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New comment by 3938848484 in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

3938848484 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:40:11 +0000

For things to go somewhere theg need purpose. I'm willing to bet this will go nowhere, like all other European projects. I'm just giving reasons why. Don't be so think skinned. I wish the EU would have worked since I'm European. But I lost that hope a long time ago. This is a flash in the pan and the US / China will take 100% of the space launch market because, unlike Europe, they have the will to do things.

New comment by 3938848484 in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

3938848484 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:52:16 +0000

Exactly. I'd even go as far as saying German overreach and arrogance ten years ago killed the EU for good. Before that it genuinely felt people were at least trying. Now it's a walking corpse.

New comment by 3938848484 in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

3938848484 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 10:13:16 +0000

See the thing is when we studied law in Europe a long time ago we were sold on this dream that Europe would become like the United States and we'd a abandon our national prejudices kind of like how people sometimes talk about it in these threads.

Then you get there all bright eyed and it's just a bunch of boomers squabbling to fuck each other over to get 0.03% tax advantages on peach liquor exports for their region. Or just completely delusional people living in a kumbaya fantasy world and just throwing money at the wall for vanity projects that will never be implemented because there's five layers of separation between them and the ground.

It really takes the soul out of you. The way people work in the US and China is completely different. They DO things. Europeans just talk about doing things, and then talk behind each others backs.

Sorry if this is not cogent Im hangover

New comment by 3938848484 in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

3938848484 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:49:03 +0000

I interned for one of the delegations in the European parliament and I've also worked in the public sector California. The US is a country, the EU is a bunch of cats fighting under a blanket.

New comment by 3938848484 in "Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight"

3938848484 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 09:34:42 +0000

There is no Europe. When push comes to shove its all petty squabbles. That's the problem. This whole talk of sovereign European access is dead from the start because each Euro state has conflicting interests and no motivation to work together. They refused to go full US of Europe and now we have the worst of both worlds. China is gonna eat us for brekky.