Ultimate Steve

I have no words. Faith in humanity has fallen a bit more.

ITS: Biggest Falcon Rocket BFR: Big Falcon Rocket BFR 2018: Bigger Falcon Rocket

Someone on Reddit also made the comment about the video appearing to be vertically stretched by a little, so the stretch might not be as much as is apparent (or that person on Reddit was wrong). Wait, if they stretched the design, then that tooling doesn't look like enough for the top stage tanks now... Maybe that's only part of it? Or maybe they are planning on splicing multiple sections together?

The TED talk is not public yet and won't be until the 16th and you still have to pay for it. It may be released in the coming weeks for free, though. Someone leaked a video from the inside and someone on Reddit did a size comparison and found that the new BFR is in fact 10-20% taller. It should be all over /r/SpaceX and /r/SpaceXLounge. This also means that the BFR will be the tallest rocket ever now, I wonder if one of the minor reasons behind the stretch was to beat the Saturn V... Another potential upside is that SSTO flights with just the BFS might be easier now, given the proper engine config.

Wait, does that work? If it does that will work nicely for something I was considering working on.

@adsii1970 Sad but true. I can see both sides of the argument, though.

Of course, the orbit would have to be rather low to avoid most of the orbital debris, but high enough to not fall down to Earth early.

But with a larger crew, larger space, and a week in orbit.

I have an idea that I will restate, as I have said it before - many members of the population would probably go on one of these flights just for the thrill of going into space - so why not have a few dedicated space tourism flights with a small amount of training, a smaller crew count, and a week or so in orbit? Price would be higher, but attainable, I'd imagine.

Speaking of optimistic timelines...

Well, color me surprised at the "definitely." Hopefully it all works out, although I foresee it either taking longer than expected, being on a vastly smaller scale than anticipated, or having reliability problems (hopefully not the last one).

I learned the rules left.

Genuinely sorry for what stuff went that bad for you. I sincerely hope it gets better. I remember my first time trying to do the whole "romance" thing... I was such an antisocial introvert that I literally liked her for 3.5 years and then found out she was gay, so you got further than I did! As far as the whole "getting over someone" thing, I'm not saying this will work for you, but for me, listening to music for a few hours worked. Glad you did well on the tests, that's always a good thing to hear. Aaaaand I have just lost a bit more faith in my generation. Or at least the generation before mine. The lines are a bit blurred between those two. As far as today for me goes, nothing much has happened yet, but there is an ISRO launch tonight and if all goes well I'm getting my driver's license today!

Wasn't that same challenge around the forum a while back? I remember competing in it.

Well, y'all are certainly good at pointing out stuff I didn't think of! Lets see... Question 1 is partially solvable by the fact that it has been an hour, there are rules about the test, and that the humans know nothing about super advanced weaponry... But I might explore that. I was planning on doing something similar-ish, but I might go a bit further now... Question 2, oh boy... Presumably The Species has developed even faster ships. Maybe I made the K-drive a tad too OP, maybe I should impose a speed limit, that might also explain why the others haven't gone outside the galaxy. Maybe Jeb was trying to rush through the explanation and glossed over some of the details... And the free energy thing might be loosely explainable by the time dilation thing (dilating only one tiny portion of space across many K-drives). Or maybe the strange particle that powers it steals energy from somewhere else... Hmm... I can't make the warp core resource too scarce because the time core just resets it (or who knows? Maybe Jeb's explanation was oversimplified and it's not actually a time core!). Yeah, I'm just spitballing here. Nothing you see is final, etc. As I said, I'm not perfect. Hopefully, I'll think of explanations faster than you all can point out the story flaws!

So, to sum up everyone's arguments, Carbon Fiber Spaceships have at least something to build on - not something too terribly similar, but similar enough and infinitely better than nothing.

Unless they decide to change the regulations and revamp the range, which is something they are going to have to do eventually, especially if SpaceX plans on flying multiple BFR's a day.

267 - Skipping numbers in forum games. 266 - Going out of order in forum games.

...Huh. No writer is perfect, I'll say... If I ever claim to be perfect I give you full permission to slap me in the face. It's sort of "where do I draw the "advanced technology" line so that I can have an advanced species and keep the story interesting..." Although the cloning thing is explainable, sort of, as it is a smaller device packed into an ancient spaceship trying out a config on a species that hasn't been cloned before... Presumably they have a better machine somewhere in the galaxy! Really glad you are enjoying the story (although I probably am at least part nerd in my opinion!), and I do intend to finish it sometime! Also Happy Explosions!

I heard on Reddit or something (it had a source that was pretty official) that SpaceX were planning on launching 25 Starlink sats per F9 launch.

So this is where I run out of likes...

Ultimate Steve - January-March 1953 (Cycle 9) @qzgy you're up!

Betcha can't wait for Wednesday! That reminds me of how the first semester my crush and I had every single lunch period together and had AcDec and speech after school... Now, in the second semester, we only have lunches together on Friday, speech and AcDec are over, and I pretty much only see her in the halls as we pass. She is a senior, and she managed to arrange her classes so she doesn't have to come to school at all on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But, she is my girlfriend now, so I'm no longer bound by the hours of school!

Just be make sure to sit next to two of your crushes in the right side of the balcony and get into an argument with a flat earther, and you should be good to go! Although, actually the whole beginning was closely modeled after what happened to me about a week before I started writing the story... Names and places changed, of course. It was actually Thoroughly Modern Millie and there was not flat Earther! Our school did put The Seussical on the year before that, though...