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The entire premise of Hatsunia is about being the futuristic country people expected Japan to be.
iiwiki.us/wiki/Hatsunia
Japan is not futuristic
Japan is a fossil stuck in 1990
99% of Westerners still don't get this
Futuristic Asia is China, Korea, Vietnam, etc
No Asian rates Japan for modernity at all
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"The market for satellites has always been 25 satellites per year" (and that will never change, so why bother developing reusability?)
Attitudes like these are why progress on space development has been stagnant for decades.
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Early fusion interplanetary vehicle using a lithium augmented spherical tokamak engine passing by Neptune.
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A lot of the discourse about reusable launch vehicles on the NASASpaceflight forum in the 2000s and early 2010s was about how they will never be economically viable unless they were really small.
So why did no one make a small RLV with a high flight rate?
Jun 12
Like ~12 years ago the biggest conversation in spaceflight was "we gotta have dual payload capability for GEO birds"
Think about that.
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I remember when Ariane 5 was "the world reference for heavy-lift launchers"
Jun 12
Like ~12 years ago the biggest conversation in spaceflight was "we gotta have dual payload capability for GEO birds"
Think about that.
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The dismissal of spaceโs potential is why it came to this.
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H3-30 (Flight 6) is the first Japanese orbital rocket to launch using only liquid rocket engines (without solid rocket boosters).
Prior to this, the RVT (Reusable Vehicle Testing) program performed suborbital flights from 1999 to 2003, reaching a maximum altitude of 42 meters.
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I am a center-left liberal who doesnโt like Muskโs other political views, and yet I still think we should colonize Mars.
Jun 11
The issue of Mars colonisation (or space colonisation in general, if we don't want to get into the planet/habitat debate between space advocates) is surprisingly one of the key dividing lines in present day politics.
You can reliably predict someones opinion on it by which party they vote for, by how they feel about Elon Musk as a person, or by their level of optimism/pessimism about technology. There is almost total correlation on believing it is a good/bad idea from a technical perspective and thinking it is desirable/undesirable from a political perspective. Everyone seems to be quite sure that the laws of physics vindicate their opinions on this matter.
Its not surprise I'm in the "let's go" faction. But I am increasingly of the view that even beyond the issue of Mars, that faction must win, or else Earth as well will be sunk into the mire of degrowth, envy politics, and misery.
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Smartphones and social media getting blamed for social problems is ironic, since the advent of their modern iterations in the late 2000s coincided with the perceived technological decline of Japan, and the emergence of articles criticizing Japan for "missing out on smartphones."
"The destroyer of our species wonโt necessarily come in a rain of fire, an apocalyptic plague, or an armada of drones descending on us from the sky. It may be something we excitedly pay $1000 for every three or four years."
noahpinion.blog/p/are-you-fiโฆ
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I already made Hatsunia (ๅ้ณๅฝ)
iiwiki.com/wiki/Hatsunia
Jun 10
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I revisited Japan earlier this year
Forza Horizon 6 is set in Japan
Deltarune Chapter 5 is inspired by Japan
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has the highest resolution camera on a Mars orbiter.
It is 20 years old.
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Neo-Y2K music artists like DV-i, ALFAXYSM, Nanoray, and System ST91 make the most futuristic-sounding music in my opinion.
I compiled a playlist with hundreds of tracks:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLโฆ
Jun 7
I don't want to RETVRN, but I want to course correct towards the vision of the future we had in the late 90s & early 00s, and I'm starting to believe that might actually happen
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Concepts for arcologies and space stations are some of the reasons I became interested in Japan when I was younger.
When you visit Japanese cities you begin to understand the obsession Japanese science fiction has with arcologies, space stations, underground cities etc
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We were supposed to prevent this by committing to full reuse and space based solar power back in the 70's.
Also figuring out how to start the switch to battery electric cars.
But that failure of public imagination and leadership is how the first trillionaire made his money.
Jun 7
now how are we supposed to prevent this
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The Y2K future
Jun 7
I don't want to RETVRN, but I want to course correct towards the vision of the future we had in the late 90s & early 00s, and I'm starting to believe that might actually happen
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I made a size comparison of some large rockets, obviously not everything is on here but it gives a nice scale of things!
Insane that we are starting to watch Saturn V get dwarfed by rockets like Starship and LM-10!
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Practice sketching mechs๐ง
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What about a timeline in which post-Soviet Russia explores space instead of trying to invade Ukraine?
(Images courtesy of @RussianSpaceWeb)
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