Nothalogh

Make all the rails and screws anyway

Posts like this give me a hearty chuckle. Either this was a woefully inadequate attempt at concern trolling, or there are people here who still cannot grasp the scale of the game SpaceX is playing.

Obviously they're talking about SLS

It exists in superposition of both orbit and not, until the kinetic heating starts

If you know how the Orion propulsion pulse modules worked, that's more likely than you might think.

Only the latter gets you a fleet of generation ships.

Not from an earth centric point of view. Mars is economically necessary if large scale orbital assembly of heavy inter/intra-stellar spacecraft is to be on the menu. The reason being is that Mars is the goldilocks planet for that endeavor, it has the following unique characteristics. Shallow gravity well for ease of transit throughout solar system Atmo for braking Gravity for ore separation and smelting It's already a dead world, so stripmining it and turning it into a WH40K forgeworld won't hurt anybody's feelings

Interactions with some lead one to entertain that possibility.

If I recall correctly, Saturn originated as an ARPA project, and upon being showed the proposal, the DOD response was "A giant booster, LOLWUT? We want ICBMs".

This is all fine and good, but the real metric is tonnage of payload, on orbit, per year. That is the only thing that truly matters, not who it was for, or whether it was paid for by card or by check.

No, what matters is tonnage to orbit

LOL, just like the old Ford Crown Vic police cars

Sadly

When you maximize your bluff skill

Not true, it flew sideways into orbit

The trajectory of Boeing, at this point, is not promising.

Only the in atmo miles count. Big "IF", at this point

Neuron rich exhaust

I am now imagining an entire technical manual written in redditspeak

The number I've always seen is twice per second

LOL, was that not the original issue? Just what have they been doing these past months?

Those were chosen specifically for their LD ratio at super and subsonic speeds, due to the aforementioned requirement of cross range capability with full payload.

USAF requirement of 1000 mile cross range capability, required for RTLS after less than one orbit in a polar inclination. Shuttle was proof of that.

High Speed Interment

Yes, WH40K taught me all about Daemon Engines