• threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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      Technically, the New Shepard capsule briefly crosses the Kármán line.

      You are correct that there is no comparison though. Starship could probably put the entire New Shepard vehicle into orbit as a payload.

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        Okay… One reaches a technical definition of space. The other reaches orbit.

        Blue Origin has yet to put anything aside from a handful of its engines into orbit. We’ll see if that changes in the next couple months.

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          If we’re going to be pedantic: Starship hasn’t reached orbit yet either. All flights so far were suborbital.

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    2 months ago

    Stolen straight from the NSF stream 😂

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      I find the defendant not guilty! I think the NSF guy’s idea involved replacing the woman & her arms and the daughter with the tower & “chopstick” arms, and a Super Heavy rocket booster (which is in the process of being caught by the arms). Something like that?

      The closest I’ve seen is this. Not great!

      So I tried getting Chat GPT to do a better one for me. This did not go well 😂 But surely someone with experience should be able to cajole a suitable generative AI tool to do a good job of it?