Bill Phil

It will never compete with air freight. And I doubt it'll even be used for P2P. But since it can land both stages it's a part of the system's capabilities anyway, at least in terms of performance. Any market BFR has that is not it's primary market will be a niche market, such as P2P.

... People buy water, but it's in nature and can be accessed for free... People buy things that are also available for free all the time.

The main market for BFR is spaceflight.

My only problem with this is that Salyut 1 wasn't a permanent station (couldn't even be resupplied, if I recall correctly), but everything else looks great!

It's obvious what it's taking influence from... Could be argued to be a reboot/adaptation. Let's see... big dangerous sea creature that's not unlike a shark, crew on a boat, shouldn't be where it is... Smells fishy. Smells... sharky. Smells like... Jaws.

Not even tearing apart the entirety of Ceres is needed for that. Heck, Eros could give you an O'Neill Cylinder that could comfortably support as many people as Ceres is said to support. The only difference is that the Cylinder would actually give that population a higher quality of life.

No, not season 3. But I can tell you that it takes less energy to destroy Ceres than it does to rotate it to provide 1/3 g at its circumference... as in, rotating it would destroy it. And if you have that much energy to throw around on a human timescale...

Well, since it's tidally locked, Jupiter would be in roughly the same place in the sky at all times. Maybe a Jupiter rise from the orbit of Europa? Or Jupiter from Europa? Great artwork regardless. I quite like it.

You can shut down large solids. Just not immediately... It takes time. From a study conducted by the 45th Space Wing, it was determined that an abort 30 - 60 seconds after launch had a 100% chance of killing the crew. I'm glad we didn't fly that thing... solids as on crew vehicles are just insane. SLS may prove equally problematic, though... there's no real guarantee.

Dogs are man's best friend. Cats had some uses. They can breed fast and hunt vermin. Humans don't do things for for logical reasons all the time, as well.

Well, just learning rules doesn't mean they'll be followed...

When I refer to a launch engine, I'm also referring to sustainers. A launch goes from the pad or landing site to a target orbit (which can intersect the ground). It has too much weight for me to use it as a vacuum engine on a transfer stage (if I want loads of delta V I go with a nuclear engine using the LF only tanks) or general lander, but its performance is so good that launching (or using it as a sustainer) with it, or landing on and launching off Tylo, is a definite use. The game can be played any number of ways, but to me it seems that the Wolfhound is much better suited to launching than anything else. Well, except for maybe Tylo missions.

Modern solids are a far cry from simple fireworks. APCP can get up to 303.8 seconds of specific impulse. Not too shabby, although that's probably vac ISP. I don't see a reason for a rivalry. Whatever is better at fitting the design requirements is what you should do. If that would be solids, then use them. If liquids are better, use them. If a combination is better, use it. They use solids for high energy trajectories in space. I quite like the Titan SRBs. Those things can thrust vector for steering. Well... ISP (in seconds) is thrust per pound (or newton) of propellant expended... But ISP per pound doesn't really mean anything...

Simple. Launch with SRBs strapped to the side of the core, and load up the core with Wolfhounds. Activate the Wolfhounds once at altitude or activate them on the ground with low Thrust setting, and then move it up as it goes on. Definitely better suited as a launch engine. I don't quite know the curve, but once you're a few kms up you regain a lot of ISP and thrust. Just tested in-game. Worked flawlessly. 23 tonnes into LKO. For the record: the ISP of the Wolfhound exceeds the ISP of the Poodle at about 10 km in altitude. Still in atmo. Definitely a launch engine, albeit with assistance.

I don't recall there being one... just that with a Saturn V not being reserved for a Moon mission (Apollos 18, 19, and 20 were cancelled), it was the preferred option to launch a dry workshop with one.

I've found that stages using the Wolfhound can have less delta-V than the same design with a Poodle. It's situational, of course, but the Wolfhound's stats seem to be more launch optimized than not, as a sustainer engine.

A stage with a Wolfhound can actually have less delta V than a stage with a Poodle, since the Wolfhound is so much heavier. It certainly appears to be a launch engine...

Huh... I didn't even know about that! Just joking around, of course. It's hard to get people into space these days... Here's an idea, what if we made an addictive video game about it? / badjoke

I never ran into issues with 1.4.1, not of the game breaking nature, anyway. 1.4.2 has some serious issues (mainly landing gear, although my Vall mission recently managed to escape it). You might run into problems anyways, since the game's stability is partoy based on your machine, and what software it has, as well as a large number of other potential issues.

Why?

Decided to do a Vall mission with a crew led by Val. Wasn't too eventful, but fun nonetheless. Gravity assists using the moons of Jool are quite an effective method of maneuvering. I'm thinking about a similar mission targeting Bop and Pol. I had so much excess Delta-V I think almost any target is possible, at least for orbit. Except maybe Moho, not while towing a lander, at least. I use KAC and KER. Pics in the spoiler:

Sure. Except that info is not enough to make meaningful comparisons. I could come up with a system just as capable, but comparing it to BFR wouldn't mean anything. We're going to have to wait. At the moment it's barely more than vaporware, and at the most we can make only low level comparisons. Once we have actual hardware (or at least actual engineering), we can start making comparisons based on observed and calculated performance, and not based on power point slides. Until we have a level of detail rivalling this: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/NASA-SP-2009-566-ADD2.pdf There isn't much we can compare with. I'm sure SpaceX has the details we could use for comparison, at least to decent degrees of accuracy, but they don't want to tell their potential competitors everything. What you're doing is comparing BFR's design requirements (delta V, payload, and so on), not the actual design. It's supposed to have a delta-V of 9415 with no cargo, but will the final design? What if the requirements change before everything is finalized?

The real problem is that we don't know enough about BFR to compare it to anything...

He had a questionable past, yes, but working for the Third Reich was a means to an end. Many people who were in important positions were required to be in the party. This also extended to the rocket program. The V-2/A4 was an important development, and helped lead to the Saturn V. Also, my city/town may not exist in the way it does today if it weren't for him and the things he did in the area.

GO! - Get Off! Presumably they mean "Get off that rocket" or something...