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2 hours ago, Scotius said:

Yep. This one will need extra long hosing down. Going to space on a pillar of exploding burning hydrocarbons, then riding the fire down to landing does that to a rocket.

How cool will it be if they just fuel it back up and fly it again?

And again.

And again.

And again.

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20 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

How cool will it be if they just fuel it back up and fly it again?

And again.

And again.

And again.

I know that when Musk does a 24 hour turn around it'll just be a stunt...

but I will love it all the same.

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I dunno about the whole naming thing. The E2E ships will probably not have any names. Eventually (I hope) there will be so many of them that naming each one something special will make as much sense as giving names to all the airliners.

I'd like to live long enough to witness that.

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1 hour ago, Wjolcz said:

I dunno about the whole naming thing. The E2E ships will probably not have any names. Eventually (I hope) there will be so many of them that naming each one something special will make as much sense as giving names to all the airliners.

I'd like to live long enough to witness that.

That said, there are airlines that do assign names for at least some of their aircraft.

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3 hours ago, tater said:

True. They really need to nail down what they are calling stuff, I still see BFR used for the whole stack.

I've seen "Big flipping Booster" for the long end and "Big flipping Spaceship* for the short end, with "Big flipping Rocket" for the whole stack.

We may see something like "Heart of Gold, a BFR-class spaceship, left for a cislunar flyby today." Or it may be, "BA1031, the first Heron booster to launch a manned interplanetary mission, was retired today after its sixty-second flight."

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2 minutes ago, sevenperforce said:

Kestrel, Merlin, Falcon, Raptor.

Thinking bigger?

  • Eagle
  • Heron
  • Penguin
  • Ostrich
  • Pelican
  • Vulture
  • Buzzard
  • Pelagornis sandersi
  • Argentavis magnificens
  • Teratornis merriami
  • Kelenken guillermoi
  • Brontornis burmeisteri
  • Titanis walleri
  • Arambourgiania philadelphiae

Badassasaurus Rex

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5 hours ago, sevenperforce said:

Kestrel, Merlin, Falcon, Raptor.

Thinking bigger?

  • Eagle
  • Heron
  • Penguin
  • Ostrich
  • Pelican
  • Vulture
  • Buzzard
  • Pelagornis sandersi
  • Argentavis magnificens
  • Teratornis merriami
  • Kelenken guillermoi
  • Brontornis burmeisteri
  • Titanis walleri
  • Arambourgiania philadelphiae

Ara

 

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