I mean now that they have a chance at reuse and have revenue generating flights they want as many nines as reasonably possible. They can improve performance Falcon 9 style while ramping cadence.

Reliably can have a lot of different meanings and contexts

I mean, I get it. With their homegrown cruise missiles and drones, and Starlink unrestricted in Russia? They could pilot drones through the halls of the Duma. But the US won't let them do that any more than we will enforce a no-fly zone.

Log scale. Lmao

How about a battleship? We could remove the turrets and replace them with one giant gun of some sort...

Yes? There's an obvious difference with regard to arms control

Questions: could you fit a Marine with some oxygen in there? How many? Could they survive reentry and landing with a nice pillow perhaps? Just curious.

Russia could deny nearly all of LEO if they wanted, it's not that hard. It's just indiscriminate and would piss off literally every other country on Earth.

How bad could it be? *checks location* Oh. Hmm. That's a tough one, man, not gonna lie.

Should they cut all Starlink accounts in Ukraine? Sounds good to me.

Man fuck Ukraine. I say shut it off entirely and let them use Oneweb. Enjoy your $9000 terminals that weigh 50 lbs.

It's been almost 5 years now. Hard to tell what's changed at a glance over the last 3 years. Pouring money and lives into a woodchipper indefinitely is a hard sell to third parties, at least.

Tbf lunar mass drivers probably need to be regulated like strategic weapons.

The funniest part is that it was the crackdown and whitelisting to prevent Russian Starlink use that made the bootleg Ukrainian use obvious.

What is the US getting out of this aside from a lot of irritation and additional financial and military commitments?

It would also cost like half the federal budget. The fifth amendment exists

Deal with who? For what? Commercial aviation service? Which also does not allow military use and costs a couple grand a month? Funniest part: a) private pilots has been grumbling about this for months and b) eliminating Russian use of Starlink is partly why this happened.

Great timing for the holidays. See some good prospects here

No But I’m fine with this.

No. I’m impatient. I’ll take the slightly elevated risk.