CatastrophicFailure

Cool, you’re an expert in naval warfare? I’m something of an expert myself, in composite submarines. A few months ago I wan expert in concrete, too.

It’s a way for ESA to get more “space time.” Their number of seats to the ISS is limited by the agreements, so this is a way for them to get up there more often.

I still feel a pang of anxiety for every launch… think this is broken now but…

Are there no instructions for the kit?

Good thread on stuff:

Going back to engine nozzles, this makes the shorty make a little more sense. Seems like it’d be way quicker to produce, if nothing else: Tweet deleted, here's the same video:

Big thing is a bumper, probably front. Large cylinder maybe the air cleaner? Cool. Now at least spring for a simple railing for the gun crews.

This makes me smile. Completely validates that I keep regressing to this in my RSS campaign. Just so much simpler. Just wait til you see Starship Heavy...

But.. won’t someone please think of the chickens?

When someone finally has a proper moonbase, there needs to be a huge dome where chickens can finally soar through the air with the grace of eagles.

Flight simulation will truly have reached its apex when it finally introduces virtual incident report paperwork. Oh and virtual union grievance arbitration hearings disputing AI-generated angry customer complaints.

The surest way to find any item, and directly proportionate in surety to said item’s value, is simply to buy another one. Your move, St. Anthony.

Can you run your own cable modem with them? That would at least give you the control over when it updates.

A reminder that sooner or later “space archaeologist” will be a thing… and they’ll be cataloging a pile of plushies.

No… he’s referring to adding a “generator” to a pure electric vehicle- no gas engine- to “generate” power as the car drives around. Trying this will get you a massive fine for attempting to violate the laws of thermodynamics…

The struggle is real.

There’s a story from the very first Falcon 9 launch, where they noticed the edge of the Mvac nozzle was damaged once it was on the pad. Rather than roll it back, they ran the numbers and figured out they could just trim the damaged bit off on the pad… with ordinary tin snips. So yeah, I’m given to think there’s negligible mass savings there, especially vs the loss in performance. Gotta be the mfg cost saved.

Nice curtains…

Possible FTS testing: no, not that one. Look over to the left… Better view:

Interesting design on the header tank there…

And people say the fanboys are a cult. <facepalm> ooof, someone call the fire department for that burn! /S It’s the internet. Someone will take the most absurd thing seriously… because some other one actually means it seriously.

Mythbusters already did it. …sort of…

Mildly interesting: !