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At least it didn't explode ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A couple other things slipped in Boca Chica too, it seems. First the concrete tube thing fell and more recently one of the steel rolls under a tent. Hopefully no one is hurt and it doesn't slow down Starship's development too much.

I really enjoy Isaac Arthur, but I'm not sure if it can be defined as a podcast.

I'm a fan of this style. Especially the third one. Can easily imagine that one as an animation short of sorts.

I just rewatched the P2P BFR video and the city there has an image of evil clown on it. I never noticed.

Boo! Boring! The booster landed itself again! Do a flip or some other cool trick next time!

That's really neat but I don't think the solar panels power everything directly. It's more likely that they charge batteries when the equipment is not in use and then they use the power stored in those to lift the legs and do everything else.

Being closer to the 2050 is waaaaay cooler than being closer to the 1980, if you ask me. I want to see the future! How much faster will they be able to build the Mk3, do you think? I'm guessing a little bit faster than Mk1. Powered flight around the end of spring 2020?

The MK3 bulkhead from Florida is now in Texas.

This.

The problem is if the booster misses it's that +whatever the booster costed +building a new one in its place.

Is that an old Dragon 2 photo from the Demo flight or is it currently standing there?

But they will be doing reentries of their own rockets anyway so might as well put a bunch of tiles on there instead of hiring another company to do the same for (presumably) more money. Unless they are planning to have a reusable second stage, or something. But that wouldn't make much sense on a small rocket like that IMO. What about LinkSpace? Those guys haven't reached space yet and are making what's basically a reusable Electron/MiniF9. Would a chinese company like that be allowed to make deals with SpaceX?

I know. Should've said "following this logic" first, I guess.

In this case the most efficient shape is Orion's (the boom-boom one) pusher plate.

https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-hardware-mystery-solved/

Yep. Funnily, there are better stars than M-types and the Sun that could potentially have Earth-like planets and they are the K-types.

How do you tell?

The tenth Electron has arrived at the launch site

Fractal craters!

Wouldn't aerogel ablate really quickly without any protection?

OK, sooo... A flying prototype in spring?

The heat tiles are meant to be glass, whatever that means. I'm guessing it might be ceramics + some sort of addatives that make it glass-like. Anybody knows any material that is glass-like and heat resistant? Edit: so apparently adding iron to glass makes it absorb infrared light. That's probably undesirable in heat shields. Fused quartz seems to be pretty temperature resistant (up to 1500°C). Maybe transparent glass + light-reflecting steel underneath could work? Edit2: fiberglass has some seriously high melting point too (~2000°C). Scratch that. It's 2000°F.