CatastrophicFailure
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On 7/2/2023 at 12:44 PM, AckSed said:
Thank you for choosing SpaceX Space Delivery. We get you to orbit.
Something I didn't expect was the ESA is sending up astronauts with Axiom. It's using the exact same hardware, but I wonder what the organisation is RE: monitoring/mission control?
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.
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2 hours ago, Scotius said:
Very nominal launch!
Remember the times when we felt anxiety before every landing? It's gone now - and it pleases me.
I'm glad to watch space flights becoming as non-exciting as airplane landings.
I still feel a pang of anxiety for every launch…
2 hours ago, tater said:S2 camera higher res than usual?
think this is broken now but…
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11 hours ago, steve9728 said:
I don’t think so. I'm not quite sure if it's a gearbox or something - the big one behind and connecting with the engine because I never saw a real one for trucks.
Are there no instructions for the kit?
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Good thread on stuff:
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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:
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1 hour ago, steve9728 said:
Initial finished the chassis. Any truck expert can tell me what those parts are? I can only tell the engine and brake cylinders
Big thing is a bumper, probably front. Large cylinder maybe the air cleaner?
1 hour ago, Shpaget said:Not today, but a few days ago, I got my hands on a brand new fiber laser! A 60W MOPA thingy.
It can cut through 0,4 mm alu and steel plate with ease, and even 1 mm brass sheet (took a bit longer).
pew pew
Cool. Now at least spring for a simple railing for the gun crews.
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3 hours ago, RCgothic said:
Starship/Superheavy changing to hot staging. 10% payload increase. That'd be up to 165t to LEO Ref.
This makes me smile.
Completely validates that I keep regressing to this in my RSS campaign. Just so much simpler.
Spoiler
1 hour ago, Royalswissarmyknife said:When I thought Starship couldn't carry more
Guess I was wrong
Just wait til you see Starship Heavy...
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3 hours ago, SunlitZelkova said:
Not to rant or anything, but I’d say this idea that a Moon base has to be a borderline colony is what has kept us from getting any Moon base for the last 50 years.
Just put Salyut or Skylab on legs and call it a day.
But.. won’t someone please think of the chickens?
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21 hours ago, kerbiloid said:
Got it.
The factor they missed previous time, is that somebody should be sitting on the eggs to let the chickens form correctly.
And in zero-g there is no such thing "sit on".
Thanks to the centrifuge, now it's possible.
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.
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11 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:
just had a near collision at 36000!!! I was climbing up to cruise and another 737 (company traffic oddly enough) and my TCAS went nuts calling TRAFFIC! TRAFFIC! TRAFFIC! Then it entered into 3nm of my aircraft and TCAS suddenly screams CLIMB! CLIMB! CLIMB! So I slam my autopilot disconnect and give it all it will take and went for a 7000FPM climb. All the while my AP disconnect alarms screaming, TCAS keeps barking CONFLICT CLIMB! Fun moment! Conflict avoided, now at cruise! FL380
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.
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6 hours ago, GuessingEveryDay said:
Today, I couldn't locate my driver's license, which was bad as I needed to go on a flight in a month. So I started looking through the house. Couldn't find it. I look carefully again 2 times, find 3 USB-C cables, and still couldn't find it. So I go ahead and order a replacement. After I finish and pay, the sunlight bounces off the monitor, and I shift it. Right behind the monitor, which is very hard to see behind, is my driver's license.
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.
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11 hours ago, AlamoVampire said:
cries> internet goes. Stays gone some 2 hours. Internet comes back. Stays back 10 minutes. Internet goes. <cries> i just want to fly. I just want stable internet.
Can you run your own cable modem with them? That would at least give you the control over when it updates.
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3 hours ago, DDE said:
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A reminder that sooner or later “space archaeologist” will be a thing… and they’ll be cataloging a pile of plushies.
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1 hour ago, TheSaint said:
You know that's just a hybrid-electric vehicle. Right?
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…
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3 hours ago, Delay said:
I had an... interesting, slightly heated discussion with my father yesterday, where I tried to convince him that adding a generator to an electric vehicle to recharge the battery would end up wasting more electrical energy than it would generate, thus discharging the battery even faster.
I failed.
The struggle is real.
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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.
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Nice curtains…
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Possible FTS testing:
no, not that one. Look over to the left…
Better view:
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Interesting design on the header tank there…
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23 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said:
If anyone wants to disparage the Falcon 9 in this day and age, even if you stretch the facts as far as they will go, it isn't enough any more.
And people say the fanboys are a cult. <facepalm>
21 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said:SLS is by definition the most unreliable rocket ever. By design it can't even succeed once as it is throwing away the reusable boosters and engines for every single launch!
ooof, someone call the fire department for that burn!
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13 hours ago, Ultimate Steve said:Just in case any joke detectors were not working today, my response to @sevenperforce was in jest and I'm 99% sure his post was in jest as well.
It’s the internet. Someone will take the most absurd thing seriously… because some other one actually means it seriously.
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33 minutes ago, CastleKSide said:
If it were, my car would be a very different kind of clean. Sounds fun to try tho, maybe pitch it to a youtuber.
Mythbusters already did it.
…sort of…
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Mildly interesting:
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Tweet deleted, here's the same video:
What funny/interesting thing happened in your life today?
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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.
