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Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch is working with Alibaba's online shopping platform Taobao to make reusable rockets for express deliveries that could arrive globally in an hour.

www.reuters.com /business/chinas-taobao-working-with-startup-deliveries-by-reusable-rocket-2024-03-31/

1y ago

www.reuters.com /business/chinas-taobao-working-with-startup-deliveries-by-reusable-rocket-2024-03-31/

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1y ago

Chinese rocket maker Space Epoch is working with Alibaba's online shopping platform Taobao to make reusable rockets for express deliveries that could arrive globally in an hour.

www.reuters.com /business/chinas-taobao-working-with-startup-deliveries-by-reusable-rocket-2024-03-31/

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The year is 2030. The average Amazon Prime subscriber has a carbon footprint larger than the majority of countries.
This is
shenanigans lmao
- China did a speed run of a housing bubble so fast, they've caught up to our venture capital bubble in under a year.
  :angry-hex: we can't let them usurp our capacity for novel investment bubbles! That's our thing!
- I feel like either he or some other venture capital bro had proposed something like this a few years ago.
  
  Rocket deliveries have been around the corner for the past 20 years, like how the Mars landing is eternally 10 years away.
  Rocket and space shit is always going to be exorbitantly expensive, and because the reasons are physics-related, that will never, ever change. It will always cost a lot of money to put anything into space.
  I’ll never forget when half the site credulously bought into this marketing hype bullshit like a year ago and suggested that the laws of physics might not be real because “have you checked every atom to see they behave in the same way?”
  
  Yes, with the big rocket they're developing. But there were people predicting it in the 60s. And I'm sorry but rockets use more energy than planes which use more energy than boats! Rocket freight isn't happening
This sounds completely unhinged, and I’m struggling to understand why/how Reuters published this uncritical piece that just seems to be a press release.
- Someone wasn't paying enough attention to what the LLMs were publishing.
- China wants to shoot ballistic missiles around the world!
  makes good propaganda fodder I guess
Drop shipping but it's literally dropping payloads from inter-continental treat missiles.
- Dropshipping but it's an armored vtol dropping a squad of Amazon delivery exosuit troops directly through my roof
picking bits of cheap t-shirts out of a crater in my backyard
dongfeng ballistic missile deliveries straight to your home!
They have Chinese Elon? Huh.
So what you're saying is I can ship myself to China on a giant rocket
they originally released this news on April 1st, I thought it was just a joke
- lmao I totally would not have believe this was real if I saw it on April 1st
This sounds like a terrible idea to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

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