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Well, I guess now we just have to wait for cubesat images and for it to go around a few times.

Wow!

My streams are not synced, I will watch it twice lol

I mean, the high altitude balloon people call 20-30 km or so "space".

Seems to me like something got peeled off around the engine, leading to the flame going from right to left. Some debris shoots straight out to the side, then drag gets ahold of it and it is forced down.

The "out-of-angle" condition happened a lot after the "engine bits flying away" condition

Wheeee! Moon snake

I have heard that there is an Apollo 11 board game.

That's an....interesting....viewing perspective.

There are certain configurations that result in a toroidal shape when you approach those limiting speeds. They wouldn't last very long, though, because they're unstable.

That sounds pretty much like what an aerospike is to me.

I'll have to add them to the list.

Yes.

It'd be a matter of building the custom grappling hardware necessary to hold it, running simulations to verify it would survive (a return to Earth was planned for, but not on Starship), and after all that you'd need to find the crew of astronauts to pack it, or find a way to do it all with robots.

The best KSP-like is the one where I get on a rocket and go to space in real life.

If you'd like a game where that is a correct interpretation of quantum physics, I'd recommend "Outer Wilds".

The real question is do I get to be killed by the thriving biosphere of the Earth?

Someday I'll travel properly north to see them...Maybe Iceland.

It doesn't get THAT much worse than humans. My guess is most are about the same. They are under the same stresses of food, shelter, society... Toothed whales are maybe a little worse

Cause I'm not currently being held at gunpoint by aliens. I'd also die on Mars to let future generations travel the stars. And I also have high hopes for corvids, many other types of birds, cetaceans, cephalopods, elephants, and primates. I would argue that many of them already are self-aware. Some of them are capable of creating art. Overall my feeling is that the great biosphere of Earth is a single living thing, and killing off nearly all of it is a worse idea than killing the tiny part of it that knows a lot about the universe and tends to pave over the planet like a volcano. Also, if I'm being held by aliens, it means that aliens exist around other stars in the universe, so the plight of humanity to become bearers of consciousness for the universe becomes less critical - there are others who can carry that burden. Life on Earth can accept its natural fate knowing that there are others who will still observe and create.

Yeah, that's probably the right option. If not available, though...Kill all humans! Humans cannot survive without nonhuman life, and I don't trust your algae to perform ALL functions of EVERY lifeform. Meanwhile, there are several intelligent species present on the planet right now who all might have a crack at space travel and such in the next millions of years.

Not sure what that number is, Soyuz, Ariane 5, Delta 4, and more all have pretty good track records

Oh of course. I'm just as excited for the first one, and watching something fail is an amazing way to learn and improve, but I do somewhat expect a boom.

I will be more looking forward to success of the second orbital launch attempt, I think...

What if banana peels actually taste good but we've never tried one so we never found out?