DDE

Wait, someone is still oppossed to Commercial Crew? I mean, other than Trampoline Rogozin.

Bortnikov can relate.

It’s ridiculous to base an investigation on an “off-duty” joint. Which is why it’s probably not. Except for WaPo presenting it as such.

PSA:

Guys, I hate to play this game on this forum... but is the publication setting the tone for coverage WaPo, by any chance? https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/20/nasa-launch-safety-review-spacex-boeing-after-video-elon-musk-smoking-pot-rankled-agency-leaders/?utm_term=.352e55a0f904 The Bezos/CIA WaPo?

Ha Ha Ha...

Are those the same estimates that basically assume an expendable ISS per every mission? https://spacenews.com/op-ed-misdirection-on-mars/ Potentially, it could lead to widespread public backlash against manned spaceflight, and the dreaded Inwards Turn.

The only things that aren’t going to change if the BFR is to suceed. A drastic, costly redesign of the whole system is never out of the question - merely suicidal.

Well, he is a Level 80 troll.

Or... or... After all, they already have Falcon Heavy. How many Falcons do they need to replace one BFR? I see an immediate and obvious flaw: the structural loads will be very different. Cluster’s Last Stands rarely make it from the drawing board. I specifically mean that and not series of strap-ons. Last one to my memory was an early Zenit design, which used two parallel stacks with their own fuel and engines. Then Glishko smacked them over the heat with an RD-170, grossly overpowered for the Zenit proper but essential for a certain bigger project, and they abandoned the “flatfish” for the “log”.

Again? Wasn’t there a whole competition over “Federatsya”? Well, at least they’re keeping with Soviet traditions.

The more scattershot part of the Cold War comes to mind...

So are you directly refuting Myrvold’s claim that the main dataset of results contains unmarked ROS results that were subsequently deleted?

Their whole shtick is bigger = cheaper.

“I am the Senate”

Does it actually favour Neowise or does it favour Neowise because they copy-paste those numbers?

Yeah, sorry, I tuned out on the new BFR after hearing (probably wrongly) that a slightly intoxcated Musk called it “just like the Tin-Tin rocket”.

Well, someone’s in a hurry to get retired...

The what?

Waiting for some sort of an excuse to buy Industries, uninstalled for now; Stellaris similarly has a very desireable DLC coming out. Need a load of RPG escapism ATM, so a mixture of Witcher and Fallout for now. Might rebuild my KSP install during the New Year week.

There are worse options. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Clone

Slipped from WoT to WoWS, previously nailed down Level 6 as optimal in terms of iconic vehicles and relative ease to reach. Filthy casual, but target lead comes quite easily, and I like the lack of cover-based gameplay and the toxic “The ****ing ****er used gold ammo” discussions. Have most of the level six non-premiums, except for French and Britbong cruiser and the Made in USSR Chinese DD. Still not sure what to think about the US cruiser update.

Corrected. Blankets of ‘raw’ SVM fibre, similar enough.

Which is about four times faster than what they have the funding for, and probably commensurate with JPL’s ability to come up with payloads for them.

You fail to describe the entire vicious cycle; the SLS is being built at well below the pace it could be The high cost reduces frequency of missions. The inferquent missions cause overheads per flight, and therefore cost, to increase. Round and round and round it goes. It’s also an excellent time to voice my concern over what else Boeing and LockMart write off as SLS expenses. Insiders say that the practice of purposefully misattributed costs is exactly what plagues Angara.