First of all, no, absolutely no article I've read portray a picture that is even a bit similar to what thunderf00t claimed in that video (especially with regards to bandwidth). It is such a weird argument to fall back on "well ground stations are still needed", as if that was his original claim. The laser interconnects work, and his arguments about alignement/bandwidth/cost were just wrong.
And yes. Even chatgpt says that it is used to prevent vibrations. It could also help cooling the launch pad I guess. But not the engines! That's a completely different thing, the engines get absolutely 0 cooling from the water. The entire point is to allow them to get as hot and powerful as possible without damaging everything around! It's almost entirely for vibration control btw, so any cooling to the launchpad isn't the point. You don't even need chatgpt to know that, it's literally something that a lot of launch platforms have done for decades.
As for frauds, how exactly is SpaceX a fraud? Again, I don't care about musk. I'm specifically talking about SpaceX. And in any case, there is so much legitimate reasons to dislike Musk that it is actually super unhelpful to have personalities like thunderf00t obsessing on something as visibly successful as spacex.
I mean, chatgpt is just wrong. You could've just watched the second link I posted. He says it's to cool the engine. Not sure why you think chatgpt would be good at this, especially when I'm referring to a specific link that you could have just watched?
You could just watch the stream too. How exactly do you think chatgpt would know about a stream that happened 2 weeks ago?
And what was even your prompt?
Look, just because you find some tiny clip in a stream where someone misspeaks (if he even did), that's not all that interesting. As ChatGPT pointed out, in general the guy knows this piece of minutia. You're acting like a conspiracy theorist here.
I get it. You think space "exploration" is super important. I think it's not. You think SpaceX is generating revolutionary progress. I think it's very evolutionary, and that the real reason so little space progress was made for 40 years is because space just isn't a fertile area for doing useful things. You don't appear to want to defend Musk, so there (I guess) we agree: He's a terrible person.
And yes. Even chatgpt says that it is used to prevent vibrations. It could also help cooling the launch pad I guess. But not the engines! That's a completely different thing, the engines get absolutely 0 cooling from the water. The entire point is to allow them to get as hot and powerful as possible without damaging everything around! It's almost entirely for vibration control btw, so any cooling to the launchpad isn't the point. You don't even need chatgpt to know that, it's literally something that a lot of launch platforms have done for decades.
As for frauds, how exactly is SpaceX a fraud? Again, I don't care about musk. I'm specifically talking about SpaceX. And in any case, there is so much legitimate reasons to dislike Musk that it is actually super unhelpful to have personalities like thunderf00t obsessing on something as visibly successful as spacex.