darthgently

Agreed. But the main achievement today was popping a big cluster of pessimism bubbles. The number of people that now think SpaceX is on to something just expanded by orders of magnitude.

The valuation of SpaceX has to be punching through multiple estimated ceilings after this.

Freight train to orbit, bay-bee. This has been so long coming, and I don’t mean just the SpaceX phase. The Moon landing was incredible, but mostly symbolic. If the Moon missions were like Lewis and Clark, this more like transcontinental railway industrial strength epic, almost. Half the track has been laid today, now it is just time and persistence. The technology has been shown feasible by and large Tater said: Yeah, actually. My memory of Apollo 11 is incredibly vague—more about a bunch of people at the house (I was 4)—later Apollos I watched as well (all of them, my mom was super into it), and I remember the coverage, the different newscasters, etc. Hard since the video has been reused so often what's real and what I'm conflating with later rewatches I can't say. Shuttle I remember clearly, watched many earlylaunches, and it was astounding to watch. This isabsolutely up there with Apollo/Shuttle IMHO. I was 7 yo, but I remember it. Older brothers made sure I fully appreciated it explaining stuff and pointing things out. I’m certain that memories of later landings are mixed in there, but the tension when Armstrong was going down the ladder is unforgettable and singular

I have no “likes” left so this is a note to blanket-like all posts in this topic today. Did any other older guys get a flashback to the Moon landing? This was huge and historic. The after shocks will be socially reverberating for awhile and the implications for space exploration just amplified magnificently. I completely forgot about Starship for about 20 minutes because the booster landing saturated my wetware completely. Starship performed amazingly also, but that catch. Just wow.

This is the crux

Nice loading screen. Can you catch the booster? https://starshipthegame.spacex.com/

Weaponized bureaucrats. I’m picturing the spiders of Mirkwood spinning webs of sticky red tape

Not going to install an app merely for a cat video, lol. Whatever vid format Telegram is using Brave browser doesn’t do that

That was it. Oklahoma. Obligatory SpaceX content, good stuff from Ryan Hansen

Just wow.

Another journalist adds weight to the rumor. I don’t know what the ou stuff is about, didn’t dig

Sorry if you got excited reading the first 4 words before getting to F9. I almost didn’t post for that reason. Then decided to post for that reason

My gut says the math would not work out favorably in most cases doing it this way unless the initial high AP was useful for part of the mission. Must try this in KSP to be certain, ha

Very true. Often “labor saving cleaning devices” end up costing twice the hassle as “maintenance increasing cleaning devices”. You never have to make a last minute run to the hardware store to get more elbow grease and the elbow runs on sandwiches which are typically readily available. Elbow support infrastructure is already in place and mature

All things in moderation. Even H2O The amount of water from the deluge is orders of magnitude lower than the rainfall there Not sure what this means exactly, but I trust you to be making sense given your track record, lol

I didn’t say it was munincipality friendly in all cases, to be fair, but very astute point and well taken

No! Not Snowball Earth! Brrrr

Iirc they were doing some pretty high apoapsis missions, this would be a way to lower that apoapsis to segue into a different mission closer to the planet maybe? Or maybe just testing that it can do this as designed

Turns out dihydrogen monoxide is relatively environmentally friendly

Uh, ok

More imagineering

Vision is good

Hard to imagine 0.5cm

I gather they will be flowing cooling water through the top of the launch mount like with the ground plate, or so the rumor went