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I once had a tardigrade profile picture on Youtube and someone thought i was snark. But im pretty sure that there is life on the moon that survived the harsh conditions and is hibernating in a shadow or something.

I was trying to go to nearby store to buy more RAM for my PC with my birthday money today, but because the store was closed i went to another store and bought a canvas and attempted to make a painting instead. Painting with a knife is very satisfying! The painting i made is just completely black.

According to all known laws of spaceflight, there is no way that a water tower should be able to fly. Its manufacturing technique is too questionable to get its itself off the ground. The water tower, of course, flies anyways. Because water tanks don't care what humans think is impossible.

The the vacuum nozzle for the Merlin is way larger than the engine on the right. The vacuum nozzle for merlin (2.5m) is around twice the diameter of the sea level nozzle (1.25m)

The LEM on the surface of the Moon. Its Buzz looking out the window.

I just tried to think of a random number after i read that. 365 was the first thing that came to mind Yup, humans, or at least myself am terrible at generating random numbers.

I don't have a favourite, all of them are stunning honestly, but i like the photos that are imperfect. Imperfections make the thing seem more real in my opinion.

This is uhhhhh, yeah. This is obviously going to be great in the medical field, and do think they should focus on that first. But imagine what it can do outside the medical field. Imagine being able to control a Moon rover from the Earth using your mind, maybe further versions could affect other senses like vision, and we could see in infared or something. Im an not expert on this, so i don't exactly know what we can and can't do with this, but i know one thing i know for sure, the concept itself hurts my brain.

Nice! I already have a little poem thing ready but i will only share it after/if starhopper hops succesfully. (its actually more of a meme)

That would be an interesting idea. It would be excellent for extreme tourists that like to go to extreme locations to see and experience extreme stuff.

I think he is talking about the orbital prototypes that are under construction in both Texas and Florida. Elon tweeted that they should start testing in 2-3 months (although you should take that statement with a grain of salt, its Elon after all). Starhopper is going to do its first hop attempt (hopefully) on Wednesday.

Considering it took 5-ish months to get Starhopper from a water tank to the first static fire, and that the proto-Starship already has been under construction for 4 months, they may be able to finish it within that time, but there are just too many things that we don't know. There is still the heatshield and the wings and whatnot, and we don't know if these things are either completed and waiting to be installed, being worked on, or just don't exist at all. Also i have no idea how long it takes to build a new launch setup of Starship. I don't even know what he means by that tweet. If i were to geuss, they may be able to do their thing in 3-6 months, depending on what they currently have hidden inside those structures and tents.

The video Labpadre posted was just an upload of one of the tests. I think i read somewhere that there were 2 static fires on July 16th, but im not sure about that.

Very likely. I think that some Methane may have leaked out when the hopper popped of the umbilical cord connector, kind of like when you open a bottle of soda that is pressurised, but instead of soda, its evaporating liquid methane.

Maybe there is a slight chance that these kind of fires would become a signature of Starship, rather than a problem, kind of like the Delta-IV. Imagine a monolithic monstrous gigantic humongous shining metallic rocket that graciously emerges from a colossal fireball, that would be an epic sight, i would happily fly over to the US just to see that. (if its safe and doesn't destory the rocket or toast the people inside, obviously) EDIT: Screw it, i just so happen to be working on a Sci-Fi comic, and my rockets are going to have this effect. Its just sounds so darned epic.

They definitely need some time to investigate and do some fixing so it won't happen again, so it makes sense why would withdraw all the testing this week. If there is little damage i don't expect it take more than a month, but we will see.

Im pretty sure Starhopper was pretty cold because it was storing cryogenic fluids during the fire, so i think that might have helped protected it from the heat.

What i think was a Methane purge/leak at the wrong moment, and the water flash-evaporated some of the Methane, resulting in a bigger fire. They definitely need this day to investigate and look for damage, so i don't expect a hop today.

I would return them to Earth using Starship or whatever spaceship, so they can be used in museums. Reusing them probably wouldn't be much better than just builsing new habitat modules, and burning it all up during re-entry seems like a waste of an historical artifact.

Because the first hop attempt should be tomorrow, and Starhopper is still tethered, im geussing we will see a static fire today. The road is also closed from 14:00-20:00 CDT, so the within the next 6 hours we might see raptor come back to life. They did pre-burner tests yesterday.

This is the problem i have with a manned mission to the surface of Venus, why? There is no point in going to the surface of Venus manned. There is nothing you can do on the surface of Venus manned that you can't do unmanned. The idea i posted here earlier with the helicopter/balloon craft can be without humans in order to do a sample return, or maybe its shouldn't be done at all. Maybe we should just leave the surface of Venus alone and don't bother with Venus for a while.

Manned atmospheric Venus missions could act as a stepping stone towards manned mission to the atmospheres of gas giants. There will still be an epic sequel after that Endgame of national pride before interstellar probes.

Rocket engines are pretty much useless on the surface of Venus, if we were to use rockets to take of from the surface of Venus we would need a behemoth of a rocket (you would need 27km/s of Delta V in order to get from the surface to orbit). and all that has to somehow be built and get down to the surface too. If we really wanted to go to the surface of Venus, why not take advantage of that thick atmosphere? What if we had some sort of helicopter/balloon that would carry the spaceraft up to an altitude where the pressure would be simulair to Earth, so they can launch the capsule back to earth using a earth-sized rocket, rather than a humongous monstrosity. Maybe it would also be a good idea to have an airship outpost in the atmosphere of Venus, where they would have one of these landing crafts. So instead of landing there for a day and leaving immediately, you could explore the surface for a day, get back up to cool down and analyze the samples, and get back down for another expedition. They could do many more expeditions this way. I don't think visiting Venus is a good idea, but is sure is a fun idea, (to think about at least).

Finally! I think this means that the delays are over and we will finally see some action.

I tried to make a solid fuel only launch vehicle. It can send 4.5 tons to LEO. 3.7m in diameter so it could be carried around all over the states.