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  1. _Augustus_
    How far is are 3B and 4B from their parents?
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    I guessed correctly. What about 3B, 5, and 6?
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    I see no reason why not. In fact, why don't rockets use scramjets and SRBs as a first stage?
  4. _Augustus_
    The engines on the Alpheratz can't be that recessed. You'd have problems. Also, change the shroud paintjob, please...
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    I would be happy to beta test...
  6. _Augustus_
    Put me in the "supporters" list. Once my Edmund Super Space Conqueror (a 6" Newtonian), guidescope, and FILM (you heard me) SLR are set up I'm going to have a crack at this, assuming the Super Space Conqueror's motors still are working after fifty years.
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    Literally nothing has changed Literally no real changes, but you are correct about Kupole. It's a super-Mars. I have to simulate the other stars. Can you give me information on the actual names of the other stars?
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    Yeah, I wake up at 3 sometimes. TBH there isn't really anyone on the road before 5AM, the drunks go home by 1:30-2. We need to stop derailing this thread, though. I'm certainly excited about the launch...
  9. _Augustus_
    The next president may very well take up that offer anyways and mothball SLS.... GO ELON!
  10. _Augustus_
    NASA, ESA, etc. would die for using that for probes. Just think - you could have a FREAKING PLUTO ORBITER IN ONE LAUNCH. Interstellar missions, KBO/SDO/Oort flybys and orbiters, giant 10-ton gas giant missions, you name it. Oh, and 360t is only if you re-use it. If you burn through all the fuel it's 500. Yeah, and there's also launching 30 big comm sats at a time, which would be cool too.
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    Yep.
  12. _Augustus_
    I have a weird school program where I only have one day in-person a week, then another day of online classes, and I wish I lived in NM and that the flight wasn't on a Tuesday so I could go see it. 4:30 AM? I wake up earlier than that for astronomical observing.
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    Only the seven central engines can gimbal. What happens if one of those shuts down? What happens if a large amount of engines on one side of the outer ring fail and the central engines alone can't compensate?
  14. _Augustus_
    That's unfortunate...
  15. _Augustus_
    It's an SSTO. It puts itself and the payload into orbit, then deorbits and returns.
  16. _Augustus_
    The reliability of one ITS booster is probably worse than the reliability of ten SLS rockets....
  17. _Augustus_
    No. The ITS launcher has more engines than the N1.
  18. _Augustus_
    One atmosphere of pressure. 80 degrees fahrenheit. You could use oxygen, helium, or hydrogen. All are equally safe. No. Hard...
  19. _Augustus_
    This thing has FORTY-TWO RAPTOR ENGINES ON THE FIRST STAGE. WHAT? 1000 ITS ships in orbit at once? I'll be darned if it happens in my lifetime.
  20. _Augustus_
    This thing is YUUGE! The engine bell is bigger than the F1. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/780275236922994688/photo/1
  21. _Augustus_
    Well, brand new passenger cars on Earth don't cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
  22. _Augustus_
    A lot of people have 8" Dobs, but Zhumell's Z series Dobs are more popular than the XT series.
  23. _Augustus_
    No, it's more complicated....
  24. _Augustus_
    I want to grind my own mirror, I'm probably going to the ASGH mirror class in January and grinding an 8-10" mirror, and if my dad doesn't take me to that I'll grind my own 6" at home and then make a 10-12".
  25. _Augustus_
    I would pay for a movie with those guys...
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