kerbiloid

13 bln years ago it looked like a big bang.

Floor 3184: The third floor of our airport, right above that cafe.

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Will? I insisted that it's the only way to make it flyable at all. And the only purpose of the winged Starship is to reuse the upper stage, not to make a real spaceplane. To the date, the original "wow! it needs no tiles!" is replaced with "wow! what the cool tiles it has!", and they still believe that their faith will supercede the L/D aerodynamics. (Though they carefully start talking about "well, probably the maiden flight won't be reusable, but then...") It was to deliver spysats for servicing, but the electronic guys rooted the idea by creating 15-year-lasting sats. If instead of 135 Shuttle flights NASA was putting in LEO tens of ISS modules, it would have a whole orbital town and a lunar village for science. So, in sense of science the Shuttle was also a fail. Bin Laden was even greater hazard ffor America than Viet Kong, yes. And I can't remember when the Patriotic Act was cancelled after the decisive victory,

First? I'm telling this for several years. Name one. The aeronautical engineers have developed up to ten new conical spaceships and no spaceplane except X-37B (pure military R&D) and wannabe-Dreamchaser (still chasing the dream). So, they know this excellently. Without a purpose - certainly. That's why they aren't popular. One (Buran) and two projects at high level of readiness (Spiral and LKS). Any non-combat among them? All three had functionality of bomber and interceptor.

Precisely. The first humans were launched into space on missiles designed to bring nuclear armageddon. ICBM and spaceplanes have no relation to each other in sense of purpose, even if use same boosters. The only two advantages of spaceplanes are: 1) A built-in boxcar to deliver cargo from orbit (never used in practice due to the absence of cargo, and there is no foreseable cargo in near future). 2) A crosswind maneuver, required only for custom/random orbits and short autonomous flights, never needed for the civil crafts, which can just wait for several days for the optimal deorbit conditions. So, there is no purpose for a non-combat spaceplane in the foreseable future. P.S. Even the X-37B odyssey could be easily performed by a conical craft in every part except studying the spaceplane flight itself.

Jeb opens the command console and enters: >XEN ON "The Xenomorph mode is activated. Now you have infinite life, ammo, and can move with noclip". The console cheat codes sometimes fail. Jeb is in danger.

What does this have to ICBM? A miltary craft can be launched to a custom LEO at random inclination, and should be able to return to an airbase after random number of revolutions in any time without delay (say, after one or two orbit turns), evading the bad weather areas. So, it needs the crosswind capability. A non-combat spacecraft can just wait at ISS as long as it needs until the predicted deorbit trajectory gets crossing the designated landing zone, and the weather gets calm. So, a civil craft doesn't need the crosswind capability and thus be a spaceplane. (Until the blurry horizon of the orbital industry.)

This isn't rickroll.

JeBOOM!!! Jeb is frightened, too.

Floor 3181: Its ceiling.

Until there is something to carry from orbit, the spaceplanes are useful only for military applications due to their crosswind maneuver capability.

https://www-rbc-ru.translate.goog/rbcfreenews/633845ab9a79473c8c5d7efb?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=ru&_x_tr_pto=wapp The Kerbal Science experiment. Why not pour a kettle of boiling water into the bucket of liquid nitrogen? Upd. https://cs14.pikabu.ru/video/2022/10/01/166462369328042472_480x480.webm

Cuz it's itching. When the wind is blowing, why does the window not turn into blowow?

Floor 3179: Italic dog.

0/10 You are a notice. Humans send them sometimes. I can distinguish a verb and a noun, so my mind is naturally human.

Because it's an overturned spysat which didn't have it.

10/10 You know Haha (whoever this person is). I'm a human because I can't think out how to twist this phrase in English one more way.

Jeb has F9 and isn't afraid of the end of time. JeBOO! KerBOO!

Because without a pack of glued flies, the kite needs wind When the weather is not windy, why do they not call the window calmow?

Floor 3177: A recursive dog.

Enough farmland doesn't mean enough fresh water to keep it being farm. The major rivers of hot countries are put into melioration long ago, and they try to squeeze the rest "10%" of water. To transport or to freshen the water they need more energy, which in turn requires water and exhausts carbon dioxide (not the fictional one from cows and superclean factories, but the real one, of global amounts). The energy production in turn makes the water either vaporized or warm, so the spiral extends. I'm afraid, the First(-and-a-Half, lol) World can't eat so much to make the other world happy with diet. (And not everyone in the most First World is a middle class eating in restaurants. Many eat fastfood (like pizza and burgers), because they can have to.) Also, the First-and-a-Half World doesn't have a lot of own plowland (urbanized EU, hot and dry US, cold RU), so it produces a lot of food only thanks to its highly developed industry, consuming a lot of energy. Once the First-and-a-Half World gets on diet (food and fuel) , it won't have a lot of excessive food to share. And the hot and poor countries will keep facing their water problems more and more. That's exactly because the farmers are just the lowest level of the chemical industry where the fertilizers and pesticides get digged into soil for biological recomposition into high organic compounds. The top level of the farm biota, ruling other biochemical processes in it. The farmers are special workers who dig the chemicals in, wait, and gather the grown organic structures to send them for industrial processing by the food industry. So, that's not the farmers are paid, that's the agricultural chemical and mechanical industry is paid. The farmers are just working hands. If the food was excessive because farmers produce too much food, then just more farmers were bankrupted and sold their farmland. But you can't quickly rescale your chemical industry there and back again. So, it's cheaper to pay to the farmers to produce excessive food to utilize the chemical industry products, to keep your industrial chain working. Then you allow your people play with food and waste it. And as your industry still produces too much fertilizers and other agrichemicals, you utilize the excessive raw food by sending it to poor countries as a gesture of good will. (In turn you get their hands for low price). Because you can't reduce your chemical production at least because same nitrogen chemistry is required for explosives, powder, rocket fuel, artificial clothes and other military needs required to defend you industry from potentially being captured, for example by the same people you send the excessive food to. So, everyone is happy, but just until the coming optimization of the whole industrial chain. Once the industry had reduced (not necessary due to the current events, but to keep the Europe green and the air clean) the agrochemical production, the food production will decrease regardless of farmers opinion. Not exactly. @kerbiloid