kerbiloid

Procedural Wings.

While it's on paper. Once it starts flying, it will be a military project as well. Orbital lasers, orbital maneuvering sat depots, orbital hypersonic maneuvering reentry vehicles. Nothing such capable can be just civilian. Just currently it looks like ULA+military competes with NASA+SpX+intelligence, and it's not obvious who will win, so everyone makes honest eyes "it's not ours, Musk is doing it for fun and pays his money". Once SuperStarship gets ready, all territorial problems would magically disappear. The 109aires don't live in boggy wasteland, they prefer (miami) beaches and (beverley) hills. That land costs definitely greater than what a rocket test site needs for a safety zone.

Granted. Wait... It's Snickers. I wish for a magic artifact.

Iirc, these nerds are launching military and spy sats. In 1940s the land was owned, too, but in never made a problem with removing a rocky planet from the highway to be built. *** https://texasfarmcredit.com/resources/texas-land-pricing-guide/#:~:text=The average price per acre,%244%2C297%2Facre average in Q2 2 000 000 000 / 5 000 = 400 000 acres ?

The proper test stand is a simple but strong concrete structure with pipelines bringing propellant from safe place. Point the torches up. It needs 9 m in diameter. Two trucks aside under a tent take more place. Then the choice of the launchpad place is sick. So, they should either buy a better village, or build a launch ziggurat with exhaust channels from top. It's like building a solar plant in London and saying that the place is fine, just the weather is cloudy. US occupies almost a half of continent, and has ocean to the right. It has a lot of mountains and deserts. But they preferred a swamp. NK and Japan are much smaller, but they did it right. P.S. I heard about "2 bln" loss cost. How many acres could be bought for that price?

Banned for craving the bog plants.

Banned everyone who didn't say "Melon!" to open the gate.

How about at least building a proper test stand for the full engine assembly, digging an exhaust trench like others do, and probably not putting so many engines in a cramped skirt where they burn each other (square-cube law?) ? (And that's even before the aerobraking cylinder, which will bring more surprises in its time). Private companies still use public physics. There is no special PhysicX for SpaceX. They talk about the Mars colony, but don't spend money at least on a proper launch site. Nuff said.

The humor translates perfectly (and almost all books are translated long ago), but the original text in English is hardly readable because it totally consists of wordplay based on original idioms, so some nuances have to be replaced with corresponding local cultural references or explained in comments. Also proper names sometimes have a couple of different variants from different translators.. Though, being compared to Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" original high-style archaic language, Terry Pratchett's English is much more understandable. Isn't he?

They do.

Somebody's knocking! Ban!,,, Ban!,,, Ban!,,,

Granted. Just don't put butter into the fridge. The flies will do everything other. I wish for the 49th chapter of the novel I'm (still 'm? idk.) reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu#Khufu's_name He was not Cheops. Not Khufu. Not Khewaf(w). Not Khnum-khuf. Not Khauf. He was Kh-F because they called him

Banned for banometry.

Banfinity.

Granted. You are samurai'ed. I wish for better helium.

Yes, Nords live in Riften, next to Morrowind.

A long substitute player bench.

Factorialban

First proove your age. I wish for whishkey, a magic drink which grants the wishes.

Quadrubanned.

Granted. A huge comet approaches to the Earth and wipes out all human satellites with the dust tail. I wish for a lunar castle.

If build a spiral launch flyover from Africa (parallel to the equator) to South Pole (perpendicular to the equator), it would be a Panspherical Magnetic Launch Geoestacade providing full spectrum of orbit inclinations. Also it can have a twin to the Arctic islands.

Granted. You take the air and wash it. I wish for a 3d periodic table.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz