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Rare North American Space Koala

@culpable_mink

1 year

Time for a spicy take: I think doing an opposition-class Mars mission is almost worse than not doing a mission at all.

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Rare North American Space Koala

@culpable_mink

3 months

This has got to be one of the hardest lines ever dropped by xkcd.

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1 year

"Why do we live in a universe, in a solar system, and on a planet so finely tuned for intelligent life?"

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10 months

Little known fact, but when you can actually say "the engineer from the space manufacturing startup replicated the room temperature superconducter material", you are officially living in the future.

Andrew McCalip

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10 months

Meissner effect or bust: Day 8.5 We made the rocks

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Starlink and Aurora

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1 year

There is anoth-HOLY CRAP HOW MANY ARE THERE!?

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3 months

S28 approaches reentry Private-style

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@Lezzyl_

3 months

Its uncanny how easy it is

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7 months

It felt like it fixed me

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@culpable_mink

1 month

So a S-type asteroid with nickel and iron is going to fly closer than geostationary satellites in 2029, and that seems perfect for demonstrating some prospecting/mining prototype equipment.

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1 year

I'm guessing there's a couple of different moods at SpaceX right now

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1 year

I'm gonna say it: the fact the entire stack could keep flipping end over end until the FTS finally ended it (I think) is hella impressive.

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10 months

NASA right now

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10 months

"We don't need fusion, solar is all we need!"

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11 months

Goodbye, Ariane 5 🫡

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1 month

The shame of Ariane 6's delay runs deep.

🇪🇺 EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme

@EU4Space

1 month

🛰28 April: the EU launched 2 new Galileo satellites! Earlier this morning, the Galileo satellites were ejected from the launcher's upper stage & reached the Holding Point. They are currently managed by #EUSPA as part of the Launch & Early Orbit Phase (LEOP). 🧵1/4

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3 months

Me right now

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4 months

@Schaffrillas Get ready for "2 shiny"

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1 year

Starship IFT:

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7 months

I'm still gobsmacked that there's two distinct freaking whole rocket sized mach diamonds here. SpaceX is playing with forces on a level that most rocket designers barely dare to dream of.

Fabian Ramirez

@texas_lizard

7 months

#208

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2 months

The sane SpaceX defender plight

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2 months

Oof.

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7 months

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7 months

The packs of Raptors are getting antsy.

🚀 Leafeon🇺🇲

@Leefeyon

7 months

4 of them

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10 months

It's the year 2100. Humanity has expanded throughout the solar system, building habitats throughout. America siezes upon the opportunity, and creates the first car-centric suburb in space.

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10 months

Modern Green parties be like

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7 days

Good morning

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2 months

"Congrats on the launch, but you're done with that launchpad, right?

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3 months

Obligatory hit tweet addendum Follow if you want to dream of slaying horsemen of the Apocalypse, and imagining a better future.

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9 months

"Asteroid mines and O'Neill cylinders won't build themselves, honey."

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7 months

39 Raptors without a single obvious failure!

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3 months

SpaceX was granted a monopoly by virtue of "being the only ones to give enough of a shit about reuse to build it" What can Europe do to protect their launch industry against such overwhelming, unfair competence?

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

3 months

No kidding, Arianespace. The steamroller has been apparent for more than a decade. You were kind of warned to stop building expendable solid rockets and yet ...

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24 days

Oh yay, I get to tap the sign again

Kaya

@sisterinferior

25 days

Periodic reminder that humanity will *probably* never colonize space.

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@culpable_mink

6 months

Tiny SpaceX did, in fact, rock Boeing

Michael Sheetz

@thesheetztweetz

6 months

Confirmed: SpaceX valuation hits $180 billion, based on the latest secondary sale process at $97 a share, per a CNBC source familiar with the discussions.

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2 months

20 year anniversary of this amazing cover 🧵

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1 year

SpaceX has some explainin' to do

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1 month

I ❤️ 🇺🇲 (launch ambitions)

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@culpable_mink

1 year

19 years later...

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@culpable_mink

9 months

Right now companies are addressing fusion reactor longevity issues by literally figuring out how to coat the walls of the reactor vessel in continuous liquid metal waterfalls (metal falls?), and I think that's so dang cool.

Zap Energy

@Energy_Zap

9 months

Last week we successfully ran hot liquid metal over a wall (under vacuum) and circulated it in a loop for 100 hours straight. This is a major engineering milestone and a significant step toward liquid metal walls in our future devices. #shiny

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@culpable_mink

10 months

"SpaceX is a national security monopoly" is not the issue. The issue is that the rest of the industry normalized complacency and lack of vision, and got caught flat-footed when someone actually had the audacity to build things they never dreamed of doing on their own.

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2 months

Haha rocket development go Brrrrrrr

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"Surely flying two A-10's at the same time through the teleporter can't be that ba-

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@culpable_mink

8 months

We're cancelling the apocalypse

Helion

@Helion_Energy

8 months

Announcing Helion’s collaboration with Nucor to deploy a 500 MWe fusion power plant. Helion’s fusion power will be directly connected to a Nucor steelmaking facility and will pave the way for decarbonizing industrial manufacturing. Read more:

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@culpable_mink

2 years

@zbirdnjman @AwayBerk It's still incredibly close, but CO3 (Lauren Boebert's seat) might be decided by less than a hundred votes, in a district that has lost 2519 people to Covid. Boebert might literally lose her seat because too many of her own supporters died from Covid.

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7 months

I'm actually happy that SpaceX tries new stuff that risks failure. Nobody has ever tried to intentionally fly a first stage after hot staging before in the history of rocketry, and that means they risked failures like the one we saw today with B9. New failures are new lessons.

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11 months

I want to believe, but am holding off celebrating until someone else confirms the results.

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2 years

@bookishseawitch Everyone acting like the dude wasn't making bank fulfilling orders for the shut in castle owner down the road that browsed his selection through the magic handheld mirror like a magically smartphone.

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6 months

This is my creed.

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Starman064

@Starman064

2 months

Quote this with your favorite spaceflight meme

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@culpable_mink

11 months

Future fitness

Peter Hague PhD

@peterrhague

11 months

@KenKirtland17 @culpable_mink At the other hand you could have high gravity habitats for fitness freaks. I call them “Bro’neill cylinders”

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2 months

"Just a quick dive" *5 hours of wikipedia scrolling later*

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1 year

Commercial Crew has really turned out the exact opposite of how most people thought it would.

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2 months

The small-medium lift launch market in 5 years be like

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8 months

Europe: "Wait, you guys are actually doing your own crewed launches?"

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5 months

I want to believe

Christian Keil

@pronounced_kyle

5 months

The two Chinese labs working on replicating LK-99 appear to have found a room-temperature superconductor. At first blush, here's what's different from last time: • it's more like "room temperature" than room temperature, the paper says 250K which is -10 F or -23 C. That's…

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10 months

I don't think people quite appreciate how necessary the "Fine, I'll do it myself" aspect of internally generating launch demand with Starlink was for demonstrating Falcon 9 reuse economics. Here's the cycle we were stuck in pre-SpaceX:

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@culpable_mink

11 months

The greatest tragedy of moon landing deniers is a lack of curiosity. "How did they fit the moon rovers" and "How did they get the TV signal back to Earth for public broadcast" are both questions with super cool answers, if they had the curiosity to actually find them.

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@culpable_mink

6 months

The ideal future

Dr. Phil Metzger

@DrPhiltill

6 months

The vision for space is usually (1) von Braunian “settle Mars”, @elonmusk , or (2) O’Neillian “move industry to Moon & asteroids to save Earth & open infinite vistas”, @JeffBezos . IMHO #2 is the longterm best vision, but developing space tech for either supports both.

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11 months

Welcome to American lunar lander designs, we have

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@DJSnM

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3 months

Live footage of the social media intern hitting send on this on his way out of the office

The FAA ✈️

@FAANews

3 months

The FAA has granted license authorization for the third launch of the @SpaceX Starship Super Heavy vehicle. The FAA determined SpaceX met all safety, environmental, policy and financial responsibility requirements. Learn more at . #FAASpace

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1 year

Uncomfortable question

Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣

@rahmstorf

1 year

Germany is now already producing far more electricity from renewables than it ever did with nuclear, and it helped France's ailing nuclear fleet last year with major power exports to France. The German renewables share is planned to reach 80% by 2030. 4/7

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5 months

@pronounced_kyle What's insane is that humanity has effectively doubled the rate nitrogen cycles on this planet. Think about that. We've supercharged how fast a crucial element for life is made biologically available.

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4 months

Somehow, the N1 returned

BNO News

@BNONews

4 months

National security threat involving Russian capability is related to space, Pentagon official says - Fox

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@culpable_mink

11 months

What a difference about a decade makes.

Dennis Wingo

@wingod

11 months

@peterrhague I still remember the CEO of Arianespace and ILA laughing at Gwen Shotwell at a conference in Singapore when she announced that the Falcon 9 first stage would be reusable. None of them are laughing today.

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9 months

Anytime I see ESA or anyone else dragging their feet on demonstrating their own VTVL capability:

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@culpable_mink

10 months

Starlink revenue goes brrrrrr

Iris COMMS OPEN (1/3) Вы/ж. р.

@iris_IGB

10 months

Super heavy rockets are a technology declared obsolete in 1980s. It's basically pointless unless you are trying to militarize space. Compared to his horseshit goddamn Roskosmos looks competent.

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@hausofdecline

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1 year

The amount of people assuming that Blue Origin will go from New Glenn and BO running years behind schedule to faster than planned with Blue Moon is too damn high.

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@culpable_mink

3 months

We're aiming for Pi day, boys!

SpaceX

@SpaceX

3 months

Watch Starship's third flight test

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7 months

Walking up today like

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@culpable_mink

11 months

Remember back when this was a flamingly hot take?

Eric Berger

@SciGuySpace

11 months

ULA confirms Vulcan debut will launch NET 4Q 2023. It seems almost certain now that some NSSL Phase 2 missions will move from Vulcan to Falcon.

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@culpable_mink

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It's always amazing to realize just how much bleaker the Western space industry would be without SpaceX covering the capability gaps as everyone else scrambles to switch to new launch vehicles.

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@culpable_mink

9 months

Helpful baking tips

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@culpable_mink

2 months

The Europeans are sleeping, post things they don't understand

pepeppepppepep 🇺🇦🇦🇺

@pepeppepppepep

2 months

the americans are sleeping quick post things they dont understand

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@culpable_mink

6 months

No, the Mandate of Heaven demands placing assets at ALL Lagrange points.

Scott Manley

@DJSnM

6 months

@SciGuySpace Presuming they mean earth-moon lagrange points

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1 year

I concur

Jared Isaacman

@rookisaacman

1 year

@wealth_turtle @MarioNawfal We can do both

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@culpable_mink

4 months

Welcome back, Skylab

Michael Sheetz

@thesheetztweetz

4 months

Starlab, the joint venture of Voyager and Airbus, signed with SpaceX to launch the private space station in a single Starship launch later this decade:

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@culpable_mink

5 months

I'm once again asking Boeing to get their act together.

Kyle Rinker

@Kyrinker

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When the wall of the plane just breaks off mid flight @AlaskaAir

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@culpable_mink

1 year

That's one hell of a glow up

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@culpable_mink

1 year

Between H3, Terran 1, Starship IFT, and Hakuto-R outcomes, it's a sad reminder

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@culpable_mink

11 months

"Starship will never fly crew" NASA: "I was particularly impressed with its plans to conduct crewed missions to LEO with an HLS-similar Starship within the next couple years. "

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@culpable_mink

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If it feels like they're speeding up, that's because they are. S28 static fired over a month after IFT-2, and this was only 11 days after IFT-3. Starship go brrrr

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@SpaceX

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Full-duration static fire of all six Raptor engines on Flight 4 Starship

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11 months

Last Stokified New Glenn post, I promise.

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1 year

"You get to ride the rollercoaster!"

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2 months

>Talks to aliens >They say don't reply, we'll conquer your asses >Tells them to come conquer Earth >Is shocked when they plan to conquer Earth Is she stupid?

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@culpable_mink

5 months

I'm once again asking my homies across the pond to step up their game.

SpaceNews

@SpaceNews_Inc

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China’s Landspace conducts first VTVL test for reusable stainless steel rocket

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@culpable_mink

9 months

Every day we inch closer to God's light

RGV Aerial Photography

@RGVaerialphotos

9 months

The HLS nosecone is getting a paint job!

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@culpable_mink

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I swear, if Starship gets in trouble a second time because it literally is much tougher than anticipated for in flight termination systems to kill, it's going down in history as an absolute unit.

Astronomy Live

@astroferg

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@DJSnM Sure did. Looks like the front fell off...

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Flat budget is better than decades of gutted budget

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I kind of hope not

shitter posting 🐀(tony)

@LaunchOoc

4 months

Is the cure to male loneliness beating someone with a rock?

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@culpable_mink

7 months

No, the world shall see our glorious visions!

RD-270 (Marcus)

@rd_270

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@culpable_mink We need to skedaddle before really unhinged stuff starts leaking.

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@culpable_mink

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In LEO, you can buy this house for $15B. It's a little rough but livable. In the same orbit, Orbital shipyards are hiring for $25k-28k/hr for assembly techs. No experience required. There's no 'housing shortage' -- there's a shortage of imagination and flexibility.

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ULA and ArianeGroup: "We've been working on our best answer to the Falcon 9 for years, and Tom Mueller just tweeted out a kick stage that lets Falcon 9 undercut us even harder."

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@culpable_mink

7 months

Yes, "Jupiter"

New York Post

@nypost

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New research finds Jupiter is flinging asteroids at Earth

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Reposting this to celebrate finally deadlifting enough to simulate trying to stand up straight in the 2G Bro'niell cylinder.

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@culpable_mink

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Future fitness

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Just to be clear

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Robotbeat🗽 ➐

@Robotbeat

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Wow, this metal is beautiful. Like copper but more workable.

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For those that need to hear it.

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O'Neill cylinders or terraformed planets?

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beanhowitzer

@beanhowitzer

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@kyuwuketsuki cope and seethe the lagrange points will be settled asteroids ground to dust for colonies comets melted into hydrolox And it will be based

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