sh1pman

It may have a disposable nose cone (Dragon 1 style) and no fairing.

Can’t wait for Starship first flights

Well, when you put it that way, doesn’t sound so bad. Maybe a home quarantine for people over 65 (and people with preexisting conditions) until everyone else gets the immunity is the right way. In China, they might have stopped the epidemic in Wuhan. But the rest of the country is still susceptible to the virus since there’s a global pandemic. They’ll need to either keep the borders closed indefinitely (and risk getting more outbreaks) or let the virus spread in a controlled way, keeping the vulnerable groups under home lockdown.

Amazing read: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56 Summary of the article: Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed.

Typical lies and western propaganda. My brother in the police said they could only get 300 lions, and most of them were too lazy to go on patrol duty, sleeping 18 hours a day, etc. I bet there’s less than a hundred lions actually on the streets right now.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-russia-medical-aid-help-putin-a9416546.html Also, saw this today and took a photo. This is starting to look ridiculous...

Broke already? But they haven’t even started the business yet. That’s very sad.

Any signs of slowing down?

A slight cost increase then.

Yeah, that doesn't count as a death from COVID. Other diseases got her first. And what an impressive list of diseases she had! Several heart diseases, diabetes, arterial thrombosis, and finally, a plague cherry on top, COVID19. She had no chance.

Wasn't SLS supposed to have all components already tested and human-rated during the Shuttle program? It looked like a big advantage of SLS over other designs.

Ok, didn't pay attention to it before. So, what are the odds that it's just an issue with signal from drone ship? Edit: booster loss confirmed.

Landing takes longer than usual?

Forgive me my ignorance, do they always do entry burns with 3 engines?

I was about to schedule my own PhD thesis defense (bioorganic chemistry), but yesterday they effectively shut down the university...

It’s also possible for the virus to become seasonal and/or mutate into more severe strains. And the rate of mutation scales with the amount of people infected.

Or found a way to make the tanks lighter than previously thought. Disregard. Extra thrust from Raptor sounds plausible. Can also mean a longer interstage.

In the recent Ars Technica article Elon said that they are (eventually) going to build a new Starship every 72 hours or so. If it’s only Starships and no Super Heavies, then they need to produce a Raptor every 12 hours, right? How can this pace be even remotely close to reality?

1. Design an obscenely expensive rocket with with unclear purpose. 2. Come up with payloads to justify that rocket's existence. 3. Start a huge and exciting project based around that rocket and its payloads. 4. Realize that you don't need those payloads for your project. 5. Realize that your project is now just a redo of a previous project, but with suboptimal rocket and spacecraft, with the vast majority of contracts given to a single corp with a recent history of poor performance on space-related projects. <you are here>

This line perfectly describes this whole endeavor:

They could just say “this booster did four orbital launches” or something like that.

The author said both studies adjusted for that. The first one was based on Diamond Princess data where everyone was tested, and both of them give similar numbers.

There is a potential solution, and it is almost exactly what you described:

https://www.unz.com/akarlin/corona-cost/ Corona & the Cost of Doing Nothing Permanent 2.5 Year Drop in US Life Expectancy - It's Just Like the Flu, Brah!

0% times anything is 0%, so even if it had a true mortality of 10%, you wouldn’t be worried, right?