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Confirmed, catastrophic implosion. https://www.baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2023/06/19/search-is-underway-for-missing-submersible-that-takes-people-to-see-titanic

You're both banned for leapfrogging

Bad day so it's a Foxes kind of night, but this particular song has been stuck in my head for a few days now. Catchy cadence.

Yup TUBM has (or at one point had) an original GameBoy

I can't help but keep thinking that if this doesn't end with a happy ending, there will be talks of the New Shepard curse, considering Glen M. de Vries in Nov 2021. I can't imagine many situations where this ends happily.

Overlapping threads merged

@Pat20999, your thread has been merged into the SpaceX thread.

You can collapse the KSP2 sections, and then only pop them open occasionally when you want to check.

Absolutely TUBM legit uses the abort button in KSP

Moved to Kerbal Network since it's about the forum, and not the game itself.

Never been to Texas. TUBM plays Satisfactory

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Had a bit of an "Oh, huh" moment. Today I learned that the space shuttle fired its forward nose RCS thrusters during booster separation to protect the windshield from the booster separation motor exhaust. With all I've watched/read on the shuttle, surprised I'd never heard of this before. https://www.nas.nasa.gov/assets/nas/pdf/staff/Rogers_S_CFD_Assessment_of_Forward_Booster_Separation_Motor_Ignition_Overpressure_on_ET_XT_718_Ice-Frost_Ramp.pdf (page 3)

AP is the highest point in your orbit. PE is the lowest. If you're at AP and raising your PE to circularize, and the PE gets higher than the AP (even if it's just a tiny fraction of a meter), then it's no longer the lowest point. It's now the highest, and your AP becomes the lowest, so they switch.

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You might find this thread helpful.

Current design. I like to try to get it close-ish to the real deal. Moar pictures

Sad to watch, but was also really cool. This is probably obvious to some of you, but does anyone know what the two white dots that went across the screen right after BECO were? T+3:43 and T+3:53.

You don't need a mod to fix this, you need the re-root tool. Once you've done the merge (or grabbed a subassembly), you can use the re-root tool when it's shadowed red. Once you set the root to a part with an open node, you'll have an attachment point. The re-root tool is up next to the rotate tool. It's the Z shape with a box on each end.

I doubt it considering the FH is fully expendable. It wouldn't need the landing pads. It was also supposed to launch days ago. Sending the boat out isn't something you can do on a whim. Takes days to get out there.

I just had a very interesting computer troubleshooting experience. Went to turn on my main rig this morning. Acted normal for a couple seconds, then nothing on the screen except what looked like a cursor (but wasn't) in the upper left. Diag lights on mobo lit up VGA. Initial though was "oh no, did my < 1 year old GPU die?" Two more reboots and no change. So I start poking. Things that didn't work: Different GPU The other x16 PCIe slot (with both cards) BIOS clear Swapping in my Ryzen 7 2700 from another computer Removing all but one stick of RAM Putting the remaining stick of RAM into another slot Removing CMOS battery Reseating power cables At this point I unplugged every single thing from the board that wasn't required to boot... and I got to the BIOS. So I start adding things back in, first with my boot drive, booted. Then I plugged the USB cables back into the back of the machine... no boot. It was at this point I had a stupid thought that turned out to be the problem. Yesterday I had wanted to pull a video from my dashcam (saw a fox running in the road), so I had hooked up my USB SD card reader. This was still hooked up. While the machine was still at its cursor-not-a-cursor state with the VGA light on, I unplugged the card reader (which did not have a card in it). Screen blinked off, then back on and the BIOS splash screen came up, and continued to boot. It's wasn't even set to boot from USB. It just wouldn't even POST. So now it's all back together and I have thermal paste schmu on a couple textured black parts inside the case that won't get clean. About 2 hours of me freaking out I was going to need a new motherboard (and initially a new CPU [Although I can get a 5800X3D right now for less than I paid for my 5800X...]) and thermal paste goopies in the case when all I needed to do was unplug an apparently wonky USB device.

Nice fireball on depress there..

You don't need fire for an explosion. FTS may have been what triggered it, but it still exploded from the fact that it was pressurized. This is why it breaks up into an incomprehensible number of pieces, not like... 3.

B1050, the first Falcon 9 (non-heavy) I watched live... which they did recover, it just never flew again. I think there's a pretty good argument against having the staging latches and the grid fins on the same hydraulic loop. One system is mission critical, the other is not. Adding a "non-essential" system to an essential one will open up more points of failure for the essential system.