Sentient Loom

1. Funny, that’s also what the right-wingers keep blathering on about.

2. This wasn’t hidden at all. I knew about it immediately, posts and stories about the explosion were being shared immediately. It was an extremely public event, and exhaustively reported on.

1. It’s two separate stories. The booster was caught perfectly, the top stage blew up.

2. I knew immediately because I was watching the feed where they said “we lost the top stage.”

3. The success is much more interesting than the failure, and more newsworthy.

Nothing was hidden or secret. In fact, for two years all I ever heard was people everywhere laughing that the rockets were blowing up, when the rockets were (and still are) experimental and prone to failure since they’re literally advancing rocket science.

I have a solution: spin up a dozen nuclear power plants to fuel AI to solve the problem. If there’s not enough nuclear, just burn coal.

That’s a small price to pay for having no healthcare and a shorter lifespan than those in poorer Western countries.