do our space agencies never discuss such goals?.
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“He didn’t even properly get out of the hatch! Apollo is never getting to the Moon.”
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Just checking, has Boeing done a headcount of all the people involved in assembling this spacecraft? Nobody missing?.
Starliner crew reports hearing strange "sonar like noises" emanating from their craft. This is the real audio of it:
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@Aiannucci Here is you interfering in the politics of the US:.
I seem to recall that too. Trump needs to be removed from any public platform, arrested and charged with treason if need be.
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It’s important for scientists to verify memes
Recent paper confirms that megafauna extinction was caused by humans. Maximum body mass of animals had been steadily increasing until it dropped of a cliff in the late Pleistocene / early Holocene:. Other than being cool, megafauna had a large impact on ecosystems. They spread
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You could assume that the guy behind Tesla and SpaceX is a moron who doesn’t understand how courts work - and I guess that would be a good way of protecting your ego if you haven’t revolutionised any industries yet consider yourself an apex of the intellectual elite - or you.
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Deploying your competitors constellation is such a flex.
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As apparently “abolish washing machines” is now inside the Overton window, it’s worth pointing out the number of “energy slaves” we have. A washing machine is about 20 men worth of physical labour. Oxen and horses can’t really help with the laundry, so all of it would have to.
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@WR4NYGov Historically Ugandans have even managed to blame Indians. Many of whom fled to the UK as a result.
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I have engineers from the US straight up refuse to believe the power output of a standard UK kettle that we all have on our kitchen tops. Not only good for tea, but if you’re boiling pasta you can pre heat the water very fast.
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Having determined signs of a regular infection and not a critically life threatening one, they do more tests - urine, chest x-ray - but find nothing. She is sent home at 3am with a prescription for antibiotics. Obviously the next working day is a scrub. Whose feeling envious?.
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Instead of dating anti-space girls, find one that reacts to a booster catch like this.
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Left anarchism reinvents borders and police almost instantly. Right anarchism tends to likewise discover taxation from first principles.
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@OldRowSwig @FLmoon47 Then presumably that 8 million was contingent on allowing himself to be captured by that audience he didn't align with. He probably made enough off his 15 minutes to make himself very comfortable without having to ride the wave of increasingly deranged political fans.
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I'm sorry but, despite everything, I'm still on the side of the civilisation that can build this over a bunch of hunter-gatherer tree smurfs.
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Punting predictions for humans to Mars decades into the future is, in my view, largely political and not based on science and engineering. If humans make in in the next 10 years, which is reasonably likely, it has to be SpaceX doing it. No other game in town - maybe the Chinese
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People keep saying we need to decarbonise our economies in a decade and pointedly ignore the single example of where an industrialised country managed to do exactly this.
This is one big reason why France succeeded in this way — the large reduction of fossil fuel electricity.
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This is a shocking decision. A judge is basically overruling business decisions and saying how much profit he thinks it’s reasonable for a company to make. What is it about the courts indulging women in their sixties making outrageous demands for free money?
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It used to be the case that the majority of young people in the UK got a standard centre leftish social, political and cultural OS downloaded into them by the time they went to uni. It included such ideas as:. 1. Neil Gaiman is cool.2. You vote for whichever of Labour or Lib Dems.
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